After a brief flight, Allen finally came to a halt roughly one thousand meters above the center of Iwagakure. In his hand, he held a nuclear warhead wrapped in his Nen ability—Fun Fun Cloth.
Of course, this warhead had been replicated in advance using his abilities.
From the very beginning, he never intended to grind it out in a battle of attrition against thousands of Iwa shinobi. Instead, he planned to simply "nuke" the place into submission. He would use the most terrifying destructive force imaginable to declare to the rest of the world exactly what kind of price one would pay for offending him.
"Hey! Brat! What exactly do you intend to do to our village?"
Tsuchikage Onoki finally caught up, squinting his eyes as he stared at the small bundle. He had a powerful premonition that whatever was inside was dangerous to the extreme.
"What am I doing? Destroying it, of course. You did follow my advice and evacuate the civilians and merchants in advance, didn't you?" As Allen asked, he used a remote control to activate the nuclear warhead's countdown.
Accompanied by a piercing beep-beep-beep-beep, Onoki, no matter how foolish, realized something was terribly wrong. He immediately spread his hands and roared, "Dust Release: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu!"
Instantly!
A white barrier expanded from his hands, surrounding the opponent from all sides.
But in the next second...
Allen directly threw out several arrowheads marked with Flying Raijin Technique formulas and teleported out of the barrier instantly.
As someone who understood the lethality of Dust Release all too well, he wasn't stupid enough to wait for his opponent to complete such a fearsome jutsu. Nor did he wish to test if his own flesh and blood could withstand a terrifying power capable of decomposing all matter into subatomic particles.
"Flying Raijin?!"
Seeing this, Onoki's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. The thing he hated most in this life was high-speed shinobi. Both the Second and Fourth Hokage had left indelible, profound impressions on the old man.
Beep-beep-beep-beep!
The warhead's countdown continued. Ten seconds passed in a heartbeat; in twenty more, this lethal weapon of human creation would detonate, bringing forth light and heat surpassing the sun, a devastating shockwave, and various forms of lethal radiation.
"Sorry, your Dust Release won't work on me. Besides, I'm in no hurry to kill you just yet. I want you to witness the arrival of Truth with your own eyes. It's a bit cruel for an old man with one foot in the grave, but you're the one who provoked me first."
As the last word left his lips, Allen finally unwrapped the Fun Fun Cloth, dropping the massive, rounded, high-yield nuclear warhead.
The object, which had been the size of a peanut, restored to its original volume before it had even fallen ten meters.
"Not good! Dust Release—"
Just as Onoki opened a barrier, intending to destroy the object that made his skin crawl, Allen immediately used Flying Raijin to teleport the Tsuchikage higher and further away.
With his sense of distance disrupted, the Dust Release beam predictably missed its mark.
By the time the Third Tsuchikage regained his bearings and tried to rush back to intercept, a white light a thousand times brighter than the sun finally birthed roughly five hundred meters above Iwagakure.
BOOOOOOM!!!!!!
As a world-shaking roar echoed in his ears, a colossal fireball and a mushroom cloud surged into the sky.
The resulting shockwave, in a matter of seconds, leveled the village that generations of Iwa shinobi had painstakingly built! Every building, be it a residence, warehouse, or shop, was flattened. Even the underground shelters mostly collapsed.
The sheer scale of this destructive power left even the long-lived Onoki speechless with shock. In his eyes, not even the "God of Shinobi," Hashirama Senju, or the "Ghost of the Uchiha," Madara Uchiha, could have achieved such a feat.
This had surpassed the limits of mortality; it was a power that belonged only to the gods.
As for the Iwa shinobi, over ninety percent were vaporized instantly at the moment of detonation. The survivors were left wailing and struggling in agony. No words could describe the tragedy of Iwagakure at this moment!
Trembling!
Onoki's limbs and body shook uncontrollably. Tears streamed down his face as he let out a soul-wrenching cry: "AAAAAAAGH!!!! NO!!!! This isn't real! This must be a Genjutsu!"
Without a doubt, the cruel reality had shattered the old man who had spent his life striving for his village's strength. Iwagakure was the entire meaning of his existence! And now, it was all destroyed because of one wrong decision!
"How pathetic. Should we consume him?" Vaelastrasz asked softly.
"Of course! Dust Release is one of the few abilities I've wanted most."
With that, Allen flickered behind Onoki and pierced his heart from behind. Throughout the entire process, the Third Tsuchikage neither resisted nor reacted.
As the saying goes, "there is no grief greater than the death of the heart." For an old man whose heart was already dead, there was nothing left in this world worth holding onto.
A moment later, Vaelastrasz burned him into a cocoon and swallowed him. Leveraging the power of his bloodline and the red dragon's recently evolved memory-peering ability, Allen quickly made Dust Release his own.
Just as he was preparing to turn and leave, a surviving Iwa shinobi wearing a woven hat and red armor lunged out, roaring with uncontrollable rage: "Die! You demon!"
Driven by some unknown force, a massive amount of white steam hissed from his armor, drastically augmenting his speed and power.
"Hm? Ah... the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, Han. I almost forgot about you." Allen's pupils instantly shifted into the shape of the Mangekyo Sharingan.
In a mere instant!
The Five-Tails, Kokuō, was completely suppressed!
The Jinchuriki didn't even have time to react before his body lost all autonomy. As the Tailed Beast's chakra went haywire, he couldn't even maintain his sanity, let alone continue his attack on the enemy before him.
It must be said, the Mangekyo Sharingan was an absolute god-tier tool for dealing with Tailed Beasts.
Looking at the Jinchuriki struggling in agony, Allen swung his fist with a loud thud, knocking him unconscious. He slung the man over his shoulder, intending to bring him back for Orochimaru to extract the beast and seal it within his own body.
Compared to the measly medium obtained from consuming ordinary shinobi, a Tailed Beast was undoubtedly a far superior target.
Currently, Vaelastrasz was conducting focused research. Once the results were in, Allen would hunt down the nine Tailed Beasts ahead of the Akatsuki, seizing over ninety percent of their medium.
As for the rest, he would resurrect the Ten-Tails, draw the "aliens" back to the world, and then kill and consume them.
Of course, before that, he needed to forge an artifact capable of breaking through Kaguya's nearly indestructible body...