chapter 91 part 4
He dared to attack the Eight-Tails now, bringing a pile of zombies to engage in a frontal battle with their team of 300 people. What would he be like in a few more years? No one knew to what extent Tsukasa Kaede would grow.
Even if his own strength limit could never reach Kage-level, merely expanding the corpse horde and deploying them onto the battlefield would already be unbearable. No one knew how many extra casualties would be needed to deal with the corpse horde.
Troy glanced towards A. A's heart stirred, knowing Troy had formulated a tactic and needed his cooperation.
"Among all the corpses, those emerging from coffins were clearly more powerful, having undergone careful maintenance. In contrast, the corpses that emerged from summoning scrolls were generally weak in strength, existing as consumables for healing other corpses' injuries, and as meat shields to absorb attacks."
The Hidden Cloud Village had long since discovered this point. Troy immediately summoned five card shuriken and constantly threw them in all directions.
Many zombies were sliced in half.
"New tactics? It's nothing more than a decapitation strike strategy, aimed at me."
Tsukasa Kaede jumped onto a coffin, watching the scene and surveying the battlefield. "The zombies' losses are growing. The fewer their numbers, the faster the attrition rate, and the less damage they can inflict on the enemy."
Then, the time was almost up.
Tsukasa Kaede suddenly clapped his hands together.
Corpse Release: Zombification Jutsu!
The corpses of the Kumogakure ninja who had fallen earlier immediately began to move, twitching and writhing stiffly, their bones emitting rattling sounds. On this chaotic battlefield, it sent shivers down everyone's spines.
And they immediately attacked the uninjured Kumogakure ninja.
In an instant, countless screams rang out, followed by disbelieving questions and panicked roars.
"All his blood has drained away, how did he come back to life again?"
"Our comrades have been controlled by the evil enemy. Now they are enemies too; we cannot be soft-hearted!"
"No, I can't bring myself to do it..."
The Kumogakure ninja, who had just managed to stabilize their position and were fighting more smoothly as they went, were now plunged into chaos. In a very short time, heavy casualties occurred; over twenty people were killed on the spot, and more were injured, their formation becoming riddled with openings.
But this wasn't over yet.
Tsukasa Kaede, like a shinigami, spread his hands, as if to condescendingly cover the entire battlefield. "My current strength grants me a bit of status in this world, so I might as well reveal my true abilities... The dead will fight for me, and the living shouldn't even dream of escaping my shadow!"
At this moment, Tsukasa Kaede began to extensively activate Zombification Jutsu, not only affecting corpses but also beginning to target living humans.
More precisely, it was those living humans who had previously been bitten or scratched!
This was actually not easy. On the battlefield, ninja were already fully exerting their mental energy and life force, desperately creating more Chakra. Even if they were bitten or scratched and internally infected with the zombie virus, the large amounts of Chakra attached throughout their bodies increased the rate at which Tsukasa Kaede could erode them.
But a slow rate didn't mean no rate at all, let alone performing the jutsu at this distance.
Under Tsukasa Kaede's unhesitating jutsu performance, gradually, one by one, the injured living humans began to feel their hearts beating rapidly, their blood circulating faster, yet their body temperature was dropping, their entire bodies turning cold.
Every muscle emitted a faint tingling pain, then slowly lost sensation. The self-consciousness in their brain gradually blurred, and little by little, they lost control over their bodies.
What was first manifested were distorted movements and confused speech logic.
"Hey, what are you doing?! Your hand signs are already formed, why aren't you releasing your ninjutsu?"
"Mph! Mph! Mph! Mph!"
"Huh?"
"Ahhhhh!! Are you crazy?! Why are you attacking me? Get away!"
With frequent corpse transformations from the inside out, and relentless siege by corpses from the outside in, Kumogakure's forces finally began to collapse.
More and more people died, joining Tsukasa Kaede's ranks. More and more people were injured; while still alive, their bodies began to shake violently, howling and attacking nearby healthy living humans.
The corpse horde, which had originally been half-annihilated, rapidly increased in number within a very short time, while Kumogakure's forces were rapidly dwindling! As a result, the balance of power between the two sides shifted from imbalance to balance and back to imbalance again, rapidly reversing the scales.
Everything happened too fast, too suddenly, leaving the surviving Kumogakure ninja utterly bewildered and at a loss. While instinctively fending off various attacks, they were also hesitant, completely unsure who to attack. Anything moving in front of them—who the hell knew if it was an enemy or one of their own now!
One second they were comrades fighting side by side, the next they began to move slowly, and a moment later, they turned and frantically attacked them. This not only caused drastic changes in combat power for both sides, but the psychological blow was too severe.
What they had lost could be subordinates, close friends, or relatives they had interacted with daily. Now, only life-and-death confrontation remained.
"Hurry and run! The Leaf Devourer is a demon spirit, ahhh!!"