Suddenly, the soldier pointed at several soldiers approaching them and asked, "Hey, which unit are you from? What are you doing here? Why aren't you out on patrol? Hey, I'm talking to you! Are you deaf?"
The squad leader turned to look at the soldiers as well. Suddenly, they closed in at an eerily fast pace. Sensing something wrong, the squad leader hurriedly pulled the soldier back. The soldier felt a cold flash sweep past his neck. By the time he regained his footing, his back was drenched in cold sweat. Those soldiers were charging at them with daggers-Kunai-in hand. If the squad leader had not pulled him back in time, he would already have been a cold corpse.
The squad leader was a battlefield veteran. Recognizing an enemy attack, he quickly shoved the soldier aside and rushed forward to engage them, shouting, "Hurry! Enemy attack! Notify the general and sound the alarm! Hurry!"
The squad leader was at the peak of the middle stage of the mortal realm, making him somewhat stronger than these Ninja. But fighting three at once still put him under tremendous strain. He knew he could not hold out for long. His only chance of survival was to alert the camp to the sneak attack as quickly as possible.
After a brief moment of shock, the soldier immediately ran to the camp's main gate. He found that all the guards there were already dead, presumably killed by those attackers. With no time to think, he sounded the alarm. A piercing siren rang out, throwing the entire camp into an uproar.
The soldier hurried back to help the squad leader. Realizing that things had gone wrong, the lead Ninja said, "Retreat. Our mission is complete. Don't create unnecessary complications." With that, he vanished using the **Body