High above the earth.
Beneath the twisting space of Thunderclap and the dense Lightning Cages winding around it and slicing into it, the enormous, oppressive meteor cracked with jagged fissures!
Then—
Hikari seemed to burst from within!
Countless Lightning Dragons coiled around it and tore at it, like ants bringing down an elephant. Before long...
BOOM!
A thunderous crash rang out.
At last—
Under the stunned gazes of everyone watching from the ground, the two meteors exploded into hundreds upon hundreds of smaller fragments.
But it wasn't over!
Shinji had stopped controlling them, yet the Lightning Dragons he had conjured chased after the fragments as though they could track their targets!
A Lightning Dragon would whirl around a fragment in a flash.
The rock would crumble to dust, while the dragon spent the last of its energy and dissolved into tiny arcs of electricity that vanished in midair!
In mere seconds—
Hashirama Senju blankly withdrew his Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.
The sky fell still.
Golden rays from the setting sun washed over the earth, bringing back the light!
Heaven and earth were silent. No one spoke.
Hashirama Senju stared in awe. "That boy's Chakra control is beyond anything the world has ever seen—or ever will!"
"I... can't compare. Not even close!"
"..."
Madara Uchiha narrowed his eyes and stared silently at the clear sky.
For a long time, he said nothing.
Then he suddenly spoke. "Shinji..."
Shinji had been watching the spectators to gauge the results of this little "performance." Satisfied with what he saw—
He turned to Madara Uchiha. "Lord Madara?"
Madara Uchiha clenched his fist. "I have a Rinnegan too, but there's only one Ten-Tails, and Obito has it. You said it belonged to Princess Kaguya... So could I one day gain power like