While the thousand-strong Kirigakure ninja army led by Mingyue was taking a temporary rest at the front lines, a shocking change was taking place in Kirigakure.
Under Genshi's command, nearly three thousand Kirigakure ninja surrounded the Mizukage building so tightly that not even a drop of water could trickle through.
The leader was one of Genshi's trusted subordinates, Gonbee.
The villagers had long been frightened by this scene and locked themselves indoors.
Only a few bolder civilians opened their curtains slightly, peeking through the cracks to secretly observe what was happening.
"It's a pity, Lord Mizukage. We can no longer tolerate your bloody rule over Kirigakure. Please come out and surrender! No matter what, you are still the Mizukage after all; we will not use force against a Kage!"
Gonbee, standing at the very front of the Kirigakure ninja army, shouted towards the top floor of the building, in the direction of the Mizukage's office.
Half a minute later, there was no response from inside.
"It seems we cannot resolve this peacefully."
Gonbee sighed and nodded to the subordinates beside him.
Several Jonin nodded and leaped towards the Mizukage's office.
However, just as they were about to rush in through the window, an indifferent voice echoed in the ears of everyone present—
"Shinra Tensei!!!"
In the next instant, an explosion resounded through the entire village.
The Administration Building, symbol of the Mizukage's power, was blown into the sky by the resulting shockwave.
Not to mention the ninja surrounding it.
Those slightly closer were all blasted into the sky without exception, or slammed into the walls of the surrounding houses.
Even those standing further away were blown to the ground.
The shockwave lasted for a full five seconds or more before slowly stopping.
The thick smoke cleared.
The Kirigakure ninja on the periphery looked up again towards the center.
With the Mizukage building as the center, everything within a radius of half a mile had been reduced to ruins, scattered on the ground.
Among the rubble, many severed limbs of ninja could be seen.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Gonbee, who had been standing in the central area just now, pushed away a wooden plank pressing on him and struggled to crawl out of the ruins.
Wiping the blood and dirt from his face, he said with a trembling voice:
"Just... just now, what was that jutsu? It was like everything was repelled in an instant..."
At this time, the surrounding people looked towards the center again.
They saw six mysterious men standing on top of the ruined Administration Building. Their bodies were pierced with black rods, and they wore black cloaks with red clouds.
"Who... who are they?!"
Gonbee exclaimed.
However, Nagato didn't bother to answer him at all. Controlling the Deva Path, he said in a low, cold voice:
"That guy said to kill until the other side surrenders, right? Then let's end this boring mission that has nothing to do with peace quickly."
The moment his voice fell, the Six Paths of Pain burst out with speed that even Jonin would find hard to match.
They instantly jumped into the midst of the thousands of Kirigakure troops surrounding them.
Displaying jutsu the crowd had never seen before, just six people suppressed the army of three thousand ninja!
Even if one Pain was barely defeated, the Naraka Path could revive it!
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"Wh-what happened?"
Several miles away, Genshi, who also felt the shockwave and was being protected by Heki and others, shouted in shock.
"It was hard work delivering yourself to my door, Genshi."
An indifferent voice came from behind, causing Genshi, Heki, and the others to turn around abruptly. They saw Yagura Karatachi standing expressionlessly behind them, saying coldly:
"With this, Kirigakure belongs to one person alone."
"Yagura, you brat, what did you do!?"
Genshi, nearing eighty, found it hard to remain calm. His wrinkled old face trembling, he shouted angrily at Yagura.
At this moment, Yagura, who had been expressionless from beginning to end, finally showed a hint of a smile and said:
"Since you're going to die anyway, I'll let you see."
As his voice fell, the space behind Yagura twisted in a spiral.
A mysterious person with waist-length hair and wearing an orange mask with black patterns walked out from it, speaking in a tone full of pretension:
"My name is—Uchiha Madara!"
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Eastern front of the Land of Water.
Mingyue, wearing the Kirigakure ANBU mask, stood at the very front of the formation, thinking to himself:
"Mei, that girl, should be arriving soon, right?"
"Here they come, Ming-san."
Kisame suddenly said.
This sentence pulled Mingyue out of his thoughts.
He looked ahead.
The Kaguya army, dressed in white robes with two cinnabar dots slightly above their eyebrows, each wore a bloodthirsty and excited expression.
Pulling bone swords from their palms or spines, they charged forward with impassioned faces.
"A Kekkei Genkai that can create new bones without limit... If I traveled with someone from the Kaguya family, wouldn't I have endless bone soup to drink?"
Mingyue joked with a smile.
Beside him, Kisame, Zabuza, and the others twitched their eyebrows fiercely and remained silent.
Mangetsu Hozuki looked like he was about to vomit, "Ugh~ Please don't be so disgusting, okay?"
Mingyue slowly drew the sword at his waist and was the first to walk forward. Under the mask, his black eyes gradually turned blood red and formed three tomoe.
There was no need to hide.
Or rather, he was confident that anyone who saw these eyes in battle would die.
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