The colossal leech beast summoned by Shinomori dominated the skyline, its grotesque body coiled around the highest peaks as its shadow blanketed Iwagakure below. Even the towering rocky spires of the Thunderdome stood dwarfed in comparison to this behemoth stretching over 20 meters in length.As the titanic creature writhed, its mass crushed entire buildings with each convulsion. Alarmed screams echoed from the streets as civilians fled in terror. Groups of Iwa chūnin and jōnin urgently worked to evacuate any unable to escape the leveling destruction. Atop the leech's head, Shinomori surveyed the chaos with satisfaction - this act of wanton dominance had accomplished its purpose in drawing out the Stone shinobi. In reaction, various ninjas displayed their techniques in attempt to battle the looming threat.
Atop the towering summoned leech, Masaru gazed coldly down upon the fleeing villagers below. Flanking him were a dozen shadow clones, all drawing shuriken in unison. At an unseen signal, the clones launched volleys of spinning blades skyward. The metallic weapons arced high, positioned to rain death upon civilians and shinobi alike trying to evacuate the village. Augmenting this, each airborne shuriken blurred into an overwhelming amount spectral blades released from the Haze Clones. Over three thousand lethal projectiles now descended from all angles to surround the chaos over a 120 degree envelope. The haze clones themselves then leapt from their high perch, landing to block and herd the terrified crowds into the center of the village square - directly in line for the plummeting shuriken barrage. Masaru cared not if elderly, children, or exhausted defenders were slaughtered in waves. Drowning the earth with blood was itself a tactic to force the Stone's finest warriors into the open. The oncoming storm of shrieking metal portended utter suffering.
The Anbu captain Endo raced onto the scene wielding his crackling electrically-charged kanabō club. As the giant summoned leech continued thrashing, destroying buildings, Endo focused on neutralizing the immediate threat. Charging his weapon with intense lightning chakra, the metal club glowed scorching white-hot. Endo swung with all his might, launching a blistering arc of energy towards the rampaging creature. But the searing blast barely managed to singe the beast's thick hide.
Before Endo could unleash another strike, the rain of duplicated shuriken descended undeterred from Masaru's earlier volley. Helpless before the onslaught, Endo fell victim to the thousands of spinning blades piercing his body. The Anbu captain would have collapsed with blood pooling rapidly beneath him.Witnessing the futile heroic charge firsthand from atop the leech, Shinomori formed an evil smirk. These Stone ninjas woefully underestimated the power they now faced.
Amidst the chaos, the Hyūga princess Hanako moved in lethal synchronicity with her partner Masaru. As he bombarded the village with shuriken from above, Hanako's Byakugan flared - tracking all movements below. She generated two shadow water clones, arming them with giant fūma shuriken swirling with smaller explosive kunai knives. At an unseen cue, the real Hanako and her clones launched the oversized swirling blades in unison, blanketing the entire front quadrant below in a hurricane of metal. Through expert chakra transference, hundreds of duplicate spectral shuriken spun amongst the salvo, engulfing the central buildings in a dense field of shrieking armaments. Detonations boomed across the village as kunai payloads exploded, triggered by a precisely thrown flare by Hanako moments before impact. The fiery shockwaves vaporized structures and defenders alike still reeling from Masaru's bombardment. Deafening eruptions cascaded as their combined assaults fueled each other. Now the entire Thunderdome plaza had become an inferno, smoke and dust obscuring all sight lines. Yet with her dōjutsu Hanako could perceive perfectly the utter devastation their surprise onslaught had delivered. Not even a single rat would have survived near the central impact zone.
As the titanic summon lowered its head, Shinomori descended to the rubble-strewn streets below, striding purposefully towards the fallen Anbu Captain Endo. Kneeling down, Shinomori placed a palm upon the fresh corpse, foul chakra spreading.
Utilizing the
Casualty Puppet technique , Shinomori began grafting Endo's body to his own, integrating the deceased's flesh and merging it grotesquely into a parasitic Siamese twin. Through this arcane absorption, Shinomori assimilated Endo's talents - includingmighty carbon manipulation abilities Rising with gnarled veins bulging from the new protruding limbs and tissue fused to his side, Shinomori could feel Endo's power flowing within like it was his own. He could already manipulate superheated carbon particles using the grafted corpse meat melded to his body.
"Yes, very good..." Shinomori rasped, his voice taking on a strange doubled timbre from the partial vocal cords absorbed from Endo's jawline and neck now part of his anatomy. Testing his augmented abilities, he exhaled a cube of pure condensed carbon watching the cube rapidly fly towards the deceased corpse in which the corpse would explode into smaller.
Seeing countless fresh corpses scattered amidst the ravaged streets, a fiendish idea formed in Shinomori's graft-mutated mind. Cracking his neck with loud snaps of realigning vertebrae, he began flowing through intricate hand seals with both his original hands and the extra mismatched limbs. Kneeling, Shinomori slammed a claw-like hand upon the debris-strewn earth. Immediately, nearby bodies of slaughtered Stone villagers began to twitch and stir unnaturally. Through his earthen chakra, Shinomori employed the taboo
Earth Release Resurrection Technique: Corpse Soil forcibly animating the dead with constructs of soil and clay. Soulless zombies emerged, blankly fixated on the living targets before them. They possessed only primal hunger - but the sheer numbers would overwhelm the remaining defenders through attrition.
From nearby structures and ruined homes, terrified screams rang out as more undead arose to shamble towards their hiding places. Soon this place of death would overwhelm all...then the true feast would begin. Soon this entire worthless shinobi district would fuel his might through endless slaughter and grafting. By day's end, he would be legion. Gazing upwards toward his followers, Shinomori growled
"Come...more fresh meat awaits our feast...but not in this district." Shinomori paused as he observed the futile efforts of locating the four tails jinchuriki who was not stationed in his homeland.
"We're going to Sunagakure where the 0 tails and the 1 tails resides. With my new body nothing can stop me" Shinomori exclaimed, there was something vastly different about him despite not looking entirely different. Shinomori would withdraw his summon and make his way to Sunagakure. He would leave his zombie army to finish any survivors.
Location: Earth District -> Sand District
Post Order: Hanako -> Shinomaru-> Masaru -> Endo (If somehow avoided death) -> Yudoku
Time Limit: 3 Days
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