"Indeed, he's no simple opponent."
"Konan, prepare a contingency plan."
"He's after the Rinnegan. We may not be safe."
"My real body is still too close to Pain."
Konan nodded at his words, her expression grave.
After Hanzo's death, Konan had hidden a large number of homemade Explosive Tags throughout Amegakure. Unless Konan herself detonated them, no other method of triggering them would work. They were a trump card she had prepared as a last resort.
Meanwhile,
With a rumble, Sarutobi Hiruzen lifted a massive boulder weighing dozens of tons and leaped out of the ground.
As far as the eye could see, Amegakure had been reduced to a vast, bowl-shaped crater filled with ruins.
"The power of Yin-Yang Release..."
"So this is the kind of qualitative change it can achieve..."
Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn't help feeling envious.
No matter how creatively he used the nature transformations of the five elements, they could never match this kind of destructive power—one comparable to a nuclear bomb.
Only a Tailed Beast Bomb transformed through Yin-Yang Release, or the Rinnegan, could give a jutsu such an appalling level of destructive power.
"And he still hasn't used his full strength."
Sarutobi Hiruzen surveyed the area. Perhaps Nagato still wasn't skilled enough with the Rinnegan's power, or perhaps he had his reasons for holding back.
Nagato had destroyed only most of Amegakure's buildings, with the damage spreading across an area several kilometers wide.
He hadn't, as in the original story, leveled Konoha, which covered an area far larger than Amegakure.
Sarutobi Hiruzen carefully sensed the area again and found that Deva Path Pain was retreating from Amegakure at tremendous speed.
But Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't move. He made no attempt to pursue him.
He knew this was merely a diversion. Nagato's real body could barely move, and