The reason Shin could appear so enormous before everyone was the Mirage Effect. What they saw was merely an infinitely magnified illusion, while vibrations carried his voice across the entire battlefield.
Yet his arrival gave the Konoha ninja tremendous confidence, letting them see the possibility of victory on this battlefield where death seemed inevitable!
"Playing tricks! He's playing tricks!" someone among the Cloud Ninja roared first.
"It's an illusion! It's fake! Attack him!"
Upon hearing the command, the Cloud Ninja unleashed ninjutsu and hurled ninja tools, intending to shatter Shin's illusion.
Watching the flood of ninjutsu and ninja tools hurtle toward him, Shin sneered inwardly.
The Cloud Ninja's forces had been wiped out in the previous battle. The enemy had no idea what he was capable of.
This was exactly what he wanted. With a sweep of his hand, the incoming ninja tools instantly fell under his control, hovering neatly in the air before spinning rapidly at his side.
The incoming Lightning Release ninjutsu met the same fate. They stopped just before reaching him, and all the lightning tempered itself onto the ninja tools, wrapping every metal blade in crackling arcs.
"Die!"
Shin's voice rang between heaven and earth as the ninja tools high above shot down toward the Cloud Ninja below like a torrential storm, carrying terrifying momentum.
"Ah—"
"Help! Help!"
A fierce wind surged. The rain of Shuriken filling the sky descended with terrifying force, instantly leaving the Cloud Ninja strewn across the ground as corpses.
"Kill the enemy!" Shin shouted in a deep voice.
The Konoha forces answered in unison, "Kill the enemy!"
"Wipe out the Cloud Ninja!"
The cry echoed through the entire mountain range, as though even the earth itself were shaking.
But to the Cloud Ninja, it sounded like a death-knell chant, deafening and