Reactions from All Sides, Part Two

Then he gave Darui a look, signaling for him to speak.

Darui was naturally rather laid-back; meetings like this had never required his presence before.

However, during the period when the Raikage had lost an arm, all those with talent had been gathered together for training in order to cultivate the next generation.

Moreover, Darui's position was somewhat special now. Although no successor to the Raikage had yet been officially decided, Darui was already a strong contender.

And he now held another special identity as well.

Darui scratched his head. "Sorry, that's all the intelligence we have for now. C has already said pretty much everything that can be said."

"What comes to mind is that Shukaku's involvement this time is abnormal."

"Sunagakure has neither the reason nor the strength to get involved in this matter. They may even suffer retaliation from Konoha because of it."

Judging from the outcome of the battle, that was indeed the case. Konoha had only lost some civilians, which was basically insignificant.

But Konoha's subsequent retaliation was not something Sunagakure could withstand.

The Raikage nodded, then turned to Dodai.

Dodai shook his head and tapped the formation report in the intelligence.

"Those are important too, but the most important point is here."

Dodai reminded them, "The formation Konoha used to defend against the lightning attack at the end was a space-time formation."

This had actually been difficult to discern. After all, only a space-time formation could silently teleport away such a powerful attack without any trace of explosion or flame.

Everyone was suddenly alarmed and hurriedly picked up the intelligence again for another look.

They found that it really was a space-time formation.

That made things rather serious, because formations of other attributes were fairly ordinary.

At worst, you only needed to add more