"Golem's Lock!"
The Ten-Tails opened its enormous, fang-filled maw, and six chakra chains shot from deep within its throat, piercing the chakra cores inside the six tailed beasts with the precision of six venomous snakes.
Then they snapped tight. Every chain pulled taut with a piercing screech like metal scraping against metal.
The tailed beasts began to be forcibly dragged away.
The Nine-Tails dug its claws deep into the ground, its nine tails churning the air behind it as it tried to resist that irresistible pull with every ounce of its strength.
But the chains were far beyond what any single tailed beast could withstand. Its four limbs plowed four deep furrows through the ground, sending sand and stones tumbling and dust billowing as its entire body was dragged, inch by inch, toward the Ten-Tails' waiting maw.
Shukaku swung his enormous claws wildly, whipping the sand around him into one sandstorm after another. But the chakra chains ignored every physical attack and continued hauling him toward the Ten-Tails.
His struggles gouged a broad fissure into the ground, as though a giant plow were turning over layer after layer of earth.
Tons of earth were overturned, torn apart, and crushed by the tailed beasts' struggles. Several parallel furrows, dozens of meters deep, scarred the battlefield, stretching from their original positions all the way to the Ten-Tails' feet.
Seeing the tailed beasts still struggling, Uchiha Madara snorted coldly.
"Limbo: Border Jail!"
Invisible shadows sent every tailed beast flying, and the chakra chains tightened again.
Dozens of kilometers away, inside the general headquarters of the Upper Capital's Central Theater Command.
A giant electronic screen displayed live, high-definition satellite footage.
The enormous Ten-Tails, its entire body glowing dark red, was rampaging through the base. Six chains connected it to six desperately struggling tailed