When Konan saw Deva Path Pain rising higher and higher into the distant sky, alarm shot through her. "Nagato, what are you doing? Don't tell me—"
The Naraka Path beside her gripped her shoulder. A bang sounded in her ear, and the scenery before her changed. She was already outside Kumogakure.
"You're going to use that technique?"
Along with her, the Naraka Path, Preta Path, Asura Path, and Human Path had been summoned through the white smoke by the Animal Path, which had left Kumogakure ahead of them. Only Deva Path Pain remained, a tiny black speck in the sky directly above the village more than ten kilometers away.
The Animal Path said nothing. A moment later, it and the other four Paths lost control and collapsed to the ground.
"..." Konan's face darkened. She knew Nagato had concentrated all his chakra into Deva Path Pain in the sky, intent on unleashing that technique at full power—even if it drained his life force.
Super Shinra Tensei—
From afar, Konan watched the tallest, building-covered peak beneath that black speck begin to crumble. It was as though an invisible giant palm had descended from the heavens, flattening the peak and every surrounding summit, every house—everything—from above. In the space of a few blinks, the mountain peaks that had held the village were leveled and the clouds and mist swept away.
Boom!!
The earth rumbled. A violent surge of air, dust, and mist came rushing toward her a moment later. Her Akatsuki cloak snapped in the wind; the paper flower in her purple hair tore loose and vanished into the turbulence—
In an instant, Kumogakure, one of the ninja world's five great villages, had lost its clouds, its mountains, and its village. When the earth finally settled, only a vast circular crater remained.