A cold wind laced with the stench of blood swept across the wasteland before dawn.
The veins on Naruto's forehead throbbed violently twice. At the edge of Mind's Eye of the Kagura's perception, the nauseating chakra buried deep underground had just stirred.
He forcibly cut off his downward probe.
"Who cares what old bastard you've got hiding down there." Naruto spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. "I'll pull the plug on your network up here first!"
At the center of the night sky, Obito held a pitch-black staff aloft, his pale robes snapping in the wind beneath Six Paths Mode. Behind him, the crescent moon had been reflected blood-red by the phantom Sharingan of the Ten-Tails, and Infinite Tsukuyomi's activation had entered its final stage.
"All sealing squads on the southern front that can still breathe, get your asses to the center!" Naruto's roar, carried by Nine-Tails Chakra, boomed like thunder on level ground and crashed straight into the Allied Shinobi Forces' right flank.
Without another word, four blindingly fast afterimages tore through the sandstorm and landed steadily at his side.
Karin adjusted her shattered glasses, bit through her thumb, and pressed it against the ground. "Leyline connection complete. My sensory network covers a three-kilometer radius around him. Every fluctuation in his chakra is inside my head!"
"Thirty degrees upper right, forty-five degrees lower left. Those are the absolute blind spots when the Truth-Seeking Orb defense mechanism is operating." The veins around Hinata's eyes bulged as the blue-white halo of the Tenseigan Prototype nearly pierced the night. Sweat beaded on her forehead; seeing through Six Paths Level chakra flow was clearly placing an enormous strain on her.
"I have the coordinates." Konan raised both hands expressionlessly. Hundreds of thousands of pure white sheets of paper surged from her wide