Konoha Drunkard

808. Not enough sealing scrolls.

"..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi glanced at Koharu Utatane and nodded to Minato, tacitly agreeing with her words.

Indeed, a woman's heart is the most poisonous; even though the person is already dead, she still won't let them go...

Minato looked up at the sky helplessly, as if he could already see Hanzo of the Salamander being brutally tortured by Shisui.

While Hanzo of the Salamander was unkillable before the Edo Tensei was dispelled, it was precisely because he was unkillable that his fate was even more tragic. Watching Shisui summon the Hulk, carrying Deidara's various bombs, brutally beating him, and seeing the empty eyes of Deidara and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen—if they weren't being controlled and had no choice, they would have already committed seppuku in revenge…

.........

"Rasa! I'm here, please beat me with all your might!"

On the battlefield of Sunagakure, Shanks arrived before he did, charging in with overwhelming power, carrying a sack full of sealing scrolls. Before a group of Sunagakure underlings could be buried alive by the golden sand, he unleashed his power, swiftly and skillfully collecting the golden sand into his pocket...

"Kouha's Red-Haired Shanks! Konoha's Red-Haired Shanks has come to our rescue! That's great!"

"It's the Red-Haired Lord of Konoha! We never expected him to come and save us. This is wonderful!"

"..."

A group of Sand Ninja, who had been waiting to be buried alive by gold dust, had closed their eyes and resigned themselves to death. But then they heard Shanks's roar, and instead of the expected gold dust, they saw Shanks, who was slyly raking in the gold, towering above them, radiating a divine golden light, with a halo above his head...

"Lord Shanks, kill me! I can't control myself..."

Rasa was overjoyed to see Shanks appear, but his hand movements kept changing, and another wave of super-large gold sand crashed towards Shanks like a giant wave.

"Come on! Let the storm rage on, Rasa! Hold back, just do it! The harder the better!"

Shanks stared at the giant gold dust that dazzled his eyes, drooling uncontrollably. No wonder so many people wanted to fight Rasa back then; this guy was just too damn rich, a classic case of using money to bury people alive.

"...Great, finally something!"

The Sand Ninja, who had already fled far behind Maki, watched as the Konoha Shanks battled their former Kazekage. They patted their chests in relief; their former Kazekage was truly formidable. How come they hadn't noticed it before?

It randomly pelted all sorts of gold dust, combining offense and defense, making it far more powerful than Gaara's mud and sand.

"......"

Maki watched Shanks swimming in the sea of ​​gold dust, seemingly enjoying himself immensely as he scooped up gold. He couldn't help but feel incredibly strange. They were being chased all over the map by this gold dust, while this man was taking the opportunity to frantically scoop up gold... This was too much of a blow to his pride.

"The seals aren't enough..."

Shanks wasn't enjoying the sea of ​​gold sand as Maki had imagined. Instead, he was overwhelmed with worry looking at the endless expanse of gold sand. There was simply too much. The sealing scrolls he had brought were already filled with gold sand, but compared to the boundless sea of ​​gold, it was just a drop in the ocean. Shanks' heart was bleeding as he looked at so much gold sand. This was his only chance; if he missed it, there would be no more opportunities... Shanks' eyes darted around, and seeing a group of disheveled Sand Ninja, a brilliant idea struck him!

"Brothers from the Sand Village, your former leader is too powerful! Hand over all the sealing scrolls on your bodies to me, I'll protect you!"

Shanks used Observation Haki to make his voice reach the ears of every Sand Ninja.

"You want our sealing scroll? Can a sealing scroll withstand the Fourth Hokage's gold dust?"

"Yeah! Could the Red-Haired Shanks from Konoha be trying to steal our sealing scrolls? I heard he's greedy, so could he be taking this opportunity to steal our scrolls and sell them?"

"..."

The Sand Village ninja in the distance were dumbfounded when they heard Shanks' words. What did this Anti-Gold Sand have to do with sealing scrolls? Sealing scrolls were a rare commodity in their Sand Village, so expensive that they didn't care about the price. Living in Sand Village, they had never worried about money, mainly because they lacked resources. There were many things that money couldn't buy, and sealing scrolls were one of them.

"Never mind that, saving your life is the most important thing. If the red-haired man needs it, just give it to him. If it comes to a problem, we can always buy another one with more money!"

"Red-haired sir, this is mine, and then..."

There are still reasonable people out there. One of the Sand Ninja guys took out his sealing scroll and then snatched the scroll from his companion and headed towards Shanks.

"Haha, thanks a lot, young man. Everyone gets a share, I'll be waiting for you later!"

Shanks caught the sealing scroll that the Sand Ninja had just thrown at him and laughed loudly.

"You are welcome!"

The Sand Ninja was overjoyed to hear that the legendary figure had thanked him. Although he didn't know what the other person meant by "everyone who sees it gets a share," he still looked around at his companions with pride. "See? Even the Konoha Shanks are thanking me."

"Quick, quick! Throw the sealing scroll over there!"

Once there was a first one, there was a second and a third, and then Sand Ninja kept throwing their sealing scrolls at Shanks.

"Lord Maki, do you have a sealing scroll? Quickly, throw it to Lord Red-Haired..."

After throwing away his own sealing scroll, Maki's henchman asked Maki a question.

"........"

Maki looked up at the sky speechlessly. "Are you all blind? That bastard is taking advantage of the situation to make a fortune, he doesn't seem to be struggling at all..."

However, he didn't say it out loud. The fact that the person was able to make a fortune in the former big boss's gold mine was due to their own skill. If it were someone else, they would have been crushed by the gold dust long ago.

"...Lord Fengying, I wonder if your village still has your father's cells...?"

Inside the Allied Forces headquarters, Hiruzen Sarutobi watched Shanks rake in money with envy. "That bastard is shameless!" he thought. "Look at the other battlefields, everyone's fighting to the death. Onoki even had his last few hairs plucked by the Third Raikage, while this guy's making a fortune! And he didn't even have enough sealing scrolls he brought; he had to borrow from the Sand Village. It's absolutely outrageous!" However, "This is indeed a good way to make money," Hiruzen Sarutobi thought, his eyes darting around as he spoke to Gaara beside him.

"I don't know, maybe there is. I'll go back and look for it after the war. I wonder if the Third Hokage wanted to seal my father's cells?"

Gaara, who had been verbally abused by Naruto, was still rather naive and completely failed to grasp Hiruzen Sarutobi's tactics. He simply believed that Hiruzen Sarutobi needed his father's cells to prevent someone from using the Impure World Reincarnation technique to bring his father back to life and cause trouble again.

"Yes, Lord Fengying has also witnessed the immense power of this forbidden technique. To prevent the world from being destroyed, I suggest sealing away the corpses or cells of those powerful individuals who have died. This way, those heroes will no longer be disturbed."

Hiruzen Sarutobi stared at the ceiling with a sorrowful expression, blinking hard as if trying to hold back some tears.

809. Onoki: Damn it, wasn't the plan to attack the left flank?

"Sigh! The Third Hokage was amazing. Don't worry, after the great battle is over, I'll definitely go back and search for him properly."

Gaara was completely captivated by Hiruzen Sarutobi's acting skills. The people of Konoha are truly amazing; no wonder they were able to train Naruto so well...

"..."

Several high-ranking members of Konoha looked at Gaara, who was now crippled after being tricked by Hiruzen Sarutobi, with strange expressions. They wondered how this young man had become the Kazekage and survived until now, unable to see through such a simple trick...

........

"Oonoki, you red-nosed bastard, hurry up and find a way to kill me!"

On the battlefield in Kumogakure, the Third Raikage chased after Onoki, who was flying in the sky and had no hair on his head, while shouting.

Every now and then, he would jump up and throw a punch at Onoki.

"Damn it! Stop yelling! I'm trying to figure something out!"

Onoki deftly dodged the Third Raikage's incoming fist and said with a dark face.

How could he refuse someone who wanted to die? After all, this foul-mouthed bastard was killed because of him.

The problem is that, just as Orochimaru said, as long as someone maintains the forbidden technique, the resurrected person cannot die. When he came over, he didn't hold back with the Third Raikage. Taking advantage of his ability to fly, he kept bombarding the Third Raikage with Dust Release. The Third Raikage didn't even bother to dodge his Dust Release and was indeed hit and turned into dust. However, after only a few seconds, the Third Raikage recovered and fought back desperately.

If he were a decade or two younger, Onoki would never have been so badly humiliated by the Third Raikage. Don't be fooled by the power of Dust Release—the only Kekkei Tota in the ninja world—it consumes a lot of chakra. He was already quite old; after just two or three Dust Release techniques, his chakra was nearly depleted. If he hadn't been experienced enough to conserve some chakra for flying, it wouldn't have been just a matter of having his hair plucked out. To die at the hands of someone he had previously betrayed would have made him a laughingstock for decades, mocked by that old bastard Hiruzen Sarutobi...

"Hurry up and think about it! It's coming, this time I'm going to use a penetrating attack on your left flank!"

The Third Raikage, his body crackling with lightning, charged towards Onoki in the air...

Onoki's heart tightened upon hearing the Third Raikage's words. This was the Third Raikage's signature technique, the strongest spear; if he couldn't dodge it, he would be dead. Without thinking twice, he quickly dodged to the right as the Raikage charged forward.

"what!!!!"

"Fuck you! Didn't you say we were going to attack the left flank?!"

Onoki, clutching his right leg pierced by a stabbing hand, flew backward as fast as he could, his face contorted with pain. "Damn bastard! How come I never realized this bastard could lie? Where is the trust between people?" He looked at the spot where he had been stabbed, cold sweat pouring down his back. "My right inner thigh! It was so close!"

"I freaking don't know either! I was going to attack your left flank, but I couldn't control myself!"

The Third Raikage was secretly pleased, but now was not the time to be. He had already taken down countless of his Cloud Village subordinates this way. If Onoki couldn't withstand him either, who knew how many more of his Cloud Village subordinates would be forcibly taken down by him.

"Lord Tsuchidai, we need to find a way to help Onoki. If Onoki can't hold off the Raikage, we're doomed."

Among the Cloud Ninja underlings watching the battle from afar, Darui, the captain of the Cloud Ninja Force and the Fourth Raikage's bodyguard captain, looked at their Third Raikage with tears in his eyes and said to an elderly Cloud Ninja beside him.

His most revered hero was the Third Raikage. Watching his idol slaughter the very men the Third Raikage had sworn to protect, he knew how much the Third Raikage must be weeping inside. This was their strongest Raikage in history, a hero who fought against thousands for his men, and now even Onoki was barely holding him off. He truly didn't want to see their hero suffer such pain again. But he was no match for the Third Raikage. His Storm Release technique was inherited from the Raikage, and he was nearly defeated in a single exchange. He could only turn to the elders who had served the Third Raikage for advice.

"Sigh... Although Lord Raikage is not as powerful as he was in life, his strength is still beyond the reach of ordinary people. But as you just saw, he was able to recover even from Onoki's Dust Release... Unless Konoha's Shanks is here, no one can stop Lord Raikage. Ordinary people simply cannot withstand Lord Raikage's attacks."

Tsuchida looked at his former boss chasing after Onoki and shook his head. At this moment, only Konoha's Shanks, who was once known as one of the two toughest ninjas in the world along with his former boss, could stop him.

"Isn't the Red-Haired Shanks from Konoha fighting on the battlefield near Sunagakure? What are we going to do now..."

Darui frantically scratched his head.

"There's no other way. We can only hope that Onoki can hold out until Konoha's Shanks has dealt with Sunagakure before coming over."

Tu Tai sighed and said.

.........

"Lord Hokage, please tell Lord Shanks that our Raikage is willing to pay a high price to have him quickly deal with the Fourth Kazekage so he can come to our rescue. Lord Tsuchikage is about to collapse!"

At the Allied Forces headquarters, Mabui watched the battle on the Cloud Village side, then glanced at Shanks who was making a fortune on the Sunagakure battlefield, and had no choice but to speak to Minato.

Her thoughts were the same as Tsuchikage's. Aside from Shanks, there was truly no one in the entire ninja world who could withstand the Third Raikage's speed, strength, and defense without dying. If things continued like this, when Onoki couldn't hold on any longer, their Cloud Ninja would be truly doomed. The Third Raikage was most famous for his attack and defense, but that didn't mean he wasn't fast. In Lightning Release mode, speed was never slow; it was just that the Third Raikage's attack and defense were a level above his speed.

At the Third Raikage's speed, those Cloud Ninja underlings wouldn't even have a chance to escape.

"Don't worry, I'll inform the teacher right away."

Minato glanced at Shanks, who was overjoyed in Sunagakure, and thought it was about time; Shanks's inventory was overflowing with sealing scrolls. There was no room left, so it was best to send him to support Onoki. Onoki was truly in a sorry state; if things continued like this, he might be eliminated before the final battle even began...

"Orochimaru, you and Tsunade go deal with the Gold and Silver Brothers. Nawaki's side is about to collapse too."

Hiruzen Sarutobi pointed to the rope tree on the big screen, which was playing hide-and-seek with the Kinkaku and Ginkaku brothers.

Konoha's forces were too numerous, so they split into several routes to intercept the White Zetsu army. As the current head of the Senju clan, Nawaki, possessing several divine weapons, naturally led a separate force. Initially, relying on his divine weapons and the swordsmanship style developed for him by Tobirama Senju, he was indeed invincible. However, later, when faced with a pincer attack from the Gold and Silver Brothers, who also possessed divine weapons, Nawaki became hesitant. Aside from his Seven Star Sword, his other divine weapons were clearly not on the same level as the Gold and Silver Brothers'...

810. Wood Release: Sage Art - Sister, save me!

"You brat, don't you dare run away!"

On one of Konoha's front lines, a blond-haired man and a white-haired man were chasing Nawaki all over the map, carrying strange-looking creatures on their hands. Behind them, a group of Konoha ninjas were already engaged in battle with the White Zetsu army, so they couldn't spare any time to come to his aid.

"Old man, if you've got the guts, don't chase after us! We've been dead for decades, what's the point of showing up again!"

Nawaki spat as he ran backward. As a worthy member of the Konoha ninja world, he could lose a fight, but he would win a verbal battle. Especially since behind him were two old guys who had been dead for decades.

"Damn you little brat, you dare to call yourself a member of the Senju clan? You've completely disgraced the Senju clan!"

Golden Horn and Silver Horn were furious at Rope Tree's words. This brat was nothing like the Thousand Hands Clan members they knew before. Those Thousand Hands Clan members always fought head-on, but this brat was too damn sneaky. He would clash with their weapons and immediately turn and run away without any hesitation. When they tried to turn back to fight monsters, this brat would run over and poke them from a distance with his fire poker that could grow bigger and longer. After that, he would watch from a distance. If they continued to fight minions, he would poke them again. And when they chased after him, this brat would slip away as fast as he could. He was so despicable.