An hour later!
Looking at the figure that had finally collapsed to the ground, Shangguan Mo let out a sigh of relief. "A Jonin's vitality is too tenacious. He actually lasted so long under a constant barrage of ninjutsu..."
He ordered the Windhawk to descend slowly. Looking at the somewhat萎靡 (listless/dejected) Windhawk, he could only smile wryly.
"Is he really dead?" a teacher asked, a little uncertain. They had all been shocked by the Jashinist Jonin's will to survive.
"No signs of life. He should be dead," Shangguan Mo nodded slightly. He then looked back. A figure was leaping quickly through the treetops, catching up to them from behind. It was Watanabe Mousse.
"Hah..." He landed lightly, letting out a heavy breath. He looked at the heavily-wounded Jashinist Jonin in front of him, a look of relief in his eyes. After fighting for so long and then chasing at full speed, even he felt extremely tired.
Swish! He threw a shuriken that lodged itself in the man's back, right where his heart was. The body twitched slightly, then fell still.
Watanabe turned to Shangguan Mo and smiled faintly. "Habitual kill confirmation. Let's go back! Rino-sensei and Izumi-sensei are still unconscious. It's not safe for that girl Li to be there alone watching over them."
"Mhm!" Hearing this, Shangguan Mo also felt it was not right to leave Li alone, and nodded. "Little Wind, sorry to trouble you to take us for another ride!" he said to the listless Windhawk with a smile.
"Chirp... hungry..." Rumble, rumble... Its stomach let out a loud growl.
"Hahaha! I understood that one! This guy is hungry, right!" Watanabe laughed heartily.
"I'll let you go find food in a bit, you useless thing!" Shangguan Mo scolded good-naturedly. "Let's go!" he then called for everyone to get on the Windhawk's back.
When they arrived back at the initial battlefield, they found Inoshita Rino and Izumi lying side by side. Li, with a faint green glow coming from her hands, was pressing them to Inoshita's abdomen, treating him, her face covered in sweat.
"Healing Jutsu?" Watanabe's voice was slightly surprised as he quickly jumped off the hawk's back. "Li, how are the two teachers' injuries?"
She wiped the sweat from her face and said softly, "Both teachers have internal injuries, and their chakra is depleted, which is why they are unconscious."
In these past few days, she hadn't participated in the battles, instead using the time to cram her medical knowledge. Although Yugakure didn't have many medical books, and only had one basic Healing Jutsu, it was enough for the current her. She had finally mastered it through repeated practice.
"Mhm, not bad, not bad! Our village has another medical ninja! This is a scarce resource. The village leader has been trying to recruit some, but has had no luck. The famous medical ninja in the world look down on our small village, so he could only try to train our own, but there has been no success for years. I never thought this girl Li would have a talent for medical ninjutsu..." Watanabe said with some emotion.
Shangguan Mo pouted. "Li is my little sister. Don't you dare get any ideas about her. If you make her go on any dangerous missions, I won't agree!"
"I know you're protective, kid, but I never thought you'd be this protective. Don't worry, the village isn't without medical ninja. We wouldn't let a little girl go on a dangerous mission. This time, she was the one who asked to come..." Watanabe said, looking at him with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.
After this encounter with the Jashinist Jonin squad, for the next month, Shangguan Mo and his group did not encounter any more cultists above the Chunin level. Roughly estimating, in this past month, they had killed at least one hundred and eighty, if not two hundred, Jashinists. At first, he would join the fight himself, but later, finding these one-sided battles meaningless except for practicing his ninjutsu, he simply started molding his chakra all day.
What made his teammates curious was that when they were resting on the ground, he would find some strange materials from who-knows-where, collect them, and then just stare at them in a daze.
"After all this time, I still haven't found a single green-quality material. Just like with creatures of unknown rank, the system's evaluation criteria for these materials is giving me a headache..."
In a forest, Shangguan Mo and his group were resting. He had found a quiet corner and was frowning in thought. He was getting closer and closer to being able to synthesize a D-rank summon, but he still hadn't found a single green-quality material, which was frustrating him.
"The evaluation criteria for a creature's rank is related to its strength and even its intelligence. So, what about materials...?"
As he was thinking, his eyes suddenly lit up. He got up and walked over to the resting Watanabe Mousse. "Something you need?" he asked, opening his bloodshot eyes.
"Captain, let me borrow your ninja sword for a look!" Shangguan Mo said, a little embarrassed, but getting straight to the point.
"Ninja sword?" Watanabe was taken aback for a moment, then handed it to him. The moment he took it, a notification popped up in his system.
[Material: Ninja Sword]
Quality: Green
His eyebrows shot up slightly, and he handed the sword back. Then he took out his own kunai.
[Material: Kunai]
Quality: White
"Captain, did you add some special metal to this sword?" he asked, sitting down beside him with a "you're not leaving until you tell me" look on his face.
Sighing in resignation, Watanabe, who just wanted to be a quiet, handsome man, said, "You kid, you're always coming up with something. I want to sleep..."
"Captain, this is very important to me," he interrupted.
"Sigh..." he sighed, then said softly, "I did add a little bit of special material to this sword. We all call it chakra metal. This metal has been discovered in the ninja world for a long time. Because of its special effect of conducting chakra well, its price has always been high. I only bought a piece the size of a finger in the black market, and it cost me a hundred thousand ryo!"
Shangguan Mo nodded silently, then asked, "Are there many things like this chakra metal? If I wanted to get some, where would I go?"
"I don't know if there are many, but if you want to get something like that, it's only available in small quantities in the five great villages. A small place like ours doesn't have it. Outside, you can only try your luck in the capital cities of various countries or some black markets..." Watanabe said faintly, shaking his head.
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