Chapter 63 Damn it! Sarutobi is so lucky!
"Fine, I'll try to kill as many Iwagakure ninja as possible.
If that old guy still doesn't come down, then there's nothing I can do. The Konoha kid can't blame me."
With that thought in mind, Chiyo skillfully manipulated the puppets with chakra threads, killing a large number of Iwagakure members.
The puppets she controls are fast and can fly at low altitudes, so they can't be stopped by earth walls.
Since she doesn't need to worry too much about damage, she can charge straight at the Iwagakure troops.
At least Jonin level, the Iwagakure troops would have to be able to barely handle them.
At the same time, Hanzo of Amegakure also stepped on the head of his summoned beast, the Salamander Izumi, and led Amegakure to attack Iwagakure from the side.
The number of ordinary ninjas in Amegakure is small, and their individual strength is not comparable to that of the ninjas of the major countries.
However, Hanzo himself is extremely strong, especially the large amount of poison gas he releases.
If an ordinary ninja inhales it, he will die instantly.
Ten years ago, during the Second Shinobi World War, Hanzo used poison gas to annihilate the Konoha ninjas who were fighting him.
Only Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade barely survived.
It was during this battle that Hanzo bestowed upon the opposing side the title of the Legendary Sannin of Konoha.
If the ordinary Amegakure hadn't been so weak and hadn't been routed by Konoha on other battlefields, Hanzo might not have even spared Jiraiya and the other two!
"Dust Release: Particle Style: Detachment Technique!"
Tsuchikage Onoki aimed at an area with many Sunagakure inhabitants, unleashing a Dust Release attack from the sky, then slashing horizontally.
With a deafening explosion, a charred crater appeared on the ground.
With this attack, two Sand Village Jonin and hundreds of ordinary ninjas were instantly reduced to atoms and annihilated.
After unleashing his Dust Release technique, Onoki immediately flew away to avoid a counterattack.
Looking at the current situation, although Sunagakure's offensive has slowed down, Chiyo and Hanzo are still killing a large number of Iwagakure members, and Rasa is also using his gold dust to continuously destroy the various obstacles that Iwagakure has created with Earth Release.
These individuals, qualified to bear the title of 'Kage,' are far superior to ordinary ninjas, and even elite Jonin are worlds apart in comparison.
Without a strong opponent of equal rank to confront them, they would be impossible to stop.
This is why he decided to retreat without hesitation upon learning that the three parties had joined forces.
There are too many movie-level characters!
If we're just talking about sheer numbers, Iwagakure's 10,000 against the three-way coalition's 13,000 isn't necessarily a losing proposition; at least they wouldn't have had to retreat in such a disarray.
The key issue is the vast difference in the number of Kage-level powerhouses.
Konoha has Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, and Homura Mitokado.
Sand has been hidden for a thousand generations, and sand is hidden in the sand.
The rain is partially hidden.
The three sides have a total of six Kage-level powerhouses, while the Iwagakure side only has himself and his son, Kitsuchi.
Although their flying and explosive units perform well in group battles, they can only have a restraining effect on Kage-level powerhouses at most.
They also have to be careful not to let the enemy seize an opportunity to counterattack and kill them, thus losing these hard-won elites.
In large-scale ninja battles, it is generally the same level that is prioritized to fight each other, Kage-level against Kage-level, Jonin against Jonin, because if they are separated, ordinary Jonin can easily kill dozens of ordinary ninjas, let alone Kage-level, who can kill even more and faster.
Originally, he was supposed to deal with Chiyo or Hanzo, but these old guys had fought each other many times over the years, knew each other well, and neither could do anything to the other.
While his Dust Release technique was indeed incredibly powerful, allowing him to easily evade attacks while flying in the sky, the problem was that if Dust Release was in the form of artillery fire, the direction of its launch could be easily determined from the direction his hand was pointing, and it also required some charging time before being released.
It's good for surprise attacks or bullying opponents of Homura Mitokado's caliber, but it won't work against Chiyo and Hanzo.
The higher he flies, the less likely his opponent cis todo anything to him, but the farther away he is, the less likely his dust escape technique wis tohit an opponent of this level.
Normally, he would use a combination of Earth Release and Dust Release to deal with opponents of the same level, but now he has to take charge of the overall situation, and if he gets bogged down, he may be attacked from the side by other Kage-level ninjas.
Therefore, he has no choice but to fly high in the sky and look for opportunities to kill Jonin and a large number of ordinary ninjas.
"Although I don't like this cowardly tactic... there's no other way!"
Once the strong players separate, it becomes a contest of who can slaughter more and faster the underlings.
However, if both sides feel they have suffered enough losses, they will slow down the slaughter.
This is the rule and tacit understanding of battles between the strong.
Hanzo was the first to slow down.
Amegakure has the fewest members and is the least able to engage in this kind of exchange tactic.
Hanzo is worried that Amegakure will retaliate by killing his own subordinates, so he has stopped advancing much.
Chiyo felt the same way upon seeing this.
Seeing that the attacks from Sunagakure and Amegakure had slowed down, Onoki breathed a slight sigh of relief, but he did not dare to be careless.
Looking into the distance, Konoha's 7,000 ninjas, led by many renowned and powerful ninjas, have begun their frontal advance.
The individual strength of Konoha ninjas has always been the best among the five great nations. 7,000 Konoha ninjas are not inferior in combat power to 10,000 Iwagakure ninjas.
Among them are many highly skilled elite Jonin, such as the leaders of prestigious ninja clans like the Uchiha, Aburame, and Ino-Shika-Cho.
The leaders include three Kage-level figures: Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, and Homura Mitokado...
As he was thinking about this, Onoki suddenly remembered the young Konoha ninja who had injured him last time.
Mochizuki Souji, according to information, is a newly promoted Jonin, but it seems that he defeated the Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi in the Jonin promotion exam, and Orochimaru was also present at the time.
Sarutobi naturally wouldn't take this kind of test seriously, but even so, the only person who could defeat Sarutobi before was Minato Namikaze.
This kid surnamed Mochizuki has some strange kunai techniques, but that's not a big deal.
There are all sorts of bizarre ninjutsu in the ninja world, so he doesn't care about that.
However, judging from that kid's performance last time, he might... or rather, he might be like Minato Namikaze, another person who can rival a 'Kage'!
"Damn it! Sarutobi is so lucky! Konoha has managed to produce so many powerful ninjas!"
The Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi.
His peers were Mitokado, Utatane, Akimichi, and Shimura.
The three legendary Konoha disciples: Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade.
The younger generation includes Minato Namikaze, Souji Mochizuki, and Shinnosuke Sarutobi.
There is also the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Kushina Uzumaki, who has not yet been used.
Although some of them, like Homura Mitokado, were relatively weak and almost just there to make up the numbers, they were still barely considered Kage-level, at least stronger than most elite Jonin.
Holy crap! That means Konoha has over ten Kage-level characters! That's absolutely incredible!
This doesn't even include the numerous powerful ninja clans below them, such as the Uchiha, Hyuga, Ino-Shika-Cho, Aburame, and Inuzuka, which have produced many elite Jonin and Jonin.
It should be noted that by Konoha's standards, Konoha's Jonin would have a chance to be ranked as an elite Jonin in other ninja villages!
With these powerful ninja clans, Konoha's mid-to-high-level combat strength is also very substantial, far surpassing that of the other four major ninja villages!
Konoha has always used such powerful strength to suppress other ninja villages, making them unable to raise their heads!
The more Onoki thought about it, the angrier he became, gritting his teeth in anger!
"Damn it! So many powerful ninjas, why are they all in Konoha? If only half of them were in Iwagakure!"
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