"Tsunade-sama, be careful!"
Following a gentle voice with a hint of urgency, a short-haired girl wearing a conservative black-gray dress and trousers suddenly pulled her companion beside her and evaded them forward.
next moment!
Along with the violent roar, a huge altar with a gate suddenly rose from the ground.
The lifelike Suzaku statue stands on the gate, with its huge wings spread out as if it is about to pounce forward. The crimson 'zhu' brand below exudes an extremely strange chakra.
Uh-huh!
As the gate was completely raised, the colorful chakra barrier spread instantly, encompassing the entire Konoha in just an instant.
"These guys..."
Somewhat depressed, she pushed away the hands of the girl next to her. After looking at the rising door behind her, a beautiful mature woman with an extremely plump body spat in displeasure.
"I knew I shouldn't come back this time. The situation in the village is even more troublesome than what Jiraiya said!"
"Tsunade-sama!"
Unlike Tsunade, who was still calm, Shizune, who was holding a piglet with a pearl necklace, was still very nervous.
Not long ago, Mingming lamented that Konoha was much more prosperous than before. There was no sign of disorder in the comings and goings of people in the village, and there was no such urgent sense of crisis as the original intelligence indicated.
only.
This feeling of emotion had just arisen, but the next moment there seemed to be such a loud attack.
They dared to launch such a large-scale barrier ninjutsu directly against Konoha Village. It was obvious that they had encountered something big!
Boom!
Silence was restored with a swift hand knife, which also rescued the Dou Dou in the opponent's arms from the predicament of being strangled to death.
"Why panic!"
Tsunade flipped up her long, messy light yellow hair, but a hint of disdain flashed in her bright brown eyes.
A giant barrier spell of this magnitude is truly astonishing!
Without a special physique and enough training and sacrifice, there is obviously no way to display such a powerful sealing barrier.
but.
For the most powerful ninja village in the world, this level of barrier is obviously not enough...
"The real trouble is the identity of those people!"
"The Twelve Guardian Ninja Warriors?"
Baptized by Tsunade's awakening technique, Kato Shizune calmed down from the panic at this moment, and at the same time quickly observed the movements outside Konoha Village.
"More trouble than them!"
A hint of nose showed on Tsunade's face, but there was a hint of uneasiness deep in her eyes.
The twelve guardian ninjas are naturally nothing. Although they are also elites carefully selected by the Daimyos of the Land of Fire across the country, the strongest power of ninjas is still concentrated in the five major ninja villages.
The key is still the attitude of the Fire Nation and its famous names!
Recalling that after the death of his grandfather, Senju Hashirama, the Fire Nation daimyo's attitude towards Konoha Village became a bit playful.
Especially after the previous Daimyo of the Fire Country died and the new Daimyo succeeded, the Fire Country's attitude towards the Leaf Village became even worse.
Card task quota! Card financial expenses!
Later, he blatantly wanted to interfere with the selection of the Hokage of Konoha Village!
If it weren't for the fact that the Fire Country controlled the economic lifeline of Konoha Village, and that Sarutobi Hiruzen reached some kind of agreement with the daimyo after he succeeded to the throne, these twelve guardian ninjas would not dare to be so bold now.
only!
"It's really ugly..."
As the princess of the Senju clan, this status was truly at its peak when Konoha was just established, and it was more noble than the descendants of the Daimyo.
But now Konoha has reached the point where people are blatantly bullying them, but they can only pretend to play match-fixing with the opponent?
A sarcastic smile appeared on Tsunade's face, and she looked towards an ANBU ninja wearing an owl mask outside the gate of Konoha Village.
"We are absolutely not allowed to harm the daimyo, just suppress those guardian ninjas!"
"Yes, sir!"
After receiving the order from the transmitter, the owl ANBU suddenly turned around and came behind Kamizuki Izumo in a blink of an eye, giving orders to the chuunin who was responsible for guarding the gate of Konoha and organizing the response to the raid.
"My Lord, I have an order not to harm their lives!"
"this……"
Kamizuki Izumo's face was full of unwillingness, but he did not have the courage to disobey the order, and then began to use code words to quickly contact the ninja team that came to deal with the special incident.
"Now I will be in command. We will all switch to long-range attacks. We are not allowed to use detonating charms, nor are we allowed to directly hit the enemy. Just confine them to the outside of the village!"
"What!"
The ninja team that received the order was a little helpless at the moment. Looking at the arrogant twelve guardian ninjas at the entrance of the village, their eyes were full of unwillingness.
"Obey the order!"
Several older ninjas also guessed something at this moment. After comforting their companions, they took out their kunai and started acting.
This feeble resistance and feeble offensive also made the twelve guardian ninjas headed by Kazuma laugh even more arrogantly.
"Konoha like this is not worthy of the responsibility of guarding the Fire Country. As long as we are by the Daimyo's side, it is enough. We will let the Fire Country have the only jade."
"This is my Jade Will!"
Kazuma laughed crazily in the distance, and from time to time used kunai to deflect the weak hidden weapons that were coming. It was only when he faced several Konoha ninjas who used kunai to fight at close range that he seemed a little more serious.
All of a sudden!
A wonderful ninja offensive and defensive battle was instantly displayed outside the door of Konoha. The roar of explosions and the smoke and dust were extremely intense.
"Let's go, Shizune!"
At this moment, Tsunade obviously had no interest in watching the battle. A tea-green long gown with black edges was fluttering, and then she turned around and walked into Konoha Village.
"Tsunade-sama, don't we care?"
Kato Shizune was a little confused, but looking at Tsunade's stride, she quickly followed.
"Wait a moment!"
However, before Tsunade and Kato Shizune took a few steps, and were about to cross the gate of Konoha Village, a somewhat lazy voice suddenly called them.
Um!
What puzzled both Tsunade and Kato Shizune was that it was not the ninja responsible for guarding the village entrance who stopped them, but an old civilian sitting at a small wooden table.
The old man was standing on the right side in front of them. His right hand was wrapped with a red cloth with the word "tax" written on it. He was staring at them with a vigilant expression.
Why are there still civilians here who haven't taken refuge in accordance with the regulations?
"What do you want to do?"
"Don't get me wrong, old man, we are not the same as those people outside!"
Kato Shizune quickly stepped forward to explain, and seeing the old man alone in such a dangerous place, he couldn't help but add another sentence.
"It's very dangerous here now. Old man, you'd better go and take shelter!"
"Escape?"
The old civilian looked at Kato Shizune in confusion, and then glanced at the bustling scene outside the village. Finally, he sat calmly and knocked on the wooden plaque in front of the table.
"The murders and arson happening outside have nothing to do with me, but there is only one thing in the village that must not be violated!"
The old civilian man had a hint of disdain in his eyes, and then he added suddenly.
"You have to pay a tax to enter the village, which is ten taels per person!"
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(End of chapter)
