I was almost ready to feast my parasite on the souls of our fallen enemies when the situation took an unexpected turn. Seeing that three enemies and one ally were near death and clustered together, Juugo roared at the top of his inhuman lungs.

"Rasen Shuriken!!!"

A dozen shining spheres formed over his hands and shot towards the chaotic cluster. Before I could even react, the attack shredded all four into tiny pieces, which then incinerated. Since Orochimaru was under the effect of my fuin, his soul couldn't escape to later be resurrected. As a result, his 'true body' was destroyed by his ally's technique, and he died. Along with him, Chiyo and the Kazekage also perished, their souls immediately vanishing into the void.

"Damn it!!!" - I screamed at the loss. Four out of six souls had managed to escape. Moreover, I was at a distance where the parasite's tentacles couldn't reach. - "I need them alive!" - I shouted, reminding my allies of my requirement.

But this cry fell on deaf ears.

I was now running towards Gaara, whom Juugo was bombarding with literally hundreds of Rasen Shurikens. Unlike the canon version, this technique utilized not only Wind but also Fire, literally incinerating opponents. Under such an onslaught, even Gaara and the One-Tail couldn't do anything. The sand covering the 'tanuki' was being shredded to dust and melted. He tried to use the surrounding material and chakra to patch up these damages, but within seconds, the material would turn into boiling lava. In just a minute, the entire area around Gaara had turned into a boiling lake of fire. He could control sand, but now he only had lava at his disposal.

Another of Juugo's strikes hit Gaara's true body, instantly incinerating it, giving me no chance to capture his soul.

"And now, it's your turn, bugs!" - Juugo roared, turning his attention to us.

Honestly, I wasn't sure I could survive a hit from that Rasen Shuriken. And considering that Juugo's body now represented a fifty-meter-high mountain, I couldn't even fathom how we were going to kill him.

But then Sasuke joined the fray. Apparently, he had been preparing this attack for a while, saturating the enemy's brain with his chakra. Now he snapped his fingers dramatically, and the enormous mass exploded, scattering bloody chunks everywhere. I immediately rushed forward, but even this soul eluded me.

"Goddamn it all!!!" - I cursed.

Out of seven souls, I managed to capture only one. And that was essentially 'recycled material,' as this game figure had already been killed before. Blaming anyone was pointless since the reason for this outcome lay in my weakness. Had I possessed the power of someone like Juugo, I could have killed all the enemies with one strike. Actually, I had no less power, but the opportunity to use it was missing.

Looking at Kakashi's body emerging from the void, I moved aside and picked up the 'gun' of the shinobi from the Land of Earth. A quick investigation showed that it was based on fūin. The weak offensive capability of this weapon was due to the clumsiness of its creator, who also had a poor understanding of magic and fūin. Well, it was time to use my brains and overcome obstacles not through bravado but through my knowledge and experience.

We spent the next week in Konoha. While my comrades rested, I worked on creating my own mega-gun. The basis, of course, was fūin, which fired energy charges at high speed. For the charges, I adapted the crystals that the flounder sword, which I had taken from Clojure, could emit. In fact, I used the sword itself, embedding it inside a spatial seal. As a result, only chakra crystals would come out of the folded space into our world, which would then be fired from the gun at a speed of five kilometers per second. Dodging such a shot was impossible.

But I didn't stop there; I embedded another fūin inside the charge, which connected it to my 'Bijuu Seal,' where the parasite resided. Consequently, the parasite could immediately reach out to the victim's soul through this seal and devour it. I no longer intended to leave this matter to chance. After the first hit, the soul would be instantly consumed by the parasite without any exceptions.

After a week, I finished my wonder-weapon and was ready to kill everyone and everything. My clones still hadn't managed to pinpoint the exact locations of our enemies. Primarily because they couldn't see the 'rainbow aura' that distinguished a game figures from a mere mortal. Furthermore, I hadn't been able to locate the Akatsuki members, although I had raided and demonstratively blown up several of their hideouts.

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The only reliable information I had was the 'stirrings' in the villages of Stone and Cloud. The pair of game figures from the Land of Earth that I had seen earlier were preparing to repel an attack, while the Land of Lightning was mobilizing its entire army for a massive raid. Konoha's intelligence reported that their first target would be the Land of Earth, but I was sure that the army would strike Konoha afterward. After all, it was much easier to overwhelm the enemy with sheer numbers rather than fighting them directly. In the village of the Cloud, only the Raikage could afford to use such tactics, so he was likely one of the opponents. I wasn't sure about the other two, but it would become clear during the battle, so there was no point in worrying.

As soon as my clones detected signs of the Kumogakure army's movement, our team set out to intercept them. While the speed of the army was equivalent to that of an average chunin, we could move at the speed of jonin, so we were expected to reach the capital of the Land of Earth before the enemy.

Unfortunately, I hadn't considered in that Sasuke ran significantly slower than I did. So, halfway through, I left my allies behind and rushed ahead at my maximum available speed. Iwagakure greeted me with crowds of shinobi preparing to repel the Kumogakure army's attack. However, ordinary mortals had no chance of stopping me. My weapon could fire at ten shots per second, and each hit was lethal. Moreover, with my psionic and sensory abilities, I could sense all opponents within a kilometer.

As a result, I simply shot down enemies from a safe distance before they even had a chance to notice me. Once a chakra crystal hit an enemy's body, they immediately lost the ability to control their chakra, and tentacles from the parasite emerged from the opened portal, devouring the souls of mortals.

On my way to the capital of the Land of Earth, no one even managed to raise an alarm. Of course, after my passage, heaps of corpses remained, but after their discovery, messengers were sent out, whom I either shot myself or were killed by my clones. A few genins couldn't outrun me.

Bursting into the city, I immediately began destroying the entire population, shooting people with the gun. After each hit, a mass of tentacles would burst out of the target's body, tearing it to pieces, leaving only a mutilated corpse. I maneuvered with chakra chains, avoiding concentrations of enemies and shooting them from a distance. Thanks to the speed and power of the shot, building walls couldn't protect anyone. The projectiles literally pierced all obstacles through and through, stopping only inside human bodies when the second part of the embedded fūin activated.

Like a bloodthirsty god, I hovered over the city, destroying all living things. I eliminated a couple of game figures without any resistance at all. These idiots decided to hunker down in the palace under the protection of thick walls and many traps they had set over the past few days. Unfortunately, the walls couldn't protect them, and I literally filled them with chakra crystals. Now I had five frags out of ten. There was nothing more to do here, so I moved to meet the Kumogakure army. Three more game figures awaited me in its center.

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But I hadn't even left the city when my clones witnessed an attack on the Cloud army by a group of Akatsuki. And it was an impressive attack, to say the least. Judging by their behavior, the Cloud team consisted of the Raikage, the Two-Tails jinchuriki, and the Eight-Tails jinchuriki. And against them stood 'only' Nagato in the form of six Pain bodies.

While Hoshigaki Kisame and Obito were cutting down small fry, Nagato threw a pebble towards the trio of opponents. However, the technique embedded in this stone turned it into an analog of a black hole. All surrounding matter, including shinobi, began to be drawn towards this stone, forming a sort of moon. Despite all their power, speed, and strength, the three game figures couldn't escape the technique's range and were pulled to its core, where they were crushed and mixed with the earth and the bodies of equally unfortunate ordinary ninja.

After such a finale, there was no point in rushing, so I decided to wait for my comrades while observing the Akatsuki through my clones. My copies imitated birds and various animals so successfully that even Obito didn't suspect anything.

"You!... Did you kill them all?" - Uchiha asked me a stupid question after seeing the city filled with corpses with his own eyes. - "We only needed to kill three opponents."

"So what?" - I asked. - "Do you even understand who I killed? This was a city of professional assassins. Every shinobi here was a murderer, rapist, robber, and extortionist. So, this fate was quite appropriate for them."

"But not all city residents were killers!"

"But they all worked for the killers, encouraging all the lawlessness they committed with their labor. And what's the point of discussing this question? I'll do what I want anyway, and you can't stop me. And even if you try, you'll become one of the victims yourself" - I smirked. - "Let's go. The Akatsuki are almost done wiping out the Lightning Country's army, and their conscience isn't bothering them at all."