Ten-Tails Revived

The gray-white paper scraps fluttering through the sky gradually dissipated beneath the sunlight.

Across the battlefield where the First and Second Divisions had clashed, the densely packed army of Impure World Reincarnation had completely vanished into nothingness.

Tens of thousands of Allied Shinobi still held their bloodstained weapons, every one of them frozen in place.

Several full seconds passed.

No one knew who was the first to throw down their iron blade, letting out a hoarse roar.

A wave of frenzied cheers instantly erupted across the entire battlefield.

The sound was so immense that even the loose stones on the parched ground trembled and bounced slightly.

Many young Genin simply threw away their weapons, embracing one another as they wept loudly.

That boring tug-of-war, a one-sided battle of attrition, had finally been physically wiped out at its source.

At the border of the Land of Frost, inside a collapsed underground cavern.

Sasuke still stood amid the rubble, his hand unconsciously touching his forehead.

Just then, the military communicator inside Chenshu Senju's collar suddenly emitted an unbearably sharp burst of static.

Immediately afterward, Naruto's distinctive booming voice came through the channel, so anxious that his pitch had changed.

"Big Brother Senju! Where are you?! Something huge happened!"

"What happened?" Chenshu Senju rubbed his ears, which had gone numb from the noise.

"That masked bastard suddenly attacked us!" Naruto shouted impatiently. "And he brought a giant monster with several eyes!"

"There's no one else with him?"

"No, but he has the Chakra of the other six Tailed Beasts in his hands!"

"He's forcibly pouring that Chakra into the monster's mouth! Even my Chakra and Uncle Eight-Tails' Chakra are being sucked away!"

Killer B's muffled groans and the heavy sounds of someone falling were mixed in with the transmission.

Chenshu Senju raised