The sensor ninja quickly withdrew his perception. The enemy had an elite jonin-level ninja; if he noticed the sensing, there would be trouble.
"Captain, they should be carrying out an escort mission. Otherwise, they wouldn't have brought ordinary people to the border battlefield, much less specifically sheltered from the rain."
The sensor ninja analyzed:
"If they were on an espionage or assassination mission, they wouldn't have given us a chance to discover them."
"An escort mission at a time like this?"
"One elite jonin and three chunin, a standard formation? And they think they can escort two ordinary people through our defensive line?"
The captain snorted. "It's wartime, which means the escort targets are important. Konoha probably had no choice but to accept this mission!"
"Hmph, they even used a technique to make a place to spend the night. Some client's unreasonable demand... I've seen plenty of idiots like that!"
The captain pondered carefully for a moment, then nodded sharply.
"Even if it's an assassination, with ordinary people holding them back, taking on Konoha's elite squad isn't something we can do... Go gather at least three squads and two jonin. Take them down!"
The captain ordered another ninja. The man specialized in speed; he nodded and was about to leave.
"You... aren't going anywhere!"
A somewhat childish voice suddenly came from behind them. The three were startled, but before they could turn around, the voice said coldly:
"Impact Wave!"
"Boom—"
Even in the rain, the scorching ring of fire sent the three Rain ninjas flying!
Straight toward the hole Orochimaru had opened!
"Transformation Technique: Pig!"
"Oink~~"
The fastest enemy had barely landed when Satoru, who had long been lying in wait and used Blink to ambush him, turned him into a pink pig that could only spin in circles on the ground!
"Damn it! How did this brat appear?!"
The captain roared and was about to charge forward the instant his feet touched the ground, but his body suddenly froze and shock appeared on his face.
"Hell Viewing Technique!"
Uchiha Mikoto appeared at the entrance of the hole. Seizing the moment the enemy's mind was shaken, she launched a Genjutsu ambush against their captain!
"Captain!"
The enemy sensor ninja immediately noticed that the captain had fallen under Genjutsu and quickly formed hand seals.
"Release!"
The captain blanked out for a moment before waking from the Genjutsu. The sensor ninja sighed in relief and moved his foot, only to feel the ground suddenly crack beneath him!
"Earth Release: Headhunter Technique!"
Nawaki's voice came from underground. The immense strength granted by his enhanced body dragged the enemy sensor ninja, who did not specialize in taijutsu, directly underground!
"Pyroblast!"
A Pyroblast the size of a washbasin was already smashing into the captain's face just after his Genjutsu had been dispelled!
At the same time, a barrage of shuriken and kunai turned the captain into a pincushion!
"Boom!!"
Even in the rain, the Pyroblast Satoru launched with Arcane Power lost none of its strength as it exploded violently!
"Poof!"
As expected of a Rain chunin captain, he escaped Satoru's Pyroblast and Mikoto's ninja tool ambush with a Substitution Technique.
Seeing two of his teammates get ambushed in succession, Chakra light flared around the pink pig, and he changed back—
Being restrained by the Transformation Technique, instinctively bursting out Chakra in desperation was practically second nature to ninjas. Satoru found that rather speechless.
But who could blame the Transformation Technique for being mandatory? It had flaws worthy of complaint, but it was already enough!
"Transformation Technique: Turtle!"
Continuing to inflict dual... humiliation upon the enemy's mind and body, Satoru used Blink to appear behind the enemy captain—
Nawaki's "Earth Release: Headhunter Technique" could hold that chunin down for a while.
With Nawaki's Chakra reserves, even if the enemy was a chunin, he could keep him restrained through sheer attrition.
Under the surveillance of Mage Eye, the location where the enemy's Substitution Technique would place him was no secret to Satoru.
It was on the branch of a large tree.
"Konoha Whirlwind Kick!"
With a powerful spinning low kick, Satoru blasted the completely unprepared captain down to the ground. Mikoto's shuriken followed up in time, though the captain narrowly dodged them.
"Satoru-kun! Three o'clock!"
"Got it!"
"Impact Wave!"
The fiery ring blasted the captain, who had just climbed back up, into the air again—straight toward three o'clock!
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
"Boom—"
Mikoto's Great Fireball instantly swallowed the captain's figure, but Satoru frowned.
"Mikoto, it's another Substitution Technique!"
This time, the enemy captain's Substitution Technique placed him near the turtle.
"What is this? Genjutsu?"
The captain's eyelid twitched wildly as he looked at the turtle blankly circling on the ground, at a complete loss.
"Release!"
The turtle continued wandering in circles. Naturally, methods for dispelling Genjutsu were useless against the Transformation Technique.
With no time to try anything else, he could only face Satoru and Mikoto as they attacked again.
"Water Release: Water Fang Bullet!"
The pooled water on the ground and the curtain of rain in the air transformed into two spinning columns of water, attacking Satoru and Mikoto simultaneously from incredibly tricky angles.
Satoru frowned, cast Scorching Swiftness on himself, and flashed aside to evade the water columns. He also cast Magic Suppression on both himself and Mikoto.
Mikoto swiftly completed her hand seals.
"Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique!"
The intense linear flames rapidly struck the incoming water column, giving Mikoto ample time to react.
"Flame Shield!"
Three spinning fireballs sent steam rising around Satoru. Together with the mist created by Mikoto's Fire Release colliding with the water columns, the battlefield was now shrouded in dense fog.
"Water Release: Hiding in Mist Technique!"
It was not as though only Mist ninjas could use this technique. They simply used it best, capable of making a Rank D technique achieve Rank A effects.
Using the powerful properties of Arcane Power, Satoru could also produce an overpowered magical version of the Hiding in Mist Technique!
Watching Satoru's figure gradually vanish, the enemy captain gritted his teeth. His opponents looked young, practically two children, but their strength was absolutely among the strongest of the chunin!
"Water Release: Water Formation Wall!"
He clenched his teeth and used a defensive ninjutsu to protect himself and his teammate. But just as the Water Formation Wall was completed...
"Transformation Technique: Pig!"
"Oink~"
The captain turned into a piglet!
A piglet obviously could not form hand seals, and the Water Formation Wall immediately vanished!
At the same time, Mikoto's shuriken and kunai turned the helpless piglet into a pincushion!
"Transformation Technique: Turtle!"
The piglet changed back into the Rain Ninja Captain, covered in ninja tools, and he screamed miserably as he collapsed to the ground.
Meanwhile, the turtle that had just recovered its original form changed back again...
If the casting principle behind such defensive ninjutsu was understood as channeled magic, then the Transformation Technique forcibly interrupted Chakra output through transformation, thereby disrupting ninjutsu requiring sustained output!
After all, there were only a few people in the entire Shinobi World with as many special techniques as Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage.
"Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique!"
Satoru's follow-up ninjutsu attack sent sharp wind blades slicing into the already heavily wounded Rain Ninja Captain, leaving him at death's door!
"Mikoto, I'll leave him to you... Nawaki can barely hold on over there."
A Pyroblast blew the turtle on the ground into a charred heap. Violent steam rose up; if Satoru had not deliberately held back because he had another use for him, this ninja who had not even gotten the chance to display his speed advantage would have died right there.
Of the three Rain chunin, two had already been dealt with!
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