If they really fought in close combat like in the anime, then decades from now—no, perhaps not even decades, within ten years—the Fifth Shinobi World War would break out, with even more devastating casualties. Since the Tailed Beasts would ultimately be divided up, conflict would be unavoidable.
After a while, the explosion ended. No one knew how many layers of earth had been stripped away by the impact. The scene was a complete mess, with debris piled into small mountains all around, while the center of the explosion had become an enormous crater. The power of the blast was unimaginable.
Even a great city would have been easily leveled by that explosion. That was the attack of a Tailed Beast Bomb.
"Bang! Crash!" Far, far away from Chen Fan's battlefield, the ground split apart. More accurately, it was a small mountain formed from earth blown up by the shockwave.
The small mountain cracked open, and a massive figure emerged from within. It was Uchiha Sasuke's Susanoo. The Susanoo was somewhat damaged now as well. At the critical moment of the explosion, Uchiha Sasuke had used Susanoo to protect several people. Of course, that was only because they had been at the edge of the blast. If they had truly been at its center, there was no telling what would have happened.
"Bang!" Uchiha Sasuke dropped to one knee, sweat streaming down his forehead. He had exhausted himself using Susanoo at full strength to preserve their lives. Otherwise, they might all have died in that wave of impact.
"Sasuke, are you alright?" Karin asked anxiously when she saw him like this.
Uchiha Sasuke waved a hand to indicate that he was fine, then said, "I'm not seriously hurt. Go see how those two are doing."
Without needing Uchiha Sasuke to say