"Besides that, there are its red-glowing eyes, the gleaming metal spikes protruding from its joints, and a mouthful of sharp teeth that reflect light..."
"In short, the puppet clearly borrowed its appearance from a tiger, but its final form was even more ferocious and terrifying than a tiger's."
"This ferocious and terrifying appearance, coupled with the tiger-shaped puppet's enormous size of over ten meters, is enough to make one feel intimidated just by looking at it from a distance, and one's legs involuntarily go weak..."
In the pouring rain, Hyuga Daisuke followed behind Shin'un, loudly recounting his reconnaissance findings to Shin'un, who was running ahead of him.
"Ferocious and terrifying?"
Shin'un repeated the word to himself, then turned to look at the young Jonin behind him.
It was quite obvious that Shin'un could see a hint of unease on the face Jonin this Konoha who was about the same age as him.
Seeing this, Shin'un shook his head and sighed softly, then said directly:
"What's so terrifying about Daisuke, Jonin Daisuke? He's just a puppet a dozen meters tall!"
"I'm afraid you've never seen my teacher's summoned beast, Manda."
"This..." Upon hearing Shin'un's words, Jonin Daisuke for a moment, then said, "That's right, because I'm a newly promoted Jonin, right?"
"Furthermore, I've never been on the same battlefield as one of the three Orochimaru the Cold-Blooded."
"Of course, I've never even seen Lord Orochimaru's summoning beast."
Shin'un nodded, smiled, and continued:
"If you had witnessed the performance of Master's summoning beast, Manda, on the battlefield as a near-war-killing weapon, you wouldn't be intimidated by the Sand Ninja's giant puppet today."
"Is that so?" Jonin Daisuke looked at Shin'un's running figure in front of him, Chunin feel curious about the Manda that Shin had mentioned.
Maintaining his running pace, Shin'un glanced back at the Jonin Daisuke behind him and clearly saw the curiosity in his eyes about the Manda Summoning Beast that Shen Yun had mentioned.
"A simple description can't capture the sheer size of the Manda," Shin'un said after a moment's thought. "Here's some simple comparative data that might give you a rough idea of what the Manda is like."
Turning his head, Shin'un first asked Daisuke a question.
"That giant Sand Ninja puppet in front is over ten meters tall, right?"
Upon hearing Shin'un's words, Daisuke quickly nodded in agreement.
"But do you know how long the Manda is?"
Before Daisuke could even ask a question, Shin'un immediately gave the answer.
"According to Orochimaru's rough measurements last year, Manda is a full 135 meters long, and the height it can reach when Manda up is 54 meters."
"Just looking at the data, you can imagine what a behemoth it is."
"Fifty-four meters!" Upon hearing Shin'un's words, Jonin Daisuke was immediately shocked. After silently calculating, he shook his head and exclaimed, "That's more than three times the size of that giant tiger-shaped puppet from the Sand Ninja... It's completely unimaginable..."
Seeing the appearance of Jonin Daisuke behind him, Shin'un smiled slightly and interrupted his thoughts.
"Alright, you can't imagine the sheer size of the Manda by just looking at the data. You have to see it with your own eyes to be truly awestruck."
I'm only saying all this to help you calm down and prepare for the enemy.
As he spoke, Shin'un gazed into the distance at the giant Sand Ninja puppet, whose ferocious tiger head was already visible, and his expression gradually became serious.
"You should continue explaining the tiger-shaped puppet from before. How did it manage to lead twenty Sand Ninja to suppress our forty-plus Konoha Ninja?"
"Also, was that loud airburst just now an attack from that tiger-shaped puppet?"
"Oh!" Hyuga Daisuke quickly composed himself and organized his thoughts to give a report.
"Yes, the Sand Ninja's fighting style is very different from before."
"Previously, aside from large-scale battlefield Ninjutsu that would be released collectively before the start of a major battle, as the battle progressed, all ninjas would gradually disperse and fight individually, at most coordinating with each other in small teams."
"But those Sand Ninja ahead were different."
After saying this, Hyuga Daisuke paused for a moment before saying:
"As the battle progressed, the twenty-odd Sand Ninja consciously gathered behind the tiger-shaped puppet, completely avoiding close combat with our ninjas."
"They simply hid behind the thick-skinned tiger-shaped puppet, treating it like a mobile fortress, and used Kunai, Shuriken, or Explosive Tag for ranged attacks."
"Conversely, because of a heavily armored mobile artillery emplacement and fortress, our forty-odd Konoha ninjas couldn't harm the Sand Ninja hiding behind the tiger-shaped puppet in the slightest."
"In this way, only the Sand Ninja can harm us, but we have to choose a moment when the tiger puppet can't protect us in order to hurt those Sunagakure. Naturally, we can only be suppressed by the Sand Ninja who can attack from a distance."
After uttering all these words in one breath, Jonin Daisuke paused slightly and said in a low voice:
"Furthermore, the forty-odd Konoha Ninja I mentioned were only those Konoha Ninja were still alive when I arrived there."
"When I received your orders and led the reconnaissance squad to the small battlefield ahead, the fighting had clearly been going on for some time, and there were already quite a few ninja corpses on the ground."
"A rough count reveals at least fifty corpses of our Konoha Ninja."
"Of course, some of these corpses belong to Sunagakure ninjas, but their numbers are less than half of those from Konoha."
Seemingly a little irritated, Daisuke paused again.
"Although the remaining forty-odd Konoha Ninja are still working hard to separate the tiger-shaped puppet from the Sand Ninja."
"But when I left and returned... I saw no possibility of their success."
"That tiger-shaped puppet looked very bulky and huge, but it was actually exceptionally agile and far faster than ordinary ninjas."
"It can often easily evade large-scale attacks specifically designed to target it."
"Moreover, the twenty-odd Sand Ninja hiding behind the tiger-shaped puppet are no pushovers. Once the tiger-shaped puppet is bogged down by a large-scale attack, they will definitely join forces to rescue it."
"The tiger-shaped puppet, combined with the twenty-odd Sand Ninja behind it, completely suppressed our remaining forty-odd Konoha Ninja. Moreover, due to the tiger-shaped puppet's extremely fast speed, they couldn't even give up the fight and escape."
With his eyes slightly narrowed, Shin'un gazed thoughtfully at the tiger-shaped puppet in the distance.
Hyuga Daisuke's words made him rethink the actual effectiveness and power of the Sand Ninja's giant puppets on the battlefield.