The Collector Arrives

Inside the medical room, pale green medical chakra flowed through Minamoto Takuya's palms as he expressionlessly stopped the bleeding and mended bones for another batch of wounded.

Yet his thoughts had long since pierced through the blood-soaked tent, following the memories provided by his Shadow Clone to the chaotic front lines.

Although Konoha had narrowly won this battle, the heavy price made him clearly realize that this was no repeatable formula for victory. What lay before them was merely a perilous stroke of luck.

The decisive factors of the battle rested on two fragile fronts.

Eight-Tails Killer B versus Ino-Shika-Cho and a group of Jonin. Killer B's violent Tailed Beast power hung over them like a sword above their heads.

By comparison, the Nara Clan's shadow restraints, the Akimichi Clan's Expansion Jutsu, and the Yamanaka Clan's Mind Body Switch, though exquisitely coordinated, all seemed on the verge of collapse before such overwhelming power.

A single mistake in any instant could reduce those Konoha elites to ashes.

Shisui Uchiha versus Two-Tails Yugito. On the other side, the genius known as "Body Flicker Shisui" was certainly powerful.

But facing a Tailed Beast-transformed enemy with speed and Genjutsu, how could victory possibly come easily? Not to mention that he had to win before Ino-Shika-Cho was defeated!

Even more fatal was that even if Yugito lost, she could rely on the Tailed Beast Chakra's formidable recovery and mobility to tear through the encirclement and escape at ease.

Konoha's Ino-Shika-Cho... had no such way out.

As for the clash between Fourth Raikage A and Jiraiya, Konoha's two main pillars? In Minamoto Takuya's eyes, it had already sunk into a quagmire of entanglement.

Jiraiya was trapped beneath the Fourth Raikage's and those Jonin's relentless, storm-like offensive. He simply had no opportunity to spare attention for the