Uchiha Madara + Otsutsuki Isshiki.
Two men who were equally proud and equally powerful, now fused together, like Gogeta formed from Son Goku and Vegeta in Dragon Ball. The power they unleashed was absolutely a case of one plus one being greater than two.
As the battle continued and the Karma thawed, they would only grow stronger and stronger.
Ryosuke glanced at them, then looked at Momoshiki, who was grinning ferociously as he released energy shockwaves, and Obito, who was hiding inside the Ten-Tails, secretly firing Tailed Beast Bombs.
Through ripple resonance, he could hear the flames of war erupting all across the ninja world. Presumably, the Edo Tensei army was launching attacks on a global scale.
Ryosuke slowly lowered the Blade of Destruction, looked up at the azure sky, and let out a soft sigh.
"Sure enough… you still have to believe in science."
The Sage was not making a prophecy, nor deducing the future. He had thrown out a cold, emotionless result based on probability.
Prophecies can be overturned, but probabilities calculated through massive data analysis cannot.
Ryosuke raised his left hand and made a "two" gesture.
Plan B: Activate.
His movement was captured by the Sky Fortress.
A metal container about half a person's height detached from the Sky Fortress, spewing flames as it flew straight toward Ryosuke. Just before hitting the ground, it blasted flames again and slowly came to a stop.
Madara & Isshiki, Momoshiki, and Obito, no matter what their personalities were like, after fighting to this point and surviving multiple close calls, their vigilance was absolutely maxed out.
Seeing something inexplicable fall from the sky, they instinctively pulled away from Ryosuke, unwilling to enter his firing range.
Isshiki even tried to shrink the metal container, but found he couldn't do it.
This thing had "life."
That life, naturally, was Hidan's flesh and blood.
Ryosuke caught the container.
Sensing Ryosuke's ripple rhythm, the metal box clicked open. A wisp of cold air spilled out, white mist forming in the air, and a Sharingan popped out.
The bait, Ame-no-Tajikara, had been delivered.
Ryosuke held it in his palm. A drop of blood seeped out from his hand, linking him and this Eye of Fate together.
"Question..."
Ryosuke took a deep breath. He knew the price of asking, but before executing Plan B, he had to do this.
"Is the 'pen' in the ninja world?"
This was an extremely critical question.
Plan B: Reviving Kaguya, only had a 50% chance of heading in a good direction.
If it went in a bad direction… as long as the "pen" was in the ninja world, with teleportation gates now connecting everywhere, Ryosuke could reach any corner of the ninja world within three minutes.
After a brief wait, Ryosuke received Ame-no-Tajikara's response.
"Yes."
"The 'pen' is in the ninja world."
The instant he got the answer, Ryosuke felt as if he were standing on the edge of a cliff.
But he didn't stop. He continued and asked the second question.
"The 'pen'… where is it?"
The moment this question was asked, Ame-no-Tajikara's eyeball began spinning uncontrollably, pitch-black blood flowing out of it. An extremely terrifying sense of danger surged in from all directions.
This was hostility from the "unknown."
This question was far too important.
If other questions were like smashing ice and having lake water splash up, sharp as blades, then this question was like detonating a living volcano.
Ryosuke decisively cut off the connection with Ame-no-Tajikara, not letting it continue working.
This was enough.
The second question…
"Let's talk about it later."
Ryosuke took a deep breath. Someone who had always hated gambling more than anything… Was about to gamble once.
[T/N: Once? 🤨]
Ryosuke's gaze swept past Momoshiki and Madara & Isshiki, then he raised his hand and pointed at the Ten-Tails.
Obito, hiding within it, felt his heart skip a beat when he saw that finger pointing at him. Then he saw Platinum Star appear behind Ryosuke.
"Damn it!"
He was far too familiar with this scene. The next step would be, Obito's thoughts froze.
When he came back to his senses, he had already been dragged out of the Ten-Tails' massive body like a dead dog, his neck gripped by Platinum Star. A familiar White Snake voice sounded behind him.
"Sorry to keep you waiting!"
Obito had only turned his head halfway back.
White Snake slapped him hard, and two discs were about to pop out.
"Stop him!" Isshiki roared.
He didn't need to remind them. Momoshiki and Madara were already charging toward Ryosuke.
Pulling the disc and writing commands, ordinary people wouldn't even have time to react, but for Momoshiki and Madara, they could absolutely stop Ryosuke's plan before he finished.
Just then, "Lightning Lariat!"
"Haunted Thoughts: One Slash to Cut the Dust!"
"Kamui!"
"Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique!"
"Lava Release: Melting Monster Technique!"
Figures descended from the sky one after another, charging to meet Momoshiki and Madara.
Sasuke, Might Guy, A, and Tsunade, four specialists in taijutsu, rushed at Momoshiki.
Kakashi, Mei Terumi, and Onoki, three with special kekkei genkai, charged at Madara & Isshiki.
"We're too weak."
Before today, they had never thought this way.
After today, they had never been more certain.
They were so weak that they had no real ability to participate in the battle, but…
What did Ryosuke say again?
Their "mechanics" were strong enough. Against enemies they had never fought before, they could create a first-encounter kill.
That meant their first strike could have miraculous effects.
They only had one chance.
It had to be used at the most critical moment, and the so-called most critical moment…
Everyone's eyes hardened with resolve.
This was it.
They unleashed everything they had learned in their entire lives, drawing out the strongest power they had ever possessed, and then... they held them back for one second.
The very next second, they were blasted away with crushing force.
Their bodies hurt badly, and they were seriously injured.
But everyone was smiling.
Because Ryosuke had reinserted the disc with the written command back into Obito's body.
BOOM!
A thunderous roar erupted.
The Ten-Tails transformed back into the Divine Tree. Its roots stabbed deep into the earth, and its trunk shot straight toward the sky.
Obito stood at the very top of the Divine Tree, his lower half merged into it as one. Massive amounts of chakra surged into his body.
Rip!
A slit tore open in the center of Obito's forehead.
The Rinne Sharingan slowly opened.
"This is bad!"
Momoshiki and Madara sensed the surging chakra fluctuations, their expressions changing drastically.
But halfway through opening, the process stopped.
Both of them snapped back to their senses.
They had almost been bluffed.
Obito's Ten-Tails was an incomplete product. If he had enough chakra to perform Infinite Tsukuyomi, he would have done it long ago, why fight all the way to this point?
Isshiki felt relieved.
Suddenly, he sensed a fierce wind rushing down from above.
Whoosh!
The Sky Fortress that had been circling overhead since the battle began had descended at some point. Its massive shadow covered the land, and the space gate beneath it, the one used to fire the "Planet-Destroying Cannon", activated once more.
Countless branches of the Divine Tree shot out and poured into the portal. On the other side of it… Was the Shikkotsu Forest.
Naruto, Killer Bee, Gaara, and the other nine jinchuriki and tailed beasts gathered around Sage Slug, placing their hands on it and pouring their chakra into its body.
A space gate stood right in front of Sage Slug. One Divine Tree branch after another flew in, piercing into Sage Slug's body.
At the same time, the small slugs spread across the entire world slowly absorbed chakra from ordinary people and ninja alike, injecting it into past projections, which Sage Slug then extracted.
In an instant, chakra from the nine tailed beasts, ninja, and ordinary people, endless, boundless chakra, was transmitted into the Divine Tree through Sage Slug as a medium, in a way that harmed no one.
The Rinne Sharingan in Obito's forehead fully opened.
Infinite Tsukuyomi activated.
The entire world fell into genjutsu.
However, that wasn't important.
What mattered was that during Infinite Tsukuyomi, the Divine Tree's absorption of chakra reached its peak. All chakra within it underwent frenzied transformation, needing only one special trigger…
Ryosuke summoned Black Zetsu, slapped it onto Obito's face, glanced at Momoshiki and Madara charging toward him, and said softly, "Call your mom over."