Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...
Atop Hashirama's stone head, before the Asura Path's hand cannon, a pitch-black Tailed Beast Bomb rapidly swelled as it was compressed!
The thrumming energy, the raging storm... everything plunged the crowd into a terrifying sense of oppression!
"That move... belongs to the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox!!!"
Those who had lived through the Nine-Tails disaster years ago cried out in utter despair.
"Only the Fourth Hokage could stop that attack!!!!"
"We're finished. Completely finished..."
Just as everyone resigned themselves to death... Shikamaru's voice rang through the minds of the Konoha forces, carried by Ino's Mind Transmission Technique!!
"It's too early to give up. Any Ninja who can use Earth Release, erect defenses immediately!!!!"
They hesitated. "But that's the Nine-Tails' strongest attack. What can Earth Release possibly do...!!!"
Then Akimichi Choza shouted, "Follow Shikamaru's orders!!! He'll find a way!!!!!!"
And so... led by the ANBU Jonin, dozens of Konoha Ninja skilled in Earth Release rushed to the front together. After forming hand seals, they slammed their palms against the ground!!
—Earth Release: Multiple Earth-Style Wall!!
Rumble, rumble, rumble...!!
An enormous earthen barrier, over ten meters tall and five meters thick, wide enough to completely block the view ahead, rose less than fifty meters from Kage Rock...!!
Atop Hashirama's stone head, Madara looked down from above. The Tailed Beast Bomb before his hand cannon had reached its limit... using the Asura Path's power while in gold body mode, he had formed a Tailed Beast Bomb no different from one produced by the actual Nine-Tails!!
The Konoha Ninjas' resistance meant nothing in his eyes.
"An earthen fortress like this couldn't even withstand my Fire Release, let alone this monster. Disappear..."
Boom...!!!
The Tailed Beast Cannon fired with a thunderous roar at a forty-five-degree downward angle... before its underside even touched the Earth