Konoha: This Uchiha is extremely sneaky

Chapter 176 Compassion

Boom!

A deafening thud echoed from the grasslands of the Grassland.

Even the Uchiha brats who were engaged in a chaotic battle on another battlefield nearby, as well as the remaining Iwa ninja, all stopped what they were doing.

Look in the direction from which the loud noise came!

They knew that although their side was fighting fiercely, if the other side decided a winner in a short time...

They need to make preparations early too!

In most ninja battles, the outcome is determined by the strongest leader among them.

Just as they turned their gaze to the battlefield they were focused on, a flash of bright white lightning caught their eye before the smoke and dust cleared.

This caused everyone looking in this direction to squint their eyes, stinging from the white light.

"So fast!"

The special Jonin of Iwagakure looked down at his chest, only managing to utter these last words before mouthfuls of blood gushed from his mouth.

Peng!

Then he lost all his strength and slowly fell backward, breaking free from the Chidori that Toshiro had pierced his chest.

As he fell to the ground, the stone staff he had conjured with his chakra, now broken in two, slowly slipped from his hand and fell onto the grass with two soft thuds.

It turns out that when Toshiro used the high speed of Chidori to rush to the side of this special Jonin, the other party had noticed something and put on a defensive posture.

Despite all this, when faced with Toshiro's high-level Lightning Release ninjutsu, neither the stone staff filled with earth-style chakra in his hand nor the hardening technique on his heart could save his life.

The opponent's lightning release and thrusting ability were simply too terrifying. Neither his own weapon nor his defense could play a significant role against this high-level ninjutsu that was relatively effective against his own attributes.

With his weapons cut off and his defenses breached, his fate was hardly unexpected!

"This lightning release..."

The Jonin from Okayama, who had been secretly observing and witnessing all of this, was also somewhat lost in thought at this moment.

He hadn't expected the ninjutsu the other party used to be so terrifyingly powerful, killing his subordinate in a single move.

It should be noted that although the opponent is only a special Jonin, in terms of strength and speed alone, many Jonin may not be able to compare with him.

If it weren't for his shortcomings in ninjutsu, genjutsu, and secret techniques, he would definitely be a Jonin.

Moreover, I've never seen this ninjutsu before!

I've never even heard of it!

"There really are some..."

The stone ball, hidden in the grass and acting as his eyes, carefully observed the current situation. For a moment, this Jonin of Iwagakure was caught in a dilemma.

At this moment, he was extremely passive. Despite launching a series of attacks and using his comrades as bait, he failed to kill his opponent.

At this point, having lost the cooperation of his teammates, and with the opponent's condition clearly recovering, is it still possible for him to kill the opponent?

But what can he do if he escapes back to the camp all alone in such a sorry state?

The operation went poorly, the mission failed, and so many men were lost. Those clan ninjas who had long harbored resentment towards them will likely…

As Okayama Shinobu hesitated, watching his opponent slowly lose his life, Toshiro couldn't help but feel a sense of shared sorrow.

I wonder if one day I'll end up like them, mercilessly killed by ninjas from another country.

Although he successfully killed his opponent this time by using the Sage Mode trump card, Sage Mode is not omnipotent, especially for someone like him who uses unorthodox methods.

Although there were two shadow clones in the camp at this time, helping him build up Sage Chakra, the number of times these shadow clones could help him was always limited. And in such a large-scale ninja war, it was not something that could be resolved by three or five shadow clones coming to the rescue.

The enemy's offensive was like a series of waves, one after another. Having blocked this wave, who knew how many more waves awaited him?

It gives him the feeling that he is piloting a small boat on a turbulent deep sea, where he could be capsized and killed at any moment by a wave that appears out of nowhere.

This is why he hesitated to use Sage Mode; he didn't want to easily reveal his trump card until the very last moment.

In order to make his trump card last longer, he put a lot of thought into it, and specially set up a shielding barrier in his tent.

The purpose is to ensure that when the shadow clones dissipate, only one shadow clone remains outside the barrier's coverage area, while the other shadow clones remain inside the barrier.

This prevents them from interfering with each other, ensuring that he doesn't release all the shadow clones at once each time he dispels them.

Concentrating his mind and crouching on the ground, Toshiro slowly extended his right hand, tapping the ground with one hand, and began to sense the presence of the Iwa ninja hidden in the shadows.

"Found it~"

With the amplification brought by the immortal technique, his senses were incredibly sharp at this moment. In just one or two breaths, he found the other party's hiding place.

The other party is currently located about 30 meters to my left and about 5 meters underground.

"Hmm! The other side is starting to move."

"This direction..."

Sensing the direction the other person had gone, Toshiro couldn't help but smile. He hadn't expected them to decide to retreat at this moment.

This is quite unexpected!

They even abandoned their subordinates who were still fighting!

"But that's really a bit of a pipe dream!"

"Did you think you were safe just by hiding underground?"

After locking onto the opponent's location, Toshiro didn't linger. With a few leaps, he arrived directly above where the Jonin of Gangshan was hiding.

With a single swing of his hand, a beam of blazing white spear, like a laser and filled with lightning-attribute chakra, shot straight toward the opponent's position without any hesitation.

For him now, killing an enemy is no longer a burden.

In a place where it's either you die or I live, he has no room for pity.

Otherwise, he and his companions would be the ones to suffer...

(End of this chapter)