"Uchiha Madara, you look like you're having a great time."
Orochimaru's gloomy, hoarse voice slowly echoed through Uchiha Madara's mind, carrying a hint of mockery.
"At this point, I can probably only do things that make myself happy, can't I?"
Uchiha Madara continued conversing with Orochimaru through his thoughts while fighting Minato Namikaze and the others.
"Things that make you happy?" Orochimaru chuckled. "Fine, but it's about time you came back."
"What do you mean?" Uchiha Madara frowned.
"Don't you understand yet, Uchiha Madara?" Orochimaru sneered repeatedly. "There are three factions on this battlefield. If you cripple the Allied Shinobi Forces, the balance will be broken."
Uchiha Madara's eyes flickered.
From his earlier battle against Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Raikage, Ōnoki, and the others, it was clear that the Allied Shinobi Forces were highly united. If so, then the conclusion was obvious: Akatsuki had split apart!
No wonder Orochimaru had only one Rinnegan.
The other Rinnegan had likely fallen into the hands of that ambition-swollen Uchiha Shin.
Orochimaru did not want Uchiha Madara to kill the top combatants of the Allied Shinobi Forces before him. Naturally, he wanted to leave them alive to fight Uchiha Shin, so he could reap the benefits as a third party.
Of course, if Orochimaru had successfully obtained Kinkaku and Ginkaku on the battlefield of the Allied Shinobi Forces' First Division, revived the Ten-Tails, and become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki, then that would have been another matter entirely.
But just as he thought of this, Orochimaru's heart skipped a beat.
"This is..."
A figure like the Yellow Flash flickered wildly through the area like a ghost. That blurry yet young and handsome face...
Minato Namikaze?!
When had he arrived here?
Still, this might be an opportunity.
"Uchiha Madara, do you have a way to counter the