The night passed without incident.
With a Shadow Clone standing guard, he could finally sleep until dawn.
After an exceptionally hearty breakfast, he dispelled the Shadow Clone that had kept watch. The flood of memories from the clone's night of vigilance hit him rather hard, but replenished by the energy from food, he quickly recovered.
Swish, swish, swish...
A rustling sound came from the forest.
Umino Sasuke gestured for Tejudo and the other two not to be nervous. The newcomers were the Ebisu Squad, here to take over their sentry patrol.
The Ebisu Squad was a mobile sentry patrol squad, responsible for taking over patrol duties when the nine sentry patrol squads in this zone returned to base for reassignment.
Each sentry patrol squad assigned to a fixed small zone worked in ten-day cycles. This counted as a C-rank mission, after which they could return to the corps base for reassignment, essentially giving them a day off.
Meanwhile, this mobile sentry patrol squad covered nine small zones. Including their own day off, that made exactly ten days per cycle, a perfectly arranged schedule.
Relatively speaking, this mobile sentry patrol mission was more dangerous, but its benefits were also better. Though both were C-rank missions, the rewards differed. For one cycle of mobile sentry patrol, they could basically receive the full fifty thousand ryo. More importantly, their supplies were all standard Soldier Pills.
Unlike the Umino Squad, which could only earn forty thousand ryo per cycle and received half its supplies in the form of the lowest-grade inferior Soldier Pills. If Inuzuka Ryo had not come from a ninja clan, then as a Genin, he would only have received inferior ones as well.
Aside from supplies and income, mobile patrol missions also granted two tiers more merit points upon settlement, which