"Hehe... Has Teacher Sarutobi finally lost patience and decided to fight me?"
Orochimaru's expression did not change in the slightest in response to Sarutobi's furious roar from afar. Still smiling, he watched as Sarutobi charged toward him from the other end of the corridor.
"Clang, clang, clang..." Sarutobi swung the staff in his hands at high speed, knocking away the incoming ninja tools. Before long, several more Root members screamed as they were sent flying.
With Kakashi and Sarutobi both fighting at full strength, more than half of Root's jonin had already been killed or wounded. Although they had also inflicted considerable damage on the two, and even Sarutobi had inevitably been injured under their combined assault, if this continued, every Root member would be killed by them.
"Lord Orochimaru, please take action personally. We can't hold on much longer!" Seeing more and more Root members fall, Yamato could not help urging him again.
"What an impatient boy. Didn't you say that the mission was everything? Wouldn't it be better to let these people wear down the old man's strength?" Orochimaru replied unhurriedly.
"Lord Orochimaru, Lord Danzo's orders were for us to assist you in the assassination! You are the main force!" Seeing Orochimaru apparently preparing to drag his feet, Yamato could not help threatening him. "These are Root's elite. If our losses are too severe, the conditions Lord Danzo promised afterward may be reduced. Your experiments may be delayed for a very long time because of this!"
Danzo naturally had not expected the several dozen Root jonin under his command to be capable of assassinating the Hokage. Orochimaru was the key to this operation. Moreover, he knew that the unruly Orochimaru cared about nothing except experiments related to his own immortality, so he had specifically instructed Yamato to use