Dimensions

The Tailed beasts were utterly silent upon seeing Araki's new appearance.

Kurama muttered with a low voice, "Old man…" He was remembering his creator and seeing his image while staring at Araki.

It was unknown whether Araki heard his words or not, but if he did hear them, he didn't comment on it.

Instead, Araki stared at his own body, slightly disappointed at the transformation. He certainly didn't like this appearance. But he didn't say anything about it, he instead turned towards the Tailed Beasts, "Alright now, I will give you two choices. Do you want to stay in this realm, co-existing with humans, but retaining your freedom, or do you want to stay in another dimension? There might be some beasts in that dimension but nothing much compared to you Tailed Beasts… So you wouldn't be threatened at all."

"If you choose the first option, I will seal some of my Chakra into you, and if you are in any trouble, just send a pulse through it. My clone would appear, and it should be sufficient to deal with any threats. By some chance it isn't sufficient, I will be notified of the threat and personally come to resolve it. You can consider it a benefit for voluntarily giving me your Chakra. As for the second option, I think I already told a bit about it. Oh, and I will create a link between me and you all. If you want to return, tell me about it, and I will open a portal for you to return."

A grin appeared on his face as he cheekily added, "Well, try not to talk too much to me, though. I might start ignoring you…"

The tailed beasts didn't care much about this fact.

The first one to speak was Shukaku, "Alright then, send me to a dimension with a lot of sand. If there isn't a dimension like that, I might just stay in the Land of Wind."

Araki touched his chin and muttered, "Hmm… There should be a world like that, right?"

He raises his head and looks in the sky. He concentrated some chakra in his left-eyed Rinne-Sharingan, and a spatial rift could be seen in the air.

The Spatial Rift slowly opened, and suddenly, lava started pouring out from the portal.

However, before it reached Araki's face, it seemed to have vanished.

The Tailed Beasts were shocked though… They sensed the utilization of Water in the moisture which rapidly lowered the temperature and the Wind Chakra which cut it apart into smithereens before taking away the residual somewhere else.

It was so fast that if not for their supernatural senses, they would have failed to detect it.

Moreover, it was astounding as they didn't even see Araki move.

Each one shuddered as they thought in their heads 'Just how strong has he become?!'

"Looks like this is a magma world. Anyone want to hop in?" Araki asked the tailed beasts.

Not a single Tailed Beast replied, and Araki shrugged in response, "I guess, that's to be expected."

Internally, he thought 'That was surprising though… To think that opening a portal to another dimension would require such immense chakra.'

"Hmm… Onto the next world then." He closed the portal soon enough and then opened another world.

It was an Ice world. The icy wind from that location flew to Araki's world and would have frozen any normal human down to their bones. But no normal person was standing there.

9 were the Tailed Beasts while the only human there had already ascended to become a god!

It would be strange if something could affect him at this point.

Not a single-tailed beast expressed their desire to go into this world.

The next was a world with high gravity. Once again, no one expressed any willingness to go there.

The portal opened in another world, and this time, all of them saw a world with see as far as eyes could see.

The Three Tailed Beast, Isobu, said with a hint of laziness, "I want to go to this world…"

"Ohh… Ok." Araki was a little surprised when he heard Isobu talking about going to this world, and he slowly nodded.

He closed the portal and opened a portal beside Isobu of a large size. Large enough for a tailed beast to pass through it…

Araki stepped forward and touched Isobu's body, creating a mental link between the two of them. The Three Tailed Bijuu slowly walked past the portal and fell into the boundless ocean.

Araki then let out a sigh and closed the portal.

"Alright then, onto the next world…"

The next was finally the desert world that Shukaku wanted to live in. Araki sensed the presence of some living beings in the dimension. Still, they didn't seem to have any power in them, so, he let Shukaku pass through the portal and enter this world.

After this… Araki showed another three worlds to the Tailed Beasts. Still, no one else expressed their desire to go to another dimension.

Araki didn't care much about it. He slowly stepped towards each Tailed Beast's body and sent some of his Chakra in them. This chakra would remain unresponsible unless a specific wave of chakra was targeted at it.

All the tailed beasts, barring Kurama, dispersed themselves.

Araki turned towards Kurama and said to him, "So then, what are you going to do from now?"

Kurama hesitated a little before speaking, "I will go with you to Uzushio. I can protect them from external attacks, the attacks in which you don't need to involve yourself."

Araki was surprised at those words and his pupils widened a little. He showed a grateful expression and said, "Thanks, Kurama… I won't forget this."

He then turned towards the direction of the land of lightning and said, "Wait for me here… I will cut off the loose ends now."

"Hmm? There is still something left for you to do?" Kurama looked surprised as he asked Araki.

"It was just a snake, who slipped through my hands…"

After saying that, Araki vanished into thin air.

With Purple Lightning around his body, he was flying towards the Land of Lightning at lightning-quick speed.

Before long, he reached the location of the hideout of his dear snake, Orochimaru.

It was in a cave near the Kumo village. This was not just Orochimaru's hideout but one of his precious laboratory.

"I don't have the patience to play with him. Ending this in one quick strike will be better…" As he finished speaking, Araki raised his hand.

Dark clouds gathered above the Land of Lightning. People weren't surprised at this phenomenon…

They had seen lightning quite frequently. But if these people were to know that the entire Land of Lightning had been covered by the dark clouds, they would have been entirely frightened to the point their souls would be leaving their bodies.

Because this had never occurred in the history of the Land of Lightning.

Araki softly whispered, "Annihilate it… Heavenly Lightning!"

The clouds roared as if having received their command. At that moment, purple lightning started to blink and concentrated on a single point.

Upon Araki's signal, that single point released a massive and thick bolt of purple lightning whose radius was wide enough to cover the entire village of Kumo!

Orochimaru, who had been conducting his researching at this moment, was shocked when he saw a flash of purple colour. And in the next moment, all his hideout and the area around it was utterly destroyed! Everything was annihilated in the range of the Heavenly Lightning.

"Hmm… I guess that takes care of the snake. Time to return now…" Araki's words drifted in the wind as he returned to Kurama's location, and the two started walking to Uzushio.