Uchiha Kin's Battle Record!

Minato, Kakashi, and Nohara Rin left. He slung an arm around each of them, flashed, and vanished. The next moment, they were back on the front lines.

The terrain and landscape had been completely altered. Giant earth mounds and the corpses of Stone Ninja were everywhere. A dry, scorched smell permeated the air, and the ground underfoot was hot.

"What is this?" Kakashi asked, lifting a foot in surprise.

Minato said, "These are the traces left by Fire Style jutsu... Kin is a natural battlefield artist. A group of wounded, using their rudimentary Fire Style, not only repelled the Stone Ninja's first wave of attack but also dealt an extremely fatal blow to the Stone Ninja in the recent battle.

"Facing army against army, after the initial jutsu stalemate, they broke the Stone Ninja's defenses in mere moments and gained the upper hand in the war..."

Minato couldn't help but sigh in admiration. Although he had played a significant role in this battle, using the Flying Thunder God Technique to assassinate key enemy figures and setting a record of killing fifty-two Stone Ninja in seven seconds.

Minato believed that even without his assistance, under Uchiha Kin's command, victory in this battle was a foregone conclusion!

It was merely a difference between "difficult" and "easy."

He was the executor of the specific combat.

Uchiha Kin, on the other hand, was the commander of the army!

This battle had only just ended—it had come to an abrupt halt the moment the explosion at Kannagi Bridge sounded.

The Stone Ninja's supply lines, their lifeline, were destroyed. With supplies cut off, they immediately chose to retreat and consolidate.

It was their only option!

"The fighting here was intense!" Nohara Rin couldn't help but exclaim. This battlefield had a particularly strong impact on her. From the Third Great Ninja War until today, she had never seen such a brutal, such a nauseating battlefield.

"To create infiltration conditions for you, the intensity of the fighting here was extremely high. It was to tie them down and also to draw the Stone Ninja at Kannagi Bridge to reinforce here, reducing the difficulty of your infiltration."

As he spoke, Minato led Kakashi and Nohara Rin towards the rear.

Leaf Village ninja were cleaning up the battlefield. Uchiha Kin sat cross-legged on the ground, a scroll in front of him, drawing and writing on it. People reported to him from time to time. He looked up and saw the three of them, then called out, "Minato, I need your help with something!

"We've run out of scrolls for collecting bodies and need to make more. That... we're short on Sealing Technique ninja!"

He was currently swamped, dealing with the aftermath of the battle. Collecting bodies, treating the wounded, tallying casualties, one thing after another. He had no time to chat with Minato. After speaking, he glanced at Kakashi and Nohara Rin, "It seems Obito is temporarily offline." He pretended not to know and asked, "Obito?"

"Obito... sacrificed himself," Kakashi said. Uchiha Kin fell silent and continued with his work. After a long while, he finally said, "Oh."

A few dozen seconds later, he remembered something else and said to the two, "You two go rest first. I'm a bit busy here..."

By the time this battle ended, lanterns were already lit. In just this short time, the sky had completely darkened.

Uchiha Kin found a moment and used the Shadow Secret Technique, performing a simple, slightly angled scan in the direction of Kannagi Bridge. He then contacted his clone, Nara Tama.

"Huh?" Receiving Nara Tama's memories, Uchiha Kin was utterly speechless. "Not Mangekyo, but Sharingan? I've wasted all my effort this time... I calculated well, but unfortunately, I remembered incorrectly. What a pity..."

"However, I did implant nerves into Obito's body, so it wasn't entirely useless. It's just that taking that one eye won't be easy."

He didn't want to expose himself to Uchiha Madara or Black Zetsu.

After a moment's thought, his heart grew complex. "To be fair, if I didn't know what Obito would become in the future, he's quite pitiful like this."

At the other end of the Shadow Secret Technique, Nara Tama disconnected. He glanced at the sky. The pitch-black night was cool and gentle like water. If there were no war, such a night would surely be beautiful and peaceful.

"I should leave this battlefield first. Three-Tails... I need to head to the eastern battlefield first..." He cautiously hid in the shadows, drifting through the night, leaving the battlefield and stealthily heading towards the eastern front.

It wasn't until the latter half of the night, around 3 AM, that the entire battlefield was finally cleared, and the casualties were tallied.

On Konoha's side, excluding the Namikaze squad, 312 personnel participated, with 37 killed in action. On the Iwagakure side, the number of participants was unknown, but 3,776 were killed, a staggering hundred times that of Konoha.

This was an absurd casualty ratio.

Aside from those killed in action, Konoha had no other wounded.

Uchiha Kin, using his Nerve Secret Technique, dominated the battlefield, treating Konoha shinobi with extremely simple, crude, and effective methods. As long as they weren't unlucky enough to be instantly killed by enemy ninjutsu—

Crushed by an Earth Mausoleum Ball, buried alive, or squeezed into pulp by immense underground pressure. As long as they had a breath left, Uchiha Kin could "improvise," replacing parts to keep them alive!

If an arm was injured, a light Mystical Palm Technique might suffice. For severe cases where immediate recovery was impossible and the limb was unusable, he would simply chop it off and graft an Iwagakure shinobi's arm onto them, making them instantly spry again.

Konoha's three hundred-plus shinobi were like an undead legion. As the battle wore on, the Iwagakure shinobi grew fearful!

They had numbers, and the willpower of rock... but these enemies were simply unkillable.

Minato walked over, looking exhausted, and sat beside Uchiha Kin. He wanted to talk with Uchiha Kin for a while.

People are strange sometimes. If Uchiha Kin were still just a Medical Ninja in the field hospital, Minato Namikaze probably wouldn't have come over to sit and talk with him at this time. Minato said, "This is truly a rare and great victory!

"Although the individual combat quality of Iwagakure shinobi is poor, they have always excelled at large-scale operations and are adept at using human wave tactics. This has always been a headache for other ninja villages...

"I never expected them to suffer such a heavy loss at your hands!"

Uchiha Kin said, "Just wait, Iwagakure will soon send people to negotiate with us. When the time comes for negotiations..."

Minato Namikaze said, "For the negotiations... Kin, this battle was won by you. Therefore, you will lead this negotiation. I will act as your bodyguard, protecting your safety and deterring the enemy at the same time."

Minato Namikaze also gave his reasoning—

"In terms of international affairs, you are far more capable than I am, so you are the most suitable person to negotiate."

"Then, I won't refuse!"

Uchiha Kin smiled.