High above, the black rift stretching thousands of meters looked like a single eye, coldly gazing down upon the ants on the ground.
Space twisted violently around the edges of the rift, faintly leaking a suffocating blood-red glow.
"What the hell... is that?" A swallowed hard. Even his prized Lightning Release Armor flickered on and off from instinctive terror.
Madara Uchiha stood atop a floating chunk of rubble, his hands maintaining a seal. His cold Rinnegan swept over the ground below while the Hashirama face on his chest made a spine-chilling chewing sound.
"Peace? That is a lie weaklings tell as they lick each other's wounds." Madara's voice was not loud, but carried by chakra, it reached everyone's ears clearly. "Before absolute power, you do not even have the right to be afraid."
"You old fossil, are you addicted to acting tough or something?!" Naruto spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva as the dim golden aura around him flared fiercely once more.
A mocking curve formed at Madara's lips.
He did not need to act. The Ten-Tails in the distance had already answered for him.
The colossal beast crouching amid the ruins suddenly raised its head. Within its abyssal maw, which had no lips at all, two black-purple chakra vortices lit up at once!
A second and third Tailed Beast Ball!
"It's targeting the spatial rift!" Kakashi pulled down his forehead protector, his Sharingan spinning wildly as he instantly saw through Madara's scheme. "Madara wants to use the rift to teleport the Tailed Beast Balls directly into the Allied Shinobi Forces' headquarters and supply lines!"
The entire battlefield fell silent.
One Tailed Beast Ball had nearly taken half the lives of the Five Kage and Naruto. Now there were two, with spatial jumps to boot? How were they supposed