"What... is that thing?!"
"You've got to be kidding!"
Tsunade and Gaara cried out at the same time, identical expressions of disbelief appearing on their faces.
They had just joined forces to defeat and seal Mu's clone.
But the battle had barely ended when the shadow falling over them from above gave them a fright.
The meteorite about to fall from the sky shocked them profoundly.
"Is this Madara Uchiha's power?" Gaara murmured, his voice carrying a tremor almost imperceptible to ordinary people.
Tsunade involuntarily clenched her fists, fine beads of sweat seeping from her smooth forehead.
"Grandfather was fighting an enemy like this all along?!"
This was also the first time she had clearly recognized the difference in strength between herself and Madara Uchiha. It was simply an insurmountable gulf.
Even Gaara and Tsunade were stunned and dazed, let alone the ordinary ninja of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
Fear spread wildly through the crowd like a plague, and they lost all reason.
The Allied Shinobi Forces' ninja, who had remained confident even against the Five Kage brought back through Impure World Reincarnation, completely lost the will to resist in the face of this power akin to a natural disaster.
Some ninja's legs gave out, and they collapsed to the ground.
Some let out meaningless howls, deranged smiles of savagery and madness appearing on their faces.
Even more ninja stood rooted to the spot, the sight beyond their comprehension robbing them of all ability to think, leaving only instinctive trembling!
"So it really is this move!"
Unlike the panic and terror of everyone else, Shihōin Naraku, who had expected this, appeared utterly calm.
"Tengai Shinsei really is an outrageously powerful technique!"
Facing a meteorite about to fall in reality, that sense of danger threatening one's life was vivid and intense.