He drew back his right foot. In the sunlight filtering through the settling dust, the vast chasm it had stamped into the ground looked like a wound the earth would never heal.
The Golden Armored Giant Ape lowered its head. Its golden eyes swept over the three figures struggling to climb out of the rubble, and its mouth curled into a smile almost identical to Yongye's.
Yongye's voice rang down from above, reaching the ears of everyone still able to hear:
"The power of unity?"
"The power of peace?"
"And you wanted to leave me a way out?"
"Who do you think you are?"
Dust slowly settled in the sunlight.
Along the edge of the enormous chasm that cut across the Land of Iron, loose stones continued to slide into the bottomless darkness, their falls echoing dully.
Yongye stood atop the Golden Armored Giant Ape's head, his Golden Cloth gleaming with rippling light in the afternoon sun.
He looked down over the battlefield, now reduced entirely to Ruins, and the smile on his lips widened.
In his Mindscape, system notifications burst forth one after another like a string of firecrackers.
[Ding! Target Ōnoki detected: utterly despairing, with his will completely broken. Host has successfully seized his fortune and obtained Ultimate Blind Box ×1. Open it now?]
Open it, Yongye said silently.
[Ding! Ultimate Blind Box opened. Congratulations, host. You have obtained Divine Flame Kindling: Iwagakure.]
A Dark Panel appeared in his Mindscape, its edges gleaming more brightly with dark gold.
The lines at the center of the panel extended downward. Beside the names where they converged, a new icon appeared: Iwagakure, its outline formed from cliffs and mountains and rimmed with a dense ocher glow.
A second notification followed at once.
``` [Ding! Target Fourth Raikage