*BOOM!*
Sparks flew, but Izuna, holding a kunai, had been faster. The tip of the three-pronged blade sliced across Chiharu's cheek, drawing blood and leaving a gash ten centimeters long.
"This... this is Lord Tobirama's Flying Thunder God Technique?" Chiharu stammered in disbelief, wiping the blood from his face.
Throwing a kunai and then instantly teleporting to its location—wasn't that Senju Tobirama's signature jutsu?
Izuna wasn't concerned. Everyone in this outpost was going to die anyway.
"Lord Chiharu! We'll help you!" A dozen Senju ninja rushed forward, surrounding both Izuna and Chiharu.
"Have you notified the Clan Head?" Chiharu asked grimly.
A ninja within the circle replied, "We've already sent someone."
"Good. Stall Uchiha Izuna until reinforcements arrive. If we can kill him, it will be a great merit!" Chiharu yelled, trying to rally his men.
"Kill me?" Izuna scoffed and bit his thumb. "I told you, none of you are getting out of here alive. By the time Senju Yuma arrives, all he'll find are your corpses."
Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram! He completed the hand signs in a single second and slammed his right hand on the ground.
"Summoning Technique!"
*POOF!*
Thick white smoke billowed out. A moment later, a giant paw wreathed in blue flames shot out from the smoke and slammed into the ground. The earth shook violently, throwing many of the unprepared Senju ninja into the air.
"Wh-what is that!?" Senju Chiharu was forced back over ten meters. When he looked again, he saw Izuna standing atop the head of a giant cat demon.
"ROOOOAR!"
The Two-Tails let out a deafening roar that vibrated the very air. Standing on its head, Izuna muttered to himself, "Summoning the Two-Tails... with this much chakra, the other Senju outposts will be drawn here immediately. I'll only be able to destroy this one."
But he had no choice. There were over a hundred enemies. Even if he activated his Susanoo, it would be difficult to stop someone from escaping to alert Senju Yuma. In that case, he might as well bring out the Two-Tails and annihilate this largest outpost as quickly as possible.
"What is that monster!?"
"Aren't the Uchiha's summoning animals hawks?"
"Forget that! Attack! We have to hold out until the Clan Head arrives!"
The Senju ninja were deeply shaken by the sight of the Two-Tails; it was an incredibly intimidating presence. But these were veterans of countless wars. They quickly rallied and unleashed a barrage of jutsu.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!"
"Earth Release: Earth-Shaking Core!"
"Wind Release: Verdant Gale!"
The Two-Tails raised its head and stomped its right forepaw on the ground. A wall of blue flame erupted, blocking every incoming jutsu.
"That's... that's the summoning beast's ability!?"
The surrounding Senju ninja cried out in alarm, but as the blue flames descended, Senju Chiharu immediately shouted a warning. "Do not fear! No matter what it is, everything has a weakness. Keep attacking!"
Having spoken, he took the lead. "Water Release: Twin Dragon Strangulation!"
Two water dragons rose from Chiharu's left and right, baring their fangs as they struck from both sides.
Izuna glanced sideways with a sneer, his hands forming seals. "Matatabi, use Fire Release. I'll give you a hand."
The Two-Tails raised an eyebrow slightly but replied in its feminine voice, "I know."
"Fire Release: Azure Jade Flame!"
"Wind Release: Violent Sky Serial Blades!"
From below and above, the Two-Tails' blue flames and Izuna's wind blades spewed from their respective mouths. In the next instant, they merged, causing the power of the flames to multiply exponentially.
It was the same principle as the combination ninjutsu used by Jiraiya and Gamabunta with fire and toad oil in later generations.
The sea of azure-blue fire obliterated everything in front of them. As an elite Jonin, this was the first time Senju Chiharu had witnessed a ninjutsu of such terrifying power and range.
If he had to compare, perhaps only Senju Hashirama's Deep Forest Emergence, which he had seen at the clan grounds a year ago, could rival it!
In the next moment, over twenty Senju ninja leaped in front of Senju Chiharu. "Stop him!"
Water Formation Wall!
More than twenty people used the same defensive Water Release ninjutsu simultaneously.
The rising steam turned into a thick fog, blanketing the entire valley.
"Ninja of the Warring States Period really do have superior comprehensive strength, not to mention they are from the Senju clan."
The power of this combined attack from himself and the Two-Tails definitely surpassed Madara in his later Impure World Reincarnation state, yet Izuna hadn't expected it to be blocked by the opponent using the same number of troops.
It only went to prove that the comprehensive strength of this batch of Senju ninja far exceeded that mob from the Allied Shinobi Forces of the future.
"Then how about adding this?"
Tadpole-like patterns emerged at the corners of Izuna's eyes. Blood tears flowed from his right eye, yet there was none of the heart-wrenching pain that used to surge forth whenever he used the Mangekyo Sharingan.
"Amaterasu!"
Black flames of destruction coated the blue fire. As if possessing a life of their own, they crawled forward relentlessly, devouring everything before crashing down from above like a tsunami to cover Senju Chiharu and the others.
Do not be misled by how impressively the reanimated Madara performed on the battlefield of the Fourth Great Ninja War. To achieve a feat like fighting one against a thousand in the Warring States Period was almost impossible. Even fighting one against a hundred was incredibly difficult.
The main reason was that the ninja from the hidden villages of the future were mostly watered-down goods, whereas the Warring States era was the exact opposite.
Spending every moment on the battlefield, under the pressure that one would die if surpassed by the enemy, meant the average level of Warring States ninja was far higher than that of future ninja.
With the Two-Tails in hand, even without the Mangekyo Sharingan, Izuna dared to claim that in the future Fourth Great Ninja War, he could take on several hundred, or even a thousand, without issue.
But facing the one hundred and fifty Senju men before him, he had summoned the Two-Tails to wipe them out in the shortest time possible.
Even with their faces burned and arms severed, they sought to deliver one final strike before death. This strike was not just for victory in war, but for the safety of the wives and children they had left at home.
Yet even so, Izuna showed no mercy. Of these one hundred and fifty people, not a single one would be allowed to leave.
"Roar!!!"
The long flaming tails behind the Two-Tails swept through the stronghold like a sweeping leg kick.
Those who weren't heavily injured were lucky, but those who were already on death's door from the earlier exchange were instantly sent flying into the air by the two tails.
With a heavy thud, they smashed into the ground, reduced to piles of minced meat.
"Water Release: Vortex Cutting Blade!"
Within the Land of Fire, it would be hard to find a clan more adept at Water Release than the Senju. As it happened, the Two-Tails was a Tailed Beast naturally endowed with Fire Release, making it feel doubly uncomfortable fighting these people.
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