"Boom!"
Kunai rained down from the sky, some with explosive tags wrapped around them.
With an explosive blast, the luxurious carriage shattered, sending fragments flying everywhere.
Freed from the carriage, the startled horses scattered and fled.
A group of masked Ninjas bearing no village insignia approached the smoke from the explosion.
They were Danzo's men, Konoha's Root.
Lure the tiger from its mountain, feint east and strike west—using bandits to draw Hatake Sakumo away, then sending these elites to surround and kill Chiba Tetsuya had been Root's true plan.
"Go check whether Chiba Tetsuya is dead."
A man who appeared to be the leader gave the order to the Root Ninja beside him, who quickly approached the smoke from the explosion.
"Thud!"
"Whoosh!"
With a dull thud, a figure flew out of the smoke and slammed heavily into the ground.
It was the very Root Ninja who had just entered the smoke to check whether Chiba Tetsuya was alive.
He was already a corpse. His spine had snapped, seemingly broken by a single kick.
The Root Ninjas instantly tensed. A moment later, a sudden gust swept away the smoke.
A young man dressed in luxurious robes appeared before the Root Ninjas.
"Hey, you lot broke my carriage. How are you going to pay for it?"
"He's still alive? Everyone, attack! Kill him!"
All the Root Ninjas attacked at once.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
"Fire Release: Great Flame Bullet!"
"Earth Release: Earth Spear!"
"Water Release..."
A spectacular barrage of elemental techniques swept toward Tetsuya.
But a moment later, blue lightning erupted all over his body, and he vanished.
"That's Lightning Release Chakra Mode!"
The Root squad leader recognized the technique at a glance: Kumogakure's Lightning Release Chakra Mode from the Land of Lightning.
It was simply too famous. Besides, Root's intelligence