The blood-red setting sun stained the horizon scarlet, and the earth groaned in agony beneath the trampling feet of tens of thousands of Colossal Titans.
The ninja army's formation had long since fallen apart. Ninja tools and Explosive Tags did little against the Titans' terrifying regeneration, leaving them no choice but to concentrate their ninjutsu on their heads.
Even the Tailed Beasts' relentless Tailed Beast Bombs only tore fleeting gaps in the Titan horde.
More than twenty intelligent Titans of varying forms flitted through the battle lines like phantoms, every strike accompanied by the screams and falls of ninja soldiers.
"Roar!" Shukaku's sandstorm was scattered by a torrent of steam from a Colossal Titan.
The Nine-Tails hammered the War Hammer Titan again and again, smashing half his body apart, only for it to regenerate rapidly under the influence of the Founding Titan's power.
Ishikawa pushed his chakra to its limit and summoned an enormous Stone Golem with all his strength.
Together with another Stone Golem, he charged into the Titan horde.
All the large Katsuyu split into countless smaller Katsuyu to heal the ninjas' wounds.
Watching everyone fall one after another, Kagami Uchiha's Three-Tomoe Sharingan spun rapidly, beginning to transform into a distinctive triangular pattern. In his overwhelming grief, they actually evolved into the Mangekyō Sharingan!
Pitch-black flames suddenly clung to several Titans. No amount of swatting or regeneration could extinguish them, and they were eventually burned to ashes!
Kagami's eyes lit up. These flames of Amaterasu were even more useful than he had imagined!
He kept unleashing them. Even as blood seeped from his eyes and his vision began to blur, he did not stop.
Kagami instantly became the focal point of the battlefield, attracting certain people's attention as well.
"Congratulations, Kagami," Hiruzen said. "You're finally showing your worth!"