Smoke filled the battlefield on the eastern border of the Land of Fire.
Zongyan appeared on a wooded rise, watching the Cloud Shinobi charging toward him, and sneered inwardly.
The Cloud Shinobi forces launched their assault from the northeast, fiercely attacking the Land of Fire's border;
The Iwagakure shinobi advanced from the northern mountains, coordinating with the Cloud Shinobi;
To the southwest, the Sunagakure shinobi were fewer in number than either of the other two forces and only kept raiding the Land of Fire's southwestern border, but they still had to be guarded against.
Fighting on three fronts at once put considerable pressure on the Uchiha as well.
Fighting raged throughout the entire border region.
Every Konoha shinobi capable of fighting, apart from the children who had yet to graduate from the Ninja Academy, had been deployed to the front.
The Uchiha left only a small number of clansmen to guard Konoha, sending everyone else capable of fighting to the three fronts.
Every Demon in the Infinity Castle had also been dispatched, divided among the three battlefields.
Inside the Infinity Castle, the surviving humans suddenly discovered that all the Demons had vanished.
The shadow of death that had long hung over their hearts lifted overnight, and these outlaws, originally made up of bandits and condemned criminals from the various countries of the Demon Slayer world, instantly revealed their true nature.
"Kill him! Kill him!"
"A woman! There's actually a woman here! Grab her!"
Without the threat of the Demons, they gave their vicious instincts free rein, beginning to kill one another over food and women.
On the battlefields outside, the Kumogakure shinobi on the eastern border mounted the fiercest offensive.
Several Cloud Shinobi charged swiftly on streaks of lightning, Lightning Release crackling in their palms as they repeatedly battered Konoha's