The Impure World Reincarnation army deployed by Hiruzen Sarutobi startled not only the Konoha Ninja Army and the Four Village Allied Forces, but also alarmed certain entities observing from the shadows.
"Truly worthy of the Third Hokage!"
Fugaku Uchiha struck a nearby tree trunk with an angry fist, never having expected Hiruzen Sarutobi to possess such a powerful trump card.
Let alone the fact that the clan's elite forces had been wiped out back then, even without that annihilation, their odds of winning against such an army of the dead would have been low, and it remained uncertain whether this was the limit of what Hiruzen Sarutobi could control.
Moreover, the Second Hokage and the First Hokage had yet to appear among those deceased individuals, and they were the truly top-tier experts.
If those two were resurrected—especially the First Hokage, even if unable to unleash his full strength from when he was alive—he himself would by no means be a match for them.
After all, that was the super expert who had slain Madara Uchiha—who was riding atop the Nine-Tails—relying solely on his own power.
Fortunately, this trump card of Hiruzen Sarutobi's had finally been forced out, and the ones finding this most troublesome should be the Four Great Shinobi Villages.
"Hiruzen Sarutobi!"
Beneath the shade of a tree in another direction, Hyuga Hiashi, with only a single Tenseigan remaining, observed the entire battlefield, boiling with resentment on the inside.
He had also perceived that something was amiss with Hiruzen Sarutobi earlier; clearly, the man was waiting for someone, yet that someone had not appeared.
Coupled with Ōtsutsuki Sari's surprise attack on him, there was no need to guess whom he had been waiting for.
The two of them truly were in cahoots, and he had simply been sold out