Valhalla atop the World Tree!
This magic gave the shinobi present little time to think.
First, dazzling golden light rained down from the sky, obscuring their vision.
Then, increasingly violent tremors rose from beneath their feet, filling them with unease.
Immediately afterward, amid a deafening rumble, thick trees curled and unfurled like pythons as they burst from the ground.
These thousands of trunks seemed to have been affected by some kind of time magic.
In no more than a few breaths, they grew to ten meters, twenty meters, then thirty meters tall.
Their crisscrossing branches blanketed the sky in an instant.
Only leaving dense gaps for shafts of light to stream through.
In the end, the headquarters camp, once filled with numerous buildings and facilities, was completely swallowed by a vast forest.
During this process, over a thousand weaker shinobi were either bound by branches or imprisoned within tree trunks.
The Chakra in their bodies was rapidly absorbed by the trees as well, leaving them without the strength to resist.
As their faces turned pale, they thought of the Wood Release of the "God of the Shinobi World."
Fortunately, the Sea Ninja Village shinobi were all elites.
Most of them used their own methods to evade the entangling trees as the forest took shape.
Some were now rescuing their afflicted companions, while others leaped to the tops of the trees and stared upward in stunned disbelief at the towering tree that pierced the clouds.
This was the true representation of World Tree magic.
Above the canopy amid the clouds.
A magnificent castle of gilded metal was slowly taking shape within the radiance.
Sun-shaped bells hung from its upturned eaves, tapestries of fate shimmered across its colonnades, and an iridescent enamel gate towered a hundred meters high.
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