Leaving aside Kakashi's retreat toward the center of the village with his students, the images on the light screen continued to play in orderly fashion.
[Faced with the puppet soldier's heavy, forceful slash, Princess Fūun did not retreat. Instead, she took the initiative and darted forward, relying on her nimble footwork to slip beneath the descending blade.
Then, with a swift swing of the treasured sword in her hand, she unleashed a fierce sword wave. It tore through the puppet's iron armor as though splitting rotten wood, shattering it into pieces in an instant and scattering fragments across the ground.
But that was only the beginning. The puppet soldier she had destroyed with that slash was no more than an appetizer. Far from easing, the situation only grew more dire with the sound of the fragments hitting the ground.
In the next moment, countless cracks split open across the earth, and thousands upon thousands of puppet soldiers crawled up from underground, advancing step by step toward Princess Fūun and her companions.
At the same time, the black-robed priest's smug laughter, full of mockery and arrogance, rang out once more.
"Give up. Despair. Princess Fūun! No one can save you. Surrender obediently—your only way to live!!"
"I will never give up. So long as I still draw breath..."
Princess Fūun was unmoved by the black-robed priest's words. Instead, she turned to face him with an even firmer expression, her voice brimming with the courage of someone ready to stake everything.
"I will pour out every last ounce of my strength and carve out a new path for us in this hopeless situation!!"
As those words fell, a seven-colored radiance slowly began to bloom from Princess Fūun's body.
"Th-That's... Rainbow Chakra! The princess is burning her own chakra!!"
At that sight, the swordsman among her three companions suddenly shrank his pupils, his grip on his hilt tightening instinctively. Then he spun around at once and shouted to the other two, whose faces were equally full of shock:
"Then let's go with her! Just like the princess said—we've come this far, so we absolutely cannot give up now. Let us burn our own chakra as well, and fight with everything we have by the princess's side!!"
"Right!!" ×2
"How laughable—"
The black-robed priest's sneer cut across the battlefield, and he immediately accelerated his control over the puppet soldiers.
From beneath the earth and within the shadows, tens of thousands of puppet soldiers broke into a run at once. The clashing of iron armor melded into a single crashing tide as they launched their final all-out assault upon Princess Fūun and the others.
At the same time, he raised the skull-topped staff high with his other hand, then slammed it downward toward the sky.
In an instant, the black hurricane that had filled the heavens compressed together, twisting in midair into a savage dragon of evil that swept straight toward Princess Fūun and her companions.]
—"You know, say what you will, but even if this is just a movie, the special effects and sense of realism are insane. The sword flashes and chakra clashes have me genuinely on edge."
—"On edge? My palms are still sweating. I'm scared out of my mind. If no one had told me beforehand this was a movie, I would've panicked the moment that black-robed priest summoned the evil dragon. The scale of it looks no less than something one of the Kage of the great ninja villages could do!!"
—"Something's off. This is definitely more than just a simple film. Not only are the effects detailed and breathtaking, but even the emotional resonance feels almost tangible, and the pressure during the battle comes through clearly. There's no way current filmmaking technology could achieve this!!"
—"The guy above is right. There's definitely something wrong with this screen, because I actually felt real terror of death coming from that actor playing the black-robed priest!!"
Although, through the earlier barrage of comments, everyone already knew that the mysterious floating screen in the sky was merely playing a movie—
when the film's great villain unveiled his strongest move, the shinobi watching it still could not suppress the alarm rising in their hearts. The realism of the visuals, the crushing pressure that seemed to rush at them head-on—it all felt far too real.
And in truth, that had been Xuanqing's intention all along.
After all, the video displayed on the light screen was nothing like the animations from his previous life, constrained by production budgets and boxed in by content review systems.
So while creating this first installment, in order to make the audience cast aside the thought that what they were seeing was fictional and immerse themselves more completely in the altered storyline he had built, Xuanqing had deliberately used the system's abilities to apply a degree of enhancement to everything within the video.
He had not only optimized the visual presentation, making every frame as impactful as possible, but had also upgraded it on the sensory level. Even when it came to villains within the film, their aura and the intimidation of their techniques had been amplified to the extreme, creating a truly immersive effect.
And his painstakingly designed method had indeed brought him considerable gains.
Having witnessed all this, the audience's emotions were thoroughly stirred, and the comments on the screen multiplied as everyone eagerly voiced their opinions.
At the same time, the movie currently playing on the light screen happened to reach yet another tense and thrilling sequence.
[The black-robed priest's assault could not be called anything less than ferocious.
Before them, the evil dragon formed from the endless hurricane lashed out with claws and fangs bared; behind them, the encircling army of tens of thousands of puppets closed in without pause.
Under such a brutal attack from both front and rear, logic said that no one should have been able to survive.
And yet the truth was this: even against such a violent pincer assault, the seven-colored barrier Princess Fūun and her companions had raised together remained as steady as a mountain.
"Th-This... how is this poss—"
At that sight, the smug smile of assured victory on the black-robed priest's face froze instantly, and a cry of shock escaped him.
In that opening of stunned disbelief, Princess Fūun immediately shifted from defense to offense, swinging the treasured sword in her hand and thrusting it straight toward the direction where the black-robed priest stood.
In the next second, a magnificent seven-colored sword wave forged from all of their chakra erupted skyward, piercing through the black-robed priest's body with unstoppable sharpness. It then continued through the tens of thousands of puppet soldiers behind him, skimming past the broken remains of the shattered city wall as it shot toward the far horizon.
At that moment, time itself seemed to halt, and all the clamor of the battlefield was swallowed by sudden silence.
The puppet army that had surrounded Princess Fūun had no chance even to struggle beneath the aftershock of that sword wave. In an instant, they were reduced to a sky full of fine drifting ash.
The black evil aura that had long coiled across the heavens likewise began to fade little by little into the clear sky, leaving not even the slightest trace behind.
Only a brilliant rainbow remained, stretching across the heavens—a sign that Princess Fūun had finally broken through the darkness and looming shadow, and was about to embark upon a new journey filled with light and hope.]
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