"Konoha ninja..."
"These Sand Village ninja want to leave us all here. Are you afraid?"
Hyuga Wuye stood at the forefront of more than two hundred Konoha ninja, his tone calm yet clear and forceful.
"Not afraid!"
The Konoha ninja answered in unison.
"Then let them... witness the spirit of Konoha's ninja! Kill—"
With an angry roar, more than two hundred ninja charged forward alongside Hyuga Wuye.
Kato Dan and two other jonin were among the group.
Several hundred meters ahead of them, over five hundred Sand Village ninja were scattered throughout the forest.
At that moment, they looked at one another in bewilderment.
"Have these Konoha ninja gone mad? Even in a decisive battle, they would usually fight back and forth within a single area. Who charges in all at once like this? Are they courting death?" a jonin said.
"There's no time to think about that. As long as we kill them all, we'll have exceeded the mission requirements. If they want to die, then we'll grant their wish."
Under the jonin's command, the Sand Village ninja said nothing as they swiftly disappeared into the woods.
Divide, encircle, ambush—the proper way for ninja to fight a decisive battle.
"Kill—"
Yet the Konoha ninja still charged straight at them in broad daylight.
Cruel smiles appeared on the Sand Village ninja's faces.
They were confident that they could wipe them all out with minimal losses in a charge like this...
"Watch out! Underground! Underground!"
But at that moment, dozens of figures suddenly emerged from the ground beneath the Sand Village ninja.
Fortunately, sensory ninja had warned them in time, preventing the ambush from succeeding.
"They're Hyuga Wuye's Shadow Clones! Don't get close! They might have explosive tags!"
The ninja quickly caught on.
Yet the dozens of Wuye's clones had no