Chapter – 707 Ruthless & Cruel

The whistling sound of wind reverberated in Dojin's ears as she flew through the sky while standing on the back of the Clay bird, although she was flying at a very high altitude, her expression was still extremely vigilant, and her Byakugan was constantly active, making sure no one could sneak up on her.

It was only after she had reached the shore, and started flying above the sea did she breathe a sigh of relief and let go of her tense nerves.

Looking at her left palm, Dojin sighed and said in a worried tone, "Although it will be healed, the injury is still quite serious." The rash use of Dust Release earlier resulted in slight damage to the meridians of her left hand. Let alone using Ninjutsu, currently, she can't even properly lift her left hand!

Well, that's just one thing, another problem is that almost all the Clay Clones, at least the important ones, she had created has been used up, further decreasing her current combat power.

Although she can use Explosion Release without the clay figurines, their use still makes her more versatile and more destructive and increases her overall combat effectiveness.

With the help of explosive clay figurines, she can create large-scale AOE attacks, infiltrate without being easily spotted and cause sudden and effective attacks and can easily cause chaos for an entire shinobi village without being noticed at all! 

Just take Deidara for example, with very little support from Sasori, Deidara was able to singlehandedly invade Sunagakure and capture Gaara in the cannon, Dojin doesn't believe that this would have been possible if Deidara use Explosion Release in a conventional way. 

If Dojin wants to always maintain high combat effectiveness and versatility, then she must always have a stock of Clay figurines at her disposal and that's where the problem comes in.

Compared to Deidara who can create clay figurines on the spot, Dojin is not so good at it, her 'art' is not good enough, obviously, she believes that she will improve over time and with practice but the current her isn't very good when it comes to 'art'!

To be honest, Dojin wasn't really prepared to fight alone this time.

When she received the information from Itachi about the whereabouts of Danzō, she only had one thought in mind and that was to observe his physical, mental, and emotional state.

Obviously, Dojin Clone hasn't been developed completely, so she knows that she wouldn't be able to perform that good in battle, but when it comes to reconnaissance and collecting information then that's a completely different matter. She had planned to use her clay figurines to observe Danzō's state from a far distance and only attack him if there was a chance of defeating him in just one attack, that is the main reason why she didn't change into some other clone and directly went there.

What she never expected was that instead of finding Danzō, she would find Kuroto's former Anbu subordinates in distress.

Even if they are no longer Kuroto's subordinates as he has left the Anbu department, Dojin couldn't just leave them be, especially Itachi, she couldn't have risked him getting caught or dying there. 

Although she has confidence in Itachi that he wouldn't fall so easily, she still couldn't sit still as his identity is very important, and she couldn't risk it, so she had no choice but to make her move.

Well at least this time the result was somewhat good, while she was holding Obito, Itachi managed to catch the guy inside Tobi, of course, she is also very curious about that guy's identity, but that will have to wait for now.

Another thing very important is that the Akatsuki Organization has also joined the hunt for Danzō, no way she wants them to get their hands on him, because not only will they be able to obtain Danzō's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, but they will also learn Amatsukami involvement in his ritual, this will make the situation very problematic for the Amatsukami, and she can't allow that to happen, so has to make a plan to hunt down Danzō.

"Sigh… it seems I have much to do… Other than making a plan to hunt down Danzō, I have to also treat my injury, then practice 'Dust Release' and improve my 'Art', at the same time, I have to also learn 'Lava Release' to strengthen my Earth Element and add something more at my disposal to make sure that such a situation doesn't happen again! I don't want to be forced to use Dust Release easily, after all, its consumption is too much and it is too dangerous!" muttered Dojin with a determined gaze.

Not long after, Ancor Vantian hidden in the clouds finally appeared in her field of vision,

Having safely returned to the base, Dojin immediately made her way towards her laboratory, transferring the soul inside the main body, Kuroto put the clone inside the treatment capsule, then went to his study to collect all the information he has about Lava Release Kekkei Genkai.

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The Land of Waterfall

A few hours later, under the lead of Nagato, Uchiha Shinichi, Kakuzu, Hoshigaki Kisame, Biwa Jūzō, Kahyō, Kaguya Takashi, and Chinoike Mageta arrived on the battlefield and met up with Konan and Deva Path who stayed here to follow Danzō's route and collect information about him.

Akatsuki Organization's base is in the Land of Iron, so it took only a few hours to arrive at the battle, as for the reason why Nagato brought all of them with him? It's just to increase the efficiency of the hunting team. The higher the number of people, the easier it will be to find him and then he will be able to quickly kill Danzō, as for worrying about Danzō's strength, well true he has grown strong, but it is still nothing in Nagato's eyes.

After meeting up with Konan and Deva Path, all the Akatsuki Organization followed them and arrived at the battlefield where the army of Kusagakure collided with Danzō. Because Konan has been keeping an eye on Danzō with her origami butterflies, without any problem they arrived at the location.

But it appears that they are a bit late as the battlefield is already silent.

Wherever their eyes could see, all they saw were corpses in various conditions. The blood from all the corpses flowed down and pooled together forming something akin to a stream of blood, filling the air with a pungent smell.

But this is still not the most terrifying scene, what shocked everyone is the sight of dozens of Kusagakure shinobi hanging with tree branches penetrating their bodies.

Without a doubt, this sight is the result of the battle between over a hundred Kusagakure Shinobis and Shimura Danzō, and the result of the war is also very clear from all the corpses lying on the ground.

Looking at the purgatory-like scene in front of them, even the members of the Akatsuki Organization––who are quite used to the sight of war and cruelty––had to stop themselves from puking.

After taking a few breaths, Shinichi couldn't help but mutter with a gloomy expression, "Shimura Danzō did all this? I knew he wasn't a good guy, but I didn't expect that he would turn out to be such a scum… or maybe I should say crazy? I can feel that he was enjoying doing all this! I should have really killed him before leaving Konoha, the world would have been better without him!"

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that their mission this time is to hunt down Danzō, Shinichi might not have come, he felt that Danzō is a scourge for Konoha so its best to eliminate him, however, even Shinichi didn't expect Danzō would be such a guy, the sight of these hundreds of corpses killed in the most brutal manner made even Shinichi feel nauseated.

Biwa Jūzō crouched down and while checking the injury that killed one of the Kusagakure shinobi, he said with a complicated tone, "You are right about him enjoying all this, obviously, he could have killed them simply with ease, why waste so much chakra to kill them in the most brutal way possible?

In this shinobi world, Kirigakure shinobi have always been known for their ruthless and cruel nature, but now I feel that that's just on the surface, in truth, Konohagakure might be the most ruthless village, and Danzō is at the center of all this."

At this time, Konan suddenly stood up and called out, "Nagato, this one is still alive."

Nagato immediately appeared beside Konan, he put his hand on the forehead of the dying Kusagakure shinobi–naturally, Nagato didn't care about the life of the dying Kusagakure shinobi nor did he intend to save the other party's life–his intention was plain and simple… He was browsing through the memories of this Kusagakure shinobi.

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Land of Rivers

Danzō covered in the blood of his enemies ran through the forest at his fastest speed, his terrifying aura scared away the wild animals and kept the strangers at bay, having slaughtered over a hundred Kusagakure shinobi and thinking that he might encounter more Kusagakure shinobi if he were to go towards the Land of Grass, and more Akatsuki Organization members if he were to go to the Land of Iron, he changed his course and came to the Land of Sound via the secret routes of the Land of Fire, and then went towards the Land of Hotsprings.

As Danzō was traveling through the forests of the Land of Hotsprings, suddenly a figure clad in blue lightning slammed him, forcing him to stop himself.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Immediately afterward, one after another, dozens of figures wearing Kumogakure shinobi uniforms and forehead protectors flashed in the surroundings, forming a siege that stopped Danzō from escaping.

Since it's a siege created by the Kumogakure shinobi, so the person clad in blue lightning is naturally the Yondaime Raikage, Ay, after forcefully stopping Danzō, Ay looked at the blood-covered man, and questioned, "Answer me… are you Danzō or Hamu?"

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