Meanwhile, the giants burning with dark chakra reached the protective perimeter and immediately slowed down considerably, emitting dark smoke. Their chakra clearly conflicted with its opposite, but despite this, two dozen attackers stubbornly tried to break through the ten-meter protective strip to the temple.
And they might have succeeded in a couple of hours, judging by their speed, had several figures in priestly robes not appeared from the temple. Four men began to chant a prayer, which I could not make out from a distance, immediately increasing the intensity of their resistance to the attackers several times over and practically stopping them in their tracks, while a woman stepped forward a few steps.
"You shall not pass, minions of Morieu, no matter how many times you try!" she declared in a loud voice, addressing the ninja who had wisely remained outside the protective barrier.
"Our master wants your daughter, and sooner or later, he will get what he wants," shouted the strongest of the ninja. "Your powers are fading, priestess, and our master is only growing more powerful with time, while his army of giants is growing!"
"Even if the demon himself shows up here, he will meet the same end as these fools!" With her hands folded in front of her along with her prayer beads, the woman flashed with a blinding light, literally radiating power, albeit different from chakra, and then that power crashed down on the attackers.
The stone warriors were engulfed by a wave of light, then simply wiped out along with huge reserves of purple chakra, leaving only piles of rubble that littered the protective perimeter in front of the temple. Even with a quick glance, I counted at least a hundred, including the new ones.
"It won't change anything. Very soon, even more of the lord's stone warriors will arrive," the leader shrugged. "You are just humans who have decided to oppose the will of a deity."
"Since when did demons become gods?" the priestess snorted mockingly. 'Besides, you yourselves won't live longer than these stone idols, flattered by borrowed strength.
"We'll see, witch,' the shinobi shrugged indifferently and signaled his men to retreat.
But I had heard everything I wanted to hear and had no desire to let them go. What could be better for establishing relations than killing a common enemy?
Obeying the impulse of my chakra, kage bunshin jumped out from under the ground, got close enough without any problems, and attacked the shinobi. They were Kunis, and I took on the leader, who had a fairly large amount of chakra.
"Who are you?" exclaimed the leader, barely taking my kunai blow.
His subordinates were not as experienced and were easily knocked down.
"Enemies, who else?" I drove my chakra-covered fist into the man's side, overcoming the resistance of the purple cover with some difficulty.
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