Darui spoke, then vanished in a flash the next second.
"Mabui, come with me!"
"I want to see just what those people are capable of, daring to launch such a brazen, all-out surprise attack on my Hidden Cloud Village!"
The Fourth Raikage roared and headed toward the outskirts of the village.
"Yes, Lord Raikage!"
Mabui nodded.
Meanwhile, on the village perimeter.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Black kunai flew through the air. In an instant, Hidden Cloud ninja fell dead with muffled grunts.
A dense mass of figures closed in within the blink of an eye, and the two sides clashed.
But as soon as the fighting began, the Hidden Cloud Village's ninja turned pale and cried out in shock.
"These guys can't be killed!"
"Dead people! They're people who died!"
"Troy! That's Troy! How has he come back to life?!"
The moment they realized the truth, the Hidden Cloud ninja erupted in cries of alarm.
"Aaaargh!"
Screams rang out one after another. Unable to withstand the dead fighters' onslaught, the Hidden Cloud ninja kept falling and retreating.
Gradually, they recognized more and more ninja who had died.
"Zabuza Momochi!"
"Ringo Ameyuri!"
"Mangetsu Hozuki."
"They're the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Hidden Mist!"
"And that guy—is that Salamander Hanzo?"
"The Gold and Silver Brothers! My God, how are those two here too?"
"They're all dead people! They've come back to life!"
Each figure that appeared plunged the entire Hidden Cloud Village deeper into terror. Its outer defenses collapsed almost instantly.
No one could stop the dead ninja's onslaught. They were powerful and possessed immortal bodies. The moment the two sides met, more than half the Hidden Cloud Village's ninja were killed or wounded.
When the Fourth Raikage reached the battlefield and saw the scene before him, his pupils immediately contracted.
"How is