Hisss! Hisss! Hisss!
Countless snakes hissed across the battlefield.
A tidal wave of snakes burst from beneath the Bastion District.
Ninja were not some delicate profession, so naturally, they would not be afraid of snakes.
The problem was that there were as many of these snakes as in a full-blown snake disaster.
It was even more terrifying than a hundred Orochimarus casting Manda's Serpent Swarm at once. The multicolored serpents made everyone's scalp tingle.
The crucial point was that they had emerged in an extremely deadly location!
They had appeared directly from breaches beneath the bastions, throwing everyone into panic in an instant.
No matter how strong one was, there was no way to display their strength when powerful enemies stood outside while a tide of snakes surged within.
Ordinary people in particular suffered devastating casualties the moment they faced this situation.
Naturally, there had been no way to evacuate people in advance. That would have been no different from informing the enemy that they had planted a high-ranking spy in the other camp.
That was why this scene had to happen.
Of course, the plan had been devised by Uchiha Mei. Tang Ping had originally intended to have people withdraw beforehand, but she had persuaded him otherwise.
Sacrifice was simply standard practice in the Shinobi World. If one worried too much about it, they might as well do nothing at all.
However, Tang Ping's anger was genuine.
The losses were too great!
This single wave of snakes had already inflicted grievous losses on the defending forces. At least several hundred ninja and over a thousand civilians had died.
So he roared in fury.
"Ryūchi Cave, you are courting death!!"
Then he leaped forward.
Whoosh!
A Flame Garment emerged around him as he lunged toward the giant purple serpent that