Dazzling azure lightning erupted explosively from the Raikage's body.
"Lightning Release Chakra Mode!"
Like a berserk beast, the Raikage stomped hard against the sand, carving a deep, long trench through it.
Using that terrifying running start.
The muscles in the Raikage's thick right arm bulged like coiling dragons. With a blast that tore through the sound barrier, he hurled the lightning-flashing Flying Thunder God Kunai fiercely at the falling meteorite!
The kunai became a bolt of lightning racing upstream, piercing with extreme precision into the hard rock at the meteorite's base beneath its immense, terrifying gravitational pressure.
The next instant.
Minato Namikaze vanished from the ground like a golden flash.
High in the sky.
The scorching heat waves were enough to instantly sear human skin.
Minato appeared beneath the meteorite without warning.
Violent chakra burst from his feet, anchoring him upside down against the rapidly falling meteorite's underside like nails.
The gale sliced across his cheeks like blades.
"Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder Formation!"
Minato slammed his palms together and let out a hoarse, desperate roar.
Dense black formulas spread wildly from him like rampant vines, crawling across the meteorite's vast surface.
A small part of the meteorite's underside had already been swallowed by the spatial distortion of the Flying Thunder God Formation.
But it was too slow!
The meteorite was simply too massive, and his chakra was draining like water through a broken dam.
"Faster! Even faster!"
Veins bulged at the corners of Minato's eyes, and his azure eyes were bloodshot.
"I have to transfer it all away before it hits the ground!"
Below.
Upon the cracked desert of the Land of Wind.
Madara stood within Susanoo and raised his head slightly.
His pale purple Rinnegan watched with interest the golden figure hanging upside down beneath the meteorite, desperately