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Ren continued on holding back the assault on the front gates. The masked beasts that he was fighting truly were powerful, he could say that it was probably some of the toughest beasts he had fought in awhile. He only had eight beasts with him but that didn't mean that all eight still weren't just keeping him at bay as well. As soon as the shinigami broke through most of the defenses and came up to slice at Ren, he would twirl his finger around as a puppet would come out of the ground and protect him from the slicing attack with a shield. Salamander would block the attack and then Ren would move his hand again as another puppet would come up and launch its blades into the shinigami masked beast. This would however not stop the beast since the mask was not broken, and the shinigami would have sliced through crow knocking it into pieces and then kicking off of Salamander and going around for another swing.
Ren pulled Salamander back and then quickly used its ability to shoot fire out to send a torrent straight at the Shinigami masked puppet. When the dragon came at Ren it would have charged him from the side and knocked him to the ground for awhile which would have gave all of the puppets the opening to move away from the respective puppets and all go for a immediate charge to kill the Sannin. Just as all of the masked beasts would have went in for the kill, Ren moved his fingers and all of his puppets would have acted immediately. First a large shield of sand would rise up around Ren, then a protective layer of iron would surround that shield. Being that the first wave of attacks from his puppets were defensive it would only merely throw the masked beasts off guard and protect Ren temporarily.
However the second phase was immediately enacted as he moved his fingers again this time making Temari using her wind to throw the masked beasts off balance and away from his defense. Crow would then start to move and send multiple blades from its body straight up at the masked beasts hitting some of the masks but not entirely destroying them. Finally Salamander and Temari moved in a combination attack and Temari used the casting net technique and Salamander used his continuous fire to create a casting net of flames to completely destroy all eight of the masked beasts.
After they were all taken down, Ren just took one knee and took some time to breath. The sand and the iron would slowly start to fall to the ground as he released his chakra hold over the puppets and put them back in their summoning world for the exception for both Gaara and the Third Kazekage. Both of those respective puppets just towered over Ren looking as if they were protecting him. As soon as he caught his breath he would move to help his Kage. He could sense that she wasn't doing so well now that the nature of the air was growing darker and the sand was restless.
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