An explosion more terrifying than a nuclear blast erupted over Mary Geoise.
The entire Red Line trembled!
Dust, shock waves, earth and stone, and scorching heat churned together before spreading relentlessly across the Red Line at nearly the speed of sound!
From an altitude of ten thousand meters, ripples of energy, gray and crimson intertwined, expanded across the Red Line. Everything in their path was reduced to ashes!
The blast even reached beyond the Red Line, raising tsunamis hundreds of meters high across the sea!
At the explosion's core, where energy, heat, and raging winds intertwined, everything was annihilated.
Except for one blue-green figure lying in the middle, who suddenly opened his eyes.
Looks like the backlash was pretty severe...
Then again, it was a super-impact that surpassed a nuclear blast and swept across more than a thousand kilometers.
Sarutobi Hiruzen spat out a mouthful of viscera and looked at the battered, cratered Azure Dragon Armor covering his body. His own body was riddled with wounds, and he couldn't help but sigh.
Even the Dragon King Armor, empowered by the Azure Dragon Fruit, had suffered such damage, despite the protection of Armament Haki and Chakra constructs layered over it.
Without the Dragon King Armor's protection, Sarutobi Hiruzen himself could never have survived an explosion of this magnitude.
Even so, he had been seriously injured. His internal organs had nearly been burned away, and the temperature at the blast's core had probably reached hundreds of thousands of degrees.
Even the healing power of Immortal Breathing was somewhat sluggish.
"Still, the power is terrifying."
"Although it can't truly wipe out the ecosystem of an entire biosphere..."
"It could easily erase any race, island, or city."
"I'd better use a technique this powerful sparingly until my body's tough enough."
Sarutobi Hiruzen thought to