"Am I seeing things?"
"What just happened?"
"It was gone in an instant...?"
As the dust settled over the village, Konoha's residents and ninja all looked stunned. Then joy surged across their faces!
"Thank goodness! Thank goodness!"
"I don't know who did it, but thank goodness!"
"We're saved!"
"I thought I was done for... sob..."
Amid the countless cheers and tears of joy, the Sky Ninja surrounded by Konoha's ninja wore looks of despair.
"How is this possible?"
"The Aerial Fortress we spent decades building just... disappeared?"
"You've got to be kidding!"
"This must be Genjutsu! I refuse to believe our Aerial Fortress could just disappear like that! This can't be real!"
The Sky Ninja roared in furious disbelief.
Hearing them, the Konoha ninja finally came back to their senses!
It was this bunch of Sky Ninja...
Bastards!
The Konoha ninja gripped their Kunai, each one bound with an Explosive Tag, and glared coldly at their captives.
What would have happened if someone hadn't destroyed that Aerial Fortress just now?
No one dared imagine it. They could only feel a lingering, dreadful fear.
And the more fear they felt, the stronger their murderous intent grew!
Then, the ninja from the Uchiha Clan, the Hyuga Clan, the Ino-Shika-Cho, the Sarutobi Clan, and the other great clans slowly shifted their attention to a short figure.
He was the Third of the Sarutobi Clan, now a High-level Advisor and the overall commander of this operation.
Hiruzen Sarutobi held the Adamantine Staff, which could grow or shrink and become thicker or thinner. His expression was cold, like a block of ice that had endured for millennia!
Normally, Hiruzen Sarutobi would never kill the wounded, prisoners, or those who surrendered. But when he saw the Sky Ninja recklessly trying to crush Konoha with their Aerial