The seawater several kilometers away, and even farther beyond, seemed to be churned violently by an invisible giant hand.
The sea roiled, and towering waves surged into the sky.
More terrifying still, a massive column of water connecting the sea to the heavens was torn from the surface by an irresistible force, like a heavenly river suspended upside down.
This "heavenly river" swept across the moon's night sky like a tamed water dragon, roaring toward Naruto with savage momentum!
Before the enemy arrived, the seawater had already reached Naruto.
Naruto leaped up, using Magnet Release to form a golden cloud of gold dust that lifted him into the air.
In the Palace at the moon's core, Otsutsuki Toneri was sensing the battlefield outside through special means. A scene appeared in his eyeless "vision" that shook him to his core:
The blond intruder hovered alone in midair. Behind him and beside him was a terrifying, roaring water dragon that spanned the sky and connected to the distant ocean, seemingly "dragged" through thin air by his right hand.
The sight was like a water deity descending from myth, dragging an endlessly flowing river through the air by his strength alone.
Wherever the water dragon passed, the moon's air churned violently, rumbling like a dragon's roar. The gales it whipped up even blew smaller fragments of ruined masonry off the ground.
The heavenly river being dragged through the sky gave off immense clouds of moisture and a terrifying pressure of chakra. Its sheer scale and power far exceeded ordinary water release ninjutsu, possessing a brutal beauty that defied common sense.
Although Toneri could not "see" with his eyes, his perception was clearer than sight and reached deeper into the essence of things.
He could "feel" the destructive energy within that water dragon, enough