Laser weapons possess incomparable advantages, making them directed-energy weapons that destroy targets through focused emission.
Highly concentrated laser beams have extremely dense energy.
For example, a laser beam can pierce a three-centimeter-thick steel plate, yet its total heat still would not be enough to cook an egg.
They have many advantages. First, they can travel at the speed of light—three hundred thousand kilometers per second. In the Shinobi World, no weapon or Ninjutsu has such a high speed. Even with Chiri's Flying Thunder God, during the instant she transfers, once Mimi has aimed at and locked onto her, there is no need to calculate leading or predict her landing point. Chiri will be hit almost instantly.
But that did not mean they had no weaknesses.
After being fired, a laser beam's energy would gradually weaken. The atmosphere absorbed energy, while atmospheric disturbances caused attenuation, as did thermal blooming, turbulence, beam jitter, and other factors.
This limited the range of laser beams.
Their greatest weakness was that the divergence angle of a laser beam increased with distance. The energy density striking the target would decrease, weakening its destructive power and limiting its effective range.
Killing Hashirama with a single laser in less than a second from more than three hundred thousand kilometers away was unrealistic.
Although increasing the power could solve the problem to a certain extent in a simple, brute-force manner.
But increasing the power required a process of storing potential energy. The higher the energy of the laser beam, the longer the interval between shots.
There was not no solution. Firing in rotation to create a continuous barrage was a cheap and effective approach.
But there was one weakness that could never be circumvented.
Environmental conditions limited them. Extreme weather, dense fog, heavy snow, and torrential rain could all