But everyone's mouths were sealed so tightly they could only let out muffled groans.
Until the Chimera's translucent gel gradually spread upward, completely wrapping around the four of them.
Wrapped, digested, four living people turned into a mass of multicolored gel, which began flowing back into Hiruko's body.
At this moment, in the blackened sky, a ring of white luminescence appeared, and that glowing white light streamed straight down from the altar's center.
It shone directly onto Hiruko.
The gel at Hiruko's feet twisted into a single current.
Hiruko clasped his hands together.
With an expectant voice he roared, "The Chimera Technique!"
BOOM!
The gel on the ground began to heave and tremble like surging waves.
It started fusing continuously with Hiruko.
Above Hiruko's head was the light curtain of the annular solar eclipse; below was the rising gel of the Chimera.
Under the pressure of these two forces, the decomposed powers of the five elements drilled incessantly into Hiruko's body.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
Hiruko was forcefully injected by the enormous Chimera, his body swelling like a balloon being inflated.
His face twisted between agony and ecstasy, his eyes rolling faintly white.
His face, streaked with snot and tears, was soon smeared with Chimera gel.
The swelling Hiruko's clothes burst open, and the devoured energy inside his body finally condensed into one stream.
Above, the annular eclipse reached its very center.
The white light that poured down, sustained by the formation, shone dazzlingly.
All the energy rampaged through Hiruko's body, and from his mouth came a scream no longer human.
Beside Obito, Zetsu had already emerged from the ground.
"His chakra has risen this much, are you confident?"
Obito stared coldly at Hiruko's ritual. Hiruko's chakra now had increased more than tenfold.
The potential of this technique was immeasurable.
"Hehehehehe!", Zetsu let out a satisfied laugh.
"Even if his chakra multiplies, he's still just a pawn."
"This Hiruko's scientific ability can't be underestimated. The Chimera has completely absorbed all four of their kekkei genkai."
"And with their soul fragments entirely devoured by the Chimera, it ensures Hiruko won't be affected, instead strengthening his own soul."
"This technique, its upper limit exceeds even my expectations."
Obito hadn't thought Black Zetsu would give such high praise.
He too began to take this technique seriously.
At this moment, the ritual had reached a critical stage.
The swelling gel on Hiruko's body now completely retracted.
It began reconstructing Hiruko's form. The bandages once covering him were entirely corroded away.
The skin, muscles, and bones within crumbled one after another.
Hiruko was ground down completely clean, leaving only a fleshy bud with a ferocious demon face upon it.
Even Black Zetsu felt a slight sigh, 'Truly, one can't underestimate the people of the shinobi world.'
Then the Chimera erupted with tremendous energy, regenerating from that bud, skeleton, organs, muscle, and skin once more.
But these bones, organs, and muscles were all fabricated by the Chimera.
No blood flowed within; white gel served as the substitute.
The final thing to be remade, was the eyes.
At that instant, the light from the heavens seemed to find its target, converging entirely upon the Sharingan.
With that immense infusion, a force Obito and Black Zetsu knew all too well—
The power of All Creation!
Obito, who had studied the stone tablet, had always believed the power of All Creation arose only from the union of ultimate Yin and ultimate Yang.
For example, his own body, merged with White Zetsu, containing Hashirama cells, a plant-man from the God Tree, within lay immense Yang Release chakra.
Combined with Obito's Yin Release chakra, it continually nourished his Kamui eye, allowing its pupil power to recover again and again.
That was why his Kamui had endured for so many years.
But Hiruko's experiment took another path. Using nearly every basic-element kekkei genkai as a foundation.
At the moment of the annular eclipse, after absorbing massive Yin-Yang force, it gave birth to the power of All Creation.
For the Sharingan, the power of All Creation was the greatest nourishment.
The instant it appeared, it was drawn straight into the eyes.
By now Hiruko had regained consciousness.
Discovering the changes in his eyes, he was overwhelmed with ecstasy.
The perfect shinobi body.
"Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh!"
His muffled laugh was mixed with watery distortion.
The three tomoe in Hiruko's eyes began spinning ceaselessly, ever faster.
Obito and Black Zetsu fixed their attention on those eyes.
After all, throughout the shinobi world, there were only so few pairs of Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
Even Obito possessed only one eye.
Who could have thought, this Hiruko, not even a member of the Uchiha, was about to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan?
Could the Chimera's upper limit truly be this high?
Under the scrutiny of Obito and Black Zetsu, with no surprises, the three tomoe in Hiruko's eyes gradually shifted into three curved hooks, each pointing in a different direction.
As he continued to absorb the annular eclipse's energy, the hooks twisted further and further.
Both Obito and Black Zetsu could sense the surge of pupil power within.
But the time of the annular eclipse was limited.
The heavenly light dimmed, the ring of fire showing its first gap.
The eclipse was about to end.
The Mangekyo could no longer absorb energy.
Hiruko had already felt it, the Mangekyo still had room to evolve further.
'Hmph! What Uchiha clan?'
'Next time the annular eclipse comes, I'll show you. All your kekkei genkai shall be mine.'
"HAHAHAHAHA!"
"This is the Chimera! This is the perfect shinobi body!"
Hiruko laughed wildly as the energy within him underwent its final integration.
His entire body remained a translucent gray-white gel.
From it, skin began to grow.
Once the skin had fully formed, Hiruko's appearance shifted, into that of a young man in his twenties.
No longer the short, stunted figure from before.
That had only been the result of his body's atrophy after experiments.
Now Hiruko's skin was smooth all over, with no visible muscle. Like a delicate youth.
But as he began to breathe, his skin tightened, revealing sharply defined muscles, his form brimming with raw power.
Hiruko stretched out his hand, and his skin turned a dark bluish-black.
With ferocious might, he smashed his fist into the ground.
BOOM!
Like a meteor strike, the earth collapsed in a violent roar.
"Hahahaha, good! Excellent!"
"Now, let me see, the power of the Mangekyo Sharingan!"
Hiruko roared: "SUSANOO!"
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