An explosion of unparalleled violence swept outward, its rising blaze as dazzling as the blazing sun, so blinding that no one could open their eyes.
The scorching fireball burned the air with a sizzling hiss, even making it warp and distort.
Boom-!!!
The next second, a deafening roar heralding destruction and death descended from the sky, like a thunderbolt on a clear day, shaking the very earth.
It was also like hundreds of millions of war drums beating at once, exploding in their ears and making their internal organs tremble uncontrollably!
A tremendous blast of air abruptly surged from the center of the explosion, forming an utterly terrifying shock wave that spread in every direction.
Wherever the ring-shaped shock wave passed, rubble, soil, and trees on the ground were all instantly swept up!
Countless shattered fragments were hurled into the sky and hung in the air, then seemed to be seized in the crushing grip of an invisible giant hand before being violently flung away!
Before those fragments and debris could even hit the ground, the flames sweeping behind them swallowed them completely.
"Wh-what ninjutsu is this?!"
Faced with the seemingly apocalyptic scene before him, even Madara Uchiha, with his vast experience and countless battles, could not help freezing.
Of the countless clashes he had fought with Hashirama Senju back then, few had caused destruction on such a terrifying scale.
Of course, there had been several battles in which the power he and Hashirama Senju unleashed could devastate heaven and earth, scarcely weaker than the terrifying explosion before him.
But who was he?
He was Madara Uchiha!
And the man who had fought him was Konoha's First Hokage, the God of the Shinobi World-Hashirama Senju!
Both were powerhouses standing at the very pinnacle of the shinobi world. How could ordinary