The apocalyptic tsunami raised walls of water hundreds of meters high, blotting out the first light breaking over the eastern horizon. The golden beam of light crashing down from the moon carried a deathly aura that could erase everything, bearing straight toward the Shinobi World continent.
Water mist mixed with gale-force winds lashed against everyone's faces, stinging like blades.
The Fourth Raikage swallowed hard. His vaunted Lightning Release Armor collapsed outright under the pressure. Ōnoki's legs trembled violently; he could not even keep his Light-Weight Rock Technique steady and fell backward into the mud.
"We can't stop it... This isn't power that humans can withstand." Terumi Mei's face was deathly pale, and even her fingers forming Hand Seals were shaking.
Just as the Five Kage fell into despair, Naruto grinned, baring his bloodstained back teeth. He turned to Kakashi, his nearly bloodless face filled with reckless madness.
"Kakashi-sensei, that thing of ours is fully charged, right?"
Kakashi tore away the rag covering his left eye, formed a summoning seal with one hand, and slammed it onto the ground.
"Bang!"
White smoke erupted, and a metal communications device thicker than a water vat burst from the earth. Its indicator lights flashed frantically, while Tenten's voice came through the loudspeaker, excitement impossible to conceal: "Naruto! The Divine Tree's main roots have been severed and reassembled. The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's backup chakra engine is overloaded by one hundred and twenty percent! Charging complete!"
"Fire." Naruto spat out the two words crisply.
Tens of thousands of meters away, on the northern wasteland, a floating battleship resembling an iron beast tore through the clouds. This was the ultimate weapon, the "Kamui Expansion Star Annihilation Battleship," whose sealing circuits Karin had overseen and which Tenten had built by spending most of an entire