Konoha Year 37, September 1.
Konoha and Sunagakure had been grinding each other down with the Rain ninja at Falling Rain Bridge for half a month.
Over those two weeks, the two great ninja villages had taken turns engaging the Rain ninja...
More than five hundred had died across all three sides!
Of those casualties, the Rain ninja had "contributed" seventy percent, while Sunagakure had "contributed" twenty-five percent...
Konoha had suffered considerable losses, but not many deaths.
The "Three Feathers" Akaseki had held a grudge against never encountered him in the end, and all perished here.
Only when Hanzō personally took the field did the situation change.
But this also meant that the other direction of Lingering Rain Mountain had been left undefended. In theory, so long as Konoha and the Sand ninja continued their daily battles here, they could simply wait for Amegakure to fall into internal chaos.
Hanzō clearly understood this as well. Since he had chosen to act, he was no longer merely fighting a war of attrition here. Instead, he would face the Allied Forces' main camp alone!
That day, it happened to be the Sand ninja's turn to fight. Hanzō charged straight out from Falling Rain Bridge with more than a dozen Rain ninja jonin and their Ibuse partners. Together, they released an overwhelming poisonous mist, charging and slaughtering in every direction as the surrounding Sand ninja scattered...
However, at that very moment...
Magnet Release: Sand Iron Drizzle!
A vast quantity of black iron sand suddenly surged out from the Sand ninja camp.
It directly blocked Hanzō and the Rain ninja who had charged out with him. Then...
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
The black iron sand condensed into countless iron needles and rained down upon Hanzō and the Rain ninja!
"This is..." Hanzō's expression tightened.
But