"An enemy attack?!
How could they be here so quickly?!
What about the barrier warning?!"
The older guard cried out in shock, his voice filled with incredulous fury rather than fear.
What shocked him was that the enemy's manner of appearance and their scale far exceeded expectations. What enraged him was that they actually dared to invade so openly!
He practically roared as he tore open the crimson warning scroll in his hand!
"Whoosh—boom!"
Blinding warning flames mixed with an ear-piercing Chakra shriek shot into the sky.
In an instant, they illuminated the scalp-numbing fleet spread across the sea and awakened the entire sleeping Hidden Eddy Village!
"Enemy attack!!
It's Kumogakure! Sunagakure!
All personnel, maximum combat readiness!!"
The furious shouts exploded along the coastline.
The Land of Whirlpools' response could not have been any faster.
The defensive barrier along the shore began lighting up rapidly the instant the alarm sounded. More runes emerged from the ground and reefs, attempting to link together into a complete protective dome.
The well-trained Uzumaki ninja also quickly recovered from their initial shock, forming hand seals as all kinds of defensive and restraining Sealing Jutsu began to take shape.
But the Four Kage Allied Forces' surprise attack was all about seizing this fleeting instant!
"Hmph!
That turtle shell reacted pretty quickly!"
The Third Raikage's roar boomed like heavenly thunder. He did not even wait for the ships to fully reach shore. At the instant the barrier's light membrane had yet to fully close and its flowing radiance still lagged slightly, the lightning around his body surged!
"But it was too slow!!!"
His entire body became a brilliant blue bolt of lightning that tore through the night sky. Rather than attacking the brightest and thickest part of the barrier, he struck with incomparable precision at a