121 Naruto Mobile Game

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[Amid a burst of dazzling lightning, Sasuke, clad in an Akatsuki cloak, descended from the sky. He flicked his blade with a wave of his hand, followed it with a forward somersault, and landed steadily.]

[Suddenly, he covered his left eye. A line of blood flowed from the corner of his eye as he snapped his gaze open—his six-pointed Mangekyō Sharingan glowed with an abnormally vivid crimson.]

[Pure black flames ignited instantly, completely engulfing the entire field of vision. Then Sasuke burst out from within, the frame freezing in place.]

[Uchiha Sasuke · Mangekyō Sharingan!]

[In a forest beneath the moonlit night, a wooden dragon was flying at high speed through the woods, then soaring straight up into the sky.]

[A massive explosion of smoke and dust erupted as a gigantic Buddha of unimaginable size rose straight from the ground. The wooden dragon coiled around the wooden avatar atop the Buddha.]

[Standing on the head of the wooden avatar, Senju Hashirama leapt forward and threw a fierce punch.]

[Senju Hashirama!]

The recruitment animations of the two ninja played simultaneously, one on the left and one on the right. But since they were ninja, using the left eye to watch the left and the right eye to watch the right wasn't exactly difficult, was it?

The High-Class Recruitment information conference had arrived again, continuing the previous format of dual High-Class Recruitment with dual guests.

"God of Ninja, hello."

"Hahaha~ No need to be so polite, Mr. Host. Just call me by my name."

"Alright, Hashirama-sama."

Kuroda smiled. Perhaps only he himself knew that the title "God of Ninja" did not refer to just one person.

Sasuke found it hard to calm the excitement in his heart.

Even before coming here, after seeing the High-Class Recruitment preview, Sasuke had already been like this.

Going back even further—

At the information conference during Sage Naruto's release, Sasuke had already guessed that he would get this opportunity too. Not for any other reason—how could he possibly be weaker than Naruto?

"Wasn't that recruitment animation pretty cool? It's just that Tobirama's part wasn't as long," Hashirama said casually with a laugh after watching it.

Sasuke glanced at him, his expression uncertain.

Appearing in High-Class Recruitment and attending the information conference was expected—but having the First Hokage sitting right beside him was completely unexpected.

"Don't be nervous, young Uchiha. I feel the same way you do," Hashirama comforted him.

"That's not the case," Sasuke replied flatly.

"I need to apologize to you. When it comes down to it, the village was the one that wronged the Uchiha."

Hashirama's face was full of remorse, but as soon as he turned his head, he started touching his own body all over, marveling as he did so, as if he had truly come back to life.

Sasuke watched with black lines all over his head. Was this really the legendary God of Ninja?

This information conference was extremely heavyweight. Everyone was fully alert, ready to witness the elegance of the God of Ninja.

But unexpectedly, it was quite different from what they had imagined.

Of course, for those who understood him, it felt perfectly normal—for example, Sarutobi silently sighed that Hashirama-sama was still the same as ever.

"So that's the First Hokage?"

Sakura watched in a daze. For some reason, he felt oddly familiar… She glanced at Naruto beside her and suddenly realized.

This kind of immediately unserious vibe—wasn't it exactly the same as Naruto's?

"As long as he's not some stiff, overly serious guy, it's fine," Naruto said indifferently, his hands clasped together as if praying.

"What are you doing?" Sakura asked curiously. She leaned in a little and heard Naruto's muttering.

"Sasuke ninja is a bit weaker than me Sasuke ninja is a bit weaker than me Sasuke ninja is a bit weaker than me~ Sasuke ninja is a bit weaker than me..."

Seriously? So Naruto was actually cursing Sasuke! Sakura covered her face.

"Achoo—!"

"Oh? Sasuke, do you have something you'd like to say?" At the conference venue, Kuroda, who was just about to start the process, looked toward Sasuke, who had suddenly sneezed.

"No!" Sasuke snapped irritably.

That damn Naruto! It had to be that idiot talking about him behind his back, saying bad things!

Sasuke thought viciously—if his ninja couldn't hang Naruto up and beat him senseless, then he'd rather believe that Sakura would surpass both of them in the future!

"So then, which of you will go first?"

"I will!"

Hashirama had been itching to go for a long time. He took out his phone and entered the training ground, and the light-screen perspective switched along with it.

[Senju Hashirama] was naturally an S-rank ninja. Otherwise, having the First Hokage as an A-rank ninja while Sasuke was S-rank—what kind of nonsense would that be?

So no one had any objections to this, and Sasuke himself could accept being an S-rank ninja without the slightest mental burden.

What was worth mentioning was that Hashirama had been pulled out from the Pure Land. His appearance and outfit were exactly the same as the [Senju Hashirama] currently standing in the training ground.

It was essentially a one-to-one recreation of the soul of a deceased person manifesting through their original ninja.

Thump! Thump!

Hashirama pressed the basic attack twice, and the ninja [Senju Hashirama] on screen stomped the ground twice in sync.

"Stomping? That's pretty fun," Hashirama laughed.

But no one else could laugh.

If they weren't mistaken, both of those basic attacks swept the ground, didn't they?

Everyone seemed to hallucinate—seeing Hashirama stomp the opponent from the left side of the arena all the way to the right, then from the right all the way back to the left...

Wouldn't that mean he could just keep stomping until he stomped the opponent to death? As expected of the God of Ninja! Just the first two basic attacks were terrifying!

However, this was only the beginning.

"A little tip: the first two basic attacks of Hashirama can parry attacks," Kuroda said at this moment.

Parry?

Hashirama was curious and immediately demonstrated it.

When everyone saw [Senju Hashirama] stomp in place and tank the opponent's fireball jutsu head-on, the entire audience sucked in a cold breath.

"What the hell is that?" Ōnoki cursed.

Although the duration wasn't long and clearly had limits, during the parry phase there was about one second of super armor—there was no arguing with that.

"Hashirama's second skill has four different release methods. Depending on the stage of the basic attack, it automatically converts into different wooden clone effects," Kuroda explained.

Normal release: summons two wooden clones that charge forward and perform a grab attack;

Weapon state: summons one wooden clone that, together with the main body, wields a long blade and performs a spinning attack on the target;

Chakra burst state: summons one wooden clone that coordinates with the main body to annihilate the target.

Additionally, when released after a successful basic-attack parry, Hashirama instantly drops down from above the opponent's head to perform a stomp attack, and the skill's cooldown is reduced by half.

It could only be said that the second skill was extremely flexible, with every variation being useful—so much so that viewers felt their scalps go numb.

A very small number of people noticed something seemingly unrelated.

"Living Hashi… what does that mean?" Tobirama silently noted the slip of the tongue that Kuroda revealed unconsciously out of habit.

On Madara's side, he quickly figured out the reason. After all, where there is living, there is death.

From the storyline development in Ninja Mobile Game, things were indeed generally progressing according to Madara's plan—just with quite a few accidents.

In reality, at this point, he couldn't contact Obito anymore. Whenever he questioned Black Zetsu, the answers were evasive and full of excuses.

The only one he could rely on was himself...

As the conversation continued, the skill demonstration of [Senju Hashirama] on the light screen came to an end.

The first skill was Wood Release · Wood Dragon Technique.

It had a fairly large range and included a ground sweep. You could press the basic attack to dismount from the wood dragon early, and upon landing, it could trigger a parry—that is, a block.

The ultimate:

Sage Art · Wood Release · True Several Thousand Hands.

This was absolutely the ninja ultimate with the best visual effects and the largest scale in Ninja Mobile Game to date.

This was the strongest Wood Release technique that only the God of Ninja could wield—entering Sage Mode in an instant and summoning a Buddha statue of unimaginable size.

The Buddha unleashed a storm of countless gigantic fists, bombarding the ground like a torrential downpour and annihilating everything.

[For all the clanspeople who follow me, I will use these hands to create peace!!]