"Then let's see if your appetite is big enough to swallow an entire forest!"
Sen's voice was quiet, but it struck like a boulder crashing into a still lake, sending up towering waves.
Orochimaru's golden snake pupils abruptly contracted.
He sensed an exceedingly dangerous aura coming from the boy before him.
It wasn't some intangible killing intent.
It was... an absolute sense of suppression that came from the very level of his existence!
Like an ordinary venomous snake suddenly facing a dragon from the primordial ages!
I can't drag this out any longer!
Orochimaru knew that the longer he delayed, the more things could go wrong.
Holding nothing back, he bit straight into his thumb.
The crimson blood stood out starkly against his pale finger.
"Boar-dog-bird-monkey-ram!"
His hands flashed through hand seals so quickly that they left nothing but afterimages.
Finally, he slammed his palm down hard onto the lush grass Sen had brought to life beneath his feet!
"Summoning Technique!"
BOOM!
An enormous blood-red pattern spread outward in an instant, centered on Orochimaru's palm.
Then.
Bang!
A suffocatingly massive cloud of white smoke shot into the air, blotting out the entire sky!
Rumble...
The ground throughout the Forest of Death began shaking violently, as though struck by a magnitude-eight earthquake.
Countless towering ancient trees buckled under the strain and crashed down.
"B-big bro! What... what's going on?!"
Naruto fell onto his backside in fright and clung desperately to a pillar of the Pavilion beside him, feeling as though he could be hurled away at any moment.
Sasuke struggled to keep his footing, his scarlet Sharingan filled with indescribable horror.
Within the smoke.
An immense purple silhouette, as massive as a mountain, slowly emerged.
It was a snake.
A Purple Horned Serpent enormous enough to coil around half a mountaintop!