The moment Valleta finished speaking, a spider thread shot out like lightning and swiftly wrapped around her body. The next instant, she vanished from the four Root ninjas' sight, hovering in midair.
In that instant, the entire world seemed to be enveloped by an overwhelming force.
The once-peaceful woods, the area behind the house, the ground, and the grass suddenly erupted like a disturbed beehive, with countless tiny spiders pouring out like a tidal wave.
There were so many of these tiny spiders that it was staggering. They densely covered every corner, as though the entire world had been claimed by spiders.
The tiny spiders did not limit their assault to the ground. Many spiders hung from threads in the sky as well, dropping like raindrops and charging at the four Root ninjas alongside the spiders on the ground.
Those bitten by the tiny spiders would not be poisoned like they would by ordinary venomous spiders, nor would they suffer any other obvious adverse effects.
However, these tiny spiders possessed a unique ability—they could steal a portion of their target's chakra.
Although the amount of chakra stolen each time was very small, as the tiny spiders continued attacking, those minute losses gradually accumulated, dealing considerable damage to the Root ninjas.
Meanwhile, Valleta was like a spider queen, quietly hiding in a corner that the four of them could not detect at all, coldly watching this bloody "performance."
She left all the attacks to her tiny spider servants, allowing them to revel in this carnival of slaughter.
At that moment, the sensory-type Root ninja noticed that the chakra being drained from them was being transmitted through the spider threads to a single location.
"I've sensed that girl's location. Attack the tree behind us to the northwest."
Hearing their sensory ninja, the