Let Kumogakure See the Shinobi's Courage / The Hard-to-Kill One

Suddenly, a Kakkō appeared before their eyes.

The Kakkō came from above Matatabi's head; this was the brilliance of Ninjutsu!

Most of the Cloud Ninja didn't notice that when the Kakkō caught their attention, a large number of Chakra Threads had already shot out from Matatabi's head.

By the time they realized it, it was too late.

Huge flames erupted from the head of the Matatabi, and the intense light dyed the sky orange-red.

The Cloud Ninja finally discovered the Chakra Threads that were already connected to them.

From behind, in the eyes of Dodai and the others, the flames erupting from the Matatabi, after the initial concentrated eruption, seemed to be drawn by something, releasing streaks of fire that hurtled towards the surrounding Cloud Ninja along specific trajectories at extremely high speeds.

"The Uchiha Clan's Dragon Flame Technique!" Dodai's face contorted in rage. "It's Uchiha Shingen!"

Chapter 49 Let Leaf Village Know the Courage of the Cloud Ninja

When constructing their own Ninjutsu system, the Uchiha Clan placed great emphasis on the connections and compatibility between different Ninjutsu.

The Sharingan, Fire Release, and Manipulated Shuriken Technique —the three different techniques—are connected by a steel wire.

The Uchiha Clan's ninja tools are famous because they are made using special technology, giving them excellent ignition properties. This technology was possessed by the Uchiha Clan's long-time ally, the Ninja Cat Clan.

This is how the rumor of someone liking to pet cats originated.

This is actually a huge misunderstanding. The relationship between the Uchiha Clan and the Ninja Cat is completely different from the relationship between the Inuzuka Clan and the Ninja Dog. The Uchiha Clan and the Ninja Cat are not partners in battle.

The Ninja Cat manufactured various ninja tools for the Uchiha Clan and cooperated in the black market arms trade. Some special equipment was sold exclusively to the Uchiha Clan, with steel wire, Kunai, and Shuriken being the main items. Through these, the Uchiha Clan was able to combine Fire Release Manipulated Shuriken Technique.

His signature Ninjutsu is the Dragon Flame Technique.

It's a very powerful Ninjutsu among the Uchiha Clan's Fire Release; when activated to a certain degree, it can even melt rocks! But in Uchiha Shingen's opinion, it's actually unnecessary.

So he adjusted the Fire Release, slightly reducing its power but increasing the intensity of the flames, making it faster when moving with the help of the steel wire.

However, he no longer uses steel wire, but instead uses the Chakra technology provided by Sasori of the Sasori of the Red Sands. In Uchiha Shingen's mind, Sasori of the Red Sands and Kakuzu are both good people.

He found this thing to be incredibly useful. Although it lacked the ability to cut people compared to steel wire, it was much more concealed, not only easy to use but also capable of enhancing the power of Fire Release.

In the eyes of the Cloud Ninja behind, every single one of the first comrades who approached the Matatabi was turned into torchbearers by this Dragon Flame Technique.

But they had no time to grieve for the deaths of their compatriots, because they discovered something even more psychologically disturbing.

Because someone stood on Matatabi's head and used Ninjutsu on him!

Meanwhile, at the main camp of the Cloud Ninja Army, Dodai and the Cloud Ninja around him were dumbfounded.

"Has Leaf Village had another Asura?" someone stammered.

That would be terrible.

What's wrong with the hair?

He's truly relegated to being a dog, because there's no second Senju Hashirama now.

"Impossible!" Dodai turned around. "Use your brain. If Uchiha Shingen had that kind of strength, would he need to ambush and kill the Lord Raikage?"

A sense of sudden Cloud Ninja.

Although saying this might be seen as boosting the morale of others while diminishing their own, no Cloud Ninja believed that their Raikage was on the same level as the former Leaf Village Asura.

Well, even though he's been offline for decades, Uchiha Madara is still considered a powerful figure in the Ninja World, much like a demon king in a hero's world.

After all, riding the Nine-Tails to attack people provides a very specific standard for judgment. If you can't easily do that, don't compare yourself to Uchiha Madara.

Relax, that's the key.

With Dodai's reminder, the morale of the Cloud Ninja rebounded.

The warrior spirit gives the Cloud Ninja a fearless attitude, and they still charge forward in the face of adversity. However, their weakness lies in their vulnerability to being overpowered by their opponents, making them the least resilient.

This is adversity.

The plan to lure the Two-Tails to attack Leaf Village ended before it even began.

"Let's fight to the death and show Leaf Village the courage of the Cloud Ninja." Dodai was at his wit's end.

No plans matter anymore; their value now lies in demonstrating the Kumogakure's spirit of fighting to the death with the enemy.

When facing a hungry beast, you must hold your weapon firmly and never show weakness easily, otherwise there is no chance of survival.

The Cloud Ninja Army's main camp issued a signal, and the troops began to move, their target being the Leaf Village Ninja Army.

With the Two-Tails now in Leaf Village's hands, all they can do is fight in chaotic battles.

No distinction between them, no tactics, just fight like wild beasts.

Until all of them perished in battle.

Clearly, Dodai has no intention of returning to be the Raikage.

This cannot be allowed.

"Lord Hokage, that Cloud Ninja we let go before is also in the Cloud Ninja Army," Uchiha Shingen said to Namikaze Minato. "Should we capture him?"

"This situation is not so easy," Namikaze Minato observed for a few moments. "It's a fight to the death."

"Then please ask the Lord Hokage to speak with the Lord Third and request that they keep their distance from the Cloud Ninja and avoid getting entangled with them."

"Okay," Namikaze Minato replied, disappearing from above Matatabi's head.

This distance was enough for him to instantly reach the Leaf Village ninja army.

In the original timeline of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Namikaze Minato and Senju Tobirama, Impure World Reincarnation Tensei, relied on their ridiculously large Chakra perception abilities and the Infinite stamina granted by their Impure World Reincarnation bodies to use the Flying Thunder God to instantly travel from Leaf Village to the battlefield in the northern border of the Land of Iron in an extremely short time.

This distance is nothing.

[Matatabi, let's start too? Don't you dare attack those guys on the other side who're dressed like me, they're all on our side.]

[Knew.]

Through their spiritual connection, Uchiha Shingen and Matatabi completed their exchange.

The giant cat opened its blood-red maw, estimated the distance, and adjusted its Chakra levels.

Then...

The deep-colored Tailed Beast Ball was emitted.

For the Tailed Beasts, the Tailed Beast Ball is the technique that allows them to best utilize their strengths.

It's not as simple as just squeezing out a ball of Chakra; it also requires nature and form changes. Technically, it's simple, but because of the large quantity, it needs to be carefully controlled.

The way it was launched wasn't very sophisticated; it looked more like spitting.

A Tailed Beast Ball, even larger than the one used against Nagato, formed from Matatabi's massive mouth. When it was launched, it broke the sound barrier from the very beginning and emitted a brief but powerful sonic boom at that moment.

Along the path of this Tailed Beast Ball are the Cloud Ninja running at full speed.

The Cloud Ninja are dispersing.

Then they heard a sonic boom behind them.

For many, this was the last sound they would ever hear.

Then it was swept away by the Tailed Beast Ball.

Because the target was too small, the Tailed Beast Ball could not explode. The Tailed Beast Ball only touched them for a very short moment before passing through them, and the parts of these people that touched the Tailed Beast Ball disappeared forever.

It was just grazed; the back was hit head-on by the Tailed Beast Ball, leaving not even a trace. At least, without certain equipment, you couldn't see what they left behind with the naked eye.

In a mere instant, the Tailed Beast Ball carved a path through the Cloud Ninja army before it could fully unleash its power, crashing into the very center.

The immense explosive force was fully released, and a mushroom cloud tens of meters high rose up from the spot. The sky above the explosion point was dyed red by the Kakkō. The surrounding Cloud Ninja were blown away like pieces of paper, and those caught in the explosion were instantly vaporized by the high temperature.

Chapter Fifty: People with Tough Luck

After unleashing Tailed Beast Ball, Matatabi started running.

As a clever Tailed Beasts, it stopped using the Tailed Beast Ball after seeing the despicable Cloud Village people disperse.

The sheer size difference allowed Matatabi to enter the Cloud Ninja Army's range with a single leap.

It landed heavily, shaking the surrounding Cloud Ninja swayed and tilted.

No, let me correct that. It's more like chuunibyou (Chunin) and above who are staggering.

As for the others, some were so unlucky that they plunged headfirst into a crack in the ground; it was considered lucky if half of their bodies remained outside.

Then Matatabi shook himself and showered the surrounding Cloud Ninja with a meteor shower.

Within the blue flames, the massive body of the Matatabi appeared like a monster in the eyes of the Cloud Ninja.

Standing atop Matatabi towering Uchiha Shingen, unmoved, they saw him as the devil among devils.

As the Cloud Ninja Army unleashed their power, the Matatabi felt a sense of exhilaration, venting the pent-up resentment of decades of imprisonment with unbridled joy.

So it would sometimes descend the mountain like a tiger, and other times roar through the forest, dashing east and west, even jumping up and sitting on people with its buttocks. It didn't even waste its two tails, whipping them around everywhere.

In the distance, the Konoha Ninja, who had retreated to a safe distance, watched this scene with mixed feelings.

Suddenly I understood why the Ninja World was filled with a peaceful atmosphere when the village was first established.

Faced with such power, without a foundation of quality, simply piling on quantity is meaningless.

The premise of using sheer numbers to wage a war of attrition is that the opponent is also human.

Look at the Tailed Beasts in front of you. Although it keeps jumping up and using its butt to sit on Cloud Ninja, and it roars happily when it sits on someone, it does look a bit funny. But if you put yourself in the shoes of Cloud Ninja and get sat on by a butt of that size, you definitely wouldn't find it funny.

Many ninjas have indeed seen fists as big as casserole dishes.

I've never seen a butt as big as a small mountain.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, Shimura Danzō, and Kagami Uchiha were also watching.

"This power has finally appeared," said Shimura Danzō.

He stood on the head of the Baku.

If he were alive, he would have been extremely nervous and would have tried every possible means.

But he's dead after all, so now he's just feeling sentimental.

The Uchiha Clan has produced another ninja like this; this clan will never lack such extraordinary talents.

For example, the other dead person next to him.

"Danzo, this is good news! Didn't Hiruzen say that the Uchiha Clan isn't what it used to be?" Kagami Uchiha was simply happy, Susanoo activated as well.

He was a remarkable genius in his lifetime, but after obtaining the Mangekyō Sharingan, he understood.

The Sharingan is ultimately just a tool, a special Ninjutsu. Whether or not one has the Sharingan only determines their lower limit.

Ultimately, the extent of its power depends on the people involved.

This clansman named Uchiha Shingen was able to wield the power of the Tailed Beasts even without the Mangekyō Sharingan. Conversely, even though he had the Mangekyō Sharingan, he couldn't do it; he Susanoo only activate half of his Susanoo.

Ultimately, Wood Release became powerful because of Senju Hashirama, and the Mangekyō Sharingan became terrifying because of Uchiha Madara.

If it's someone else, even if it's the Ninjutsu, the effect might be different.

Sarutobi Hiruzen just wanted to have a smoke.

At first, some Cloud Ninja tried to catch up with Leaf Village, but they were stopped by the three of them.

Now, nobody comes here anymore.

Now, the Cloud Ninja have not only completely collapsed in terms of organizational strength, but they also don't know what to do anymore. They have become a bunch of headless flies, only able to act on instinct.

You have to dodge being sat on, slapped by claws, whipped by tails, and also dodge fire attacks.

Many Cloud Ninja to break through, but Uchiha Shingen set fire to the forest outside the battlefield. The raging flames shot straight into the sky, creating a scene of purgatory. Breaking through the fire barrier would not be easy.

The only passage was also blocked by the three members of Tobirama Squad.

The Cloud Ninja could only let the Two-Tails Matatabi vent their resentment and anger on this vast battlefield.

Gradually, more and more Cloud Ninja died, forcing Matatabi to open his eyes wide and start searching.

At this moment, Uchiha Shingen also jumped down from his head and joined the slaughter.

He entered Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

Upon seeing it, I immediately rushed over and smashed it away.