"We finally made it!"
The Fifth Division, led by Mifune, crossed the vast wasteland and finally reached the main battlefield!
Though they had yet to actually set foot on the battlefield, they could already smell the smoke and blood just ahead.
In an instant, everyone's spirits lifted!
After such a long forced march, they had finally reached their destination.
Since entering the war, hardly anyone in their Fifth Division had fought.
Although Impure World Reincarnation Ninjas led by Sasori of the Red Sands had blocked their path earlier, there had simply been too few of them.
Under Mifune's leadership, Sasori of the Red Sands and the other Impure World Reincarnation Ninjas had soon been sealed away, so most members of the Fifth Division had never gotten a turn to fight.
And now, after rushing all this way, they could finally battle.
"Everyone, begin the attack according to plan!"
"We must cut the enemy formation in half as quickly as possible!"
Mifune shouted sternly, and his orders immediately spread throughout the force.
"Yes!"
"Understood!"
"Charge!"
Deafening cries resounded through the heavens, stirring the entire battlefield into a frenzy.
More than eighteen thousand ninjas gathered into a mighty wave and slammed straight into the White Zetsu Army's flank.
In an instant, the world turned upside down!
Wails, battle cries, explosions-everything churned the already chaotic battlefield into even greater disorder.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Overhead, shuriken and kunai as dense as swarming locusts wove a curtain of death amid the thunder of explosive tags.
Ordinary projectiles had difficulty killing White Zetsu, whose regenerative abilities were powerful and whose defenses were far from weak.
But the explosive tags falling with those projectiles had already lit up. Explosive flashes bloomed throughout the White Zetsu Army's formation, hurling severed limbs and earth into the air before they