"It's a summoned beast, a black bear. Don't be afraid of it, kill!"
A Hidden Sand Jonin shouted loudly. In the Ninja World, there are many gigantic beasts, but it's not very difficult for a ninja to kill such large creatures. They just need several people to cooperate, use explosive tags and ninjutsu to injure it and make it bleed.
This size is simply a living target for them; and this black bear is merely loud, nothing to fear!
"Roar!"
A more resonant bear roar echoed throughout Kikyo Castle. In the next second, a pale yellow glow appeared on Gates' body. This was its magic shield, and Gates had just placed Uzumaki Minami on its back, the magic shield was also there to protect Minami.
After all, protecting Minami was an order it received from Uchiha Yoichi, and Uzumaki Minami often fed it delicious food.
"Gates, don't harm the Konoha Ninja."
Uzumaki Minami worried that Gates, in a rage, might crush everyone around, so she quickly reminded it.
"Roar!"
Gates responded with a low growl, although it didn't have a soul contract with Uzumaki Nami, so they couldn't communicate, but it could understand Minami's words without a problem.
Boom!
Gates' two massive bear paws thumped on the ground, and the next second a yellow ring of light spread out from beneath it, rapidly expanding in all directions.
"Ninja Art: Machine Manipulation..."
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Clang clang clang!
In the areas the yellow light ring spread to, the Hidden Sand Ninja seemed to be crushed by a massive weight, directly laying on the ground or rooftops, but those on the ground smashed it into fractures.
The Sand Ninja standing on the rooftops directly crushed the roofs and fell with a thud.
Meanwhile, Konoha Ninja widened their eyes. They had no idea what was happening, the Sand Ninja suddenly collapsed onto the ground, while they were covered with a faint yellow glow.
"This, what's going on..."
Only a few Chunin and Jonin spoke, and even when speaking, they felt intense pain throughout their bodies, especially internally.
Now within a thousand meters, Gates had already deployed the tenfold gravity jutsu, and now the Sand Ninja had to bear ten times the previous gravity; if they used chakra, carrying over a thousand pounds wouldn't be a problem, but their internal organs hadn't been trained.
The heart, lungs, stomach, and intestines all had to endure ten times the previous gravity, this was the factor that crushed the Sand Ninja, otherwise, simply circulating chakra in their limbs would allow them to lift very heavy objects.
However, some Sand Ninja still found a trick, protecting their entire body with chakra could also lessen the burden and damage caused by gravity; this was similar to the choice Uchiha Yoichi made when battling Gates, the more areas protected by chakra, the lesser the damage from gravitational suppression.
"Damn it, don't underestimate the Hidden Sand Ninja..."
A kunai swiftly came, directly slicing through this Sand Ninja Puppet Master's throat.
Konoha Ninja looked somewhat puzzled at this Sand Ninja's corpse: "Why is this guy moving so slowly..."
"Roar~!"
Another bear roar echoed, then suddenly, the ground shot up stone spikes at the Hidden Sand Ninja; some Sand Ninja quickly jumped away upon seeing it, but were then hit by kunai shuriken and ninjutsu thrown by Konoha Ninja.
Under the influence of gravity jutsu, the Sand Ninja's speed was greatly reduced, maintaining half of their previous speed was already the result of using chakra to its fullest.
As for those Genin who found it hard to stand up, they were directly impaled by stone spikes, unable to even stand.
"It's Uchiha Jonin's summoned beast, quickly retaliate, kill these Hidden Sand Ninja!"
Konoha Ninja quickly got the news, then relying on being unaffected by gravity, swiftly moved to attack the invading Sand Ninja.
After the Sand Ninja received this information, they immediately wanted to first kill the conspicuous black bear.
But Gates' magic shield was not easily broken. Standing on the ground, it could continuously restore its power, and on Gates' back was Uzumaki Minami.
Her Vajra Chain was simply an all-purpose jutsu, able to bind people, withstand ninjutsu, and its power was not small.
The Sand Ninja trying to attack Gates, once they got close, would be bound by Uzumaki Minami's Vajra Chain, then thrown high up, and hit by the massive bear paws of Gates upon falling.
Like a blood splash in the air, even Jonin struggled to escape this one-man-one-bear assassination.
With Gates' fierce demon beast joining, the Konoha side quickly cleared all Hidden Sand Ninja that infiltrated the rear.
This time, the Sand Ninja had sent thirteen squads, intending to sneak into Kikyo Castle's rear and kill Konoha's medical team, but they didn't anticipate such a terrifying demon beast with the medical team.
A Konoha Ninja hurriedly asked, "Jonin Minami, the front line is very tense, can your summoned beast help on the battlefield?"
Uzumaki Minami was a bit troubled, she usually couldn't command Gates, even when it acted as her mount upon setting off, it was due to Uchiha Yoichi's order.
Moreover, Gates was usually very lazy, even when Uchiha Yoichi wanted to call Gates to accompany him for training, he had to kick it a few times and say some threatening words for Gates to move.
"Gates, do you want to..."
Uzumaki Minami hadn't finished speaking when Gates turned to prepare to leave, just now if it wasn't for the Sand Ninja jumping on its face, it wouldn't have acted.
But just as it turned to leave, Gates suddenly turned back, fiercely glaring at the outside of Kikyo Castle.
It suddenly sensed that there was an equally fierce demon beast outside, seemingly preparing to attack here.
"Roar!!"
Gates roared a warning, but found the energy outside Kikyo Castle growing stronger, so it roared again, stood upright on its hind legs, and raised its bear body.