"Let this village be the sacrifice, a ceremonial salute to the dawn of a new era."
"Super Shinra Tensei."
There was no earth-shattering roar, only utter silence.
A visible, translucent sphere composed purely of repulsive force instantly expanded downward, with "Pain" at its center.
It was not "pushing." It was "erasing."
Peaks, earth, ruins, rocks, buildings, forests... everything that touched the sphere of repulsive force was instantly broken down, crushed, and compressed into its most basic particles.
The instant the repulsive force descended, Raikage A and Killer B were forcibly swept away by Obito's "Kamui," vanishing from the spot.
The place where they had stood, all of Kumogakure within their sight, and the towering mountains surrounding it disappeared completely in that silent destruction.
The repulsive force dissipated.
All that remained beneath the sky was an immense, bottomless crater, its surface as smooth as a mirror.
Once prosperous, Kumogakure had stood above the clouds as one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages. With this single strike, it and the vast mountain ranges it took such pride in were utterly erased from the world.
Only an enormous, hollow circular scar more than several dozen kilometers across remained, as though silently mocking the insignificance of shinobi.
Dead silence.
The absolute silence of the world's first moments.
No one knew how much time had passed before a mangled hand struggled out from beneath a pile of crushed, compacted rubble, its five fingers clawing spasmodically at the glass-smooth ground.
"Cough... cough, cough!"
Amid violent coughing, a Kumogakure jonin struggled out through a gap in the dust and shattered stone. Half his body was charred, his shinobi uniform was in tatters, and dried blood and dust covered his face. He raised his head blankly and looked around. Then the confusion in his eyes gave way to