Mimi watched the battlefield. Just as the Puppet Machine God was about to begin moving as a whole, the Ninja Magistrate's vanguard main force arrived and began deploying.
Forty kilometers from the Demon Country Capital, the first position was an artillery formation composed of Heavy Goliaths and Light Goliaths in heavy armor.
Once deployment was complete, the Goliaths raised their massive abdomens one after another. As their muscles writhed, the muzzles expanded. Lightning flashed across the abdomens of the Heavy Goliaths, accompanied by the venting sounds of the Light Goliaths. The first artillery barrage was loaded and ready.
In the air, the reconnaissance swarm provided visual calibration for the artillery trajectories and locked onto the targets.
"Attack!"
Cobalt-blue lightning meteor swarms shot backward into the sky. Under the gradually darkening heavens, they carved streaks of ghostly blue light across the sky, glittering and twinkling like countless little stars.
Once the blazing, violent plasma balls reached their highest point, they plunged downward in a parabolic dive.
One after another, they crashed into the city.
"I have to admit, a large-scale artillery bombardment is far more powerful than a ninja's frontal Ninjutsu." Chiyo gazed at the stars flashing in the night and said, "But it's useless against us."
The plasma balls broke through the Black Sand with unstoppable force and slammed into the ground as they melted through it. Plasma fluid burst apart and splashed everywhere, leaving one hideous crater after another densely scattered across the earth.
In an instant, the enormous black curtain became like a torn net, riddled with holes.
And that was precisely the troublesome part.
Immortality.
Traditional physical methods could only cause an obstruction. They were nowhere near capable of causing damage.
That meant most Ninjutsu attacks were likewise ineffective.
Even Madara's Rinnegan.
Chibaku Tensei—no.
Space-Time Clone—no.
Sealing