One Shot to Breach the Gates, One Pot to Win Their Hearts

Ye almost laughed.

Five hundred years of legitimacy?

I'll blast a cannon straight through your precious legitimacy. Let's see if it holds up!

"Obito, has Orochimaru finished tuning that monster?"

Ye glanced back as he asked.

Obito curled his lip and muttered, "Always making me do the work..."

Then he called out, "It's ready!"

Ye turned back and said two words.

"Open fire!"

The three energy-storage troops slapped the matrix cores on their chests at the same time.

Azure Chakra raced along the cannon's engraved channels, and the amplification arrays on its base lit up one after another.

A piercing shriek of tearing energy came from the muzzle.

"Bzz..."

A dense Chakra beam as thick as a barrel erupted from the cannon.

A hundred meters meant nothing to it. Blue light flashed, and the beam struck the enormous vermilion gate.

The gold-plated doors had no time to buckle. Half a foot of solid steel vaporized into white smoke.

The beam punched through the gateway and tore down the flagstone road, gouging a scorched trench two meters deep. Dark red magma churned at its bottom.

Still going strong, the surging Chakra slammed into the Daimyō Mansion's front hall.

"Boom!"

Half the palace collapsed. Broken bricks and tiles flew into the air with gold and silver vessels, then came crashing back down.

A violent shockwave surged up along the city wall. The Palace Guard soldiers behind the battlements were thrown off their feet one after another and sent tumbling into the passageway behind them.

The daimyō did not even manage a grunt. The blast hurled him two meters into the air, and he plunged headfirst into the rubble.

His mouth hung open, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted on the spot. A wet stain slowly spread across his crotch.

With one