At that very moment.
Uchiha Sora stood blocking the Land of Earth forces' path, his expression perfectly calm.
Han, who was charging at the front, and the many Iwagakure ninjas behind him froze for a moment at Uchiha Sora's sudden appearance.
"It's Uchiha Sora!"
"It's him! He finally showed himself! And he's alone?"
"No way! Does he think he can stop our entire army by himself? He's got to be kidding!"
"Where are his men? Are they all dead? He's just a commander without an army now! What are we afraid of? Charge! Kill him!"
The combined momentum of five thousand Iwagakure ninjas gave them tremendous confidence. Shouting and roaring, they charged toward Uchiha Sora with unwavering resolve.
Even the ordinary ninjas who knew how powerful Uchiha Sora was acted as though he were nothing to fear.
Yet amid their shouts, Uchiha Sora merely formed a seal with both hands.
"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"
Poof, poof, poof, poof...
In an instant, over a thousand Uchiha Soras appeared before the Land of Earth's army.
"What?! This guy made that many clones?" The Iwagakure forces were stunned.
Then the countless Uchiha Soras charged straight at the Land of Earth's army.
Creating over a thousand shadow clones was a considerable burden even for Uchiha Sora as he was now.
Although his chakra reserves had been steadily increasing through automatic training, they were still some way short of Naruto Uzumaki's reserves in the original story.
But against an army of five thousand, Uchiha Sora had no choice but to counter their numbers with numbers of his own.
Among the Land of Earth's five thousand ninjas, only a handful were truly formidable. Most were merely genin and chunin.
Although Uchiha Sora had created over a thousand shadow clones, each clone was stronger than an ordinary