Chapter 120: Third Raikage Awakens Armament Haki, Uchiha Madara Tests "Nuclear" – Catastrophic Backlash, Hair Loss & Relocation
The busty secretary said coolly: "This probably isn't the idea of Konoha's upper echelon, but rather that famously renowned forging master Uchiha Naraku's idea. It should be that Konoha forced him to forge some useless items to hand over to the village. But this forging master didn't want to betray his own principles, so he left a little mechanism in the instruction manual. We only discovered it by accident after developing it!"
Hearing the secretary's words, the Raikage also showed a smile. He even thought inwardly that—even if they couldn't take down Konoha later—perhaps they could really recruit this Naraku, who didn't seem too aligned with Konoha, to their village.
The Raikage picked up the Haki Seed and asked: "Is this thing poisonous?"
"No." The busty secretary had just finished speaking.
The Raikage swallowed the Haki Seed in one deep gulp.
This might have been the Raikage's confidence in his own strength, or his trust in the village's researchers, or simply his straightforward recklessness.
After swallowing the Haki Seed, the Raikage closed his eyes.
Then, under the shocked gaze of the busty secretary, his arm gradually turned a shining black.
The Raikage originally wanted to test this thing's power in the office, but seeing the secretary's death glare, he jumped straight out the window and rushed to a small mountain nearby in a hurry.
For the rest of the day, half of Kumogakure felt tremors coming from the small mountain.
In the evening, the Raikage—who had been training on the small mountain all day—looked at his thick right arm and the distant mountain now ravaged beyond recognition.
He laughed loudly: "I originally thought my body had already reached the limit of the ninja world—never expected there was still a path ahead! Uchiha Naraku, I won't forget your favor! I will definitely stand at the pinnacle of ninja world strength and bring you to Kumogakure!"
At this moment Naraku still didn't know a certain musclehead had set his sights on his body.
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On the other side, Uchiha Madara watched as White Zetsu presented Naraku's forged ninja sword Nuclear like offering a treasure.
Uchiha Madara took Nuclear, examining it while saying: "This is that brat's weapon? Doesn't seem all that impressive!"
But for some reason—perhaps an illusion—Uchiha Madara felt a slight dislike for the sword in his hand.
Then Uchiha Madara gave a self-mocking laugh. What was wrong with him? A mere ninja sword actually made him feel slightly displeased! Had staying underground too long made him crave a truly exhilarating battle?
White Zetsu saw Lord Madara seemed interested in this weapon, so he said: "According to this sword's instruction manual, it has terrifying attack power. The main point is that its attacks affect both friend and foe—even causing some damage to the wielder's body!"
"Looks like this brat doesn't want to aid the enemy. Interesting—a weapon that harms both allies and its own wielder. White Zetsu, demonstrate this sword's full power in front of me!" With that, Uchiha Madara tossed the weapon to a White Zetsu before him.
Uchiha Madara felt that with his own strength, a mere ninja sword's technique—especially not used against him—couldn't possibly harm him.
The White Zetsu before him didn't carefully read the manual. It directly poured massive chakra into Nuclear. As war weapons, you could call White Zetsu weak, but their chakra volume was abundant.
Then the Radiation Field deployed!
An invisible field instantly enveloped everyone including Uchiha Madara. Perhaps because White Zetsu No. 1 injected too much chakra, the radiation intensity was very high. This field primarily targeted Black Zetsu (attached to White Zetsu No. 1) and the other White Zetsu.
Uchiha Madara suddenly felt his body become very uncomfortable. In an instant he activated Susanoo.
But to Uchiha Madara's surprise, he still felt unwell.
"Pfft—" Uchiha Madara spat a mouthful of fresh blood.
Beside White Zetsu No. 1, Black Zetsu—who had absorbed most of the damage—even felt like he was seeing his mother.
Thinking his real mother hadn't been rescued yet, how could he be lost in fantasy! Black Zetsu instantly fled far away.
After spitting blood, Uchiha Madara observed the White Zetsu kneeling beside White Zetsu No. 1. These White Zetsu had all collapsed to the ground. What shocked Uchiha Madara was that their bodies were beginning to deform.
Some had arms growing abnormally large, while others had thighs shrinking to the size of a baby's arm.
White Zetsu No. 1 looked dumbly at his fallen comrades and Lord Madara spitting blood. Innocently, it tried to approach Uchiha Madara.
Uchiha Madara couldn't hold back—he unleashed a Fire Release that incinerated all the White Zetsu before him.
With White Zetsu No. 1's death, the Radiation Field also ended.
Uchiha Madara had just wanted to stand up and act cool with a few lines when he spat another mouthful of blood. And once again he was shocked to discover that although the disgusting field had disappeared, that nauseating power still lingered, attacking his body.
Clutching his chest, Uchiha Madara could only quickly flee the base like Black Zetsu.
Far from the base, Uchiha Madara finally no longer felt that uncomfortable aura. Only now did he have time to calmly think.
From his guess, that ninja sword should release a type of poison Susanoo couldn't block—and this poison needed to linger in the environment for some time.
The effects of this poison were also strange.
Uchiha Madara regained his usual confidence and muttered to himself: "Uchiha Naraku—I, Madara, acknowledge you as the strongest forger! With this ninja sword, you've truly left quite a few powerful weapons in the ninja world!"
Afterward Uchiha Madara had no choice but to relocate once again, and ordered White Zetsu to continue experimenting with the other functions of this ninja sword at the previous base.
What Uchiha Madara didn't notice was that his hair—though entirely white but still thick and something he took pride in—had shed several strands in a short time.
Yet due to friction, those hairs that had already detached from the follicles still clung to Uchiha Madara's head.
Black Zetsu later hurried to Uchiha Madara's side. Uchiha Madara thought inwardly: clearly a creation of my own will—why is it so afraid of death? Running at the first sign of danger, even abandoning me?
Or does it know it can't help anyway?
Uchiha Madara didn't dwell on this.
However, Black Zetsu said: "This weapon forged by Uchiha Naraku is really powerful! Should we go kill him?"
Uchiha Madara shook his head and said: "No need. It's just a ninja sword with strange poison. This blade can also be used by the person in our future plans. Moreover, we need to use Naraku's weapons to consume the strength of the ninja world!"
Black Zetsu didn't dare defy Uchiha Madara's thoughts and could only obey.
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