On the surface of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Tob Forest.
Far from the gloomy, oppressive necromantic magic of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the sunlight outside seemed especially bright.
"Whew... The air here may not be as pleasant as in a normal world, but at least I don't have to smell rotting bones anymore."
Kaguya closed her folding fan and took a deep breath, her entire body relaxing.
Lin Xiao closed his eyes and briefly connected with the earth beneath his feet.
"To the northeast, about three kilometers away."
Lin Xiao opened his eyes. His gaze pierced through the dense canopy toward several ominous plumes of black smoke rising in the distance.
"There's a small village called Carne Village over there. A group of heavily armored knights is preparing to slaughter defenseless villagers."
"What?!"
The moment Naruto heard that, his blue eyes instantly turned into dangerous horizontal fox pupils. Chakra instinctively began to stir around him. "They're actually massacring ordinary civilians?! Unforgivable!"
Daigo beside him swiftly slipped into the mindset of a Defense Team member, his face grave. "Senior Lin Xiao, we have to get there immediately!"
"Let's go."
The outskirts of Carne Village.
The moment they landed, the intense, pungent stench of burning rushed unreservedly into their nostrils.
The village in the distance was engulfed in flames.
"Help... Someone, please save us..."
Less than fifty meters away, on muddy grass, a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old girl desperately shielded her younger sister beneath her body.
Behind them, two Slane Theocracy elite soldiers clad in disguise armor raised their bloodstained longswords high. Cruelty filled their eyes, and bloodthirsty smirks curled across their lips. "Stop struggling. Just die obediently!"
Their swords sliced down toward Enri's back with a shrieking gust of wind!
"Stop!!!"
At that critical moment between life and death!
Naruto