The bandits' hideout was halfway up the mountain. Besides these seven, four more remained inside, making eleven in total.
The bandit leader was young, only around twenty. He wore a dark green vest and carried a 1.2-meter-long sword on his back. He looked thin and frail, not like much of a fighter, yet the fierce-looking bandits beneath him behaved as meekly as quails before him.
Bandits only worshipped the strong. Since he could command their obedience, he was clearly the chunin the girl had mentioned!
Creatures like ninja clearly did not measure combat strength by muscle size.
"She mentioned Fire Release. So ninja really can control fire?" Kamiya Keiyun was not panicked. He knew Earth Release and Wind Release. Earth Release definitely countered Fire Release, since dirt could not be set alight.
In a sense, Wind Release also countered Fire Release. Fire needed oxygen to burn, and Kamiya Keiyun only needed to reduce the air density to greatly weaken the flames.
Of course, that was merely his guess. After all, he did not know what kind of fire Fire Release produced. What if it only had the word "fire" in its name, but was actually something unreasonable like Southern Bright Flame?
Still, there was no need to be afraid. Kamiya Keiyun had come to assassinate them, not to charge through everyone head-on. He did not necessarily need to face this chunin.
"Weren't you supposed to be looting supplies? Why did you bring someone back?" The young man looked at the girl on the bandit's back and asked coldly, "Don't you know we can't leave survivors?"
"Captain, this girl is special!" A middle-aged man below spoke, but his voice was that of a teenager. "When we reached that village, after fighting for a while, we noticed that the injured villagers would