Reborn wind shadow: Attack the country of fire in the beginning

“Dragon Vein · Shūkaku Manifestation!”

Accompanied by a booming sound, the gigantic Shūkaku manifestation appeared on the boundless desert.

Empowered by the Dragon Vein chakra, one could clearly see the changes in Shūkaku's manifestation at this moment compared to before.

Firstly, the exterior no longer had the obvious texture of sand grains but had become as smooth and delicate as real skin.

This was the power of Dragon Vein chakra: Matter Transformation.

It fused all the sand grains into one.

This seemed insignificant, but it made the Shūkaku manifestation no longer afraid of Water Release ninjutsu.

Because the fused sand lost the gaps between the grains, water could not penetrate it, increasing the weight of the sand and damaging the Shūkaku manifestation's body.

In addition, the fused body also enhanced its defense, because the sand grains fused together became a hard bedrock. The defensive power of a loose pile of sand versus a stone is obviously different.

Besides the changes in appearance, the Shūkaku manifestation also became much more agile in its movements.

It no longer had the stiffness of being controlled like a puppet when fighting against Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya. Instead, it was like a real creature. Whether running, jumping, or punching, its limbs were exceptionally fast and agile. When the tail swung, it contained the power to sweep away everything and also displayed a sense of freedom and lightness.

More importantly, it did not require painstaking control.

The feeling was like changing from a puppet controlled by chakra threads to a robot with its own set program.

Although it still lacked its own intelligence, it could now fight on two fronts like a summoned beast.

This was the power of Dragon Vein chakra's Inorganic Reincarnation, endowing inanimate objects with life and controlling them.

This allowed Rasa's Shūkaku manifestation to greatly enhance its offensive capabilities while possessing strong defensive power.

However, this was not the limit of the Shūkaku manifestation's offensive capabilities under the empowerment of Dragon Vein chakra.

“Whoosh!”

With a Body Flicker Technique, Rasa appeared on top of the Shūkaku manifestation's head. He connected with the Shūkaku manifestation under his feet through his own chakra. At the same time, he formed hand seals. In response, the Shūkaku manifestation under Rasa's feet also began to form hand seals with its claws.

“Dragon Vein · Great Breakthrough!”

Or rather, it should be Wind Release · Great Breakthrough!

The hand seals and the effects of the ninjutsu were exactly the same for both.

However, because of the Shūkaku manifestation's huge size and the use of Dragon Vein chakra, the Wind Release released by the Shūkaku manifestation was obviously much more powerful. Although it was only a C-rank ninjutsu, the destructive power it released was completely comparable to an A-rank ninjutsu.

Visibly, a terrifying storm swept across the entire desert, stirring up a sky-filled sandstorm.

However, looking at this huge destructive power, Rasa was not satisfied.

There were two reasons...

First, although he had already endowed the Shūkaku manifestation with vitality through the power of Inorganic Reincarnation, he still had to connect his chakra with the Shūkaku manifestation to release ninjutsu, using him to control the changes in the chakra within the Shūkaku manifestation's body.

Second, the chakra consumption was too huge. The sand that made up the Shūkaku manifestation, as an inorganic substance, could not generate chakra on its own. This meant that after the Shūkaku manifestation released ninjutsu and consumed chakra, its own chakra would only become less and less, requiring Rasa to replenish it.

Although Dragon Vein chakra endowed Rasa with four perverted abilities: Inorganic Reincarnation, Matter Transformation, Super-Speed Self-Healing, and Chakra Absorption, it still did not directly enhance his physique like Hashirama cells, turning his chakra into a Tailed Beast-level chakra.

And because Rasa's own chakra was insufficient, in order to maintain the balance of the Dragon Vein chakra in his body, he could not really absorb Dragon Vein energy all the time.

Looking at it this way, directly eating the chakra fruit condensed from Dragon Vein chakra might solve this problem, but Rasa did not do so, because he was also very worried that eating that chakra fruit would make the 【Karma】in his body thaw faster.

Although he had greatly enhanced his power through the 【Karma】's ability, this did not mean that Rasa relaxed his vigilance against the possibility of being taken over by the 【Karma】.

Moreover, judging from the current state, his personal power was already sufficient to cope with the current situation in the ninja world, and the Shūkaku manifestation should be able to hold off a complete Tailed Beast for a while.

There was no need to take too much risk.

It was just a pity that Rasa originally thought that the Dragon Vein chakra's ability to absorb chakra could solve this problem, but after trying it, he found that the Dragon Vein chakra could only simply absorb chakra and could not convert the absorbed chakra for his own use.

However, this did not mean that Rasa's development of the Shūkaku manifestation had reached its limit.

As Rasa put his hands together, the form of the Shūkaku manifestation began to change, like the slugs of Shikkotsu Forest, it began to split rapidly, splitting into a hundred small Shūkaku manifestations.

Although they were called small, they were still as large as small mountains compared to the human body.

Rasa called it 【Dragon Vein · Shūkaku Manifestation · Splitting Technique】

This was the inspiration Rasa gained from Sasori of the Red Sand's Puppet Technique: Secret Technique · One Hundred Puppets.

And the purpose of Rasa developing this move was to make up for the lack of troops in Sunagakure.

Under the power of Dragon Vein chakra's Inorganic Reincarnation, even Rasa, who was not good at puppet techniques, could easily manipulate these hundreds of small Shūkakus, and through Dragon Vein chakra's Matter Transformation, he gave these hundred Shūkaku puppets their own weapons.

All of these hundreds of Shūkaku puppets were seen holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. In addition, their own weight of tons and the ability to absorb chakra and be immune to most ninjutsu allowed each Shūkaku puppet to unleash Chunin-level destructive power. This meant that Sunagakure had a hundred more Chunin.

Unfortunately, although Rasa was the Kazekage of Sunagakure and knew some puppet techniques, he was not proficient in them. It was already the limit for one person to perfectly control 100 Shūkaku puppets. Otherwise, the strength of these Shūkaku puppets would not only be Chunin, and the number would not only be 100.

And at this point, the development given to the technique 【Shūkaku Manifestation】was almost at its limit.

Next, it was the development of Rasa's own abilities such as 【Magnet Release】and 【Sand Control Technique】...

At this time, under the leadership of Pakura and Mikawa, hundreds of Sunagakure ninjas also left the village and headed towards the direction from which Kumogakure and Iwagakure were attacking.

Perhaps it was the success of the previous surprise attack on the Land of Fire.

This time, the villagers of Sunagakure did not show the usual anxiety from the bottom of their hearts about the upcoming war.

As time passed, war reports from the front line were constantly transmitted to Rasa's ears.

The Kumogakure troops who landed on the Land of Demons from the coastline passed through the Land of Swamps and converged with the Iwagakure ninja troops in the Land of Birds, in a posture of pressing the army and preparing to attack the Land of Wind.

After receiving the information, Mikawa and Pakura each led the Sunagakure ninjas to the border line to meet, confronting the ninjas of Kumo and Iwa.

For a time, the atmosphere on the entire border line of the Land of Wind became tense, and it seemed that a war was about to break out if they disagreed, but because neither side really had the idea of starting a war, they fell into a strange silence.

But just then, a new force that no one had expected appeared on the battlefield, breaking this peace!

Its name is: Akatsuki!