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Rōran, 43.
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Mukade, also known as Counselor Anrokuzan, was so focused on absorbing the chakra from the vein that he no longer cared about the queen.
Since she was surrounded inside the royal building by puppets under his command with orders to execute her, even the humans had already been replaced, there was no way for her to escape, unless she threw herself out one of the windows, which would make his job a little harder, but he did not care, he could make Sara a puppet queen for the time being.
His eyes were mainly focused on that endless amount of chakra flowing beneath the planet.
Finally, he had this power. All this power, just for himself!
At that moment, he was strengthening the giant puppet by absorbing chakra and creating his most powerful soldiers, before starting to create the threads needed to form an army.
His puppets had already replaced all the soldiers and people inside the main building where the queen was. Soon, they would replace the entire city. He would not even have difficulty controlling all of that.
After years of acting as a counselor while hiding his efforts to discover a way to control that power, he had presented himself as a kind advisor, always giving the queen the right suggestions on what to do.
Thus, he quickly gained her trust. She held him in high esteem, which prevented anyone from questioning his comings and goings around the palace while he conducted his research on the vein. And whenever someone questioned him, he always had an excuse. With his reputation, no one suspected anything.
He had easily learned about how the vein functioned through the library and by creating new puppets using the future knowledge he had acquired inside the village of Suna.
The queen had not even realized that on the previous night, he had simply managed to replace everyone for that grand show.
He wanted to see her die, but even so, his desire for the vein and to strengthen his greatest puppet was greater than the desire to watch that woman succumb, so he left that task to his puppets.
That made him remember the early years, when he came to that place with the intention of preventing the chaos that would arise from the Third World War and mastering that power to create true peace for the world.
What he had not expected was that some strange things would begin to appear in that world, if he could even classify it as such, since the events of the Second War had been quite different from what he remembered.
Not only had the outcome of the war been somewhat different from what he recalled, Konoha had not crushed the nations as happened at the end of the war, but the Uzumaki clan was still alive, even though it should have been destroyed between the First and Second Wars.
Minato Namikaze had received the nickname Yellow Flash at the end of the Second War, when he was only a teenager. Unlike the Third War, in Mukade's world, where he received that name already as a young adult.
Ah, if he could see all the differences, then Minato Namikaze was certainly the strangest among them all. He had brought the ninja world to its knees with his power alone! The Yellow Flash of his world had never done such a thing.
There were also people who had never even existed in the other world. Tsuna Senju and Hanabi Hyuuga were people he had never heard of before. Even Mikoto and Kushina, despite being known figures, had never played such prominent roles as they did in this world.
Unlike this world, where Minato had ascended to the top of the world so easily, and his wives were all globally renowned.
There was no family more powerful than theirs. And the world trembled with every move they made...
That disturbed him greatly. He did not know what was happening, nor why he had fallen into a different world.
Even so, he decided to act. He had to act in the face of such potential threats.
He would not wait until the war broke out. He would act now that tensions were rising and all the villages were building up their forces for war. His intention was to create a powerful puppet army using the chakra vein and continue working on it until the end of the war between the great nations.
When everyone was sufficiently weakened at the end of the war, then he would act. He would dominate all 5 nations! The world would fall at his feet.
And today would be marked as the first day of his reign in Rōran, before he conquered the world.
He would replace the queen or leave her dead. If necessary, he would manipulate the princess, or even place a puppet in Sara's place. He would continue acting as counselor while controlling the entire kingdom from the shadows.
To the world, Rōran would appear to be a neutral country that had chosen not to act, but in reality, it would be preparing to dominate the world before anyone realized it.
He spent hours strengthening his main puppet, which stood over 20 meters tall, so it would be ready first for any battle, until he realized he should check on the queen's condition.
If she had thrown herself from the building, it would be a headache he would have to deal with, and he would treat it as an accident. Meanwhile, he had placed some smaller puppets to prevent Sara from entering the higher floors.
Mukade closed his eyes and connected himself to the network of chakra threads created by the vein, going to investigate and seeing through the puppets' eyes.
When he checked the castle, he realized many of his threads had been destroyed. That alarmed him immediately. He could not see anything without them.
So he took control of one of the puppets that were still in the throne room.
"How strange..." he muttered in a dark tone as he watched the puppet walk into the corridor.
Everything seemed normal until it reached the corridor leading to the queen's room.
When the puppet stopped, making that distinct sound, he saw the entire corridor filled with broken puppets.
There were hundreds of them destroyed.
A bad feeling immediately took hold of him.
He went to the room, stepping over the countless destroyed puppets. He saw no one. There were no open windows, but he found clear traces of jutsu usage.
"What is happening?" he could not help but panic.
There were clear signs that ninjas had been there.
Who had been there? How did they know the queen was in danger?
Those questions deeply disturbed him as he ground his teeth, unable to understand what was happening.
"I should have finished the job immediately..." he said as he opened his eyes, filled with regret.
He immediately began commanding all the other puppets to search for whoever was with the queen now.
No one could discover any of this outside of Rōran.
That enraged him even more.
If his plan were exposed, not only would he be finished, but the other nations could also discover the existence of that chakra vein and use it in the war. Even though Rōran had been destroyed during the war, they had sealed the vein, and now he had the power to defend this kingdom!
At the same time, he could lose the vein to the nations, and that would certainly be even worse. With the exchange of information in the ninja world, he did not want to give those nations more power.
Only he should possess that power.
He deserved to rule the world.
"You seem quite excited." Mukade widened his eyes when he heard a voice behind him.
"Who are you?!" He immediately turned toward the person standing there in front of the others, unable to understand how they had entered or appeared without him noticing!
"Who knows? You seem to be thinking about something rather disturbing, aren't you?" Minato asked, staring at the man while observing him thoughtfully.
"What...? Who are you...?" As he noticed the forehead protector on Minato's head and his appearance, Mukade's knowledge was immediately triggered.
"It can't be..." he muttered, staring at Minato with wide eyes.
'Of all people, it had to be him in Rōran?'
"I knew you would betray the queen someday. She kept my kunai, if you want to know why I'm here... She only had to call me, and now I'm here..." Minato shrugged, explaining to the villain why he was there before he started asking irritating questions.
Mukade's eyes turned toward the queen behind Minato alongside the others, and he clearly remembered that, some months ago, he had noticed a certain distrust in her.
He had asked what was wrong, and she acted according to his expectations, but Mukade behaved exactly as Anrokuzan would the entire time, which made her return to treating him with complete trust, completely discarding the possibility that the masked ninja was telling the truth.
Which ended up causing problems later on...
Not that she could truly imagine that a stranger would be telling the truth about a man she had known for years.
Minato could not blame her.
"How could you do this to my mother and the kingdom?!" Sara shouted, filled with fury.
The man smiled faintly. "Isn't it obvious?" he pointed at Minato. "Ninjas like him bring only destruction and death. I came from the future, and I know what the ninja world will become."
"You come from a distorted future, Mukade. It is not the same future as this world, because I will make sure you die before you try to change our past," Minato declared.
He would never allow someone like Mukade, from that other world, to live long enough to enter the past of Rōran and make changes that perhaps even he could not foresee.
The possibilities of changing the past were far too dangerous and beyond his control.
"Very well! You may have killed Kages and defeated Bijūs, but I have a source of infinite chakra! My puppet is invincible!" he shouted from inside the giant puppet as it roared.
At that same moment, a gigantic chakra thread emerged from the vein and connected itself behind the puppet, and Mukade began entering inside it while it started exploding with power, accumulating more and more energy.
An explosive gust of wind surged through the room, nearly everyone became frightened.
With the exception of Minato, Kushina, and Tsuna, who merely looked at it as though they were watching an idiot inside that giant puppet.
"Does he really think that impresses anyone?" Tsuna could not help mocking him.
"For him, it must be impressive, but what can he even do with that besides scaring a bunch of children?" Kushina commented beside her.
Meanwhile, everyone else was clearly tense. Even Naruto and Yamato frowned. The amount of chakra was gigantic, it could be classified as a Bijuu with all the chakra that giant puppet was accumulating through that thick thread directly from the source.
Minato watched everything in silence.
In the original, that thing had been defeated by a Rasengan created by Naruto and Minato, combining the two because their natures were similar, after all, they were father and son. They had called it the Supreme Rasengan.
Even with the chakra vein, Naruto had managed to win in the original. But this time would be different.
After all, Minato was the protagonist of this story.
He slowly raised his hand, and blue chakra energy rapidly appeared, forming a Rasengan, leaving Naruto himself behind Minato completely mesmerized.
But unlike a normal Rasengan, a yellow glow began to emerge within it, while half of the sphere made of chakra threads started turning golden.
The Rasengan grew until it became the size of a basketball, with golden and blue lines swirling around it.
Even Kushina could not help being impressed by what she was seeing. "Since when could you do that, Minato?" she asked, because she had noticed it immediately.
Minato displayed a smile but did not turn toward her. "I've been training this for a month. It seems I became a little stronger now..." he said.
Even though it was still just a slightly larger sphere that appeared simple at first glance, Minato's Rasengan was on a completely new level at that moment. The power within it was far greater, with the fused power of blue chakra and the golden energy of his Akuma no Mi, the Pika Pika no Mi, blending together.
Minato was managing to combine chakra with the elemental energy of light.
It was the first time he had shown something like this.
The Rasengan itself already emitted a glow and power far more intense than the infinite chakra of the armor.
Minato then transformed into light. The Rasengan shone even brighter and transformed into a hurricane of energy surrounding Minato, with the core still held in the palm of his hand.
The wind became even stronger, and everyone now stared at the radiant power in Minato's hands.
"What is that?!" Mukade, inside the puppet, looked somewhat worried at the sight.
If Minato could create such immense power by infusing kenjutsu and the power of the Pika Pika no Mi to create an explosion as large as a Bijuudama, then the Rasengan itself would not need to be that large.
He disappeared. In the next instant, with a flash traveling at the speed of light, he appeared above Mukade, who looked at him in shock.
He emerged like a golden radiance descending from the heavens and charged forward with the Rasengan.
Mukade only had time to raise his shields while trying to protect himself from the attack. He hoped that the defense of his most powerful puppet would be enough to withstand it.
The moment the Rasengan touched the armor, an explosion spread throughout the entire area, disturbing the chakra vein and emitting a supersonic hum that made everyone cover their ears.
The entire city felt it.
Everything began to shake at the same moment.
Even Tsuna and Kushina looked surprised and prepared themselves to maintain their balance against such power.
But the worst part was the glow coming from the Rasengan, illuminating the entire place with an intense light, like the sun itself before everyone's eyes.
"What?!" Mukade could not even look directly at it while his armor struggled to resist the direct attack.
Minato did not try to attack him from behind or charge directly at him.
He wanted to test the raw power of that attack.
The energies continued colliding.
The chakra thread thickened even more, to the point that an enormous flow of chakra surged directly into the armor, strengthening it further while Minato continued forcing the golden Rasengan against its defense.
Then the wood began to give way.
Mukade started realizing he was losing ground as the very chakra-coated wood of the puppet began to crack apart.
"No! No! This is impossible! I will not fall here!" Mukade was incapable of believing that his plan had barely even begun and was already being destroyed on the very first day of his revolution.
He refused to believe it, falling into panic, but what was happening before his eyes said otherwise.
That entire defense shattered in the next instant.
Minato pushed his hand forward even harder, driving the Rasengan ahead as it exploded, the glow intensifying and creating a massive sphere of light mixed with chakra that completely consumed the puppet over 20 meters tall, along with Mukade inside it.
He barely had time to react before being destroyed by the light that swallowed everything whole.
Everything happened quickly.
The intense brightness left everyone unable to see what had happened.
Meanwhile, Minato slowly descended through the air while several pieces of the armor fell around him.
Mukade had been completely disintegrated by the light.
As soon as the light finally faded, everyone stared at the scene with stunned expressions.
Even Tsuna and Kushina, who had already expected Minato's victory, had not imagined he could use the power of his Light Fruit combined with chakra, creating an even more terrifying effect.
He landed slowly and turned toward the group while the chakra vein behind him returned to normal and the echo of the explosion gradually faded until everything finally calmed down.
"Well... it seems it's over." Minato gave a smile.
Dealing with Mukade had been easy from the beginning, but it still ended up being interesting with everything that had happened since he arrived in Rōran.
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