It had entered Asura Mode!
Under Asura Mode, the Kabuto's aura underwent a drastic transformation. Its blue-violet carapace, like molten steel, exuded suffocating heat and ferocity. Its muscles were strained to their limit, each one containing destructive power.
Its eyes held only the purest, most insane desire for slaughter. All reason had long since burned away, replaced by a battle frenzy that could sustain it for a week without rest.
"Roar!!!"
Asura Kabuto let out a terrifying roar that shook space, its massive body instantly vanishing from its spot.
It wasn't teleportation, but extreme speed caused by a pure burst of power!
The next second, Asura Kabuto appeared before Mosquito Girl, its dark red fist, carrying absolute power to crush everything, smashed down from above.
The force of the punch made the air wail with an explosive sound!
"So fast!"
"Its body is so huge, how can it be this fast?"
Mosquito Girl's pupils contracted sharply. She pushed her speed to the limit, barely dodging with a sidestep.
At the same time, her wings vibrated at high frequency, and countless vacuum wing blades, imbued with Dragon-level energy, stormed towards the Kabuto's neck joint—Mosquito Girl's assessment of a potential weakness in Asura Kabuto.
"Clang, clang, clang, clang—!!!"
A series of crisp sounds, ten times more dense than before, erupted.
Sparks flew like dazzling fireworks!
However, after entering Asura Mode, the Kabuto's defense reached an unbelievable level.
Those vacuum wing blades, capable of cutting through alloy steel plates, could only leave slightly deeper white marks on its carapace, failing to cause any effective damage.
"What?!" Mosquito Girl paled in shock.
Meanwhile, the Kabuto's other fist, like a phantom, came crashing from another angle.
It was so fast that Mosquito Girl barely had time to react!
"Bang!!"
Mosquito Girl only managed to cross her arms in front of her before she was struck squarely by the terrifying punch!
"Pfft—" She spat out a mouthful of blood, feeling as if her arm bones were about to shatter. She was sent flying backward at several times the speed of sound, like a baseball hit, smashing through a dozen alloy walls before finally embedding herself deep within the bedrock at the base of the facility, unable to move for a time.
"The difference is too great!"
Both were Dragon-level, but Asura Kabuto in Asura Mode completely overwhelmed the newly promoted Mosquito Girl in terms of pure strength, speed, and defense!
"Hahaha! Do you see it! This is the House of Evolution's greatest masterpiece! A perfect killing machine!"
In the monitoring room, Dr. Genus laughed maniacally, his eyes filled with a twisted sense of accomplishment.
Asura Kabuto's crimson eyes rotated, instantly locking onto the only living being still standing in the arena—Uzumaki Naruto.
It sensed a potential energy within that seemingly ordinary body that made it even more "excited."
"Roar!!"
Asura Kabuto abandoned the temporarily incapacitated Mosquito Girl and, with a destructive and violent aura, charged towards Naruto again like an out-of-control land tank.
Every step it took left a large, clear footprint on the ground. The entire corridor trembled violently under its charge, on the verge of collapse.
Facing this terrifying impact, which would cause most S-Class Heroes to despair, Naruto finally dropped his spectating expression and let out a soft sigh.
"Indeed, a Dragon-level who only ascended by drinking a bit of blood is still a bit lacking," he muttered to himself, seemingly unsurprised by Mosquito Girl's defeat.
Naruto looked at Asura Kabuto charging towards him like a primeval beast, his eyes calm and unperturbed.
"Alright, I've had enough fun. It's time to end this. Hinata is waiting for me to come back for dinner, you know."
The moment his words fell—a terrifying energy fluctuation, beyond description, burst forth from Naruto's body!
It was no longer the restrained state from before, but like a dormant star suddenly awakening!!
Fiery white arcs of electricity, golden Chakra, and blue-red steam surged out wildly, intertwining and coiling.
Dark red, comma-shaped markings instantly covered his temples, appearing both fierce and sacred.
His hair stood on end due to the violent energy field, its tips dyed with the azure of lightning, the golden of Sage Art Chakra, and the crimson of blood steam.
The lightning snakes leaping around him roared like a chorus of Chidori!
Take-Mikazuchi Mode · Activate!
At this moment, Naruto seemed to transform into a god wielding lightning and destruction!
The pressure he exuded instantly overshadowed Asura Kabuto's violent aura, filling the entire underground space, freezing Dr. Genus's smile on his face in front of the monitor and causing Mosquito Girl, embedded in the rock wall, to feel a shudder from her very soul.
Asura Kabuto's charge suddenly stalled.
Its insane killing instinct was, for the first time, suppressed by a higher, more absolute threat of death!
In Asura Kabuto's crimson eyes, a flicker of—fear—from its very life instinct actually appeared?!
But the tyrannical instinct of Asura Mode drove it. Asura Kabuto roared again, transforming all its fear into power, aiming its giant horn at Naruto, and launched its final, full-force charge.
It intended to completely smash this dangerous little speck of light!
"I'll kill you first, then kill the doctor, destroy the House of Evolution, and then rush into town to slaughter everyone, kill all humans," Asura Kabuto roared with insane brutality.
Naruto looked at the charging behemoth and slowly raised his right fist.
The incredibly violent energy of Take-Mikazuchi Mode, combined with his physical strength after breaking his limiter, and the tenfold amplification of the Eight Gates Formation, was highly condensed onto his fist.
There were no complex names, no flashy techniques.
Just the simplest, purest punch, transcending the concepts of speed and strength.
"Fifth Gate · Evening Elephant."
He said softly, then casually threw his punch at the Asura Kabuto that had charged before him.
One punch, two punches, three punches, four punches, five punches stacked!
Time seemed to slow down at this moment.
Naruto's fist gently imprinted itself upon Asura Kabuto's massive single horn, which was touted as having absolute, indestructible defense.
The moment of contact—"Crack—Boom!!!!!"
First, a faint sound, like porcelain shattering.
Immediately following, an indescribable, terrifying explosion that shook the entire underground space!
Asura Kabuto's massive, burly body, like it was clad in blue-violet heavy armor and in its ultimate mode, began to decompose, collapse, and vaporize from its horn, as if it had been thrown into a furnace of billions of degrees.
Hard carapace, tough muscles, solid bones—in the face of this absolute power, there was no difference; they all turned into the most basic particles!
It didn't even leave a trace of residue or a single drop of blood.