Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan!

More than a dozen miniature Chibaku Tensei formed simultaneously at different points across the battlefield. Each one used a black sphere as its core and the earth as its material, rapidly gathering into rocky spheres ranging from twenty or thirty meters to nearly a hundred meters in diameter. The spheres floated in midair—small ones like hills, large ones like meteors. They spun above Madara's head, arranged in a vast, irregular ring, like a string of pearls threaded together.

Madara pressed his hands lower.

The rocky spheres began to fall.

Not slowly, not in free fall like meteors—but driven by Madara's power, accelerating as they plunged downward. More than a dozen rocky spheres nearly a hundred meters across crashed toward the ground from three hundred meters in the air at once, like a torrential downpour of boulders, like the end of the world descending.

Naruto's pupils contracted sharply.

He had no time to think. His body had already reacted—nine Tailed Beast spheres shot out from behind him at once, exploding above his head and turning into nine Chakra arms of different colors that reached for the falling Chibaku Tensei. The One-Tail's Gold Dust wrapped around one, the Four-Tail's lava seized one, the Eight-Tails' tentacles supported one, and the Nine-Tails' golden claws caught two—but that was only five. Seven or eight Chibaku Tensei were still falling from the sky, too large for Naruto to catch alone.

Sasuke's Susanoo instantly expanded to its complete form. The purple-black giant spread its arms and rammed two of the largest Chibaku Tensei with its chest and shoulders. The rocks shattered against Susanoo's armor, fragments spraying in every direction like rain, but dense cracks also spread across Susanoo's armor.

Kakashi and Sakura had neither Six Paths power nor Susanoo. They could not intercept the boulders falling from