"Use Fire Style ninjutsu. Launch it into the sky."
Uchiha Sora did not hesitate after hearing that.
He immediately began forming hand seals, completing them in quick succession.
Then he said, "Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique."
He inhaled, raised his head, and puffed out his chest.
Then he suddenly exhaled.
A massive fireball appeared out of thin air.
It transformed into something like a rising sun and shot straight into the sky.
And at that moment,
as the Great Fireball Technique illuminated the area, everyone was immediately stunned.
Not far from them, the ground was covered with humanoid creatures that looked like stone.
There was no way there could be so many statues here. They were most likely puppets.
And there were so many of them.
Hinata felt a headache coming on.
Mukade was already dead, so where had all these puppets come from?
But a change soon occurred.
It seemed that the appearance of the Great Fireball, illuminating this place, was a complete signal.
The puppets, which had originally looked like statues, suddenly
began flashing with dazzling light in their blank eyes.
At that moment, the entire puppet army seemed to come alive.
When they all fully rose to their feet,
Hinata and the others froze, vaguely sensing that things were about to get troublesome.
And naturally, that was not beyond their expectations.
Because the moment the puppet army awakened, they all locked onto Hinata and the others.
Hinata and the others were helpless. Even now, they still had not figured out what exactly had happened.
But this was clearly different from the puppets Naruto and the others had encountered in the original story. Back then,
the puppets Naruto and the others had seen were beast-shaped, while these were all enormous puppets nearly three meters tall, made entirely from