"Is this our enemy? Hahahahaha..."
"What's that? A horse? Hahaha, or cavalry!"
"This is the first time I've fought such an easy battle!"
On the battlefield at the border of the Land of Hot Water, shrouded in white mist, a war—or rather, a one-sided slaughter of samurai by Mist ninja—was underway.
Unlike the chakra-wielding samurai of the Land of Iron, ordinary samurai looked down on this kind of "external power."
Once one possessed chakra, even a Genin's physical capabilities were several times greater than an ordinary person's. With taijutsu alone, they could crush samurai who had trained in swordsmanship for countless years.
Shuriken and kunai thrown in battle, tools that could only serve as cover or feints in fights between shinobi, could easily take the lives of samurai.
That was merely taijutsu. What of ninjutsu, which had already surpassed ordinary human power?
Water Release: Water Shockwave!
A Chunin-level Mist ninja formed hand seals and spewed forth a stream of water like a small waterfall.
The technique's range was not large, only a few meters. For a Chunin's chakra, being able to produce a ninjutsu of this scale was already considered adequate.
In the past, this low-level ninjutsu had only been used by this Mist ninja to counter Fire Release or bully Genin from his own village.
Yet against these samurai, it was unstoppable, drowning several of them in moments.
Kirigakure's specialty, the Silent Killing Technique, combined with the Hidden Mist Technique, blanketed the entire battlefield in white fog when used together. The samurai could not see their hands before their faces and did not even understand when they died.
The orderly formations the samurai had arranged before the battle only increased ninjutsu's area of coverage.
"Run! Run quickly! These aren't opponents we can defeat at all!"
The gulf in strength,