60: Chapter 60 The Siege of DanzoBeneath the leaves, deep within the roots.
On the cold stone wall, the flickering lamplight elongated the shadows, making them appear distorted and menacing.
Danzo leaned against the cold wall, his one eye fixed on the subordinates who had once been absolutely loyal to him and were now subtly surrounding him.
Yamanaka Fu, Aburame Torune, Sai.these elites whom he had personally cultivated and imbued with the "Seal of the Root of Tongue Disaster" were now like cold war machines, radiating the same killing intent directed at him.
"You.have been controlled?Is it an illusion?Or." Danzo's voice was hoarse.He couldn't understand why the Seal of the Tongue's Root of Calamity had failed!
His response was the synchronized sound of kunai being drawn from their sheaths.
The cold, icy light illuminated the dimly lit secret room.
"Eliminate the target, Danzo Shimura."
Several Root members simultaneously slapped the ground with both hands!
"Barrier Technique: Four Purple Flame Array!"
A wall of purple flames rose instantly, completely sealing off the area and isolating it from the outside world.The intense heat caused the air to distort and vaporize.
"Good, good, the formation is all ready."
"Clear?With your abilities?" Danzo laughed in fury, suddenly straightening his body and unleashing a powerful burst of chakra.
The battle was about to begin; there were no shouts, no hesitation, only the purest efficiency of killing.
The three of them worked together seamlessly, raining down kunai, shuriken, and explosive tags on Danzo, sealing off all his escape routes.
"Wind Release: Vacuum Giant Ball!" Danzo was, after all, a veteran ninja with rich combat experience.He instantly formed hand seals and spat out several high-pressure wind balls from his mouth, blasting the ninja tools and explosive tags that were coming straight at him into the air.
The booming explosions echoed within the barrier, sending shockwaves surging.
But the attacks from the Root members came like a tidal wave, one wave after another.Three members emerged from the shadows like ghosts, their kunai aimed straight at Danzo's vitals, their coordination impeccable.
Danzo roared, his chakra erupting as he forcefully repelled the kunai that was close at him, but his arm was slashed open and bleeding.
A fierce glint flashed in his eyes; he knew he could no longer hold back.
"Spiritual communication!"
Without hesitation, he bit his thumb and slapped the ground.
A gigantic dream-eating beast, the Baku, roared as it appeared, attempting to break the barrier and respond to the outside world with its powerful wind-escape and devouring abilities.
However, it seems that the Root organization had a plan for this.
Several Root members immediately changed their hand seals and activated their chakra.
"Wind Release: Pressure Damage!"
Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire!
The fiery storm formed by the combined ninjutsu did not directly attack the Baku, but rather cleverly guided and compressed it, causing it to collide and cancel out the Baku's own wind-style attacks, greatly limiting its range of movement.
At the same time, several other members swung out iron chains bearing sealing runes, which, like spider silk, wrapped around the Dream Eater's limbs.
The dream-eating tapir roared angrily and struggled, but it was unable to break free from the highly targeted restraints.
The members of the Root unit coordinated perfectly, as if they had rehearsed it countless times.In order to achieve their goal, they were indifferent to the casualties of their comrades and the counterattacks of the summoned beasts.
Someone deliberately used their body to block Danzo's Wind Release attack, just to create a fraction of a second of opening for their comrade to attack!"Pfft!" A kunai tore through Danzo's robes, leaving a trail of blood.
Some people were unable to dodge in time and were struck by the Baku's claws, half of their bodies were mangled and bloody, but they did not utter a sound.In the instant they were knocked away, they threw out their last kunai with an explosive tag.
Danzo's face turned ashen.He had never imagined that the killing weapon he had personally crafted would one day be used so perfectly and without any emotion against him!
Seeing his summoned beasts being restrained and himself surrounded, Danzo's eyes flashed with a ruthless and resolute look.
He ripped off the bandage on his right arm, revealing an arm covered in dense, creepy Sharingan eyes!
"Izanagi!"
He will use this forbidden technique that rewrites reality to turn the tide!As long as the technique is effective for a certain period of time, he can turn all unfavorable factors, including death, into a dream!
However, just as he was about to successfully activate Izanagi, the line between reality and dream began to blur.
A cold, evil mental interference, seemingly from the depths of the underworld, struck his pupil power node that was trying to distort reality with perfect precision, like an invisible hammer!
Buzz!
Danzo felt a tremor in his soul, and a tearing pain came from the Sharingan on his right arm that had just closed.Izanagi, which should have been activated smoothly, was like a bomb whose fuse had been forcibly cut and went silent!
"How is this possible?" Danzo looked up in horror.
In the shadows at the top of the barrier, an almost completely transparent soul, emitting a faint scarlet glow, floated indifferently in mid-air like a high and mighty deity.
"Trying to cheat?Did you ask the director?"
Naruto's spirit form seemed to curl a mocking smile at the corner of its mouth, silently.
Danzo instantly understood!The mastermind behind Root's loss of control was indeed him!A chilling hatred swept over him.This Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, whom he had once looked down upon the most, had unknowingly climbed over his head.
With Izanagi ineffective, Danzo's greatest trump card has been rendered useless!
The poisonous insects that were taking the root of the oil woman swarmed up at a rapid speed!
The mental impact of the mountain wind came one after another!
The other Root ninjas launched suicidal attacks without fear of death, using their lives to deplete Danzo's chakra and stamina, and fill every possible opening in his defenses!
Inside the barrier, explosions, the shrill whistles of wind-escape techniques, the buzzing of poisonous insects, and the sounds of flesh being torn apart were incessant.
Danzo struggled desperately, like a beast caught in a spider's web.
A Root ninja had his throat slit by his Wind Release technique, blood spurting out, but before falling, he still managed to stab a kunai into his thigh.
The poisonous insects from Aburame Torune finally broke through his defenses and touched his skin.The poison spread, causing half of his body to become paralyzed.
The mental shock from the mountain wind repeatedly interfered with his judgment.
Sai's fake smile occasionally appeared in his blind spot.It appeared in a flash, leaving behind numerous scars.
Root, this cold war machine, displayed chilling efficiency and indifference to death in order to carry out the final order to "eliminate Danzo".
They don't care about sacrifices, they only care about the results.
Despair, like a cold, venomous snake, devoured Danzo.
He staggered, his vision beginning to blur.
Images of his entire life flashed through his mind—his rivalry with Hiruzen, the initial motivation for establishing Root, the numerous conspiracies, the massacre of the Uchiha, his greed for the Sharingan, his obsession with the Hokage position…
He pursued power and authority his entire life, believing himself to be the necessary darkness of Konoha, the chess player who controlled everything.
In the end, he lost the trust of his friends, the loyalty of his subordinates, and his accumulated wealth.Now, he is even about to lose his life in the cage he built himself, like a stray dog.
Failure, failure, and more failure!Failure was the defining characteristic of Danzo Shimura's entire life!
"Hehe.haha.hahaha."
Danzo let out a hoarse and manic laugh, "I.I, Shimura Danzo.for Konoha." he murmured to himself, trying to find a final footnote to his life.
Naruto's spirit slowly descended, hovering in front of him, and a cold, sarcastic voice pierced Danzo's mind: "Heh, you're only doing this for yourself.Konoha is just a fig leaf to cover your ambition and desires."
Danzo trembled as he tore off the bandage from his right eye, attempting a final genjutsu counterattack against Naruto's spirit.
However, a dark chain moved even faster!
Sai's Super Beast Imitation Drawing - Lock!
The pitch-black chains instantly wrapped around him and twisted violently!
Click!
The sound of the arm bone cracking was clearly audible.
At the same time, the poisonous insects of Aburame Torune completely covered his entire body, and the nano-poisonous insects frantically devoured his life force.
Danzo froze, the light in his eyes dimmed rapidly, and he slowly knelt down, finally collapsing to the ground, lifeless.
The base of the plant fell into a deathly silence.
The surviving Root members silently put away their weapons and began cleaning up the battlefield and dealing with the bodies of their comrades.
Their movements remained precise and efficient, as if the brutal encirclement and attack just moments before was merely a routine training exercise.
Sai dropped his fake smile, and something seemed to be subtly changing deep within his eyes.
Naruto's soul, suspended in mid-air, glanced indifferently at Danzo's lifeless corpse, swayed slightly, and quietly dissipated.
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