At that moment, the Impure World Kage of past generations charged into the Konoha Ruins and began their slaughter.
The dust that had blotted out the sky in the wake of Super Shinra Tensei slowly began to settle.
The village that had stood on the plain now had an enormous crater roughly three li across at its center.
Prosperous Konoha had been reduced to ruins by that single attack.
Cries of pain and groans still rose from the rubble, but those sounds only made things easier for the reincarnated Former Kage.
Under the hands of the reincarnated Sound Four, the surviving Konoha Villagers left this world without any further suffering.
Meanwhile, around the distant ruins of the Hokage Building, the personal ANBU guards pushed aside a huge boulder, revealing several figures barely clinging to life beneath it.
Hiruzen Sarutobi was among them.
Had he not done everything he could to block the chunks of stone hurled toward them, he might have weathered the attack safely with his own strength.
But most of the ANBU bodyguards around him would have been crushed to death by the boulders flung by the shock wave.
Ordinary Jonin seemed so weak before the Deva Path Power.
Hiruzen Sarutobi rose, breathing a little heavily, but his face went deathly pale when he saw the scene before him.
Behind him stood the Hokage Rock of past generations, but the village those carved faces gazed upon had become a vast crater and a field of ruins.
"How could this happen? Everything the Past Hokage worked for, destroyed just like that?"
"Lord Third Hokage, what should we do now?"
"The damage is so severe. Rebuilding will be extremely difficult."
"Locate the enemy first."
They were, after all, his personal ANBU guards. Some of the calmer squad leaders had already