"They know their reinforcements are here." Yagura gripped his oddly shaped iron staff. He had barely finished speaking when the Nara, Yamanaka, and Akimichi clans joined forces to surround and attack him.
Ino-Shika-Cho... I'd better stay sharp.
Yagura silently considered his situation.
"Don't get carried away. Remember what we came here for." Raiga Kurosuki leaped onto a tree trunk beside Suikazan Fuguki and patted his shoulder.
Suikazan Fuguki glanced toward the rear of the Konoha Army, his gaze settling on the conspicuous white figure among the crowd. "Yeah... I know what I'm doing," he answered in a low voice.
The battlefield was a scene of devastation.
Rin Nohara stood beside Xuan Zhe. The tall girl frowned, her voice tinged with distress. "This is just too awful."
She had already seen what war looked like.
But the devastation here in the Land of Fire was on an entirely different scale from the northern battlefield.
Among the piles of ** strewn across the ground, she could even see the ** of ** women and children.
Just thinking about what had flowed from their bodies was enough to tell her what they had endured before dying.
"This is war." Xuan Zhe's voice was calm. His gaze passed through the chaotic battlefield and locked directly onto a man at the rear of the Kirigakure Army.
The man's black hair fell to his waist, and quite a few wrinkles had already crept across his face.
He looked barely over forty, but he was actually several years older than Hiruzen Sarutobi and his contemporaries.
He was none other than the most mysterious Kage in the original story-the Third Mizukage.
Like Haku in the future, he came from the Yuki Clan and possessed the Ice Release kekkei genkai.
"Rin, stay alert," Xuan Zhe reminded her.
"Understood."