"What did you say? Ōnoki is dead?!"
Listening to Mabui's report beside him, Fourth Raikage A shot up from his seat. His emotions surged so violently that he instinctively activated his Lightning Release Armor, blue arcs of electricity crackling around his body.
Ōnoki, who had been meeting with him just days ago, was dead?!
"Yes, Lord Raikage."
"The massive explosion in Iwagakure last night has drawn every faction's attention."
"Our spies have reported that Iwagakure has now been reduced to ruins. The Third Tsuchikage, Ōnoki, has been confirmed dead!"
A trace of cold sweat appeared on Mabui's forehead. When she had first received the intelligence, she had found it just as unbelievable.
Iwagakure had been wiped out overnight. Didn't that mean the same person could do the same to Hidden Cloud?
"Do we know who did it...?"
The usually hot-tempered Fourth Raikage's face now showed a rare hint of fear.
No one understood Iwagakure and Ōnoki's strength better than he did!
His father, the Third Raikage, had died after being besieged by ten thousand Iwagakure shinobi.
Among the Five Great Shinobi Villages, Iwagakure had the greatest number of shinobi! And it also had Ōnoki, who possessed the Kekkei Tōta, Dust Release.
Even his father, the man who had cultivated Lightning Release Chakra Mode to the point of being called the "Strongest Shield," would not have dared take a Dust Release attack from Ōnoki head-on.
Moreover, Ōnoki had been the longest-serving Kage, an exceedingly shrewd and cautious man.
That was why A had not competed with him for the position of commander-in-chief of the Shinobi Alliance.
And now he was being told that the old man was dead! That even Iwagakure had been destroyed!
It was simply horrifying.
Mabui swallowed lightly, her voice trembling as she read the top-secret intelligence report