As the low voice reached everyone's ears, the air suddenly froze.
The ninjas standing at the lake's edge watched the scene unfold before them, their confusion gradually turning to terror.
Clang!
A ninja dropped his kunai, despair in his voice. "We just went through Exploding Tags, and now we have to go through this? Damn it, damn it, damn it!!"
A gentle breeze brushed across their faces, blowing their hair back.
Ripples spread across the once-calm lake. Centered on the young man floating in the air, they slowly expanded outward, forming a wave taller than a mountain that swept toward them, carrying shattered rocks from the ground.
"Is this really power a human can wield?" Cold sweat poured down Mabui's face.
As the Fourth Raikage's secretary, she had seen her share of grand scenes. It was not as if she had never witnessed Kage-level ninja battles. She had even seen the Fourth Mizukage, a perfect Jinchuriki, fight.
But even now, she could not stop herself from trembling.
The Fourth Mizukage could only raise towering waves along the shore by relying on his Tailed Beast's power, his mastery of Water Release Ninjutsu, and the advantage of being near the sea. But this man... merely standing there and raising his hands, he had not only summoned enormous waves, but even stripped away the earth itself.
If a wave like that came crashing down, it would wipe out whole swaths of people! The ninjas stared blankly at the incoming wave, feeling as though they stood at the end of the world. Very few could remain calm.
"The older one gets, the more one experiences. That saying really is true." The Third Tsuchikage slowly floated to the front of the Ninja Allied Forces. Looking up at the wave that was gradually blocking out the