Late at night.
Seabirds and sharks drawn by the scent of blood gathered on the battlefield, feasting on the carnage.
As space twisted, a masked man in a black robe appeared—it was Uchiha Obito.
At his side, Zetsu, half black and half white, emerged from the sea.
"The Uchiha clan... is frighteningly strong."
Zetsu spoke in a low voice.
Even the Akatsuki organization they had painstakingly built would likely have to pay a terrible price to defeat the Cloud Hidden forces head-on, including the A-B Combination.
Though it was called Flame Hidden Village, aside from those demons and monsters, there were hardly any outsiders among the combatants.
It could be said that...
The Uchiha had annihilated the main force of a great nation's ninja village with the strength of a single clan!
What made Zetsu wary was not the Uchiha clan's strength, but their rate of growth.
Three years ago, the Uchiha definitely had not possessed their current strength. Otherwise, they would not have needed to defect from Konoha; wouldn't it have been better to simply overthrow the regime?
Obito remained silent.
He had recovered the ocular power lost in their previous battle and learned many of the ninjutsu Madara Uchiha had left behind, greatly increasing his combat strength.
He had originally come to the Uchiha territory to settle the score. When he encountered the Cloud Hidden invasion, he had even been pleased at first.
It was the perfect chance to enter once the Uchiha clan fell into decline, collect Sharingan, and gather a group of Uchiha followers at the same time.
He had indeed intended to sow discord between Konoha and the Uchiha by instigating the Nine-Tails incident, but he was not insane enough to want to wipe out the entire clan.
What he wanted was a small, controllable