The instant that eye opened, it was as though someone had hit the mute button on the whole world.
It wasn't that there was no sound. Every noise had been smothered-the explosions, the screams, the battle cries, all of it was fucking muffled like chickens being strangled, too indistinct to hear clearly.
Shuo stood on a stretch of rubble and craned his head upward until his neck nearly ached.
Up in the clouds, that Rinnegan swept its gaze down from above, looking at them no differently than it would a swarm of ants.
"Fuck."
He cursed under his breath and instantly pushed Lightspeed Thinking to its limit.
This thing's chakra was as dense as ink that wouldn't dissolve. There was no way to calculate it.
The Pain bodies and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path he'd encountered before were child's play compared to this thing. They weren't worth shit.
If this thing really came down...
He didn't dare imagine the consequences, and he had no time to.
The next second, the clouds exploded with a boom, and a pitch-black claw reached out. It was covered in scales, its nails longer than an adult human, and it brought a rank smell as it slammed straight down.
With a thunderous crash, the Hokage Building was simply gone. Not even scraps remained, only a huge crater where it had stood.
Tsunade's voice rose from the rubble in a desperate scream: "Everyone, spread out! Don't bunch up!"
Shuo silently scoffed. No shit.
Who the fuck wants to bunch up and die? You'd have to be out of your mind.
He didn't dare linger. Light flashed beneath his feet, and he shot thirty meters away as though he'd teleported.
He had barely landed when a second claw slammed down where he'd just been standing.