In those days, the Kage of the three great shinobi villages had no idea that the calamity that had befallen Konoha was merely a prelude to a true catastrophe. They believed the disaster had passed them by, striking only at Konohagakure. Uchiha Yue, despite possessing seemingly invincible power, had now become like a stone statue, frozen in immobility. Mad, exhausted—or so they believed.
What threat could he pose to them?
At worst, the world would gain a second God of Shinobi. But the Uchiha clan would not fall by their hand. Yue's thirst for vengeance, if it drove him, would be directed at Konoha. Which meant it was none of their business.
But even in their wildest dreams, they couldn't imagine the truth: Uchiha Yue's very existence had become the world's greatest disaster, and the countdown to his demise had already begun.
They saw the mysterious sphere around him expanding, but they paid it no mind. Let it expand. Could this zone of dead silence really engulf the entire world? Absurd. Uchiha Yue was only a man, not a god. A mortal, no matter how powerful, could not wield the power to destroy a planet.
The idea of destroying the world single-handedly seemed delusional, the preserve of the mythical Sage of the Six Paths. The end of the world at the hands of a single shinobi? An empty fantasy. Shinobi, like no one else, knew the limits of power, for they possessed it themselves.
And while the great villages hatched plans to seize the weakened Konoha, dreaming of dividing its legacy and contracts, stunning news leaked from the underground information exchange.
The shinobi world was on the brink of destruction. The end of time was coming.
The news resembled the ravings of a madman. An absurdity that beggars belief. Who in their right mind would take this seriously?
Nagato understood: without solid evidence, no one would believe such heresy. Anyone would dismiss it as fiction, laugh it off, and forget it. Only a fool would believe it.
He himself, the wielder of the legendary Rinnegan, who proclaimed himself the god of a new world, would not have believed it. If he hadn't come face to face with Yue. If not for the reports from Black Zetsu. And if not for that sphere of dead silence that continued to inexorably spread, devouring everything around him.
He, a wielder of the Rinnegan, never even dreamed of destroying the world without the ultimate weapon. What more can we say about shinobi, even with two Mangekyo Sharingan? Such statements would have only elicited bitter laughter from him.
But, unfortunately for everyone, Uchiha Yue really could. Once its power reached its peak, all life would turn to dust.
Before the skeptics could laugh, Nagato and his men presented proof.
This wasn't just rumor, but cold, exhaustive data on Uchiha Yue's sphere of influence: the rate of energy absorption, the exponential increase in gravity as it approached the epicenter, and its terrifying ability to drain any form of energy, including chakra.
Particular emphasis was placed on its potential for growth. The report stated bluntly: if the process is not stopped, by the time the sphere covers forty percent of the planet, the global climate will change irreversibly. The atmosphere will become uninhabitable, leading to mass extinction.
Even a third of the shinobi world, consumed by this anomaly, would be a prelude to hell for all life: freezing oceans, ecosystem collapse, climatic chaos, and unpredictable geological activity.
But the most terrifying thing was something else. Yue wasn't a blind force of nature. He was human. He could move. When his power reached its peak, he'd only need to circle the planet a few times to cause a true apocalypse.
Even if he stopped developing, he was already a localized cataclysm. Investigation revealed that within the dead zone, life was dying out. Be it microorganisms, animals, or plants, everything was drained of its vitality. A jonin-level shinobi who ventured too deep was doomed. He wouldn't even have to face Yue himself—he would simply wither, exhausted of all his energy.
If Uchiha Yue were to one day move, he would become a mobile, implacable threat to the shinobi world. Wherever he passed, only dead land would remain in his wake. His current range already allowed him to cover an entire great village and wipe out all life within.
In Nagato Uchiha's report, Yue was portrayed not as a man, but as a walking cataclysm. A monster from ancient myth, whose mere existence was a sin against life itself. Every day of his existence brought the world's destruction closer.
Some might object: wasn't the First Hokage, known as the God of Shinobi, capable of single-handedly crushing an entire village? But could they be considered on the same level?
Their essences were fundamentally different.
Hashirama Senju was a man with whom one could reason. He strove for peace and created the village system. His power, though colossal, was directed toward creation, not total destruction. His might did not burn life to the ground, but rather, by its very nature...