Chapter 958: Chapter 56: Assault_2
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Hidden Star Village.
On the surface, it’s just the original Hidden Star Village, simply refurbished, appearing as a small village with relatively orderly architecture.
Villages of this level are everywhere in the territories of the Five Great Nations.
However, unbeknownst to outsiders, the underground of the Hidden Star Village has long been hollowed out by the ninja engineering team from the Land of Demons.
It’s a much larger underground town than the surface Hidden Star Village.
Military base, school, hospital, shops, power supply facilities, including concrete-style residential houses, all are available.
All the entrances and exits have been interfered with using jutsu by the Uzumaki clan ninjas, making it almost impossible for outsiders to find their way in.
In the military-controlled area, Ruri was not sitting in her office handling complex business matters but was continuing to hone her ninja techniques in the training room.
In her hands, she held a dark red chakra blade, a part of Susanoo split off into a physical form.
There’s no need to activate the Mangekyo Sharingan to freely use it, and the blade’s hardness far surpasses ordinary blades, altering with the amount of chakra input.
Then, fierce electric light covered the sword, enhancing its power under the Lightning Style attachment state.
Ever since awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan, she focused her energy on Lightning Style research instead of Fire Style.
The lighting attribute chakra empowerment was not difficult for Ruri, who had thoroughly practiced Lightning Style.
Without hesitation, Ruri swung the sword forcefully.
A white line sliced through the stone pillar in front of her, with sword marks barely visible to the naked eye appearing on it.
The upper half of the pillar began to tilt down the slope, eventually falling to the ground.
The stone pillar, as hard as steel, was sliced like tofu by the blade.
Ruri didn’t feel satisfied, recognizing her enormous room for improvement and a considerable gap to her current limit.
If she was in the Three-Tomoe Sharingan state, no matter how she improved herself, touching her own bottleneck would be easy, making even slight strength advances difficult.
But after acquiring the Mangekyo Sharingan, with the increase in her capacity, the concept of bottlenecks temporarily didn’t need attention.
At this moment, a black four-legged young beast with a horn on its forehead ran over from afar.
It carried a document in its mouth.
It was Hakushi’s lightning clone, Raidenmaru.
Sent by Hakushi specifically to Hidden Star Village, it served as the guardian personnel stationed here, as well as the regulator of Hidden Star Village, reporting the situation to Hakushi thoroughly.
Therefore, if any problems arise here, Hakushi would know and resolve them first.
Hidden Star Village is an extremely important branch base and a crucial logistics supply base in the upcoming battle against the Land of Wind, fitting Hakushi’s careful approach with his clone personally monitoring it.
Sometimes, Ruri wondered if Hakushi was accustomed to being overly cautious, subconsciously adopting extremely conservative and safe practices regardless of the circumstances.
Safety first could almost be his personal motto.
"Mother, father’s orders have arrived. We can take official action against the Land of Wind now."
Ruri took the document from Raidenmaru’s mouth and checked its contents, matching what Raidenmaru said, it was Hakushi’s formal decree to attack the Land of Wind.
"In other words, he must be issuing an open declaration of war to all nations by now?"
Although sometimes she felt that so-called international accords were nothing but a humorous tool used by the Five Great Nations to limit the development of small countries.
Nonetheless, during official operations, there was an inexplicable sense that these insincere international accords had a reason to exist, even if they appeared highly unreasonable or unjust.
At least making the Land of Demons appear to abide by the big nations’ accords rather than transcending them and adopting other rules makes sense.
"Yes. It may take about two to three days for all nations to know about the situation here."
"As expected. Then, I’ll leave the logistics and supplies operation to you, Raidenmaru."
Ruri dispelled the chakra blade and lighting attribute chakra, speaking to Raidenmaru.
"Please rest assured and entrust it to me, Mother. After all, for this day, Hidden Star Village has long amassed a large amount of supplies, now finally finding their use."
Raidenmaru nodded in agreement.
Then, Ruri left the training room and rallied two thousand ninjas who followed her from the Land of Demons, advancing toward the Land of Wind.
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Medical supplies, food, water, tents, and other resources were all prepared comprehensively.
Fourth Kazekage Rasa, before dawn, led two thousand Hidden Sand ninjas toward the Land of Bear.
Regarding the upcoming battle, Rasa had already envisioned it countless times in his mind.
The conventional ninja squad from the Land of Demons would struggle to make a significant impact under the spearhead of Hidden Sand.
The only concern would be the aerial units of the Land of Demons, the ace of their military, serving as a crucial counter to Hidden Sand.
However, with him, the Kazekage, personally taking action, the aerial advantage of the Land of Demons would vanish.
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