Boom!
A torrent-like concentrated electric current erupted forth!
The blinding blue light instantly pierced through the Daytime Tiger's remaining force, colliding head-on with the violent white heat in the center of the battlefield.
At the instant of the collision, every sound vanished.
It was not silence.
Rather, every sound within a kilometer had been completely suppressed by the shockwaves produced by the clash of those two forces!
Trees snapped without a sound.
Rocks shattered without a sound.
Ninjas opened their mouths, yet could not hear their own screams.
It was as if all sound had been forcibly torn from heaven and earth, plunging everything into a suffocating dead silence!
The next instant, the shockwave erupted.
Rumble!
The delayed thunderous roar rolled across the plains!
The ground was the first to give way.
The point where the Daytime Tiger and Azure Dragon collided suddenly caved in, with soil and rock layers crushed apart one after another beneath the terrifying pressure.
Dozens of meters at the center vanished in the blink of an eye, followed by one hundred meters, two hundred meters, then three hundred meters!
A hemispherical crater rapidly formed in the heart of the battlefield.
Its deepest point had collapsed more than ten meters!
Within five hundred meters, every blade of grass and every tree burst into flames at once.
The flames had barely appeared before they were instantly vaporized by even greater heat. Trunks, branches, leaves, and roots did not even leave behind ashes, melting directly into the roiling radiance and heat.
All moisture in the ground evaporated.
Vast stretches of earth were first scorched black, then split apart, shattered, and swept high into the sky by the blast!
"Defend!"
A Konoha Jōnin opened his mouth and shouted.
He could not hear his own voice and could only form