In just a few breaths, the clouds filling the sky were shattered.
Sunlight streamed through the torn clouds.
Yet it could not compete with the pure white sea of light on the ground.
The forest closest to the giant bore the brunt of it.
The first row of trees snapped instantly.
Before their trunks could hit the ground, they shattered again under the following shockwaves.
Branches, leaves, soil, and shattered stones were all hurled into the sky.
Trees farther away were uprooted.
Their thick roots dragged up great clumps of earth, which tumbled and collided in midair.
Within a radius of a thousand Kilometers, the land looked as though an invisible giant hand had viciously scraped across it.
Every tree had been broken.
Protruding boulders were torn from the ground.
The layers of fallen leaves and soil that had accumulated over countless years vanished completely.
Even flocks of birds thousands of Kilometers away, unable to escape in time, were overtaken by the aftershock.
The birds lost their balance and fell one after another into the forest.
Vast swathes of vegetation collapsed in the same direction.
At the edge of the coast, the tide was shaken backward.
The wet seabed was briefly exposed.
Then even taller waves surged back toward the shore.
Ships far out at sea rocked violently.
Orochimaru stood at the bow, his slit pupils abruptly contracting.
The seawater beneath his feet first sank inward.
Then it suddenly surged upward.
The entire ship was lifted several meters by the wave.
The deck groaned under the strain.
Zetsu rose from the stern, his black and white faces both turning toward the border of the Land of Fire.
White Zetsu gripped the railing with both hands.
"What was that?"
His body swayed violently with the ship, and for the first time,