Sukuna turned trees to splinters and rocks to dust as he launched hundreds of slash's at the many water clones. He yet again found himself outnumbered by opponents that he was already on pair with by themselves. Unlike his fight with pain though, he doubted any of his current opponents would spare him if he lost.
'Just as well.' Sukuna thought as he dodged out of the way of yet another water jutsu. Sukuna's drive to improve grew even stronger when his life was on the line. Sukuna grabbed a clone by the face and cut its head to pieces with powered up slash's.
The clone burst into water as Sukuna dropped it, his hands were not free for long though as he quickly put them to use. He blocked a blow from the Mizukage's hooked club before grabbing the clone by its ankle and flinging it at another clone that had just entered Sukuna's range. Both the target and the projectile were destroyed, reduced to simple water.
Sukuna felt a grip on his ankles but didn't have time to react before his entire lower body was pulled into the mud. The other clones capitalized on Sukuna's predicament as three clone cloaked in Sanbi chakra descended on his location. All three brought down their hooked clubs and all three were surprised when all they hit was mud.
They did not have much more time to be surprised though, as they were quickly turned back into water.
Sukuna sent another group of slash's at the ground where he'd been standing not too long ago, before he ran off to find another target for his wrath. He did not have to run for long as he was soon set upon by 20 more clones and the real deal.
"Tell me who you are and who you work for and I may consider sparing your life." The 4th kage of the mist village said as he and his clones surrounded Sukuna.
Sukuna simply smiled as he brought his hand together and said a few words. "Multi headed hydra."
Sukuna whispered before all of the clones and their maker took heavy damage.
All of the clones were cut to bits and disappeared into water, the maker of said clones found himself with more wounds than he had intact skin. The warden of the three tails showed himself worthy of his station with his quick reflexes. He put up more defensive jutsu in a split second than Sukuna knew existed. But the damage was already done, his invisible slash's were very hard to see coming so any defense would have to be put up after you were already hit. You could also leave up your defense the whole time but that would be incredibly straining on your chakra reserves.
The Mizukage was covered in blood and cuts and he could barely keep up his defenses against the constant slices. His clones soon disappeared too, due to him losing his concentration. The youngest kage in history only had one more card to play and he feared what would happen if he used it.
Releasing his hold on the three tails would be a very dangerous move and might cause more harm than he would stop by unleashing it. But Yagura deduced that if the demon standing in front of him was given enough time to grow, then he would soon grow far too powerful for the world to handle. So with his decision made, the 4th Mizukage gave up control of his body to the monster with in.
When Sukuna saw the defensive justu disappear he thought the kage had finally succumbed to his injuries, that is in till he felt the wave of demonic chakra. Suddenly Sukuna found himself hundreds of feet in the air, he had been swatted away by a tail like he was a bug. A second tail then collided with him in mid air causing him to plummet back to the earth. Sukuna's landing caused dust and rock to fly in every direction as he was smashed through the forest canopy.
Sukuna stood up from the crater he'd made for himself and quickly took stock of his body. He now found himself with a pulverized arm and a few ruptured organs. Sukuna was impressed, his skin hadn't been broken by anything since his awakening against the iron army, besides his fight with Pain that is. Though if anything was going to injure him, at least it was one of the most powerful monsters in the world, and the three tails.
Sukuna looked up to find a three tailed turtle the size of a castle. Sukuna responded to the turtles hard glare by smiling up at the beast as he healed his arm and internal injuries. Sukuna had learned much about the human body since the start of his journey, healing a destroyed arm and a few organs was child's play now. Sukuna rubbed the back of his neck before he cracked it. He then looked back up at the mountain of a creature and grinned, his day couldn't get any better than this.
Uraume paced back and forth as she bit her nails. She was not strong enough. If she continued at this rate then it would be forever before she was reunited with her master. Villages were not enough, the villages defenses could barely be called defenses and the villages were even weaker than that.
Uraume had just finished turning a medium sized village into an icy tundra and was now pacing the town square. This village was a huge disappointment, she'd thought that due to its size, the village would put up more of a fight. But instead, the villagers had run screaming and the village guard were always seconds from doing the same.
So Uraume would have to take yet another page out of her masters play book. She would have to take on military bases, something that could put up a fight. There were many countries she could choose to target but Uraume would go after a smaller one.
She did not want to take the bigger territory's because her master had already stated his intent to destroy them. So with that in mind, she set off to the north, to the newly established land of sound.
Sukuna jumped and dodged out of the way of the constant beraga of tails. Each missed swipe crush dozens of trees. The three tails was the most powerful opponent Sukuna had ever fought, besides maybe Pain. A single slip up on Sukuna's part would mean death, or at least great bodily harm.
Even if Sukuna found an opening in the three tails attacks, he couldn't do much damage to the beasts shell. Sukuna launched slash's at the beasts in coming tail in order to slow it down so he had enough time to get out of the way. Sukuna jumped hundreds of feet in the air so he could escape the monsters reach. It turns out Sukuna had underestimated said reach.
A small ball of water flew toward him too fast for Sukuna to get out of the way in time. It hit him squarely in the right shoulder, seconds after the impact Sukuna's entire right arm and shoulder were incased in coral. Sukuna couldn't move his arm at all and didn't have enough time to break himself free as he was still being set upon by a tailed beast.
Sukuna was swatted out of the air and into the canopy once again. 'This fight just got much more interesting' Sukuna thought as he continued to dodge the nearly deadly blows. If one of those spheres of water hit his legs he would lose his ability to escape the turtle's blows and quickly be turned into a red spot amidst the rumble.
Sukuna saw a few ways to prevent that though, he could try and refine his enhancement techniques and improve his legs and thus his speed through that. That helped with the dodging but that didn't matter if Sukuna could not get through its thick shell. Sukuna's slashes were the most refined out of his entire arsenal and Sukuna was still only scratching the mighty beast.
Sukuna could use his chakra but it was good for very little except for a fiery death and that wasn't very useful when his opponent was an expert in its direct counter. Sukuna's physical abilities were also hindered due to the turtles coral which made it nearly impossible for him to move whatever got hit.
Ultimately, Sukuna decided to wing it. Sukuna was intelligent and was a fine strategist but he was also a battle junky at heart and decided that the best way to beat this thing was to fight this thing. The coral that Sukuna's arm had been incased in was destroyed by the turtles tail and he was now free to move as he wanted. Sukuna quickly put this freedom to good use as he was immediately forced to move out of the way of a tail the size of a small village.
Sukuna dodge behind a tree in order to escape an incoming sphere of water. The coral filled water smashed into the tree and incased it entirely in its insides. Said coral was quickly destroyed by a powerful stream of water heading Sukuna's way. Sukuna sent a powerful vertical slash down the middle of the beam and toke sanctuary in between the two ends of the split torrent.
"Dismantle." Sukuna says in a calm voice while pointing to the beasts tail. A powerful dialogue cut was taken out of the shell of the powerful testudines though there were no signs of blood.
Sukuna dodged the counter attack and slammed his fist into the inside of the tail as it rose. Sukuna's blow did little to no damage and only earned him a water beam to the face. Sukuna put his hand in front of the jet stream just in time before he was blasted away. Sukuna's hand now had a hole the size of a stone while the rest of the skin on the hand was shedding into strings. The water had lost most of its power while going through his hand so Sukuna's face received little damage.
The feat was still impressive though, Sukuna had put a lot of energy into reinforcing that hand but his defenses were pierced through like a wet napkin. Sukuna found the experience worth it however. Sukuna had theorized that blunt damage would be more effective against the shell than his slash's but he was proven wrong. Perhaps it would have been more effective if his punches were the same power as his slash's but they weren't so it was better to dice the thing to pieces instead of pummeling it.
Sukuna was determined though and his will to fight only increased after he was faced with an immovable object to meet his unstoppable force.