[3rd Pov]
After both armies' declaration of war and slaughter, the demon army went into the forest made by Ajamu's Shadows while some flow over it. they showed organization and followed formation with the infantry first being lead with one or two elite royal guards followed by the mages.
as for Ajamu's army, they had already run more than half the way to the forest and they were planning on fighting the ninja way by using traps like explosive tags, poison, pits , Shurikens,...etc. then all of them split into groups with the different tasks from luring the enemy into said traps, hiding in the shadows, and executing the mages from behind, climbing the trees, and killing the flying scouts and troops.
This was all for the reason of lowering their numbers as the demons soldiers advancing numbered in 15,000, and with them being 9000 fully armored and 6000 mages and the royal guards It made a problem was that the average soldier in the demon army that was advancing was at least twice as strong as his average shadow and some were even 3 times stronger //before the buffs with the buffs it is almost even//. so it was stupid to go for a frontal assault from the beginning.
of course, all wasn't against Ajamu and his army as he had his own advantages from the buffs he bought and the fact that his army was immortal as long as he had enough mana and that they don't get tired so he believes that they got this.
[Tsunade pov]
the war has started for a couple of minutes now, Ajamu is still in his place, and from what I see he and the sinister-looking demon commander seem to be keeping each other in check and not to interfere, the situation is serious, my husband seems to be outnumbered and out geared the armor the demons soldiers show tells me that and from my previous life teaching I know that fighting a fully armored organized infantry is a big problem.
but I am not worried I trust my husband has won against worse odds and minutes he already used these magic scrolls things that seemed to strengthen him and his troops, and even in this dark time, I am glad to finally witness my man leading and fighting with his men.
I hope he comes out of this unharmed and if he does I will be here to heal him.
boom, boom, boom, ahhhhhh.
I can see and hear explosions that I can only assume are coming from explosive tags traps and the screams of dying and injured soldiers are everywhere in the forest.
[Madara pov]
the traps are doing their job, while I prefer the direct approach and just cutting through them my king orders are absolute and I see the wisdom in them as I am not the only one fighting and the overall strength of those demons are high specially the royal guard looking at them and their leader my thirst for battle is bearly contained.
the mages are the problem as some of the traps were discovered or disabled by them but soon enough they will reach the point of elimination agreed upon and all unites will attack together.
suddenly I see the mages of the advancing troops apeak something then their aura spike, seeing what they are doing through my Rinnegan.
Madara:'oh they want to lunch a large scale fire attack to get rid of the forest and with it the traps and hidden troops in the trees'
Madara: "the mages on our side preparing a fire attack to get rid of the forest"
[Ajamu pov]
the rest of the commanders send the same message to Ajamu
Ajamu: " I guess we will have to move our plans to the next step earlier"
Ajamu sighed:' I hoped all these traps to take out more than a mere 2000 before going to phase two'
upon hearing his orders all Ajamu's commanders command their troops: " all shadows assigned for the mages associations, change of planes, execute now"
" for the rest attack and lure the enemy units into the rest of the traps and don't engage for now"
[3d pov]
the fire mages were all going full firepower for this one and while they were powering up the spell, Ajamu's shadows were moving through the shadows of trees and soldiers, towards them it was the perfect stealth ability or so we thought.
due to bad luck, there are mages in their ranks that mastered in dark and shadow magic, and once the shadows were some distance from the mages they sensed Ajamu's shadows attack.
[Babelugi pov]
my name is Babelugi one of the elite royal guards of the great demon king and was sent here to get rid of vermin that stood in the way of our great king, I mastered the shadow magic and dark arts and I wasn't the only one as all the mages sent here were elites as the king took this guardian more seriously then I would like to admit.
as our troops were getting ready with a fire spell to get rid of this dammed forest that flying over wasn't an option as those vermin sniped any and everyone who even tried and an aerial battle is disadvantageous to us as most our soldiers are wearing heavy armor it will tire them off fast.
I sensed it enemy troops are moving towards our mages and not only me all our shadow mages felt them.
Babelugi: "ENIMY ATTACK THROUGH THE SHADOWS" I and the rest of the shadow mages instantly fire the area attack [Revel shadows] that will light anyone hiding in the shadows around us with a red light followed by [ enchanted weapons] that will make the soldier's weapons able to strike the shadows.
Babelugi: "ATTACK ALL THE RED SHADOWS AT ONCE PROTECT THE MAGES"
[Ajamu pov]
everything in phase two is to begin the moment my shadows reach the mages and start the attack but then I sense that some shadows died and the head of the unites are sending me messages telling me they were discovered and are engaging in a battle as the mages have hit most of some spells preventing them from going back to the shadows.
[ WARNING WARNING: SOME OF YOUR SHADOWS HAVE BEEN HIT BY SEALING SPELLS THE CASTER NEEDS TO BE KILLED FOR THE SHADOWS TO BE RELEASED]
[WARNING WARNING: SOME OF YOUR SHADOWS HAVE BEEN HIT BY CORRUPTION SPELLS SHADOWS CAN'T RESPAWN FOR 5 MINUTES]
Ajamu is enraged: ' FUCK they are like sheep waiting for the slaughter and they are trapped behind enemy lines, I SENT ABOUT 1500 SHADOWS THERE FUCK'
Ajamu:" ABORT ALL PLANES, ONCE MY ATTACK LAND ALL SHADOWS ARE TO FOCES IN MAKING A PATH FOR OUR TROOPS TO RETREAT AND KILL THOSE MAGES, ENGAGE THE ENEMY"
all his shadow reply: "AS YOU COMMAND MY KING"
Ajamu: ' I didn't want to destroy this city in this fight as much as Ii can but no more, my shadow will respawn from this, his won't ' at this moment Ajamu saga mod was on and with one look into the enemy army then 20 giant gates opened up from above.
his voice rings in all everyone ears [JUDGMENT DAY] Judgment day was Ajamu's updated version of Madara falling meteorite but his consisted of 20 meteorites half Madara's one in size with the intention of achieving the most destruction possible.
this was only posable due to utilizing the nine tales chakra he had now after taking naruto half also this morning before coming to Gaku's office, he was easily able to extract it by putting naruto and Kurama into a genjutsu and extracting Kurama using the crystal while supplying naruto with life energy in his sage form to not kill him of course.
once Kurama was absorbed his bead that consisted of the other half merged together with the new one and got a little bigger.
Ajamu: " let us see then how they handle this OH I forgot about Tsunade" I then teleport towards her and pull her into my embrace to protect her from dying from my attack.