Bombardment

[Personal Skills: 48]

[Main Skill 1 (C): Fire Style: Great Fireball. Click to view main skill traits.

Fire Style Ninjutsu: Dragon Flame Song Jutsu, Dragon Fire Jutsu, Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame... Click to view.

Water Style Ninjutsu (Cast as Fire Style): Water Style: Fire Bullet Jutsu, Water Style: Fire Prison Jutsu, Water Style: Fire Dragon Bullet... Click to view.

Earth Style Ninjutsu (Cast as Fire Style): Earth Style: Fire Land Return, Earth Style: Swamp of the Underworld Jutsu, Earth Style: Fire Dragon Bullet... Click to view.

Lightning Style Ninjutsu (Cast as Fire Style):...]

Staring at the virtual interface before him, Ruohuo began to select the skills he would use to clear the field.

Setting fire to the mountains was certainly unethical, illegal, and would invite condemnation from both conscience and morality; it would land one in the dark room, preventing three generations of one's family from attending university or riding the high-speed rail.

But this was the Ninja World.

The seniors from just a moment ago had said it themselves: this was the Chunin exam, and the exam hall was a battlefield.

A battlefield was a place where one fought for their life; the exam came second, and safety came first.

From the perspective of emergency self-preservation...

"How should I burn this to look the coolest?"

Ruohuo scanned through his skills one by one.

Because of the "Little Fire God" trait, all his elemental jutsu had been converted into Fire Style, which meant many of his ninjutsu functions were bound to overlap.

For instance, the area-of-effect Wind Style: Great Breakthrough and Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame differed only in the amount of chakra consumed.

However, mutated ninjutsu had its own advantages.

Casting other elemental jutsu as Fire Style allowed for the retention of certain characteristics.

This could be considered a hidden entry.

For example, the cutting attribute of Wind Style, the explosive speed of Lightning Style, the controllability of Water Style, and the "ninjutsu density" of Earth Style.

Although not much was retained, it was at least an extra layer of buff.

But casting other ninjutsu as Fire Style truly gave the impression of a combination jutsu, or even a Kekkei Genkai.

Moreover, the higher the rank of the ninjutsu, the better the effect.

Take this jutsu Ruohuo was currently selecting, for example.

It came from the Second, passed to him via a scroll from Orochimaru. He had pretended not to learn it back then, but using it now was like revealing one of his trump cards from a deck of a dozen.

Ruohuo held up two fingers, then looked up at the sky and spat out a mass of high-concentration flames!

"Fire Style: Heavenly Weeping!"

The high-temperature fireball reached the sky, then rapidly split into tiny sparks, raining down upon the ground with searing heat like a downpour of fire!

The fire rain scattered across the forest.

The weather was dry and the air parched; even a single spark could trigger a wildfire.

And now, there was a sky full of fire rain!

This was the benefit of having Orochimaru as a mentor.

From Orochimaru to the Third, and from the Third to the Second.

This was the inheritance of ninjutsu, and more importantly, the passing of the Will of Fire!

Billows of black smoke soon began to rise. Within the range of the fire rain, tree after tree began to ignite. Resin and flame merged perfectly, and in an instant, a sea of fire surged around the high tower!

"The range is still not enough..."

Ruohuo kept his fingers raised, continuing to mobilize his chakra.

It wasn't as if Fire Style lacked long-range, wide-area jutsu.

Like Uchiha Madara, who sprayed a Majestic Destroyer Flame at the Allied Shinobi Forces—that was a masterpiece representing Fire Style AOE.

But that required far more chakra.

With the consumption reduction and power boost from "Little Fire God," Ruohuo could technically play the role of a Senju clan member if he only used Fire Style.

But that would be too arrogant...

Besides, without Susanoo active, it just felt like something was missing.

"Better keep a low profile for now."

"Fire Style: Fire Dragon Bullet Jutsu!"

Whoosh—!

A flaming dragon head condensed in the air, possessing only a head and no body—it was a mutated version of the Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bullet from the "Dragon" series of jutsu.

This was a technical hurdle Ruohuo had yet to overcome.

Water Dragon Bullet, Great Fire Dragon, and Earth Dragon Bullet were theoretically capable of fusion, especially since they were all Fire Style now.

According to Ruohuo's vision, the ideal form of these three jutsu should be: taking off with Water Dragon Bullet and launching the Great Fire Dragon with Earth Dragon Bullet—he could simulate a H-20 bomber.

However, his chakra control was not yet up to par, and the bonus from his two-tomoe Sharingan was still insufficient.

After obtaining the Will of Fire of a Chunin, he could perhaps give it a try.

For now, he would just have to make do, using a grenade launcher to play around with parabolas.

"Hmm... I'm at the origin point, and the current fire range is about... 100 meters away?"

"So, to achieve the desired effect, I need to shoot at least 120 meters, right?"

Ruohuo held up his thumb, blinking his eyes back and forth to gauge the distance.

"(0,100), (0,y), considering gravity, the central axis should be pushed forward a bit, set at... (60,y2). This tower is about 10 meters high, so at this angle..."

His old ninth-grade homeroom teacher seemed to appear before his eyes.

Holding a triangle ruler, the teacher drew a function graph on the blackboard...

After some estimation, combined with the fact that the standard range of a Fire (Earth) Dragon Bullet was at most 20 meters, it was basically impossible for Ruohuo to have the second half of the "shell" reach the target position via inertial parabola.

But there are always more solutions than problems.

Ruohuo quickly realized he could fire a second shot, providing extra kinetic energy to the first shell while hitting it with precision.

This would increase the maximum launch height and extend the parabolic distance.

The difficulty wasn't actually that high; with the Sharingan for distance measurement, it was no different from throwing shuriken.

But considering this process might not be "cool" enough...

"I'd better learn from Grey Wolf and be a pragmatic person."

Ruohuo then dismissed the Fire (Earth) Dragon Bullet and summoned a Fire (Water) Dragon Bullet.

Ruohuo stepped back onto the dragon's head and flew into the sky.

"Fire Style: Dragon Fire Jutsu!"

Whoosh--!

Ruohuo first circled the tower, holding his shoe in one hand, and used high-temperature flames to burn out an absolute high-heat zone!

"This shouldn't be considered arrogant, right?"

"After all, I'm just afraid someone might sneak through the trial."

Ruohuo raised an eyebrow, controlling the fire dragon to continue flying forward. He soared over the fire zone and then began spraying Fire Style wildly at the area below!

After two full minutes of Ruohuo's efforts, the fire grew significantly larger.

There were some unlucky souls who had tried to head to the tower to camp from the start, only to find the tower already surrounded by flames before they even arrived.

They wanted to retreat, but found the sky behind them filled with raging fire as well!

Among these unlucky ones were Water Style ninjas, but upon seeing the sea of fire that looked like a natural disaster, they decisively opened their scrolls...

Among them was the team Might Duy was on.

"This guy is definitely cursed." Ruohuo noticed the eliminated Might Duy and felt a sense of frustration.

He had been prepared to go easy and let Might Duy pass, so how could he still get eliminated?

As expected of the eternal Genin; he was impossible to help up even if you tried.

"But this doesn't seem like a solution either."

Ruohuo flew in the air, watching the guys retreating toward the edge of the forest, his brows gradually furrowing.

He couldn't possibly go find them one by one, could he?

So, he locked his gaze back onto the tower.

"As long as I fulfill the conditions to pass while simultaneously destroying this place entirely..."

"That should work, right?"

That was what Ruohuo thought.

And that was what he did.

Then.

As one ninja after another rushed into the exam grounds, and one Water Style jutsu after another was unleashed to douse the massive fire...

This Chunin exam was urgently called to a halt...