“D-damn it!”
With the Adamantine Staff in his hands, Sarutobi Hiruzen had a trickle of blood running down his forehead as he unwillingly watched the Nine-Tails rampage wildly, destroying Konoha without the slightest restraint.
Not only could he not reseal the Nine-Tails, he couldn’t even drive it out of Konoha.
“If only White Fang were here…”
Sarutobi Hiruzen couldn’t help thinking bitterly.
It was only in moments like this that they realized just how serious the loss of an absolutely top-tier powerhouse was.
Recognizing it was one thing, though.
Whether they would actually act differently afterward was another matter entirely.
“Can’t we have Lady Mito use a sealing technique to suppress the Nine-Tails?!”
Danzo, who was also covered in blood, angrily shouted at the Jonin beside him.
Although he currently possessed Kage-level strength, he had only barely crossed the threshold into the Kage level.
He was roughly on the same level as the Fourth Kazekage, who had barely managed to qualify as a Kage-level fighter.
A Kage of his level was nothing more than an advanced weakling in the Nine-Tails’ eyes.
Although he could be troublesome, he was incapable of accomplishing anything substantial.
“Lady Mito passed away just now because she lost the Tailed Beast.”
The Konoha Jonin who was questioned could only answer with a bitter expression.
“So it really came to this…”
Sarutobi Hiruzen secretly gritted his teeth.
He had already anticipated this.
And even if Uzumaki Mito had still been clinging to life, she would no longer have had enough strength to perform the sealing technique required to seal the Nine-Tails.
“Where’s Tsunade? Konoha is at the moment of life and death! Where is she?!”
Danzo roared helplessly.
“T-Tsunade-sama seems to have encountered a mysterious enemy! S-she’s still fighting them right now.”
The Jonin answered in a trembling voice.
“A mysterious enemy?”
Hearing this, Shimura Danzo subconsciously furrowed his brows.
“Senju Hashirama is dead. Uchiha Madara is dead. That woman Mito is dead too, yet they left behind a bunch of useless trash.”
The Nine-Tails sneered as it looked at the remaining Konoha shinobi standing in its way, its mood incredibly exhilarated.
The next moment, it turned its ferocious gaze toward the part of the village that was still relatively intact.
A dark purple, almost black, Tailed Beast Bomb began gathering in its mouth once again.
This time, the Nine-Tails’ target was the Shimura clan compound!
It simply attacked whatever happened to catch its eye.
“Damn it! Stop it!!”
Seeing that the direction of his clan’s compound had become the Nine-Tails’ target, Danzo’s expression changed dramatically, and he shouted frantically.
“Wind Release: Vacuum Serial Waves!”
Danzo frantically unleashed a barrage of air blades, while Sarutobi Hiruzen also swung the enlarged and extended Adamantine Staff in his hands, trying to stop the Nine-Tails from continuing its attack.
The other surviving Konoha shinobi also unleashed their ninjutsu one after another, raining down on the Nine-Tails like a storm of pear blossoms.
“Get the hell away from me, all of you!!”
The Nine-Tails roared furiously.
Because its attack had been disrupted, the Tailed Beast Bomb did not reach its maximum size, but it still possessed power far beyond that of an ordinary S-Rank ninjutsu.
It was fired.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!!!
With an earth-shaking explosion, the entire Shimura clan compound was undoubtedly reduced to nothing but ruins!
The Sarutobi clan compound, located nearby, was also affected.
Whether the clan members had been successfully evacuated or not was unknown.
“Bastard!!”
Danzo’s eyes seemed ready to spit fire.
Although he was an old schemer, that didn’t mean he didn’t care about his own clan.
“Hahaha! What a magnificent sight!”
Yusuke, who had interrupted Tsunade’s Slug Technique, was just as exhilarated as the Nine-Tails.
Looking around, nearly two-thirds of Konoha had already been destroyed, while the number of dead shinobi had exceeded fifteen hundred.
Without a doubt, his objective had been accomplished.
Konoha was now completely crippled.
It would absolutely need at least twenty years to recover.
At this point, even if Tsunade used the Slug Technique, it didn’t matter anymore.
After all, her Slug Technique could only “heal.” It could not achieve the heaven-defying effect of actually reviving the dead, like Nagato’s technique.
“Goodbye, Princess Tsunade.”
Yusuke waved at Tsunade before leaving with the Body Flicker Technique.
Seeing him disappear into the distance as a blur, Tsunade had no desire to pursue him.
She quickly bit her finger again and summoned Katsuyu.
“Summoning Technique!”
Poof!
As smoke billowed upward, a gigantic slug appeared beneath Tsunade.
The moment Katsuyu was summoned, even she was shocked by the scene before her.
“There isn’t time to explain, Katsuyu.”
Tsunade shouted urgently, “Use your healing technique!”
“Understood.”
Katsuyu responded before dividing her body into countless tiny slugs that scattered toward every part of the village.
Tsunade sat cross-legged where she was and began gathering chakra, but she still couldn’t help thinking,
“Just what was that strange man’s objective?”
…
…
“Today, the village jointly built by Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara is going to become history.”
The Nine-Tails sneered.
“Don’t even think about it!!”
Sarutobi Hiruzen roared as he attempted to stop it.
Although the Council of Elders had seized power and authority, they all shared the same desire to protect Konoha, no matter what.
After all, if Konoha ceased to exist, what would they even be?
“Hmph!”
The Nine-Tails sneered disdainfully and brought down one claw like a mountain.
The Konoha shinobi below were so terrified that their legs trembled uncontrollably.
At this moment, they all had only one thought in their minds:
“Are we going to die?”
Whoosh—BOOM!!
Just before the Nine-Tails’ claw was about to come crashing down, a bolt of heavenly lightning streaked across the night sky.
Like a meteor falling from the heavens, it slammed directly into the Nine-Tails’ back.
“What?!”
The Nine-Tails’ expression changed dramatically from the pain.
Caught completely off guard, its mountain-sized body was sent crashing heavily into the ground.
“That was… White Fang’s Heavenly Thunder Attraction?!”
Sarutobi Hiruzen was horrified.
Beside him, Shimura Danzo, Koharu Utatane, Homura Mitokado, and the others were equally filled with disbelief.
What was going on?
Could it be that White Fang had been revived?!