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Chapter 103: Kumogakure Anbu, Annihilated
Boom!
The Box of Ultimate Bliss smashed heavily onto the open ground, producing a thunderous roar.
Dust swirled, and earth and stone flew into the air.
Darui stopped in his tracks, shielding his face with his arm as he looked toward the center of the smoke.
He immediately formed hand seals.
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
He exhaled a massive gust of wind.
In an instant, it swept away all the smoke and dust, revealing the purple-black box in the deep crater.
Even after falling from such a height, the box remained intact, without a single scratch.
At this moment, it was trembling incessantly at the bottom of the pit.
The black vortex in the giant mouth of the 'Joy' face had stabilized, and a pair of pale arms were reaching out.
Darui's expression changed, and he quickly spoke to Killer B beside him.
"B, leave this to me. You're faster than I am; hurry to the location where the signal was fired. They need support there!"
"Huh..." Inside the mental space, the Eight-Tails, Gyuki, sounded slightly surprised. "Isn't this the ninja tool the Old Man used? Why would it appear here?"
He remembered that the Old Man had found this thing useless and dangerous to ordinary people, so he had casually sealed it away somewhere.
He hadn't expected to see this box here.
"The Old Man?" Killer B asked hurriedly. "Little Eight, who is the Old Man? Do you know this box? Is it dangerous?"
"It is dangerous, but not that dangerous."
Gyuki avoided mentioning the Sage of Six Paths directly and said in a deep voice, "There is a monster inside the box called 'Satori.' It is suspected to have the ability to read minds."
"But with Darui's strength, combined with the support of the ninja troops, they should be able to suppress it."
"Read minds? Doesn't that mean it can predict Darui and the others' attack intentions?"
"B, knowing the opponent's attack intention and being able to dodge it are two different things. With your speed or the Fourth Raikage's speed, even if Satori knows the direction of the attack in advance, it's useless. It simply cannot dodge."
"Darui is also strong. Plus, with the surrounding ninja troops, they just need to design a tactic where Satori has nowhere to hide."
Killer B nodded, feeling relieved.
As long as it could be dealt with. He immediately exited the mental space.
"Darui! Little Eight told me there's a monster called 'Satori' inside the box. It has mind-reading abilities, so be careful!"
"I'll leave this place to you. I'm going ahead!"
After speaking, a layer of red Tailed Beast Chakra cloaked his body.
Whoosh!
He vanished, sprinting toward the rear mountain at an even faster speed.
"Mind reading, huh..." Darui showed no fear. He drew the cleaver from his back and immediately began arranging specific tactics.
...
Meanwhile, at the rear mountain.
Konan's Ice Release turret fired unscrupulously into the surroundings.
The number of Kumogakure Anbu running on the field decreased visibly with the naked eye.
On the ground, Anbu, whether standing or fallen, had been frozen into blocks of ice in various poses.
Their facial features were lifelike, their expressions frozen in time.
Panic, despair, horror.
In the distance, Dodai's heart was bleeding.
Of the more than one hundred Anbu, less than ten remained.
These survivors were all Jonin-level, capable of holding out a little longer.
The Chunin-level Anbu, under such a saturated and rapid attack, couldn't last three rounds of volleys.
All were frozen and killed.
How long had it been? In such a short time...
The village's elite Anbu force was almost completely wiped out.
They hadn't even had time to utilize their usual tacit coordination and tactics before they were caught off guard by this unreasonable attack.
It was too exaggerated!
It was one thing to be able to fire so many kunai, but to have them imbued with Ice Release attributes was another.
A graze meant injury; a hit meant freezing.
It was impossible to dodge.
Dodai regretted it immensely.
Facing such a terrifying enemy, they should never have used a numerical advantage to fight.
Who could have imagined the opponent would possess such crowd-control ninjutsu?
It destroyed them instantly, leaving them with no power to parry.
Beside him, the blond-haired C had cold sweat dripping from his forehead, his expression anxious.
Even though he was the dignitary known as the Raikage's Left Hand, always praised for his calmness and wisdom...
Faced with this situation, he had no solution.
This was an absolute gap in strength, a barbaric offensive that defied logic.
Tactics, strategies, traps, assassinations—all were useless.
The kunai were extremely fast and came in massive quantities, leaving almost no room for escape or evasion.
Many comrades didn't even have time to use the Body Replacement Technique.
"Lord Dodai, what should we do now?"
C couldn't think of a way out and could only pin his hopes on Dodai, the veteran official entrusted with heavy responsibilities by two generations of Raikage.
The continuous clink-clank of kunai striking the Rubber Ball rang out.
A thick layer of ice had already formed on the outer layer.
Although the two of them were temporarily safe, they were directly trapped inside, unable to get out.
With C's sensory ninjutsu, he could sense their Anbu comrades falling one by one outside.
Now, only three or five Jonin Anbu were struggling bitterly.
Barring any accidents, the remaining Anbu would soon be killed.
Then it would be him and Dodai.
Facing such a vicious enemy, they truly weren't a match. They had no power to resist at all.
In the center of the field.
The last leaping Anbu was frozen into a block of ice in mid-air and smashed onto the ground.
Looking around, there was not a single moving human figure left.
Konan stopped her attack, her gaze coldly fixing on the large ice ball at the edge of the field.
There were still two living people inside.
From the start of the attack until the end, they had been hiding in the Rubber Ball.
They likely just wanted to use it to survive the first volley of kunai.
Unfortunately, they hadn't anticipated that the kunai would be unending. They couldn't find any way to counter it; stepping out meant death.
They could only passively hide inside, eventually to be trapped to death.
Konan raised her hand.
A large amount of white paper radiating cold air quickly pasted itself onto the ice ball.
These two fish that slipped through the net should go join their companions.
A massive amount of freezing power permeated into the ice ball.
Inside, white frost formed on Dodai and C's eyebrows, visible to the naked eye.
The Rubber Ball alone could not insulate them from the terrifying low temperatures outside.
Their bodies grew cold, and they began to shiver.
C's teeth chattered. "Lord... Lord Dodai, I'm afraid we're going to freeze to death in here."
"To pay such a huge price, yet not only fail to kill the enemy but also fail to inflict even a single injury... it is truly regrettable."
Dodai gritted his teeth, remaining silent.
Just as C said, the Anbu force was almost annihilated, yet they hadn't caused any trouble for the enemy.
Their comrades had merely used their lives to consume the opponent's chakra.
And to stall the opponent for a little time.
He wondered if such a massive price was worth it...
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a red figure darted out from the woods.
Heading straight for Konan.
The speed was incredibly fast—too fast to see clearly!
Konan's pupils contracted instantly, and she subconsciously turned sideways to dodge.
Before she could react further, the figure flashed past her face and landed beside the large ice ball.
At the same time, a severed arm fell to the ground.
The skin on the surface was snow-white, the five fingers slender and beautiful.
It was Konan's right forearm!
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