A gigantic spider was galloping across the land, raising fierce gales and dust with every single stride of its limbs.
Swamps, forests, and even jagged, precipitous mountain terrain—no matter how difficult to traverse or how much they resembled a human dead zone—could not halt the footsteps of this colossal spider monster.
Yet upon closer inspection, this was not a flesh-and-blood creature at all, but rather an extra-large creation forged from steel and hard wood.
There was no need to rear up; this giant spider creation simply crouched there, standing at least a dozen meters high.
Its eight massive limbs, cast from black steel, emitted a screeching sound of metal friction whenever it broke into a run.
The spider's round head appeared somewhat naive and endearing, but the blood-red eyes growing on that head gave people a sense of intensely terrifying oppression.
At the very top of the head, eye-catching characters were also carved—Oda.
Surrounding the lettering was a pattern of Red Spider Lilies.
Faced with such a steel creation, the flesh and blood of mortals was merely a mantis trying to stop a chariot with a roadside stone, with no other outcome than being crushed into pulp.
This exaggerated non-flesh creation was precisely an extra-large puppet that only puppeteers could pilot.
On the past battlefield between Konoha and Hidden Sand Village, Hidden Sand Village had also piloted large puppets, causing massive trouble for Konoha ninja and resulting in heavy casualties.
Yet this giant spider puppet, whether considering the strength or precision level used to construct it, was simply incomparable to the large puppets of Sunagakure.
From the insignia on the top of the spider puppet's head, one could tell at a glance that this was not a creation forged by Sunagakure puppeteers.
The family name of Oda and the insignia