Chapter 1005

In the snowfield near Snow Wind Mountain.

*Crunch, crunch... *

A man ran quickly on the snow, his steps staggering, leaving two trails of footprints and a trail of blood.

One of the man's eyes had been gouged out, leaving a black and red mess in the socket. He had over a dozen black swords and blades stuck in his body, all of which had pierced through him.

"Huff, huff..."

The man's breathing sounded like a broken bellows; his lung lobes had been pierced.

With a *thud*, the man collapsed into the snow, and his blood quickly stained the surrounding snow red.

*Crunch, crunch... *

Another set of footsteps approached.

"Don't, don't come over."

The man struggled to crawl up, but after trying for a long time, he only managed to kneel on the ground.

"You are a Tier 3 contractor, after all; you should have some dignity."

A female voice came. There was a hint of a smile in the voice, and the woman's thin lips curled up; her red lips were very sexy.

Snow fluttered as a woman wearing backless leather clothing stood on the snow. The woman's short black hair hung over her neck, and her shimmering eyes were very bright, like black jewels. Combined with her fair skin, this woman gave people a kind of eerie beauty—yes, eerie.

"Let me go, I beg you. We've never even met; why kill me? Give me a reason. Even a conflict of interest would be understandable, but we have no conflict of interest at all."

The man pierced by over a dozen blades knelt on the ground. He had actually thought about the fact that he would die one day, but he couldn't accept this way of dying—it was too stifling. From beginning to end, he didn't even know the reason why this woman wanted to kill him.

The man's brain began to recall the scene from ten minutes ago. His adventure group was preparing to participate in the Five Kage Summit event. Although the adventure group he was in only had 23 people, they were all "elites"—at least, that's what the man thought.

The elite team members in the man's heart had been killed off in just seven minutes, and only one person had escaped here. The enemy was a woman wearing black backless leather clothing with beautiful eyes—eyes that looked just like black jewels.

"A reason?"

The black-eyed woman squatted down, her long nails pressing against the man's forehead.

"Bark like a dog. If you bark like one, I'll let you go."

The man was stunned, then realized he had encountered a mentally unstable contractor. After hesitating for a moment:

"Woof~?"

"Not like one at all."

The black-eyed woman's nails gradually sank into the man's forehead.

"You lunatic!"

The man suddenly exploded and lunged at the black-eyed woman. The black-eyed woman didn't move.

The man had already exhausted his strength and collapsed into the snow. The black-eyed woman reached out to support the man's chin, her movements very gentle. Her index finger and thumb stretched forward, reaching toward the man's remaining eye.

"Ah!!"

After the scream, the man clutched his eye and twitched on the ground, blood gushing out from between his fingers.

"That's much prettier. You asked me for a reason earlier—does killing need a reason? My teammates, whom I could entrust my life to, were killed off by others for no reason at all. So, killing doesn't need a reason."

"You... you... lunatic."

"Hmm, thanks for the compliment. Any last words?"

"You won't have a good death."

"Hmm, thanks for the blessing. Goodbye."

The black-eyed woman's sharp nails pierced the man's neck, and the man quickly lost his breath.

"Cleaning up is almost done. What should I do next? A hero saving a beauty? That person doesn't seem like the type to do something as stupid as a hero saving a beauty. Seduction? My clean body should be fine. Hmm, seduction plus inducement."

The black-eyed woman wiped the blood off her hands and looked up at the sky. White snow drifted down slowly, landing on her cheeks and turning into water droplets.

"My teammates, whom I could entrust my life to, wait for me in heaven. I will use every method to take revenge on him. If I can become a teammate he trusts, that would be best. When he dies, he will also be able to taste the feeling of being betrayed by others."

The black-eyed woman walked toward the distance. On her exposed fair back, a red spider lily was tattooed. The lines of the spider lily were very fine, appearing very delicate and very suitable for this woman's temperament.

The black-eyed woman was an avenger. To successfully take revenge, she could pay anything—her body, Paradise Coins, equipment; these didn't matter.

Inside the sixth floor of the tower.

*Boom! *

After a roar, the Mizukage Mei Terumi walked out from the smoke and dust.

"What a handsome young man."

Mei Terumi stretched out her finger to wipe the lava from the corner of her mouth. At this moment, within ten meters around her, it was covered in large patches of lava. Sasuke had already been buried under the lava, his life or death unknown.

"It seems things are going very smoothly on your side too."

The Tsuchikage Onoki drifted into the room from the window. Soon, two ninjas followed behind him; they were the Tsuchikage's guards. One of them was tall and somewhat obese; his name was Akatsuchi, a super-strength ninja skilled in Earth Release. As for the other person, she was a female ninja named Kurotsuchi. She appeared slender, but her strength was definitely not weak; she was the successor to the Kage position cultivated by the Tsuchikage.

Akatsuchi was holding a cloth bag under his arm, inside which was a person. This person only had his head exposed, and his mouth was sealed with a substance similar to cement using Earth Release. More importantly, he wore a Hidden Stone Village headband, but there was a scratch on the headband, which represented a rogue ninja.

The person in the cloth bag was none other than Deidara, who was responsible for luring out the Tsuchikage and holding him back. It was unknown what had happened, but he had actually been captured alive by the Tsuchikage and the others, instead of proving his path through art—that is, self-destruction.

"Mmph, mmph, mmph..."

Deidara struggled vigorously, the meaning clearly being: if you have the guts, kill me.

"Brother Deidara, don't struggle anymore. With the old man here, you can't run away."

The woman Kurotsuchi smiled. Her gaze toward Deidara was somewhat complex; this person was her senior.

Hearing Kurotsuchi say this, Deidara's struggle weakened. He really didn't want to see the Tsuchikage—not because he feared the Tsuchikage's strength, but because the Tsuchikage Onoki was his mentor.

"Mmph, mmph~"

Deidara wanted to say something, but unfortunately, his mouth was sealed, and Kurotsuchi couldn't hear him at all.

In fact, what Deidara wanted to say was: hurry up and get me out of here; it's too embarrassing for those guys to see this scene when they arrive later.

Rapid footsteps approached; it was Gaara and the others who had arrived. The Four Kage gathered in the conference room on the sixth floor of the tower.

The Tsuchikage, Mizukage, and Kazekage had all made their moves, but Danzo, as the representative of the Hokage, had remained unmoved the entire time—very steady.

"Where is Uchiha Sasuke?"

Gaara swept his gaze around; it was very clear that a battle had just taken place here.

"I melted him into ashes."

The Mizukage Mei Terumi looked at the lava on the ground that had already begun to cool. She hadn't fought Sasuke alone; she had the assistance of her guards and the Hokage's guards.

"It seems things are going smoothly. In this way, there are only two Akatsuki thieves left."

Gaara breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where did the Raikage go? With his temper, he wouldn't let Sasuke escape here."

The Tsuchikage, floating in mid-air, was somewhat puzzled.

"The Raikage... is dead."

"What!"

"How did he die?"

"Where are his guards?"

Everyone in the conference room was greatly shocked; the Raikage's death was no small matter.

"One of his guards died in battle, and the other was seriously injured and has been taken away by samurai for emergency treatment. There shouldn't be any major issues."

Hearing that one of the Raikage's guards was still alive, the Tsuchikage and Mizukage breathed a sigh of relief. If everyone from the Hidden Cloud Village died here, that would be a disaster; that was the definition of a situation where one couldn't explain oneself.

"Who killed him? To have the ability to kill the Raikage, they are definitely no ordinary person."

The Tsuchikage Onoki immediately thought of the key point of the matter.

"Akatsuki, Bai Ye."