They could only go to a little more trouble and find a breakthrough through Danzo—first cut off the Third's right-hand man, then slowly dismantle the current upper echelons.
Just like what the higher-ups did to the Uchiha, Junichi thought to himself.
"Clan Head, I spotted hidden sentries!"
A clansman suddenly spoke up, his Sharingan spinning in his eyes, their crimson glow eerie and bewitching.
"Take them out," Junichi casually ordered.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The group immediately scattered, each seeking out a target.
"Who goes there?!"
The Root ninja at the sentry posts immediately became alert.
But it was useless.
Every person Junichi had brought was an elite jonin with three-tomoe Sharingan.
Their blades rose and fell, flames coiling around the steel, their three tomoe spinning as they unleashed their full strength. Not a single Root ninja could withstand them.
"It's the Uchiha!"
"Why are they here?"
"Report to the base, quickly!"
Bang!
In an instant, all the surrounding sentry posts had been wiped out.
Charred corpses now littered the ground.
Ahead.
Within the Root base, the Root ninja left behind to guard it were also alarmed by the sounds of battle outside.
"What's going on?"
A man without a mask emerged and asked with a frown.
"Captain, someone is attacking the base. They've killed every sentry on the perimeter," someone answered. "They're from the Uchiha Clan!"
"The Uchiha?"
The captain froze when he heard the name. "Weren't they being exterminated? Where would they get the manpower... wait!"
The captain suddenly stopped, a trace of unease flashing through his heart.
Could Lord Danzo's operation have failed?
No, impossible!
Lord Danzo had planned this meticulously. Most of Root's forces had been deployed, and with the Third's Anbu and Itachi Uchiha, the mole within the Uchiha Clan, the extermination could not possibly fail!