Chapter 45 - Tried so hard.

Reaching home I immediately absorb the clones that I let training here gaining memory of the things they have been doing.

While I was away I tasked my clones to create something, a defensive skill that will make my battle power soar. This skill is inspired by Gaara's [Sand Armor] but with [Mokuton] instead.

Yep the skill is pretty powerful, but it has its downsides too, it is more difficult to move under a [Wood Armor] besides it being heavier, but thanks to the [Mokuton] proprieties it can be moved without too many problems.

This is such great news because besides having [Sage Body] I don't have some super-duper defensive skill but now with the [Wood Armor] I have more defensive options, well we can't forget that I can enhance the armor with Senjutsu or [Haki] too, which will make my defense a lot better.

As for KARA appearance, I definitely didn't expect that for all I know they operate in Boruto which is many years in the future, maybe right now they don't have all of their members they would have in future.

As to fight Jigen it will indeed be a pain, firs I need to find a way to space-lock our battlefield I know for a fact that this bunch of Otsutsuki has space abilities so he should be able to run easily without space lock, so not only will I need to study the [Flying Thunder God(Hiraishin)] but I will have to find a way to modify its space aspects to somehow block space, and with that, I have the bare minimum to start the fight with Jigen.

As for direct combat, I would have my ass handed to me the guy literally broke [Rinnegan] Sasuke [Susanoo] on melee so his Taijutsu is pretty impressive too, so right now you must be thinking just use the [8 Gates] and you're good, you have the [Sage Body] so it can't kill you. Well the thing is I actually can't use the [8 Gates] anymore this is due to some bullshit that happened when my body evolved to [Sage Body] don't know how just that I call it bullshit.

But not everything is lost, thanks to the [Sage Body Method] I can train into two skills that come with it the [Superior Sage Mode] is pretty self-explanatory just by its name you can deduce what it does and then I have the [Overdrive] which works pretty similar to how the [8 Gates] should work but contrary to the [8 Gates] it only has the death level, the problem of this skill is that it is made based on the user already having [Sage Body] so it kills its user even with it, this technique is listed as a last resort thing. But I am an exception due to me having [Mokuton]. I can survive due to the [Mokuton] healing proprieties which will hold together my body for enough time for it to heal.

And this is just for the Taijutsu part that shithead Jigen can make my normal Jutsu useless. But I have a counter to that, there is a sure way to bypass that you just need to use the natural elements if you are in doubt let me explain, there is a bunch of ways to use Jutsu but the two major ways people use them is first: pumping enough chakra creating that element and throwing it at your enemies, and second: is gathering the already existing element in nature to use at your favor, for example using the water of a river to make a Jutsu. This means that I will need to choose the terrain carefully when fighting him, another thing that is for my advantage is that [Mokuton] makes real trees most of the time so using it will expand my repertoire.

As for Genjutsu, I won't even try it, besides being my worst discipline everyone knows that a Genjutsu that is not cast by some fancy eyeball is overall garbage, and the dude has a Dojutsu too so this is out, for now.