Although a Reanimation Jutsu body could repair itself, it needed time—and time was exactly what they lacked.
The next moment, the Nine-Tails opened its massive jaws and began gathering a Tailed Beast Ball.
It was not very large, so it formed quickly. Before the surrounding ninja could stop it, it was fired straight at Sarutobi Hiruzen's position. Uchiha Obito had made his move.
"Boom!"
With a deafening blast, the Tailed Beast Ball exploded within the village.
Although this Tailed Beast Ball was not particularly large, the rebuilt Konoha was not large either. Half the village had been blasted into a massive crater, while the remaining areas were ravaged by the explosion's shockwaves. The casualties were even more devastating.
At the same time, two figures stood watching the battle from high ground outside the village: Yang Hao and Orochimaru's Shadow Clone.
Before coming to Konoha, he had asked his teacher, Orochimaru, for a Shadow Clone and sealed it away with sealing arts so it could witness this grand spectacle.
"Teacher really has grown old. He's no longer the Ninja Hero he once was."
Orochimaru shook his head as he watched, lamenting how much that teacher of his had changed.
The old man had become Hokage because he possessed the resolve to stay behind and sacrifice himself for everyone else. It was precisely because the Second had recognized that resolve that he had appointed him the Third.
But the old man had changed. He always spoke of the Will of Fire, yet at a critical moment like this, he did not dare sacrifice himself.
Was he waiting for Namikaze Minato, that new leaf, to burn in his place?
At this stage, the only thing Konoha had that could contend with the complete Nine-Tails was that forbidden technique. If the old man used