What did that even mean? Xing Ran had finally run completely out of Chakra, and only then did he begin pondering this profound question.
At the same time, Shikaku Nara was considering the same question—or rather, the consequences of Xing Ran's situation.
Because an extra hundred fresh troops had suddenly appeared in the E3 sector, the balance of battle at the E3 camp had completely tipped. Half an hour after Xing Ran single-handedly drove off the Cloud Ninja surprise attack unit, the battlefield outside completed a coordinated pincer maneuver from within and without. With their numbers secured, the Cloud Ninja retreated steadily, and after suffering heavy casualties, they were soon forced to withdraw into the encirclement around the E3 camp to regroup.
Don't be surprised that just one hundred people could make such a huge difference to the battle. On paper, the Cloud Ninja had deployed around a thousand troops to surround three battlefields, averaging only about three hundred men per battlefield. They also had an equal number of ambush troops. In other words, each battlefield had only around three hundred ambushers in the field. After nearly two hours of fierce fighting, how many could either side have left? Given that Konoha's reinforcements had greater numbers, at least two hundred people must have fallen on the E3 battlefield.
As the ambushing side, the Cloud Ninja's losses would not have been too severe, but they certainly would not have been light either. They had to be close to a hundred casualties. And that only counted those unable to return to the battlefield or already dead. Of those who were not counted as casualties, how many were fighting while wounded?
Then they ran into Konoha Ninja who had been restored to full strength. With one side rising and the other declining, the