"Wait. You guys go first."
Natsuki suddenly thought of something and projected a bow.
Then he took out two vials of poison and sprinkled them on the Sword of the Thunder God.
He had just realized a problem.
The unlock condition for Dwelling of the Poison Cloud was to poison thirty targets at once, but it didn't specify that Poison Magic had to be used.
Right now, there were more than thirty Sunagakure ninja targets within the smoke.
"You're going to attack them?"
Hatake Sakumo said in a deep voice. "There are many sensory ninjas in Sunagakure's main camp. If you attack, our position will be exposed."
It was no longer a secret that Natsuki knew archery.
"Our mission is already complete. There's no need to cause extra trouble."
The Hyuga Jonin agreed.
"We are currently too deep in enemy territory. Even if I don't attack them, we will be exposed very soon."
Natsuki explained. "My idea is to split up. I'll use my archery to create a diversion."
"This..."
Hatake Sakumo was caught in a dilemma for a moment.
"I am the captain. Listen to me."
Natsuki pulled rank.
"Be careful."
Hatake Sakumo hesitated for a moment, then left with the other two Jonin.
Armament Haki!
Reinforcement Magecraft!
The projected Sword of the Thunder God, after being doubly reinforced, exuded an intimidating aura.
Natsuki looked at the Sunagakure ninjas in the chaos.
Their reaction was also very fast, and they were already using Wind Release to disperse the fog.
Natsuki immediately released the bowstring.
The Sword of the Thunder God flew out and exploded instantly upon entering the fog.
Countless fragments, carrying the poison on them, rained down on the Sunagakure ninjas.
They completely didn't expect the enemy to attack them instead of taking the time to escape.
Screams rang out.
"It's Natsuki!"
A voice containing a hint of anger rang out.
From within the smoke, Rasa appeared.
Natsuki's frequent use of archery had allowed Sunagakure to gather intel on him.
"No, wait—there's poison in the fog!"
Rasa's expression suddenly changed, feeling difficulty breathing.
[Congratulations, Host. You have unlocked Gordon Template Ability 2: Dwelling of the Poison Cloud.]
Looking at the text appearing before his eyes, Natsuki couldn't help but nod.
He then put away the bow, turned around, and used Shadow Assassin to flee.
BOOM!
Shortly after he left, various ninjutsu rained down.
The ground was instantly turned into a mess.
Rasa rushed over, looking around with an ugly expression.
Soon, he fell to his knees, his breathing becoming increasingly difficult.
He hurriedly drank a vial of antidote, only then feeling a bit better.
"Stop chasing!"
Chiyo finally arrived.
Actually, from the moment Natsuki was discovered to the explosion of the Sword of the Thunder God, the entire process took less than ten seconds.
The reason Chiyo was a step late was because she received news that Tsunade had personally taken action.
So she rushed over there.
But not long after she left, she heard the violent explosion at Sunagakure's main camp and instantly realized she had fallen for a diversionary tactic.
"All medical ninjas, save the wounded!"
After Chiyo finished speaking, she immediately walked up to Rasa.
Rasa was the future of Sunagakure. He absolutely could not die here.
"What a potent poison!"
Chiyo said after examining him.
Because Natsuki wanted to help Tsunade decipher Hanzo's poison, and because the Curse-Breaking Poison Recipe required a mixture of seven deadly poisons, he carried them with him.
However, for Chiyo, although it was troublesome, it wasn't unsolvable.
Half an hour later.
In the main tent of Sunagakure's main camp, there was a dead silence.
Chiyo stood silently in front of the map.
The other Sunagakure Jonin also didn't dare to speak, standing in place without saying a word.
Rasa had been detoxified after Chiyo's treatment.
He should have gone to rest, but because the situation tonight was truly terrible, he forced himself to come to the main tent.
Now, he was standing pale-faced to the front left of the Sunagakure Jonin.
Standing to the front right was Pakura.
She also said nothing, waiting quietly.
Soon, an ANBU ninja walked in.
Everyone looked at him.
"Lady Chiyo."
The ANBU ninja bowed slightly. "The matter has been investigated."
"Speak."
Chiyo said concisely.
"What can be confirmed at present is that there were four intruders, including Hatake Sakumo and Natsuki."
The ANBU ninja said in a deep voice. "Along the way, they eliminated eight hidden sentries and destroyed two barriers."
"No wonder."
Chiyo nodded slightly.
With the strength of Hatake Sakumo, Natsuki, and the others, it was indeed possible for them to infiltrate the core of Sunagakure.
Not to mention they brought a Hyuga Jonin with the Byakugan and a Jonin skilled in barrier jutsu.
In the original work, Hoshigaki Kisame and Uchiha Itachi alone could freely enter and exit the heavily guarded Konoha.
"Natsuki entered the tent using Earth Release, controlled the medical ninja with genjutsu, and then took all the poison."
The ANBU ninja continued.
"Earth Release? Genjutsu?"
Chiyo couldn't help but frown. "This Natsuki is truly a genius among geniuses."
She originally thought it was amazing enough for Natsuki to possess Jonin-level strength at such a young age, but it turned out he not only knew archery but also Earth Release and genjutsu.
"He cannot be allowed to live!"
Rasa said with an ashen face. "When he grows up, he will definitely become a huge threat to Sunagakure!"
He didn't notice for a moment and was poisoned by Natsuki, to the point where he now wished he could tear him into eight pieces.
"We don't need to wait for him to grow up. He is already very troublesome now."
Pakura said with a calm face.
"Konoha's goal was obviously my newly made poison."
Chiyo interrupted their conversation and said slowly.
"Then what should we do now?"
Rasa asked hurriedly.
"First, we must act quickly before Tsunade deciphers my poison. I estimate she needs at least a week."
Chiyo thought for a moment.
She was very confident in her poison.
If Tsunade hadn't put a lot of pressure on her recently, she would even think Tsunade couldn't decipher her poison.
"Second, I will continue to research new poisons."
Chiyo added.
Hearing this, everyone felt relieved.
Although Konoha succeeded tonight, in terms of losses, it wasn't significant.
Instead, the explosion of the Sword of the Thunder God Natsuki shot before leaving severely injured many of them.
Coupled with the poison, it would render them unable to fight for a short time, consuming more of Sunagakure's manpower and material resources.
Meanwhile, the atmosphere in the main tent of Konoha's main camp was the complete opposite.
"You guys did very well and perfectly completed the mission."
Tsunade looked at Natsuki and said with satisfaction.
"This is all Natsuki's merit."
Hatake Sakumo said truthfully. "We only played a supporting role."
"Everyone was indispensable to completing this mission."
Tsunade shook her head.
"Teacher Tsunade."
Natsuki took out a storage summoning scroll. "All the poison is inside."
"I will decipher it as soon as possible."
Tsunade paused. "But deciphering it is not the most urgent matter."
Hatake Sakumo and the others were slightly taken aback, feeling somewhat confused.
"Chiyo has definitely guessed our objective."
Tsunade chuckled. "I bet Sunagakure will take action soon."
Hatake Sakumo and the others immediately understood.
Sunagakure naturally wouldn't foolishly wait for Tsunade to decipher Chiyo's poison.
"During this time, I will strengthen the management of logistical supplies."
Nara Shikatsu said immediately.
He was initially responsible for the construction of outposts and strongholds, but since that was no longer needed as much, he transitioned to handling logistics.
At the same time, he also served as an advisor, providing counsel to Tsunade.
"Mm, that's one aspect."
Tsunade nodded and added. "It would be best if we could beat them at their own game."
"We pretend to be poisoned?"
Nara Shikatsu asked subconsciously.
"I do have that idea."
Tsunade admitted. "But how to implement it still needs to be discussed."
"If we want to beat them at their own game, we first need to find out where Sunagakure will poison us, and who will do it."
Nara Shikatsu said thoughtfully.
"Let's try it first."
Tsunade knew this matter was very difficult, and she couldn't guarantee success.
Fortunately, in the current situation, they temporarily had the upper hand.
"You guys worked hard tonight. Go get some rest."
Tsunade looked at Natsuki's group of four.
The four nodded, turned around, and left the main tent.
"Let's do a mission together again when there's a chance."
Hatake Sakumo said with a smile.
"Definitely."
After Natsuki said goodbye to them, he returned to his tent.
"You're finally back!"
Seeing him, Nawaki jumped up.
Nonou visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
They didn't participate in this mission due to their strength.
But this mission was very dangerous. They hadn't slept all night just to wait for Natsuki to return.
"I'm fine."
Natsuki said with a relaxed face. "The mission was successfully completed. I even took a stroll around Sunagakure's main camp, and they couldn't do anything about me."
Nonou couldn't bring herself to be happy at all.
This sounded no different from dancing on the tip of a knife. One wrong move would mean death.
"How can your strength improve so fast?"
Hearing this, Nawaki clenched his fists. "Damn it, I want to participate in such missions too!"
Although such missions were dangerous, from another perspective, they were indeed very impressive—enough to become a lifelong bragging right.
"It's nothing. Just two words: hard work."
Natsuki blinked.
Nawaki's mouth twitched, resisting the urge to punch him.
In terms of hard work and training time, he was not inferior to Natsuki.
The two of them trained together most of the time.
But unfortunately, Natsuki's strength just improved faster than his, and much faster at that.
It was simply unscientific.
"Alright, rest early. We have missions to do tomorrow."
Natsuki clapped his hands.
Nawaki and Nonou nodded slightly.
Now that Natsuki was back, they didn't need to worry anymore.
The three of them took out their sleeping bags and lay down on the carpet.
Natsuki closed his eyes, and a line of text appeared.
[You have awakened the Nami Template.]
Seeing the new character template, Natsuki's first reaction was that there were actually female character templates.
Because the templates he had awakened before were all male characters, he had misunderstood.
Thinking about it carefully, having female character templates was normal.
After all, he only inherited the character template abilities. Gender didn't matter.
Nami, undoubtedly the Nami from One Piece.
She had a nickname: Cat Burglar.
When she first met Luffy, she was being chased because she stole the Grand Line map from the Buggy Pirates.
Natsuki guessed he awakened the Nami template because he stole Chiyo's poison.
He looked at the Nami template.
[Name: Nami]
[Period: Dressrosa Arc]
[World: One Piece]
[Rank: A-Rank]
[Ability 1: Nami's Bojutsu — UNLOCKED] Effect: The bojutsu Natsuki excels in. No problem dealing with ordinary enemies.
[Ability 2: Navigator — LOCKED] Effect: Possesses super strong drawing talent. Can draw nautical charts, and will not lose direction at sea. Unlock Condition: Defeat three Tokubetsu Jonin skilled in Water Release.
[Ability 3: Master Thief — LOCKED] Effect: Can steal wallets, jewelry, and even personal items without the target noticing. Unlock Condition: Kill three Tokubetsu Jonin without the target noticing.
[Ability 4: Sorcery Clima-Tact Blueprint — LOCKED] Effect: An improved Clima-Tact using Weatheria's technology, capable of triggering intended weather phenomena. Unlock Condition: Forge the Sorcery Clima-Tact.
[Ability 5: Art of Weather — LOCKED] Effect: Utilize the Sorcery Clima-Tact to trigger a series of weather phenomena for combat, capable of creating attacks like heavy rain. Unlock Condition: Defeat one Jonin each of Wind, Water, Fire, Lightning, and Earth Release.
When Natsuki saw the first three abilities, he thought the Nami template didn't deserve an A-Rank.
But seeing Ability 4 and Ability 5, he felt he had hit the jackpot.
Ability 1, Nami's Bojutsu.
In One Piece, Nami did know bojutsu, and her staff could even be split into a three-section staff.
But her bojutsu could only be considered passable, mostly used in the early stages.
In the later stages, she became a mage, and her staff was like a magic wand.
Ability 2, Navigator.
At first glance, it seemed useless.
After all, this was the ninja world. Although there were seas, they only involved the Land of Water. The other four Great Nations were on land.
And even if they went to war with the Land of Water and Kirigakure, they wouldn't need ships or nautical charts.
But it wasn't completely useless. At least he wouldn't get lost at sea.
Of course, Natsuki valued the drawing talent this ability brought more.
Drawing was also a weapon.
In Naruto alone, there were two ninjas related to drawing.
One was Kurama Yakumo, whose Kekkei Genkai could turn drawings into reality.
The other was Sai, whose specialty, Super Beast Imitating Drawing, involved drawing animals on a scroll and giving them physical life.
Besides Naruto, there were similar existences in other worlds.
If Natsuki learned Super Beast Imitating Drawing, he might be able to trigger a new character template.
Fortunately, its unlock condition wasn't difficult.
He just needed to defeat three Tokubetsu Jonin skilled in Water Release.
With Natsuki's current strength, defeating Tokubetsu Jonin was absolutely no difficulty.
Ability 3, Master Thief.
How should he put it?
This ability would be quite useful in other worlds, but in the ninja world, it was rather average.
Normally, ninjas only carried ninja tools when going out on missions.
They wouldn't carry gold, silver, jewelry, or ninjutsu/secret jutsu scrolls on their person.
Going to steal from Daimyos, nobles, and wealthy merchants would be fine.
But as a ninja dealing with non-ninjas, even without being a master thief, one could easily accomplish the theft through force or genjutsu.
But maybe it would come in handy one day.
It was always good to have more skills.
Its unlock condition was slightly harder than the previous one, but only slightly.
Ability 4, Sorcery Clima-Tact Blueprint.
This was undoubtedly the core of the Nami template.
Because Ability 5, Art of Weather, relied on the Sorcery Clima-Tact to be executed.
The Sorcery Clima-Tact was a weapon with multiple abilities.
Its appearance was blue, and overall it was a slender staff, over 1.7 meters long.
Its unlock condition was to forge the Sorcery Clima-Tact.
Natsuki took a look at the blueprint. It was very intricate, and forging it probably wouldn't be easy.
But the key point lay in the materials used: it required two crucial materials—Lightning and Water chakra crystals.
The reason was related to Ability 5, Art of Weather.
Art of Weather, as the name suggested, was the manipulation of weather.
This was a series of techniques.
In One Piece, Nami used quite a few.
Among them, Natsuki felt there were three most important techniques.
The first was Mirage Tempo.
It used abnormal refraction and reflection of light to turn oneself invisible in the air.
The second was Weather Egg: Thunder Breed Tempo.
Its effect was freely manipulating lightning to attack enemies.
For Lightning Release ninjas, this was simply broken.
Not only did it increase the power of Lightning Release, but it also saved a massive amount of chakra.
In the original work, Uchiha Sasuke's Lightning Release: Kirin worked on a similar principle.
This S-Rank Lightning Release, known as the pinnacle of Lightning Release, required utilizing naturally existing lightning to be executed.
The third was Weather Egg: Rain Tempo.
Freely manipulating rain, even controlling the surrounding temperature and humidity to facilitate fog creation.
The ability to make it rain at will was essentially a territory magic for Water Release ninjas.
It allowed Water Release ninjas to have a power boost to their Water Release no matter where they were.
If Kirigakure knew about the Sorcery Clima-Tact, they would definitely go completely crazy.
Although the Sorcery Clima-Tact had many abilities, they mainly focused on Lightning and Water.
Requiring Lightning and Water chakra crystals was understandable.
Natsuki's first thought was the Sword of the Thunder God.
The Sword of the Thunder God was forged from a Lightning Release chakra crystal.
Besides that, the Lightning Swords Kiba used by Raiga Kurosuki, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, was also highly likely related to a Lightning Release chakra crystal.
Because these swords had the ability to attract lightning.
As for a Water Release chakra crystal, Natsuki couldn't think of any for the time being.
Perhaps Konoha had one.
Natsuki had accumulated a lot of merit now. If Konoha really had one, he could exchange for it.
How should he put it?
The Sorcery Clima-Tact most likely wouldn't be used in the war with Sunagakure.
In fact, it wasn't needed.
Because it rained every day in the Land of Rain.
After the war with Sunagakure ended and he returned to Konoha, he could find someone to forge the Sorcery Clima-Tact.
Ability 4 had another advantage.
It provided a blueprint.
Theoretically, as long as there were enough Lightning and Water chakra crystals, it could be mass-produced.
Then Konoha's Lightning Release and Water Release ninjas would have a significant advantage in combat.
Of course, theory was just theory.
Chakra crystals were too precious. Forging just one wouldn't be easy.
But with some effort, forging one for Nawaki and Nonou wouldn't be bad.
Because the Sorcery Clima-Tact itself was a powerful weapon.
Even without knowing Water Release or Lightning Release ninjutsu, one could still utilize its immense power.
After all, Nami didn't know them either.
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