In an instant, an indescribable aura spread rapidly outward from Hidan, enveloping all of Konoha!
Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was still in the Hokage's Office, sensed the aura immediately.
The instant he felt it, his heart stopped for a second!
The aura itself inflicted no damage. This was simply the human body's natural response to extreme terror.
Horror covered Hiruzen Sarutobi's face, and his clothes were drenched in sweat, as though he had just climbed out of a river!
What was this feeling? This helplessness and insignificance, like an ant looking up at the sky, this panic as though he were about to fall into the heavens, and this fear that the source of the aura could destroy him in an instant if it so wished...
Every negative emotion weighed on Hiruzen Sarutobi like a mountain, threatening to crush him!
Five seconds later, Hiruzen Sarutobi regained control of his body.
He moved his stiff fingers and swallowed to moisten his dry throat. Then his legs gave way, and he sank to one knee, gasping for air.
That feeling had been too terrifying. He never wanted to experience it again in his life...
Hiruzen Sarutobi was the strongest person in the village, and he was quite some distance from Hidan, the center of the aura. Yet even he had reacted so violently, let alone those standing beside Hidan.
The instant Hidan unleashed that aura, they felt their vision darken.
It was not the darkness of blindness, but the darkness of the sun suddenly disappearing behind clouds. It had not actually happened-it was a sensation!
A nonexistent boom seemed to ring in their ears!
It was as though the sky had suddenly collapsed at that moment, crashing down to crush them!
They could not resist. They were suffocating!
Then, a second later, the