" Magnet Release: The Great Burial of Golden Sands!"
The Fourth Kazekage Rasa, roared through the night sky. His eyes were bloodshot, and his hands trembled violently from the excessive output of Chakra. Under his control, the originally overwhelming golden sandstorm coalesced into a torrent powerful enough to destroy any defense, carrying the weight of millions of tons, and crashed straight down towards the city center of the Uchiha Sacred Land.
"Run! The barrier is about to break!"
"Help! Is this the end of the world?"
The Uchiha clansmen on the street screamed in terror. In the eyes of mortals, that golden sky was the scythe of death. Once it fell, this city, built with countless efforts, would instantly become a golden tomb.
Standing on the roof of the Amaterasu Academy, Uchiha Gen'yō looked at the golden sand less than a hundred meters above the ground, his eyes still as calm as a stagnant pool. He could even see the texture of each grain of the golden sand.
"Boss! Should I do it?"
Obito's voice came from the spatial Uzumaki beside him, his tone tinged with impatience. Although he could also activate Kamui Intangibility, his Kamui absorption speed was clearly not keeping up with the speed of the falling golden sand in the face of the attack that covered the entire city.
"No need, you take care of the children at the school."
Gen'yō replied calmly. He slowly raised his right eye, and deep within that evolving pupil, the golden runes no longer rotated slowly, but instead frantically transformed into a star ring resembling a galaxy.
" Kamui - Great Realm!"
There was no loud noise, no dazzling light.
Just Setsuna the golden sands were about to touch the city's rooftops, the entire sky seemed to transform into a transparent mirror, behind which lay endless darkness. The torrent of golden sands, powerful enough to crush mountains, was swallowed whole the instant it touched this "mirror," as if by the gaping maw of an unseen beast.
Tens of millions of tons of Gold Dust simply vanished into thin air!
The sacred land, which had been darkened by the sandstorm, was instantly restored to its former clarity. Moonlight shone on the bluestone path, and everything was quiet, as if the scene of the world's destruction had just occurred to be an illusion.
"This... how is this possible?!"
Rasa, high in the sky, nearly popped his eyes out. He froze on the flying carpet, his hands still pressed down. He could clearly feel that the Chakra connection between himself and the Gold Dust had been severed by an extremely domineering and tyrannical force.
That wasn't ordinary spatial absorption.
Instead, the entire sky was stripped away!
"Where is my Gold Dust? Where is the Gold Dust I painstakingly accumulated over the years?!" Rasa demanded hysterically. That Gold Dust was the foundation of the Land of Wind, the lifeblood he had dug and refined day and night in the desert. Now, not even a single hair was left.
" Rasa, you country bumpkin from some remote, impoverished area, you'll never understand what a difference in status means."
Uchiha Gen'yō's voice traveled from the ground to the sky. The voice wasn't loud, but it exploded like thunder in Rasa's ears. Gen'yō lightly touched the ground with his toes, and seemingly defying gravity, he strolled leisurely upward through the void.
With each step he took, a ripple appeared in the space beneath his feet.
"You want to destroy my city?" Gen'yō stopped a hundred meters away from Rasa, his gaze cold. "Do you know that every brick and every tree that built this city is more valuable to me than your life?"
"Damn it! Don't underestimate me! Scorch Release - Over-Steam Kill!"
Standing beside Rasa, Pakura finally couldn't hold back any longer and made her move. She knew that if Gen'yō wasn't dealt with, none of the fifty people from Sunagakure would escape today. She clasped her hands together, and several fireballs emitting a ghastly green light roared out. These fireballs could instantly evaporate all the moisture from a person's body.
A fireball streaked across the night sky, blocking all of Gen'yō's escape routes.
"Children's toys."
Gen'yō didn't even raise a hand; his left eye twitched slightly. As the fireballs approached within three meters of him, space twisted strangely. The fireballs that were originally aimed at Gen'yō turned around and shot towards the distant Sunagakure puppet troops at an even faster speed!
"Not good! Defend!"
Chiyo Chiyo's expression changed drastically, and she manipulated the puppet to instantly deploy Machine Light Shield Seal.
Boom boom boom!
Kakkō exploded among the Sunagakure crowd, and screams instantly filled the air.
Pakura was stunned. Her prized Kekkei Genkai seemed to be less than a decoration in the other person's eyes.
" Rasa, it's only fair to reciprocate."
Gen'yō looked at Rasa, who was already having second thoughts, and a cruel smile curled at the corner of his lips. "Since you've given me so much gold, I'll give you something good in return. System, convert the recovered energy."
[Ding! Massive amounts of Gold Dust detected; recovered and converted into 'Space Blast' energy!]
In Gen'yō's right eye, a golden rune suddenly shone brightly.
" Kamui - Sky Tremor!"
Click!
The golden sand carpet beneath Rasa's feet, along with the space around him, resembled a shattered pane of glass. The intense spatial shockwaves directly impacted Rasa's internal organs.
"Puff!"
Rasa spat out a mouthful of blood, and like a kite with a broken string, he plummeted straight down from the sky.
" Lord Kazekage!"
Pakura and Chiyo gasped in surprise.
But this is just the beginning.
Gen'yō looked down, his tone so calm it was chilling.
" Obito, Shisui, and pin down all those sand-playing bastards. Don't let a single one escape; I happen to need some stones to build the city wall."
He looked at Rasa, who had fallen to the ground, and the evolution progress bar in his right eye jumped another level.
" Rasa, you're not dead yet, are you? Stop pretending and release your Tailed Beast. If it's only this bad, I don't even have the desire to sell you."
Rasa scrambled out of the pit, his face covered in blood and his golden hair dusted over. He looked at the Uchiha ninjas who had surrounded him, a flash of crazed hatred in his eyes.
" Uchiha Gen'yō... you forced me to do this!"
Rasa's hand trembled as he pressed it against the huge gourd at his waist.
That was the last vestige of Sunagakure's dignity, and the source of his confidence to launch a sneak attack on the Uchiha Sacred Land.
A surge of Chakra, imbued with evil, violence, and the desolate aura of the desert, gathered wildly at the mouth of the enormous gourd.
The clouds that had dispersed in the sky gathered again.
A piercing, eerie laugh shattered the tranquility of the sacred ground.
"Hahaha! I've finally come out! I'll kill you all! I'll kill you all!"
The eerie laughter carried Chakra pressure that sent chills down the spines of ordinary ninjas, and a huge, earthen-yellow claw covered in dark purple patterns suddenly emerged from the sandpit.
Obito stood a short distance away, his pupils shrinking. "That's Shukaku, the One-Tail Shukaku?"
Shisui gripped his short sword tightly. "It seems this time things are serious."
Gen'yō, standing in the air, merely looked down indifferently at the colossal creature that had broken through the earth, and uttered a sentence that made everyone in Sunagakure question their existence.
"It's just a raccoon dog. I happen to need a pet to guard the house."
Before Rasa could even sneer, he noticed that behind the golden runes in Gen'yō's eyes, a more terrifying dark purple light was shining.
That is the Eye of God, powerful enough to suppress all Tailed Beast!