Faced with the hellish scene before them, many of the weaker-willed among the few dozen surviving Iwagakure elite ninja sank to their knees, their will to resist gone.
"Y-you've got to be kidding! Why? Why did this happen?!" The jonin leading the force felt utterly powerless.
They had come to attack Kusagakure. How had the situation turned into this in the blink of an eye?
"Y-you demon!" Someone screamed at Uchiha Sora in terror.
In mere moments, a force of three or four hundred had been reduced to a few dozen!
With so few survivors, this was nothing short of a one-sided massacre!
Under his hands, human lives seemed as fragile and insignificant as ants!
A trace of pity flashed in Uchiha Sora's eyes as he addressed them calmly. "Slaughter was never my intention. Before you attacked this place, you should have been prepared to die!"
"If you must blame something, blame your own weakness!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Uchiha Sora charged back into the crowd.
Although the remaining Iwagakure ninja were the best of the best, their terror of Uchiha Sora gradually drained the strength from their resistance.
A little over ten minutes later, every last one of them had died beneath Uchiha Sora's sword.
Even the elite jonin leading them was no exception.
Once every Iwagakure ninja present was dead, Uchiha Sora flicked his bloodstained sword and turned his gaze toward Zabuza and Uzuki Yugao.
"Leader!" Zabuza looked exhilarated.
"Sora..." Uzuki Yugao's eyes held shock, along with concern she could not conceal.
As a member of the ANBU, she inevitably encountered plenty of killing, but she had never seen one person slaughter three or four hundred people.
What was going through Sora's mind right now?
Would he lose himself in all this killing?
"Let's head to