Uchiha Yato's distinctive, ghostly voice seemed to pierce straight into the depths of one's soul. The Seven-Tails could not help but shudder in terror when it heard him.
At this moment, although Kumogakure possessed technology advanced enough to defy reason, allowing them to cleverly glimpse fragments of the Seven-Tails' memories,
the most crucial factor was actually the Seven-Tails' extreme "cooperation" with their work.
That was precisely why this profound and mysterious technology could be employed so smoothly.
However, if Uchiha Yato had not cast a genjutsu during his final escape, forcing the Seven-Tails to devote most of its mental power to resisting the illusion's assault,
then the Seven-Tails could confidently declare that Kumogakure's attempt to obtain that vital portion of its memories would have been nothing more than a fool's dream!
That was the confidence of a tailed beast. They possessed powerful bodies and chakra, and they were confident that shinobi could not control them so easily.
Therefore, from a certain perspective, Uchiha Yato's actions had indeed aided the enemy.
However, from another angle, things were entirely different.
Before the Shinobi Village Alliance had even formally begun large-scale combat, this incident had already cost them a full twenty percent of their forces—and it had all been caused by Uchiha Yato alone.
One had to know that there was still some time before a full-scale war between the shinobi villages erupted, yet they had already suffered such severe troop losses.
More importantly, this twenty percent did not refer to any single village. It encompassed the entire massive Shinobi Village Alliance, formed by all the villages and coordinated under unified planning.
This showed just how successful Uchiha Yato's carefully planned and executed operation had been.
Not only had he obtained most of the classified intelligence and critical data he wanted, he had