Change of Hands

"Mobilize the Insect Princess's swarm."

In the dim underground cavern, a figure spoke.

"Then let's begin."

"Ha."

The Six Paths figures with Rinnegan vanished together.

That afternoon, at dusk, the swarm arrived at the frontline battlefield in Rain Country. Coordinating with the swarm's assault, the Konoha Ninja launched a counterattack.

It was still the Crane Wing Formation. The Ninja Allied Forces assumed a defensive formation.

As for how to deal with the swarm, Mimi would say that the most basic strategy was Machine Gunners, Nurses, and tanks, with bunkers blocking the route and occupying the high ground.

First, one point had to be made clear: what was the swarm's greatest advantage?

Numbers. Numbers, and more numbers.

Then what was its weakness?

Still, numbers.

Their enormous numbers meant an enormous spread. Against attacks that swept across a wide area, they would be rather helpless.

For example, a nuclear bomb sweeping the ground.

However, that was conventional warfare. Ninjas did not conform to convention.

After fighting back and forth several times, they were enemies, after all. They should have learned at least a little from the experience.

The nervous Ninja Allied Forces stared at the distant dense forest ahead. In the damp, hot summer wind, flocks of birds rose from the woods and circled overhead. Watching this scene, everyone swallowed nervously again and again as beads of sweat slid down their foreheads.

Until the enormous swarm appeared in their sight.

It began as a single black speck. As the distance closed, it quickly became a vast red tide. The surging swarm beat its wings, the dense buzzing piercing their eardrums like noise.

The swarm flew toward them, rapidly drawing closer.

"We can't win." A soldier in tattered clothing murmured, his eyes wide as he slowly backed away as if suffocating.

The clothes