"Spread out! Spread out! Damn it, spread out! Stop bunching together!!"
Outside the Forest of Death, Kitsuchi's voice was nearly tearing apart from shouting. His eyes were bloodshot, veins bulging.
But… it was too late.
Once they missed the first chance to evade and defend—
The cultivation body—no, the trait-monster granted by Uchiha Kai—became nothing less than a slaughter machine.
It wasn't fighting.
With the power of the Nine-Tails cloak wrapped around it, combining high-speed movement with endless firepower—
It was playing a brutally efficient slaughter game.
Phase Rush!
Lightning flashed again as the cultivation body abruptly shifted direction.
Terrifying streaks of thunder trailed behind it.
Crackle—BOOM!
In an instant, the Iwagakure formation on the left exploded into a spray of blood.
BOOM! BOOM!
Thunder roared again as the red figure flashed to the right side—directly above the densest support squad.
Its palms kept spinning without pause.
Three hundred and sixty degrees.
No blind spots.
"Not good! Earth Release—Earth Flow—"
One Iwagakure ninja sensed the danger and hurriedly formed hand seals.
But before he could finish—
A black sphere appeared before his eyes.
Instant Tailed Beast Bomb.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
Basketball-sized black orbs rained down like spilled ink.
No charging.
No delay.
No hesitation.
Twelve support shinobi who were jointly forming seals for an Earth Release defense—
Along with the half-raised earth wall—
Were swallowed instantly by three Tailed Beast Bombs.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Explosions thundered endlessly.
Only blinding black light remained at the impact site.
The entire Iwagakure battlefield looked like a burst tomato sauce can—
With a loud pop, crimson and charred black splattered everywhere.
"Ahh… it hurts… so much…"
One Iwagakure ninja was slightly luckier—only his arms were blown off by the blast.
But the unbearable pain forced a scream from his throat.
"Watch out!"
A senior special jōnin on the right shouted a warning.
The next second—
A Tailed Beast Bomb smashed directly into him.
The scorching heat carbonized his flesh instantly.
His body was blasted backward and crashed to the ground, life or death unknown.
Chaos?
No.
For the Iwagakure allied forces, this was no longer chaos.
This was collapse.
Total collapse.
The elite formation built by two thousand Iwagakure shinobi was like a flock of helpless chicks before this unreasonable, blinking, no-cooldown artillery turret.
And the Earth Release techniques they were so proud of?
At this moment they were a complete joke.
The walls hadn't even finished rising before being torn apart by Tailed Beast Bombs.
Block? Impossible.
Catch it? Impossible.
Kill it? Impossible.
To the Iwagakure shinobi—
This cultivation body was nothing less than a demon god.
"A monster! It's a monster… this must be a demon!"
"Run! Run! We can't die here!"
"Help me… someone help—cough—"
Screams, wails, and desperate cries mixed together—
Only to be brutally crushed by the continuous barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs.
The battlefield had become a gigantic slaughterhouse.
Death followed death without pause.
"Explosions…? Is this… the art of explosions?"
Watching the cultivation body spin like a destructive top while unleashing devastation—
Then looking down at the pathetic lump of clay in his own hands—
Deidara collapsed onto the ground in shock.
The explosions he once pursued were moments of brilliance.
Flowers of destruction.
Not only destroying the enemy—
But destroying himself as well.
But the scene before him now?
It felt like a cold, efficient, unstoppable death assembly line.
A dazzling spectacle built upon piles of flesh and blood.
Compared to that—
His fireworks suddenly seemed…
Too tame.
"Stop! Stop! Stop it!"
Not far away, Ōnoki's face twisted in agony as he shouted.
This wasn't a battle.
It was a one-sided massacre.
And the difference between Iwagakure and Uchiha Kai wasn't merely chakra, combat awareness, or intelligence.
It was—
A difference in dimension.
Like a higher-dimensional god casually casting divine power.
Ōnoki wanted to rush forward and stop it.
But a voice inside him warned that something terrible would happen if he interfered.
Yet these shinobi were the forces he had painstakingly cultivated for years.
They couldn't all perish here in Konoha.
He turned toward Uchiha Kai.
After a moment of hesitation, he finally spoke.
"Lord Kai… please spare them!"
"Iwagakure is willing to pay the same price to redeem them!"
As he spoke—
The elderly Tsuchikage knelt down.
His forehead pressed firmly against the ground.
No negotiation.
No bargaining.
Just a genuine plea.
Hearing this, Uchiha Kai glanced at him and shrugged.
If you had known this would happen—
Why start in the first place?
Kumogakure and Iwagakure had chosen this moment to attack Konoha.
They should have been prepared for the consequences.
Still—
The cultivation body was nearly finished anyway.
Its chakra was almost depleted.
Nine-Tails Power V wasn't truly infinite chakra.
Launching over a hundred Tailed Beast Bombs was already terrifying.
Maybe two more shots remained.
Then it would end.
Across the battlefield, cries and groans echoed everywhere.
Although it felt long—
The massacre had lasted less than three minutes.
Yet within those minutes—
At least one third of the original two thousand Iwagakure shinobi had already lost the will to fight.
Panic was spreading.
"Brother Kitsuchi! This enemy is too dangerous! Should we run?!"
The so-called genius strategist with glasses crawled desperately toward Kitsuchi, covered in blood and mud. One lens of his glasses was shattered.
All traces of "intelligence" were gone.
"Run your damn head!"
Kitsuchi slammed his blade into a nearby rock.
"This was your stupid plan! Why are you still alive?! Why?!"
His voice was hoarse.
His body looked like cracked clay—fractured everywhere.
At that moment, Kitsuchi truly wanted to cut the man down.
"Damn it!"
He slashed aside a flying chunk of corpse.
His bloodshot eyes burned with fury.
"Disaster! You're the disaster that pushed for this!"
BOOOOM!!!
Suddenly—
An even more terrifying explosion erupted from above.
The crimson cultivation body seemed to grow bored of turret fire.
Amid thunder and lightning, it soared into the sky.
Its arms crossed before its chest.
Whoosh—BZZZ!
Whoosh—BZZZ!
In an instant—
Three massive black Tailed Beast Bombs, each over ten meters in diameter—
Formed before its crossed arms.
Bzzzz…
The moment they appeared—
The sheer destructive energy twisted the surrounding air.
At that moment—
The compressed devastation contained within those three spheres made everyone's heart tremble with terror.
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