Free Web NovelChapter 241: Chaos In The Village Hidden in the Cloud
Shinichi rolled up the scroll and handed it to the little black snake perched on his shoulder.
The little snake opened its mouth, swallowed the scroll whole, and then turned into a wisp of white smoke and disappeared.
Almost at the same instant, Shinichi’s figure also turned into white smoke and dissipated in the night wind.
Behind them, the roar of the Eight-Tails shook the heavens and the earth.
The Village Hidden in the Cloud is in complete chaos.
Meanwhile, outside the Village Hidden in the Cloud, atop a high mountain.
Five hundred figures silently disappeared into the night and among the trees, like a frozen dark tide.
Shinichi stood at the very front, with a steep cliff beneath his feet and the brightly lit Village Hidden in the Cloud in front of him. Countless glittering lights flashed in the depths of his eyes as he took in every detail of the chaos in the distance.
"Everyone!"
Shinichi withdrew his gaze, swept it across the five hundred present, and then gave a hand signal.
"Move out!"
"Understood!"
As soon as the words were spoken, five hundred figures vanished from their spot, and the mountaintop fell silent once more, save for the howling wind and the distant roar of the Eight-Tails.
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Rumble!!!
A series of explosions rang out throughout Village Hidden in the Cloud, like a concerto playing in the wake of this disaster.
The Eight-Tails was rampaging through the Village Hidden in the Cloud.
Its massive tail swept across the village, causing buildings to collapse, debris to fly everywhere, flames to erupt, and thick smoke to rise like a black dragon, making the night sky, already shrouded in thunderclouds, even more gloomy.
However, Village Hidden in the Cloud is, after all, a ninja village known for its martial spirit and militarized management. After the initial chaos, the Kumogakure’s ninja demonstrated amazing organizational skills and combat prowess.
Centered around elite Jonin-level personnel, three counterattack teams were quickly formed, each operating in a different direction. One team was responsible for drawing the Eight-Tails’ attention from the front, another for launching disruptive attacks from the flanks, and the third for setting up the necessary jutsu nodes for a large-scale binding barrier.
The Chunin led the Genin, and as if they had practiced countless times, they orderly evacuated the civilians to underground shelters throughout the village. Although the whole process was tense, there were almost no stampedes or disorderly incidents.
"Roar!!!"
The Eight-Tails seemed to think that the destruction was too slow. It suddenly stopped its rampaging pace, raised its huge bull head, and let out a deafening roar towards the sky.
Immediately, dark black chakra particles, exuding an aura of destruction, spun, compressed, and condensed at high speed in front of the Eight-Tails’ mouth, as if drawn by a black hole, growing from the size of a fist to the size of a millstone, and then to a massive dark purple energy sphere as large as a small mountain!
"Oh no! It’s a Tailed Beast Ball!"
"Stop it! If it explodes in the village, half the village will be razed to the ground!"
Several experienced Kumogakure’s Jonin, their faces ashen, roared in fury, and in an instant, various high-level attack Ninjutsu rained down on the Eight-Tails’ massive body.
However, those attacks, which were powerful enough to easily pierce through the mountain rocks, only splashed up dazzling sparks and left a few fleeting scorch marks when they landed on the Eight-Tails’ thick and massive body. They were powerless to stop the formation of the Tailed Beast Ball in its mouth.
Just as the dark purple sphere containing world-destroying chakra was about to completely solidify...
Sizzle!!!
A streak of blue-white lightning, so fast it couldn’t even be captured by the eyes, suddenly shot out!
The speed was so fast, it was as if real lightning had torn through the night sky, covering a distance of hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye.
It appeared below the giant mouth of the Eight-Tails.
Then, from bottom to top, a heavy punch wrapped in violent lightning, like a battering ram, slammed solidly into the chin of the Eight-Tails!
Boom!!!
A deafening explosion, like the simultaneous detonation of ten thousand tons of explosives, resounded!
The massive, mountain-like body of the Eight-Tails was thrown upwards by this punch, and the Tailed Beast Ball in its mouth was forced to explode prematurely due to the heavy blow to its chin, causing its entire body to fall heavily to the ground.
Just as the shockwave of the explosion was about to engulf the figure, with an extremely terrifying speed and reaction, it narrowly escaped the edge of the explosion and landed steadily on the roof of a nearby intact building.
The lightning gradually subsided, revealing the true face of the newcomer.
With a resolute face strikingly similar to the third Raikage and a similarly robust, bear-like physique, he appeared much younger, possessing a youthful sharpness and charisma. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
He is the son of the third Raikage, who inherited the name A very early on, Yotsuki A.
It turns out that after the Village Hidden in the Cloud’s offensive was thwarted a month ago, the stubborn third Raikage had no intention of giving up. On the contrary, he planned to intensify his efforts.
Therefore, he ordered his son, Yotsuki A, who was on the northwest front, to lead a portion of the elite troops back to the village to rest and regroup.
After joining up with Blue B, who had recovered from his illness, he would then lead another 5,000 troops to reinforce the front line and break through Konoha’s defenses with overwhelming superiority.
No one expected things to turn out this way.
"Great! It’s A-sama!"
"A-sama has arrived!"
Seeing this, the Kumogakure ninjas were greatly encouraged and breathed a sigh of relief.
But A’s expression was extremely solemn. He ignored the cheers of the crowd and stared intently at the Eight-Tails that he had knocked down with one punch, which was now staggering and getting back to its feet.
Then he shouted with all his might: "B!!!"
"Wake up!!!"
However, the Eight-Tails merely shook its massive bull head, showing no intention of responding. Instead, it seemed completely enraged, its dark red chakra boiling even more violently, and the crimson light in its eyes growing increasingly dazzling. freewebnovёl.ƈom
A Jonin with a pale face shook his head: "A-sama, I couldn’t sense any of B-sama’s chakra in the Eight-Tails... B-sama may already be..."
"What!?" A’s pupils contracted sharply, but seeing the Eight-Tails stand up again, swinging its tentacles and beginning its second round of destruction, he could only forcibly suppress the surging grief and anger in his heart, and shouted sharply: "I’ll lure this guy out of the village, you guys follow! And! Notify my father immediately!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the lightning nature chakra around A grew even more dazzling and violent!
The blinding blue-white lightning almost engulfed his entire body. His hair stood on end as he entered full power mode!
In an instant, his figure transformed into a lightning flash so fast that even a fleeting afterimage couldn’t be caught, instantly traversing hundreds of meters and appearing more than ten meters directly above the head of the Eight-Tails.
He concentrated all the high-intensity electric current formed by his lightning nature chakra into his right hand, transforming his entire arm into a blade made purely of lightning. With a resolute momentum that could tear everything apart, he slashed heavily down towards the head of the Eight-Tails!
Lariat: Thousand Dance!
Yotsuki A’s Lightning Style Armour was already highly refined. Although his strength and defense were not as good as his father’s, his speed and reaction had surpassed his father’s.
