In the smoke raised by the explosion, half of a dark blue, translucent skeleton slowly appeared.
Even with only a transplanted three-tomoe Sharingan, Uchiha Madara had still forced out the first stage of Susanoo.
Kizaru looked at the enormous dark blue skeleton in front of him, and for the first time, he rose from the cracked stone chair.
"Oooh… how scary."
Even as he said that, the lazy, annoying smile on his face did not disappear.
"Shimura brat," Madara said from within the first-stage Susanoo, his expression filled with arrogance. "Let me show you what true power looks like."
The half-skeletal Susanoo moved.
Its massive right arm came crashing down toward Kizaru with terrifying force.
Kizaru's body turned into golden light.
The Susanoo's fist smashed into the ground, but Kizaru had already vanished. In the next instant, he appeared above Madara as if he had teleported.
Golden light gathered around his raised right leg.
At the same time, he used Armament Haki at the level of an admiral and combined it with chakra-enhanced strength.
Then he kicked down.
Boom!
Crack!
With one deafening impact, the first-stage Susanoo began to fracture.
The huge dark blue skull shattered under Kizaru's kick, breaking apart and scattering into fragments of chakra. Madara's Susanoo was nearly smashed open, leaving only half of its body barely intact.
What power…
Madara looked up at Kizaru as he descended from the sky, and for the first time, his expression became slightly serious.
"Kid," Madara said coldly, "I'll admit it. At your age, even Hashirama was not as strong as you."
Madara Uchiha was arrogant, but he was not the kind of man who needed to lie about strength.
Kizaru landed in front of him and slowly opened his eyes.
"What about Uchiha Madara?"
The moment their eyes met, Madara's gaze sharpened.
A chance.
Without hesitation, Madara activated the genjutsu of the three-tomoe Sharingan.
Kizaru had opened his eyes deliberately.
He wanted to test how much resistance he had against genjutsu.
The moment Madara's visual jutsu tried to invade his mind, Kizaru pushed both kinds of Haki to their limit.
A spiritual force tried to interfere with him.
But before it could take root, Kizaru's Haki erupted and crushed it head-on.
The genjutsu shattered.
Madara's eyes stung slightly from the backlash.
This brat's spiritual strength is absurd.
"Oooh… Uchiha genjutsu really is scary," Kizaru said with a smile, as if he had not just blocked it directly.
Madara's face darkened.
"Shimura brat… are you mocking me?"
Being ridiculed again and again had finally stirred real anger in him.
Madara overdrawed the power of the transplanted three-tomoe Sharingan and forced Susanoo into its second stage.
The broken dark blue skeleton quickly repaired itself.
Meridians and flesh-like chakra covered the skeletal frame, and an outer layer of chakra formed around it like a cloak.
The dark blue giant roared.
A slightly curved sword appeared in each of its hands.
It raised both blades high, crossed them, and slashed down toward Kizaru with overwhelming force.
Kizaru did not dodge.
He wanted to judge the difference in power between the two sides.
Golden light gathered in his hand, forming the Ama no Murakumo Sword. Holding it with one hand, he raised the blade above him.
Boom!
The three swords collided.
A violent shock wave exploded outward, sweeping across several hundred meters and flattening the surrounding terrain.
Madara stared ahead in disbelief.
Kizaru stood beneath Susanoo's crossed swords, blocking the slash with one hand and one light sword.
This brat's body is a monster.
Madara was certain of it.
Even Hashirama Senju, without using ninjutsu, would not have been able to block this attack with one hand using only physical strength.
It seemed he had truly underestimated this brat from the Shimura clan.
"Shimura Kizaru!" Madara shouted. "I, Uchiha Madara, recognize your strength!"
But he did not stop attacking.
Two more massive arms grew from Susanoo's shoulders, each one holding a giant sword. While Kizaru was still suppressing the first two blades, the new arms swung in from the left and right.
This time, Kizaru did not take the attack head-on.
His body turned into light.
Before the second slash could land, he flew into the sky and avoided the blades.
"Yasakani no Magatama."
Suspended in midair, Kizaru crossed his hands and released his signature technique.
Madara looked up.
Countless bullets of golden light gathered in front of Kizaru, then rained down toward him.
After their earlier exchange, Madara no longer dared to underestimate Kizaru's attacks. He quickly controlled Susanoo's four massive arms, crossing them in front of his body as a shield.
The light bullets struck Susanoo one after another.
Each impact carried intense heat and violent explosive force.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The explosions continued without pause.
Even Susanoo's second stage could not endure the endless bombardment of Yasakani no Magatama. Cracks spread across the dark blue giant, and pieces of chakra began to break away.
Seeing this, Madara stopped holding back.
He pushed the transplanted three-tomoe Sharingan in his eyes to its absolute limit.
Blood flowed from the corners of his eyes.
Susanoo changed again.
The broken dark blue giant repaired itself, and armor began to cover the upper half of its body. Its defense rose sharply as the armored Susanoo took shape.
Using only a transplanted three-tomoe Sharingan, the aged Uchiha Madara had barely forced Susanoo into its third stage.
But Madara knew he could not maintain this form for long.
He had to end this quickly.
"Yasaka Magatama!"
Facing Kizaru in the air, Madara controlled Susanoo and launched a long-range attack.
Several huge chakra projectiles shaped like magatama spun through the air like shuriken, tearing toward Kizaru.
Kizaru stopped Yasakani no Magatama.
His body turned into light again, and he easily avoided the attack.
Madara watched Kizaru instantly shift to his left, and for the first time, he felt genuine trouble.
Abnormal physical strength.
Excellent spiritual resistance.
And the ability to fly at extreme speed.
This brat from the Shimura clan was far more difficult to deal with than expected.
"As expected of Uchiha Madara," Kizaru said lazily while floating in the air in elemental form. "You really are scary."
He brought his hands together.
A massive lightsaber emerged between them.
The blade expanded again and again until it became a giant sword more than fifty meters long.
Kizaru's hands were covered in Armament Haki. Inside his arms, chakra-enhanced strength gathered and erupted.
Then he swung the enormous fifty-meter lightsaber down toward the armored dark blue Susanoo below.
The blade tore through the air.
Friction ignited flames around the sword of light, wrapping it in burning heat. Carrying the terrifying force to destroy everything in its path, Kizaru slashed down with a single strike.
Boom!
A thunderous sound resounded across the battlefield.
The terrifying shock wave spread in every direction, reaching dozens of miles away.
Smoke and dust swallowed everything.
Kizaru narrowed his eyes slightly and used Observation Haki to sense Madara's condition.
His presence was weakening.
No…
It was disappearing.
To avoid a possible sneak attack, Kizaru flew higher into the sky. He looked down at the smoke-covered battlefield and the enormous crater below, his expression becoming strange.
"Eh…?"
Kizaru tilted his head.
"Don't tell me I actually killed Uchiha Madara?"
If Madara Uchiha truly died here, then things were about to become very interesting.
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