Chapter 110: Explosion Attack!
At Orochimaru's signal, a ninja emerged from the shadows. Just as he was about to lead Nara Keisuke and the others to find a tent for them to rest in, a cry of alarm suddenly came from the side.
"Mist! Lord Orochimaru!" a Konoha ninja wearing a special machine helmet shouted loudly. "Ten o'clock direction! That high-temperature steam that looks like mist has appeared again!"
A sensory ninja?
Keisuke looked at the shouting ninja, a guess forming in his mind. Are these machines instruments used to amplify sensory abilities?
He turned his eyes, about to see how Orochimaru would react. But that familiar hoarse voice sounded from outside the tent. "Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
Orochimaru stared at the white, dense fog before him. His hands flew through seals, and he decisively released a C-rank Wind Release ninjutsu. Although it was only a C-rank technique, under the enhancement of Orochimaru's abundant chakra, an incomparably violent hurricane was still summoned forth, crashing into the fog ahead.
Whoosh—
The gale swept across the land. The fierce wind instantly collided and intertwined with the thick white mist, the wind and water-nature chakra contained within them coming into contact. Under the impact of this violent wind, the white mist did not dissipate immediately, but its concentration visibly thinned.
Orochimaru's expression did not relax in the slightest. He tapped the ground with his toes, leaned his upper body forward, and rushed out of the Konoha camp at extreme speed.
The next moment.
BOOM—
A heaven-shaking roar erupted from the distance, accompanied by intense, bright flashes of light. A mushroom-cloud-like mass of smoke and dust burst from the earth, soaring straight into the sky.
The ninja in the Konoha camp were not surprised by this scene. But for the newly arrived Team Keisuke, it was an out-and-out "surprise."
"That dirt mushroom over there..." Shizune said, walking outside the tent and staring, dumbfounded, at the mushroom cloud in the distance, her heart filled with shock. "What on earth is that..."
Keisuke focused his senses, not immediately answering Shizune's question. But Hyūga Retsu, standing at his side, also unable to contain her shock, activated her Byakugan to peer into the distance.
"Lord Orochimaru is engaged in battle with an enemy," Retsu quickly reported what she saw. "The opponent is a strange ninja wearing armor with a tail growing from his back..."
Armor? A tail?
And this chakra that was emitting astonishing destructive power and impact.
Keisuke retracted his gaze, but he had roughly determined the other's identity. 'Iwagakure's Jinchuriki has been dispatched to the front lines!'
'From the combat performance just now, the opponent is most likely... the Five-Tails Jinchuriki!'
'The Five-Tails...'
In the battle between Orochimaru and the enemy village's Jinchuriki, no ninja from either the Konoha or Iwagakure side could intervene. Only a small number of sensory-type ninja could observe the battlefield situation through their far-superior sensory abilities.
Team Keisuke had not received a combat mission to support the front lines. In addition, the other ninja in the Konoha camp had not made a move. So, Keisuke also extinguished the thought of supporting Orochimaru.
Led by the ninja from before, the four of them were assigned a small tent. On their first day on the battlefield, the four-person squad squeezed together for a night's rest.
The next morning.
Nara Keisuke, feeling refreshed all over, walked out of the tent. 'I have to say, the [Shadow Doppelganger Technique] is really useful!'
'The one who is sore all over is the main body, but what does that have to do with the [Shadow Doppelganger]?'
Compared to the calm and composed Keisuke, the performance of Shisui, Retsu, and Shizune was not so good. Especially Retsu, who came from the Hyūga main family. The exhausted expression on her fair and delicate face could not be concealed. And the dark circles surrounding her clear, translucent white eyes were even more eye-catching.
Looking at their refreshed squad leader, the three of them looked at each other, feeling ashamed of their inadequacy.
After a simple breakfast, Retsu, who had not rested well to begin with, felt even more dissatisfaction accumulating in her heart. Fortunately, she always wore a cold expression, so not many people could discern the subtle changes in her mood from her indifferent look.
According to yesterday's agreement, the four of them went to the infirmary, planning to receive the wounded comrades and escort them back to the village along the way. But the situation in the infirmary was somewhat beyond Keisuke's expectations.
In the simple medical tent, groans of pain from Konoha ninja could be heard everywhere. But these guys, who could still groan and cry out, could basically be considered to have plenty of life force left. In other words, these ninja were all lightly injured; at least their lives were not in immediate danger! With the help of the miraculous medical ninjutsu, this state of light injury could be quickly healed.
But compared to the large number of lightly injured ninja, there was only one person who could truly be called "seriously injured." And it was said that he had just been sent back to the camp last night. As for the other "seriously injured ninja"...
Keisuke's gaze swept over the numb and grim-faced ninja. 'Amputated limbs, amputated limbs, and still more amputated limbs... since when were there so many physically disabled ninja on the Konoha front lines?!'
An indescribable feeling welled up in his heart. 'Ninja with amputated limbs have basically lost their stable combat ability. It's reasonable for them to be sent back to the village...'
'But the problem is, Konoha's encampment against Iwagakure can't be entirely filled with disabled ninja, can it!?'
'Could it be that all the other seriously wounded patients have died?'
Considering the atmosphere in the camp and the mood of these disabled ninja, Keisuke did not ask his question aloud. He silently watched as the medical ninja in the camp sent those who had lost their legs onto wooden carts. Next, his squad would use these carts to escort these seriously injured ninja back to Kikyo Castle.
This was a "privilege" only for those who had lost their legs. As for those with arm disabilities, they could only use their own two legs to walk back.
"Shizune." Keisuke spoke softly, and the medic stepped forward. She knew that the captain also possessed extremely high-level medical ninjutsu. But considering the travel plan ahead, it was not suitable for the captain to consume a large amount of his own chakra to help heal the wounded.
After all the injured ninja were gathered, the four of them, along with a three-person medical team specifically for taking care of the wounded, set out from the Konoha camp, heading towards the heartland of the Land of Fire.
Compared to the journey there, the return trip was dragged down a lot by the wooden carts. Keisuke felt as if he had returned to the time when he was riding the deer cart to the capital of the Land of Fire.
"Hyūga, you go to the front of the team and periodically check the situation ahead with your Byakugan;
"Shizune, you and the medical team take care of the wounded in the convoy;
"Shisui, you guard the middle. With your speed, you should be able to cover both ends."
Keisuke methodically assigned tasks to his team members, while he himself remained at the rear of the team. Having cultivated the [Sage Clan Guidance Technique] for a long time, his own sensory ability was not weak. If he were to use the [Lacquer Eye] technique, he could basically be considered a sensory-type ninja. After some consideration, he took on the responsibility of guarding the rear.
In a flash, half a day passed. The convoy of wounded arrived at a steep mountain range. A crow suddenly flew out from the very front of the team.
Nara Keisuke, at the rear of the convoy, first sensed the situation behind him and, after confirming there were no tails, directly came to the front. "Hyūga, what did you find?" He looked at the mountain range ahead and asked softly.
The crow raised by Uchiha Shisui was now playing the role of information transmission. One crow meant there was an unusual situation ahead; two crows meant there were ninja ahead; three crows meant the number of ninja ahead had reached a considerable scale!
"Two o'clock direction, on that small mountain, there are many points of chakra convergence," Retsu reported quietly, her expression unchanged.
"Ninja?"
"It's a trap," she reported again. "Those chakra distribution points cover almost all the key positions of the small mountain. Their explosion could cause the mountain to collapse."
"Sounds like the handiwork of Iwagakure ninja," Keisuke said. "Hyūga, do you have a way to destroy that chakra?"
"The distance is too great," Retsu said with some hesitation. "But I might be able to try to detonate those chakra nodes with ninja tools like shuriken or kunai."
"No problem!" Keisuke raised his left hand, and the convoy stopped at his signal.
[Summoning Technique: Lightning Flash Blade Transformation]!
Keisuke retracted his left hand, lightly touched the summoning talisman on his wrist, and a set of kunai were summoned from it. As a meticulous and cautious ninja, how could he only store [Nature Masks] in his summoning talismans?
"These are all high-quality kunai mixed with a certain amount of chakra metal." Keisuke handed the kunai to Retsu. "Let's see your performance, Hyūga. Remember what I said? Your Hyūga clan possesses the heaven-sent Byakugan. Instead of practicing long-range attacks, you insist on close-quarters combat. You must have something wrong with your brains!"
"I am also a member of the Hyūga clan, Captain!" Retsu gripped the kunai tightly. Considering Keisuke's earlier instructions, she tentatively infused chakra into the kunai and clearly felt her own chakra being stored within the metal ninja tools. "So rich!"
Retsu took a deep breath, and vicious green veins bloomed on both sides of her eyes. She aimed at a point of chakra condensation on the small mountain not far away and viciously threw the kunai in her hand.
Swish!
The lacquer-black kunai let out a mournful sound as it cut through the air. Aided by the Byakugan, this metal weapon, infused with Gentle Fist chakra, accurately shot into the small mountain and pierced a pre-buried chakra trap.
Pfft!
The burst of Gentle Fist chakra directly destroyed this pre-placed chakra trap. However, the next moment, BOOM!
A loud roar still erupted among the mountains. It seemed that this small mountain had been set up with a chain-reaction explosion trap. Although Retsu's kunai attack had destroyed one of the nodes, it had also caused the other nodes to react, setting off a series of extremely violent explosions.
Boom! Boom! Boom!—
With a continuous series of explosions, the mountain's structure was also greatly damaged. One after another, huge rocks and earth fell from the mountain, crashing onto the path below. In just a few breaths, this small mountain was completely destroyed by the incessant explosions, turning into a pile of rubble, and a cloud of dust spread out.
"To think the trap's position was seen through in advance." A rough voice came from the yellow dust. "Konoha ninja, is that your village's unique Kekkei Genkai—the Byakugan?"
Vague shadows were revealed in the dust, their number unknown.
(End of Chapter)
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