"Wood Release?!"
Hanzo of the Salamander took a step back, his pupils abruptly shrinking as he stared in disbelief as though he had seen a ghost.
"How is this possible?! The First Hokage has been dead for ages! How could you possibly know the First Hokage's Wood Release?!"
Even if he had been twenty years younger, he would not have been this terrified.
He was seventy-one years old. He had truly lived through that terrifying era, the era suppressed by two men. Under the suppression of those two men, no one in the entire Ninja World had dared to stand out.
The entire Ninja World had kept their tails tucked between their legs.
Even the "Kage" of the other great nations had been the same!
That terrifying Wood Release and Susanoo had seemed like the wrath of immortals. Any ninja standing in their way was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot!
"This is impossible!"
Hanzo of the Salamander was shaken to his core. Cold sweat streamed down his forehead as he forced himself to remain calm. Those two men had been dead for decades, and he was now the "demigod" of the Ninja World!
"Konoha has a ninja named Yamato. Compared to the First Hokage's Wood Release, his is like the glow of a firefly against the bright moon in the sky."
"Your Wood Release... must be the same!"
He quickly found a reasonable explanation for himself.
If Uchiha Akira truly possessed Wood Release, how could Danzo possibly target him?
If Uchiha Akira truly possessed Wood Release, why had he not used it just now?
If Uchiha Akira truly possessed Wood Release, why had his spies received no news at all?
Therefore, there was only one truth.
Uchiha Akira's Wood Release was not as powerful as the First