The Entrance

As that low shout crashed into the battlefield like thunder, the earth suddenly began to tremble violently.

BOOM—

All of a sudden.

Amid the excited gazes of the Rock Ninja, countless enormous stone mountains burst up from the ground!

The surrounding trees were uprooted and snapped apart, while huge fissures split across the surface, almost completely separating this area from the surrounding ground.

As clouds of dust scattered in every direction.

It was as though someone were wielding a mountain-moving technique here; the ninjas who had been standing on the ground were all lifted into the air.

The violent tremors made it impossible for those atop the stone mountains to keep their balance. They stared down in horror and cried out.

"What's going on? Why is the ground suddenly shaking!?"

"Look! The land beneath us is rising into the sky—it's still going up!"

The ninjas stared in panic at the terrifying scene around them, as the dark soil beneath the surface was now exposed before everyone's eyes.

Meanwhile, the Rock Ninja wore excited expressions as they stood atop the rising rocky ground, all looking in the same direction.

High in the sky, a short figure stood tall!

He hovered in midair, the wind whipping at the hem of his robes. Yet his gaze was incomparably sharp as he stared ahead, both hands raised high as though he were lifting the entire earth from afar. The sight was utterly breathtaking!

"It's Lord Tsuchikage! Great, Lord Tsuchikage is here! Those guys are all going to die here!"

"Look, it's not just Lord Tsuchikage! The one beside him... that's Lord Rasa, isn't it!?"

At this moment, the Rock Ninja and Sand Ninja gathered atop the rising rock excitedly discussed among themselves.

Just then.

BOOM—

With a tremendous crash, the rising stone mountains below