Chapter 159 : Susanoo!!

Uchiha Madara, who always strived to be the strongest, looked grim when he saw the ten wooden statues rising from the ground, controlled by Senju Hashirama.

On his side, he only had three Susanoo, while on the other side, there were ten wooden statues. Moreover, the Susanoo were shorter than the wooden statues.

If this situation happened to an average person, they would definitely fall back, focus on defense, and wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

But Madara wasn't like that. Despite being at a disadvantage, he chose to take the initiative and attack first.

"Boom~"

The three Susanoo launched their attacks simultaneously. The sound of their massive twenty-meter great swords was deafening.

Seeing this, Hashirama didn't say much. He just controlled the wooden statues and charged straight at the Susanoo.

"Damn it."

As the two sides clashed, Madara immediately began to fall behind.

After all, Hashirama had more wooden statues than Madara had Susanoo, and their quality was slightly superior as well.

If Madara couldn't come up with a surprise tactic in a short amount of time, defeat was only a matter of time.

"Hashirama~"

"Madara~"

Madara shouted, and Hashirama responded in kind.

Then, the two began their even more intense battle.

Madara's eyes widened, his Sharingan fully activated, and the form of his Susanoo changed, now growing four arms instead of two.

With the extra two arms, the strength of his Susanoo did improve a bit.

But as I said before, Hashirama had ten wooden statues.

When at a disadvantage in both numbers and quality, it was incredibly difficult to defeat the wooden statues.

Since childhood, Madara had always been serious about every battle.

He didn't want to lose to anyone, especially not to Senju Hashirama.

Even though the situation was unfavorable for him, he didn't want to give up.

"Ha~~"

He shouted loudly and began to fully control his Susanoo to attack.

At this moment, the Susanoo acted like a mad dog, its limbs swinging wildly.

To be honest, Madara's style of only attacking and not defending turned the situation into complete chaos.

Hashirama was somewhat concerned about Madara's body. Facing Madara's frenzied attack, Hashirama could only reluctantly defend.

It wasn't that he couldn't attack, but he was afraid that if he wasn't careful, he might kill Madara.

Madara understood Hashirama very well.

The defensive posture of the Wood Clone made his brows furrow. He was very dissatisfied with Hashirama's choice.

"Hashirama, what are you doing? Come fight me!"

"...Madara, that's enough, stop being so stubborn. You know your body better than anyone, right?"

"Hashirama, are you pitying me? When has Uchiha Madara ever needed someone's pity?"

"Don't say that. I don't want to lose you as a close friend."

"Friend my ass! If you really considered me a friend, stop pitying me. Come on, face me head-on!"

Hashirama was speechless.

Looking at Madara, who was starting to go insane, he gave up on trying to talk sense into him.

Sigh~

Hashirama sighed. At that moment, he wished he could enter Sage Mode and use Sage Jutsu.

That way, he could use the Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands to subdue Madara and stop him from continuing to destroy his body.

Unfortunately, the cloned body hadn't reached the peak level of his original self and still needed time to grow stronger.

Moreover, the fusion of his soul and body wasn't perfect yet.

At this moment, this body could only exert about 80% of his true strength.

Given this, he couldn't activate Sage Mode.

Forcefully activating it will only turn oneself into a pile of stone.

"Since that's the case..."

Senju Hashirama's eyes were sharp as he stood atop the wooden statue. He waited for the right moment before bringing his hands together in a prayer.

"Wood Release: All Bag Technique"

As Hashirama began to use Wood Release, several large wooden hands appeared around the three Susanoo forms.

As soon as these hands appeared, they firmly grabbed the feet of the Susanoo, restricting the movement of the massive beings.

"Damn it, not this again."

During the Valley of the End battle, Hashirama had used this technique to grab Uchiha Madara's Susanoo's tail.

Though it was later sliced by the Susanoo's sword, it had still startled Madara at that time.

Now, Uchiha Madara was using the same tactic, controlling Susanoo's sword to destroy the wooden hands that were limiting its movement.

In that moment, Hashirama seized the opportunity and, without losing any energy, destroyed the Susanoo clone.

Only Uchiha Madara's true Susanoo remained.

"..."

Looking at the ten wooden statues surrounding him, Madara fell into silence.

He definitely couldn't win now.

If he kept fighting, his body wouldn't be able to withstand it anymore.

However, he didn't want to easily admit defeat.

Should he use the power of the Rinnegan?

Madara understood Hashirama, and in return, Hashirama understood Madara.

Seeing Madara frown and not cancel the Susanoo, Hashirama knew that Madara was still planning to make one final attempt.

"Madara, how about I surrender? Let's stop fighting."

Uchiha Madara glanced at Senju Hashirama, whose face was filled with worry, and took a deep breath.

He wasn't planning to use the Rinnegan, and even if he did, with his current condition, it was unlikely he could defeat Hashirama.

However, giving up so easily wasn't his style.

With that in mind, Uchiha Madara looked at Senju Hashirama and said, "One last move!"

Hashirama was overjoyed at the words, quickly getting into position and saying, "Come on!"

Madara didn't act immediately. Instead, he pressed his hands together and summoned a wooden figure.

With the wooden figure and Susanoo combined, it formed the powerful: Susanoo (Wooden version).

With Susanoo acting as armor, the wooden figure's defense and offense were enhanced to an extreme level.

"Hashirama~"

The wooden figure, wielding a massive sword, began sweeping toward Hashirama's wooden figure.

"Madara~"

The attack from Susanoo's wooden figure was truly overpowered. Even Hashirama's wooden figure couldn't defend against it and was sliced in half at the waist.

Seeing that the long sword was about to strike at the main body of his wooden figure, Hashirama immediately stopped supplying chakra to it.

Without Hashirama's chakra support, before Madara's attack could land, the wooden figure quickly turned into a useless pile of broken wood.

"Boom!"

A violent gust of wind howled through the air.

Standing on the ground, Senju Hashirama looked up at Uchiha Madara and shouted, "Madara, we agreed on just one move! Don't cheat!"

Uchiha Madara looked down at Senju Hashirama and remained silent.

After a long while, he clicked his tongue and jumped off the Susanoo wooden figure.

As soon as he landed, Uchiha Madara almost lost his balance.

From the sweat covering his face and the heavy rise and fall of his chest, it was clear that Uchiha Madara wasn't in a good condition.

Seeing this, Senju Hashirama quickly stepped forward to support Madara, asking with concern, "Madara, are you okay? How's your body? Do you feel like you're about to die?"

"If you can't speak, then don't. Hmph!"

Madara pushed Hashirama away, found a wooden stump, and sat down to rest.

"Heh, you know I was just worried about you."

"Of course I know. If you weren't, I would have just stabbed you when you were helping me earlier."

"A stab? You're empty-handed now, where would you get a kunai?"

". Why is your focus always so strange? Can't I use my hand as a blade?"

". Sure~~"

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