With an ear-splitting shriek, the Tailed Beast Bomb exploded.
A blazing white torrent of energy gnawed at the earth like the fangs of a giant beast. The shock wave spread in visible ripples, pulverizing rocks in its path and uprooting towering ancient trees, which shattered into burning splinters in the air.
A mushroom cloud laced with purple-black lightning rose from the ground, staining the sky within a hundred-meter radius an infernal crimson. Countless tiny masses of energy fell like meteors, blasting a honeycomb of deep craters into the ground.
Nearby ninja stopped what they were doing and stared blankly at the spreading magma.
"Is this the power of a Tailed Beast Bomb? Uchiha Yan was facing six of them!"
"Is... is this something a human can do?"
"..."
When the smoke cleared, everyone saw the Susanoo slowly dissipating. Uchiha Haruna knelt on the ground, coughing up blood, his eyes densely threaded with blood vessels.
The others were not faring much better. Rasa hid inside the pyramid he had made. Although it had protected him from the blast, it had also left him without enough chakra to stand.
As for the Fourth Raikage and Ōnoki, one was fast and the other could fly into the sky. Though neither had been at the center of the explosion, both had been caught in it and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Water Release: Water Formation Pillar! Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
"Water Release: Thousand Feeding Sharks!"
A water dragon carried Rasa into the air, and then small sharks formed from chakra slammed straight into him.
So this is how I die?
Rasa had known he would die in this war, so he had arranged everything in the village well in advance. Gaara was now roughly as strong as he was and could