Take a Deep Breath, Dizziness Is Normal

The Konohagakure ninja wore contemplative expressions as they chatted about all sorts of things.

No one noticed that, amid the alarm raised by the rabbit triggering the barrier, a figure had already silently breached Souta Village's perimeter and entered the village.

"What a shame. Shunpo is pretty good, but it isn't Space-Time Ninjutsu. Getting through this kind of barrier is really troublesome."

Glancing at the white rabbit Gaimaru had bitten to death, Yoru, whose form was concealed by Kyokko, curled his lips.

A Shinigami's Shunpo was incredibly fast, but it was not a spatial movement technique. It was a skill that moved the body at extreme speed in an instant, its principle relying on an explosive release of one's Spirit Power (Chakra) to achieve blistering movement.

It was similar in principle to the Body Flicker Technique of the ninja world and Soru from the pirate world. However, Shunpo was the fastest and most practical of the three, appearing almost like teleportation.

It was practically unbeatable against the naked eye, but against methods such as barriers and screens, it was rather powerless.

"If only I knew Sonido. Shunpo is still lacking something..."

Unfortunately, Sonido cost a full fifty thousand Points. For Yoru as he was now, it was truly a luxury.

The surrounding environment was thick with moisture, and rain often fell. The entire Souta Village looked somewhat damp, with patches of mud covering the ground.

The houses lining both sides of the streets appeared worn and dilapidated. Many walls bore marks from blades and swords, as well as black scorch marks left by explosions. Konohagakure ninja occasionally dashed through the streets, and the atmosphere was grim.

Yoru's figure silently flitted through the streets, and he soon locked onto a large warehouse.

"One Jonin and four Chunin..."

"It seems Konohagakure's forces have reached the point of being stretched thin."

Watching the four vigilant ninja, Yoru's lips curved upward slightly.

Under normal circumstances, a resource warehouse like this would be guarded by at least two or three squads—that was, more than two Jonin and over ten Chunin. Yet now, there was only one squad.

Clearly, after fighting Wind, Earth, and Lightning in succession, and now going to war with Kirigakure, even a powerhouse like Konohagakure was beginning to suffer from a shortage of troops!

Using Kyokko and Shunpo, Yoru appeared behind the Jonin in an instant. The Asauchi in his hand pierced straight through the Konohagakure Jonin's heart.

The sudden pain made the Jonin's eyes fly wide open, but Yoru tightly covered his mouth and nose.

"Mm! An ene—"

"Take a deep breath. Dizziness is normal."

With a twist of his wrist, Yoru used the Asauchi piercing the man's heart to thoroughly shred it. The Konohagakure Jonin's body trembled twice before going still.

[ Ding! Successfully killed one Jonin. Reward: 1000 Points. ]

According to the system's standards, a Jonin was worth one thousand Points, while a Chunin was worth two hundred. Genin were even more pitifully cheap, worth only fifty Points.

This left Yoru deeply indignant. In this world, Genin were obviously the strongest, weren't they? Why were Genin worth only fifty Points?!

"What's that smell?"

The faint scent of blood that had escaped still drew the attention of the nearby Chunin. But when they instinctively looked toward where the bloody smell had come from, the world before their eyes was already spinning.

Thud.

Four lifeless bodies collapsed weakly to the ground. Yoru casually flicked the blood from his Asauchi, collected sixteen hundred Points, and walked into the warehouse without looking back.

The warehouse was enormous, filled with vast quantities of military supplies piled together. A few sealing and alert barriers had been placed over their surfaces.

Kunai, Shuriken, Military Ration Pills, Exploding Tags, weapons...

At this point in the Third Shinobi World War, the practice of using sealing Scrolls to store supplies had already emerged. However, sealing Scrolls were extremely expensive to produce, and with the war nearing its end and massive amounts of resources already consumed, even Konohagakure did not have many of them.

Yoru, however, had quite a few.

Taking two sealing Scrolls from the compartment at his waist, Yoru showed no restraint and stuffed all the Military Ration Pills, Exploding Tags, and other items in the warehouse into them.

What, you ask about those Kunai and Shuriken?

Give him a break. How much could those things possibly be worth? If he was going to rob something, of course he would take the expensive stuff!

In any case, his mission was to cause destruction. He did not need to turn these things in, so anything he could take was his.

But Yoru soon discovered a problem.

Among this batch of supplies, Exploding Tags were the most valuable. But if he took all of them, then without the chain explosions triggered by the Exploding Tags, the resulting commotion would probably not be enough to completely destroy this entire warehouse district.

"Forget it. Chakra will recover after a bit of rest. If I miss out on these things, that would be a pure loss."

Kirigakure lay far overseas, distant from the mainland. The village's overall strength and material supplies were extremely lacking. Even Yoru, an ANBU squad captain, earned a pitifully small salary.

Don't blame Yoru for lacking ambition. He had simply been poor for too long!

After storing the crammed-full Scrolls in the compartment at his waist, Yoru finally turned his gaze back to the warehouse before him.

With a faintly regretful look in his eyes, Yoru raised his right palm toward the military supplies in the warehouse. A strange chant slipped from his lips.

"Ye ruler! Mask of flesh and blood, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams, stand only with claws and fangs!"

"Bakudo #33..."

"Sokatsui!"

As the incantation was chanted, pale flames burst from Yoru's palm and slammed into the warehouse, before violently exploding!

To make up for the missing chain explosions that the Exploding Tags would have caused, Yoru directly chose a fully incanted Sokatsui. The explosive flames it produced instantly swallowed and engulfed the entire warehouse.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!!"

A violent explosion erupted, black smoke and fire shooting into the sky along with those words.

Countless Konohagakure ninja stared in shock toward the exploding warehouse and rushed over.

"What's going on? Did the warehouse catch fire?!"

"What fire? Everything in the warehouse has security measures! This is an enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Damn it, how could there be an enemy attack? What were the security squad doing?!"

"Hurry and notify Lord Fugaku and Lord Shinnosuke!"

The clamor rose and fell, but Yoru's destruction was far from over.

The warehouses were not far apart. With Yoru's Shunpo, reaching another warehouse took only an instant.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Just as the destruction of this warehouse caught the attention of Konohagakure's ninja, another warehouse exploded with a thunderous blast—and that warehouse contained Exploding Tags and other such items!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle...

"BOOM!!!"

The flames of Sokatsui ignited the Exploding Tags inside the warehouse. Accompanied by an ear-splitting blast, a terrifying shockwave sent everything nearby flying, while dazzling firelight soared more than ten meters into the air!

The terrifying explosion made all of Souta Village shudder violently.

While the warehouse explosions drew a large number of Konohagakure ninja away, Yoru silently arrived within Konohagakure's main headquarters in Souta Village.

With a swift stroke of his blade, he ended the somewhat anxious Jonin guard at the entrance and gained one thousand Points.

Yoru strode straight inside, where Scrolls arranged across the desk immediately came into view.

"Supply route..."

"Kirigakure Front frontline camp layout plan..."

"Letter of appointment assigning Jonin Jiraiya as supreme commander of the front line..."

"Master roster..."

Without the slightest hesitation, Yoru gathered every piece of useful information, then cast Kyokko once more and prepared to leave.

But at the very instant Yoru's body was concealed by Kyokko—

A Kunai suddenly tore through the air, flying straight for Yoru's throat!

"Clang!"

"So you're the one who infiltrated this place and caused all this destruction and chaos!"

The Asauchi blocked the Kunai. Along with a low voice, a figure about Yoru's age had already appeared before him.

What met his eyes was a pair of crimson Three-Tomoe Sharingan!