A Nighttime Ambush

In the dead of night, in the silent camp of the wounded, Taiichi had just removed the IV needle from the back of a patient's hand. This was Kawata, the ninja who had been burned by Fire Style and suffered severe internal bleeding. At this moment, his previous injuries were no longer visible on the surface.

"Taiichi, thank you so much. If it weren't for you, I would be dead here."

"Alright, stop saying that. What you need now is a good rest to try to recover your fighting strength as soon as possible. The outpost is currently lacking in combat power," Taiichi comforted him.

"Okay, okay." Kawata complied with Taiichi's arrangement and obediently lay down on the bed to rest.

After an afternoon of treatment, Taiichi finally managed to get all the wounded from the outpost away. Of course, this did not include the three seriously wounded soldiers still lying there, since Taiichi was not a "god" yet.

After finishing the care of the three seriously injured people, Taiichi sat down on a stool and silently cultivated his Chakra to recover from the exhaustion caused by the day's treatment.

Tonight might be a sleepless night.

Two or three in the morning is when people are most sleepy.

At this moment, Taiichi, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened them, his gaze seemingly looking through the tent towards the center of the Camp.

Then, the continuous explosions and shouts of battle finally broke through the silence.

Taiichi did not leave the tent; according to the previous plan, he only needed to keep an eye on the wounded soldiers' Camp.

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The deafening noise also woke up the three seriously wounded soldiers who were fast asleep. As front-line combatants, even though they were seriously injured, the three struggled to get up and grabbed their weapons to protect Taiichi.

Taiichi felt a warmth in his heart as he watched everyone's actions. He also drew his Short Sword and reassured them, "Don't be nervous. Take care of yourselves later. I still have some fighting ability."

The three smiled, assuming that Taiichi was just trying to comfort them, but in their hearts they were determined to protect Taiichi even at the cost of their lives.

Just then, three Kunai pierced through the tent and flew towards Taiichi, who was standing in the middle of the three. Takayama, who was closest, used his only remaining arm to swing Short Sword and deflect the incoming Kunai.

Following the Kunai, three ninjas tore through the tent and rushed in. After confirming that there were only three wounded men and a little devil inside, their faces turned ferocious.

Faced with the enemies rushing into the tent, the three wounded soldiers were on high alert, as they were all still recovering from serious injuries. Their performance was predictably poor. Each of them chose an opponent and charged forward, shouting, "Taiichi, run! We'll hold them off!"

Seeing the three wounded soldiers so selflessly risking their lives, Taiichi moved, but he didn't hesitate to act quickly.

Using the Takayama's silhouette as cover, he quietly approached the two combatants from behind, and in the instant their weapons clashed, his Short Sword silently thrust out, piercing the enemy's heart through the armpit Chunin the Takayama, killing him instantly.

Before Takayama could react, Taiichi had already flashed out from behind him and rushed straight towards another group of ninjas fighting.

Only then did the enemy realize that the seemingly insignificant little devil in the tent was actually a real tiger—a man-eating tiger.

"Matsui, watch out!"

The warning was useless. Taiichi, who had charged forward with his sword, used his skillful movements to slip behind Matsui. Kawata, who was entangled in a fight with Matsui, became even more reckless and used a life-or-death fighting style to overwhelm Matsui, making it difficult for him to defend himself.

Taiichi n't have preferred an enemy with their back turned, and he raised his Short Sword to slash the ninja's neck.

By the time Matsui tried to turn around and defend himself against Kawata's attack, it was too late. Taiichi's Short Sword had already silently slashed across his neck.

The last enemy who broke into the tent was terrified. Seeing that Taiichi had finished off Matsui, had turned his attention to him, he risked Kunai by his opponent's kunai in order to force him back. He then turned and fled the tent in a panic.

Rewind a bit, to shortly before the three ninjas stormed into the wounded soldiers' camp.

Several Kunai strapped with Explosive Tag, were fired over the outer perimeter of the outpost and into the camp. Explosions echoed around the Camp.

Under the cover of the explosion, more than twenty ninjas rushed into the outpost, bypassing the outer defenses. However, they were not met with a chaotic Camp, but with a well-prepared ninja team. Although they numbered only half as many, their morale was in no way inferior.

"Damn it, how did they know we were coming to ambush us?" one of the leading blue-haired ninjas cursed.

"You still have the nerve to say that? I warned you long ago not to light fires during missions, and if you did, you had to cover up the traces. It must have been your traces from yesterday that were discovered by their patrolling ninjas," another green-haired ninja complained.

"Never mind, they outnumber us anyway, we'll just brute force them. The day before yesterday it was just our squad, today we have your squad with us, this job will be a piece of cake." The blue-haired ninja said arrogantly, not taking the Konoha Ninja seriously at all.

The green-haired ninja glanced around and nodded in agreement. Then he turned to the man beside him and said, "Little brother, take two men to their wounded soldiers' camp. They had quite a few wounded in the last attack. Go and take care of them all."

"Yes, brother." With that, he led the two away from the group and groped his way towards the wounded soldiers' camp.

"Kill the rest of you!" With that, the green-haired ninja led the charge.

The numerical advantage gave the attackers a significant morale boost, and for a time they were actually dominating the defense of Konoha.

Before they could turn their advantage into a victory, dozens of Kunai were suddenly shot out from the barracks nearby.

The overwhelming Kunai off guard. Several enemies who were already entangled with Konoha Ninja didn't even have time to react before being Kunai and subsequently killed by the Konoha Ninja.

The situation has now changed dramatically.

"What's going on? How did their reinforcements arrive so quickly?" The two leading ninjas huddled together.

"How would I know? The intelligence said reinforcements would take at least three days to arrive, and it's only the second day, even by plane they can't get here that fast."

"Look at those two kids over there, they must be Genin squad delivering Resupply."

"Never mind, we still have the upper hand, let's keep killing!"

The attackers had a pretty good plan, but they greatly underestimated the gap between Bounty Ninja and village ninjas. In terms of both strength and willpower, the two were incomparable.

In just 5 minutes, the attacking ninjas, who clearly had a numerical advantage, began to show signs of retreating, which was truly absurd.

What's even more worrying for them is that there's a Jonin among the Resupply deliverers. Now, with Jonin two to two, they've lost even their only advantage. At this point, all they can think about is how to escape safely.

At that moment, the green-haired ninja seemed to hear something. He suddenly exerted his strength, forcing back Masasuke Yamaguchi, who was entangled with him, and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

A ninja was seen tearing open the tent flap and running out in a panic, calling for help. This was his underling.

Before he could even reach the rescue, a sharp blade pierced through his underling's chest, then with a swift turn, sliced the underling's chest open.

"Ahhhh!" A furious roar erupted from the green-haired ninja, its sorrow moving all the other ninjas in the Camp.

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