"Take this, Sarutobi."
Uchiha Gen'yō's voice was utterly flat, yet it struck every Konoha ninja's heart like the death god's tolling bell.
The towering purple Susanoo behind him suddenly swung its mountain-sized arm with an agility utterly at odds with its enormous size.
Hum.
The gigantic Fūma Shuriken, formed from pure Susanoo chakra and over a hundred meters in diameter, was hurled out with a terrifying shriek that seemed to tear through space.
It spun at high speed, slicing black fissures even through the air wherever it passed.
Its terrifying pressure left everyone feeling suffocated.
"No, get out of the way!"
"We can't stop it! There's no stopping that thing!"
The Konoha ninja fleeing for their lives screamed in even greater despair as they sensed the deathly presence behind them, powerful enough to destroy everything.
They desperately used the Body Flicker Technique or rolled clumsily across the ground, trying to escape the deadly shuriken's range.
"Not a chance!"
One final trace of madness and resolve flashed in Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes.
He knew he had lost, utterly and completely.
But he could not stand by and watch the elite Konoha forces he had brought be slaughtered to the last.
"Enma, stop it!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi roared, and the Adamantine Staff beneath his feet instantly transformed back into Enma.
"Roar!"
Enma roared, his indestructible body swelling rapidly into an enormous living shield that planted itself squarely in the shuriken's path.
At the same time, Hiruzen Sarutobi formed hand seals again.
"Earth Release: Multiple Earth-Style Wall!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Dozens of immensely thick earthen walls rose from the ground, layer upon layer, forming a final defensive line behind Enma.
He would use his own life to buy his subordinates time to escape.
"What a deeply touching bond between master and servant."
As Uchiha Gen'yō watched, a cruel smile appeared on his face.
"Unfortunately, against absolute power, any struggle is futile."
"Did you think throwing this shuriken was merely a physical attack?"
In Gen'yō's left eye, the Mangekyo shaped like a windmill shuriken began spinning furiously.
An unfathomable spatial power instantly locked onto the gigantic shuriken speeding through the air.
"Kamui!"
A low shout rang out.
An abrupt change occurred.
The gigantic shuriken that should have struck Enma and the Earth Style Walls vanished into thin air without warning, a second before making contact.
"What?!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi's pupils suddenly widened to their limit.
It vanished? How could it vanish?
Yet before the questions in his heart could even arise.
The next second.
An enormous spatial vortex appeared out of thin air directly above the densest, most chaotic crowd of fleeing Konoha ninja.
Immediately afterward, the vanished gigantic Fūma Shuriken burst from the vortex with even more terrifying force.
Uchiha Gen'yō had used Kamui to teleport it directly above the enemy's heads.
"Kamui Shuriken!"
That was the technique's true name.
That was the true, world-destroying way to use Dual Kamui in combination.
"No!"
Desperate screams rang through the skies.
The Konoha ninja looked up in terror, their entire field of vision shrouded in the shadow of death, as though the sky itself were falling.
There was nowhere to dodge, nowhere to flee.
Rumble.
The enormous shuriken crashed into the ground.
At that instant, it was as though the entire world had been muted.
There was no violent explosion, only the teeth-grating hiss of space being continuously sliced, warped, and annihilated.
An enormous, ever-expanding storm of purple energy instantly formed around the shuriken's point of impact.
Countless spatial fissures filled the storm.
Anything caught within it, whether ninja, rocks, or earth, was instantly sliced into the tiniest particles, then utterly swallowed and annihilated by the warped space.
It was a silent spatial destruction, yet a hundred times more terrifying than any explosion.
The entire process lasted well over ten seconds.
When the purple energy storm slowly dispersed, the rocky wasteland that had stood there had been wiped clean off the map.
In its place was a terrifying, bottomless crater over five hundred meters in diameter, its edges as smooth as a mirror.
Inside the crater, there was nothing.
The hundreds of elite Konoha ninja who had been desperately struggling and fleeing there moments before had not left behind so much as a hair or a drop of blood.
They, along with the land beneath their feet, had been forcibly erased from this world.
Dead silence.
A deathly stillness.
Whether the surviving Uchiha clan members, Shisui, Fugaku, and Ōnoki in the distance, or even the incomparably arrogant Masked Man, Obito.
Everyone who witnessed the scene was completely petrified.
Their minds were blank, filled with nothing but that enormous crater that resembled divine punishment.
"Is... is this Lord Gen'yō's power?"
A young Uchiha's legs gave way, and he dropped straight to his knees.
There was no fear in his eyes, only endless fervor and worship from the depths of his soul.
Gulp.
Ōnoki swallowed with difficulty, feeling as though his heart was about to stop.
He suddenly felt that choosing to submit had been the most correct, wisest decision of his life.
Meanwhile, in the distance, Hiruzen Sarutobi lay collapsed on the ground, having escaped the catastrophe only to be left covered in blood by its aftershocks.
He stared blankly at the enormous crater, then looked behind him at the fewer than a hundred surviving remnants of his defeated force, every one wounded and staring vacantly.
He laughed.
His laughter looked more wretched than tears.
"Ha ha, hahahaha..."
"It's all over. Konoha's elite forces are all gone."
At that moment, the mind of the old man hailed as the "Shinobi Hero" was utterly destroyed.
The light in his eyes was gone.
High in the sky, Obito, who had been flippant all along, also stared fixedly at Uchiha Gen'yō, his lone eye beneath his mask filled with unprecedented shock and wariness.
Adding Kamui to Susanoo's attacks?
Using it like this...
Who is he? Why does he understand Kamui so deeply?
For the first time, Obito's faith in his own plan, in Madara Uchiha's plan, wavered.
Because he had seen an absolute variable capable of crushing every plan.
Uchiha Gen'yō slowly dismissed his Susanoo.
From above, he looked down over the devastated battlefield and at Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had been reduced to a broken man.
Then his gaze turned toward the surviving Konoha ninja, who were like birds startled by the twang of a bow.
His icy voice rang out once more.
"Go back."
"Tell everyone still alive in Konoha."
"Tell the Land of Fire's daimyo."
"Tell the entire Shinobi World."
"We Uchiha are back."
"This war was only the beginning."
"Next time, this shuriken of mine won't miss."
"Its target will be Konoha's Hokage Rock."