Faced with the sudden attack, Minato acted decisively. He threw a kunai, grabbed Might Duy and Uchiha Hikaru, and immediately vanished with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
As for Orochimaru, Minato had no intention of bothering with him.
Minato had barely disappeared when a massive beam of Dust Release swept past, completely disintegrating the ground where they had stood and everything on it.
Seeing Minato evade the attack, Hiruko snorted coldly, then redirected his Dust Release at Sen himself.
"Interesting." Watching the destructive beam hurtle toward him, Sen showed no trace of panic. His hands rapidly formed hand seals again, and he actually unleashed Dust Release himself.
Boom!
The expected earth-shattering roar never came. Instead, the instant the two Dust Release attacks collided, the world fell into an eerie, deathly silence.
Sound, light, even the air itself seemed to be swallowed whole by the singularity at the point of collision.
It was a white sphere of light made purely of "nothing." It hung in the air for less than a second, then-BOOM!!!!!
At that moment, the Shinobi World seemed to unleash its most primal roar.
An indescribable, devastating sound became a tangible physical shock wave that swept out in every direction!
Immediately afterward, a white ring of light brighter than the sun erupted outward from the center of the blast!
This had gone beyond an explosion. This was pure annihilation!
Before their very eyes, the enormous, lush hillside was forcibly erased from the world by that destructive ring of light, like a drawing rubbed off a sheet of paper!
The towering ancient trees did not snap. The massive rocks did not shatter-they, along with the soil, vegetation, and everything else, were broken down into their most basic atoms the instant they touched the ring of light, vanishing without a trace!