Chiya flicked his wrist and slashed at the incoming Truth-Seeking Orb spikes.
The blade cut through the air without a whistle.
There was only heat.
A searing wave of air spread outward from the blade.
The five Truth-Seeking Orbs, shrouded in the power of Yin-Yang Release, collided squarely with the slash.
At the moment of contact, there was no explosion.
No roar of clashing energies.
Only silent vaporization.
The spikes at the tips of the Truth-Seeking Orbs vanished into the air the instant they touched the blade.
As though they had never existed.
The annihilating power of Yin-Yang Release failed to cancel out even a fraction of the blade's heat.
Instead, the heat traveled back along the chakra pathways.
It took no more than a single breath.
Before everyone's eyes, the five Truth-Seeking Orbs, capable of nullifying conventional ninjutsu and erasing physical attacks, vanished completely.
Not even a trace of chakra remained.
The battlefield fell deathly silent.
The Allied Shinobi Forces, who had been charging forward with battle cries, stopped in unison.
Everyone stared wide-eyed at Chiya in the center of the battlefield, then turned toward Obito in the air.
Their minds went blank.
Just ten seconds earlier.
They had watched these very Truth-Seeking Orbs effortlessly block the Five Kage's combined ninjutsu.
They had watched a Truth-Seeking Orb graze the Raikage's arm, melting straight through his Lightning Release Armor and leaving a gash deep enough to expose bone.
They had watched Obito float in midair and declare that he would erase the entire battlefield into nothingness.
At that moment, all they had felt was despair.
To them, Six Paths-level power was an impassable gulf.
A dimensionality strike that left them no choice but to await death.
But now.
The Truth-Seeking Orbs they had considered an unstoppable killing move had vanished