If the war between the Big Mom Pirates and Kirigakure was a probing back-and-forth, where whoever played their trump cards first would lose the intelligence war...
Then the war between the Blackbeard Pirates and Iwagakure was a one-sided steamrolling by Iwagakure over the Blackbeard Pirates, a tactical battle where they were schemed to death from beginning to end...
Then the battle between the Beasts Pirates and the cloud ninjas of the Land of Lightning's border fortress was a taijutsu battle of "martial school vs. martial school," where both sides only had a little intelligence on the other.
That's right, a taijutsu battle!
Although Kumogakure also had Kekkei Genkai, ninjutsu, Hiden ninjutsu, and even forbidden jutsu.
But whether it was Kekkei Genkai ninjutsu, Hiden ninjutsu, or forbidden jutsu, they all liked to integrate them into taijutsu, creating various schools of nin-taijutsu.
In some aspects, Kumogakure was very similar to the pirate world.
Those ninjas were not only good at hand-to-hand combat and nin-taijutsu that integrated chakra and nature transformation, but they were also good at using cold weapons such as daggers, short swords, and katanas.
It was just that, besides their unique nin-taijutsu, which in some aspects was no less than the pirate world's, in terms of swordsmanship, they were not even qualified to carry the shoes of the swordsmen of the pirate world.
Their swordsmanship, rather than being called swordsmanship, was more like an assassination technique.
Even their slashes needed to rely on nature transformation to swing out a small crescent-shaped arc, which could be crushed by any swordsman in the pirate world who could swing out a flying slash.
Only the slashes swung out by the Perfect Susanoo could be compared to the great swordsmen of the pirate world.
Therefore...
When the Beasts Pirates pressed forward, and after successfully blowing away the defensive wall of the border fortress with cannonballs that were far superior to Kumogakure's, and engaged the cloud ninjas in battle.
A war of Zoan users vs. Kumogakure's nin-taijutsu immediately broke out on the border fortress of the Land of Lightning.
Among them, the most thankless were naturally those cloud ninjas who used ordinary swordsmanship.
Besides the cloud ninjas covered in the Lightning Release nature transformation, those cloud ninjas who did not know chakra nature transformation, nor the "cut of steel," even scratching the skin of those Zoan users was a difficult matter for them.
On the contrary, those Zoan users, whose fists could shatter rocks and who were invulnerable to blades and spears when covered in Armament Haki, could seriously injure those cloud ninjas who were skilled in swordsmanship but whose physique was not as good as the cloud ninjas skilled in nin-taijutsu, and make them lose their ability to fight on the spot with just a simple punch.
By the way...
Most of these Zoan users were products of artificial Devil Fruits.
Each of them was strangely shaped, and just their terrifying and ferocious appearance made the ninjas, who had undergone special training and had very strong psychological quality, feel fear in their hearts involuntarily.
"It's my turn to make a move. I've brought you to this world for this moment."
At the same time, Kaido also cast a terrifying gaze at the captive Kid Pirates, and the Hawkins Pirates, who were not loyal and did not weigh as much in his heart as Scratchmen Apoo.
Under the deterrence of the pirate emperor, and understanding that they could not resist the Five Emperor Alliance, Eustass Kid, with a gloomy face, finally led the Kid Pirates and attacked the cloud ninjas.
Basil Hawkins also led the Hawkins Pirates and followed closely behind.
After the user of the Paramecia Magnet-Magnet Fruit entered the fray, those swordsmanship ninjas, who were originally at a disadvantage and were being completely dominated by the samurai of Wano Country brought by Kaido, even lost their weapons.
Just as ordinary ninjas could not resist the Almighty Push of the Deva Path of Pain or Blackbeard's Dark Water.
When Eustass Kid consumed a large amount of physical energy and released a powerful magnetic field, the short swords, daggers, katanas, and even kunai and shuriken of the cloud ninjas, whether they were skilled in swordsmanship or nin-taijutsu, all detached from their bodies.
Except for the weapons that had not been unsheathed, all weapons broke free from their hands with a powerful force and flew towards Eustass Kid on the battlefield.
Not just these cloud ninjas, but even the samurai and pirates on the Beasts Pirates' side, many of them had their weapons torn from their hands.
But the number of people who could hold on to their weapons was far greater than on the cloud ninjas' side.
After condensing the absorbed cold weapons to form a giant mechanical arm, Eustass Kid, with a ferocious expression, vented all the anger that had been suppressed by Kaido on the cloud ninjas.
Boom—!
With a loud bang, facing the giant mechanical arm full of sharp blades, the cloud ninjas, who had no Armament Haki and did not know the hardening of the Earth Release nature transformation, could only dodge awkwardly.
The cloud ninjas who could not dodge in time, even if their physique was the strongest among the five great ninja villages, were mercilessly smashed into meat paste by Eustass Kid's single punch.
Perhaps the elite ninjas had not been sent to the border fortress by Kumogakure.
Therefore...
Under the attack of the extremely powerful Beasts Pirates, the cloud ninjas, who numbered only about two thousand, quickly showed signs of defeat.
What was worth mentioning was that besides the samurai of Wano Country, the three disasters, the Flying Six, and the Supernova subordinates, neither the Three Calamities, the highest cadres of the Beasts Pirates, nor the Flying Six, whose status was second only to the Three Calamities, had made a move.
Just Eustass Kid and Basil Hawkins, and the pirate crews led by Scratchmen Apoo and X Drake, as well as the pirates led by the products of the artificial Devil Fruits, had completely suppressed the cloud ninjas of the Land of Lightning's border fortress.
But to completely defeat them, even with the strength of the Beasts Pirates, without Kaido, the Three Calamities, and the Flying Six making a move, it would be impossible without one or two hours.
During this time, the Beasts Pirates took this opportunity to collect intelligence on the cloud ninjas.
On the cloud ninjas' side, they had also successfully transmitted the news of the enemy's invasion of the border fortress back to the village.
Upon learning that the border fortress had been invaded, the Third Raikage, who had already returned to Kumogakure from Iwagakure, without a second thought, mobilized all the elites in the village to go and support their companions at the border.
The Third Raikage, who cared deeply for his companions and in the original story had even stayed behind alone to cover their retreat and had fought against ten thousand Iwagakure ninjas for three days and three nights before dying of exhaustion, even used the Heavenly Transfer Technique to arrive at the battlefield one step ahead.
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