Naruto: I, the villain template, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 96 Mito's Hell of Fear (Thanks to the author of 【落雨微雨恨相兼】, I owe you a chapter!!)

Bang! Bang bang!!

Hiruzen Sarutobi swung his Vajra Staff, which instantly became thicker and longer, directly meeting the dozen or so spheres.

But after he shattered those spheres, the explosion he expected did not occur; instead, it burst open into a white mist.

A clear hissing sound echoed throughout the sky as large amounts of white mist exploded and filled the air above them.

It obscured the sun, making it pale and dim.

Then it gradually sank from mid-air down into the leaf below.

This unexpected turn of events left everyone in Konoha momentarily stunned.

But he only paused for a moment before Hiruzen Sarutobi came to his senses.

"A poison gas bomb?" He frowned, warning everyone, "Hold your breath, be careful, it's poisonous!"

Having said that, he raised the Ruyi Jingu Bang in his hand, stirring up a noisy hurricane in an attempt to dispel all the white mist.

Although Hiruzen Sarutobi's warning was timely, some people still didn't realize what was happening and inhaled a very small amount of the white gas.

The pale fog wasn't particularly thick; it floated in the area where they were, and they couldn't even feel its presence.

Mito, who was condensing the Tailed Beast Ball, paid no attention to the so-called poisonous fog. She just stared at the golden light in the sky, while the aura of the Tailed Beast Ball became more and more terrifying.

The poison gas was completely meaningless to her in this state...

"Cough cough!!"

Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi was puzzled, the Aburame ninja next to him suddenly collapsed, clutching her chest and staring wide-eyed in terror, her eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

"Aburame..." Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression changed instantly.

But before he could react, it triggered a chain reaction.

Another Konoha ninja suddenly coughed, then staggered and fell to the ground, clutching his throat and making strange hoarse noises.

The Konoha ninja standing nearby wanted to go over and help, but he stopped in his tracks, his pupils shrinking to slits almost instantly.

"Ah!!" The group suddenly let out a bloodcurdling scream, their mouths agape to the limit, their jaws cracking and popping.

Seeing this incredibly bizarre scene, Hiruzen Sarutobi held his breath, trying to help the Aburame ninja up.

But the Aburame ninja was just trembling violently, screaming in terror, with tears, snot, and saliva streaming down her face.

"What happened? Is it poisoning? But I've already dispelled the poisonous gas!"

As he was thinking, Hiruzen Sarutobi suddenly paused, realizing that he didn't seem to be suffocating, but rather that he had lost his voice due to excessive fear.

It's just like……

What extremely terrifying thing did you see?

"Illusion?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi grabbed his shoulder, trying to interrupt his chakra flow in order to break him out of the genjutsu.

But the next moment, they were shocked to find that the Aburame ninja's body showed no signs of poisoning, but his chakra flow was completely chaotic, and the worms inside his body were running around wildly.

Genjutsu differs from ninjutsu and taijutsu. It targets the enemy's five senses and manipulates the flow of chakra to induce illusions.

Generally speaking, to break a genjutsu, you only need to disrupt the flow of chakra.

However, in the case of Aburame ninja, it's impossible for her to fall for genjutsu!

"What's going on? What happened? What did you see?!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi gritted his teeth, shook his body violently, and growled, "Tell me, what did you see?!"

But what the Aburame ninja said next stunned Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Bugs! Bugs! Don't come any closer!!"

The oil-woman ninja screamed in terror, her entire body contorted in an abnormal posture, shifting her weight from left to right, writhing and twisting wildly on the ground as if trying to escape something terrifying.

At this moment, in the eyes of the Aburame ninja, his entire body was covered with countless insect eggs. As he wriggled, more and more eggs fell off, flowing down his forehead and the bridge of his nose to his chin.

Meanwhile, the tiny insect eggs wrapped in mucus began to hatch.

Countless black insects with shells and three pairs of hooked legs crawled out of the translucent embryo and began to gnaw on the body of the oil-dwelling ninja.

"ah!!"

The oil-loving ninja let out a terrified scream, frantically scratching her face, trying her best to get rid of the insects.

But the swarms of insects continued to entangle him, even crushing their shells, breaking their hooked legs, and even grinding them into fine, pulverized pieces.

The force he used in the end was so great that he tore his own face apart.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was pulled so hard he stumbled, looking at him with utter terror and horror, before glancing at the Konoha people around him.

Aside from the Konoha ninja who reacted immediately and held their breath.

Those who inhaled the white mist lay on the ground, screaming incessantly.

"Hehe! Hehe!"

"Aaaaaaah!"

Some people inexplicably collapsed to the ground, their vomiting sounds were horrifying, and large amounts of pale yellow liquid gushed from their mouths, as if they were about to vomit up their internal organs!

Some feel like they are endlessly falling weightlessly into an abyss, some feel like they are locked in a small, dark space, some see countless hands crawling all over their bodies, and some feel countless sharp needles pointing at their pupils...

Rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, sweating and trembling, chest tightness and nausea, confused thinking, loss of consciousness, hallucinations...

To others, all of this looked like a pantomime, with the person constantly twisting and self-harming.

The extremely bizarre scene before him sent chills down Hiruzen Sarutobi's spine.

Just then, he suddenly felt the violent and evil aura pause, but soon an even more powerful force erupted!

"Oh no!!" Hiruzen Sarutobi's expression changed instantly, and he turned his head sharply to look in Mito's direction.

boom!!

Suddenly, the Nine-Tails' chakra that had been contained within her body burst forth, and the shockwave blasted away the air around Mito, creating a cavity.

The four tails behind it trembled violently, while the fifth tail was gradually coalescing.

Those blood-red vertical pupils seemed to be suppressing something. The monster suppressed in the sea of ​​blood poured out like a pillar along with the red shadows that swayed in the pupils, looking like it was about to break through the sealed cage and couldn't wait to slay blood and kill.

"Mito-sama! Stop! Stop! Damn it!!"

Seeing that Mito offered no response, her crimson aura growing increasingly chaotic, and her Tailed Beast Ball becoming ever more terrifying, Hiruzen Sarutobi's face was incredibly grim. He looked up at the Sky Ninja and roared, "What exactly do you want to do?!"

The air ninja captain simply looked down at him and said calmly, "Of course, it's to let your pleasure-loving, long-forgotten Mito-sama experience the pain and resentment from his own kind."

Upon hearing this, Hiruzen Sarutobi's heart trembled violently, and a chill surged from within.

Was Mito the real target of these guys all along?

Everything he did, said, and acted was to lure Mito over, then force her to use her tailed beast form, causing the Nine-Tails' power to run rampant in Konoha?!

No, that's not all!

With a pale face, Hiruzen Sarutobi turned to look into the distance at the white mist that he had blown away.

The white mist continued to spread throughout Konoha, "submerging" all the distant scenery.

At this moment, whether they were active Konoha ninjas or retired ones, as long as they still had chakra in their bodies, they all felt a chill after inhaling the white mist.

Immediately, a sense of fear welled up uncontrollably, both physiologically and psychologically.

They saw in themselves the thing they feared most.

Fear breeds violence, and violence in turn breeds fear.

Just as Hiruzen Sarutobi had thought, Mito's consciousness was gradually becoming blurred, and the heaviness of her body was gradually lessening, as if her consciousness and body were beginning to separate.

A strange hissing sound came from my ears, gradually becoming clearer as it approached.

No, that wasn't a hissing sound; it was someone whispering!

"Mito-sama, that hurts..."

"Mito-sama, I'm so hot..."

"Mito, why haven't you come back...?"

The air was filled with surreal, layered sounds: someone was crying out for their mother, someone was coughing violently, and someone was groaning in pain.

Mito's body began to secrete large amounts of fear pheromones, her heart skipped a beat, and her eyes suddenly widened.

call! !

Before them was no longer Konoha, but black ruins, countless ruins. The sky was a dark yellow, the setting sun hung on the horizon, and the wind howled mournfully.

The ruins connect the sky and the earth, and the dilapidated buildings stand in the distance like tombstones of giants buried in graves.

This is undoubtedly a city, the city she knows well.

Her homeland, the Land of Whirlpools.

At the same time, within the sealed space inside Mito's body, the Nine-Tails, with its head bowed, seemed to sense something and suddenly looked up into the void.

"This is..." A look of astonishment suddenly flashed across its thin, bony fox face.

But soon, the corner of its mouth twitched slightly, and then gradually widened, almost to its ears.

"Hahaha! Mito Uzumaki! You've finally met your match! I'll make you destroy Konoha, the village your husband loves, with your own hands! Hahaha!!"

A huge thank you to the author of 【落雨微雨恨相兼】! I currently owe one chapter, but I'll add an extra chapter on Saturday and Sunday!!

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