Click.
Killer Queen pressed the detonation button.
At that moment, whether it was Lin Qing and Obito at the scene, Kakashi and Rasa a little farther away, or Warsaw City, the royal capital of the Land of Wind hundreds of kilometers away—
Everyone living within this desert nation felt a tremor deep in their souls.
Obito's eyes widened. A violent ringing suddenly filled his ears, and the sounds of the outside world faded away. All he could hear was his own heart beating far too rapidly—
I'm... afraid?
But what am I afraid of?
The thought vanished in an instant. The next second, the chain explosions a thousand meters underground...
Began!
This was no longer an ordinary explosion. With Lin Qing as its origin, the damaged Dragon Vein erupted with every last bit of its remaining energy in an instant.
Roars, flames, pressure, scorching heat, and endless earthquakes rapidly spread outward.
"What happened?!"
Rasa, still battling Hiruko, cried out in alarm.
Hiruko kicked away Amber, who had charged at him with a giant sword on his shoulder, then turned to look toward the heart of the battlefield.
A pillar of purple flame surged from beneath the ground, climbing through the air like a creeping vine and stretching ever upward. It only stopped after burning its way a hundred meters into the sky.
Rumble!
The earth beneath their feet split apart, revealing bottomless cracks. In an instant, those cracks became even more terrifying abysses, blazing underground fire surging up from their depths as well.
The earthquake continued spreading outward.
Hiruko leaped into the air. As far as his eyes could see, all the way to the horizon, the desert trembled. Abysses like the rifts of hell followed the Dragon Vein's path, endlessly stretching into the distance.
The sand dunes, mountains, and