Chapter 101: And Yet You Bear The Title Of Demigod
Purple Cat and the others hadn’t taken many missions and were all still alive, which let Yoru breathe a sigh of relief.
Soon, Yoru met the new members added to the squad.
The most important new member among them was Aries, a reconnaissance ninja.
Aries, an Aburame Clan ninja, specialized in insect reconnaissance.
Reconnaissance distance around 1 kilometer.
Yoru felt a bit disappointed in his heart; old Aries’s Byakugan could reconnoiter 3 kilometers, but new Aries’s insects only reached 1 kilometer—this reconnaissance capability was far inferior.
Insect reconnaissance had latency; the parasitic insects sent out could only transmit intelligence when they flew back.
Aries spoke up: “Captain, we’ve had no prior interactions, but my insects tell me that you don’t seem too satisfied with me?”
He hadn’t expected Aries’s parasitic insects to be able to sense emotions.
Yoru said:
“It’s not dissatisfaction; I was just reminded of the previous Aries. He sacrificed himself in the last mission; it was just a bit sentimental.
Return to the team, Aries. Get familiar with your teammates, and let your teammates get familiar with you.”
Kiiroinu Captain issued a summons order.
At the camp entrance, Yoru saw Danzo and two Root ninjas.
They were following Danzo on a mission again.
Anbu advanced in silence.
Leaving the Land of Grass and entering the basin of the Land of Rain, the sky was densely covered with dark clouds, and it soon started raining.
From a drizzle to a torrential downpour.
This country had been crying all along.
The rain greatly impacted life, and this country’s grain production was low.
Most crops couldn’t survive here; the food here consisted of aquatic plants like water chestnuts and water shield.
The peripheral reconnaissance squads kept coming and going, reporting intelligence to Danzo.
These reconnaissance squads were responsible for gathering intelligence for Danzo.
Following Danzo had its benefits: timely intelligence, and Danzo was extremely cautious with his life, never putting himself in danger.
Soon, three kilometers outside Kyoto City in the Land of Rain, Danzo stopped.
According to intelligence, Hanzo was in Kyoto of the Land of Rain.
In the rain curtain, Kyoto City of the Land of Rain appeared as a hazy gray mass.
All Anbu guarded around Danzo, motionless, letting the rainwater flow freely over their cloaks.
An hour later, a group of people emerged from Kyoto.
Danzo nodded, and the Anbu squad swiftly moved, blocking the path ahead of that group.
At a distance of 50 meters, Yoru saw Hanzo.
Hanzo wore a mask on his head, a cloak over his body, and carried a scythe in his hand.
He looked to the distant left, then to the distant right, his tone carrying doubt:
“Danzo, my Hidden Rain Village has already declared war on your Konoha. How dare you come here? Are you here to die?”
Hanzo spoke with strong confidence.
The Half-God of the Ninja World, in this Land of Rain—a land of four battles—made Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, and the Third Kazekage treat him seriously; his strength was immeasurable.
But Danzo said:
“Hanzo, you claim the title of demigod, yet you’ve been played around by Oonoki.
The Hidden Cloud Village has declared war on the Hidden Stone Village; the Third Raikage personally led the team into the Land of Waterfalls, launching an attack from the north of the Land of Earth.
Meanwhile, my Konoha Village is also pressuring the Stone Ninjas in the Land of Grass. If not for your interference, we would have already breached the south of the Land of Earth by now.
I heard Oonoki promised mission quotas in the Land of Birds and guardian ninja allocations from the Land of Birds’ daimyo.
If you hadn’t been swayed by Oonoki and now launched an attack on the Land of Birds, with the Hidden Stone Village fighting on three fronts, wouldn’t those mission quotas in the Land of Birds still be yours?
Oonoki used something he couldn’t hold anyway to bait you into fighting for him—what a great deal.
Your strength is indeed impressive, but as the leader nurtured by this small ninja village, your strategic vision is too poor.
Why not cooperate with my Konoha? I’ll teach you what the correct approach really is.”
Danzo rarely spoke at such length, analyzing with clear logic.
What he said was very correct; the problem was, it was a bit too correct.
Hanzo became somewhat furious.
Hanzo’s political abilities were extremely poor; otherwise, he wouldn’t have caused so many opposition organizations in the Land of Rain later on.
The early Akatsuki Organization led by Yahiko was a moderate reform faction, but it was eventually forced into the violent revolutionary faction led by Nagato.
The enraged Hanzo immediately formed hand seals.
“Summoning Jutsu!”
Disagreement led straight to violence.
When Yoru saw the giant summoning beast salamander, he immediately jumped to the side.
A mouthful of aged poisonous fog sprayed from the salamander’s mouth.
Purple fog rolled out; rainwater falling into it made a sizzling corrosive sound.
Salamanders were a summoning beast group living around Hidden Rain Village; they were highly adapted to heavy rain weather.
This summoning beast was the strongest in the group.
After rainwater entered the poisonous fog, it reacted with the fog, boiling like it was heated, making it even more terrifying.
Several Anbu joined forces to release Wind Release, but they couldn’t stop the poisonous fog.
Danzo personally intervened, spitting fierce winds from his mouth to blow away the poisonous fog.
Yoru cursed inwardly: Danzo, you old bastard—I just jumped to the side to dodge the poisonous fog, and now you blow it toward the side?
The Fox Squad hurriedly dodged again.
However, Hanzo’s subordinates had already been waiting on the side.
Hanzo’s subordinates seized the moment when the Anbu ninjas hadn’t landed yet and couldn’t change direction mid-air, launching attacks one after another.
Kunai, poison needles, various attacks came in succession.
Yoru formed hand seals: “Water Style: Water Wall Jutsu!”
Water Style blocked most of the attacks.
A Fire Dragon Flame Bullet suddenly erupted, scattering Hanzo’s subordinates.
Kiiroinu Captain shouted: “Everyone, attack Hanzo! Create an opportunity for Lord Danzo!”
Danzo stood motionless in the rear.
His style had always been like this: subordinates probed for intelligence, he formulated plans in secret, then delivered the final strike—or the final escape.
Kiiroinu Captain was too desperate, charging straight at Hanzo first, opening with a Flame Bullet dozens of meters in diameter.
Half of Hanzo’s body was illuminated by the Flame Bullet.
However, Hanzo was a Water Style expert.
A Water Wall Jutsu dozens of times larger than Yoru’s easily blocked the massive Flame Bullet.
Yoru circled to the side of the Water Wall Jutsu, nearly getting hit by the salamander’s thick, fat tail.
Fortunately, his reaction speed was fast; otherwise, that strike would have turned him into mashed meat.
Even in death, he couldn’t die at the hands of a salamander; he had to die at Hanzo’s hands.
“Earth Release: Earth Spear!”
Yoru’s chakra amount wasn’t small; dense Earth Spears, each over ten meters tall, thrust toward the salamander.
The salamander’s skin was slippery, sticky, and tough; the Earth Spears couldn’t pierce it.
But the Earth Spears acted like pillars, briefly restraining the salamander’s left forelimb and left hindlimb.
“Well done!”
After praising the Fox Squad, Kiiroinu immediately used a second Fire Release.
Everyone had their own specialty ninjutsu; no matter how many ninjutsu one mastered, only those usable in actual combat truly belonged to them.
From the moment Yoru met Kiiroinu Captain, he had only used one ninjutsu: Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet.
This technique combined chakra nature transformation and shape transformation; both its attack range and speed were very strong.
Three consecutive Fire Dragon Flame Bullets came rushing toward Hanzo like a tidal wave.
At the same time, Anbu ninjas on the other side also used Fire Release.
Clamped from both sides, Hanzo had no path of escape.
At that moment, Hanzo raised his hand and formed a seal.
“Water Clone!”
Hanzo and the salamander disappeared together.
Yoru only felt a chill behind him, the surrounding temperature dropping a few degrees.
The cold-blooded salamander appeared behind him.
Hanzo’s Water Clone had actually carried such a massive summoning beast, flickering out of the Fire Release encirclement.
The scythe swung, and Yoru’s head flew off.
【Host death detected; Moon Arc System activating···】
Such a powerful Water Clone; I really want to have it.
