At the ruins of the Land of Whirlpools, Konoha's Ninjas had requisitioned nearly every available vessel in the area. Together with the remaining forces of Kumogakure and Sunagakure, they gathered on the island.
"Wow, Leviathan, you're so cool!"
On the deck of a huge composite speedboat, Naruto's eyes lit up as he leaned over the gunwale, half his body hanging out, looking down at Leviathan's full form.
Although he had seen the inside of her cabin while training inside her before, this was the first time he had seen her full form like this.
"So Leviathan is also an ability user, the Fune Fune no Mi?" Sasuke, leaning against the side staircase, glanced at Sakura, who was sitting in the first-class seat at the bow.
"Well... you can think of it that way~" Sakura gave a thumbs-up and was playfully poked by Leviathan, who emerged from the ground.
Before long, the troops had assembled. Tsunade stood atop the Leviathan, delivering the final pre-battle speech to the Ninjas boarding the ships behind her.
"Comrades, I hate war!"
"Having experienced three Great Ninja Wars, I have lost too much. I hate it. I hate that it took my family, my lovers, my friends."
"But now, it doesn't even intend to spare the precious things we have left. It wants to deprive us of our last refuge, to destroy our hometown, our village. I ask you, comrades, can we allow this?!"
Tsunade's voice grew hoarse, shifting from a calm, measured narration to impassioned exhortation. Her status further inflamed the blood of the Ninjas below, causing them to roar in unison.
"No!" / "No!" / "No!"...
Countless weapons were raised high. Burning determination flowed in the hearts of all. Their resonating Chakra nearly burst through the clouds in the sky.
"Then let's go! Entrust your lives to me! Come with me to protect the treasures behind us!"
Tsunade waved her hand grandly. Her robe flapped loudly. The Leviathan began to move in coordination.
Behind her, an unprecedented massive fleet raised their anchors one after another, sailing out in rows from the vast sea. Ships densely covered the ocean, as if trying to fill the turbulent surface.
"It looks quite spectacular. But what if an enemy in the water punctures our ships?"
Naruto, having already withdrawn his head, made himself at home, taking drinks from the Leviathan's fridge and lying on a beach chair made of processed cloud-like material.
"By using this, of course!"
Sakura, wearing her Jonin vest, pulled a test tube containing a light blue liquid from her pocket.
"What's this?"
"Mutant repellent."
Sakura tossed the test tube to Sasuke, who had been eyeing it curiously with his Sharingan.
This repellent was precisely the product of Tsunade and Katsuyu working together for dozens of days without sleep. Katsuyu had used its Senjutsu cells and the Return stage of the Senjutsu Evolution technique to process it. It was a deadly poison targeting only the mutants.
When the concentration of the repellent inside a mutant reached a certain level, its attached, weak Senjutsu effect could revert the accumulated genetic material of the Chimera Virus, causing genetic-level collapse, thereby splitting apart the mutant's fusion.
However, it did not cure the fused individuals, but rather... killed the enemy efficiently.
It could only be said that when it came to developing lethal weapons, Tsunade and Sakura, both doctors, had abundant talent.
"This stuff will be added to my power system later. It will generate island clouds and then be delivered to the battlefield through precipitation."
Leviathan poked her head out from where Sasuke was sitting and nudged his waist. "You Uchiha's Fire Release might be weakened. Don't blame me~"
"Ridiculous! Do you think we Uchiha can't fight without Fire Release!" Sasuke reached out and vigorously rubbed Leviathan's face.
Leviathan crossed her arms to block Sasuke, then dodged behind Sato Sakura as he chased her. The three played around on the ship.
Following the ocean currents across the sea surface, the Leviathan's massive ram was unfazed by any waves.
In just a few hours, they had crossed the waters around the Land of Whirlpools and began to glimpse the outline of the Land of Water on the horizon.
A scarlet color dominated the sea before the Ninja World Allied Forces. An alien and evil Chakra raged, causing many Ninjas to show unease.
From the other end of the sea, a giant tree-like monster rose. Splitting flesh fell from its leaves, passing through the sea fog, rapidly proliferating from the eerie seawater, forming countless mutants.
In less than half an hour, it had shed dozens of times its own body weight in flesh and blood, bringing thousands of times its own amount of mutation and contamination.
Like sowing a plague, it spread the virus across the sea.
The several Kage on the Leviathan saw this and simultaneously stood up, taking a deep breath as they prepared to launch Ninjutsu, but Sakura beside them reached out to stop them.
"This kind of intimidation shouldn't involve our generals. In naval warfare, it's soldiers against soldiers, kings against kings!"
With that, she walked to the bow, reached out, and grasped the Leviathan's power transmission port, generating a large amount of electricity to power the Ark Maxim power system.
The small ship spirit deep within the cabin gave her an OK gesture. Then the entire ship lifted into the air. Dark clouds sprayed from its smokestack, shooting straight into the sky before spreading out.
The originally clear sky seemed to have been infused with ink, growing dim. Wind and thunder also faintly roared among the clouds, displaying an appearance of an approaching storm.
Boom!
Dancing silver serpents descended from the dark clouds. The thunderous drum shook the sky and sea. A powerful electric current pierced through a fast-flying mutant, bringing abundant water vapor.
A sudden, violent rainstorm abruptly fell.
On the islands of the Land of Water, Hiruko watched this scene and frowned. He reached out to catch a few raindrops, only to find that his arm had a violent reaction with them, releasing a large amount of bio-energy and catching fire.
"This is…!!!"
A thousand words converged into one: 'What the heck is going on?'
'It had only been a few days since my declaration of war, and those Konoha bastards had already found a countermeasure against my virus?'
"Damn it, I hate geniuses!" Hiruko nearly ground his teeth to dust, his resentful gaze fixed on Tsunade, standing on that flying ship in the sky.
Countless mutants, ignited by their own bio-energy, fell from the sky. The mutants rapidly approaching the fleet from beneath the sea also fled in panic, driven by instinct.
The carefully prepared welcome for Konoha, before the lid of the serving dish could even be opened, had its serving cart kicked over by a certain pirate girl. She stomped on your painstakingly prepared meal and looked at you with apologetic eyes.
Was it intentional or an accident?
It was intentional!
"You Konoha bastards, don't think you can defeat me like this! The Chakra gathered through Chimera is still here!!!"
Amidst his roar, Hiruko formed hand seals, integrating himself with the giant flesh tree behind him. He forcibly dominated the constantly burning tree, causing it to reveal a cannon barrel aimed in the direction of the allied fleet.
At the center of the cannon barrel, a giant eye slowly opened, filled with greed and killing intent. The giant pupil indifferently gazed at the fleet so close at hand.
The Chakra laser cannon, devoid of any color or warmth, gathered energy toward the center of the pupil from the giant eye's overlooking gaze.
In the next instant, the fierce light of destruction burst forth!
A beam of light, hot enough to evaporate the seawater along its path, shot across the sky and sea, tearing through the rain curtain, plummeting toward the allied fleet!
Boom!!!