Chapter 49: The Attack IV

New chapter bois! Man, this is going great.

I will leave a short clarification at the end, for those who are curious to read.

The words and actions of the Second Raikage, A, seemed incomprehensible to everyone, even his allies. The only one who appeared only slightly surprised was Orochimaru, who mentally evaluated the actions of the leader of the Hidden Cloud Village.

“This is quite an extreme tactic ... The Raikage seems determined to deliver a hard blow to the village. The tailed beasts are an unstoppable calamity; in a chaotic battlefield like this, where enemies are scattered, and the tailed beast can cause mass destruction, this move is cruel, but extremely efficient...”

Orochimaru frowned when he reached this point in his reasoning. At the same time, he began to calculate the combat power of both sides and realized that things didn’t look good for the Hidden Leaf Village.

“ ... Have you gone mad?!”

Hiruzen was so speechless that he could only watch, almost in panic, as the eight-tailed beast appeared right in front of him. He never thought the Raikage would make such a drastic decision.

Gyuki, the eight-tailed beast, is necessary to maintain the balance of power between the villages. With growing animosity between the villages, it’s because of this deterrent power that the villages don’t engage in total battles with the aim of destroying each other.

No matter how powerful a village is, if they try to enter this type of battle, the response will always be to release the tailed beast so they can protect themselves.

Therefore, the Raikage’s actions in using Gyuki, not as a deterrent power, but as an attacking power, was beyond the Hokage’s imagination.

After all, with Gyuki freed, it will fight to remain free. Without a power as overwhelming as Hashirama’s, capable of easily suppressing the tailed beasts, it’s difficult to seal the beast again, especially one of the most powerful like the eight-tailed beast.

By freeing Gyuki in the Hidden Leaf Village, the Raikage was risking losing control of the beast, thus losing the deterrent power that the tailed beasts have.

He is literally risking everything in this battle, something unthinkable from Hiruzen’s point of view, but which was happening right in front of his eyes at this moment.

Even though he was deeply shocked, however, when he saw Gyuki almost completely transformed, he knew he had no time for this.

Among the allies, the Tsuchikage was also surprised, but quickly adapted to the situation, moving away a bit, and paying attention to the movements of the Hidden Leaf Village side. Even though the Raikage hadn’t warned about his plan to release Gyuki, this didn’t bring any harm to the Hidden Rock Village.

On the other hand, the Raikage’s son seemed tremendously shocked by the situation. He wanted to question his father about what had just happened, but he knew it wasn’t the time for that. He was also caught off guard by the situation.

Perhaps no one, not even in the Hidden Cloud Village, knew what he was planning to do.

It was under these circumstances that one of the most powerful tailed beasts, Gyuki, appeared on the battlefield.

With a height of tens of meters, the beast roared as soon as it completely transformed, making the earth and the hearts of nearby people, even allies, tremble.

“Son, keep the enemies busy with Gyuki.”

Without saying anything else, the Raikage disappeared with his lightning armor, once again catching the Hokage by surprise.

“Oh, but you’re not going to!”

Hiruzen quickly tried to intercept the Raikage, but the Tsuchikage, as if he had been expecting this to happen, interfered, getting in the way.

Mu, the second Tsuchikage, said nothing, but his intention was clear.

“Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Sakumo, deal with Gyuki.”

Resigned to the situation, Hiruzen could only grit his teeth as he watched the Raikage moving away.

Gyuki’s presence alerted the entire village, not just the battlefield. The colossal size of the beast, and its power, which could be felt from a distance, caused panic among civilians. The beast’s roar was simply deafening.

On the battlefield, the ninjas of the Hidden Leaf Village were worried, but when they noticed the Hokage’s presence at the site, they calmed down and continued with the battle.

The enemies from other villages, however, were in doubt about what was happening.

The ninjas from the Hidden Rock Village began to worry about the Tsuchikage, who was with the Raikage at the place where the beast appeared.

The ninjas from the Hidden Cloud Village, on the other hand, were confused by Gyuki’s appearance. They knew about the beast, and they knew that its presence is a bad sign.