Watching the several Susanoo move farther and farther away, shrinking in their field of vision, the Kage were filled with mixed emotions.
They knew full well that the Flame Demons had deliberately drawn Madara Uchiha away to prevent the Susanoo melee from affecting the surviving shinobi on the battlefield.
Madara Uchiha must have realized that as well, but he clearly did not care.
Thus, the several Susanoo continued fighting as they traveled farther and farther away, gradually leaving behind the battlefield strewn with corpses, crisscrossed by ravines, and littered with jagged rocks.
Only after the Susanoo had completely vanished from sight did the Fourth Kazekage collapse onto the ground in exhaustion. "We... we finally survived!"
The Fourth Raikage swept his gaze across the battlefield, his expression bleak.
The tens of thousands of shinobi in the allied forces under the Five Kage's command had been utterly routed by a single Madara Uchiha resurrected through Impure World Reincarnation, nearly wiped out to the last man.
He found such a reality utterly unbearable.
The Third Tsuchikage sighed. "This is the shinobi world. Even surviving is a gift the weak must receive from the strong!"
The Fourth Raikage instinctively wanted to argue, but when he recalled Madara Uchiha's terrifying power and the helplessness he had felt while waiting for death with his eyes closed, he ultimately chose silence.
Swish, swish, swish...
Several surviving medical shinobi rushed over and hurriedly began treating the Kage's injuries.
As he received treatment, the Fourth Kazekage asked, "What do we do now?"
The Fourth Raikage, who had always acted with decisiveness, remained silent without uttering a word.
"Alas!"
The Third Tsuchikage let out a faint sigh.
After this battle, Madara Uchiha had essentially crushed the allied shinobi forces of tens of thousands by himself. Even the survivors had suffered