As for the members of Hiruko's team, they were Hayate Gekko, Aoba Yamashiro, and Uzuki Yugao.
Damn it, aside from Hiruko, the other three were hardly powerful genin. In the future, they would only exist as special jonin. Still, the good thing was that everyone here would at least become jonin in the future, meaning they all had considerable talent.
"Captain Shinnosuke, what exactly is this mission?" Hiruko asked with a gentle smile.
This guy's strength should be pretty good, right? At the very least, he ought to be among the best of the jonin. His ceiling was simply too low, though, leaving him with no chance of reaching Kage level.
Shinnosuke slowly said, "Although the notice I sent everyone said that the southern guard unit had disappeared, the truth is that the entire southern division—the guard squad, reconnaissance squad, and operations squad—was wiped out. Two hours after contact was lost, their bodies were found. Every one of them had been dismembered."
Upon hearing that, everyone's expressions turned grim. Generally speaking, the guard force was divided into nine divisions: one in each of the eight directions, plus one for the village itself. Aside from the village division, which had an additional commander, each of the eight directional divisions had three squads. The guard squad handled defense, the reconnaissance squad conducted active searches, and the operations squad carried out missions. Each squad had three to five members, and every one of them was at least jonin level or elite chunin level. With all three squads wiped out at once, that meant at least ten people had been eliminated.
Moreover, each division generally had at least one ninja skilled in sensing and communications. Such ninjas differed from ordinary combat ninjas; they were extremely rare. The village only assigned them to the guard