"Sora…"
"What do you mean?"
Mei looked at Sora, her beautiful eyes flashing with a mix of frenzy and disbelief.
"I will go to Kumogakure personally."
Sora said calmly. "No need to arrange any guard squad to accompany me. Yagura, Mei, you two stay in the village and ensure the enemy doesn't take advantage of our weakness."
"What?"
Even though Sora's words were concise and clear, their meaning still left Yagura with an overwhelming sense of shock.
'Alone, to Kumogakure?'
'Did Sora intend to fight the entire Kumogakure by himself!?'
When this thought surfaced in his mind, Yagura's body couldn't help but tremble slightly. It was a feeling of both shock and excitement.
"That's too dangerous!"
Upon hearing this, Mei immediately shook her head in refusal. "Doing this is far too dangerous. Kumogakure's strength is not inferior to Konoha at its peak. Even though the Third Raikage is dead, there are still the Fourth Raikage and two Jinchurikis. According to intelligence, Kumogakure has a very large number of top-tier Ninjas, and their strength is unfathomable."
"Sora, going alone rashly like this is far too dangerous. Absolutely not!"
By this point, Mei was so anxious her voice cracked. She didn't want to see Sora, who had just become Mizukage, put himself in such danger.
"Don't worry!"
Sora, however, smiled nonchalantly. "Mere Kumogakure isn't something I concern myself with. The Raikage and I are no longer on the same level."
Before his words faded, an extremely terrifying Reiatsu emanated from Sora. The Reiatsu was so intense it almost condensed into substance, forming patches of distorted light in the air.
Then, even the air, and even the floor, walls, and the building itself began to shake slightly with the fluctuations of the Reiatsu.
Terror was permeating the air.
At this moment,
Not only Yagura, Mei, and Kurumi in the room, but also the Jonin stationed throughout the Mizukage Building felt the world-shaking pressure that had suddenly descended.
"So terrifying…"
"Is this Mizukage-sama's true capability?"
"Truly fearsome! As expected of Mizukage-sama who can slay a Tailed Beast in one strike! The terror of this pressure, I believe, is already no less than that of the God of Ninja, Senju Hashirama!"
"The God of Kirigakure! The village will surely achieve victory after victory under Mizukage-sama's leadership!"
The faces of the Jonin in the Mizukage Building all showed extremely fanatical expressions in unison. Their gazes turned towards the direction of Mizukage's office, the sincerity and worship within them akin to paying homage to a deity.
Inside the Mizukage's office.
Mei looked at Sora's calm and composed expression, remained silent for a moment, then said quietly, "I understand. But you must protect yourself."
She never presumed to change Sora's mind. Facts had always proven that Sora's choices were correct.
As for Yagura, he was also considering the feasibility of this matter.
If anyone else had uttered such arrogant words, he would have dismissed them as a madman.
But since it was Sora speaking, Yagura felt this didn't seem like an overly difficult task.
Because Sora had already accomplished things more exaggerated and more terrifying than this before.
The feat of single-handedly slaying head-on over 2000 Konoha's Ninjas wasn't something just any Kage-level Ninja could achieve.
In Yagura's heart, Sora's status had undoubtedly surpassed the so-called Five Kages, reaching a legendary level.
Once Sora made the decision, the subsequent matters became much simpler.
After arranging the relevant village affairs, he bid farewell to Mei and the others and set out on the way to Kumogakure.
Between the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning lay a vast ocean. Traveling by ship would take at least three or four days.
Fortunately, Sora had the Garganta. By opening a spatial passageway, he could jump directly from Kirigakure to the Land of Lightning in an extremely short time.
This time, Sora's mission objective was a decapitation strike.
Behead whom?
The Fourth Raikage!
Unlike Danzo or Orochimaru, Sora didn't need any schemes or tricks. As long as he found the Raikage's traces, he could rely on his own overwhelming combat power to kill him head-on directly.
Buzz!
The air vibrated.
Soon, a black light membrane tore through space, forming a deep, dark tunnel bridging the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning.
Sora leaped out from the Garganta. What met his eyes was already the precipitous terrain of the Land of Lightning.
Unlike the flat terrain of the Land of Fire, the Land of Lightning was filled with mountains and hills, accounting for over eighty percent of its land area.
Calling it a mountain country wouldn't be an exaggeration.
The precipitous terrain brewed many breathtakingly beautiful scenes, but it was also unfavorable for economic and livelihood development.
Therefore, the brutes of Kumogakure had always been quite covetous of the fertile land of the Land of Fire.
Additionally,
Due to the abundance of mountains and high altitude, Kumogakure's Ninjas were generally more robust in build with high physical fitness. Their oxygen conversion efficiency was also higher, which was advantageous for combat in low-oxygen environments.
Of course, this high altitude had no effect on the current Sora whatsoever.
Without any fluctuation, he instantly adapted to it all.