Hidden Leaf Village Year 37, the situation was turbulent, and the smoke of war was everywhere.
For certain reasons, the Sand Ninja and Stone Ninja, who were originally locked in a fierce battle in the Rain Country, tacitly ceased their attacks and instead turned their deadly force against the Hidden Leaf Village, while also showing no mercy to the Rain Ninja.
This was different from the small-scale skirmishes of the early stages; both sides deployed their elites, making it a full-scale war.
The flames of war burned endlessly, growing more intense.
In May of the same year, Hanzo, the leader of the Hidden Rain Village, could not stand idly by as his country was wantonly ravaged by the Sand Ninja and Stone Ninja. Under the instruction of the Rain Country Daimyo, he declared war on the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth simultaneously, and united with the Hidden Leaf Village in shared hatred, forming an alliance. The four-way war officially began.
The smoke of war spread, and the Second Shinobi World War was thus ignited!
Unlike the burning Rain Country, the Land of Iron, located in the east of the continent, remained neutral in a remote corner, where the people lived and worked in peace, completely unaffected by the war.
The wind and snow fluttered, and tranquility remained.
If one had to be picky, there was indeed some impact. Due to the wars in various countries, the turnover of Forging Blades Workshop, the Land of Iron's premier weapons Merchant Guild, had soared in the past six months. As batches of swords were exported abroad, the guild's vault became increasingly bulging, and Kakuzu shed tears of envy.
At this moment, in the northern part of the Land of Iron, outside a hidden snow mountain range.
Hiruko stood in a testing ground, rubbing his hands, not because of the cold, but because of excitement. Even his breathing was much heavier, exhaling rolling heat in the heavy snow.
Even Orochimaru and Uchiha Nen beside him could hear his "thump, thump" heartbeat.
"Have you really avoided all the risks? Have all the experimental samples passed the fusion standards?" Orochimaru glanced at him and asked in a hoarse voice.
"What do you think I've been busy with all these years? While you were following Master to cultivate, I was also making progress..." Hiruko did not directly answer his question, his eyes flickering, his voice barely concealing his trembling: "My Ninjutsu... is complete!"
Nen shrugged, "Be a little more rigorous, you two. Even a science idiot like me knows that it only counts as truly complete if the next experiment succeeds, right?"
On the open space in front of the three, two giant Shinobi Beasts were lying neatly, their breathing even, their huge eyes simultaneously reflecting the illusory shadows of Three-Tomoe Sharingan, as quiet as kittens.
On the left was a large bird with a deep green body and bright feathers, its beak as sharp as iron, but its entire head was covered with a thick layer of mask, which was very strange, obviously not a naturally bred creature.
In comparison, the creature on the right was completely a chimera, impossible to define with a single unified species. Its body simultaneously had the characteristics of a turtle, a wild boar, and a lion, with special runes printed on its huge turtle shell, engraved with dense "explode" characters.
Obviously, these two were fusion creatures specially modified by Hiruko.
Orochimaru, who had already cultivated Sage Art, was quite sensitive. He instantly entered Sage Mode, and as the purple eye shadow at the corners of his eyes gradually lengthened, he instantly identified the special aura on these two creatures.
The aura in the big bird's body was sometimes light and agile, sometimes thick and heavy, clearly a mixture of wind and earth nature Chakra, while the aura in the chimera's body was mellow, violent, and scorching, representing water, lightning, and fire nature Chakra respectively.
What Hiruko was about to do next was to fuse these two fusion beasts together again.
"How much Kimaera reagent did you inject into them?" Orochimaru frowned and asked.
"Your question should be, how much Perfect Version Kimaera Plant Fusion Liquid did you inject into them." Hiruko chuckled softly, "Who would remember those things? I only know that I am about to succeed."
Nen pursed his lips, not saying a word. What he was more curious about was how many Shinobi Beasts these two monsters were fused from.
After a moment of silence.
"Brothers, witness this moment!"
Hiruko slowly raised his hands, looking up at the heavy snow, the cold wind messing up his long white hair, but his eyes were fiery, much like a devout pilgrim.
With a "snap," his palms clapped together, and then he changed more than a dozen hand seals, dazzlingly fast.
"Fuse! Kimaera Technique!!"
Suddenly, circles of ink-colored Jutsu appeared on the back of the large bird, enveloping and connecting its entire body like a spiderweb. Immediately afterward, a wriggling, paint-like black liquid gurgled out, flowing slowly along the feathers and quickly enveloping the entire bird.
The word "enveloping" might not be accurate; Nen felt that "devouring" would be more fitting.
Soon, the liquid writhed continuously, like a giant black python coiling its body, except without eyes, only a slowly opening maw, as if it had been hungry for a long time and couldn't wait to satisfy its gluttonous desires.
Under Hiruko's control, "it" instantly located its prey: the chimera beside it.
Without any hesitation, "it" slammed its maw down, and with a "glug glug" sound, it completely swallowed the entire body in just a few breaths.
The three of them were left with a large, constantly writhing mass of black liquid.
"Tss..."
Bubbles kept emerging from the liquid, eventually steaming out a massive amount of white vapor.
"Are you confident—" Nen opened his mouth, wanting to ask about the progress, but saw Orochimaru shaking his head at him.
He immediately realized that experiments required complete focus, without any moment of distraction. Any tiny thing could infinitely magnify the error, ultimately leading to the failure of the experiment.
"It's okay," Hiruko suddenly said, a confident smile rising on his lips. "I've performed this operation thousands of times. I could do it in my sleep."
Orochimaru gave him a deep look. Perhaps only another researcher like him could understand that this confidence wasn't built on ethereal beliefs, but was piled up from countless lonely, tedious, and complex experimental results.
It seemed that while he was cultivating in Ryuchi Cave, Hiruko hadn't slowed down the experiment's progress, but had continued to persevere alone in the cold Laboratory.
"Glug glug..."
Soon, the bubbling of the black liquid stopped, and it began to shrink rapidly.
Ten seconds later, Hiruko said, "It's done."
Nen focused his gaze, and saw the pool of liquid slowly disappearing, retracting inch by inch into the fused Shinobi Beast's body. When all the droplets had vanished, a brand new Shinobi Beast appeared before them.
Its body was several times smaller than before, but it retained its huge wings. However, its entire body was covered with hard, tortoiseshell-like bone armor. Its beak was replaced by fangs, and two slender tail feathers floated behind it.
"Roar!!!!"
It roared to the sky, its eyes bursting with fierce light. The five elements of Chakra within its body surged and agitated, directly breaking through Nen's Genjutsu blockade.
In the next instant, it suddenly took off, its wings swept back, and it charged straight ahead with a piercing sonic boom. Its target was none other than Hiruko in the middle!
In that critical moment, Nen and Orochimaru acted simultaneously. Their sleeves billowed, and they shot out thick Vipers and tough wooden vines at the same time, binding the monster bird's wings at the last possible second.
Even so, they were dragged back several meters by the fierce force.
"Whoosh!!!"
The monster bird braked suddenly in front of Hiruko, its faceplate only a step away from his nose.
A whirlwind swept past, carrying snowflakes that danced in the air.
Hiruko's disheveled hair flew wildly, and a morbid flush rose on his face. His eyes were excited, and until now, he hadn't shown any intention of dodging.
If Orochimaru and Nen hadn't acted in time, he would have been smashed into a pile of minced meat, staining this white snowfield red.
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