Cloud Village's coveting of the Tailed Beast had thoroughly enraged Konoha High Command. The scale of the war escalated once again. Cloud Village seemed to be staking everything, mobilizing most of the elite forces in the country. They might even have secretly brought some kind of forbidden weapon capable of threatening or controlling a Tailed Beast, intending to force a breakthrough within the Land of Fire and locate and capture their target.
The flames of war spread, and several key defensive lines along Konoha's border were in danger. Casualty numbers continued to climb. With even stronger support from the rear, the Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers grew more brazen. The scarlet Tailed Beast Chakra Cloaks around their bodies seemed to grow denser, and their destructive power was astonishing. They had torn through Konoha's defensive lines several times.
The situation had grown perilous.
At this most critical moment, Konoha's pillar—the man hailed as the "God of Shinobi," Hashirama Senju—finally rushed to the front lines in person!
His arrival was like a shot in the arm for the desperate battle. Every Konoha Ninja, regardless of clan, felt boundless hope and admiration well up in their hearts when they saw that figure wearing red lamellar armor and a white Hokage cloak. Even the Uchiha, who had always had complicated feelings toward the Senju, had to admit that only the First could bring a true sense of security.
Uchiha Sou stood among the crowd, watching Hashirama's still-broad shoulders, now burdened with a heavy sense of responsibility. His expression was complicated. He could feel that Hashirama's Causality Threads were tightly connected to all of Konoha and this land—vast, warm, and brimming with life, yet bearing an unimaginable burden. They stood in stark contrast to Madara's aloof, fierce Causality Threads, which seemed to brim with destruction.
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