The two sides faced off for a moment.
Deidara was the first to attack.
"C0 Bomb!"
He slammed both hands onto the ground, and countless small clay spiders crawled out of the earth across the entire crater.
The fist-sized clay spiders were instantly detonated by Deidara.
"Rumble..."
For a time, the violent explosions made the ground within several hundred meters shake intensely.
Countless boulders weighing several tons were blasted into the sky.
"Rumble..."
Countless clay birds continuously descended from the sky, flying one after another toward Sakura and Sasuke.
The moment they got close, they self-destructed.
At some point, Deidara had already flown into the sky atop a massive clay dragon.
A huge hole opened in the clay dragon's bloated belly.
Countless clay birds flew out from its stomach. Like bombers, they swarmed toward Sakura and Sasuke.
Combined with the clay spiders on the ground continuously setting off explosions,
the entire cavern was completely leveled after the unceasing bombardment.
The explosions continued for roughly a minute.
The clay dragon's belly was empty as well.
The area where the cavern had been was already filled with smoke and dust.
The ground was pockmarked and devastated.
Standing atop the clay dragon, Deidara laughed wildly. "Did you really think I was weak?"
"Ha ha ha!!!"
After the dust dispersed, the cavern from before had already been blown away.
The walls of the surrounding caverns had all been shattered by the blasts.
However, everyone who had been there was gone.
The smile vanished from Deidara's face as he had been laughing.
"They actually ran away. How boring."
Deidara was irritated that his move had failed.
Suddenly, Deidara heard a roar coming from the ground.
"Crap!"
He suddenly realized something, but just as he tried to react, his body was struck by an enormous force.