Chapter 203: Hidden Mist Assault! Silent Killing Technique
Nightfall descended.
Land of Water.
Uchiha Ikeizumi and the others rapidly dashed through the night, passing over one town after another, one forest after another. Just as they spotted an ordinary village ahead, Juzo Biwa stopped first.
Gazing at the village not far ahead, Juzo Biwa furrowed his brow.
The Uchiha Ikeizumi and others behind him also came to a stop.
“Meow, there’s a bloody scent.” Kijiro sniffed the waves of night wind blowing towards them, narrowed its eyes, and said: “The bloody scent is extremely faint; human senses wouldn’t detect it. This means the bloody scent ahead was deliberately dealt with.”
Juzo Biwa said gravely: “I haven’t smelled anything strange, but my intuition tells me something’s off ahead.”
“This time of day is when ordinary people cook. Although all the chimneys in the village ahead are emitting smoke, it feels a bit too deliberate. After all, ordinary people cooking wouldn’t all do it at the exact same time.”
“There should always be one or two households that finished dinner early. Or, there should always be one or two households that haven’t started cooking yet.”
Uchiha Izumi, who was behind, heard this, and the puzzled expression in her clear eyes immediately dissipated, revealing a look of sudden realization.
She pulled out a small notebook and jotted down the experience of Juzo Biwa, this elite ninja of the Hidden Mist.
The Uchiha girl considered herself not to be the kind of ninja with exceptional talent.
Besides executing justice to gain justice’s gifts, she also had to continuously learn from others’ experiences, so that she could become a bit stronger.
Juzo Biwa was undecided; he turned his head to look at Uchiha Ikeizumi and asked in a low voice: “We don’t know yet if the people hiding inside are targeting us or someone else. Do we charge straight in? Or avoid trouble and go around… hmm?”
Juzo Biwa suddenly froze, because he saw Uchiha Ikeizumi not concealing his figure at all, walking straight towards the front.
Hey, hey, hey!
This wasn’t exposing their tracks all at once?
“Meow, Lord Ikeizumi’s style is just.” Kijiro followed behind Uchiha Ikeizumi, also walking out openly, and said: “Come to think of it, this isn’t the first time you’ve met Lord Ikeizumi; what’s so shocking about this?”
Juzo Biwa: “…”
It did seem that way.
Once again outdone by this ninja cat, it made Juzo Biwa lose some face, though he managed his expression very well.
“Tch, then we’ll just kill our way through.” Juzo Biwa kept a straight face, took off the Executioner’s Blade from his back, and followed along.
Izumi quickly put away the paper and pen in her hand, walking at the rear.
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“They’re here… Rogue ninja Juzo Biwa has entered the range.”
A Hidden Mist Anbu ninja hidden in the dark under the nightfall quickly formed hand seals with both hands.
In an instant.
Thick mist began to spread from all directions, and the heavy mist combined with the poor visibility of the night made everything before Uchiha Ikeizumi and the others instantly turn into a dark haze.
Scenes more than a meter away were impossible to see clearly with the eyes.
“Tch…”
A flash of displeasure crossed Juzo Biwa’s face; he couldn’t help but grip the hilt of the Executioner’s Blade in his hand tighter and said: “Looks like they’re coming for us, maybe even for me. This should be the Hidden Mist Village’s Mist Concealment Technique. It seems… the intelligence about those three Mist ninjas on the ship has already reached the Hidden Mist Village early.”
Juzo Biwa said in a low voice: “Everyone be careful! This is the Hidden Mist Village ninjas’ specialty, the Silent Killing in Mist Technique! The enemies are hidden in the mist; don’t overly trust your vision and hearing—the enemies’ movements make no sound!”
“They’ll even deliberately create misleading sounds to disrupt our senses! What the eyes see and the ears hear may not be real; only trust your intuition!”
Juzo Biwa’s words clearly weren’t meant to remind Uchiha Ikeizumi, as he felt he had no right to remind this terrifying man.
He was reminding the Uchiha girl who looked like a green rookie.
Hmm, and that ninja cat that made him a bit unhappy.
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At the same time.
A Hidden Mist Anbu hidden in the dark flashed a hint of doubt in his eyes and reminded Yagura Karatachi beside him: “Mizukage, it seems the rogue ninja Juzo Biwa has a few companions; this is a bit unexpected, outside our intelligence.”
Situations outside the intelligence were indeed enough to make all the present Kirigakure Anbu on high alert.
“No matter.”
Yagura Karatachi said in an icy tone: “Since they’re Juzo Biwa’s companions, they’re enemies of the Hidden Mist Village! If they don’t know better, then kill them all!”
“…Yes!” This Hidden Mist Anbu vaguely felt that the Mizukage’s tone was a bit different from usual.
But at a time like this, he didn’t think too deeply.
Under Yagura Karatachi’s orders, over thirty Hidden Mist Anbu ninjas who had long been lying in ambush, holding various ninja tools, silently closed in rapidly on Uchiha Ikeizumi and the others.
“Meow, Lord Ikeizumi, these mists have a strange smell that makes it hard for me to scent them.”
Kijiro sniffed and said.
Compared to Juzo Biwa’s grave expression, Uchiha Ikeizumi remained as calm as ever. A faint sulfurous aura began spreading in all directions, and Juzo Biwa keenly noticed the surrounding temperature suddenly rise significantly.
As Juzo Biwa’s eyelids twitched, he unobtrusively shifted to the side, putting a bit more distance from Uchiha Ikeizumi.
Drip—a drop of crimson lava had already fallen to the ground.
Causing the moist earth underfoot to ignite with a flame out of nowhere.
And in that very instant!
A sharp scythe tore through the thick fog, slashing straight down at Uchiha Ikeizumi’s head; two iron chains also flew through the air, binding his left and right feet from either side; several kunai flew straight at Uchiha Ikeizumi’s vital points.
Izumi and Juzo Biwa were also attacked at the same time.
Several ninja swords emerged from the thick fog, silently slashing at Juzo Biwa’s back; a large number of sharp shuriken rained down like a downpour, flying rapidly at Juzo Biwa’s face.
Two ninja swords, one from front and one from back, stabbed respectively at Izumi’s throat and heart!
This group of Hidden Mist Anbu ninjas had once used this Silent Killing in Mist Technique to kill countless enemies and retreat unscathed.
“Bang—”
When pierced by the ninja sword, Izumi’s body suddenly turned into a puff of white smoke, leaving only a wooden log in place.
Juzo Biwa fiercely crouched low, dodging the oncoming shuriken; then he raised the Executioner’s Blade, using its door-sized blade to block behind him.
Only a series of metallic clash sounds rang out; the attacks from behind were all blocked by him.
On the other side.
The massive scythe slashing down at his head halted abruptly just a few centimeters from Uchiha Ikeizumi’s skull.
The scythe’s blade trembled slightly; its user was clearly using all their strength but still couldn’t make it chop down.
Because at some point, Uchiha Ikeizumi’s right hand had gripped the scythe’s blade, firmly fixing it in midair.
Puff puff puff puff puff—
The kunai heading straight for Uchiha Ikeizumi’s vitals pierced his body without splashing any ripples or drawing a drop of blood, directly passing through his back.
But these kunai hadn’t flown far back before they melted into pools of molten iron and fell.
The iron chains binding Uchiha Ikeizumi’s feet visibly turned extremely red.
“Hiss—” A sudden gasp of pain rang out in the thick fog.
At the moment the iron chains melted and snapped, the Mist ninja holding them dropped them in horrified shock and retreated repeatedly.
His palm had been completely scorched by the intense heat.
Unscathed, Uchiha Ikeizumi clapped his hands, and the ground underfoot began to shake violently, causing the Hidden Mist ninjas hidden in the thick fog to change expressions, unsure what had happened.
The next instant.
Countless thorn wood spikes pierced out from the ground below! The dense thorns instantly formed a small forest, piercing through the bodies of one unsuspecting Kirigakure ninja after another.
Some had their arms pierced with bloody holes; some had their feet nailed firmly to the ground; the unluckiest had thorn wood spikes enter from the anus and exit from the top of the head.
Cries of agony rose one after another.
Exposing their positions.
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PS: Been working hard lately to write an extra chapter every day! Keep it up!
