chapter 91 part 5
"I don't want to fight anymore! I simply don't know who's an enemy and who's my comrade! What am I supposed to do? I certainly don't want to become one of these guys!"
The Kumogakure ninja were in complete chaos, panic-stricken.
A jumped into the air, the lightning on his body crackling violently, attracting the gazes of all living humans.
"Don't panic, everyone! Continue to tighten the formation!"
But A glanced at the collapsing defense line, and a deep feeling of powerlessness rose within him. How could they possibly fight like this? They simply couldn't continue; morale had completely collapsed.
"Damn it, damn Tsukasa Kaede! If we had gotten intel on you earlier, you would never have succeeded like this. The unity of Kumogakure ninja isn't something a guy like you can imagine!"
A resentfully stared at Tsukasa Kaede, maintaining his few remaining shreds of sanity. He didn't brainlessly charge forward; instead, he turned around, knocking down numerous corpse transformation Kumogakure ninja with a single punch each.
Many faces that had clearly been filled with rich emotions not long ago, his familiar subordinates, now only held endless stiffness and deathly silence, launching attacks mechanically, as if after becoming Tsukasa Kaede's minions, they inherently harbored an extreme hatred for the living.
"At a time like this, don't make yourself sound so wronged. "Knowing my intel in advance" and such—intelligence warfare is inherently an important part of battle. Hasn't that Magnet Release ninja on your side also been hiding his own intel?"
Tsukasa Kaede spoke indifferently, his voice piercing through the darkness, crossing over the numerous howling, running, and leaping corpse horde, and landing in A's ears.
He watched these people go from orderly to collective collapse, finding it truly delightful. Only now did he truly begin to unleash the genuine power of Corpse Release.
The last time he painstakingly used jutsu like this on living humans was during the Second Great Ninja War when dealing with Araki of the Sand. He had successfully crippled a part of Araki of the Sand's power, creating a great opportunity for Dan Kato to kill Araki of the Sand.
Kaedemilar scenes would occur more and more in the future; all enemies would eventually live under his endless fear.
"Troy, are you ready?!" A loudly shouted, struggling to protect his remaining comrades.
"It's ready! Then let's go... boss!" Troy roared.
A looked at Troy with a complex expression. It was the first time he had heard words of recognition from Troy, but he hadn't expected it to be in this situation. Could it be that Troy had already sensed something?
No, this was the determination before launching an attack that was bound to succeed.
Those card shuriken that had originally been thrown out and scattered in all directions were rapidly pulled back under Troy's Magnet Release power.
He even pressed a small card shuriken onto A's body. Immediately after, A roared as he launched a linear assault towards Tsukasa Kaede.
As expected, Tsukasa Kaede indeed shifted away using Spatial Rift Jutsu. A synchronously changed his direction of movement, his violent turns smashing a deep pit into the ground each time.
All the way, sparks and electricity flew. Wherever visible, only the dazzling lightning glow frequently shuttled across the battlefield, weaving a magnificent net-like spectacle.
"Activating Lightning Release Chakra Mode at such high intensity, he can't last too long either." Troy was worried. But there was no other way; to deal with someone like Tsukasa Kaede, the most basic element was speed!
With speed, and if Tsukasa Kaede didn't use Space-Time Ninjutsu to leave the battlefield, then there would be a slight hope of killing Tsukasa Kaede. Otherwise, there was no chance at all.
Fortunately, Tsukasa Kaede didn't directly escape, but was constantly moving within the battlefield, each time forced by A to use jutsu to move.
Many times, A almost touched Tsukasa Kaede's sleeve.
"Here it comes!" Troy became ruthless. Large amounts of card shuriken, both large and small, now began to fly wildly in the air, following A's high-speed movement!
Troy applied magnetic force to A, causing all the ninja tools to automatically attack A. But due to A's high-speed movement, large amounts of ninja tools constantly moved in the air.
One by one, zombies fell down in swathes, their bodies riddled with holes under the dense attacks of these card shuriken.
But killing these zombies was not the goal. By constantly compressing the space, the fewer the zombies, the fewer coordinate points Tsukasa Kaede could move to. And Tsukasa Kaede would dare even less to move into the space filled by the card shuriken in the air.
Appear and be instantly killed!
This was the tactic Troy could think of: as long as A didn't stop, risking severe bodily damage to act as a moving target to counter Tsukasa Kaede's jutsu formulas.
"With most of my comrades dead and only this few people gathered together, it conversely allows me to unleash jutsu without restraint, without worrying about harming too many comrades."
Troy thought silently, feeling profound sadness in his heart—he would actually have to rely on the tragic deaths and injuries of his comrades to perform tactics to kill the enemy.
However, as long as he could kill Tsukasa Kaede, it would be worth it. If they didn't endure the heavy casualties now and take out Tsukasa Kaede, the Hidden Cloud Village's losses in the future would only be ten or a hundred times greater than today, or even never know peace!
"Die quickly, die here forever." Troy gritted his teeth.
Rustle!
A faint sound of shifting sand grains came from underfoot.
The next second, the ground suddenly ripped open. Countless dust clouds shot up into the sky, and Araki of the Sand, who had always been hiding in the darkness, indirectly creating small Sandstorm jutsu, finally personally ambushed, embracing Troy from below.