Onoki looked at the Third Raikage with strong displeasure.
He was indeed a little afraid of Madara, but as the Tsuchikage, retreat was not an option.
"Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation."
On the battlefield, Edo Madara, after showing off some taijutsu, started using ninjutsu.
He opened his mouth, releasing a torrent of fire like a fierce storm.
Facing this tsunami-like fire style, the Allied Shinobi Forces quickly sent out almost all the water-style users to barely hold it back.
Just as the Shinobi Alliance prepared to counterattack, Uchiha Madara unleashed his ultimate Mangekyō Sharingan technique — Susanoo.
Confronted by the towering Susanoo dozens of meters high, the Allied ninja looked like helpless chicks, as Madara slashed through them one by one.
Gaara and Naruto's shadow clones couldn't stand watching.
Gaara used his sand to pull Edo Madara out from inside the Susanoo.
Naruto, without hesitation, threw a Rasenshuriken at Edo Madara.
However, as soon as Madara revealed his Rinnegan, the Rasenshuriken naturally became useless.
"How is this possible? Why does he have the Rinnegan?"
At their current speed, it was almost impossible to escape the range of the falling meteor.
That's why one by one, the ninjas gave up resisting and chose to wait for death.
Against an attack of this scale, ordinary ninjas like them really had no way to fight back.
Just like in the original story, after struggling with his thoughts, Ōnoki flew up toward the meteor and used the Earth Style: Super Light-Weight Rock Technique.
This jutsu is an enhanced version of the Light-Weight Rock Technique. It can greatly reduce the weight of objects. When used on the human body, it can make the user lighter, increase speed, and allow free movement in the air.
Ōnoki had a good plan — first reduce the weight of the meteor to slow down its fall, buying the ninjas some time to escape.
But the meteor was just too huge, and with his age, his chakra wasn't as strong as it used to be. So the speed of the falling meteor only slowed down a little.
It wasn't completely useless, but it wasn't very effective either.
Below, seeing how hard the Tsuchikage was struggling, Gaara also began gathering chakra. He formed a massive sand pillar with his sand, trying to stop the meteor from falling.
With the joint effort of Gaara and the Tsuchikage, the meteor actually stopped in mid-air.
"That's great, we're not going to die!"
"Tsuchikage-sama is amazing, and Kazekage-sama is so cool!"
The ninjas below started cheering, and even Ōnoki couldn't help but smile.
But Tsunade's expression remained serious.
Ever since arriving on the front lines, she had been closely observing Edo Tensei Madara.
Now that the meteor had been stopped by the Tsuchikage and Kazekage, with Madara's personality, he should've at least shown some annoyance.
But instead of being annoyed, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly — as if he was smiling.
"Not good, everyone run!"
Tsunade sensed something was wrong and shouted for everyone to stop celebrating like idiots and hurry out of the meteor's impact zone.
The ninjas didn't understand why the Fifth Hokage was saying that, but they obeyed without question and immediately started running.
"Oh? So you've noticed?"
Edo Tensei Madara looked at Tsunade with some surprise.
For some reason, he felt a trace of Hashirama's presence from her.
"But… it's already a bit too late."
"What do you mean?"
Onoki heard what Madara said and asked anxiously, clearly confused.
Madara didn't hide it and replied, "You managed to stop one meteor. So, what will you do about the second one, Onoki?"
"What? There's a second one?"
Onoki's face turned pale with shock when he heard that.
Right at that moment, a second meteor broke through the clouds and came into everyone's view.
"Don't waste time, run!"
Tsunade gritted her teeth and shouted again for the Allied Shinobi to retreat, then gave Raikage A a firm, determined look.
A understood instantly and shouted to Gaara, "Kazekage, get me and the Hokage up there—fast!"
Gaara nodded and quickly used his sand to launch Raikage and the Hokage into the sky.
"Don't underestimate the Five Kage, bastard!"
Lightning flickered around Raikage A's hand as he gathered all his strength and punched toward the center of the first meteor.
Crack!
A clear sound rang out as a fracture appeared at the point of impact.
"Break for me, damn it!"
Raikage backed off, and Tsunade immediately followed up by striking the same spot with her full monster strength.
In Edo Tensei Madara's slightly surprised gaze, the first meteor was smashed cleanly into two halves.
"Not bad. Looks like you've got some skill. But still, I'll say it again—what will you do about the second one?"
The first meteor was split in two, but both Tsunade and the Raikage were visibly exhausted.
Just like Edo Madara said—what could they do about the second meteor?
"Kazekage, send the Mizukage up."
"Understood."
Gaara didn't hesitate and immediately sent Mei Terumi into the sky.
"Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique."
Mei didn't waste time. She aimed her Lava Release at the second meteor, hoping the highly corrosive acid would weaken it.
On the ground, Raikage A was panting and uncertain. "Hokage, will this even work?"
"Sigh… We do what we can. Leave the rest to fate."
"True. Who would've thought Uchiha Madara could summon meteors? Two at once, even."
"No need to be too pessimistic. As long as I'm here, I won't let any of you die."
While they spoke, the second meteor had already collided with the split remains of the first one.
It was about to crash down. Those still within the impact zone had no choice but to brace for it.
"Mr. Madara, don't we need to evacuate?"
Edo Tensei Madara glanced at Edo Mu and said softly, "The Edo Tensei technique was always meant to take the enemy down with us."
"So you're saying... we're going to be hit by that meteor too?"
"Yeah."
With his arms crossed, Edo Madara nodded and quietly waited for the meteor to fall.
"Boom!!!"
Finally, the meteor that made even seasoned ninjas despair crashed down.
In an instant, wind and sand roared, stones flew, and smoke filled the air.
Screams and explosions echoed endlessly.
You could even smell the faint scent of blood in the air.
Still, compared to the scene in the original story, this was definitely much better.
At the very least, the Five Kage had worked together to destroy the first meteor, weaken the second, and helped part of the Allied Shinobi Forces escape the impact zone.
It looked tragic, sure — but it hadn't reached the point of true devastation yet.
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