Chapter 116: Bombardment
"Throw the kunai with explosive tags!"
Sasuke seized the opportunity and gave the tactical order. At the same time, his own hands became blurs, throwing almost ten kunai in just a few breaths. Nearly one hundred and twenty ninjas under his command did the same. The wave of projectiles alone was equivalent to several Shadow Shuriken Clone Techniques, and the combined explosive power was no less than the massive fire jutsu the Uchiha army itself had just launched.
"Wind Style Defense!" ordered the Sunagakure commander, delighted to see such a predictable attack. He planned to use the wind to return the explosives to their senders.
A kilometer away, Uchiha Setsuna cursed furiously: "Idiot. You launch such a long-range attack and don't even use the wind to accelerate it. Not only have you committed suicide, but you're implicating all of us."
"I thought the so-called 'Konoha's Iron Wall' would have some strength," his subordinate, Yasaku, said sarcastically. "But it seems his previous victory was just luck, using a large quantity of explosives against some careless ones."
"Yes, a waste..." Setsuna began to say, but he was stunned mid-sentence. He and Yasaku looked at each other, confused.
They thought the Sunagakure ninjas would easily resist, but at the critical moment, something went wrong. The wind jutsus dissipated before they were born. Not a single gust formed.
"There's no genjutsu fluctuation," Setsuna murmured. Hundreds of meters away, what illusion could have such a wide range?
"Elder Setsuna, could it be Kurama Kon?" Yasaku asked. "Only the Kurama clan's kekkei genkai could have such a wide effect."
"Hmph, our Sharingan is the strongest!" Setsuna retorted, but the anger in his eyes betrayed his envy, and his longing to awaken the Mangekyo intensified.
Just then, a roar that resonated throughout the world brought him back to reality.
Almost a thousand explosive tags detonated almost at the same time. Flames shot into the sky. Sunagakure's right flank, without its wind defense, was blown to smithereens. Fortunately for them, there were many puppet users who used their puppets as shields, preventing total annihilation. But the attack of hundreds of kunai, followed by the shrapnel from the explosion, was undoubtedly an S-level critical blow.
"Don't hold back the tags, keep throwing!" Sasuke shouted, seeing his men hesitate. "Save your chakra! The path to escape is long!"
He knew they were in a desperate retreat. Every drop of chakra was valuable. As for the explosive tags, he had spent all the money he had earned in recent months accumulating them precisely for a crisis like this. It didn't matter how much money he had if he didn't live to spend it.
"Puppet defense!" the Sunagakure ninjas shouted.
They were forced to use their valuable puppet users as human shields to withstand the bombardment. Thus, the battle turned into a strange scene. Sasuke's team, supposedly trying to break an encirclement, was now suppressing and attacking the enemy's right flank, almost as if they were about to break their line and pursue them in the opposite direction.
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