This sudden turn of events practically fried Kakashi's CPU.
Since when had Konoha's ANBU possessed such a powerful Wood Release user?
In just a few minutes, he had beaten a Tailed Beast into submission!
Even if Shimura Danzō had come personally, he probably could not have accomplished something like this.
Could it have been that Wood Release user named Kinoe?
But Kakashi clearly remembered that guy not being nearly this powerful.
Kakashi was not the only one stunned. The other Cloud Shinobi in town were equally dumbfounded.
This was a Tailed Beast!
A Tailed Beast, one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages' strategic weapons and a cornerstone of peace in the Shinobi World, had been defeated so easily?
Even the Third Raikage, hailed as the strongest in both offense and defense in the Shinobi World, had fought for three days and three nights to subdue the Eight-Tails. Yet this guy...
"What are you all standing around for?! Hurry and rescue Lady Yugito!"
At last, one of the Cloud Shinobi snapped out of it. With a shout, all the Cloud Shinobi swiftly regrouped. They no longer cared about pursuing the Konoha shinobi and charged straight toward the town center, constantly using Lightning Release along the way to sever the roots strewn across the ground in an attempt to weaken their enemy.
But Simu had no intention of helping Konoha clean up its enemies. He immediately clapped his hands together.
"Genjutsu: Modified Bringer-of-Darkness Technique."
The instant his palms met, the Chakra within Simu's body transformed into an unimaginably dense darkness that surged wildly from him.
The darkness quickly formed an enormous curtain. Before anyone could react, it had already closed around them, burying everyone in a pitch-black, lightless ocean.
The darkness around them was like seawater that existed everywhere. Everyone trapped within