In this place, both Water Release and Ice Release were half as effective for twice the effort. After taking out more than a dozen Sunagakure shinobi with senbon needles, Haku retreated as well.
He did not particularly enjoy fighting. Besides, there were plenty of people this time; it was not as though they absolutely needed him.
Kimimaro wielded a pair of Bone Swords, always managing in this chaotic melee to precisely drive them into Sunagakure shinobi's hearts or slice across their throats.
After the last battle, Gaara's control over sand had become even more refined.
Amid the chaos of the battlefield, Gaara simultaneously controlled five streams of fine sand, sending them straight at the Sunagakure shinobi's faces.
With the slightest lapse in attention, they would burrow directly through their nostrils or mouths.
Then—
Pfft!
The sand exploded directly inside the Sunagakure shinobi's heads or mouths.
The Sunagakure shinobi instantly collapsed to the ground, bleeding from all seven orifices, their deaths exceptionally gruesome.
"It's Gaara!"
"It's Gaara! Ahhh!!!"
Gaara had constantly been taking missions targeting Sunagakure over the years.
Combined with the gruesome deaths of almost everyone who encountered him, he was especially notorious.
Though it was infamy.
In the past, they had not dared open their mouths when fighting Gaara. They had never expected his control over sand to become so precise that it could enter through their noses and eyes.
Seeing the yellow sand swirling around Gaara sweep toward them, the Sunagakure shinobi fled in terror, their morale utterly shattered.
It was clearly five hundred against two thousand, yet a thousand Sunagakure shinobi had already been killed, and they had failed to organize any effective resistance.
At this point, however, the two sides had finally separated completely.
The remaining Iwagakure shinobi all stared toward Konoha in horror, and some