With a ripple of space from the Flying Thunder God Technique, Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto arrived on the battlefield as well.
After Deidara's initial bombing operation succeeded, Uchiha Shūichi had immediately asked Tobirama Senju to take him back to Konoha Village and bring its top combatants over with them.
They could hardly wait until Uchiha Madara reached the Land of Fire to start fighting! They might as well settle things here.
Uchiha Madara thought he held the advantage this time, unaware that their side had gained two more Super Kage-level combatants in Naruto Uzumaki and Uchiha Sasuke. With nothing but that disunited collection of misfits he had summoned, the gap between the two sides would only grow wider.
"Are we finally starting? I can sense plenty of powerful chakra down below!"
Naruto Uzumaki had already entered Sage Mode. His golden Chakra Cloak shone brilliantly, and his absurdly powerful sensory ability quickly detected the many ninja below.
Uchiha Madara also raised his head and looked toward the hilltop. Unlike the others, Naruto Uzumaki could not conceal his enormous chakra at all in Sage Mode, allowing Uchiha Madara to pinpoint his location almost instantly.
"Attack!"
"Let's go, everyone!"
Despite the entire hill separating them, both sides had already located each other. Uzumaki Naruto seized the initiative, immediately raising his hand toward the sky. An enormous Rasenshuriken shone brilliantly in his palm like a spinning nebula.
"Senjutsu-Wind Release: Rasenshuriken!"
Almost instantly, the hurled Rasenshuriken tore through the forest, carving a path more than twenty meters wide through the hillside as it advanced. The many ninja summoned through Impure World Reincarnation below immediately used their various abilities to evade the attack.
With a thunderous boom, the ground erupted. Terrifying energy spread out in a hemisphere, ripping a gash hundreds of meters across into