Inside the crystal, Shinji stood with his arms crossed, looking down at the battlefield.
He frowned slightly.
"Still too slow."
Whoosh—
At his thought, the Susanoo straightened abruptly, and the two blades in its hands vanished.
Then, with a resounding clap,
it brought its enormous palms together!
Hum—In an instant, spiderweb cracks, blackened as if scorched, spread across the desert beneath the Susanoo's feet. A torrent of Chakra surged upward against the flow!
Space warped. The clouds collapsed toward the center like a vortex, and sunlight was swallowed into dark violet. Birds within a five-kilometer radius fell from the sky in terror, and the air filled with the scent of death.
"Hey, hey, hey! This is bad! What is that?!"
On the ground,
the Sunagakure ninja had only just recovered from the twin-blade strike they'd had no way to evade.
The next moment,
the shadow of death settled over every heart, spreading despair.
"You've got to be kidding!"
"No human could possibly do that, right?!"
"Are we... going to die?"
Thud!
As the first Sunagakure ninja dropped to his knees in despair, others crumpled one after another, staring blankly at the sky.
Their eyes were vacant, bitter smiles on their lips.
"It's... it's over... Everything's over. This was a war we could never have won from the start. We... have no hope!"
At the Konoha lines,
Shibi Aburame tilted his head up slightly. For the first time, he raised a hand to push back his hood and stared blankly at the sky as it darkened and churned.
"Power like that..."
Countless Konoha Ninja looked just as stunned.
They were on Konoha's side, but in the end, they were all human. Faced with such a terrifying sight,
even knowing it was Lord Shinji's Ninjutsu,
they couldn't help trembling in body and