"Boom!"
It was as if a piece of the sky had collapsed.
An invisible, irresistible, terrifying repulsive force slammed with perfect accuracy into the very center of Kumogakure's frontline camp!
In that instant, time seemed to stretch infinitely.
The sturdy wooden barricades were crushed into powder before even a splinter could fly.
The white tents stretching for miles turned to dust the instant they touched that invisible force.
On the ground, Kumogakure ninja who had been wiping down their ninja tools, patrolling, or standing guard had not even finished looking up.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The horrifying sounds of bones exploding rang out in a continuous chorus.
Blood blossomed miserably across the yellow sand like flowers.
Hundreds, thousands of Kumogakure elites were pinned to the ground by that violent repulsive force as easily as swatting a few mosquitoes.
Their organs ruptured, their bones shattered inch by inch. Before they could even scream, they became pools of mangled flesh, dead beyond doubt.
Like an out-of-control ancient beast, the repulsive force surged madly outward, crushing everything in its path.
Thick layers of earth were brutally overturned and compressed.
The towering ancient trees around it were uprooted and hurled rolling through the air in every direction along with the outward-rushing tide.
Massive boulders collided in midair and exploded into powder.
The entire crust of the earth wailed in despair.
"Rumble—!"
The earthshaking roar continued for more than ten seconds.
Dust blotted out the sky and sun, shrouding the entire area in impenetrable darkness.
When the gale blew away the sand and dust filling the sky, and faint sunlight once again fell upon the land—
The once-magnificent Kumogakure frontline camp, where tens of thousands of elite troops had been stationed, was gone.
In its place stood a horrifying, bottomless crater basin several miles across.
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