"Sir, outside... outside!"
An Allied Forces scout rushed into the Command Department of the bastion, interrupting the Five Kage as they discussed the next stage of the battle.
No one reprimanded him.
Ninjas were not in a profession that cared about etiquette. They valued efficiency and ability more, and the fact that he had barged in only proved how serious the situation was. Naturally, no one cared about such trivialities.
Whoosh, whoosh!
The Five Kage did not waste any words. Bringing their secretaries with them, they used the Body Flicker Technique to arrive outside the bastion.
Listening to a report would take dozens of seconds, while coming out directly took less than ten. The choice was obvious.
Besides, how could listening to a report compare to seeing it with their own eyes?
By now, the bastion walls were packed with ninjas. At the same time, ninja squads could be seen returning from all directions.
They had all gone to pursue White Zetsu and Akatsuki.
But now, it was no longer them pursuing Akatsuki. Akatsuki was pursuing them instead.
Mud-doll-like corpses gathered from every direction, so numerous that only the words "covering the sky and earth" could describe them. They were like a tidal wave.
"Xinye!"
"Jialuoluo!"
Names spilled from the mouths of the ninjas on the walls.
Because among those mud dolls were quite a few of their "comrades."
"What exactly is going on?"
Jiraiya muttered to himself.
He did not think these were real corpses. The Allied Forces recovered the bodies of their ninjas, and no corpses could possibly have been left outside. So they could not be genuine corpses.
"Could it be related to Impure World Reincarnation?"
Shikamaru quietly suggested.
A scene of dead people returning to life really did invite that sort of association.
"Impossible. Even