"It's over..."
The instant he saw the five Anbu from Konoha and the Hidden Cloud Village come under the giant black serpent's gaze on the surveillance screen, Yayoi knew this infiltration game was over.
With their abilities, they could escape the pursuit of the cyborg creatures on the Second Floor, but they had absolutely no chance of escaping the black serpent on the first floor.
That was because it was a biological weapon he had created using the Zero-Tails as a model-the Devouring Serpent.
Deploying it alone could directly determine the outcome of a large-scale battle.
Without a doubt, this was a strategic weapon whose strength rivaled that of the tailed beasts!
An entity of this caliber did not even need to move. Its mere presence could make ordinary Jonin physically ill, leaving them trembling so badly they could barely move.
Only with a top-tier Kage-level ninja personally leading the team could they face the Devouring Serpent head-on.
"Oh dear, the Second Floor really couldn't stop them..."
Kicho glanced at the Sand River Bridge in the Second Floor area on the surveillance screen. A scattering of cyborg creatures was still moving around on it, having yet to return to the Sand River Nest.
But after losing their targets, they were merely wandering aimlessly on biological instinct.
"That's only natural," Yayoi remarked, then continued, "They were failed experiments to begin with. That's why I put them there to roam around. The lower section only needs the Devouring Serpent stationed there."
The so-called lower section referred to the first three floors of the Heavenly Dao Palace.
The Second Floor, the Yellow Springs Walkway, was the Heavenly Dao Palace's abandoned factory.
More precisely, it was an enormous garbage dump.
Yayoi often dumped animals whose modifications had failed there to roam around. Waste and