Rumble...
Explosions erupted one after another throughout the forest. As far as the eye could see, fierce battles had broken out almost everywhere along the several-kilometer front!
Within the forest shrouded in mist and filled with gunpowder smoke, a dark purple toxic fog was rapidly spreading. Wherever it reached, almost none of the Allied Shinobi Forces' shinobi escaped. They all collapsed to the ground, struggling in agony.
"Cough, cough..."
Jiraiya, who had also been hit by the toxic fog, had barely managed to retreat beyond its reach thanks to his speed. However, having inhaled a small amount of it, he still broke into violent coughing after landing.
Whoosh...
At that moment, Tsunade arrived beside Jiraiya and tossed him an antidote. "It isn't a specialized antidote, but it should help somewhat."
Jiraiya did not waste any words and quickly drank the antidote.
After steadying his breathing slightly, Jiraiya surveyed the battlefield.
The battlefield was in complete chaos. The Allied Shinobi Forces' formations and battle lines had all been thrown into disarray by the vision-obscuring mist and the toxic fog spreading across a wide area.
The Ibuse summoned by "Demigod" Hanzo, capable of spewing toxic fog, was practically a battlefield reaper. Not only ordinary shinobi, but even Kage-level powerhouses like Jiraiya and Tsunade had to avoid its edge.
Suddenly, a faint pillar of light flashed in the distance, tearing through the mist and piercing across the entire battlefield.
Jiraiya and Tsunade instinctively looked over. After the glowing beam vanished, it left behind only a ravine with an incomparably smooth, perfectly even cross-section.
The trench that had originally stood at the end of the ravine, along with the seven or eight shinobi inside it, seemed to have been vaporized, disappearing completely without a sound.
"Dust Release!"
Jiraiya and Tsunade's expressions both turned grave.