"Retreat~~~"
Hearing Kurokawa Ichiro's shrill cry before death, the lower- and mid-ranked ninja from Iwagakure on the battlefield first froze, then began retreating all at once.
Seeing this, the surviving Leaf ninja each used their own methods, some blocking them, some pursuing them.
For a time, the entire battlefield became even more chaotic than before.
However, because the initiative was on Konoha's side, overall, the Rock Ninja were still in a far more wretched state, and their casualties were even greater.
In this final wave alone, at least thirty or forty Rock Ninja were killed, and in the end, the number who could evade pursuit and return alive to Iwagakure Main Camp definitely would not exceed a hundred.
In other words, in this surprise attack, the Rock Ninja had not only lost all their Jonin, even their force had been reduced by more than two-thirds.
Such losses could not be called anything but heavy.
However, Konoha's side had also suffered no small loss. Out of one hundred and fifty ninja, the survivors now likely numbered no more than fifty.
And that was still the result of Qian having killed quite a number of Iwagakure's lower- and mid-ranked ninja earlier. If he had not cut down several dozen men at the very beginning, Konoha's losses would have been even greater.
After all, this time the Rock Ninja had come with the aim of wiping out Xiaogu Village Outpost, and their preparations had been quite thorough. For so many on Konoha's side to survive in the end, and even win, was practically a miracle.
No, calling it a miracle was inaccurate. It should be said that all of it had relied on Qian's "extraordinary" performance.
Without him wiping out the enemy's Jonin team, no matter how Konoha's side struggled, it would only