Boom! Boom! Boom!
As Sasori of the Red Sands moved, the vicious gunports along the Steel Mothership's broadside all began spewing tongues of flame.
In an instant, ten thousand cannons roared at once. Among the countless solid cannonballs plastered with Explosive Tags, there were also golden fireballs like miniature suns shooting out from the "barrels."
These were Chakra Cannonballs!
Sasori had already figured out the technology Araki had brought back from the moon, and had modified part of the Steel Mothership's weaponry.
If he had not needed to leave the source of the Dragon Vein in the village to power the Sea Train, Sasori would even have wanted to replace every single gunport with chakra cannons.
Even so, it was already enough.
As cannonball after cannonball struck the ground, the earth overturned amid rumbling explosions, and shockwaves shook the sky.
Even the Five Kage, strong as they were, could not keep advancing under such fierce artillery fire.
Orochimaru and the others had no choice but to retreat.
They even had to retreat fast enough, or aside from him, whether the others could remain unscathed was another question.
Seeing the Konoha group flash right back the instant they charged in like they were pressing A, putting on a bizarre, flashy display of trickery on the spot, Araki took two steps forward, planted his foot on the ram at the ship's bow, and laughed loudly:
"Everyone, there's no need to be so impatient. We didn't come here to fight you this time, so why all this shouting and killing?"
Covered in dust from the blasts, Orochimaru's tone was especially dark. "Araki, you invaded the Land of Fire without Konoha's permission. You are provoking a war."
"Ah, Lord Hokage, that isn't right. We may have entered the Land of Fire, but we didn't