Kusagakure's Destruction (4)

"Heh, is this how you serve as village chief?" Uchiha Kuo's face was full of disdain, his gaze seemingly brimming with arrows of contempt.

"If you'd faced reality sooner, would half the village's ninja forces have been lost? Now that it's happening to you, you surrender without even the slightest ability to resist!"

"See? Aren't you quite good at recognizing reality after all?"

"What, it doesn't matter as long as it isn't happening to you?"

At this moment, Uchiha Kuo spouted arrogant words as he swept his gaze around.

The village center, once peaceful and tranquil, had now been ravaged by battle until it resembled a ruin.

Within the former encirclement, dense cries of agony and screams rose and fell. Great numbers of people were either dead or crippled.

Some had their arms and legs severed, left as disabled wrecks.

The ninja farther away had all broken down, scattering and fleeing like startled birds, hiding wherever they could.

Yet Uchiha Kuo still stood there proudly, like an immovable mountain.

One of his feet was pressed down on someone's head with the force of Mount Tai crushing an egg.

That person was Grass Awn, the chief of Kusagakure—the ruler known as the Grass Shadow.

Though only the leaders of the Five Great Shinobi Nations' Five Great Shinobi Villages were truly qualified to be called Kage, these minor shinobi villages were all puffed up with self-importance, each one appointing its own Kage.

Grass Awn lay prone on the ground now, with none of his former arrogance or lofty status remaining.

Like worthless trash that had fallen into a mud pit, he obediently lay there.

Facing Uchiha Kuo, who had his foot on his head, he showed not the slightest anger. Instead, he forced a fawning smile onto his face and said, "No,