At the Konoha main camp, the deathly silence was torn to shreds by the continuous shrieking overhead.
Everyone craned their necks, staring at the figure standing atop the forest canopy.
The goggles on Hyuga Ryosuke's face reflected the crimson light filling the sky. Those Byakugan eyes, which could normally see through everything, were now filled with nothing but blank shock.
The several Hyuga Branch Family Ninjas beside him had their mouths hanging open so wide their jaws nearly hit their feet.
"This... this is an ability of our Hyuga Clan?"
Hyuga Yamato rubbed his eyes, looking at the intangible bow of light in Aokawa's hand, then at his own calloused palms used for practicing Gentle Fist, falling into a deep state of self-doubt.
"Gentle Fist? Pressure Point Technique? Eight Trigrams Palms?"
"In the face of dozens of explosions per second, what do those things even matter!"
"I want to learn that!"
Hyuga Yamato's eyes were bloodshot, whether from envy or jealousy: "I want this kind of Bloodline Limit too! To hell with close-quarters combat, this is a man's true romance!"
...Atop the canopy.
Aokawa paid no mind to the commotion below.
At this moment, he was like a precisely operating fire-control radar.
After ascending to a Pure-Blood Quincy, the world appeared entirely different in his eyes.
The spirit particles drifting in the air were no longer inanimate objects but cheering soldiers, scrambling to pour into his blood vessels and gather upon the "Ginrei Kojaku."
"Is this the true power of a high-purity Quincy Bloodline..."
Aokawa felt the nearly infinite stamina within his body, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.
As long as his body could take it, his arrows would never stop as long as spirit particles existed in this world.
"First wave of saturation strikes complete. Forward positions cleared."
Perceiving through the Reishi Network, the mist-covered area ahead held only scattered, lingering life signs.
Over ninety percent of those two hundred Kumogakure vanguards, along with their ashes, had become fertilizer for this scorched earth.
But further back, there was still the rest of the Kumogakure main force.
"Since we're playing, let's play big."
Aokawa's gaze sharpened, and his left hand holding the bow raised slightly by three inches.
"Adjusting firing parameters."
"Extending trajectory, three hundred meters."
Buzz—!
The Ginrei Kojaku emitted an excited hum.
The crimson rain of arrows that had been covering the front suddenly seemed to come alive, shifting further into the distance.
A "moving wall" about a hundred meters wide, composed of explosions and flames, carried an Aura of world-ending destruction as it slowly ground its way into the depths of the Kumogakure lines.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The earth trembled, and flames reached the sky.
This wasn't a Ninjutsu duel.
This was a carpet bombing... "That kid... is he clearing the way for us?"
Just as the Konoha Army was hesitating in the face of this terrifying firepower, a golden flash suddenly appeared at the very front of the lines.
Minato Namikaze wore his green flak jacket, his blonde hair dancing wildly in the heat waves.
He watched the "wall of fire" advancing ahead, his eyes erupting with an unprecedented brilliance.
As a top-tier tactical Great Master, he instantly understood Aokawa's intention and saw the terrifying value inherent in this brand-new tactic.
There was no need for close-quarters bayonet charges.
There was no need to use human lives to fill the enemy's traps and fortifications.
As long as they followed this wall of fire, the path ahead was smooth!
This was a combat method that had never appeared in the Ninja World!
"All forces, hear my command!"
Minato's voice wasn't loud, but carried by Chakra, it clearly reached the ears of every Konoha Ninja.
"Don't stop! But don't charge too fast either!"
He suddenly drew a specialized Kunai and pointed toward the purgatory ahead.
"Everyone, maintain a distance of fifty meters from the blast line!"
"With the Third, Fifth, and Seventh Battalions as the assault tip, follow in a wedge formation!"
"Any Kumogakure left alive, whether standing or lying down, finish them off!"
"This is our moment to attack!"
"Kill!!"
With Minato Namikaze's command, the long-suppressed bloodlust of the Konoha Ninjas was instantly ignited.
"Kill!!"
Uchiha Yashiro took the lead, charging at the very front with his blade drawn.
They had originally thought this would be a bitter struggle like a meat grinder.
But when they actually charged into the Battlefield, everyone was dumbfounded.
Where was the resistance?
Where were the traps?
The ground had been plowed three feet deep; all the Explosive Tags and tripwires had been detonated in the previous bombardment.
As for the Cloud Hidden Ninjas?
They were bleeding from their orifices from the shockwaves; some were wandering like headless chickens, while others sat paralyzed on the ground with vacant eyes, unable to even hold their weapons steady.
"This..."
Uchiha Inabi looked at a Kumogakure Chunin in front of him who had his leg blown off and was just sitting there giggling; he didn't even know where to stab his Kunai.
Was this still the fierce and overbearing Kumogakure?
They were clearly just a flock of lambs waiting for the slaughter!
"Don't daze off! Get to work!"
Hyuga Iroha lunged from behind, shattering that Kumogakure's heart with a single Gentle Fist strike, his movements incredibly clean.
"Satisfying! This is so damn satisfying!"
A Konoha Chunin was harvesting heads while trembling with excitement: "I've fought for ten years and never fought such a 'wealthy' battle!"
"In the past, charging meant putting your life on the line. Now, it's basically just following a big boss and picking up merits!"
The tide of battle reversed in an instant.
The once-aggressive Kumogakure Army, under Aokawa's fire suppression and the coordinated assault of the Konoha Ninjas, melted away like snow under a fierce sun.
A brand-new tactical term was born at this moment—Infantry-Artillery Coordination.
And Aokawa was that human self-propelled artillery with infinite range and infinite firepower... On the left flank of the Battlefield, atop the heights.
Crack.
The rock beneath Fourth Raikage A's feet was crushed into powder by his sheer force.
He watched his routed troops below, watched that wall of fire harvesting Kumogakure lives like a Shinigami's scythe; his chest heaved violently as if it might explode at any moment.
Disgrace.
An unprecedented disgrace!
The proud Kumogakure iron cavalry was being ground into the dirt by a single person in this almost humiliating fashion!
"Big Brother..."
Killer Bee was no longer singing, dancing, or rapping.
Behind his sunglasses, a rare trace of gravity appeared in his eyes.
That boy standing on the treetop was no Ninja at all.
He was a monster.
A monster who, as long as he was allowed to stand and output fire, could destroy an entire army.
"We can't let him keep shooting."
A's voice was terrifyingly low, every word like ice squeezed from between his teeth.
"This kid's attack range is too far, and the power is too great."
"If we let him continue advancing like this, our main force will be dead before they even see Minato Namikaze."
He turned his head to look at Killer Bee, his eyes flashing with a beast-like light.
"Bee."
"We don't have time to get bogged down with the main army."
"We must perform a decapitation strike."
Lightning light surged around A's body. The originally violent Lightning Release Chakra was now compressed to the extreme, forming a layer of dazzling Lightning Armor on his skin.
His hair stood on end, and his entire being was like a lightning blade about to be unsheathed.
"His firepower may be fierce, but it's a wide-area attack."
"As long as we are fast enough—fast enough to exceed the spread of the explosions, fast enough that his eyes can't keep up with our afterimages."
"He'll just be a fragile target!"
A extended a finger, pointing from afar toward that figure several kilometers away who was still continuously drawing his bow.
"Circle around from the flank."
"Forget about everyone else."
"I want you and me together to take this Konoha battery..."
The Raikage's fists slammed together, detonating a terrifying shockwave.
"And tear it completely apart!!"
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