"Accept the arrangement of the Book of Fate and become part of the future, Father."
"I must respectfully decline."
"Unfortunately, you have no room to refuse."
In an instant, the two connected individuals who had perished in a clash incomprehensible to ordinary people were swiftly replaced by other reserves...
Clearly, when it came to an unfamiliar power system, the Great Collective had perfectly grasped the key to risk control!
It precisely calculated the maximum manpower committed to each engagement, suppressing Yamada Soji while avoiding an excessive pileup of combat power that might give the director a chance to turn the tables with a single move by exploiting differences in understanding!
This meant the connected individuals had effectively been placed in an invincible position from the very start...
All they had to do now was continuously learn through battle with Soji and accumulate knowledge about spells. Before long, they would naturally shatter the balance of power between both sides. Only then would the Great Collective, born from Yamada Soji's own hand, truly take the crucial step toward completing itself!
—With that thought, the perilous battle atop Hokage Rock immediately erupted once more!
Having evaded the first wave of counterattacks, the connected individuals' grasp of knowledge grew ever more complete. Their overall combat strength continued to rise as they remade themselves through the power of existence within the consciousness space!
The huge number of ninjas who had originally started at jonin level had now almost all reached the threshold of elite jonin.
And when their various bizarre and unpredictable bloodlines and secret techniques were added to the equation, they now even possessed the ability to effortlessly flatten any known ninja village through sheer numerical superiority!
Yet even so, the battle between the connected individuals and Yamada Soji remained one where thunder rumbled