The Third Mizukage: Outputting Even in Death

Damn Ōnoki, damn the Land of Night!

Those two bastards have no sense of martial ethics; they're both bullying this old man!

The Fourth Mizukage Genji, was heading to the conference room to prepare for the meeting when he thought about the terrible news that had been coming back from outside. He couldn't help but feel extremely angry and frustrated, but he had no way to vent his anger at the moment.

If the Mizukage does not exercise restraint at this moment and instead displays a furious and incompetent demeanor, it will only worsen the already dire situation for Kirigakure.

Therefore, no matter how much Hidden Mist Village news is coming back to Kirigakure, he, the Mizukage who has been in office for less than half a year, must restrain his anger and show a calm and composed attitude that everything is under control.

Even the slightest flaw would shake the resolve of many Kirigakure Ninja.

However, the more he tried to restrain himself, the less calm Genji became.

The current situation is far too difficult.

In just half a month, the eastern part of the Land of Water was almost completely destroyed. Despite having a numerical advantage, the situation did not improve much when Military Bureau were dispatched.

Furthermore, the Land of Night's interference delayed the arrival of the reinforcements that Hidden Cloud Village had agreed upon.

Given Hidden Mist Village's current state, it's easy to imagine what the outcome would be if they tried to deal with Iwagakure alone.

Thinking of this, Genji couldn't help but once again inquire about the fate of the Third Mizukage, whose whereabouts were unknown.

This guy left behind a mess, yet he still stood on the enemy's side and fiercely attacked, causing a series of bitter consequences for the Hidden Mist Village.

Upon arriving at the conference room door, Genji took a deep breath, trying to calm his inner turmoil, and pushed the door open to go inside.

There were about twenty people sitting in the conference room.

They were all Elder with Real Authority of Kirigakure, as well as prominent ninja clan leaders.

"Enough with the small talk, let's begin the meeting."

Genji sat down and, without any pleasantries, chose to get straight to the point.

After a moment of contemplation, Genji quickly glanced at everyone and continued:

"I'm sure you've all received the relevant materials regarding the battle situation at the front, so I won't waste time discussing that. Firstly, regarding the Iwagakure's air force, what effective countermeasures do you have?"

While flying ninjas are relatively rare in the Ninja World, Hidden Mist Village, as one of the Five Great Nations ninja villages, is not without means to limit or counter them.

However, this only works effectively when the number of flying ninjas is small.

However, this time the Iwagakure flying unit was different; it was a well-organized flying unit of more than two hundred people, unlike the Iwagakure flying ninjas they had encountered before.

Not only do they primarily use high-altitude bombing as their attack method, but their flight altitude is also significantly higher than that of flying ninjas from Iwagakure in the past.

Apart from a very few ranged ninjas, it is almost impossible to hit a target at that height within Kirigakure.

This means that the Kirigakure Ninja on the front lines can only passively endure enemy attacks, without being able to intimidate the enemy.

The elders and the ninja clan leader exchanged glances, all seeing the helplessness in each other's eyes.

"Lord Mizukage, it's not that we can't think of a way to counter it, but the Iwagakure Ninja ' flight altitude this time exceeds the limit of many Ninjutsu."

An elder sighed and spoke.

"That's right. The most crucial point is that this air force is able to attack from high altitudes not by using Ninjutsu, but by using mass-producible ninja tools. This means that even if this batch is Iwagakure out, given more time, Iwagakure can quickly field another entirely new air force."

Another elder took out a stack of photos, which showed Iwagakure Ninja piloting flying ninja tools and soaring through the sky.

Mastering flying Ninjutsu requires a lot of time, and if you want to maintain flight while attacking from the air, it will take even longer and more effort.

But these flying ninja tools that can be mass-produced and used to arm ninjas in large numbers don't require such trouble.

As can be seen from the photos, this flying ninja device has an ingenious structure, but it may not be as complicated to operate as one might imagine.

This means that Iwagakure can train more flying ninjas like dumplings being dropped into boiling water and deploy them in the upcoming war.

"In addition, this flying ninja tool generates a protective Barrier when attacked. Judging from the Barrier's strength, an attack of the same magnitude as an Explosive Tag cannot break through it head-on."

The elder pointed again to a photograph of a flying ninja tool controlled by Iwagakure Ninja.

The Iwagakure Ninja was attacked high in the sky, but a spherical Barrier of light appeared around the flying ninja tool, blocking the ranged attack from the Kirigakure Ninja below.

"The Iwagakure air force's intention is not to inflict casualties, but to disrupt the formation of our frontline troops, using explosives to deplete the energy and Chakra of our ninjas, after which Iwagakure will have its ground forces coordinate the operation."

The high altitude of the Iwagakure air force is an advantage, but it also reduces the accuracy of their strikes to some extent.

This air force is highly efficient at destroying immovable buildings and facilities, but its effectiveness is greatly reduced when used to kill highly mobile ninjas.

By using Ninjutsu to raise Ninjutsu above in advance to block the explosives, one can avoid being caught in the explosion.

However, this would inevitably deplete the stamina and Chakra of the Kirigakure Ninja.

Iwagakure recognized this, which is why they came up with this air-ground coordinated advance strategy.

Use air units to wear down and suppress the enemy first, then send the fully-equipped ground troops to attack the exhausted Hidden Mist Village units.

To avoid further losses, the Hidden Mist Village had no choice but to retreat quickly, avoiding battle and continuing to tighten their lines.

This is the current predicament faced by the Hidden Mist Village Front.

"Speaking of which, the appearance of this flying ninja tool was rather sudden. We didn't receive any prior notice, which is very unusual. Moreover, its intricate and precise structure doesn't seem to be Iwagakure's own technology."

Just then, an elder suddenly spoke up, seemingly puzzled by this.

As long-time rivals, if others don't understand the situation in Iwagakure, surely Hidden Mist Village does?

After the elder finished speaking, another person also expressed their thoughts, pointing to the photo and saying:

"That reminds me of something. These Iwagakure Ninja all look completely unfamiliar... Also, I remember this person is an A-rank bounty hunter on the Black Market. According to my intelligence network, he has some unclear connections with the Land of Night."

Whispers immediately filled the conference room, with some even saying, "That's not surprising."

Considering that the Land of Night was suddenly conducting military exercises on an uninhabited island in the Land of Frost at this time, Hidden Cloud Village was hesitant to act rashly.

Since the start of the war, there has been no news of any of the spies from Iwagakure, and their fate remains unknown.

Some things that were hard to understand suddenly became clear.

The cooperation between Iwagakure and the Land of Night, which led to Iwagakure's surprise attack on the Land of Water, may be deeper than they imagined.

"That would be very troublesome. Although we withdrew our 'workers' from the Land of Night shortly after the Third's disappearance, we didn't withdraw from Iwagakure... If the Land of Night and Iwagakure were to engage in full intelligence sharing..."

This means that not only Hidden Mist Village Kirigakure's spies exposed to Iwagakure's noses, but much of the information about their ninja's abilities also fell into Iwagakure's hands.

even...

They looked at Genji expression was growing increasingly grim.

Not many people in Kirigakure knew about the opponent's Ninjutsu, but unfortunately, the Third was one of them.

To put it even worse, the Ninjutsu abilities and fighting styles of all the high-ranking members present could potentially be discovered by Iwagakure.

"It's all the Third for acting rashly."

After a long silence, a long-suppressed complaint finally broke out in the conference room.