After a long while, Hyuga Hiashi came out of that sensation and spoke calmly, his voice betraying no emotion.
"Pass the order. Withdraw."
Torifu Akimichi was covered in blood but in high spirits. At those words, he immediately gave the order:
"Konoha, stop the pursuit and clear the battlefield!"
Cheers rang across the plain.
In this battle, Konoha's thirty-five hundred had faced five thousand Kumogakure elites and won a resounding victory!
They had killed over two thousand enemies and captured hundreds. Dodai, a senior Kumogakure official, had fallen in battle. The Fourth Raikage had lost an arm and suffered severe injuries, the Two-Tails Jinchūriki had been seriously wounded, and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki had sustained minor injuries.
Meanwhile, Konoha's casualties numbered fewer than eight hundred, and its main fighting force remained largely intact.
It was a glorious victory!
Hyuga Hiashi stood in the center of the battlefield, his pure white eyes sweeping over the cheering Konoha ninja, the Kumogakure corpses strewn across the ground, and the distant horizon.
He slowly clenched his fists.
He had won this battle.
From this day onward, the Hyuga Clan's name would resound throughout the Shinobi World.
And he, Hyuga Hiashi, would officially step onto the Shinobi World's stage as Acting Hokage.
Three days later.
The outcome of the battle between Konoha and Kumogakure swept through the entire Shinobi World like a fierce wind.
The various ninja villages reacted differently the moment they received the intelligence.
Land of Water, Kirigakure.
Inside the Mizukage's Office, Genji occupied the seat of honor, with Kirigakure's few remaining clan representatives and members of the Jonin Commander seated below him.
"Konoha... actually won."
An elder from a minor clan murmured, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He held the intelligence scroll that had just arrived, which recorded the entire course of