Marvel: Devour to Evolve From Naruto

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The fox mask user was on the verge of breaking down.

"Damn it! Can you stop following me!?"

"Nope!" came Ron's reply from above.

And then...

"Danzo Shimura's men from Konoha are stealing Uchiha corpses from the battlefield!"

The fox mask user froze. "..."

"Tell me, what will it take for you to leave me alone!?"

Ron: "Hand over all the bodies you're carrying."

The masked ninja hesitated before tossing a scroll over.

Snap!

Ron caught it effortlessly and stashed it away in his personal space.

"There. Take it. Now stop following me!"

The fox mask ninja turned to flee.

"Danzo Shimura's men are stealing Uchiha corpses from the battlefield!"

"..."

The masked ninja felt utter despair.

"What the hell do you want now!?"

Ron's voice was calm and indifferent. "I said, give me all the bodies you're carrying."

The fox mask ninja gritted his teeth.

His mission was to bring back the corpses.

If he handed them over, the mission would be a failure.

But if he didn't, he wouldn't be able to escape either, which meant the same outcome.

In Root, failure was not an option.

He glanced at the distance.

Ninjas were already closing in.

If he didn't shake Ron off soon, he'd be surrounded.

Damn it!

Fine! He'd hand them over now and collect more later!

He retrieved several sealing scrolls from his body.

Forming hand signs rapidly, he released all the corpses inside.

Dozens of bodies appeared instantly.

Among them, more than ten were Uchiha!

He kicked them in all directions.

"They're all here!"

Ron had anticipated this.

Cornered, the masked ninja would obviously try to create a distraction and escape.

Just like before, when they had split up and run in different directions.

Ron immediately commanded his AI system to track the Uchiha bodies.

Then, in a blur of movement, he darted through the air, collecting every Uchiha corpse in an instant, along with two others nearby.

By then, the pursuing ninjas had finally caught up.

Ron shot into the air, pointing west.

"The Root ninja is fleeing west! Go after him!"

With that, he turned and dashed back to the battlefield.

There was still time to grab more bodies while the area was relatively empty.

After making a full circuit, he managed to collect a few Konoha civilian ninja corpses.

Seeing Uchiha ninjas closing in again, Ron decided not to push his luck.

He shot into the sky and disappeared beyond the horizon in the blink of an eye.

After leaving the battlefield, Ron found a secluded spot and entered his personal space.

He had personally gathered several Uchiha corpses.

Including the ones from Root, that made over 20 Uchiha bodies.

Adding in more than 20 Mist ninja corpses,

And over 20 civilian ninja corpses,

Almost half of them were Chunin-level.

All of them were instantly converted into pure energy.

A surge of power flooded Ron's entire body, enveloping him in a white mist.

[Combat Power: 160]

An immense energy filled him, first invading from the outside before exploding outward from within.

In one go, Ron's strength soared past the Jonin threshold.

His combat power reached 160!

A combat power of over 10 signified a Genin-level ninja.

Not a fresh academy graduate, but one who had seen real battle.

A power level above 50 marked a Chunin.

Jonin required surpassing 150.

Ron's 160 might seem barely over the Jonin threshold,

But that was purely his physical strength.

It didn't even account for his chakra boost.

And, thanks to absorbing the Uchiha energy,

He had actually awakened the Sharingan.

With over 20 Uchiha corpses' worth of energy,

The purity was unprecedented.

He was now one of the purest Uchiha in existence!

Only Madara Uchiha and the future Sasuke Uchiha could compare.

But what shocked him the most—

Among the bodies collected by Root,

One of them belonged to an Uchiha Jonin!

No wonder the Uchiha clan had gone berserk,

Ignoring the battle and charging straight for this location.

A Jonin-level Uchiha was top-tier combat power.

The entire clan had only a few dozen at most.

Losing one was a devastating blow.

And that wasn't all.

Among the civilian ninja corpses, he found an unexpected bonus.

Two of them carried Senju blood.

It was faint, but it was there.

They were descendants of Senju-Uchiha intermarriage.

And Ron had taken them from Danzo's grasp.

Clearly, Danzo had marked them for his own experiments.

Everyone knew—

The Senju clan was nearly extinct, with only Tsunade remaining.

Had she not been the granddaughter of Hashirama Senju,

The student of Hiruzen Sarutobi,

And already an accomplished warrior,

She would have been another one of Danzo's test subjects.

The rest of the corpses held no further surprises,

Aside from some general jutsu knowledge.

"Sharingan combined with Senju blood..."

"Maybe I can awaken the Rinnegan..."

Muttering to himself,

Ron suddenly opened his eyes wide.

His once black-and-white pupils

Had turned a deep crimson.

A large pinwheel-shaped pattern spun within.

Mangekyō Sharingan!

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