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My Journey as Fourth Kazekage 177
🕑 Added 2025-05-17 16:00:04 +0000 UTCChapter 177: The Evolution of [Kāma]
In the Land of Demons, during the battle with Mōryō, Rasa’s gains were immense.
Aside from gaining control of a space the size of Sunagakure from Mōryō, he also obtained the ability to create puppet bugs and possess and control puppets.
But his gains didn’t stop there!
Let’s not forget that during that battle, Rasa also received a gift from the priestesses of the Land of Demons.
The ability they bestowed upon him was simple: foresight. This might sound like a powerful ability, and it certainly was, but it came with a restriction. Currently, Rasa could only use this foresight ability to see his own death!
Yes, it wasn’t about seeing danger. It was about seeing his own death! And it only applied to him. At first glance, this seemed like a rather useless ability. Because as soon as he sensed that a life-threatening danger was approaching, he wouldn’t even know if he could do anything to avoid it. Furthermore, if there was no life-threatening danger, the ability was effectively useless.
Fortunately, Rasa soon discovered an alternative use for this ability. As long as the foresight ability didn’t activate, it meant that whatever he was doing at the time posed no immediate threat to his life. This was why Rasa had no hesitation in confronting the Four-Tails and Five-Tails.
After all, in the current Shinobi World, only a handful of people could bring Rasa to the brink of death.
In fact, the only ones he truly feared were Black Zetsu, the Sage of the Six Paths, and the Ōtsutsuki clan.
So now, if he could act against the two Tailed Beasts without triggering the foresight ability, it suggested that his actions hadn’t provoked a strong reaction from those powerful figures. But now, Rasa felt an unusual disturbance in his foresight ability—not a warning of danger, but a strange sensation.
Quickly, Rasa traced this anomaly to its source. It came from Mōryō’s space.
When Rasa arrived, the scene before him made his eyes widen.
What was once a lifeless world the size of Sunagakure, Mōryō's Yellow Spring World, was now undergoing a strange transformation.
This change was truly peculiar.
Nothing seemed to be happening to the naked eye, but Rasa could perceive it only through his sensory abilities.
The senjutsu energy, which had once floated faintly like mist in this world, was now... fusing!
Yes, fusing?!
The senjutsu energy was merging within Mōryō’s space, and the result was that Mōryō’s world was slowly expanding. At the same time, Rasa could feel the once-stagnant world begin to exhibit signs of movement, not the movement of senjutsu energy, but rather a flow akin to time itself.
"Time!?"
Suddenly, Rasa had an epiphany.
The priestesses wield the power of foresight over time!
The White Snake Sage’s scales possessed spatial power!
And now, Mōryō had created this space.
These three forces were converging at this very moment, fusing together as though forming a pivotal moment, a new form of power.
Ultimately, these forces merged into the power of temporal space. This was the power of creation.
Excited by this possibility, Rasa couldn’t contain his exhilaration.
Without hesitation, Rasa began absorbing the senjutsu energy from the outside world at an overwhelming pace. Indeed, as more and more senjutsu energy flowed in, the changes within Mōryō’s world accelerated.
However, soon, Rasa began to feel dissatisfied.
“Too slow, it’s too slow!”
Although the world was indeed changing, the transformation was just too subtle.
Rasa understood this.
Just like how he absorbed senjutsu energy, although all the energy in this world had been purified by him so far, he wasn’t the true owner of this senjutsu energy. This energy naturally belonged to this world. While he had a unique connection with it, there was still a limit to how quickly he could absorb it.
And clearly, the more senjutsu energy he purified, the faster his absorption rate became.
In other words, should he take action against the Tailed Beasts? This thought left Rasa in an awkward situation.
If he didn’t act against the Tailed Beasts, his power would hit a bottleneck. But if he did, it could lead to trouble.
“What should I do?”
Upon careful reflection, the only major sources of chakra or natural energy that he knew of were the Three Great Sage Lands, as well as the so-called "Zero-Tail" from Kūnin Village and the Six Paths Ninja Tools from the Land of Grass: the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
But wait, there was also the Ōtsutsuki clan on the Moon.
But out of these, aside from Zero-Tail, he couldn’t directly intervene with the others.
And as for Zero-Tail, he still needed Kūnin Village’s people to work for him.
After much thought, Rasa decided to wait a little longer. Some things couldn’t be rushed.
With this in mind, he suppressed his impatience and turned his attention to something else.
Since Mōryō’s space had undergone such a change, what about the senjutsu energy sealed in the gourd?
Rasa immediately shifted his consciousness to the sealed space within the gourd.
What he saw next filled him with excitement.
Though there was no visible change at the center of the space, where the spiral-like energy formation for the Secret Dragon Transformation technique resided, through his sensory abilities, Rasa could feel that this senjutsu energy seemed to have gained some new power.
“What’s this?”
However, to understand the nature of this power, he would need to use it. With that thought, he didn’t waste any time. He withdrew his consciousness from the gourd’s sealed space and returned to Mōryō’s realm.
Making hand seals, he unlocked the seal on his chest, releasing the senjutsu energy from the gourd.
The energy flowed from Rasa’s chest to his limbs and throughout his body. Just as Rasa didn’t feel anything unusual at first, he suddenly felt a familiar change in his right hand.
It was [Kāma]!
The last time he felt this kind of reaction was when he absorbed the chakra from the Senju cells in Danzo’s arm. He opened his eyes and looked at his right hand.
There, from one corner of the diamond-shaped [Kāma], a black line extended outward, eventually forming a black dot just below the base of his thumb.
And at the moment the dot appeared, Rasa felt a strange sensation.
This feeling wasn’t new to him.
It was a sensation he only experienced when someone used reverse summoning techniques to summon him.
But in this ninja world, the only entity capable of summoning him through reverse summoning was the contract with the Ryūchi Cave.
Yet this sensation was different. It wasn’t just the natural energy of the Ryūchi Cave, it also contained a strange, malevolent chakra.
“What’s going on?”
Rasa certainly didn’t want to accept this inexplicable summoning. But his foresight ability didn’t warn him of any danger, and this strange summoning seemed tied to his "cheat." Curious about who might be summoning him, he ultimately decided not to refuse it.
Boom!
With a puff of white smoke, Rasa disappeared from his original location.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a dark, cramped space, feeling as though he had lost control of his body. The sound of kunai clanging against each other echoed from outside.
“What’s going on?”
Although he didn’t understand the situation, Rasa disliked this sense of being restrained and immediately prepared to break free from this space.
However, just as he was about to take action, he realized that the senjutsu energy inside him had vanished, replaced by a somewhat unfamiliar chakra.
