The deep-blue chakra greatsword tore through the sky, shrieking piercingly through the air as it rained down madly upon the White Giant like a raging storm.
"Clang! Clang! Clang!"
Deafening crashes of metal rang out across the skies of the Land of Wind, exploding into an unending thunderstorm.
Hyuga Seisen remained expressionless as he controlled the White Giant, spinning the Reishi Spear in its hand into an impenetrable curtain of blue-white light.
Every clash between sword and spear erupted with a blinding radiance like a supernova explosion.
The terrifying shockwaves condensed into tangible rings of air, peeling away the already ravaged desert below layer by layer.
The hard bedrock was shattered into powder.
Even the groundwater beneath the earth was forcibly squeezed to the surface by that immense force. Before it could gather into streams, the violent energy spilling from the battle between the two giants instantly vaporized it into white mist filling the sky.
Far beyond the battlefield, behind the ruins.
The Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, stood upon the sand.
His face, covered in Edo Tensei cracks, was filled with undisguised horror and bitterness.
As a former Kazekage, the Magnet Release Gold Dust he had once been so proud of was laughable before those two powers, no more than a child's toy built on a beach.
Granny Chiyo hunched over, leaning on the half of her cane that remained as she slowly made her way to Rasa's side.
Her clouded old eyes were fixed upon the battlefield that had been battered into chaos. Her withered hand gently patted Rasa, who stood staring blankly upward at the battle between the two giants.
"To die at the hands of an opponent like this... that is fate..."
Granny Chiyo's voice was as hoarse as sandpaper scraping together, carrying a helplessness and sorrow that