8: Chapter 8: A "Friendly" Deal with the Nine-Tails[Ding!Extremely high concentration of [Hatred] x100,000 detected from the Nine-Tails!]
The numbers on the system panel jumped wildly, like a grand fireworks display.
Naruto stood still.
The torrent of hatred, solidified from twelve years of loneliness and imprisonment, transformed into a crimson, tangible chakra, crashing towards him with a roar powerful enough to tear apart souls.
He didn't move.
He didn't even mobilize a single wisp of chakra.
The [Limitless Technique] had already drawn an absolute boundary called "infinity" between him and this world.
A crimson chakra wave crashed into an invisible wall less than a meter from his body.No, it wasn't a wall.The space itself became viscous, stretched infinitely.The raging energy plunged in, only to find that the path ahead was endless.
It was "stopped".
All the destructive forces were trapped within that infinitely extended one meter, unable to move forward or backward, and ultimately turned into meaningless turbulent energy currents that rolled and roared in front of him, but could never touch him in the slightest.
Inside the sealed space, the colossal creature imprisoned by iron bars thrashed its nine tails restlessly against the ground.Its massive head, comparable to a mountain, slowly rose, its crimson vertical pupil, taller than a human, fixed intently on the tiny human cub before it.
It saw it.
It saw its own hatred, its purest power, isolated in a way that was completely incomprehensible.
That's not a sealing technique, and it's not a barrier.
That's a kind of.rule.
For the first time, pure confusion appeared in the enormous eyes of the nine-tailed beast.
[Ding!You have received 10,000 [Confusion] from the Nine-Tailed Fox!]
Naruto was very satisfied with the result.
He raised his head to meet the enormous eyeball that could terrify any ninja, his face showing no extra emotion.
"So noisy, you long-haired fox."
His words were clear and resonant in the empty underground sewers.
"Quiet down, let's talk about a deal."
Dead silence.
After a brief silence came a volcanic eruption of fury.
"roar!"
The Nine-Tails was utterly enraged by this extremely contemptuous remark.A mere human!Its mere vessel!How dare they speak to it in such a tone!
It opened its enormous mouth, filled with fangs, and purplish-black chakra gathered and compressed within at an astonishing speed.A small Tailed Beast Ball, with extremely high density and containing terrifying energy, instantly took shape.
Without the slightest hesitation, it suddenly unleashed the Tailed Beast Ball, powerful enough to level a small mountain!
The purplish-black energy ball, accompanied by a piercing shriek that seemed to tear through space, ripped through the dark corridor and headed straight for Naruto's face.
However, the bizarre scene repeated itself.
The Tailed Beast Ball crashed into that "infinite" realm once again in front of Naruto.
Its front end began to twist and compress, as the high-density chakra that constituted it lost its balance under the forced stretching of space.The purplish-black energy sphere was stretched into a thin noodle, and then kneaded into an irregular tangled mess.
Ultimately, in a silent implosion, all its energy collapsed inward, disintegrating into the most primitive chakra particles, without even producing a spark of explosion.
Just like that.it disappeared.
The Nine-Tailed Fox's roar got stuck in its throat.
Its enormous vertical pupils contracted to their limit, filled with incomprehensible shock and utterly offended rage.
[Ding!You have received 50,000 [Shock] from the Nine-Tails!]
[Ding!You have received 30,000 units of [Rage] from the Nine-Tails!]
Naruto stared at the numbers on the system panel, which were surging again, but he remained completely unmoved.
Pure physical deterrence has limited effect on this chakra aggregate that has lived for thousands of years.To make it truly obedient, something is needed that can threaten its very existence.
One type can remind it of the fear of death.
"system."
He silently recited it in his heart.
"Exchange for [Domain Expansion - Demon-Slaying Chef] (0.1-second trial version)."
[Confirmed consumption of 100,000 Shadow Points?This trial card allows the host to deploy an incomplete domain within 0.1 seconds, indiscriminately disintegrating all targets within the domain.]
"confirm."
A chilling, sinister, and terrifying concept, seemingly from ancient gods and demons, instantly took over his consciousness.
While Kurama was still reeling from the shock of the Tailed Beast Ball's failure, Naruto raised his hand and formed a simple yet ominous hand seal.
He whispered four words.
"Domain expansion".
In an instant.
The entire dark and damp sealed space disappeared.
Instead, there was an ominous phantom of an ancient shrine filled with enormous skeletons and decaying altars.
A huge, fanged demon's mouth splits open directly above the shrine.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
The next second, countless invisible slashes filled every inch of the domain.
That wasn't a blade, nor was it the wind.
That's the concept of "severing" itself.
Puff!Puff!Puff!Puff!
The Nine-Tails' massive chakra cloak couldn't even hold up for a moment, like snow exposed to the scorching sun, instantly cut, decomposed, and evaporated into pieces.
Immediately afterwards, those invisible strikes landed on its body.
There is no way to block or dodge.
Deep, bone-revealing wounds appeared out of nowhere on its massive body.Fur, flesh, and bones were all neatly sliced open, and the blood didn't even have time to gush out before being evaporated by the next strike.
"Roar.woo."
The Nine-Tails let out a discordant, mournful cry.It wasn't anger, but a pure pain originating from the very source of life.For the first time in its history, within its own spiritual world, it had been wounded at its very core by a "human."
0.1 seconds, gone in the blink of an eye.
ominousThe shrine's illusory image receded like the tide, and the dark underground waterways reappeared.
It was as if nothing had ever happened.
But the nine-tailed fox, lying behind the iron bars, was covered in blood, its massive body trembling violently and uncontrollably.The hundreds of deep, bone-revealing wounds on its body were healing at a visible speed, but the terrifying feeling of being "dismembered" was already imprinted deep within its soul.
For the first time in its history, it felt pure fear—a fear that threatened its very survival—from a weak human cub.
[Ding!You have received 200,000 units of ultimate [Fear] from the Nine-Tails!]
Naruto slowly lowered his hand and walked towards the huge iron gate.
He walked slowly, each step making a crisp sound as he stepped into the puddles.
He stopped in front of the enormous fox head.The difference in size between the two created an eerie sense of oppression.
He smiled, a warm and pure smile that seemed completely out of place with the hellish scene he had just witnessed.
"The transaction is simple."
"First, your chakra is at my disposal."
"Second, provide me with a stable emotional support package."
He looked at the huge vertical pupil that trembled slightly with fear and continued to add.
"In return, I promise to take you to see a 'big show' in the future."
Naruto paused, his smile unchanged, but his words froze Kurama's soul.
"Otherwise.I'll slice you into sashimi next time, Kurama."
The nine-tailed fox's massive body suddenly stiffened.
It fell silent.
This human, this vessel, what did they just call him.
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