Outside Amegakure, on a hillside!
Rumble rumble rumble!!
Facing the incoming enemy, Root's members unleashed a barrage of ninjutsu!
But after the smoke cleared... that monster cloaked in lightning appeared before them all, completely unharmed!
"Our ninjutsu actually did nothing to him!!"
Ren Yin, captain of Root's Sixth Division, clenched his fists. "If I'm not mistaken, that guy is the Third Raikage!"
Beneath their masks, the Root shinobi could not hide their astonishment. "The man who, at the end of the recently concluded Third Shinobi World War, faced the Hidden Stone army alone, fought ten thousand enemies for three days and three nights, and remained standing?"
Xin Chou, captain of Root's Seventh Division, looked grim beneath his mask. "Has Hanzo's corpse been put to use by Akatsuki's Nagato through the Rinnegan?!! No wonder Hanzo never contacted us. He was probably taken out without a sound! This is truly the worst possible situation!"
After exchanging looks, Ren Yin and Xin Chou came to an understanding. "This enemy cannot be dealt with through numbers alone!!"
"Sixth Division, Seventh Division, all personnel retreat! The two of us will cover you. Those who make it back alive must report today's events to Lord Danzo!!!"
Of Root's two squads present, aside from the two who had died infiltrating Amegakure, seventy remained. Upon receiving their captains' orders, they fell silent, sheathed their ninja swords, turned, and raced down the mountain!
Absolute obedience, missions fulfilled without fail, acting like tools unbound by needless emotion—such was Root's way!
Ren Yin formed a hand seal!
Earth Release Barrier: Earth Prison Dome!
Boom!
The terrain around Pain A shifted as shattered rocks tightly compressed together, forming a hemispherical earthen prison!
Almost at the same time, Xin Chou formed hand seals and slammed both palms against the ground!
**Water Release: Water