On the Land of Rain battlefield, at Konoha's main camp, Orochimaru waited for a long time, yet the two jonin sent to monitor the Uchiha unit never returned.
"Did they really run into Hanzo?"
Orochimaru felt somewhat helpless.
This time, sending the Uchiha unit to their deaths had not been entirely about eliminating dissidents.
There were more than thirty Uchiha, including two elite jonin, five jonin, and the rest were all outstanding chunin.
On top of that, there were the two jonin he had sent to monitor the Uchiha.
That was an extremely formidable force.
If it had been him, what would he have done?
Orochimaru pondered.
There was no way they could have won.
Orochimaru knew his own strength well enough.
Putting aside everything else, just the two elite jonin with Three-Tomoe Sharingan would not have been easy to deal with.
Elite jonin with three tomoe could be considered among the strongest below Kage level.
And even if they had been outmatched, they could have fled. Yet not a single one had returned. That meant Hanzo the Salamander's strength had reached an unfathomable level.
Yet now, it was as if they had been swallowed by some invisible maw, unable to send back even the slightest useful distress call or warning.
That could only mean that the opponent they had encountered was almost certainly Hanzo the Salamander.
His terror far exceeded the bounds of ordinary Kage-level shinobi.
Before that overwhelming power, this elite Uchiha unit had scarcely even had the chance to struggle or relay information.
But now, neither Konoha itself nor Iwagakure or Sunagakure had dispatched any other Kage-level shinobi.
On Konoha's side, Mito Uzumaki and Sarutobi Hiruzen were the pillars guarding the village, so it was impossible for them to leave Konoha. They were ruled out. After Danzo