The giant was clearly over fifteen meters tall, and its violent aura made its strength obvious.
"Nen really is amazing," Ronin sighed.
This was his first time seeing something with such a massive body that had also mastered Nen.
Perhaps because of its enormous size, the giant possessed far more aura than an ordinary person. After all, even the simplest Ten would require a tremendous amount of aura to cover its entire body.
In the rain, the giant seemed completely unaware of Ronin and Ging's presence, even though both of them had already released their Nen.
Seeing this, Ging felt somewhat helpless.
After all, sound was almost useless in this kind of thunderstorm. So he had only one option: attack the giant directly.
But Ronin was different.
Just as Ging was preparing to condense a Nen bullet for a ranged attack, an equally enormous figure suddenly appeared around Ronin.
It was Susanoo.
And it was no longer a skeletal or half-body Susanoo.
It was a true complete form, with both legs and the ability to stand upright.
After Susanoo appeared, Ronin was carried into the air inside it like the pilot of a giant robot.
The complete Susanoo was also more than ten meters tall, and that was with Ronin deliberately restraining it.
If he fully released his chakra, the Susanoo he created could be even larger.
But this was already enough.
The charging giant finally stopped in shock after Susanoo appeared.
However, it had no intention of communicating. The giant reached behind its back and pulled out a wooden club. At the same time, the Nen around its entire body rapidly entered a state of Ren.
The wooden club, wrapped in Nen, howled through the air as it smashed toward Susanoo.
What a savage brute!
Ronin sighed inwardly, and Susanoo counterattacked as well.
A long blade formed rapidly in its empty hand, constructed entirely from chakra. The blade rose with the motion, instantly slicing the descending wooden club in half.
The giant's muddy yellow eyes widened at that moment.
But the blade that had cut through the club had no intention of stopping there. It suddenly changed direction and slashed toward the giant's body.
If that strike landed, the giant had no doubt it would be split in two instantly.
So before the blade could fall, the giant's knees went weak, and it knelt directly before Susanoo.
The descending blade scattered above the giant's head, turning into points of chakra that vanished. At the same time, a figure leapt out from within Susanoo's body.
It was Ronin's shadow clone.
Only then did the giant discover Ronin's existence.
However, under Susanoo's deterrence, the giant did not dare make any strange moves. It could only watch as Ronin's shadow clone landed on its body.
And the reason Ronin sent the shadow clone over was for one thing:
to seal the giant and directly read its memories.
Ronin felt that this giant's brain might not be very useful. Rather than communicate with it when they might not even understand each other's language, it would be better to confirm that communication was impossible, then directly use the ninjutsu Mind Reading Technique to browse through its memories.
The sealing technique took effect on the giant first, sealing all the Nen around its body back inside it.
In other words, Ronin had forcibly pushed it into a state of Zetsu.
Fear appeared in the giant's eyes. It immediately began banging its head against the ground. The loud thudding was enough to prove how terrified it was.
"Can you understand me?"
Susanoo did not disappear and remained there as a deterrent, while Ronin's shadow clone shouted loudly beside the giant's ear.
At the same time, Ging also approached.
During this process, Ging became increasingly curious about Ronin.
Ronin's abilities were extremely varied. He was the most complex person Ging had ever met. More importantly, no matter what area it was, Ronin seemed to have trained it to an extremely advanced level.
This could clearly only be categorized under the Specialist system, and even then, Ronin was a super genius among Specialists.
This realization made even Ging feel the urge to spar with Ronin a little.
The giant heard the shadow clone's voice and responded with sounds of its own.
However, just as Ronin had expected, he could not understand a single thing the giant said.
It might have been an indigenous language, but it was more likely just random shouting.
At least after Ging also shook his head, Ronin knew communication with the other party was impossible. So the shadow clone simply leapt up and, under the giant's terrified gaze, kicked its massive head.
The giant's Nen had already been sealed, so the shadow clone did not dare use too much force.
But it was enough.
The giant crashed into the mud and fell unconscious.
Only then did Susanoo disappear. The shadow clone vanished as well, and Ronin landed on top of the giant's head.
"I can read some of its memories. That should make things more convenient."
As he spoke, Ronin finished forming hand seals and touched the head of the giant lying in the mud.
Ging watched Ronin's earlier hand seals thoughtfully.
As the Mind Reading Technique activated, Ronin closed his eyes and invaded the giant's memories.
The giant was not a solitary being. Its kind had a village, likely somewhere ahead. And at the center of that village stood a pitch-black crow statue.
When Ronin followed the giant's memories and saw that statue, the crow statue's eyes suddenly opened.
They were not a pair of black eyes.
Instead, countless eyes covered its entire head.
That made the crow's head look extremely terrifying and bizarre.
And all of those eyes looked at Ronin at the same time.
A stabbing pain suddenly erupted in his mind. Ronin took a sharp step back and opened his eyes.
The torrential rain had already soaked him completely, but the feeling of cold sweat pouring down his back still made his spine turn cold.
"Caw!"
The cry of a crow rang out, especially abrupt in the heavy rain.
Ronin and Ging looked in the direction of the sound at the same time. They saw that eyes were suddenly beginning to appear on the head of the giant lying in the mud.
They were all scarlet bird eyes.
They were the same eyes Ronin had seen on the crow in the giant's memories.
But now, those eyes were growing on the giant's head, and their number continued to increase.
The sealing technique the shadow clone had placed on the giant was destroyed completely in an instant. The unconscious giant began struggling, and its Nen started recovering, showing signs of turning violent.
But right then, black flames appeared out of thin air and spread across the giant's entire body in the rain.
The giant, whose head had almost completely turned into eyes, struggled to get up. Its body began charring under the black flames.
Ronin and Ging retreated at the same time.
Boom!
The giant's head exploded in the next second.
The black flames of Amaterasu scattered everywhere in the explosion.
And within the flying black flames were countless pitch-black crows.
But every single crow was also stained with Amaterasu's fire.
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