Chapter 61
Chapter 61
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: Hidden Grass Village
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Hidden Grass Village.
This small ninja village, which had maintained good relations with the Hidden Leaf Village, was now unrecognizable.
The original hospital building had vanished entirely, and in the village center, a massive crater over a kilometer in diameter and more than ten meters deep had formed. More than half the village had been wiped out!
This was Menma's parting gift.
Wuwei stood at the edge of the crater. Even after two days had passed, a deep sense of dread toward this terrifying power still lingered in his heart.
The surviving Grass ninja and villagers, under Wuwei's leadership, were desperately rescuing the wounded and collecting the remains.
But under such a horrific explosion, nothing remained at the epicenter—not even bodies. This included over forty ninja, among them Grass Hidden Village's leader Kusanagi Kōji and Anbu Captain Ryūsei. Over five hundred villagers had also been wounded!
For a small ninja village, such casualties were nearly enough to halve their overall strength!
It would take at least a generation to slowly recover the combat power lost in this battle.
"Big brother!"
Wuchang hobbled over, leaning on a crutch.
He held a statistical report in his hand.
"The village's losses have been tallied," Wuchang read aloud. "Including Leader Kusanagi and Anbu Captain Ryūsei, a total of nine jonin killed, thirty-eight chunin and genin killed, and three hundred seventy villagers dead."
"The wounded include eight jonin, fifty-six chunin and genin, and five hundred sixty-three villagers."
When he heard these casualty figures, Wuwei shuddered all over.
The village leader dead, over a dozen elite jonin killed or wounded, nearly a hundred ninja casualties, and close to a thousand villagers dead or injured!
These villagers in the ninja village's central area were basically all reserves with ninja potential—the backbone of a village's mobilization during wartime!
Such massive losses were a devastating blow to Hidden Grass Village!
"Big brother, should we put a bounty on 'Asura' at the Bounty Exchange?" Wuchang came to Wuwei's side and stared at the enormous crater, his expression dazed. He recalled the battle two days ago and still felt a lingering fear.
That mysterious Asura had used just nine terrifying summoned beasts to reduce their entire Hidden Grass Village to this state.
He had barely lifted a finger himself, merely leaving behind a single terrifying black orb, and it had caused such devastating casualties!
"No..." Wuwei closed his eyes with a long sigh. When he slowly opened them again, his gaze was filled with dread and fear. "We're no match for him. Don't give him any more excuses to come after us!"
They couldn't win—not their entire ninja village. This profound sense of despair made Wuwei feel as if their enemy were a god!
Perhaps fifty years ago, the legendary "God of Ninjas" and "Asura of the Ninja World" who dominated the shinobi world weren't much different.
Wuchang nodded in deep agreement.
The two brothers stood silently before the crater, their expressions grave.
In the distance, from the shadows of a half-destroyed building, a pitcher plant-like creature emerged from the ground.
"Whoa, what insane destructive power!" White Zetsu looked toward the crater in the village, whistling with a sigh of admiration.
Black Zetsu, meanwhile, stared expressionlessly at the mostly destroyed Hidden Grass Village.
'Such terrifying destructive power... Is it a descendant of Hagoromo or Hamura?' Even Black Zetsu, who had operated in secret in the ninja world for a thousand years, had never witnessed a scene this horrifying. The entire village was on the verge of total destruction!
This level of power—enough to annihilate a city—he had only seen wielded by Asura and Indra, as well as Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, in nearly a thousand years.