With Sen's furious shout,
the foundations of all of Konoha let out a groan under the unbearable strain.
The sound was deep and oppressive.
It was as though a beast that had slept for ten thousand years in the deepest depths of the earth was turning over in agony.
The ground within a hundred-meter radius of the Hokage Building
was like a dry biscuit struck by a sledgehammer.
Crack... crack!
Black, spiderweb-like fissures spread wildly across the hard paving stones and soil.
From within the cracks,
a heavy surge of damp air spewed out, carrying the distinctive smell of old soil mixed with the stench of dead rats and rotting leaves.
It choked several ANBU at the edge of the viewing stands, making them cover their mouths and cough repeatedly.
The next second,
Boom!
Spewing out great mouthfuls of mud and sand,
what burst from the earth was no longer the ordinary brown trees from before.
Instead, there were dozens.
Dozens upon dozens.
Giant blackish-brown roots, each more than a hundred meters in diameter, their surfaces gleaming with dark-gold Divine Tree markings!
These roots were enormous.
So enormous that each resembled a pillar holding up the sky.
Their bark was as rough as plates of blackened iron armor, with a faint, eerie green glow flowing over it.
"Th-this is Wood Release?!"
Orochimaru clung to a gap in a stump, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
These Divine Tree roots,
compared to the great trees grown by Hashirama Senju, whom he had summoned through Impure World Reincarnation,
were more than ten times larger!
"Go!"
Standing at the center of the gale, Sen thrust his clasped hands downward.
"Devour... every last one!"
There was no need for any complicated hand seals.
The dozens of giant Divine Tree roots moved like