Chapter 440

Land of Lightning, Kumogakure.

Today is the tenth day since Momochi Zabuza arrived at Kumogakure after receiving the diplomatic mission arranged by Mizunuki Ryosuke.

Gazing at the unique high mountain and cloud scenery of Kumogakure outside the window, a trace of depth flashed in Momochi Zabuza's eyes.

Unlike the other four major ninja villages built on plains, the Land of Lightning is mostly mountainous, which makes the entire Kumogakure village built against the mountains.

The highest point of the village is the core institution of Kumogakure—the Raikage Building.

Most people in Kumogakure have dark skin, which is also caused by being in high-altitude mountainous areas all year round and being exposed to strong ultraviolet rays.

The high altitude of Kumogakure also made Momochi Zabuza, who came from an island nation, very unaccustomed.

"Hoo..."

Momochi Zabuza took a deep breath, the gaze in his eyes a bit profound.

After arriving at Kumogakure, he paid a visit to the Third Raikage of Kumogakure—A—at the first opportunity.

Kumogakure has a long-standing custom, which is that every Raikage of Kumogakure is called "A"; whenever the previous Raikage dies, the next Raikage will automatically inherit the title "A."

Like Iwagakure and Sunagakure, this Third Raikage is also the strongest Raikage in Kumogakure's history.

And when the Third Raikage read the letter handed over by Momochi Zabuza, he chose to reject Mizunuki Ryosuke's proposal in the letter almost without any hesitation.

Regarding this, although Momochi Zabuza was shocked in his heart at the time, he soon calmed down.

Because before coming here, Mizunuki Ryosuke had instructed him that things would take a turn for the better later.

After being rejected by the Third Raikage, Momochi Zabuza did not leave, but had been staying in Kumogakure as an envoy of Kirigakure.

This morning, the news that the Rain ninjas launched an attack on the Rock ninjas reached Kumogakure, and soon it became a big sensation, even bringing the news to Momochi Zabuza, who was the envoy of Kirigakure.

His intuition told him that the opportunity he had been waiting for was coming soon.

Thinking of this, Momochi Zabuza took another deep breath, quietly comforting himself in his heart not to be anxious.

Raikage Building, the Third Raikage looked at the intelligence placed on the table noncommittally.

At this moment, the state of this strongest Raikage seemed to be a bit bad; white gauze was wrapped around his chest, and a trace of bright red blood was faintly seeping out on the white gauze.

It is hard to imagine that with the "strongest defense" Lightning Armor as support, the Third Raikage, whose body was comparable to steel, would suffer such injuries.

The Third Raikage, A, did not look at the intelligence at hand, but seemed to think of something else, his face very ugly.

In his view, whoever the Rain ninjas fight has nothing to do with Kumogakure.

At this time, the Third Raikage also had no intention of actively leading Kumogakure to get involved in the war.

And this is obviously extremely inconsistent with Kumogakure's martial thought of respecting the strong and always taking expansion as the priority.

But in fact, Kumogakure's abnormal behavior has a reason.

The main reason is that Kumogakure at this moment has consumed a large amount of combat power, making the combat power of the entire village fall into unprecedented weakness. Even because of this, even the Third Raikage himself has not recovered from his injuries to this day.

Such a loss is already no less than the consumption of launching a war against other countries.

However, if one insists on saying it, it is true that Kumogakure did fight a war, but the object of this war was not humans, but Tailed Beasts.

—Eight-Tails Gyuki! The absolute powerhouse among Tailed Beasts second only to the Nine-Tails!

That's right, Kumogakure conducted an unprecedented Tailed Beast experiment not long ago, with the goal of developing a perfect Jinchuriki.

But who would have thought that the experiment failed in the end, causing the Tailed Beast to go on a rampage.

In order to subdue the Eight-Tails, a large number of Cloud ninjas died on the spot, and even the Third Raikage himself suffered not-so-light injuries.