The thunder of the collapsing walls tolled like a death knell heralding the end of the world.
Rubble and dust shot into the sky, mingling with the screams of Amegakure ninja who had no time to escape.
For the first time, sunlight shone into Amegakure with such blinding intensity, illuminating the splattered blood and shattered bodies in the streets.
"Kill them!!!"
The allied forces poured through the breach in the walls like a flood bursting through a dam.
Iwagakure's Earth Release ninja smashed the houses along their path with stone arms, while Konoha Anbu flitted through the shadows, cutting down the panicked defenders.
The rogue ninja looted, burned, and slaughtered with abandon, driving the chaos to its peak.
Amegakure's garrison fought desperately.
Water Dragon Bullets blasted from rooftops, Water Formation Walls rose at street corners, and kunai and shuriken rained down.
But there were too few defenders, and their training was not good enough. Against the allied forces' overwhelming numbers, their defenses crumpled like paper at the first touch.
One street was breached.
Two streets fell.
Three streets...
Blood stained the flagstones and flowed into the still-wet gutters, turning the entire street into a dark red stream.
"Retreat! Fall back to the second defensive line!" an Amegakure jonin roared, only for three Iwagakure kunai to pierce his chest at once.
Despair began spreading among the surviving defenders.
Just then-
A golden torrent slashed down from the sky like divine punishment.
Boom!!!
The torrent struck the center of the street where the allied forces were most densely packed, bursting apart in an instant.
This was no ordinary spray of water. It was a high-pressure, razor-sharp onslaught, as though countless blades were slicing at once.
Screams.
An endless chorus of screams.
With a single strike, every allied ninja on the street-more than