"The heavens are changing!"
The pupils of the humans gazing up at the sky rapidly dilated. Facing the massive shadow blotting out the clear heavens, their voices trembled uncontrollably as they cried out.
The shadow continued to descend.
The enormous sphere, its low-pressure cyclone igniting with fierce light, broke through the pale clouds and revealed a surface riddled with mottled craters. Surging wind pressure poured down in torrents, bending the crowd over like weeds at the edge of a forest.
"It's a meteor swarm from the Celestial Realm!"
Bracing against the fierce wind, the ninja barely forced his eyes open and began counting the meteors.
The unceasing wind pressure and trembling ground made him swallow the words he had yet to say.
"Is this the end of Kekkei Genkai?"
"The Rinnegan?!"
A fraction of the mighty power of the Six Paths was not unbeatable. He forcibly raised his head and stared unyieldingly at the meteors falling from the sky toward the archipelago, intent on destroying everything.
"Boom—"
A hand suddenly landing on his shoulder brought with it an invisible barrier. The man let out a long breath. "We're saved."
"Thank you, Genji."
Genji, who expelled chakra through his acupoints to form a Wind Release barrier, gave him a slight nod before staring at the second Six Paths figure floating in the air and holding a strange ninja tool.
Hundreds of meteors fell at once, moving according to the positions within Madara's mind and at the command of his will.
Boundless, visible waves of steaming air and raging flames ignited by the trembling atmosphere plunged toward the endless azure sea.
The Rinnegan rippled faintly. Madara controlled the gravitational force attached to the surface of the meteor swarm, but it did not achieve the desired deceleration.
Meteors as large as islands, no