The next instant.
Countless meteors rained down on the Shinobi World.
They trailed long, fiery tails like thousands of burning stars, unleashing indiscriminate destruction upon the Shinobi World.
"Is anyone still outside the shelters?"
At Iwagakure, the Jonin Akatsuchi leaped onto a rooftop and roared at the people evacuating toward the shelters.
"Everyone, follow me!"
Kitsuchi formed hand seals and summoned a stone giant, which smashed more than a dozen rocks plummeting from the sky.
Meanwhile, Ōnoki pressed his palms together. White light flashed between them as he used Dust Release to reduce a massive rock dozens of meters across to dust.
"I guess I really am getting old."
Ōnoki pounded his aching lower back.
The sudden disaster had caught Iwagakure completely off guard.
But Iwagakure had more Earth Release users than any other village in the Shinobi World. Under Ōnoki's command, they quickly built defensive fortifications.
The losses were severe, but the village's foundations remained intact.
Sunagakure, by contrast, was in dire straits.
Only a handful of nobles had received protection from shinobi and made it to the shelters in time. Many civilians would never rise again after the meteor shower.
"With a Shinobi World like this, there's no hope and no future."
On a hill not far from Sunagakure in the Land of Wind, Obito appeared at some point. He watched the village being battered by meteors with a cold gaze. More than a dozen Sunagakure shinobi lay dead at his feet.
After a brief, rueful sigh, Obito activated Kamui and vanished.
Before long, Obito appeared in the Kazekage Building in Sunagakure.
A dark-ringed boy sat in the office, staring coldly at the village as the meteor shower engulfed it. He did nothing.
"You can watch your village get pelted by meteors without so much as a change