In the capital of the Land of Earth, the Daimyo leaned wearily back in his chair.
As the ruler of a nation, he had no shortage of matters to coordinate when suddenly launching a war. Having finished all the necessary arrangements, he could finally get some rest.
Yet just as his eyes were about to close, a tremendous noise reached his ears, followed by a succession of explosive crashes.
"What is going on?!"
Jolted out of his half-asleep state, the Daimyo of the Land of Earth turned angrily toward his attendants. He could not understand how anyone in this country dared disturb his pleasant dreams.
Before he had time to react further, a figure wreathed in lightning smashed through the wall of his residence and charged straight toward him.
"You bastard, how dare you..."
The Daimyo of the Land of Earth did not even get to finish his sentence before the intruder drove an arm through his body, blasting his heart apart in the same instant.
Even if Tsunade herself had been there, the Daimyo of the Land of Earth would have been beyond saving.
"Who goes there?!"
By the time the Daimyo's samurai and ninja guards arrived, all they saw was a streak of lightning.
"So fast!"
Shido, a jōnin from Iwagakure, could not even make out the killer's figure, but his years of combat experience still allowed him to quickly identify a suspect.
Who else in the world possessed such mastery of Lightning Release Nintaijutsu and such incredible speed but the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure?
The killer's assault did not end there. After killing the Daimyo of the Land of Earth, he continued to rampage through the country.
Against an opponent with such extraordinary speed and unmatched offensive power, the Land of Earth's ninja and samurai tried everything