As Deva Path Pain let out an inhuman roar, the small black sphere condensed in his palm slowly detached itself and rose toward the skies above Konoha.
It looked so tiny, so inconspicuous.
Like an ordinary pebble tossed into the boundless heavens.
Yet the instant it rose several hundred meters into the air and came to a halt—
The entire world seemed to have been muted.
The wind stopped.
The distant thunder of battle stopped.
Even people's breathing seemed to freeze at that moment.
Then, an indescribably terrifying force of attraction erupted from the black sphere, like an invisible net instantly enveloping all of Konoha!
"Rumble—"
The earth began to groan violently, splitting apart into hideous ravines.
Rubble from the ruins, broken steel beams, collapsed remnants of houses... everything began to tear free from the ground uncontrollably, dragged by an invisible force toward the black dot in the sky.
"W-What kind of ninjutsu is this?!"
A Hidden Leaf Village medical ninja who had been desperately treating the wounded discovered in terror that his body was becoming weightless, his feet gradually leaving the ground.
He clung tightly to a utility pole that had not yet been fully sucked away, his face filled with fear and confusion.
Attraction?
No, this had already surpassed the realm of attraction.
This was power only a god could possess—power capable of creating and destroying worlds!
Kimimaro, who had been fighting the wreckage of the Asura Path, was the first to sense the terrifying pulling force.
With a roar, countless sharp bone spikes erupted beneath his feet and drove deep into the earth, trying to anchor his body in place.
Elsewhere, Sasuke had just forced back the still-resisting Animal Path with a Great Fireball Technique when the sudden pull made him stagger.
He fiercely plunged the Kusanagi