Everyone could clearly see enormous cracks appearing across the meteor's underside beneath the support of that invisible repulsive force. Like a spiderweb, the cracks spread rapidly across the entire meteor, visibly widening before their eyes!
Crack-crack-crack-!!!
The teeth-grating sound of shattering rock rang through the heavens!
In the next instant, that mountainous meteor, powerful enough to destroy an entire nation, broke apart in midair! It did not explode. Instead, that overpowering repulsive force forcibly tore it into hundreds of millions of rock fragments of every size.
Then Nagato's storm of repulsive force changed direction, turning from a push into a swirling current. It swept up the scattered rocks and sent them surging back into the sky like a volcanic eruption, even faster than they had fallen!
Countless fragments screamed toward the heavens, riddling the orange-red clouds with holes in a spectacle both magnificent and bizarre.
"Woooow! Boss Nagato, you're so cool! You threw that big rock back!" Tobi's excited cries came from Nagato's chest. "I told you! Against Tobi's perfect body, a rock like that is no different from tofu!"
Yet the danger had not passed.
Through the enormous hole punched in the sky, a second supermassive meteor followed close behind!
It was even larger than the first!
The faint hope that had just stirred in everyone's hearts instantly plunged into an even deeper abyss of despair.
"There's another one?!"
"You've got to be kidding!"
"Enough... it's already enough!"
No one believed that man could perform another miracle.
Nagato gazed up at the meteor blotting out the sky once more, his eyes still calm. He abruptly pressed his palms together.
"Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands!"
Rumble-rumble-rumble-!!!!
The earth shook violently again, but this time, it was not rock breaking apart. It was life roaring!
An unimaginably huge wooden Buddha