Was he still a step too late?
Hikaru rapidly closed in on Amegakure, but he was not Namikaze Minato. Even Minato needed a certain amount of time to reach Amegakure with the Flying Thunder God Technique. The Flying Thunder God Technique was not omnipotent.
If even Namikaze Minato could not do it, there was even less chance that Hikaru could simply whoosh over to Amegakure—unless he was as absurdly overpowered as Kaguya Otsutsuki.
Sensing the Deva Path's Chakra turning violent, Hikaru sighed softly. "I hope your luck is a little better~."
At that moment, the Deva Path, hovering in the sky, was radiating blinding light from his entire body. A second brilliant sun appeared overhead. At Allied Forces Headquarters, the sealing bubble used for reconnaissance kept changing shape and bubbling, as if it contained boiling water.
One could imagine just how enormous the amount of Chakra gathering within the Deva Path was at that moment.
You will be punished.
You will know the taste of pain.
This is what you once gave me.
In the sky, scenes continuously surfaced in the Deva Path's mind: his parents' tragic deaths; himself wandering like a stray dog, stealing food, fighting wild dogs for scraps, and then meeting Yahiko and Konan.
Scene after scene flashed through Nagato's mind—and, naturally, through the Deva Path's as well.
"Boom!!!"
When the intensity of the light reached a critical point, a deafening roar erupted from Amegakure. The earth trembled, rivers flowed backward, and countless snakes and frogs fled in panic. Natural enemies treated one another as empty space at that moment, caring only about finding somewhere safe to hide.
An irresistible force erupted from the Deva Path at the center of Amegakure and surged in every direction. Everything in its path suffered devastating destruction, reduced entirely to dust.