This Time, I'll Kill You Thoroughly

By the time the villagers in the inner city had nearly all evacuated,

Konoha swiftly responded as well, organizing a fierce counterattack.

Countless huge nets and all manner of ninja tools were hurled into the sky in an unending rain.

Even so, due to their limited range, only a small number of low-flying sky ninjas were unfortunate enough to be shot down.

Clearly, Konoha's firepower was relatively weak. After all, not every ninja possessed the ability to strike targets at such a great height.

Just as the main force of sky ninjas successfully flew into Konoha, they finally revealed their hideous true faces!

Kazuma, Fūfū, Fuen, and Fudō, positioned near the eastern and southern gates, each fired conspicuous signal flares into the sky.

Immediately afterward, the four agilely leaped up and landed steadily atop the sky ninja aircraft that had come to receive them.

The aircraft then shot like arrows toward the densely populated areas of the outer city.

Kazuma's feelings were exceptionally complicated.

He kept looking around, anxiously searching for the Fourth Hokage Namikaze Minato.

Yet even now, he had failed to spot Namikaze Minato.

Although the operation had gone quite smoothly thus far, for some reason, Kazuma's heart remained filled with intense tension and unease.

But there was no turning back now. Kazuma knew he had no choice but to press on with the original plan.

As they soared through the air, each of them swiftly brought their hands together and began forming intricate, mysterious Hand Seals.

When they reached the crowded areas, they leaped down without hesitation.

With low shouts from their mouths:

"Earth Release: Creation of a Dead Soil!"

Deafening explosions rang out one after another—BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

In an instant, purple-black soil gushed from underground like a surging tide.

Severed limbs and broken corpses, mixed