By the usual procedure, the Rock Ninja's offensives typically opened with large-scale bombardment.
Their aerial forces, riding clay birds, always served as the vanguard of the entire army, joining the fierce battle for air superiority against the Mother Nest Fleet at the first opportunity!
But today's situation was clearly different from usual...
Despite massing close by with the advantage in numbers, the Rock Ninja showed no intention of fighting the Red Pine Ridge defenders in an ace aerial battle as they had in the past. Instead, they began casting a combined technique from beyond the effective range of the multifunctional launch platforms!
...From such a great distance, even with the Eye System looking down from above and illuminating all things, Konoha could not immediately discern what trick the enemy was playing.
Yet the heavy, stagnant atmosphere on the battlefield cried out through everyone's sixth sense, warning those on the front lines that a terrible calamity was about to descend!
Seeing this, Inoue Li immediately fulfilled his duty as temporary commander, issuing orders through the communications equipment for all combat units to abandon their dense formations and regroup into dispersed ones.
And almost at the exact moment that order was passed down, the ground beneath their feet began to stir amid violent chakra fluctuations!
The increasingly powerful tremors advanced from the far side of the battlefield toward Konoha's positions, wave after wave, without end...
But just as Inoue Li was nearly convinced that the Rock Ninja had developed some devastating ninjutsu capable of triggering massive earthquakes, the frequency of the shockwaves gradually converged into two rhythmic patterns!
It was like music played with the earth as a drum and the mountains as mallets, arriving one beat after another in two fixed rhythms. Every strike numbed their lips, every strike carrying a