Danzo's Attack

"Someone's coming! Look!"

The Ninja standing guard on Konoha's walls spotted several people in conical hats walking slowly toward the village.

"We can't let them get close!"

Several Chunin rushed out to stop them.

The ground split open, and the Chunin plunged beneath it.

"Something's flying toward us!"

A sharp-eyed Ninja pointed at the sky.

A blood-red figure dropped from above.

The moment he landed, he grabbed a Konoha Ninja beside him and began tearing into him with his teeth. He had completely lost his human reason.

It was Kū, created from the Nine-Tails Chakra Jiangtu had collected during the Nine-Tails attack.

The Konoha Ninja were drawn into fighting him, leaving almost no one to deal with the figures approaching from the front.

"Barrier Gate Sealing Technique: Eight Gates Closed Field!"

Four gates rose to the east, west, south, and north of Konoha. A hemispherical barrier appeared, allowing enemies to come and go freely while keeping Konoha's people from entering or leaving.

Konoha's main gate shattered with a crash. The leader's voice rang out from afar. "I have only one goal now: to establish a prosperous Land of Fire with the Daimyo at its heart!"

"In other words, I'm going to kill your Hokage. It doesn't matter if you don't understand! You'll have to work with us in the end anyway!"

"Earth Release: Fūka Hōin!"

Countless waves of soil surged across the ground, and the stench of rotting corpses filled the air.

A deathly pale hand reached out of the soil. A person with rolled-back eyes and a partly decayed body slowly crawled free.

"Now behold the ultimate secret of Earth Release: Soil of the Dead!"

Jiangtu laughed wildly. Everything was under his control.

Countless Ninja crawled from the soil and charged at the crowd.

"These are the people who