"Rumble—buzz—buzz—"
The roar of countless explosions gradually died away, fading into faint, trembling reverberations that carried into the distance until they vanished into the air.
"Patter... patter... patter-patter-patter..."
As the sound slowly faded, the blazing white light that had illuminated the entire grassland as brightly as day gradually dimmed as well, until it disappeared. Everything returned to the stillness of night. Shredded grass and dirt flung into the sky poured down like a torrential rain, striking the ground with crackling sounds and adding a gentle patter to the quiet night.
Amid the crackling and pattering, two columns of black smoke rose upward. One was already close to completely dispersing, and beneath it, a circular blast crater over a meter wide was gradually becoming visible. The other had only just begun to billow upward from beneath the fading white light. The smoke thickened by the moment, and aside from the enormous column rising and rolling into a mushroom cap, nothing could be seen.
"Pfft!"
But at that moment, the bottom of the massive smoke column abruptly burst open. Black smoke mixed with lightning shot out, leaving a streak of smoke and electric light through the air before stopping over a dozen meters beyond the column.
"Crackle!"
The wildly flashing currents gradually subsided with a soft thud as he landed, while the wisps of black smoke around him slowly dispersed into the air.
Mutual Multiplication Exploding Tag... This should be one of Konoha's Forbidden Jutsu—the Mutual Multiplication Exploding Tag, one of the Forbidden Jutsu developed by the Second Hokage.
Damn it!
That brat actually had a trump card like this!
As the black smoke around him slowly cleared, the Third Raikage stood tall, wrapped in a pale blue Chakra cloak. His arms were raised and crossed over his chest, his eyes fixed