The Frenzied Masses!

Eighty kilometers from the Tenshukaku.

Before a defensive line formed by bastion fortresses cast from reinforced concrete.

Boom! Boom!

Explosions thundered into the sky from time to time, while countless ninja tools flew through the air and ninjas fell every so often.

This was the Central Route battlefield.

The Allied Forces had already pushed up to this final line of defense.

Once they broke through it, there would be no more complete defensive lines ahead.

But breaking through would not be easy!

Knowing they would eventually face a siege, the Tenshukaku had begun preparing for this war long ago, constructing its defenses without regard for cost.

Although this kind of project was not well suited for the Terracotta Army, the Tenshukaku had no problem handling it with its manpower and resources.

As for the enormous expense?

Please, that was entirely a good thing.

Through these projects, wealth was directly redistributed once.

The Tenshukaku had so much wealth it was practically overflowing anyway. Distributing some of it among the people through these projects was not a bad idea.

Even if dozens of heavy bastions were hit by the Great Fireball Technique or Exploding Tags, they would only have a single layer blasted open, unable to sustain much real damage.

That was reinforced concrete fortification for you.

The defensive line consisted of one bastion after another, connected by trenches and tunnels, ensuring that supplies and manpower could be freely moved around.

There were also firing ports equipped with Kunai Guns.

With a pull of the trigger, they could fire kunai hundreds of meters away, with extremely formidable killing power.

There were even several pieces of artillery atop the main fortress at the very center of the defensive line, which stood dozens of meters high. At crucial moments, they could bombard the enemy