Land of Lightning.
High above the outskirts of Kumogakure, amid the clouds.
After a day of flying, Hyōri had finally arrived at Kumogakure.
Staring down at the village below, Hyōri had a vague feeling that Kumogakure was dangerous.
With his instincts warning him, Hyōri did not dare let down his guard.
After giving it some thought, a layer of frost immediately formed over the wings on his back.
It concealed his original Paper Release wings.
He formed a hand seal, and with a bang, a Shadow Clone appeared beside him.
After likewise covering its Paper Release wings in frost, it began descending toward Kumogakure.
When the Shadow Clone descended to an altitude of five thousand meters, piercing alarms began blaring from Kumogakure.
Though Hyōri could not hear them clearly from high in the sky, his Mind's Eye of the Kagura showed countless Kumogakure ninja running about below.
As he considered how they would try to stop him,
Platforms began rising from every corner of Kumogakure.
Each platform held a tuning-fork-like weapon connected to a thick pipe beneath it.
At that moment, massive amounts of Chakra began gathering on the tuning forks.
Yellow spheres of light appeared one after another, dazzling even in broad daylight.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless light spheres shot into the sky at once.
Their target was Hyōri's Shadow Clone flying through the air.
Wanting to test the speed and power of this artillery,
Hyōri's Shadow Clone kept flying through the sky, trying to evade them.
When the yellow light spheres reached midair, they suddenly exploded.
They scattered directly into countless smaller spheres of light.
When Hyōri collided with them, his body stalled.
These light spheres were not very powerful; it could even be said that they had virtually no lethality.
They merely had a brief