"With your current condition, there's no need for us to surround and attack you with the entire army. We only need to leave behind a small force to keep you occupied, while the rest of our main forces continue pursuing the Mist Ninja. Unless you're willing to abandon your reason and release the Six-Tails!"
After hearing Chiyo's analysis, Utakata's expression finally darkened. His greatest weakness had been exposed.
Though he had held the upper hand in his clash with the Sand Ninja just now, that was only because they did not know enough about him and had been caught off guard. With his Bubble Technique countered, he lacked large-scale offensive methods. While his close combat abilities appeared formidable, their destructive range was limited. In his semi-Tailed Beast Transformation state, there was no way he could stop an army of tens of thousands. At most, he could barely protect himself with the enhancement of the Tailed Beast Cloak.
Only fully transformed Tailed Beasts could truly confront a Shinobi Army head-on. With their massive size and Tailed Beast Bombs capable of destroying an entire shinobi village, they were walking humanoid nuclear weapons. The disparity in numbers was reduced to the greatest extent possible. Aside from experts at Kage-level or above, even an ordinary Shinobi Army of fewer than a hundred thousand posed no threat to them.
This was what the Shinobi World called "strategic-level power." Any ninja who possessed such power would receive an exceptionally lofty status within their village. Their importance rivaled that of a village's Kage, as though they possessed an invincible body. Unlike ordinary Kage-level shinobi, they would never be "sacrificed" for political reasons. Killer B, Roshi, Yagura, Kushina, Rasa, and Nawaki himself all belonged to this category. They were either the Kage of a village or the second-in-command