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A week later, after the Four Great Shinobi Villages had investigated with all their might, the full details of Iwagakure's surprise attack by Akatsuki were finally revealed to everyone.

Like Konoha's earlier attack, this assault had also taken place at night. Iwagakure's Four-Tails Jinchuriki, Rōshi, had inexplicably gone berserk, kicking off the entire chaos.

As ordinary villagers were urgently evacuated, Deidara, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki Han, Elite Jonin Kitsuchi, and Iwagakure's other top fighters immediately launched their counterattack.

In particular, the fierce battle between Deidara and Akatsuki's Konan had been devastating. Both were shinobi with terrifying destructive power, and even though they had deliberately held back, the aftershocks of their clash had nearly leveled half the village.

Then Akatsuki's leader, Nagato, the wielder of the Rinnegan, made his move.

With Nagato's intervention, the deadlocked battle took a sharp turn for the worse. Ordinary Iwagakure shinobi were simply no match for him. Even Iwagakure's Jonin and Elite Jonin could only slightly drain some of Nagato's chakra, posing no substantive threat to him at all.

Nagato swept through the Iwagakure shinobi forces, subdued Iwagakure's Five-Tails Jinchuriki Han, and nearly captured Deidara.

Just as Deidara was in danger, the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki suddenly intervened, rescuing Deidara from Nagato's hands. In the end, he and Deidara fled Iwagakure, both severely wounded.

After that battle, Iwagakure was destroyed.

However, when Konoha had been destroyed, the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki had already considered how Iwagakure should respond if it faced the same situation. During the period when Akatsuki had been lying low, he secretly transferred Iwagakure's hidden ninjutsu vault, records and archives, treasury, and other vital supplies to another safe and concealed location.

At the same time, he established many temporary shelters throughout the Land of Earth to take in displaced Iwagakure villagers.

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