Chapter 85: Purple's Alternative Form
Exhilaration was always fleeting—whether from intimate acts or killing's rush.
Once emotions calmed, Yoru didn't immediately clean up the corpses. Instead, he retrieved a small scroll and used Flying Thunder God Transfer to transmit it outward.
Signaling distant support to hunt down that four-man tokubetsu jonin squad, Yoru stepped over the corpse pile to examine Ebizo's body.
Then his lips curved upward: "Nice—it's the real body. This time's truly a massive windfall!"
Several days ago, after teleporting the Legendary Sannin back to Konoha, Yoru had received a quite ordinary B-rank mission: escort a batch of supplies to White Fang's frontline facing Wind Country.
During this current probing phase, every nation's objective was consuming each other's national power.
This consumption naturally wasn't as simple as just waiting it out.
If merely waiting, no one could outlast Fire Country with its strongest national power and best resources.
Their goal was flanking to cut supply lines, or like canon's Kannabi Bridge battle, destroying certain structures to delay supply delivery.
At this stage, support forces responsible for transporting supplies were the most dangerous existence.
Each supply transport wouldn't carry such massive quantities as this time, but would definitely include one or two tokubetsu jonin as escorts.
However, Yoru had proposed a plan to Hiruzen that gained his support.
This plan aimed to set a trap for Wind Country, seeing whether they could draw out an important figure, or at minimum eliminate one or two powerful ninja squads.
The trap involved increasing supply quantities, marking them with signs only Aburame and Inuzuka clans could detect, then transporting toward the southwest direction.
If Sand ninja were in that direction and attacked the disguised support force, they definitely wouldn't abandon these 'problem-free' supplies. They could only bring the supplies toward the southern ocean or enter River Country.
If they dared approach either the ocean or frontlines, the original plan would be canceled and they'd be eliminated.
Entering River Country, in that nation covered entirely in natural terrain, ninja squads fundamentally couldn't transport supplies back to border bases or Wind Country.
All they could do was request support.
The strategic council would definitely recognize this as a trap, yet be forced to jump in.
Yoru's best prediction was Wind Country dispatching several tokubetsu jonin squads, or a single high-level squad composed entirely of all-around jonin.
Or perhaps they'd deploy elite jonin-level ace combat power, or even... a jinchuriki.
After all, with such massive quantities of strategic supplies, resource-poor Wind Country fundamentally couldn't abandon them.
Even abandoning them would mean losing four tokubetsu jonin—better to gamble.
The result exceeded expectations. The one who came was actually Chiyo's brother, Sunagakure's intelligence king and simultaneously the strategic council's mastermind—Ebizo.
This was absolutely an unexpected windfall.
Eliminating Ebizo equaled severing one of the Third Kazekage's arms.
Henceforth, Sunagakure's intelligence organization wouldn't operate as swiftly as before, and would temporarily lose contact with operatives planted in various nations. Their eyes would transform from hawk-sight to nearsightedness for a very long period.
During this probing phase requiring reconnaissance squads, ANBU, and covert operatives to exert themselves, this was far too fatal!
Through his own power alone, Yoru had shattered the probing phase's balance.
The Second Shinobi World War might prematurely enter its next stage.
Though that was something politicians needed to worry about.
After examining the corpses, Yoru retrieved some Flying Thunder God kunai plus stones and paper inscribed with Flying Thunder God seals, using Earth Release to bury them in the ground so they were partially visible.
Disguising their deaths as being at Flying Thunder God and 'Black Lightning's' hands, Yoru also retrieved a camera from his wristband storage scroll to photograph the scene, ensuring Flying Thunder God seals appeared in the images.
During this process, Yoru also retrieved two storage scrolls, sealing tissue samples from all fifty-five corpses plus Ebizo's severed head.
After completing this, Yoru formed seals creating two shadow clones, having them shoulder two super-large storage scrolls that—due to contained Space-Time power and sealing power naturally possessing anti-Summoning Technique effects—even with Space-Time Yin Seal released and chakra depleted, Yoru could at most transfer just one.
After the shadow clones departed via Earth Body Flicker carrying the storage scrolls...
Yoru gazed at the corpse-covered ground, suddenly raising his right hand palm-up.
A blue-white vortex appeared in Yoru's palm, spinning at high speed while producing a sharp buzzing sound.
Then the vortex gradually separated, transforming into numerous finer vortices spinning at high speed within an extremely small range, ultimately compressing into a marble-sized blue-white energy sphere.
This was a Rasengan, yet not a normal Rasengan—more resembling the mini-Rasengan Boruto Uzumaki created.
Except this mini-Rasengan possessed no chakra nature.
The next second, this marble-sized energy sphere's color underwent dramatic transformation.
Inside, condensed and compressed from ten thousand vortices with each one thread-thin, the spirals visibly converted from blue-white to dark coloration at observable speed.
Countless independent black threads compressed together, gradually generating a hint of red.
Plus the blue film wrapping the energy sphere like a membrane.
This energy sphere ultimately became primarily black, with red and blue serving merely as accent effects—a tri-colored energy orb.
These three colors' interweaving caused the energy sphere to radiate dazzling black luminescence.
Yoru had a feeling that Hanzo of the Salamander giving him the 'Black Flash' title might not have been because of Flying Thunder God Technique, but rather this energy sphere that injured the salamander.
Surveying the cave's interior and finding no oversights, Yoru casually tossed the energy sphere in his hand toward the cave's central area.
The black-glowing energy sphere traced a beautiful parabolic arc through the air.
Before it landed, Yoru teleported away and vanished.
Yet the energy sphere didn't hit the ground.
When still over ten centimeters from the surface, the energy sphere was suddenly supported by invisible force, floating midair.
Then the electric lamps hanging on cave walls all detached, producing cracking shatter sounds while flying toward the energy sphere.
As the lights vanished, the boulder-blocked cave also plunged into darkness.
Rumble rumble rumble...
Outside, the mountain body containing the cave suddenly began violently trembling, as though someone inside was conducting demolition.
If someone possessed both transparency and night vision abilities, they'd discover a cavern suddenly appearing inside the mountain body.
Within this cavern, a small whirlpool appeared in both vertical and horizontal directions, releasing astonishing gravitational force that swept up ground corpses and tore apart solid cave walls.
Corpse fragments and rock pieces flew toward the whirlpool.
Upon touching the whirlpool, they began automatically decomposing. Approaching the whirlpool's eye, they completely vanished without trace.
Observing from inside the cave would reveal this wasn't any whirlpool at all, but clearly a miniature black hole.
That whirlpool was merely ripples produced by spatial distortion.
The energy sphere didn't produce deafening explosions, only floated midair creating rotating spatial ripples that lasted several minutes before gradually shrinking and disappearing.
The original cave had expanded several times over.
Yet on the ground, not a single rock fragment remained.
All that matter had been reduced to nothingness.
This was... Purple's alternative form!
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