The heavy rain had poured through the entire night, only gradually weakening by the following morning.
And when the rain weakened, it meant the battle was about to begin!
Above Thunderstorm City, everyone was on edge.
Rumors about the Uchiha Cannon had reached this place long ago along with news of the defeated army. And rumors, once they started spreading, only grew more and more outrageous.
By the end, some were even saying that this weapon could reduce people to ashes without a sound or visible trace, and that even the strongest city walls were like paper before it, shattering at the slightest touch.
The soldiers defending the city felt as if they had been sent to the execution ground, trembling as they had no idea what to do.
"None of you panic!"
A military supervisor stood atop the wall and shouted at the soldiers below, who were clearly frightened out of their wits:
"Everything you have heard these past few days is a rumor! There is no such terrifying thing in this world. Thundercloud City fell only because they were caught in the enemy's scheme and struck unprepared!"
"But we are different! We have made every preparation and will definitely keep the enemy outside the city gates! The higher-ups already know what has happened here and have long dispatched reinforcements, so we cannot be frightened by those rumors! We are soldiers of the Lightning Country, the strongest army in the world!"
After the military supervisor's impassioned speech, the troops' morale finally rose again. The fear on the soldiers' faces gradually faded. Thinking it over carefully, everything they had heard was secondhand gossip. There had to be exaggeration involved. Maybe they had simply been scaring themselves.
Seeing that his speech had been effective, the military supervisor felt greatly relieved. Just