The battlefield had become a green ocean.
Ten dark-green Powered Exoskeletons were like ten ancient beasts breaking free of their shackles.
They normally followed Guy's weighted training regimen. Now that they had cast off their restraints and unleashed their fighting spirit, it was the perfect time to test the results of their training.
The children in green bodysuits rampaged through Sasori's formation of over a hundred puppets. Their movements were utterly unstructured, yet so fast they exceeded the limits of visual tracking.
For the first time, Sasori felt powerless.
His chakra threads could perfectly control every joint of every puppet, and the puppets could coordinate with exquisite precision. But his eyes simply could not keep up with those ten streaks of green lightning. He could only rely on decades of battlefield experience to predict their movements.
But as time passed, his entire rhythm fell apart.
One puppet had just raised its arm to fire poison needles when Lee's knee strike shattered its entire chest from an unimaginable angle. Another puppet tried to ambush someone with a poisoned arm blade, only for a Root operative to seize the blade at even greater speed and tear off the entire arm along with it.
"Green... actually looks pretty cool."
A young Sunagakure Genin stared blankly at the scene. The finger that had been mechanically pulling the trigger had long since stopped. He muttered to himself.
"It's like the color of an oasis."
His teammate beside him nodded deeply in agreement, his eyes full of reverence and longing born from surviving disaster.
"They can do this much with taijutsu alone... They're so much stronger than us, who only know how to hide in the back and shoot!"
"That's what real fighting is..."
Every word drifted into Chiyo's ears. She looked at the light shining