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At this stage, Orochimaru was still a normal ninja. However, even so, his reputation on the battlefield was not ideal... Coldness, even cold-bloodedness, was an inherent trait of Orochimaru.

Yuzuru didn't know that Orochimaru would take the blame for him, but even if he had known, he wouldn't have cared. It was only natural for everyone connected to Ryūchi Cave to help each other.

The Amegakure ninja took the bizarre corpses of the victims back, but they didn't realize that this was the first time in many years that Natural Energy had reappeared on the battlefield. This matter was far more significant than they imagined.

With the three Great Sage Regions in seclusion and the First Hokage long gone, the Shinobi World's understanding of Natural Energy, Sage Mode, and Sage Mode had almost completely vanished.

Of course, Yuzuru didn't care about the significance of the matter. His only thought when performing the jutsu was to see if the Summoning Technique would succeed... As it turned out, a "Blood Pact" might be more trustworthy than a contract written on paper.

For a moment, Yuzuru worried that he might summon the White Snake Sage. In reality, he was overthinking... Setting aside the White Snake Sage's personal will, the sheer amount of Natural Energy it carried would consume too much Chakra for the current Yuzuru to pay for passage through the spatial dimension.

After leaving the immediate combat zone, Yuzuru attempted to use the Summoning Technique again, but he was very careful about the amount of Chakra he invested, so he didn't need a very large summoning snake.

After several attempts, he finally summoned a Communication Summoning Snake.

On one hand, he wanted to send a message to Captain Torifu Akimichi that he was still alive; on the other hand, he wanted to establish some connection with Orochimaru through this method.

If possible...

Looking at the small snake he had summoned, Yuzuru took out a scroll and said:

"Can you understand me? Next time someone summons a summoning snake from Ryūchi Cave, you are to respond to the summoning and give this scroll to them."

The "someone" he referred to could only be Orochimaru.

After hearing Yuzuru's words, the summoning snake tilted its head in a very human-like manner, but it didn't give any further reaction, such as speaking. It simply flicked out its tongue and swallowed the scroll in Yuzuru's hand.

Well, it's a good thing for a snake to be "taciturn." As long as it can be controlled, that's enough.

Seeing the summoning snake swallow the scroll, Yuzuru felt relieved. In his impression, Orochimaru and the summoning snakes he summoned liked to preserve things in this manner.

After swallowing the scroll, the summoning snake automatically dispelled the summoning.

This method of message delivery was quite passive, but there was nothing he could do. As a low-ranking ninja, he had no other means of communicating with Konoha's front-line camp.

"I just don't know if this message can be delivered in time. If I've already returned, and the message hasn't arrived yet, that would be hilarious."

"However, given how frequently ninja have been clashing in the great war in the Land of Rain, I shouldn't be that unlucky. Orochimaru must be frequently summoning his summoning beasts for battle."

The current Orochimaru was just a juvenile; his combat methods were not as varied as they would be later.

After this interlude, Yuzuru continued to advance. Having encountered Amegakure ninja earlier, his subsequent actions became increasingly cautious.

He took off his Konoha forehead protector and temporarily placed it in his ninja tool pouch.

At this point, Yuzuru had basically determined that he was not a ninja with combat talent. Simply put, even after improving his physical base attributes and acquiring many skills through dungeons, his performance on the battlefield was no longer as astonishing...

He didn't consider himself the type of person who could turn 100 points of combat power into 120 points on the battlefield.

If a ninja truly had excellent combat aptitude, theoretically, they could be at ease on the battlefield using the Fourth Hokage's Body Flicker Technique. Yet, in the previous chaotic battle, Yuzuru had been too slow to even use the Body Flicker and had been hit by an enemy's heavy blow.

In fact, Yuzuru was being too hard on himself. It was already quite good that he had evolved from a mere cannon fodder to cannon fodder that could move around on the battlefield in such a short time.

Acquiring the Fourth Hokage's ninjutsu did not mean that a ninja could truly be equivalent to the Fourth Hokage... How did that saying go? Compared to the Fourth Hokage, any ninja seemed inadequate.

The scene in the Land of Rain was shocking. Although ninja generally would not deliberately attack civilian towns, accidental casualties alone could lead to the deaths of hundreds or thousands of ordinary people... Both Sunagakure and Amegakure favored large-scale poisoning and biological warfare in this ninja war.

In a poisonous environment, if a civilian took just one extra breath, they would never be able to breathe again for the rest of their lives.

The war had caused too many tragedies, so it was not strange that the Akatsuki Organization appeared here later, nor was it strange that the Akatsuki Organization transformed from a peace organization into an extremist one... "When Pain arrives, Konoha will be at peace." Is that hard to understand?

Look at the Land of Rain now.

Night fell, and Yuzuru encountered no further unexpected situations. In the latter half of the night, he found a cave and prepared to rest there for a few hours.

As mentioned before, the more dangerous the environment, the less one should rush, and the more important it is to rest and conserve stamina.

However, before he could rest for long, a thunderous roar comparable to a natural disaster suddenly woke him up. He abruptly turned his head and saw a bright light outside the cave entrance, as if it were daytime.

"What's happening..."

This phenomenon, where the ground and atmosphere trembled simultaneously, accompanied by intense light... Was someone "planting the sun" outside?

Yuzuru suddenly rushed to the cave entrance. The cold and damp air outside immediately invigorated him. He then saw the "ball of light" on the ground in the distance. He understood almost instantly what had happened because he had seen this "phenomenon" before—in the "Nine-Tails' Rampage" dungeon.

"Tailed Beast Ball..."

Someone was fighting a Jinchuriki. Based on the previous intelligence, Yuzuru guessed the most likely scenario: the Iwagakure Jinchuriki was fighting Hanzō of Amegakure...

"Good opportunity!"

A battle of this scale would attract the attention of all the ninja in this area. Yuzuru could use this chance to escape the most dangerous zone while also bringing back such crucial intelligence for Konoha.

Yuzuru took out a scroll, quickly recorded the Jinchuriki's battle and his own speculation, then cut his finger and used the Summoning Technique again to summon a communication snake.

"Ugh..."

Well, it was the same communication snake from the daytime. It had indeed followed Yuzuru's instructions and responded to the next summoning, but the summoner was still Yuzuru.

"The request remains the same, but add another scroll..."