Yukito Mizuki, having temporarily disengaged from the battle, stood in front of the group and looked at the two-headed monster not far away. It was currently entangled with Yatsu Murasaki, Shiranui, and Akiyama Rinko, who had rushed over to support them. He couldn't help but frown deeply.
The strength of this two-headed monster was clearly far greater than that of the monsters they had encountered before. Apart from their ferocious appearances, the previous monsters inside the Abandoned Hospital had only been slightly stronger than ordinary people.
Both Shiranui Mizuki and Yatsu Murasaki could wipe out dozens or even hundreds of low-level monsters within two or three minutes, but now, when facing this enormous and bloated two-headed monster, they had temporarily fallen into a difficult battle.
The monster's tall and obese body provided it with extremely strong defenses, and it also possessed astonishing regenerative abilities. Every wound inflicted by Yatsu Murasaki, Shiranui, and the others healed rapidly.
The burns inflicted earlier by Yukito's Fire Release, enhanced by Wind Release to increase the power of the Great Fireball Technique, had almost completely healed in just a few minutes.
Furthermore, every time a blade or axe cut into the monster's body, the green blood that splattered out proved to be highly corrosive. Even the broken stones on the ground and the surrounding walls hissed and melted when touched by the blood.
"Catch… Anti-Demon Ninja… catch… Yatsu Murasaki!"
"Anti-Demon Ninja… woman… hehehe…"
Relying on its powerful regeneration and sturdy defenses, the two-headed monster ignored the attacks landing on its body and stubbornly continued reaching for Yatsu Murasaki, intent on capturing her.
Its two heads continuously repeated the same phrases, causing everyone present to become increasingly curious as they subtly glanced at Yatsu Murasaki.
This suddenly appearing two-headed monster seemed to be unusually obsessed with her.
The creature resembled the modified monsters they had encountered during previous missions.
According to intelligence gathered by the Anti-Demon Ninja organization, certain individuals and organizations within the Demon World had recently begun secretly collaborating with demons to research monster modification technology.
However, until now, most modified monsters had possessed no rationality whatsoever. Their lifespans were short, and their strength varied greatly.
If this two-headed monster was truly the result of human experimentation, then it was undoubtedly the most successful—and strongest—modified monster ever created.
Still, why it was so fixated on Yatsu Murasaki remained unknown.
Perhaps the man who had become this monster had known Yatsu Murasaki before his transformation and retained some deep obsession with her. Or perhaps someone was controlling the creature from behind the scenes and had deliberately targeted her.
"I've never seen this guy before, and I don't know whether he has a master behind him either."
Yatsu Murasaki dodged the hand reaching for her and swung her giant axe, severing the forearm of the grayish-brown two-headed monster. Then she quickly retreated back to Yukito and Yukikaze's side.
This damned monster had incredibly tough flesh. Every time she wanted to break through its defenses, it consumed a considerable amount of strength.
If this dragged on, she wasn't sure whether she would kill the monster first or collapse from exhaustion before that happened.
"Sister Rinko and Shiranui-auntie, , the two of you retreat first. Let me try again!"
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
"Fire Release: Burning Ash!"
"Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"
"Fire Release: Dragon Flame Jutsu!"
After Shiranui Mizuki and Akiyama Rinko disengaged from the two-headed monster and retreated to safety beside him, Yukito looked at the creature charging toward them. He first created a Shadow Clone, and then both he and the clone rapidly formed hand seals, releasing several Fire Release techniques in the blink of an eye.
These were all the Fire Release techniques Yukito currently possessed. Countless fireballs, streams of flames, and flaming dragons merged together, filling the entire corridor and even the adjacent rooms with blazing fire.
Faced with such a large-scale Fire Release attack, there was simply nowhere to evade.
Although the two-headed monster didn't seem particularly intelligent, living beings instinctively feared danger.
Even though it desperately wanted to capture Yatsu Murasaki, it still remembered the pain of being burned by flames.
In its eyes, even having its arms severed by an axe or naginata and suffering wounds deep enough to expose bone was nothing compared to the agony of being engulfed by fire.
"To be able to use so many Fire Release techniques, Yukito-chan, you really surprise me again and again!"
Shiranui Mizuki gazed at the monster struggling, roaring, and screaming within the sea of flames and couldn't help but speak with admiration.
Although Yukito's physical abilities and combat skills still lagged somewhat behind those of a full-fledged Anti-Demon Ninja, his endless arsenal of powerful ninjutsu was more than capable of compensating for those shortcomings.
If one had to compare them, although both were called ninjas, Anti-Demon Ninjas specialized more in direct close-quarters combat, whereas Yukito and the ninjas from the Naruto world resembled fragile mages or assassins with overwhelming offensive power but relatively low defenses.
Of course, for taijutsu specialists, ninja with unique bloodline abilities, or monsters like Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, such weaknesses simply did not exist.
Watching the two-headed monster repeatedly attempt to break free from the sea of flames, only to be forced back again and again by Yukikaze's lightning bullets, Yukito frowned slightly as he sensed the amount of chakra remaining in his body.
Although he had only recently reached the level of an elite Chunin, that was merely according to the power scale used in the game.
If one had to compare, it could probably be likened to Sasuke's growth period between the Chunin Exams and the beginning of Shippuden. His chakra couldn't compare to Naruto, who had a cheat-like advantage, but it was still far stronger than Kakashi's—probably around two or three times Kakashi's chakra reserves.
After continuously releasing ninjutsu like that, he still had about half of his chakra remaining.
"Yukikaze, if you can truly learn the Shadow Clone Technique, then I'll teach you a way to use it right now!"
As the fire in the corridor gradually faded, the two-headed monster's body lay in a bloody mess, covered in burn marks everywhere. Although it wasn't dead, it was clearly unable to recover any further. Yukito glanced at the concrete floor, still glowing red-hot from the flames, then turned to Yukikaze beside him, a meaningful smile playing on his lips.
Yukito silently summoned his system character attribute panel, and a semi-transparent light screen instantly appeared before his eyes.
Name: Yukito Mizuki (Character Template: Uchiha Izuna, Second Character unlocked upon breaking through Kage-level)
Age: 17
Level: 61 (Elite Chunin-level) 255545 / 85000 +
Bloodline Limit: Sharingan (Dojutsu Power 635 / 1000) +
Skills: Three Body Technique, Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, Hell Viewing Technique, Shadow Clone Technique…
Items: soldier pill 46, exploding tag 99, Shuriken 99, Antidote 4, Blood Replenishing Pill 8, Sealing Scroll 3, Character Time-Limited Experience Card 4, Hallucinogenic Flower Nectar 30 (These are all the items in the inventory; they were not fully listed before)
Current Quest: A-rank: Slay Modified Monster, Prevent Yatsu Murasaki from being captured and taken prisoner! (Quest Completion Reward: 500,000 Experience Points, Character Time-Limited Experience Card ×1)
Available Quests:
A-rank: Subdue Fallen Demons
A-rank: Annihilate Demon Stronghold
B-rank: True Ninja
B-rank: Monster Slayer…
Seeing the content displayed on the system quest panel, Yukito's eyes lit up.
He hadn't expected to gain such a harvest today, having impulsively decided to come to this abandoned hospital with Shiranui and Yukikaze to carry out an Anti-Demon Ninja mission.
Indeed, the rewards he had gained from secretly slaying lone demons in the past were far inferior to those of the Anti-Demon Ninja organization, which provided intelligence, assistance, and logistical support.
In just half a day, he had already accumulated over 200,000 experience points from slaying demons—enough to level up twice!
He had even triggered an A-rank mission this time, which, in addition to 500,000 experience points, also awarded a most precious limited-time character trial card!
Before his transmigration to this world, when Yukito Mizuki played this Naruto mobile game, the official game also ran limited-time character card events, where players had to obtain specific character skins through events or by spending money, as well as special characters that would not normally appear in the gacha pool.
The Uchiha Izuna character template card that Yukito was currently using was one he had obtained from an event before his transmigration.
The limited-time character trial card provided by the system was not merely a cosmetic skin with minor stat boosts like in his previous game—it allowed him to temporarily wield the full power of Uchiha Izuna at his peak.
Aside from this mission, Yukito had only received such rewards from the system when he first bound and activated it, and when his level broke through bottlenecks to reach Genin, Chunin, and Elite Chunin!
Seeing that the two-headed demon—or rather, the one-headed demon now—still had such stubborn vitality and had not yet died, Yukito directly pulled out dozens of explosive tags from his system backpack, stuffed them into the Shadow Clone standing beside him, and then signaled with his eyes for the clone to rush toward the demon not far away.
"Hurry and leave—an explosion is about to happen here!"
Dozens of explosive tags—especially system-produced ones, which were more powerful than standard Naruto-world tags. Yukito had once tested one, and it produced an explosion comparable to a hand grenade. He couldn't even imagine what dozens stacked together would do.