Resurrection of the dead had been regarded as one of the most incredible miracles throughout history and across the world.
The Messiah of monotheism rising on the third day after his execution was celebrated and extolled as a divine miracle.
Fear of the unknowable circumstances after death, and the desire to escape death, had spread legends and tales of resurrection and returning ghosts throughout the world.
The return of the dead in Senso-ji Cemetery initially threw the Self-Defense Forces personnel rushing in from all directions to reinforce the position into disarray, shaking their morale.
The dead fashioned from ashes by the Soil of the Dead Technique resembled clay puppets. Aside from looking like their former selves, they retained none of their original memories or ability to speak.
They were even less formidable than the living dead in zombie movies.
When those walking corpses were shot, blood and gore still burst out, sending organs and severed arms flying and dealing a psychological blow to morale.
But when the clay figures created by the Soil of the Dead Technique were shattered, they merely scattered into clods of earth, causing little of the discomfort associated with killing.
Neither flesh and blood nor clay figures could take a spiked club to the skull.
Against modern forces armed to the teeth, they were utterly insignificant.
However the tide of corpses surged, it could not shake the defensive line the Self-Defense Forces had established behind the main hall.
"Moo-!"
But as the corpse puppets began their trick of combining and transforming, a bull-headed, horse-faced demon over thirty feet tall appeared, and the situation instantly took a turn for the worse.
"Concentrate your fire! Quick, shoot!"
"Machine gunners, give it everything you've got!"
"Rat-a-tat-tat!"
The heavy machine guns' armor-piercing rounds could penetrate relatively thin steel plates, but