"Where... am I... isn't this the battlefield? Ugh... no, didn't I already die...?"
An Uchiha with long black hair slowly opened his eyes. The unfamiliar surroundings seemed to leave him disoriented, but a vast jumble of memories soon flooded his mind.
He was not the only one. Everyone around him froze as well.
"Wasn't I fighting the Senju Clan...?"
"Wasn't I fighting the Uchiha Clan...?"
"Didn't you just cut my head off with a sword?"
"Weren't you...?"
Countless voices rose and fell, but silence soon settled over them. Memories that did not belong to them quickly surfaced, allowing them to understand their situation.
"Sorry, everyone. This is an emergency, so I had no choice but to use this method."
Hiruzen Sarutobi's voice rang out in the minds of those brought back through Impure World Reincarnation.
The Mind Transmission Technique, a secret technique of Konoha's Yamanaka Clan.
As the pinnacle of sensory ninjutsu and one of Konoha's strategic-level secret techniques, it was strictly forbidden for the Yamanaka Clan to teach it to outsiders.
But that restriction did not apply to the Third Hokage, who could examine the records of every secret technique in Konoha and master them all.
Nor were the awakened ninja ordinary people. Even those from eras too distant to understand the present could still grasp their predicament.
And most importantly—
"Die!"
The chilling killing intent that descended from the sky with Kaguya instantly told them who their enemy was.
There were a few familiar faces around them, but far more people they had never met. Yet none of them hesitated.
Their instincts as ninja had already told them what they needed to do. Nothing else mattered—
On the battlefield, there were only two outcomes: kill the enemy, or be killed!
There was nothing flashy about Kaguya's attack. The