On the command platform of Konoha First Arsenal, Tsunade had just released the railing, her palms drenched in sweat. Before she could celebrate the success of the bombardment, a piercing howl suddenly tore through the sky.
It was not thunder.
Some colossal thing was ripping through the air.
She looked up, and her pupils abruptly contracted—
The clouds seemed to be torn apart by a giant hand, revealing two meteors burning with orange-red flames.
Each was more than five hundred meters in diameter, its surface covered in lava-like cracks. Trailing long tails of fire, they were hurtling toward Konoha.
"All personnel, enter highest combat readiness!"
Tsunade's voice spread across the entire battlefield through the loudspeakers, but even she could hear the uncontrollable tremor in it.
The surrounding shinobi looked up, their faces instantly turning deathly pale.
A kunai slipped from someone's hand and struck the ground with a sharp clatter.
Shikaku Nara rapidly tapped at his tactical terminal. The data flashing across the screen made him suck in a cold breath.
"Impact countdown... thirty seconds. At this mass and speed, Konoha's central district will be wiped out directly."
Hashirama Senju, reincarnated through Impure World Reincarnation, did not hesitate. He slammed his hands together.
"Wood Release: World Tree Wall!"
The earth trembled as dozens of massive trees, each over ten meters thick, burst from the ground and wove themselves into a gigantic net over the Arsenal.
But the meteors were falling far too fast.
The instant the first meteor struck the Wood Release defense, the sturdy trunks snapped with shrill cracks like straw crushed beneath a wheel.
Hashirama clenched his teeth and frantically poured out chakra, yet he could only slow the meteor's descent by less than ten percent.
"Lord Hashirama can't hold it!"
A sensory unit shinobi cried out in