Sunagakure.
A Sunagakure chunin standing watch on the observation tower was the first to spot a small red dot racing through the sky. As it drew closer, the dot grew larger and clearer.
It was not a red dot, but a red giant.
Seeing the giant hover above Sunagakure, he froze for a moment, his pupils shrinking sharply before he muttered, "W-What... is that?!"
"Enemy attack!!"
A nearby guard who had just snapped back to his senses shouted with all his might.
The alarm immediately pierced through Sunagakure's night sky.
Hearing the alarm, villagers and ninja who had yet to return home instinctively looked up.
What they saw filled them with terror: an enormous figure with wings on its back, like a god of war, silently hovering above the Kazekage Building.
"W-What is that thing?!"
"Enemy attack! It's an enemy attack!"
"Quick, notify the others!"
Panic instantly spread throughout the entire village.
Standing within the crystal atop Susanoo's head, Uchiha Hikari gazed down coldly through the eyeholes of her fox mask. Beneath the hood of her gray coat, a pair of scarlet Mangekyō Sharingan glinted.
A moment later.
"Where is it..."
Uchiha Hikari murmured softly, but her faint voice was swallowed by the cries and screams below.
"Target... above the Kazekage Building!"
"Everyone assemble! Prepare to use Ninjutsu!"
Sunagakure ninja rapidly poured out from every corner of the village.
They hurled kunai and Shuriken in their hands toward the crimson Susanoo in the sky like raindrops.
Then, countless ninja gathered together and quickly formed hand seals.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
"Wind Release: Pressure!"
"Fire Release..."
Massive flames mixed with gale-force winds roared toward the Susanoo overhead.
Yet whether it was kunai or Ninjutsu, the moment they touched Hikari's crimson Chakra armor, they produced no effect whatsoever. They could not even