"Phew, that was a close one. Looks like this route is useless too!" Standing in the middle of the road, Sarutobi Toru sighed.
Cloud Shinobi corpses lay scattered all around him. In the middle of the road, where the Cloud Shinobi had been guarding, a huge semicircular chunk of ground was abruptly missing, as though it had been scooped out with a spoon.
Today, Sarutobi Toru had done as usual: he wiped out all the Cloud Shinobi and was about to open the supply cart when a circular barrier suddenly rose around it. The cart was loaded with Explosive Tags, and it immediately exploded.
More than a hundred thousand Explosive Tags had detonated within that cramped barrier. If not for the Flying Thunder God Technique, even with Sarutobi Toru's defenses, he would have been crippled if not killed.
"Damn it, you really can't let your guard down in the Shinobi World. No matter how skilled you are, some jutsu or trap you've never seen before could still kill you."
Over this period, Sarutobi Toru had killed nearly several hundred Cloud Shinobi and intercepted close to half of their supplies, forcing them to abandon several routes. Their losses had been truly devastating.
In the end, the Cloud Shinobi had simply devised such a trap. Not only had they spent more than a hundred thousand Explosive Tags, but the famously united Cloud Shinobi had even deliberately sent out a squad of expendable men. They truly hated Sarutobi Toru to the bone.
"Seriously, every time I think I'm strong enough and don't need to play it safe anymore, I get hit with something like this. The Shinobi World is really hard to survive in."
After dusting himself off, Sarutobi Toru used the Flying Thunder God to leave. The Cloud Shinobi's supply lines had