A group of ninja leaped swiftly across the sheer cliffs, their target the Konoha ninja above.
Several jonin at the head of the group reached an area of broken cliffs when they suddenly felt something wrong with their bodies.
Ueno Juri scratched at his skin and found it red and swollen. He immediately warned the teammates beside him:
"Do any of you feel unwell?"
All of them displayed symptoms to varying degrees. Realizing the enemy had begun using poison, they put on filtration masks, assuming it was toxins drifting through the air.
"Everyone, put on your masks! The enemy has poisoned us!"
But it was far from over. Putting on the masks did nothing to stop their bodies from weakening.
One of the ninja coughed up blood streaked with black decay.
"What's happening to me?"
Gasping for breath, he found it difficult to breathe. Even the chakra clinging to his feet became unstable, and he was so weak he nearly fell.
The ninja behind them were in even worse shape. Quite a few had already fallen from the cliffs like raindrops.
At that height, falling meant certain death.
"What kind of deadly poison is this?!"
Ueno Juri turned around and saw that the entire unit had been poisoned. Their physical strength allowed them to hold on for a while, but some of the ninja behind them had already died.
"This can't go on. We have to withdraw with the troops first!"
Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, but Ueno Juri could not afford to worry about that. He shouted to those around him:
"Everyone, leave the cliffs at once! We've fallen into a trap!"
Unfortunately, they had realized it too late. Once the radiation struck, just a few minutes of exposure to such intense radiation would take their