The Name of a Monster! The Super-Kage Threshold That Shook the Entire Battlefield

Kakuzu said in a deep voice, "It's not that he had no room to show what he could do. He was countered from the root up."

He had lived far too long. He had seen too many powerful fighters slaughter one another, and he had witnessed all manner of counters between Kekkei Genkai.

But Lumen's method of directly seizing Sasori's Iron Sand, then using it to dismantle a hundred puppets in reverse, was so absurd it sent chills down his spine.

Sasori was no weakling.

The Third Kazekage Human Puppet was no decoration.

Performance of a Hundred Puppets was even less an ordinary ninjutsu.

Yet in Lumen's hands, all of it seemed to have become ready-made material. Even Sasori himself looked like a puppet placed on a stage, taken apart inch by inch for everyone to see clearly.

Orochimaru licked the corner of his dry lips, his voice carrying a tremor he could not conceal.

"I already thought very highly of him before."

"Now it seems I still underestimated him."

Kakuzu said coldly, "He can no longer be judged by the standards of an ordinary ninja."

After saying that, Kakuzu truly felt for the first time that their decision to infiltrate Konoha tonight might have been a mistake.

He was not afraid of the strong.

Five hearts, the secret technique Earth Grudge Fear, and vast combat experience allowed him to survive against most Kage Level opponents. But an enemy like Lumen was different.

Such an opponent could not be described with merely the words "hard to kill." Once he set his sights on someone, he could very well crush them to death without pause.

On the other side of the ruins, Kakashi steadied himself against a broken wall, his expression equally complicated.

He had just watched Sasori drive him into