For the next couple of hours, my comrades rested after the long chase and intense battle, while I sent thousands and millions of shadow clones into the surrounding areas. At the moment, I knew about the teams of Zabuza, Gaara, Orochimaru, the Stone, the Cloud, and the Akatsuki. Including our own, that made seven teams. Three more teams remained unknown. To locate them, I sent my clones to all the major and significant cities on the continent.

However, before they even got far, news came from one of my 'old' clones. In the Land of Water, at Yagura's residence, a battle involving powerful ninjutsu had broken out. I had only one clone there, so I couldn't risk it. From a distance, it managed to see that Yagura and Terumi Mei were fighting... a trio of Uzumaki. They were identifiable by their blood-red hair and the seals covering their bodies. Additionally, they actively used fuinjutsu, suppressing their opponents' powers. The battle ended within ten minutes, and my clone saw the Uzumaki trio leisurely leaving the scene while the activity of their opponents dropped to zero, and even Isobu disappeared without a trace.

Well, it seemed there were only two enemy teams left in the game, and at least I knew something about one of them. I sent a thousand clones to the Land of Water to track this group. The battle with the inhabitants of the Land of Whirlpools promised to be tough, as these individuals should possess extensive knowledge. And knowledge is power. Moreover, they never had problems with chakra quantity.

"What now?" - Sasuke finally asked me. They had rested a bit and were ready to continue.

"Our next target is in the Land of Water. It's a trio of Uzumaki skilled in fuinjutsu. They are likely from the Land of Whirlpools. We need to hurry to intercept them before they disappear."

"The Land of Whirlpools?" - Sakura was surprised. - "But it was destroyed."

"So what? Do you think that would stop the game organizers from resurrecting them, or even raising the island from the ocean's depths if needed?"

"Haha, such a knowledgeable young man" - suddenly came a mocking female voice. And this, despite the fact that I was constantly scanning the area with psionics, and my clones had literally flooded the surroundings.

"Who are you?" - I asked the woman in a traditional purple haori. However, a second later, I remembered who she was. - "Otsutsuki Kaguya" - I voiced my guess.

"Exactly!" - she clapped her hands with satisfaction. And a second later, two young men stepped out from behind the trees, one of whom boasted a Sharingan.

"Indra and Asura" - I introduced this pair to my comrades, who were already ready for battle.

And it was clear that a fight was inevitable, judging by the rainbow aura surrounding these three. They were game figures and members of the last team.

"Well, at least we don't have to look for you" - I smirked, readying my machine gun. - "I was starting to worry that you would just sit in some hole until the end of the game."

"Don't be cheeky, boy" - Kaguya frowned.

"I'm older than you, granny" - I grinned. - "Goodbye."

With these words, I pulled the trigger and fired a long burst at Kaguya. But all the chakra crystals shattered helplessly against her clothing, causing no harm at all.

"Yes, goodbye" - Kaguya agreed with me and waved her fan.

I immediately substituted with my clone, while Sasuke and Sakura were caught in the attack of a Wind Style technique that inflicted multiple cutting wounds and knocked them back. But within a second, my chakra chains caught them and fully healed all their injuries, bringing them to peak condition. As for Kakashi, he stepped aside, waiting for a moment to launch a surprise attack.

"Waaagh!" - Sakura screamed, charging at Asura. He foolishly tried to block her blow and paid for it with a mangled arm.

"Waaagh!" - Sasuke screamed, launching a similar attack against Indra. Indra chose to retreat, carefully observing Sasuke's movements, but it cost him dearly. Within a fraction of a second, Sasuke managed to use his genjutsu on him, and Indra's head exploded like a rotten pumpkin.

"Indra!!!" - Kaguya screamed in panic, preparing to finish off Sasuke.

I would have screamed too, but with a slightly different intonation. Because, a moment later, when my crystals pierced the headless body, there was no soul inside. Damn it! I needed just two more frags.

"Calm down, lady" - I said Kaguya, drawing her attention with a machine-gun burst aimed straight at her face. - "You're next."

"I will destroy you!!!" she roared furiously.

And then a powerful wave of chakra emanated from her, destroying everything it touched. The entire forest within a hundred-meter radius was reduced to dust and splinters. However, at that moment, Sakura, Sasuke, and I were already two hundred meters away, where I had teleported us as soon as I assessed the strength of the attack. Kakashi was not afforded such an honor, and so his mangled body was now slowly regenerating, resembling a blood-soaked corpse.

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Meanwhile, Kaguya rushed over to Asura and used some healing technique to fully restore his arm in a couple of seconds.

"You will pay for this!" - she screamed, glaring at me with her Rinnegan eyes. Kaguya attempted to cast genjutsu on me, but the result was a headache for her as my chakra infiltrated her brain through the opened channel. - "Who are you?" - she exclaimed, grabbing her head and staggering.

Although my chakra wasn't as destructive as Sasuke's, it was no less dangerous. As soon as Kaguya tried to cast genjutsu on me, her fate was sealed, as one of the traps set in my consciousness activated.

"Deal with Asura" - I told my companions, rushing forward.

They hesitated for a second, but then, as always, decided that following my orders was the shortest path to victory. Especially since Asura seemed like a weaker opponent compared to his 'mommy.' However, I also tested the son's defenses by firing a burst from my machine gun at him. He tried to dodge, but five crystals still hit him, shattering helplessly against a protective field. After that, I focused on Kaguya as the more prioritized opponent.

When Kaguya used genjutsu on me, a charge of chakra containing a very clever spell entered her brain. At first glance, there was nothing dangerous in this spell. It only slightly destabilized the Life Element chakra, which didn't exist in an ordinary human body. Of course, until a shinobi started using healing techniques. Now I jumped to my target, wrapped her in chakra chains, and... began transferring a massive amount of Life Element chakra into her body.

The characteristic of this chakra made it extremely difficult to defend against its penetration into the body. And Kaguya didn't understand what was happening and even started trying to 'drink' the chakra from my chains, using it to conduct attacks. As a result, the medical chakra permeated her entire body, and my 'Trojan horse' began its work.

For the next couple of minutes, I jumped back and forth, dodging Kaguya's attacks or even taking them head-on. This was where my incredible regeneration came in handy because, without it, I would have been killed within ten seconds. But Kaguya couldn't understand why her most destructive techniques had no effect on me.

Two minutes into the fight, I noticed changes indicating that my hidden attack had entered its final phase. Kaguya's face became deformed and covered in tumors. The same thing started happening to her entire body. It grew, deformed, and sprouted organs and limbs not intended by its original design.

"What have you done?" - screeched the genetically modified organism of my victim.

"Nothing special" - I smirked. - "Just stripped away your human mask to reveal the hideous face of the monster underneath."

"I hate you!..." - Kaguya croaked, transforming into a shapeless mass of flesh that was radiating chakra.

In just a minute, she lost her human form, turning into a formless entity with multiple mouths, arms, and legs, as tall as a five-story building. By this point, her mind had completely left this body, as her brain had also turned into a chaotic mess. Kaguya stopped attacking me, merely unleashing primitive techniques into the surrounding world, destroying everything around her.

Meanwhile, Asura was giving the rest of our team a hard time. After the initial success when Sakura managed to injure him, no one else could even scratch his skin or singe his clothes. Moreover, if it weren't for my constant healing of Sakura and Sasuke, they would have died from their injuries long ago.

Seeing what happened to Kaguya, her 'son' left the fight and ran to the monster, now resembling a ten-tailed bijuu.

"Mom, wake up! You must..."

Whatever she was supposed to do remained a mystery because Kaguya grabbed Asura with one of her limbs and stuffed him into her mouth, swallowing him instantly. Damn it! Another lost frag.

After that, all we could do was retreat to a safe distance and watch as Kaguya thrashed, expanded, and convulsed. Gradually, she grew to the size of a hundred-meter-tall mountain of flesh. The waves of chakra she emitted destroyed all living things within a kilometer. She would have continued growing, but then the third part of my technique kicked in.

Kaguya's body began to fall apart, rotting alive. If earlier she had emitted a mad roar, now it was screams filled with pain. I started shooting at the carcass with my machine gun, planning to wait for the moment when Kaguya would weaken to the point where the parasite could devour her soul, but then something went wrong again.

The crystals that had entered the monster's body unexpectedly began to grow in size and glow like the sun. When a dozen crystals reached twenty meters in length, they exploded, disintegrating Kaguya into atoms. I had already sensed the power of the impending explosion and commanded my team to retreat to a safe distance. As a result, a huge crater over a kilometer in diameter formed at the explosion site, and not even a speck of Kaguya remained. Her soul also slipped through my grasp. What a failure!

"That was epic!" - Sakura remarked, digging herself out from under the layer of earth that had buried us after the explosion.

"Have we almost won?" - Sasuke asked.

"Yes. Only one team remains in the Land of Waves."

"No, you have already won!" - declared Judge, appearing before us.

I looked around and found that we were back in the glowing space, now in the form of souls.

"What about the Whirlpools team?" - I panicked.

"As soon as they learned of Kaguya's death, they immediately committed suicide. They preferred the death of the body and the suffering of hell to the true death in the jaws of Azathoth" - Judge kindly explained.

I froze for a second, then... commanded the parasite to devour the souls of my former allies. I still needed two more frags, and that's exactly how many were present. Sakura and Sasuke didn't even have time to scream before their souls were consumed by the parasite. Even the Judge didn't react in time. Or, more likely, he didn't want to react because the Will of Azathoth was above all.

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*** Approval Point: 1/1 ***

"Did you decide to take the grand prize for yourself?" - Judge asked, looking at me with interest.

"What grand prize?" - I replied suspiciously, answering a question with a question.

"The winner of this game will go to the Creator of Universe himself to witness his infinite greatness and receive the brand of his grace."

The brand? Like a Brand of the Sacrifice?

"No, you can do that without me" - I said, activating the transfer of my soul to the next world.

"Wait! There must be a winner in the game!" -Judge fretted.

"Not my problem" - I smirked.

Judge tried to grab me but didn't succeed, as my soul was once again rolled into a tube, then collapsed into a point, and the whole world around me went dark.