The Second Raikage roared again and charged forward, but the speed of his attack was far inferior to before.
Renya's Mangekyō Sharingan easily captured the trajectory of his attack.
This time, Renya did not choose to block with his tachi or retreat to dodge.
He lowered his body slightly, shifting his center of gravity downward. At the instant the Raikage's heavy punch was about to land, he suddenly twisted sideways to avoid the fist, while at the same time his right leg coiled with power and lashed out like a whip kick.
Striking after but arriving first, the kick slammed viciously into the Second Raikage's abdomen.
Boom!
A dull, heavy impact echoed out.
The Second Raikage only felt an immense force erupt from his abdomen. The Lightning Release chakra protecting his body was actually kicked apart by that single blow!
His eyes bulged as his massive body flew backward uncontrollably like a kite with its string cut, and he even spat out a mouthful of blood.
Not far along his flight path, the acting Mizukage was forming hand seals, attempting to unleash a powerful Water Release ninjutsu at Renya.
The acting Mizukage's combat strength was only at the elite jōnin level. He did not dare to engage Renya in close combat like the Raikage.
He could only use long-range ninjutsu to interfere, creating opportunities for the Raikage and the Tsuchikage to attack.
The acting Mizukage, who was in the middle of forming seals, never expected the Raikage to be sent flying straight toward him.
"Water Release: Water—"
Before the seals were completed, he saw in horror the Second Raikage's huge body hurtling toward him like a cannonball.
"What…?!"
At this moment, it was already too late to dodge.
Rumble!
The two slammed into each other violently, and the acting Mizukage's ninjutsu was forcibly interrupted.
Then he was struck by the Raikage's heavy body, and the two of them rolled more than ten meters through the mud, utterly disheveled.
For a while, neither of them could even get back up.
With just a single kick, two people temporarily lost their combat capability.
Renya slowly withdrew his leg, straightened his body, and coldly watched the scene.
His gaze turned toward Ōnoki in the air.
"The schemes and tricks you're so proud of are fragile in the face of absolute strength."
Even without using the Flying Thunder God Technique, he was still confident he could defeat the three of them.
With the physical body that someone had modified for him, almost no one could outlast him in a battle of attrition.
Ōnoki looked at the two allies who had instantly collapsed below, then felt the meager amount of chakra left within his own body.
A chill rose from the bottom of his heart.
He stared at Uchiha Renya below, whose chakra was still surging and whose eyes were icy cold.
For the first time, he clearly felt the threat of death.
"Are those Uchiha guys… all monsters?"
Renya raised his hand, pointing at Ōnoki, and also at the Raikage and the Mizukage struggling in the distance, trying to get back up.
His voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached the ears of all three present.
Like the whisper of the Grim Reaper.
"The game is over."
"Since your chakra is already exhausted…"
"Then you can go die."
The war had been going on for nearly two months now. It had dragged on a bit too long.
Especially with the damned environment of the Land of Rain—raining all day, every day.
You could barely see the sun at all.
Once these three were dealt with, the war could basically be declared a victory.
Then he could go back to the village and bask in the sunlight.
As his words fell, a terrifying killing intent spread out from Renya's body as if it were tangible.
"Cough… damn it…"
The Second Raikage struggled to get up from the ground, but the intense pain in his abdomen made him stagger and drop back to his knees.
The acting Mizukage, on the other hand, had not suffered too much physical damage. He had merely expended too much chakra, leaving his face somewhat pale.
Ōnoki looked at the miserable state of his two allies, then at Renya, whose killing intent was boiling over. His heart sank to the depths.
"Tsuchikage-sama, quickly open the barrier!" the acting Mizukage urgently reminded him.
If they did not open the barrier and let them out now, they would all die here any second.
He did not want to die!
"Open the barrier!" Ōnoki gritted his teeth and finally shouted to the sealing ninjas outside the barrier.
The Iwagakure sealing ninjas, seeing this, immediately stopped supplying chakra.
However, the barrier would not disappear instantly—it needed to wait for the energy to dissipate.
That would take several minutes.
And that bit of time was more than enough for Renya to slaughter the three of them.
Renya used the Body Flicker Technique, his figure turning into a streak of afterimage.
His target was the weakest one in the field—the Second Raikage. You always pick the softest persimmon to squeeze.
"Raikage, be careful!"
Ōnoki's eyes split open in fury as he formed seals with both hands.
"Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall!"
A thin earthen wall rose up in front of the Raikage.
Renya's blade momentum did not slow in the slightest. With a single slash, he shattered the hastily formed earth wall!
A flash of blade light—straight for the Raikage's head.
"Bastard! Don't underestimate the Raikage!"
Kneeling on the ground, the Second Raikage burst out with his last reserves of strength. Lightning flared along his arm as he threw a punch at Renya's tachi.
Clang! Splat!
The Raikage's fist collided with the tachi, but his power was already far inferior to before.
The tachi shattered the lightning on his arm and embedded deeply into his shoulder blade, blood spraying everywhere!
"Raikage!" Ōnoki and the Mizukage cried out in unison.
Even with poison invading the Raikage's body, Renya had no intention of holding back at all.
Gripping the blade, he jerked it upward violently. From the shoulder blade, the edge slid upward to the Raikage's neck.
Crack!
A chilling, bone-grinding sound rang out.
The Second Raikage's head separated from his body in an instant, rolling into the mud. Blood gushed from the severed neck, quickly dyeing the surrounding ground red.
That once-mighty body twitched violently a few times, then fell completely still.
The acting Mizukage, seeing this scene, was utterly terrified.
The Raikage's still-warm blood splattered across his horrified face. His mind went completely blank, and he stood there dumbfounded.
He was just an acting Mizukage who had been appointed only a few days ago—why did he have to take part in such a high-intensity battle?!
Even someone as powerful as the Raikage had been killed just like that.
Could he really survive?
If he had known earlier, he would have surrendered to Konoha outright.
Right—surrender!
"Poison Master, I sur—"
The acting Mizukage reacted immediately, trying to surrender to Renya.
But before he could finish speaking, he saw a sharp tachi slashing toward him.
"Splat!"
The blade swept across his neck. His field of vision rose upward, and then he saw his own headless body.
Then, there was nothing after that.
Thus, the Mizukage who had taken office only a couple of days earlier gloriously died on the battlefield.
"Uchiha Renya, you can't kill me!"
Seeing Renya so cleanly and decisively kill the two of them, Ōnoki felt his entire body go numb.
How had this guy's killing intent become so heavy?!
By all logic, a Kage was the most important resource of a village. Wouldn't it be better to capture them and demand money from their villages?
Back then, when they were captured during the attack on the Land of Whirlpools, didn't they all live just fine?
This time, however, Renya had no intention of taking prisoners.
What a joke!
After dealing with the two of them, Renya's crimson eyes fixed on Ōnoki in midair, whose expression was full of panic.
"Not killing you—am I supposed to wait until New Year?"
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