Chapter 70: Golden Armament

Kamihane manipulated the third-stage Susanoo to restrain the Wood Human's assault while probing for openings to strike Hashirama directly. The colossal wooden construct raged like wildfire, its titanic fists hammering the obsidian Susanoo backward. The crow tengu armor cracked and splintered under the barrage, yet clung together through sheer divine weapon resilience.

Whenever evasion proved impossible, Kamihane lashed out with surgical precision. A fleeting sword gleam diverted Hashirama's attention, buying his Susanoo precious milliseconds to regroup. Blood streamed steadily from Kamihane's left eye, crimson trails now crusting half his face as the battle dragged on.

Makora's adaptation protocols hummed ceaselessly in the background.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two gargantuan sword slashes shattered harmlessly against the Wood Human's palms. Seizing the momentum, Hashirama hammered Kamihane into a mountainside with a thunderous punch. As the impact cratered stone, Kamihane's Mangekyō pattern completed its final rotation mid-air.

Wood Release adaptation… complete!

A triumphant grin flashed across Kamihane's bloodied face moments before he tore through the cliffside, carving a hundred-meter trench into the earth. He sprang up instantly, analyzing the metamorphosis.

Wood Release's essence coalesced from three chakra natures: water's fluidity, earth's solidity, and crucially – yang's vitality. Hashirama's Sage Body and monstrous chakra reserves fused these elements into living cataclysms. This revelation explained why Yamato's diluted Wood Release paled in comparison – lacking both chakra magnitude and the primal life force saturating every Hashirama cell.

Even when Yamato's Hashirama cells interacted with White Zetsu biomass, the resulting Wood Release remained a flickering candle against the First Hokage's inferno. Every Hashirama technique siphoned enemy chakra mid-combat, mirroring the mythical God Tree's predatory efficiency – the very reason Kamihane's Leaf on Autumn Dew lay neutered throughout this duel.

Makora's solution unfolded with crystalline clarity:

Refine chakra control to subatomic precision. Restructure particles using metallic lattice configurations. Compress and reconstitute – birth Metal Release through alchemical transmutation.

Wood's pliable growth met Metal's unforgiving edge. In the Five Elements cycle, only slaughter-forged Metal could suppress tenacious Wood.

Kamihane's hand snapped upward. Leaf on Autumn Dew materialized as a jade-green blade, now vibrating with transformative energy.

"Golden Convergence – Reforge!"

The katana shrank to fingernail dimensions under his restructured chakra. To Kamihane's hyper-acute vision, its internals now gleamed with metallic density – molecular bonds tightened a thousandfold, flowing chakra frozen into crystalline lattices.

The earth quaked as Hashirama's Wood Human throttled the battered Susanoo toward oblivion. Kamihane's right eye spiraled – Shunshin! – teleporting him back into the fray.

He channeled chakra into the micro-blade. It devoured energy like a singularity, Kamihane's reserves plummeting as metal-cold lethality coalesced in his palm.

In a single heartbeat, the blade swelled back to full size, its jade-green surface now gleaming with crystalline ferocity.

"Leaf on Autumn Dew: Golden Severance!"

Kamihane slashed horizontally. A dark cyan arc cleaved the air—silent, surgical, absolute.

Shink!

Hashirama whirled just as the Wood Human's forearm slid cleanly off its elbow, the cross-section mirror-smooth.

"What sorcery is this?!"

Reacting instinctively, Hashirama formed hand signs. The Wood Dragon erupted from the earth, coiling toward Kamihane while the maimed Wood Human leapt skyward, intent on crushing the Susanoo beneath its gargantuan heel.

Kamihane raised his blade vertically. Another flicker of cyan light.

The charging Wood Dragon froze mid-lunge. A sea breeze whispered through—and the beast split down its spine, crashing to the sand in two smoldering halves.

Simultaneously, Kamihane's right eye rotated like clockwork gears. The battered Susanoo blinked out of existence, rematerializing behind the descending Wood Human with its obsidian spear leveled at Hashirama's back.

"Ama no Tokotachi: Reversion!"

The Golden Severance blade dissolved into motes of light. Despite its lethal edge, the technique devoured chakra voraciously—two strikes drained him dry. Maintaining this state risked total collapse.

CRACK-BOOM!

The Susanoo's spear launched with a sound barrier-shattering bang, its urumi-gold tip piercing the Wood Human's skull. Hashirama's right arm exploded into branching timber at the last millisecond—Wood Release: Surging Wood Gun—propelling him clear of the killing thrust.

"Not... quite...!" Kamihane grinned as flaming wings erupted from his back. Chōmei's spectral screech split the night.

KEEEE-RAAAAWW!

He dropkicked the protruding spear shaft. The weapon detonated through the Wood Human's cranium in a shower of splinters, its titanic frame swaying drunkenly.

"Gravity Well: Fiftyfold!"

Kamihane formed a tiger seal. The embedded spear flared with sealing arrays, crushing Hashirama against the Wood Human's crown under apocalyptic weight.

CRUNCH!

The construct's knees powdered. Hashirama's spine creaked audibly as he fought to lift his head, veins bulging like overfilled rivers. "This... isn't... in... the scrolls...!"

"Break range... reset gravity..." Hashirama's Sage-enhanced mind raced even as his ribs threatened to implode. Closing bloodshot eyes, he inhaled—

WHOOSH!

Nature energy tsunami'd into his pores. Sage Markings crawled across his face like living vines before his eyelids snapped open, pupils blazing solar gold.

"Sage Mode: Unbound."

The very air curdled under primordial pressure.

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