[Ding! Congratulations, Master. You have killed 568 enemies and gained 31,285 Prestige Points!]
Yagami withdrew his hand.
The battlefield fell silent.
Within the area swallowed by his attack, not a single patch of ground remained intact.
The earth had been torn open again and again, as if it had been plowed by a storm of destruction. Scattered across it were countless severed limbs, shattered bodies, and unrecognizable pieces of corpses.
Blood had soaked deep into the soil.
The lingering aftermath of the explosions carried a hot, pungent wind that stung the nose.
The entire scene looked like a real hell.
Just looking at it made one's scalp go numb.
"Fall back! Run!"
A terrified scream tore through the battlefield.
The Mist Shinobi who had not stepped into the range of the attack stopped just in time.
They had barely managed to drag their lives back from the edge of death.
The moment they came back to their senses, someone shouted, and the Mist Shinobi around the destroyed area immediately retreated in fear.
Even the other Mist Shinobi who had been rushing toward the gap in the high wall began backing away in panic.
The battlefield instantly fell into chaos.
At the battle circle where Sarutobi Hiruzen and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen were clashing, everyone was equally stunned.
Akebino Jinin, wielder of the Bluntsword Kabutowari, stared with his mouth slightly open.
Among the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, he was one of the oldest.
He had also seen more battlefields than most.
But even he had never seen an attack with such a massive range.
With just one move, the number of Mist casualties had already surpassed what Konoha had inflicted throughout the entire night.
"Hahahaha!"
Sarutobi Hiruzen suddenly burst into hearty laughter.
"Looks like the tide has finally turned."
After recovering from his shock, Hiruzen laughed with genuine relief.
The heavy pressure that had been weighing on his heart all night was swept away by Yagami's single attack.
Judging by what he had seen, Yagami's strike had killed at least five hundred Mist Shinobi.
A full tenth of Kirigakure's army.
Wiped out in an instant.
At that moment, Sarutobi Hiruzen finally understood why Yagami kept producing terrifying results on every battlefield.
Because against a technique like that, no village could withstand repeated massacres.
"Konoha… is saved."
Enma, beside him, also let out a deep breath.
A shinobi with that kind of power could change the course of an entire war.
The faces of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen turned dark.
That large-scale slaughter had shaken even them.
They could not help but ask themselves one thing.
If they had been caught inside that attack just now, could they have survived?
The answer was not easy.
Kirigakure excelled at assassination and concealment.
But when it came to defense, especially against this kind of overwhelming bombardment, they had very few options.
Even their Water Style techniques were not suited to blocking such destructive force head-on.
"Lord Yagami!"
"It's Lord Yagami! We're saved!"
"Lord Yagami came back to support us!"
Only then did the Konoha defenders on the high wall erupt into cheers.
The wounded genin lying behind the wall were so overwhelmed that some of them nearly cried.
A moment ago, they had truly believed they were going to die.
If Yagami had not descended from the sky and smashed open the ground beneath the broken section of the wall, forcibly blocking the Mist Shinobi's charge, they would already have become corpses under Kirigakure's blades.
Their emotions had been thrown from despair to hope in an instant.
The heavy atmosphere surrounding the Konoha Shinobi changed completely because of Yagami's arrival.
Cheers rose one after another, echoing across the battlefield and shooting straight into the sky.
Even Yagami, hovering high above, was a little surprised.
Before he realized it, his reputation in Konoha had already reached this level.
Even Mikoto, who was usually gentle and composed, clasped her hands tightly in front of her chest, unable to hide her excitement.
Because at that moment, the figure standing high in the sky looked far too dazzling.
He was the hero who had pulled Konoha back from the edge of disaster.
"Lord Yagami?"
"Who is that?"
"Why have I never heard that name before?"
Hearing the cheers from the Konoha side, the Mist Shinobi looked at one another in confusion.
They had been cut off from the intelligence teams, so naturally, they were unfamiliar with that name.
Some of them had never even heard it before.
But that did not stop them from understanding one thing.
The man who had appeared was extremely dangerous.
And in Konoha, his prestige was terrifyingly high.
"Leave the rest to me."
"I'll make every Mist Shinobi who invaded Konoha pay the price."
Seeing the Konoha Shinobi shouting toward him, Yagami slowly descended from the sky until he reached the height of the city wall.
Then he nodded to the Konoha defenders and spoke calmly.
"Lord Yagami!"
The Konoha Shinobi became even more excited.
No one doubted his words.
Because ever since the war began, the name Yagami had become almost synonymous with victory.
Every time a report of success arrived from the front lines, Yagami was always the greatest contributor.
So when Yagami said he would do it, the Konoha Shinobi believed him.
[Laser Beam!]
A dazzling golden light gathered in Yagami's palm.
Then, following the line of Konoha's city wall, he swept his hand toward the distance.
"Shoo—!"
"Boom!"
A thick golden beam flashed across everyone's vision.
A straight line of photon explosions tore across the ground from beneath Yagami all the way into the distance.
Several Mist Shinobi who were still attacking the wall farther away were instantly swallowed by the explosion and buried beneath the blast.
A long trench, several hundred meters in length and two to three meters wide, was carved into the battlefield.
With one simple attack, Yagami killed another thirty or forty Mist Shinobi.
[Laser Beam!]
[Laser Beam!]
"Shoo—boom!"
"Shoo—boom!"
Golden lasers fired continuously from Yagami's hands.
Across the battlefield, trenches were carved into the earth one after another, crossing over each other like scars.
Most of Konoha's shinobi were defending from the wall.
Only a small number of jōnin-level shinobi had dared to leave the village and fight the Mist directly.
Because of that, there were very few Konoha Shinobi outside the walls.
Yagami did not have to worry much about hitting his own side.
In just over ten breaths, the formation and rhythm of Kirigakure's army were completely shattered by Yagami alone.
"Retreat!"
"Fall back! Now!"
The Mist jōnin scattered across the battlefield shouted until their voices nearly broke.
Yagami's attacks could reach hundreds of meters, and the direction of each strike was impossible to predict.
No one knew where the next beam would fall.
Under that seemingly endless firepower, the Mist Shinobi had no choice but to suffer passively.
In desperation, they could only retreat for the time being.
But Yagami had already said he would make them pay.
How could he possibly let them leave so easily?
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