The sun set and rose.
In the blink of an eye, another three days had passed.
That afternoon.
Outside Aburatsu Port.
Somewhere in the forest.
Qian pulled his palm back from a Mist Village chunin and let the man's corpse collapse to the ground.
Just then, a Konoha chunin came up to him with one arm hanging limp.
The newcomer was none other than Hyuga Shancha, who had been at his side since very early on.
He glanced at the Mist Ninja's corpse on the ground, paid it no further attention, and said directly to Qian, "Captain, all enemies have been eliminated!"
Hearing that, Qian swept his gaze around.
At a glance, the battlefield was a complete mess.
All kinds of ninja tools lay scattered, stuck into the ground and the trees, and blood was everywhere.
In those pools of blood, corpses could be seen one after another—some Leaf ninja, and some Mist Ninja.
However, most of them were Mist Ninja.
Clearly, this place had just gone through a brutal battle.
In fact, that was exactly what had happened.
Ever since the battle three days ago, the conflict between the Leaf Village and the Mist Village had been escalating. The ninjas of both sides slaughtered each other throughout the area outside Aburatsu Port, spilling blood without end.
If, over the past few days, both sides had still been fighting at squad scale, then now, at the very least, it was platoon-level clashes.
Moreover, once a battle began, it often could not be stopped, forcing both sides to keep committing reinforcements.
Just now, for instance, their patrol squad had received a distress signal and was heading toward the target battlefield.
As a result, before they could even get close to the battlefield, they ran into a Mist Village reinforcement squad.
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