The ninja reporting on the battle situation hesitated slightly upon hearing Hatake Sakumo's question, a look of shock involuntarily appearing in his eyes. He took a deep breath before beginning his report.
"The number of Stone Ninja killed in action is 1,219, including 21 Jonin, approximately 890 Chunin, Genin approximately 300 Genin. The exact number is impossible to determine."
"Among them, seventeen Jonin Iwagakure at the hands of Lord Uya!"
The first report about Uya's kill count caused all the Jonin present to gasp in shock.
Jonin are the upper echelons of a village, essentially the backbone of the village.
In some small ninja villages, Jonin is generally enough to become the leader.
Even in a great ninja village, the number of Jonin is not large, and there are currently twenty-one Iwagakure Jonin the battlefield, seventeen of whom have died at Uya's hands!
Among them, there may even be some well-known Elite Jonin!
After exchanging bewildered glances, a Jonin from Konoha took a deep breath, slowly suppressing his shock, and asked, "Then how many Chunin and Genin are there?"
The others also gradually snapped out of their shock. Almost all the Jonin had died at Uya's hands; surely Uya hadn't killed many Chunin and Genin?
After all, the Konoha ninjas and the Stone Ninja eventually clashed in close combat, and they felt they had killed quite a few Stone Ninja as well.
Upon hearing this question, the ninja reporting the battle situation paused for a moment, then looked up at Uya with eyes filled with immense awe and admiration. At this moment, he no longer hesitated to address Lord Uya."
It was a genuine expression of admiration.
"The number of Iwagakure Chunin who died at the hands of Lord Uya is approximately six hundred. Some of the unusual corpses are unidentifiable, and the number is expected to be even higher."
The entire room fell silent.
Even the sound of a pin dropping could be clearly heard.
This news was even more shocking than hearing that Uya had killed seventeen Jonin!
Uya is very strong; he specifically targets Jonin to kill. It's true that he was able to kill seventeen Jonin on this battlefield, which is still within the realm of possibility.
In the original story, Minato Namikaze once killed fifty Jonin- handedly using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
However, the fact that one person killed more than 600 Chunin is quite frightening. Even if those 600 people stood still and were killed one by one, it would take an unknown amount of time!
Moreover, those are six hundred Chunin, not just some Tom, Dick, or Harry!
There were only a little over 800 Chunin the entire battlefield, close to 900, and 600 of them died at Uya's hands. What does that mean?
Everyone was speechless; in the end, after the shock, only gasps of astonishment could be heard.
Even Hatake Sakumo was shocked by this number. Although he noticed that Uya was constantly moving back and forth on the battlefield, Uya's number of kills was still somewhat unbelievable given the large-scale battle between Konoha and Stone Ninja.
How could so many have been killed?!
"Is there a statistical error in the numbers?"
Hatake Sakumo was shocked and couldn't help but ask incredulously, as did the other Jonin around him.
Killing over Chunin is indeed an unbelievable thing.
If this is true, it means that the total number of enemies killed by all of them combined on the entire battlefield is less than one-third of Uya's alone!
That seems unlikely?
"Lord Sakumo, the number of six hundred is a conservative estimate. We only counted the corpses of ninjas who were completely blasted apart or split in two by special bloodlines."
"As for the various types of injuries, such as corpses charred by fire but also neatly torn apart, we didn't include those in our calculations. Even so, there are still over six hundred people!"
At this point, the ninja himself was almost speechless. When he first received this data, he was so shocked that he counted it multiple times before he could believe it was true and came to report it to Hatake Sakumo.
hiss!!
This time, the entire audience gasped in shock.
Conservative estimate!
More than 600 people, and that's a conservative estimate!!
Countless gazes converged on Uya, all bearing expressions of utter shock. Even several Jonin couldn't help but show awe.
This is simply a god of death!
At this moment, even the Jonin couldn't help but feel awe for Uya. They were truly terrified by Uya's achievements. Uya was no longer a ninja, but a killing machine on the battlefield!
Hatake Sakumo stood there dumbfounded, his mind reeling, unsure how to evaluate Uya.
Iwagakure.
The Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki, sat there, expressionless and silent.
The atmosphere was oppressive.
It was as if the dark clouds that blanketed the sky of the Land of Rain had also enveloped the entire Tsuchikage's office.
Beside Ōnoki was the Tsuchikage, who had lost an arm, assisting Ōnowa. His entire shoulder was wrapped in thick bandages, and he had already returned directly to Iwagakure.
Since his Stone Ninja were almost completely wiped out in the Land of Rain, there was no point in him staying there any longer, so he returned.
More importantly, he had to come back and give Ōnoki an explanation, even though he couldn't possibly give an explanation, he still had to come back.
"Unexpectedly, that ninja eventually became a major threat."
After a long silence, the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki, finally sighed. There was no anger in his voice, only a hint of self-reproach.
"How could humans possibly achieve such a feat? Only Jinchūriki, only the power of the Tailed Beast, could accomplish this."
At this point, an almost incredulous look appeared in Ōnoki's eyes.
Indeed, Uya truly surprised him this time.
Even Ōnoki had anticipated that Ōnowa would be defeated by Hatake Sakumo, but he never expected that the Stone Ninja would suffer such heavy losses because of Uya alone, with thousands of ninjas wiped out.
Nearly all the Stone Ninja on the battlefield in the Land of Rain were wiped out!
Considering that the Allied Shinobi Forces had 80,000 ninjas during the Fourth Shinobi World War in the later part of the original story, even if Konoha had more than 20,000 ninjas, the other four major ninja villages would have at least 10,000 or more.
Of course, this is not the Fourth Shinobi World War but the Second Shinobi World War. Iwagakure also needs to guard against Kumogakure and Sunagakure, so it is impossible to mobilize all the ninjas to the battlefield.
At least five or six thousand ninjas had to remain in the village for defense.
They are well-equipped to handle a surprise attack from the Hidden Kumogakure.
The remaining five or six thousand men will be deployed at least several hundred along the border, including a large number of scouts and agents sent to various ninja villages.
Among them were also ninjas who were not skilled in combat, and were used for examining corpses, interrogating prisoners, and so on.
Only about three thousand people can actually be mobilized.
Now, we've lost almost half of our capital in one fell swoop!
Ōnoki felt heartbroken; he was truly heartbroken. Although his expression appeared calm, inside he felt like his back was broken.
"What's next...?"
Ōnowa Ōnoki with a hint of resentment in his eyes.
Ōnoki took a deep breath, his body slowly floated up, and he looked out the window without saying a word.
But a sharp, cold glint flashed in his eyes. (To be continued.)