"Foolish."
A mature and deep male voice echoed beside his ear. The Hidden Grass Jonin turned his head, only to see a pitch-black lightning pursuing from behind at a speed that made him tremble in fear.
He took out a kunai, hastily turned around, and stabbed it out.
The black shadow accelerated again, landing above the Hidden Grass Jonin’s head, emitting electric light all over its body.
The Hidden Grass Jonin’s body trembled violently in place, covered by dense lightning, his eyeballs rolling upward with all his might.
A few seconds later, the Hidden Grass Jonin’s body emitted the scent of being roasted, collapsing like soft mud.
Raidenmaru landed back on the shoulder of Ama-no-Habakiri, its cerulean eyes indifferent to the scene before it.
Seeing that the enemy here was dealt with, Ama-no-Habakiri floated into the air and flew out through the already opened window, stopping several hundred meters above the ground to observe the full view of this Ninja Village at an angle.
Ama-no-Habakiri glanced around the village, looking for a location where a ninja technique could trigger an explosion.
With a wide field of vision in the air, she quickly discovered a target that could attract attention.
It was the power supply base of the Hidden Grass Village.
Without much hesitation, Ama-no-Habakiri flew toward it, and Raidenmaru on her shoulder slightly inflated its mouth, as if brewing something within its body.
Upon reaching above the power supply base, something inside Raidenmaru was ready. With its mouth open, a huge azure ball enveloped in lightning descended toward the base.
In that instant, electric light scattered everywhere, and a magnificent fireworks display bloomed on the ground.
The aura of a thunderous explosion shook the earth, flames soared into the sky, several tall buildings nearby collapsed at once, engulfed by the flames, with heat waves rolling.
"What’s happening? Why would the power supply base—"
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"First-level alert! First-level alert!"
The explosion attracted all the Hidden Grass Ninjas, whether in their sleep or on duty.
A large number of ninjas leapt on the streets, on rooftops, converging towards the explosion site.
With the spread of flames and black smoke swirling in the sky as the backdrop, Ama-no-Habakiri and Raidenmaru faced the encircling hundreds of ninjas from above, without a trace of fear on their faces.
"Damn it! The enemy is up there, shoot them down quickly, don’t let them escape!"
Appearing above the explosive power supply base in such strange attire at midnight was certainly suspicious.
However, after shouting, all they could do was throw kunai and shuriken skyward, which fell off before reaching Ama-no-Habakiri.
Seeing this scene, some Hidden Grass Ninjas spat fireballs toward the sky, but the result was the same, unable to touch Ama-no-Habakiri’s body.
The fireball fell, burning down a house on the street.
"..."
After a moment of silence among the Hidden Grass Ninjas, they suddenly burst into chaos, cursing below, but helpless against the airborne Ama-no-Habakiri.
Soon, a crossbow with an extremely long shooting range was brought out, and the sharp arrows aimed at Ama-no-Habakiri in the sky, continuously launched.
The whooshing sound of arrows cutting through the air was incessant, as Ama-no-Habakiri hovered there seemingly unprepared for such attacks.
"We’ve got them!"
The Hidden Grass Ninjas showed joyful expressions, as if foreseeing the detestable enemy plummeting to their death from the sky.
However... a massive wind field formed around Ama-no-Habakiri, causing the arrows to veer off course, brushing past without harming her in the slightest.
More and more Hidden Grass Ninjas gathered, but apart from using the crossbows, they had no other means to attack her in the air.
To Ama-no-Habakiri, however, the densely gathered Hidden Grass Ninjas below were undoubtedly the best targets to attack.
Ama-no-Habakiri clasped her hands together, her chakra and natural energy beginning to flow.
Sage Art: Ashes!
"What is that?"
Not only were the cursing Hidden Grass Ninjas, but even those preparing to attack with crossbows, stopped their actions and looked up at the sky covered by a strange white glow, not knowing what was happening.
What was the opponent intending to do?
Though the specifics were unknown, within that blinding white light, they could sense an extremely dangerous aura, as if something terrifying and enormous was brewing.
The air became still.
The sound vanished.
The vision turned blank.
When the vision returned to normal and sound resumed.
There was no sound of the explosion, yet fragments of houses, fragments of the earth, flew wildly before their eyes.
The scene was unbearably tragic for the ninjas who perished in the white light.
They were ravaged by countless wind blades, leaving behind terrifyingly hideous, densely packed claw mark scenes.
Like a beast trampling and ravaging, wiping out the prey that appeared within sight.
The faces of the Hidden Grass Ninjas grew dull, frightened into retreat by such a sight.
Even ninjas who had been rigorously trained to have strong wills found it hard to suppress the fear of this unknown power.
What’s more, the willpower of the Hidden Grass Ninjas was notoriously weak, a fact recognized by countries across the Ninja Realm.
If it were the Hidden Rain Ninja, trying to save themselves despite being ravaged by major countries, courageously resisting, that would be different.
Therefore, panic spread among the Hidden Grass Ninjas, with it being exceptionally rare for them to withstand such a terrifying disaster, mostly only the Jonin.
Ama-no-Habakiri gently exhaled, her aura grew faint, and Raidenmaru understood.
After using this technique, it also greatly depleted Ama-no-Habakiri, consuming roughly half of her Sage Art Chakra.