Bang!
"Hm?"
Just as Teach crouched on the ground, caught up in worry and hesitation,
two hands burst from the earth beneath his feet, grabbing his ankles and trying to drag him down.
"Earth Release: Headhunter Jutsu!"
"What do you think you're doing, you stupid bastard?!"
Teach roared in fury.
A terrifying aura and killing intent erupted from his nearly three-and-a-half-meter-tall body.
His bear-like right palm immediately coated itself in powerful Haki and smashed apart the ground.
Then he grabbed the Grass Village shinobi hidden inside by the throat and stood up.
At that moment,
he noticed many shinobi around him launching attacks from underground as well.
These shinobi first dragged Army soldiers into the cement ground one after another.
Then they tried to slit their throats with the sharp kunai in their hands.
But in response to repeated cries of "Tekkai,"
the shinobi discovered in shock that their kunai could not cut through the soldiers' skin at all.
At best, they left shallow bloody marks.
If they had been skilled in Wind Release, they might have been able to enhance their kunai with wind-nature Chakra.
Unfortunately, they were all shinobi skilled in Earth Release, so there was nothing they could do.
Some shinobi simply leaped out from underground and hurled kunai covered in explosive tags in every direction.
As the explosive tags detonated, thunderous booms and flashes of fire erupted.
To be fair, this tactic did cause quite a bit of chaos and injured many people.
However,
every Army soldier present, even those with the lowest rank, was at least a lieutenant.
Every one of them possessed excellent combat training.
They reacted in less than three seconds.
They set down their heavy assault rifles one after another.
Then drew long blades from the black scabbards on their backs.
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