As the Sand Village's Insect Swarm army launched another fierce offensive, Kikyo City's situation grew precarious. The entire area outside the city had become a death zone shrouded in poison gas.
If Tsunade had not developed an antidote in time and put it into mass production, Kikyo City would probably have fallen already.
Even so, the remaining millions of insects still placed enormous pressure on Kikyo City.
Not to mention the endless stream of Insect Swarm reinforcements arriving at the front.
After confirming that the Sand Village had no intention of bypassing Kikyo City to attack Konoha directly, Danzo could only wave his hand and dispatch another three thousand troops as reinforcements.
That left Konoha with only five thousand defenders.
And many of those five thousand were new genin who had just been rushed through graduation at the Ninja Academy. Their actual fighting ability was deeply concerning.
On a distant mountain peak, Sasuke gazed at the village before him with utterly icy eyes.
This was where he had once lived and grown up, but now, all he saw was a nest reeking of corruption.
He wanted only to destroy it without mercy and make Konoha's leaders experience the pain he had suffered that night!
Inside Konoha, a figure quietly entered the Naka Shrine within the Uchiha Clan Grounds.
As he formed hand seals, a spatial array appeared.
Then smoke burst forth, and Sasuke crossed the tightly secured Konoha Barrier, successfully appearing inside the village.
"Everything went smoothly."
The unremarkable-looking genin wore glasses and spoke to Sasuke with a smile.
"Mm."
Sasuke nodded, gaining yet another measure of understanding of Simu's terrifying abilities.
He felt that perhaps there was nowhere in this world that man could not infiltrate!
After the Uchiha Clan Massacre, perhaps because the place felt inauspicious, the clan's