While Yami was seizing the Rinnegan, Carina and the other women, having parked Amazon Lily next to the Land of Water, led the Kuja Pirates to invade Kirigakure.
Just like wars in the One Piece world, Carina and the group's invasion had no tactics whatsoever; it was a straightforward, king-style frontal assault!
For Carina and Nami, who possessed Observation Haki in a league of its own, there was absolutely no need to gather intelligence. Any living person would be exposed to their perception.
Once their Observation Haki covered Kirigakure, Nami, with her ultra-long-range strike capabilities, could ensure that not even a single fly could fly out of the village.
For the Kuja Pirates, all of whom had mastered two types of Haki, tactics were equally unnecessary. They only needed to be responsible for long-range attacks.
Enemy long-range attacks would either fail to break their defenses or be blocked by Lady Carina.
At worst, they could hide inside Lady Nojiko's castle.
Therefore, when Carina and the women led the Kuja Pirates to invade Kirigakure, a war that swept away everything like dead leaves immediately unfolded in the village.
As one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages, Kirigakure's comprehensive strength was actually very powerful. Originally, it was the village with the most Kekkei Genkai clans after Konohagakure among the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
Unfortunately, following Obito Uchiha's revenge, Kirigakure underwent the baptism of the "Bloody Mist." The Kekkei Genkai clans didn't completely disappear, but only a few survivors remained.
As for the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, who ranked just below the Kage, they were either dead or had defected.
Several of the seven ninja swords were lost to the outside world.
The current Kirigakure, like Sunagakure, was at the bottom level among the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
Even Mei Terumi hadn't yet taken the Mizukage hat from Genji to officially become the Fifth Mizukage.
Of course, even without becoming the Fifth Mizukage, Mei Terumi was currently a Kage-level powerhouse.
Sadly, Kirigakure now only had this one Kage-level figure.
As for combat power at the Elite Jonin level, Kirigakure had very few.
So when Carina and the women led the Kuja Pirates—all of whom were New World powerhouse level—in the invasion, with Hancock leading the charge as an Emperor-level powerhouse who had mastered the highest level of all three types of Haki (corresponding to a Super Kage level powerhouse in this world), the scale was fully comparable to Madara Uchiha leading two Tobirama Senjus and hundreds of Elite Jonin to invade a severely weakened Kirigakure. Kirigakure had absolutely no power to resist.
Boom—
The scene returns to the moment Carina and the group first invaded.
Before even stepping into Kirigakure, Hancock released her Conqueror's Haki. A pink dome of light, similar to the Love-Love Fruit's effect, instantly enveloped the entire Kirigakure.
With her strength reaching the level of an Emperor of the Sea, and her own Master having become the Pirate King, Hancock's state of mind had also upgraded.
Her current status was equivalent to Rayleigh beside Roger, Benn Beckman beside Shanks, or Zoro beside Luffy.
Let alone a small village, if Hancock wanted to, her Conqueror's Haki could even cover the entire Land of Water.
It was merely an island; compared to the continent-like large islands and super-large islands of the One Piece world, it was not even worth mentioning.
When the Conqueror's Haki covered the entire Kirigakure, all Mist Ninjas below the Jonin level felt as if they had been struck on the back of the head with a sap. Their eyes rolled back, their expressions went blank, and they fainted on the ground.
Only some Special Jonin with strong mental fortitude barely escaped this fate.
Even so, the number of people in the entire Kirigakure who could remain conscious was less than a hundred.
Whether in the One Piece world or the Naruto world, Conqueror's Haki was a god-tier skill for clearing minions.
Conqueror's Haki unleashed by a super powerhouse was a far more useful large-scale attack than a Tailed Beast Bomb.
However, just as Observation Haki could sense the existence of Chakra, Chakra sensing—which is very similar to Haki but not of the same origin—allowed the clear-headed Mist elites, as well as Mei Terumi herself, to sense Carina and the group stepping openly into Kirigakure.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
In a short while, a large number of Mist Ninjas using the Body Flicker Technique, which is similar to Soru, surrounded Carina and the group.
"Get down!"
Looking at the afterimages approaching from afar, Carina, who had entered her Tamamo-no-Mae form at some point, simply opened her mouth gently. The surrounding space, like a mirror-calm lake disturbed by a falling stone, suddenly rippled outwards.
"Ahhhhhhh..."
In an instant, a series of screams rang out from all directions of Kirigakure.
The Mist Ninjas using Body Flicker suddenly clutched their foreheads with both hands, screaming miserably while bleeding from their seven orifices.
Far surpassing the sound waves of the Hidden Sound Village, this attack penetrated their brains through their ears, inflicting a physical-type mental attack countless times more powerful than Genjutsu.
With just one move, Carina instantly took out dozens of Mist Ninjas. The fewer than one hundred Mist Ninjas who had remained awake were suddenly reduced to a third.
"...Who are you?!"
So, when Mei Terumi used Body Flicker to appear in front of Carina and the group, there were only a little over twenty Mist Ninjas appearing behind her.
These twenty-plus Mist Ninjas were the strongest batch in Kirigakure.
Looking at the group of women in front of her, all of whom were terrifyingly tall—let alone women, even men would be considered short or dwarfs in front of them—Mei Terumi's forehead was already covered in cold sweat.
But as the Mizukage (acting), she couldn't let the enemy see her timidity, nor could she retreat, so she could only ask in a trembling voice.
"Is this the strongest person in this country?"
Hancock, who hadn't carefully looked through the Konoha ninja's memories and whose thinking was still stuck in the One Piece world, looked at Mei Terumi. Although Mei was 1.74 meters tall—taller than the men behind her—Hancock subconsciously roasted: "So short!"
"The people here are indeed short."
Nami and the other women nodded in agreement.
"..."
Mei Terumi and the others fell into silence.
Because they simply couldn't refute it. Compared to Hancock and the Carina trio, whose heights exceeded the limits of the original work, they were indeed short.
Inside the Kuja Pirates, there were women who were several meters tall.
Mei Terumi had never seen such tall women since she was born.
Today, so many tall women, and such beautiful ones, appeared in front of them.
If not for the fact that the remaining Mist Ninjas who stayed awake and withstood the sonic attack were the strongest elites of Kirigakure—individuals with both powerful strength and first-class mental resilience—they would have lost their reason with hearts in their eyes the moment they saw Hancock.
Even so, looking at Hancock, they couldn't help their hearts beating faster.
If ninjas weren't tools subjected to brainwashing education, they probably wouldn't have been able to stop themselves from defecting.
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