The overall strategy for this operation was simple: the ninjas would draw in and gather the monsters, then Kikyo would clear out the gathered monsters. It was a straightforward, brute-force farming method.
However, simple and brute-force as it was, it proved extremely effective.
Especially since Kikyo had cast spells on certain people beforehand, causing them to emit an aura that held a deadly allure for monsters.
Thus, when the operation began, so did the slaughter.
A slaughter of monsters!
Once those carrying the monster-attracting BUFF charged into the Forest of Death, every monster within several kilometers began converging on them like fish drawn to a scent.
After the monsters had gathered, Minato Namikaze would use the Flying Thunder God to teleport Kikyo in, and Kikyo would deliver the killing blow with Purification Arrows.
Of course, this could not kill every monster. Once the monsters saw great numbers of their companions wiped out, they keenly sensed Kikyo's power and scattered to flee.
That was when the remaining ninjas brought along for the operation took action.
Though the ninjas were far less efficient at killing monsters than Kikyo, they could still work together to eliminate ordinary monsters.
Even when they encountered powerful monsters that were difficult to kill, they could hold them down directly, buying time for Kikyo or other powerful ninjas.
The tactics were that simple and brutal: repeat, hunt, repeat. And since Kikyo could sense demonic aura, Konoha wiped out huge swathes of monsters with astonishing efficiency.
Meanwhile, the Light Screen used a sand table at the rear to continuously display the progress of the operation and the positions of the ninja forces. Through it, people could clearly see the speed of the ninjas' advance.
Along the way, they also encountered some monster-possessed, corrupted Heroic Spirits. Yet under the combined