The golden dragon's phantom circled through the air, unleashing a soundless roar that shook its surroundings!
Though silent, that roar seemed to act directly on the soul.
Everyone present felt their minds tremble!
The next second, the golden dragon changed direction.
It dove toward the Eight-Headed Serpent pinned helplessly below!
"Hiss—roar!!!"
The Eight-Headed Serpent roared desperately.
Its eight hideous heads writhed wildly, trying to open their cavernous jaws and bite the diving golden dragon to stop it.
But with the Wood Dragon coiling around it and tearing into it,
with the Thunder Dragon bombarding it with lightning,
with Tobirama's two water dragons holding it down,
and with the eight enormous wooden hands of Hashirama's Wood Release: Hotei Technique clamped tightly around its eight necks,
the Eight-Headed Serpent's massive body could not move at all!
It could only watch as the golden dragon charged toward it.
Whoosh!
Without a sound.
There was no violent explosion, no deafening noise, not even any resistance.
The golden dragon plunged straight into the Eight-Headed Serpent's body!
The Eight-Headed Serpent was enormous. Its body and eight heads measured more than fifty meters in all.
The golden dragon, fierce as it looked, was only a little over ten meters long.
It was not even as large as the Wood Dragon, nor as imposing as Tobirama's water dragons.
Yet the instant the golden dragon entered the Eight-Headed Serpent's body—
"Hiss!!!!!"
The Eight-Headed Serpent let out an utterly agonized shriek!
Its cry was filled with pain and fear.
And even a measure of despair!
Then its enormous body began shriveling at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Something seemed to be ravenously devouring the essence of its flesh and blood.
Its body kept shrinking and withering.
Its scales lost their luster, turning gray and dry.
Its eight heads