The Evil Uchiha!

"All units, attack! Annihilate the Uchiha. Leave no survivors."

"Tell Danzo to find out who used that space-time ninjutsu, locate where the Uchiha clan has fled to, and pursue them immediately!!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen stood up abruptly and issued the order with absolute decisiveness.

As long as the Uchiha remained inside Konoha, they were like domesticated huskies that could be dealt with at any time.

But if the Uchiha were allowed to leave Konoha, they would become starving wolves, capable of tearing a massive chunk of flesh from Konoha at any moment.

The Uchiha clan escaping was something he absolutely could not accept!

It would bring upon Konoha an enemy that would have to be guarded against at every waking moment!

"Yes!"

Shikaku Nara was startled when he heard Sarutobi Hiruzen's words.

However, he quickly used Inoichi Yamanaka's ninjutsu to relay the message directly to the Anbu on the front lines and to Danzo.

The Anbu who received the message were all shocked.

Because they had also sensed that the Uchiha didn't seem to have much will to fight, acting more as if they were just trying to hold them back.

Therefore, the Anbu hadn't been attacking with full force, focusing more on gathering intelligence to figure out what was happening.

Now that they had received orders from the Third Hokage, they naturally could no longer slack off.

Having joined the Anbu, they knew what they would face; even though they didn't understand why they had to do this to the Uchiha, they still moved in.

"Has the barrier been broken?"

"We have ten minutes left for the evacuation. Over four hundred people have already been brought through, but there's still half to go. Time is tight!"

Uchiha Tamaharu stood on a rooftop, his Sharingan activated as he observed the situation outside.

He knew that the most difficult time was yet to come.

The portal could not be hidden; with the Byagukan around, it would be easily discovered. That was why Uchiha Tamaharu had chosen to place the portal in the most convenient location for their escape from the very beginning.

"They've started attacking harder. Are they trying to wipe out the Uchiha entirely?"

"Then don't blame me."

Uchiha Tamaharu quickly noticed that the fighting on the front lines had become extremely intense.

Ninjutsu and explosive tags were detonating one after another.

He knew this was the choice Sarutobi Hiruzen had made—he did not want to let them leave.

If Konoha had chosen to stop the pursuit after learning of the Uchiha's intentions, there might have been a chance for peace in the future.

But now, Uchiha Tamaharu did not hesitate.

He remotely detonated the Konoha prison!

There were fewer prisoners inside than usual, but a large number of rogue ninja from Konoha were still being held there.

At this moment, Uchiha Tamaharu chose to release them without a second thought.

"Genjutsu: Sharingan!"

On the front lines, Shisui also noticed that the Anbu had begun a fierce assault.

His heart sank immediately; he realized that Konoha had chosen not to let them leave, which left him feeling deeply disappointed.

He had originally thought that if Konoha knew the Uchiha were leaving and did not want to start a war, they would agree to it.

But now it seemed he had thought too highly of them!

Consequently, Shisui's attacks also became heavier; he no longer held back.

Like a grim reaper, he used his high-speed Body Flicker Technique to appear among the Anbu and take them down.

However, he still deliberately spared their lives and did not deliver lethal blows, though this made the task extremely exhausting for him.

"Detonate the first line of defense!"

Fugaku Uchiha ordered directly.

Konoha had always been on guard, wondering what the Uchiha might have set up within the village.

They had indeed set things up, but everything was within the Uchiha compound.

This time, they had brought out a massive amount of explosive tags; they weren't planning on leaving these houses for Konoha!

They would leave Konoha with nothing but ruins.

Detonating them now would also increase the difficulty for the Anbu to infiltrate.

After all, the Uchiha only needed to stall for time. When they began the evacuation, they had started from the outermost perimeter, so there was no one left in the outer areas.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

The tremors from the exploding tags woke almost all the residents of Konoha.

It was less than half an hour until dawn, the time when the vast majority of people were fast asleep.

This sudden, violent shaking reminded the villagers of Konoha of the horrors of the night of the Nine-Tails Incident, and they ran out of their homes in a panic, desperate to find shelter.

"So it has started after all!"

"Will the Hyuga clan be next?"

Hyuga Hiashi was not asleep.

With a grim expression, he used his Byakugan to observe the situation in the village.

Naturally, he discovered the dozen or so Anbu hiding around the Hyuga clan compound, placed there to prevent them from stabbing the village in the back.

Seeing these Anbu made Hyuga Hiashi deeply displeased; he knew that the higher-ups in Konoha had never truly trusted the Hyuga clan.

With the Senju and Uchiha clans no longer serving as targets, he suspected that the Hyuga clan was likely next on the list!

"So this was the Uchiha's plan all along!"

"Truly, the Uchiha are evil!"

"Mobilize those ninja, send them all to the front lines, and tell them that killing one Uchiha ninja is worth an A-rank mission reward!"

Danzo, through the ninja he had from the Hyuga clan within Root, had also learned of the Uchiha clan's plan to retreat using space-time ninjutsu.

This sent him into a rage!

He felt that it was Sarutobi Hiruzen's excessive hesitation that had led to this situation.

If they had struck earlier, perhaps things would never have turned out like this.

"Yes!"

The five Root members kneeling on the ground vanished instantly to mobilize more ninja.

"Prepare to deploy a combined ninjutsu to destroy that space-time ninjutsu as quickly as possible; it cannot be allowed to remain!"

Danzo continued to issue orders.

He felt that if they relied solely on a direct assault, the opportunity would have long since passed.

It wasn't that no one had tried to push through, but in this darkest hour before dawn, visibility was poor, yet it had almost no effect on the Uchiha clan.

Coupled with the large number of traps laid out, the Anbu were unable to break through the defensive line quickly.

Even if they managed to get close, they were intercepted by the Uchiha stationed beside the teleportation portal.

Therefore, Danzo prepared to use a massive, long-range combined ninjutsu to destroy what he believed to be a space-time technique!

However, before Danzo could act, Uchiha Tamaharu activated the final measure he had prepared.

"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"

Uchiha Metsu released three Great Fireball Techniques in succession, firing them in three different directions toward the sky.

Because they were not targeting anyone, naturally, no one tried to stop the ninjutsu.

"It is troublesome to pull off tricks under Konoha's tight surveillance."

"But the weather, as expected, went unnoticed."

"By combining the Kirin developed by Sasuke with a larger-scale meteorological ninjutsu, let Konoha experience what true pain is!"

Electric currents surged over Uchiha Tamaharu's right hand.

His eyes had already shifted into the pattern of the Mangekyo.

Over the past two days, a significant amount of rain clouds had gathered in the sky without anyone noticing.

This was the result of Uchiha Tamaharu slowly evaporating lake water every day to gradually form cumulonimbus clouds; by yesterday evening, he had almost completely evaporated an entire lake inside the Uchiha compound.

The Konoha ninja had not detected this at all.

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