"Lord Tetsuya, Shinnō has appeared.
He fought Jiraiya and the others lying in ambush in the Sky Ninja Village ruins.
But Jiraiya and the others couldn't beat Shinnō, and he broke into the Land of Sky ruins."
Zabuza's opening report left Tetsuya speechless.
Was Jiraiya really that weak now?
He couldn't beat Shinnō even with advance intel?
Wait, wasn't Jiraiya supposed to be god-tier with intel? How did he lose to this guy?
Or had there been a patch? Had Shinnō gotten overpowered?
No, even if there had been a patch, they should've nerfed that cancerous bastard Shinnō.
"What happened? What went wrong? And what's the situation now?"
Zabuza answered.
"Here's what happened. Shinnō didn't appear at the ruins right away. Instead, a large group of mechanical puppets showed up not long ago.
These puppets wore armor and didn't need Chakra Threads to control them. They were very unusual.
After appearing, these armored puppets headed straight for the ruins.
Jiraiya and the others lying in ambush here immediately tightened their encirclement, intending to take them all out in one sweep.
But they underestimated the armored puppets' strength, and they fought them using tactics meant for conventional puppeteers.
As a result, they were caught completely off guard.
Fortunately, Shikaku Nara, the head of the Nara Clan, was there to command them, and they quickly regrouped.
They destroyed the armored puppets one by one, and then Shinnō appeared.
He summoned puppets while transforming into a giant silver ape, then used a kind of chakra steeped in negative energy to attach the armored puppets to his body.
Then he drove Jiraiya and the others back with brute force and entered the floating ruins."
"Ah..."
Listening to Zabuza, Tetsuya opened his mouth to say something, but in the end, he had no idea what