"Lord Sasaki, due to Konoha's large-scale assault, all the elders of the war faction have been killed. Although Konoha paid a painful price as well, there are very few clan members left who can still fight. My lord, I beg you to order a retreat. The Uchiha Clan cannot be exterminated here."
A blood-covered Uchiha elite ninja knelt on one knee before Sasaki as he spoke.
They had only achieved such a result because Meruem had held back Uchiha Obito while Sasaki had held back Uchiha Itachi, two Kage-level powerhouses.
Otherwise, the Uchiha Clan really would have been wiped out without a single chance to react, just like in the original story.
Those arrogant Uchiha elites had also come to understand during this slaughter against Konoha's Anbu that the Uchiha Clan was not as powerful as they had imagined.
They had spent too long in the Konoha Police Force, so long that they had forgotten just how powerful a ninja village truly was. A clan of merely a few hundred people had actually dreamed of rebelling and overthrowing an entire village.
How arrogant was that?
This was no longer the Warring States Period. The once-great Uchiha Clan, which had at one time numbered over ten thousand people, had already declined. Nor did they have an Ultra Kage-level powerhouse like Uchiha Madara.
Even among the clan's only three Kage-level fighters—Shisui, Itachi, and Sasaki—one was dead, one had defected, and one was a puppet.
Konoha had merely deployed the Anbu from its main combat forces, yet they had nearly uprooted the Uchiha Clan's fighting force entirely.
That was right. The Sharingan gave them a tremendous advantage in one-on-one battles against opponents of the same level.
However, the Anbu were not like samurai who cared about honorable duels. Two against one, even three