Dark clouds gathered overhead, and a terrifying pressure spread across the battlefield.
The enormous Ten-Tails had been absorbed by Obito Uchiha and was quietly awaiting its transformation.
This scene had caught most people by surprise. They had thought the war was already over thanks to Naruto's power, never expecting such a turn of events.
Several Kage instinctively turned their gazes toward Naruto. The course of this war—and the future of the ninja world—depended on this young man.
The sheer number of twists in the Fourth Shinobi World War had far exceeded the Kage's earlier expectations. Whether it was the Ten-Tails or the immortal army brought forth by Impure World Reincarnation, both had left them struggling to cope.
If not for Naruto, the Five Kage would have collapsed the moment Uchiha Madara appeared. Perhaps Minato Namikaze could have escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique, but victory would still have been impossible.
Yet that incomprehensibly powerful Uchiha Madara had been defeated by a single Shadow Clone of Naruto's. At the time, aside from Minato and Gaara, everyone else had worn expressions of utter disbelief.
That Asura of the Ninja World, famed alongside Senju Hashirama—the powerful man who viewed the Five Kage as children—had actually been unable to defeat even one of Naruto's Shadow Clones.
It was not because he was too weak. It could only mean that Naruto's strength had already surpassed everyone's imagination.
It was only then that Ōnoki and the others understood the looks Minato Namikaze and Gaara had given them when they proposed keeping Naruto hidden away after the Allied Forces were formed.
Looking at it now, they truly knew nothing about Naruto.
Even later, when facing the Ten-Tails, Naruto had remained their strongest combatant. Without him, the entire Allied Forces would likely have suffered devastating casualties.
Uchiha