Chapter 178: Harassment
Yoru body flickered away from the mountaintop, casually picking a direction.
Shortly after landing, kunai, exploding tags, and other long-range attacks began harassing him.
A Mist Ninja unit was hidden in the surrounding thick fog; their mission was to hold him back without getting close, only harassing from the periphery. Yoru still couldn’t find them.
Several more kunai shot from a certain direction.
Yoru raised his hand to deflect the kunai and charged toward their source.
In the thick fog with visibility under 2 meters, Yoru spotted three figures huddled back-to-back.
A red copper color fist smashed forward but stopped midway.
In front of the fist were actually three Leaf Ninja.
To pull back his force, Yoru’s front foot even sank into the ground.
“What happened!”
Seeing it was Anbu, the Leaf Ninja hurriedly said:
“We followed the captain’s order to the designated area to set up an ambush, but we were instead ambushed by Mist Ninja! The squad was scattered!”
Yoru ordered: “Ambush ends! Flee in the direction away from the coast, don’t linger here!”
“Yes!”
Hearing the Anbu order them to retreat, the three Leaf Ninja were extremely excited.
Unauthorized departure from the battle position would be seen as abandoning the mission, but with a superior’s order to retreat, fleeing was fine.
Yoru was surprised in his heart: how many Mist Ninja had come to scatter five Konoha squads.
After seeing the three off, Yoru turned and entered the thick fog.
He immediately collided with a Mist Ninja squad; Yoru thought, finally not Leaf Ninja.
The Mist Ninja squad leader spotted the outline of the ninja sword wrapped in bandages and recognized it as one of the Seven Ninja Swords, the Twin Blades Flounder!
He felt no fear at all of facing a strong enemy in his heart, only greed for the ninja sword.
He waved his hand: “Attack! Kill him!”
Greedy as he was, he still knew priorities and first sent his subordinates to test the waters.
The Konoha Anbu carrying the Twin Blades Flounder should be the Copper Fox from the intel.
In just one clash, the backs of three Mist Ninja bulged high and they were sent flying back one after another.
The Mist Ninja squad leader saw that the nearest corpse had a chest caved in like a deep wok pit.
Such terrifying taijutsu.
After testing and confirming it was indeed Copper Fox, the squad leader shouted: “Don’t use taijutsu or ninja tools! Pull back distance and use ninjutsu!”
The advantage of Water Style was that no matter how many people released Water Release: Raging Waves, they could fuse together.
Enough Water Style ninja together could create Raging Waves with power approaching a tsunami.
Facing the combined Water Release: Raging Waves from over ten Water Style ninja, Yoru formed a single hand seal.
The Water Release: Raging Waves crashed onto Yoru.
As long as the target was submerged in the massive water, the Mist Ninja had plenty of methods underwater.
But the Mist Ninja squad leader was disappointed.
The combined Water Release: Raging Waves didn’t hit the target, only scattering a puddle of human-shaped mud.
Copper Fox had used an earth clone.
The Mist Ninja squad leader stood on the water surface over ten meters deep, forming seals to use summoning jutsu.
His summoning beast was over a hundred piranhas.
In sufficient numbers, a piranha school could easily tear a ninja into meat foam.
Each piranha was only palm-sized, making it hard for ninja to hit them in the water.
The piranha school swam quickly underwater, searching for the target.
Yoru appeared atop a large distant stone.
Roiling water waves churned below his feet; Yoru hesitated whether to use water clone.
Not a good opportunity, too many people around with eyes everywhere.
Yoru gathered a large amount of chakra and used a very long-range Water Style: Water Severing Wave.
A Water Severing Wave with an effective killing range of over fifty meters shot out fiercely, instantly piercing the Mist Ninja squad leader’s chest.
Water Severing Wave was great in every way except its power decayed rapidly with distance—this was water’s nature, and there was no good solution for now.
The Mist Ninja squad leader was staring underwater, controlling the piranha school to search for the target.
He suddenly looked at his chest in terror as a water beam pierced through him from the back.
Infighting was severe inside Hidden Mist Village; he’d obtained the piranha summoning beast, unbeatable in water, and killed many fellow village experts.
Before dying, regret arose in the Mist Ninja squad leader’s heart.
He was better at dealing with fellow Mist Ninja, not so much with ninja from outside villages.
After killing the Mist Ninja squad leader, the other Mist Ninja fled quickly.
Yoru didn’t pursue deeply either, standing on the stone waiting for the water to recede.
After just a few minutes of rest, annoying kunai and exploding tags stabbed toward him again.
That harassing unit had come back.
Body flickering away, Yoru continued searching in the thick fog.
Walking along, Yoru heard especially dense explosion sounds from a certain direction.
Yoru remembered that on the map, it was a low mountain on the southwest side.
After heading southwest for a few minutes, Yoru heard faint water wave sounds.
In the thick fog, he could only hear sounds, seeing nothing.
Yoru finished forming seals, waiting for the water waves.
After staring at the sound source for over ten seconds, a massive wave over ten meters high suddenly appeared just three meters away.
“Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall!”
A trapezoid Earth Flow Wall over ten meters high rose, providing Yoru a foothold.
After the massive wave passed and the water surface calmed slightly, dozens of vague figures stood faintly in the distance.
These dozens were blocking him, not letting him proceed further southwest.
These dozens should be Mist Ninja monitoring his movements; now they all appeared, meaning the southwest battlefield was important.
The more the enemy opposed it, the more correct his choice proved.
Yoru was even more determined to head southwest.
The Mist Ninja captain formed a single hand seal, sensing Copper Fox with the thick fog.
The thick fog mixed with faint chakra; any disturbance in the mist would transmit back to the Mist Ninja captain.
“He’s gone! Vanished from underground! Everyone watch your feet!”
The Mist Ninja captain’s mission was to track and harass Copper Fox, no need to fight him desperately.
Once several elite jonin finished other battlefields, they would come to decide ownership of the Twin Blades Flounder.
Before that, no elite jonin could preemptively seize the Twin Blades Flounder.
He knew his own limits, aware he had no ability to claim the Twin Blades Flounder.
At the same time, he had to prevent Copper Fox from entering other main battlefields.
The Mist Ninja captain crouched down, pressing both hands to the water surface, sensing the ground below.
Directly below the Mist Ninja captain, someone burst out from the soil, charging upward from underwater!
The Mist Ninja captain hurriedly formed seals, using Water Prison Technique.
In a water-filled environment, Water Prison Technique was easy to perform; a spherical water prison could quickly appear anywhere in the water.
Per intel, focus on capture against Copper Fox.
Water Prison Technique caught Copper Fox!
But the next instant, shadow clone dispersing white smoke appeared inside the Water Prison Technique.
The underwater ground roiled, soil breaking into mud.
The water below was extremely turbid.
In the murkiness, Yoru risked using water clone.
The Mist Ninja captain was crouching on the water surface when suddenly a person appeared on the water behind him.
Yoru held his ninja sword and used Kakashi’s secret technique.
“Swordsmanship: Thousand Years of Death!”
A long sword pierced in from behind the Mist Ninja captain.
The Mist Ninja captain only felt his rear tighten as a sharp blade entered straight from the rear into his chest and abdomen!
