Chapter 483: Uchiha Shisui: I Curse You!

"I cannot participate in the Clan Leader Struggle?"

"Me too?"

"We are in combat status, the Family Badge and Defense Wall are activated, and after we boosted our attributes and attacked Orochimaru, we are in combat status and cannot teleport!"

Some players wanted to respond to the Samsara Game's teleportation, but found no reaction.

They suddenly understood.

"However, since it is a Clan Leader Struggle initiated by Captain Aizen, it should be fine, right?"

Most players had not figured out the situation.

In the hearts of Konoha players, Aizen was still the most qualified successor to the Hokage position, the inheritor of the Will of Fire.

If the new Clan Head were Lord Aizen, there would actually be no need for a struggle, and it wouldn't matter even if they couldn't teleport.

Just at this moment,

The sky suddenly split open a gap.

The scene was particularly familiar, just like the spatial rift torn open by that giant Evil God during the 【Evil God Incident】.

Inside the rift was a pitch-black forest; there were no branches or leaves, and every tree looked like weathered bone, pale and slender, extending all the way to the unseen sky above.

This caused the entire space to lose its light source.

"That is... a forest?"

Gekko Hayate covered his mouth, wanting to cough, his eyes looking at the scene inside the spatial rift in horror.

If it were just a forest, it would be fine,

But, in the pitch-black space, countless huge black figures were constantly crowding toward the direction of the rift, like moths seeing a light.

Dense and numerous, there was no end in sight.

On the face of every black figure was a white bone mask, crudely made, yet naturally formed.

"The reinforcements have arrived..."

The Necrotic Curse Snake swayed its huge head, spitting out Orochimaru's wet, egg-white-like slimy body from its mouth.

Orochimaru leaped onto one of the few remaining high-rise buildings that hadn't collapsed, smiled, and said: "My mission ends here. Next, it is time for the guy you all adore to make an appearance and put an end to the sinful Konoha."

Menos Forest.

Some players identified the origin of the monsters; they were a type of monster from a certain world of Shinigami and Quincy.

In the Samsara Game's Counterattack Mission, the world of Menos Forest sometimes appears.

But... how could this thing suddenly appear in Konoha? "We're done for!"

Players who knew the terror of the Menos Forest trembled uncontrollably.

The Menos Forest is boundless, pitch-black, dead silent, and filled with countless monsters; it is said that the fallen souls of the entire world are sent into the Menos Forest.

If it were just executing a mission, it would be fine; kill dozens of Menos, and you could teleport away after completing the mission.

But...

After the spatial rift opened, it was equivalent to Konohagakure falling into the Menos Forest, with no way to escape the version, like a 【Family Defense Battle】 without an end.

The result awaiting the Konoha players: abandon Konohagakure and flee alone, or be buried in the Menos Forest after becoming exhausted.

Clang.

The dull sound of a heavy object falling.

The hundreds of Menos that first crossed the spatial rift wobbled as they climbed up, stretched out their pale bone claws, grabbed low-level ninja who couldn't dodge in time, and threw them into their mouths.

Crunch, crunch.

A sound like chewing.

Hair-raising.

Seeing this tragic state, Gekko Hayate was full of anger, drew his Blade, and charged forward, cutting a feeding Menos in half.

The severed Menos's body recovered automatically.

"Lord Gekko Hayate, the weakness of the Hollows is their mask!"

Hearing his companion's reminder, Gekko Hayate leaped high, a layer of Silver moonlight appearing on his Blade, and with a dance of sword light, he shattered the Menos's mask.

Their strength was not high.

If they could concentrate the power of the Defense Wall and the Konoha ninja, they should be able to build a buffer zone.

As Gekko Hayate was thinking this,

He saw the soul of the Menos whose mask had been shattered begin to crumble.

But before it could dissipate, it was eaten and gnawed on by the other Menos; the other monsters that ate the killed Menos had their facial bone masks surge like white viscous liquid, becoming even sturdier.

It seemed that if this continued, some kind of metamorphosis would occur.

"Not good!" Gekko Hayate's expression changed drastically; he hadn't expected the Menos to have this attribute, being able to devour each other?

Even if killed, they could become nourishment for the other Menos.

In that case, the difficulty of sealing this spatial rift would become even greater.

"Help!"

"Monsters, go to hell!"

In just half a minute, thousands more Menos fell into the Konoha Family Territory, and the Menos Forest on the other side of the spatial rift produced Menos in an endless stream.

The Konoha players, who were already barely holding off Orochimaru's Undead Legion, saw the situation instantly reverse, and they were pressed so hard by the Menos that they couldn't catch their breath.

Cero.

Hundreds of crimson energy beams, like laser cannons, swept indiscriminately across Konohagakure.

"Stop!"

A furious voice broke the Menos's blockade.

Clad in towering, burning golden flames, Uzumaki Naruto threw the crazed, spinning Sacred Beast Top, shattering the masks of ten Menos Grande in an instant.

Uzumaki Naruto's pupils trembled.

Looking at the riddled, ruined village, the scene of the village being destroyed by Orochimaru back then surfaced in his mind once again.

"Clan Leader Struggle?"

"Isn't the Clan Leader Grandpa Hokage? Where is he?"

Relying on the power of the Divine Contract, floating in mid-air, Uzumaki Naruto looked at the devastation and asked with a trembling voice.

The Konoha ninja were all silent, unable to open their mouths to speak the truth that the Hokage had been killed.

"Hiruzen Sarutobi was killed by Itachi Uchiha, Naruto-kun."

Orochimaru's voice was mocking; he raised his head to look at Uzumaki Naruto, then pointed at Itachi Uchiha, who had just defeated the Uchiha Grudge Aggregate.

He said, "The scent lingering on the rogue ninja Itachi Uchiha—you shouldn't be unfamiliar with it, right?"

Upon hearing Orochimaru's words, the golden flames behind Uzumaki Naruto surged violently.

He turned his head woodenly, ignoring Orochimaru who had once destroyed Konoha, and stared fixedly at Itachi Uchiha.

There was no need for Orochimaru's sowing of discord.

With Uzumaki Naruto's Shendian Contract, once a player he considers a partner is killed, a Sin Mark appears on the murderer.

Beside him,

Sasuke Uchiha was also trembling all over.

His scarlet eyes' Tomoe spun, condensing into the pattern of a Mangekyo, and Sasuke said with a trembling voice, "Naruto, stop! Itachi Uchiha must be killed by my own hands!"

Under his feet, he stepped on a black dragon condensed from cursed black flames.

Itachi Uchiha and Sasuke, once the closest of brothers, had both coincidentally chosen the powers of curse techniques and flames.

The cursed black dragon lowered its head, its dragon pupils landing on the Uchiha Grudge Aggregate that had been pierced through by Itachi Uchiha's blade, and it let out a high-pitched dragon roar.

"Father, Mother?"

Sasuke Uchiha sensed the familiar scent on the aggregate, his hands gripping the Cursed Sword trembling slightly.

Although the Uchiha Grudge Aggregate was led by Shisui Uchiha, its essence was a fusion of countless vengeful spirits collected by Orochimaru; the hundreds of Uchiha ninja naturally included Fugaku Uchiha, who had awakened the Mangekyo Sharingan.

At this moment,

Itachi Uchiha, who had pierced through the Grudge Aggregate, panted heavily, barely shaking off his crazed state.

Watching the Grudge Aggregate gradually dissipate to reveal the true face of Shisui Uchiha, Itachi Uchiha whispered, "Shisui, your capacity is still insufficient; you cannot understand my methods. This is the reason for your failure."

He stared intently at Shisui Uchiha's eyes,

Desperately searching for understanding and sudden realization in the other's gaze, but he failed.

Shisui Uchiha's eyes were filled with unresolvable hatred; he let out his final sound and laughed miserably, "Itachi Uchiha, you were never a hero. You are a madman, you are a murderer, you are a pathetic wretch who should go to Hell!"

"No!"

"You are all ignorant fools who do not understand my painstaking efforts. How could the capacity of a clan understand my suffering?"

Itachi Uchiha, overwhelmed by Shisui's last words, roared crazily.

The Short Blade stabbed repeatedly, accelerating the collapse of the Grudge Aggregate.

"Itachi, die!"

From behind, a voice of fury suddenly came.

Itachi Uchiha, caught in self-doubt and a state bordering on madness, had not noticed the changes in the surrounding environment at all.

(End of this chapter)