On the other side, a Sand Village intelligence ninja arrived at the front lines with extreme speed.
"Lady Pakura."
"What is it?"
"This is a secret letter from Lord Kazekage to you."
Pakura took it, opened it, and her eyes immediately widened.
"Jinin Akebino, Raiga Kurosuki, Hozuki Gengetsu , and Kushimaru Kuriarare are all dead?"
"Has Husband's strength actually reached this level?"
One-on-one, Pakura feared none of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
However, Pakura also had to acknowledge the strength of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
Once facing multiple opponents, she would inevitably be the one in trouble.
And to kill them all in a one-against-many situation was even more difficult.
"Facing the Seven Ninja Swordsmen is different from facing the Beni-yama clan."
"The role the Yatagarasu can play will be much smaller."
But Pakura didn't think too much about it.
Because this was a good thing.
Rasa won, Jinin Akebino and the others died. For the Sand Village, this was a tremendous blessing.
Moreover, this gave the Sand army on the front lines an excellent opportunity.
Without Jinin Akebino and the others, the Mist army's strength was not only greatly reduced, but they were also leaderless. It would take more than a moment for the Mist Village to dispatch a new commander.
This time lag was the Sand army's opportunity.
"Pass my order: All forces attack!"
Pakura summoned the officers.
"Yes, Lady Pakura."
With Pakura's command, the entire converged Sand army immediately mobilized, advancing rapidly toward the direction of the Mist army in unison.
"Kill!"
Pakura was also on the front lines.
Thinking about the recent changes in the Mist Village, Pakura couldn't help but have a strange expression.
Originally, the absolute strength of the Sand Village was quite a bit weaker than the Mist Village.
The Third Kazekage suddenly disappeared, and the genius Sasori of the Red Sand also vanished.
At the beginning of the war, the Hidden Rock Village dealt a heavy blow to the Sand Village, plus Konoha's sneak attacks and harassment, as well as the Grass Village and others taking advantage at the borders, causing the Sand Village's situation to fall to rock bottom.
After the rumors about the Sand higher-ups wanting to sell her out spread, Pakura felt that perhaps letting the Mist Village withdraw its troops on such terms might also be a choice for the Sand Village.
But unexpectedly, as the fighting went on, before the Sand Village really did anything, the Mist Village stabbed itself several times in succession.
Fuguki Suikazan's defection.
The Kaguya clan's rebellion.
And now, Jinin Akebino and these four Seven Ninja Swordsmen, instead of staying properly in the Mist army to command the front-line battle, found the isolated Baki and tried to besiege him.
The result was that they were the ones isolated.
Before they even had time to kill Baki, Rasa arrived with support, and all four died at Rasa's hands.
"Now, the Mist Village has only two of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen left."
"One against two, I have absolutely no fear."
"In terms of ordinary ninja, the Mist Village no longer has an advantage. Now, in terms of elite ninja, the Mist Village also has no advantage. From today on, the advantage is with my Sand Village."
Pakura couldn't help but reveal a smile.
These years, the atmosphere in the Sand Village had been too oppressive.
And for Pakura, it was even more so.
The greater the power, the greater the responsibility.
Pakura felt as if she could constantly feel a heavy weight pressing on her shoulders, making her breathless. But now, that heavy weight suddenly disappeared.
"Jinin Akebino and the others were truly fools."
"Four people went to kill Baki, and they still failed."
"If even a few less had gone, the Mist Village's situation wouldn't have become this terrible now."
After establishing his position as commander, Yagura immediately issued the order for the Mist army to retreat.
However, the Sand army moved equally fast.
The Mist army was retreating, but they couldn't completely shake them off.
Some Mist ninja were caught up by the Sand army.
"Scorch Release: Extremely Steaming Murder!"
Pakura quickly swept past a Mist ninja, taking his life.
The next moment, the opponent turned into a shriveled corpse, eyes wide open, falling powerlessly to the ground.
The Sand ninja became excited, and their strength was even thirty percent stronger than usual.
Seeing this, Yagura gritted his teeth.
"I'll cover the rear, you guys go quickly!"
Immediately, Yagura turned around.
"Water Release: Water Mirror Technique!"
A mirror formed of water appeared, and inside the mirror, multiple Sand ninja appeared.
With Yagura disregarding consumption, the Sand army's pursuit momentum was slightly alleviated.
Until the Mist Village army fled into the territory of the Land of Fire.
An area where many Konoha ninja were already active.
Only then did Pakura order the Sand army to slow down.
Firstly, they were unfamiliar with the environment here and might fall into the Mist army's traps.
Secondly, this was already the Land of Fire. In recent times, the relationship between the Sand Village and Konoha couldn't just be called bad; it was extremely terrible. During the Third Kazekage's era, the Sand Village and Konoha had been hostile for a long time.
And Konoha had harbored ill intentions toward the Sand Village before.
Thirdly, the desert environment was suitable for Sand ninja to perform.
But the environment of the Land of Fire wasn't as suitable.
Yagura breathed a slight sigh of relief seeing that the Sand army didn't continue to charge up quickly.
"If only we could ally with Konoha and form an alliance."
"However, I estimate Konoha would only agree now if we offer that thing."
"That thing would bring a huge increase in strength to Konoha."
A look of hesitation appeared in Yagura's eyes.
"For the Mist Village, is it better to directly withdraw the Mist army back to the Mist Village? Or trade that thing with Konoha to form an alliance, but allow Konoha's strength to increase?"
"If I were the Mizukage, what would I do?"
Yagura fell into deep thought.
After a long while, Yagura gritted his teeth, looked in the direction of the Sand army, and a fierce look appeared in his eyes.
"The Mist Village has suffered such a huge loss at the hands of the Sand Village. If we retreat back to the Mist Village just like this, we'll probably become the laughingstock of the entire ninja world, and gain nothing."
"Then it's better to take a gamble."
"If Konoha's strength increases, the Hidden Rock Village will deal with them."
"It won't necessarily affect my Mist Village."
"As long as we crush the Sand Village, the Mist army can withdraw to the Mist Village. At that time, even if Konoha's ambition overflows and they want to threaten the Mist Village, it won't be that easy."
"After all, there is an extremely vast ocean between us."
"The Mist ninja's Water Release can be utilized to the extreme in the Land of Water."
"No one wants to fight Mist ninja on their home turf."
"Lord Mizukage should agree, right?"
This time Yagura didn't make the decision directly but handed the decision-making power to the Third Mizukage.
Soon, the Third Mizukage received the news from the front lines.
With one glance, he was so angry he spat blood.