Two days later, Tsuchikage Ōnoki was the first to withdraw his forces from the Hidden Cloud battlefield, fully freeing up the combat power of two major shinobi villages.
With storm clouds gathering, every perceptive person in the Ninja World keenly sensed that Konoha was truly facing a calamity this time.
Not long afterward, Tsuchikage Ōnoki personally took the field. Joining forces with Five-Tails Jinchuriki Han, he severely wounded Orochimaru, one of the Sannin, killed five hundred Konoha ninja, and pushed the front line forward three hundred kilometers.
The Third Raikage also personally entered the Konoha battlefield. Together with Prince A and Killer B, he pushed the front line forward by more than three hundred kilometers.
Even Jiraiya and Namikaze Minato working together could only suppress the Third Raikage. Killing him was harder than reaching the heavens.
Sunagakure's situation was somewhat unique. From the very beginning, it had fielded an all-star lineup of the Third Kazekage, Rasa, and Sasori of the Red Sands.
They also had Chiyo and One-Tail Jinchuriki Bunpuku in the rear. They had both combat strength and room for error, so Hatake Sakumo and Danzo had been fighting an uphill battle from the start.
Konoha was like a candle flickering in the wind, at risk of being destroyed at any moment. The Third Shinobi World War in this world was even more brutal and grander than in the original plot.
At this critical moment, Sarutobi Hiruzen had no choice but to take the field himself, leading more than a thousand ninja across a great distance to reinforce Orochimaru, who had been fighting alone.
No matter how great the pressure on the other fronts was, they at least had two Shadow Level experts holding the line. With fortified defenses and scorched-earth tactics, they could hold out for some time.