Chapter Summaries

Shu Shiraishi demanded the surrender of the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning, prompting Ōnoki to organize a four-nation assassination alliance. When Orochimaru brought Shu an invitation to a Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron, Shu burned it and rejected the proposal.

• Shu Shiraishi offered the kneeling envoys from the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning surrender in exchange for their countries' sovereignty, and both envoys collapsed.
• Ōnoki read Konoha's ultimatum and used a Chakra cipher scroll to contact the Third Kazekage, the Third Mizukage, and Dodai.
• Ōnoki proposed a Four-Nation Alliance to lure Shu to the Land of Iron and kill him at a Five Kage Summit, and the other leaders agreed to send elite fighters.
• Orochimaru received the four villages' invitation and handed it to Shu Shiraishi.
• Shu burned the invitation and rejected the proposed summit.

Shu Shiraishi rejected Nara Rokumei’s warnings and traveled alone to the Land of Iron in a massive Chakra hover command vehicle for the Five Kage Summit. He arrived at the conference room where Ōnoki, the Third Kazekage, and the Third Mizukage had prepared a lethal trap and began secretly forming hand seals.

• Shu Shiraishi dismissed Rokumei’s concerns about the summit being a trap and said he would attend without an army.
• Shu took a newly built super-heavy Chakra hover command vehicle from Arsenal No. 3 and drove north alone.
• The hover vehicle smashed through a border checkpoint in the Land of Iron, knocking two samurai into the snow.
• Ōnoki, the Third Kazekage, and the Third Mizukage waited in the summit room above a concealed explosive-tag and barrier trap.
• Shu kicked through the conference room doors, while the three Kage forced welcoming smiles and secretly formed hand seals.

Shu Shiraishi faced Ōnoki, the Kazekage, and the Mizukage as they offered concessions and secretly prepared to kill him. When their poisoned-tea trap failed, Shu revealed a brick-shaped device and pressed its play button, leaving the Kage's plan in suspense.

• Shu Shiraishi entered the conference room, ignored the three Kage, and took a seat with his boots on the table.
• Ōnoki, the Kazekage, and the Mizukage offered Konoha mines, reparations, access to resources, and ports in exchange for a nuclear weapons treaty.
• The three Kage secretly coordinated a plan to blow up the building with Explosive Tags while using their techniques to contain the blast and escape.
• The Mizukage prepared poisoned tea, and Ōnoki urged the others to trigger the explosives when Shu drank it.
• Shu reached past the tea, pulled a black iron brick from his coat, placed it before Ōnoki, and pressed its play button.

Shu Shiraishi exposed the Kage’s secret ambush by playing a recording captured through Konoha’s quantum surveillance network. When Ōnoki realized their plan had been uncovered, he and the other Kage attacked Shu, who met Ōnoki’s Dust Release with a Chakra-dampening glove.

• Shu Shiraishi played a recording of Ōnoki, the Third Mizukage, and the Kazekage discussing their explosive-tag trap and escape plan.
• Shu Shiraishi revealed that Konoha’s quantum surveillance radar network had detected their Chakra voice transmission and mocked their failed deception.
• Ōnoki roared for the others to attack, and the Kazekage and Third Mizukage leaped back to support him.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique and thrust its destructive beam at Shu Shiraishi.
• Shu Shiraishi raised his Chakra-dampening glove to meet the beam and vowed to grant Ōnoki’s wish to die.

Shu Shiraishi defeated the Tsuchikage, Kazekage, and Mizukage in a brief, brutal fight after negotiations collapsed. He spared the crippled Kage to make them watch their villages fall, then ordered Orochimaru to send out the entire army for a clean sweep.

• Shu Shiraishi shattered Ōnoki's Dust Release barrier and struck him through the ceiling.
• The Kazekage attacked with an Iron Sand wall, but Shu broke through it and sent him crashing outside.
• Shu used an electromagnetic pulse to force the Mizukage out of his water form, then broke his arm.
• Shu told the three crippled Kage he would spare them so they could watch their villages fall, then walked past the stunned Barrier Team operatives.
• Shu contacted Orochimaru and ordered the entire army to launch a clean sweep.

Orochimaru activated Konoha’s alarm and sent a massive armored force toward the Land of Wind. A Sunagakure sentry spotted the steel column approaching and trembled at the sight.

• Orochimaru pressed the giant red button, sounding Konoha’s air-raid siren and opening the village’s steel gates.
• Kagami Uchiha ordered the Urban Management Brigade aboard its armored vehicles as Uchiha drivers activated their Sharingan.
• Hyuga observers used their Byakugan and radar vehicles to scan the route, and the Anbu commander ordered the column to advance.
• Konoha’s tanks, rocket artillery, and troop carriers crushed through the forest and formed a steel column heading toward the Land of Wind.
• A Sunagakure sentry heard the ground rumbling, looked through his monocular, and saw the immense armored force bearing down from the east.

Konoha’s mechanized army overwhelmed Sunagakure’s defenses with tanks, rockets, machine guns, and airships. In the command vehicle, an Uchiha officer forced the chained Hiruzen Sarutobi to carry livestream equipment and ordered him to start broadcasting the assault.

• Sunagakure’s sentry and defense captain watched Konoha’s steel army advance, but thermobaric rockets burned away the poison gas and flattened the quicksand traps.
• Konoha’s tanks crushed Sunagakure’s first defensive line and mowed down the Wind Release Jonin and his suicide squad with machine guns.
• Konoha’s airships destroyed Sunagakure’s flying puppets as the armored formation continued across the Land of Wind.
• An Uchiha officer watched the slaughter from a command vehicle while Hiruzen Sarutobi sat chained and weakened in its corner.
• The officer kicked Hiruzen, strapped heavy livestream equipment onto him, and ordered him to hold the camera steady and start the broadcast.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was forced to broadcast the armored forces’ slaughter of Sunagakure ninja, and the Shinobi World watched as traditional tactics and Ninjutsu failed against tanks and machine guns. As Hiruzen concluded that the old era was over, Shu Shiraishi announced a higher-dimensional attack.

• An Uchiha officer forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to report live from the Land of Wind while holding him at knifepoint.
• Hiruzen filmed Sunagakure ninja charging a tank, where machine-gun fire killed them within seconds.
• Dodai, the Land of Iron’s samurai leader, and viewers across the Shinobi World watched the massacre in silence.
• A Sunagakure Jonin struck a tank with Wind Release: Pressure Damage, but the attack barely marked its armor.
• Hiruzen wept and concluded the old era was over, then Shu Shiraishi announced an attack from a higher dimension.

Konoha’s armored forces crushed Sunagakure’s defenses with guns, airships, and bunker-buster rockets, then advanced on the village gate. As a tank rammed the gate, the gravely wounded Third Kazekage appeared and unleashed a mass of Black Iron Sand at the vanguard.

• A 120-millimeter Chakra smoothbore gun vaporized a Sunagakure Jonin and blasted a crater into the dune behind him.
• Ten airships dropped napalm bombs that burned Sunagakure’s five giant siege puppets and the shinobi operating them.
• A Hyūga observer detected underground bunkers, and Konoha’s rocket launchers collapsed them with bunker-buster rockets.
• Konoha’s armored forces reached Sunagakure’s main gate in less than twenty minutes without taking casualties.
• As a bulldozer-equipped tank struck the gate, the injured Third Kazekage arrived and summoned a vast wave of Black Iron Sand against Konoha’s vanguard.

The Third Kazekage's Magnet Release failed against Konoha's anti-magnetic armor, so he forged enormous iron spears for a final attack. Shu Shiraishi ordered Orochimaru to fire electromagnetic pulse shells as the spears descended.

• The Third Kazekage sent a massive Iron Sand tsunami toward Konoha's armored vehicles, while Hiruzen and the Uchiha officer feared the convoy would be destroyed.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered every vehicle to activate its anti-magnetic armor coating, which repelled the Iron Sand and left the vehicles undamaged.
• The Third Kazekage's Magnet Release could not move the vehicles or their metal parts, and the failure left him humiliated and desperate.
• The Third Kazekage compressed the Iron Sand into huge iron spears and launched them at the tanks using gravity.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered Orochimaru to fire electromagnetic pulse shells at the descending spears.

Shu Shiraishi’s army used an electromagnetic pulse to disable the Kazekage’s Iron Sand and leave him critically injured. Shu approached the fallen Kazekage and drew his sword partway, leaving his next move unclear.

• A missile detonated among the Kazekage’s Iron Sand spears, and its electromagnetic pulse demagnetized them, making them collapse into ordinary sand.
• The disrupted magnetic field caused the Kazekage’s Chakra to backlash, and he fell from the sky and crashed into a dune.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi watched the attack’s result from the command vehicle as the Uchiha officer praised the electromagnetic bomb and the army advanced toward Sunagakure.
• Shu Shiraishi walked alone to the crater and looked down at the badly injured Kazekage.
• The Kazekage called Shu a monster, and Shu silently began drawing his straight sword.

Shu Shiraishi beheaded the Third Kazekage, forcing Chiyo to surrender Sunagakure to Konoha’s armored forces. After the village was occupied, Shu ordered the vanguard to advance on the Daimyo of the Land of Wind and destroy the country before sunset.

• Shu Shiraishi cut off the Third Kazekage’s head, and his Chakra signature vanished.
• Chiyo recognized that Sunagakure could not defeat the steel forces and ordered the village to raise a white flag and surrender unconditionally.
• Sunagakure opened its gates, and Konoha’s forces entered, disarmed the ninja, and locked them in electronic shackles.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi filmed the surrendering ninja and the trampled Sunagakure Forehead Protectors.
• An Uchiha officer reported that Sunagakure had been occupied in less than two hours, and Shu Shiraishi ordered the vanguard to head for the Daimyo’s residence and destroy the Land of Wind before sunset.

Shu Shiraishi’s forces invaded the Land of Wind and captured its Daimyo, conquering the country in half a day. Footage of the victory reached Iwagakure and Kumogakure, where leaders and officials reacted with shock.

• Shu Shiraishi ordered the destruction of the Land of Wind, and the armored convoy advanced into the country after tearing through Sunagakure’s white flag.
• Konoha’s tanks broke into the Daimyo’s palace, and Uchiha troops seized the Daimyo and dragged him outside.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi filmed the Daimyo’s capture and Konoha’s flag being raised over the palace, noting that the conquest had taken twelve hours.
• Ōnoki and Iwagakure’s officials watched the footage in stunned silence while Acting Raikage Dodai reacted in disbelief.
• Iwagakure’s intelligence chief cried out that the Land of Wind could not have fallen in half a day, and the meeting room erupted into an uproar.

Iwagakure and Kumogakure panicked after Konoha's mechanized forces destroyed the Land of Wind in half a day, while Ōnoki learned that the invasion had already crossed into the Land of Earth. As Konoha's tanks advanced toward Iwagakure, Ōnoki forced himself out of his wheelchair and prepared to attack them with Dust Release.

• Iwagakure's officials concluded that Konoha had an immense hidden army and industrial capacity, and panic spread through Iwagakure and Kumogakure.
• Three Iwagakure Chunin fled into the mountains, and a Jonin let them escape as border outposts were abandoned.
• Ōnoki studied the map of Konoha's advance and feared that Iwagakure could not withstand its mechanized forces.
• Kitsuchi reported that Konoha's tanks had crossed the border, destroyed the defenses in less than ten minutes, and were advancing toward Iwagakure.
• Ōnoki used the Light-Weight Rock Technique to rise from his wheelchair and began gathering Dust Release to attack the tanks.

Ōnoki attacked the advancing Chakra tanks with Dust Release, but their linked inverse-frequency shields repelled the blast and left the armor intact. Realizing his strongest technique could not stop them, he ordered Kitsuchi and the Iwagakure forces to retreat behind their last defense.

• Ōnoki flew to the canyon and found tens of thousands of Chakra tanks advancing toward Iwagakure.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique against the tanks at the front of the formation.
• Orochimaru identified the Dust Release wave frequency and activated the tanks’ inverse-frequency shields.
• The shields absorbed the attack, and the tanks kept advancing with their armor intact.
• Ōnoki ordered Kitsuchi and the main force to retreat and activate the Ten-thousand-man Earth Style Wall.

Kitsuchi and ten thousand Iwagakure ninja raised a hundred-meter granite wall to stop Konoha’s armored forces, believing it would protect them. Above the clouds, Shu Shiraishi ordered the air force to use bunker-buster bombs against the barrier.

• Kitsuchi fired a red signal flare and ordered ten thousand Iwagakure ninja to perform the Ten Thousand-Person Earth Style Wall.
• The combined Earth Release thrust a hundred-meter-thick granite mountain range from the ground, sealing the canyon entrance and exhausting the Iwagakure force.
• Iwagakure’s surviving troops rested behind the wall, while Kitsuchi remained wary and reached for his Explosive Tags.
• Shu Shiraishi received a report that the wall blocked the armored forces and saw ten thousand enemy troops gathered behind it.
• Shu Shiraishi ordered the bomber formation to switch to bunker-buster bombs and attack the wall.

Konoha’s bunker-buster bombs drilled through Iwagakure’s hundred-meter Earth Style Wall and detonated inside it, annihilating most of the defenders and opening a breach for the armored convoy. Kitsuchi charged the lead Chakra tank barehanded, hoping to buy time for Ōnoki.

• Konoha’s bombers dropped six bunker-buster bombs onto the Earth Style Wall, while Iwagakure’s defenders mistook them for harmless explosives.
• The bombs drilled through the granite wall, and Kitsuchi realized the danger and shouted for the defenders to run.
• The bombs detonated inside the wall, disintegrating it and burying or killing most of the ten thousand Iwagakure elites in rubble.
• Konoha’s armored convoy drove through the breach and crushed the rubble and corpses beneath its tracks.
• Kitsuchi, unable to use Chakra after raising the wall, charged the lead Chakra tank barehanded to buy time for Ōnoki.

Kitsuchi died trying to stop the lead tank, and Ōnoki's attempt to avenge his son ended with Shu Shiraishi breaking his spine. Shu ordered the army to kill everyone in Iwagakure who resisted and send the survivors to labor camps.

• Kitsuchi charged the lead tank, but its mecha guards shot him and cut him down.
• Ōnoki saw Kitsuchi die and hurled himself toward Shu Shiraishi's command vehicle with the Added-Weight Rock Technique.
• Shu leaped from the vehicle, caught Ōnoki in midair, and slammed him into the ground.
• Shu broke Ōnoki's spine with a knee strike and stood over him as Ōnoki lay helpless.
• Shu ordered his forces to leave no one alive in Iwagakure and send everyone still breathing to labor camps.

Shu Shiraishi’s forces conquered Iwagakure and captured its people, including Ōnoki and the Daimyo of the Land of Earth. After learning that Kirigakure planned to flee overseas, Shu ordered a carrier battle group to seal the sea.

• Ōnoki was chained to an armored vehicle and dragged across the wasteland after the Land of Earth’s defeat.
• Uchiha Jōkan disabled Iwagakure ninjas with needles and electronic collars, then herded them onto a military train.
• A mecha seized the Daimyo from his underground shelter and threw him into a slave truck, where he found Ōnoki.
• Shu Shiraishi took over Ōnoki’s office and received Orochimaru’s report that Kirigakure was preparing to flee by sea.
• Shu ordered the carrier battle group to move out and seal off the sea.

Orochimaru confirmed that Konoha would seal off the sea, and the Chakra aircraft carrier launched from Shipbuilding Base Three. The carrier and its submarines surrounded the Third Mizukage’s fleeing fleet, leaving him on his knees as resistance and escape became impossible.

• Orochimaru saluted and confirmed the order to seal off the sea before his hologram vanished from the Hokage’s office.
• Ground crew at Konoha’s Shipbuilding Base Three flooded the dry dock and launched the Chakra aircraft carrier.
• The Third Mizukage led Kirigakure’s crowded evacuation fleet through dense fog toward the open sea, relying on the Hidden Mist Technique for cover.
• The carrier emerged from the fog, its horn disrupted the Hidden Mist Technique, and its enormous waves capsized ships and swept civilians into the water.
• Chakra fighter jets circled overhead while nuclear-powered Chakra submarines surrounded the fleet and the carrier’s cannons targeted the flagship.
• The Third Mizukage abandoned his attempt to fight and fell to his knees as he realized Kirigakure could neither resist nor escape.