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Atop the city wall, Takitsubo Sarutobi formed a hand seal.
Whoosh! The wall of fire outside the city turned transparent from within, allowing them to clearly observe the situation outside!
A thousand enemies were rapidly charging toward the fire wall. The Sarutobi ninja all sneered. "Trying to resist the Sarutobi Flame Array with mere flesh and blood? They're simply courting death! This wall of flames can even ignore Water Release, and their flesh, blood, and Chakra will become fuel for the flames. No matter how many of them there are, they're just giving themselves away!"
Even so, unease lingered in Takitsubo Sarutobi's heart. These inexplicably appearing ninja enemies had somehow gone completely unnoticed by the Ninja Kingdom.
Everything about the enemy... was unknown!
Takitsubo's large hand involuntarily clenched the stone of the city wall.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The enemies who charged into the flames were swiftly charred black, their bodies scattering apart...
"Ooh~~!! Burned to death!!"
"What utter overconfidence!!"
"Haha, the enemy is actually this stupid! At this rate, we might wipe them out before reinforcements even arrive!!!"
Crack!
Takitsubo Sarutobi's fingers tightened, splitting the stone wall. "No!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The light and shadows distorted... The enemies burned to death by the golden flames appeared one after another behind the fire wall, beneath the city ramparts!
One after another... In just ten seconds, all thousand had revived and gathered beneath the city wall, their Sharingan coldly sweeping the area before them!
Gasp!
This phenomenon beyond all common sense made the Sarutobi ninja collectively draw in sharp breaths.
At such close range, they could clearly see the enemies' appearances as well!
Identical clones, identical Sharingan!
"Gulp!" A Sarutobi ninja swallowed hard. "What exactly... is going on!?"
Takitsubo Sarutobi said grimly, "The Sharingan's forbidden technique, Izanagi. Back then, Danzo