Chapter 24: The war between the four clans begins
The first ray of morning sun shone on the battlefield.
Last night, for the first time in a long time, the coalition forces of the three clans did not launch a night attack on the Hagoromo clan camp.
However, this is not a good sign. Anyone can see that this is definitely the calm before the storm.
On the depressing battlefield, a message was revealed everywhere.
A great war is about to begin.
Up and down the slope, the Hagoromo clan and the three-clan coalition forces were preparing intensively for war.
Shigeru led a dozen youths to the front line. As for the remaining young clan members who were relatively weak, they had already retreated to the clan territory last night.
Since the second elder had previously left the evacuation of the younger generation to Zetō and Shigeru, about ten people were missing from the evacuation team, which did not attract much attention.
However, this morning, when these dozen teenagers appeared on the front line, all the clan members who knew the inside story were shocked.
Seeing Shigeru arrive at the front line, Hagoromo Ryokawa was immediately enraged. Chakra erupted from his body and he approached Shigeru using the blink jutsu.
"Fool! Why did you appear here?"
Accompanying him were Second Elder Hagoromo Kazuo and a group of elite jounin.
Seeing that Shigeru was so rebellious, Hagoromo Ryokawa was furious and scared, he raised his hand to slap Shigeru.
However, just as his palm was about to fall on Shigeru's face, he suddenly stopped and then sighed with a look of despair.
"…perhaps, this is the fate of the Hagoromo clan…"
At this moment, Shigeru came to his senses.
He looked at Hagoromo Ryokawa with a shocked expression.
Clan leader level strength, how terrifying is it?
When Hagoromo Ryokawa wanted to slap him just now, he didn't even react.
If he were to cut him with a sword, his head would probably fly off before his brain could realize that he had been cut.
Is this the strength of a clan leader? He has such a powerful ability to crush ordinary ninjas.
It seemed that in addition to ice jumping space ninjutsu, luck accounted for a large part of his ability to escape Sarutobi Kaoto's attacks.
Hagoromo Zetō, who was standing next to him, saw this and explained "most of our generation has retreated to the clan territory."
Looking at the dozen teenagers surrounding Shigeru, the clan leader and the second elder no doubt had mixed feelings.
They were proud that their sons did not abandon the clan and flee from the battle.
But they were also angry that these teenagers ignored their family heritage and were left on the battlefield.
But no matter what, these teenagers stayed after all. No matter how many thoughts they have, they can only become sighs.
"You guys… take care of yourselves…" After giving these teenagers a complicated look, the clan leader, Hagoromo Ryokawa, led the second elder and a group of elite jounin back to the center of the position.
At this time, the coalition forces of the three clans have deployed down the slope.
Since there were three clans after all, their troops were not mixed, but divided into three sides: left, center and right.
The Senju clan has the smallest number and is on the left, the Sarutobi clan is in the center, and the Shimura clan is on the right.
Although the ninja troops are distributed like this, but the leaders are not like this.
Three powerful ninjas were at the head of the army.
Senju Bōra crossed his arms and looked at the slope. Sarutobi Kaoto and Shimura Nesuke stood on either side of Senju Bōra as subordinates.
"Hagoromo clan leader!"
A smile appeared at the corner of Senju Bōra's mouth. "I didn't expect us to meet again so soon!"
Hagoromo Ryokawa's eyes widened "Stop talking nonsense, if you want to fight, we will fight. I want to see it. Are your three clans really good enough to defeat my Hagoromo clan?"
"Alright!"
Senju Bōra wasted no more nonsense and shouted "Let's go!"
Before he finished speaking, Senju Bōra rushed out directly, forming a seal with his hands: "Doton Flying Rock Spear!"
In an instant, a dozen hard rock spears emerged from the ground and shot towards the slope at high speed.
Hagoromo Ryokawa did not show any signs of weakness. As the clan leader, he ran up the slope and faced the clan leader-level strongman, Senju Bōra "Deiton Mud Palm!"
Puff, puff, puff…
In front of Hagoromo Ryokawa, a huge palm made of mud appeared to stop the dozen earth spears that instantly sank into the mud and fell silent.
Wow…
The mud palm softened and flowed to the ground.
Clang! ¡ ¡
The two ninjas held their swords and clashed ferociously, erupting with an astonishing amount of chakra.
"Kuchiyose Monkey King!!"
"Fūton: Wind Bullet!"
The battle broke out, and Sarutobi Kaoto and Shimura Nesuke rushed over.
"Sarutobi Kaoto! you will die!" The second elder, Hagoromo Kazuo, had a crazy look on his face and shouted directly towards Sarutobi Kaoto.
Rumble…
The two fought, and a huge explosion instantly spread from the two.
"Ranton: Laser Circus!"
On the battlefield, Zenitsu clasped his hands and shot several powerful light blue laser beams at Nesuke Shimura instantly.
Swish, swish, swish…
Three senior elite jounin jumped directly to support Zenitsu.
That's right, the remaining clan leader-level ninja, Shimura Nesuke, since there is no clan leader-level strongman to compete with him, can only be stopped by the elite jounin of the Hagoromo clan.
However, there is a huge gap in strength between elite jounin and someone at the level of a clan leader. These ninjas who will deal with Shimura Nesuke are, without a doubt, the best among the elite jounin.
However, due to their talent or age, they have not reached the level of a clan leader, so there is still a big gap between them and the level of a clan leader.
But with these people joining forces, they were barely able to contain the powerful clan leader.
Whoosh whoosh…
Countless wind bullets, wreaking havoc in the air.
Just when the laser beam launched by Zenitsu was about to contact the wind bullet, it suddenly dispersed and bypassed the wind bullets and directly hit Shimura Nesuke.
"That!"
Shimura Nesuke's pupils instantly shrank.
Boom——
The laser beam fell on him, and Shimura Nesuke was instantly thrown back by the explosion.
Ding ding ding ding…
The elite jonin group seemed to have known for a long time that the laser beam would miss Shimura Nesuke's wind bullet, so they held their swords to deflect the air bullets and went straight towards Shimura Nesuke.
"Hmph!"
After finishing launching the laser beam, Zenitsu held a long sword, snorted coldly, and with a flash of lightning on his body, he disappeared from the battlefield in an instant.
"Kill!"
The remaining elite jounin gave the order, and all the lower-ranking ninjas avoided the battle zone at the clan leader level and roared towards the position of the three coalition forces.
At this point in the war, defensive positions were meaningless. All the Hagoromo clan members, with the determination to die, rushed out of their positions and fought down the hill.
"Kill! Kill the Hagoromo clan!"
Compared to the roars of the Hagoromo clan ninjas, the three coalition forces coming down the slope seemed more excited.
Led by the elite Jonin, they rushed to kill them.
Among the dust.
The remaining wind attribute chakra in Nesuke Shimura dissipated.