Twelve Earthly Branches Seals

The first city had been taken.

Four hours later, the battle entered its final phase, with only scattered resistance remaining inside the city.

Mimi had fired only one shot to blast open the city gates, and made no further move.

Without that shot, opening the gates would have taken several days, and Mimi had no time to wait.

The main force in the battle consisted of the Ninja Magistrates. Whenever they encountered ninjas, the ninjas dealt with them, eliminating them at designated points.

Only a handful of such ninjas appeared during the battle. Most were people intercepted by the Konoha Ninja after trying to escape, and they had knelt down and surrendered at the first opportunity.

There were thirty-four of them in total.

Those who resisted to the death were Missing-nin with especially dirty records.

Such people were very clearheaded. They knew that even if they were captured by another ninja village, death would be their only path.

Even if they did not understand that, Mimi would not let them off.

Before defecting from the village, they could still claim that they had acted on the village's orders and had not wanted to kill anyone.

After defecting, all their actions had been driven by their own will. In other words, they had to bear the burden of their crimes.

There were no surprises in the ninjas' battle. Although Mimi had brought only a small number of ninjas, they were all elites—the sort who would gang up on an enemy rather than fight one-on-one whenever possible.

The samurai side, however, was worth noting.

With the Ninja Samurai serving as the vanguard, their battle against the traditional samurai was a one-sided slaughter.

Their physical abilities were on entirely different levels. Combined with their external armor, the enemy's attacks could not break through