Amid his wild laughter, Takemikazuchi Susanoo beat its wings and charged the utterly bewildered Sky Ninja.
In their elders' tales, Sky Ninja were the kings of the skies, glorious warriors who ruled the heavens of the ninja world.
Ground-bound shinobi from other villages? Just worms crawling in the dirt.
So in their day-to-day training, Sky Ninja never seriously practiced air-to-air combat. All their drills were aimed at targets on the ground.
Even when they sparred in the air with each other, it was light touch only and far less intense than their "anti-ground" training.
If you used Paradox's silly classifications, these Sky Ninja were all dive-bombers providing close air support — not true fighters built for dogfights.
By contrast, Uchiha Yorin was a super-monster flying fortress with six extra jet engines, eight layers of additional armor plates, and a thousand twin-linked cannons bolted on.
The moment the two sides clashed, thirty-two Lightning Blade kunai roared out toward the nearest Sky Ninja.
Back when Yorin was fighting on the ground, his Lightning Blade kunai and chakra threads formed a half-circle.
Now he was in mid-air, so the kunai array spread into a perfect circle.
And with his chakra reserves now massively, stupidly increased, the chakra threads tethering those kunai could extend much farther — and he could even branch off extra "empty" chakra cords, not attached to any kunai.
Those free-floating cords were as tough as steel wire, razor-thin and sharp. Driven by sheer inertia, they could slice through flesh — and even through light armor.
Like, say, that fishnet "armor" all ninjas wear.
A lot of people's first reaction is to think it's fetish net stockings, but technically speaking, it's supposed to be protective gear.
The actual defense it provides, though, is… questionable. Yorin was pretty sure a well-thrown kunai could punch through it.
And indeed, that's exactly how it went.
Seeing the storm of chakra wires and Lightning Blade kunai sweeping toward them, the Sky Ninja panicked and broke formation, scattering in all directions.
If this had been on the ground, Yorin could have just Lightning-Body-Flickered around a few times, carving them all into mulch.
But this was aerial combat now, and aerial combat has its own rules.
With the battlefield extending into a huge vertical space, and the Sky Ninja's mobility far surpassing normal shinobi, even his usually overwhelming Body Flicker couldn't instantly wipe out an entire army.
Which meant: this fight would rely more on ranged firepower.
And not just massive area blasts — it had to be accurate fire.
Yorin: "Got it. In that case, let's use this."
He thought that as he hurled a barrage of shuriken at the nearest Sky Ninja — not with his hand, but fired from a high-output chakra launcher, accelerating them again and again.
There'd been something similar in the original canon. Under Yorin's guidance, that same concept had evolved into Konoha's new "shuriken rapid-fire gun" — standard issue for their elite units.
For a jōnin or kage-tier monster, their own throws were still faster and stronger. But the shuriken guns could spit out shuriken at speeds exceeding those of an elite chūnin.
And their continuous rate of fire — the sheer number of projectiles they could spew in moments — far surpassed what an ordinary ninja could manage.
For the broader Konoha forces, these guns were almost perfect weapons. The only issues were cost… and the ammo bill. If someone got excited and held down the trigger, the gun would happily turn entire ammo stores into confetti in seconds.
Uchiha Yorin: "Keh keh keh… taste the power of technology, you trash!"
Laughing like an absolute maniac, he dual-wielded two shuriken guns and unleashed twin streams of fire.
Two tracer-like streams, each shuriken wrapped in Fire-style chakra, tore across the sky and, in the blink of an eye, shredded the nearest target into paste.
The barrage was so dense and so strong that both the Sky Ninja and their flight rigs were chopped into tiny chunks — blood and metal fragments scattered, painting the sky a horrifying shade of red.
The sight alone made many Sky Ninja shudder.
"Don't be afraid!"
Shinnō roared, his voice booming across the battlefield.
"He's alone! If we attack together, we can bring him down!"
His lungs were strong; otherwise his voice wouldn't have carried over such a huge space.
Hearing him, the Sky Ninja regained some confidence.
Yeah. Yorin was ridiculously strong. But no matter how strong one man is, he can't kill all of them in one go.
They quickly switched tactics: forming three-man cells, using Body Flicker and high-speed maneuvers to flank and circle around behind him.
In that time, Yorin's shuriken guns fired several more volleys, casually cutting down a few more unlucky bastards who'd flown too close.
"Help!"
"I don't wanna die!"
"Mommy!"
No matter how they dodged, no matter what Water Walls or defensive jutsu they threw up, they couldn't stop Yorin from turning them into red mist.
The brutality of it showcased Konoha's new weapons perfectly. It also made the Sky Ninja's dreams of the future collapse fast.
"Can we really revive the Sky Village? With Konoha getting this strong…"
And then—
cchk cchk.
The sound from Yorin's hands told its own story.
"Yeah, sustainment's an issue," Yorin thought dryly.
Spraying bullets is fun, but if the ammo can't keep up, it's a short trip to the crematorium.
Lost in the thrill of mowing people down, he hadn't really thought about how fast he was burning through ammo.
Now both magazines were dry.
The Sky Ninja, seeing that, practically started doing victory handsprings mid-air.
Too damn good. The enemy was out of ammunition — now it was their turn to attack!
Those with shuriken threw shuriken, those with ninja tools fired ninja tools, and then came the ninjutsu barrage, from every angle, hammering Takemikazuchi Susanoo.
If some other transmigrator were watching, they'd probably laugh out loud.
Seriously? After Danzō, there's a whole new batch of idiots trying to poke Susanoo with shuriken.
…
Explosions boomed around him in a chain.
To be fair, these guys did have something.
Driven by hatred, Sky's fighting power was way above that of a typical minor village; they were close to the average level of the Five Great Ninja Villages.
Combined with their mobility in the air, they could give any great village's elite forces a serious headache.
But… still not enough.
Against a broken-balance monster like Uchiha Yorin, all they could do was die. There was no other path.
"What the hell?!"
"Why isn't it working, why isn't it working at all?!"
"What is that jutsu?!"
Everyone knows, the most common archetype in the ninja world is the glass cannon — like pilots of Zero fighters in a past life.
The Sky Ninja were used to assuming that if someone took this kind of concentrated barrage, they were dead.
So when Yorin's lightning-wreathed giant burst out of the smoke, they all froze, completely at a loss.
Uchiha Yorin: "Honestly…"
"If that's all you've got, then too bad. You're all going to die."
He formed hand seals and cast a forbidden jutsu: Multiple Shadow Clone.
His chakra reserves were monstrous, and in an instant, a whole army of his clones appeared in the sky.
Shinnō's earlier line about "we have numbers and he doesn't" was shattered on the spot.
Multiple Shadow Clone. Tobirama's monstrous forbidden technique. These Sky hermits had never seen it before. The sudden sea of Yorins stunned them — some even thought it was some legendary Sharingan illusion.
"Even if it's illusion, just kill 'em!"
Shinnō still tried to bluff, shouting, "It's just genjutsu! Cut them down!"
But anyone who's read the original knows: the scary part of Multiple Shadow Clone is that every single clone can hit like a truck.
Back in the day, Naruto's Multiple Shadow Clone plus Wind-Style Rasenshuriken turned a single-target super jutsu into a full-scale army-killer.
Now Uchiha Yorin was operating at roughly the same tier. Even if his raw chakra wasn't quite at peak Naruto levels, he had nature energy.
All he had to do was convert that almost limitless natural energy into enhanced sage chakra.
And so, in every clone's hand, there appeared a terrifying Sage-Style: Big Ball Rasenshuriken.
Naruto's move really is good — except this time, since Yorin was the first to use Multiple Shadow Clone + Sage-Style Big Ball Rasenshuriken, the technique was legally his.
…
The moment Shinnō felt that immense chakra gathering, even as a "boss-level" villain he felt his scalp go numb.
He wanted to shout, Retreat!
But it was already too late.
He'd chosen Rasenshuriken instead of a bigger Rasengan precisely because Rasenshuriken flies faster — giving the enemy no time to react.
Before Shinnō could finish his shout, Yorin's attacks were already airborne.
By the time Shinnō actually yelled, dozens of Big Ball Rasenshuriken had already slammed into their targets.
If you were a Sky Ninja, you could almost count yourself blessed.
These Sage-Style Big Ball Rasenshuriken had enough power to obliterate a kage-tier foe. Using them on rank-and-file Sky Ninja was, in a twisted way, a kind of honor.
After a storm of overlapping explosions, the entire Sky Ninja army had been vaporized.
All that remained in front of Uchiha Yorin was Shinnō alone, staring at him, dumbfounded.
Even after several long minutes, he still couldn't wrap his head around it.
The Sky Ninja — the entire Sky Village — had been completely wiped out, right in front of his eyes.
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