Fire Ring Repulsion

Border of the Land of Rain.

A twelve-man squad appeared, looking at the chaotic and ruined scene across from them where kunai and shuriken were scattered sparsely across the ground.

Accompanying their view were corpses lying on the ground. The uniforms of the corpses were red, and they wore Iwagakure headbands on their heads or important parts of their bodies.

Blood flowed on the ground, intertwining and blending with the rain.

"It's the team we sent to negotiate with Amegakure."

The leading figure wore an Iwagakure headband and was clearly the leader of the squad, sporting an afro. At this moment, his expression was solemn.

"Captain Gari, judging from the environment of the scene, the attackers seem to be people from Amegakure who launched a surprise attack on our team. The injuries on the bodies all bear Amegakure's specially-made ninja tools."

A ninja analyzed the scene and gained a rough understanding based on the traces left behind.

Many Amegakure ninjas would modify their own ninja tools; this was intelligence Iwagakure had gathered internally regarding Amegakure.

Amegakure was not like other hidden villages; they all possessed their own special ninja tools.

This was determined by the characteristics of Amegakure.

Gari said solemnly: "Lord Tsuchikage has already communicated with Hanzō of Amegakure through official channels. Hanzō shouldn't do something like this."

Someone was instigating the relationship between Iwagakure and Amegakure, and didn't want them to negotiate. They were attacking not only Amegakure, but also the people of Iwagakure. Given someone with this kind of intelligence-gathering capability, he roughly guessed it was someone from Kumogakure or Konoha.

The motive pointed there as well.

Kirigakure and Sunagakure had no motive against Iwagakure.

As for small countries like the Land of Birds, it was even less likely.

They lacked that kind of strength.

Furthermore, they had no motive; managing to survive well enough in the midst of war was already good enough.

"It seems Lord Tsuchikage was right. Kumogakure and Konoha will definitely not let Amegakure and us forge an alliance!"

A nearby ninja couldn't help but speak, feeling a sense of admiration for Lord Tsuchikage's deep foresight.

Gari said: "Continue. Our objective is to find the people who attacked us and drag them out."

As his voice fell, a ninja from the squad stepped forward and formed hand seals, affixing a paper talisman inscribed with a sealing technique formula onto a corpse.

Hum--!

Instantly, runes darted above the corpse, finally outlining an arrowhead that pointed in a certain direction.

"Nan, your sensory ninjutsu is still as magical as ever!"

Seeing this scene, one person exclaimed with a sigh.

Hinterland of the Land of Rain.

Inside the cave.

"Lord Danzo, won't this cause Amegakure and Iwagakure to unite?"

A ninja spoke to Danzo.

These days, they had been continuously attacking Amegakure's ninjas.

In these recent days, Amegakure's defenses had become too tight, so Danzo had turned his gaze toward Iwagakure instead.

Their battle results were also significant; although they suffered some losses, they had also killed many people from Iwagakure.

Thanks to Lord Danzo's intelligence.

It just also aroused their worries. If Iwagakure and Amegakure united, it would be too heavy a blow to their mission.

Their purpose was to drive a wedge between Amegakure and Iwagakure and disrupt the forging of an alliance between the two villages.

They worried it would be counterproductive.

Danzo said: "No need to worry. I have my own arrangements."

In his hand, a scroll was being carefully examined.

Meanwhile, within the squad, Goenji also wore a solemn expression.

This fellow Danzo is truly old and cunning. He must be hiding intelligence I don't know about inside this!

After all these days, he had finally witnessed Danzo's meticulousness regarding the mission and his resolute, swift actions in the squad's operations.

His execution capability was truly too strong.

Moreover, to prevent intelligence leaks, even they, the Konoha ninjas, did not fully know all the intelligence.

It seemed their only mission was to kill, kill, and kill while following the squad.

There were no other objectives.

Yet Goenji felt this was impossible.

Danzo was hardly a man satisfied with just this bit of battle results.

However, lacking intelligence, Goenji could not deduce it either.

Forget it, I just need to complete the mission. Next, I should still think about how to develop a new ninjutsu!

Goenji's mindset was quite composed.

Over a month of actual combat had allowed him to put everything he had trained on in the previous month into full use.

His strength had grown stronger once more.

Having operated for so long, there might be major operations ahead, so he needed to raise his strength even faster.

And if he wanted to elevate his strength, aside from combat experience, it was ninjutsu.

A ninjutsu slowly surfaced in his mind.

Fire Release: Fire Ring Repulsion.

This was to make up for his lack of defensive power.

Goenji thought of such a ninjutsu.

Right now, his ordinary means included kunai, shuriken, and explosive tags.

His movement technique was Rocket Propulsion.

His genjutsu was the Sharingan.

His offensive ninjutsu were even more numerous and diverse.

Only his defensive capability was his current weakness.

If a torrential rain of kunai and shuriken were thrown over in the middle of a battlefield.

Even with his current strength, he would suffer a disastrous defeat.

It would be different if he had a defensive ninjutsu.

Fire Ring Repulsion was the ninjutsu he envisioned.

The nature of this ninjutsu focused on impact force.

It could instantly repel all approaching objects and ninjutsu.

Unlike the Rinnegan's Shinra Tensei.

It did not rely on repulsive force, but rather on impact force.

Furthermore, it also had an offensive effect, allowing him to deal with enemy encirclements.

Of course, developing a ninjutsu was not that simple.

It required formulas from topology and geometry in mathematics to make a more meticulous arrangement of chakra's shape transformation and nature transformation.

Only in this way could the impact force be utilized to the maximum, without harming his own people.

Fortunately, during the period of returning to Konoha, he had relearned mathematics and now had a rough grasp of it.

Otherwise, even with an idea, he would lack the foundation to complete the ninjutsu.

It's still lacking just a tiny bit of time, and it will be complete!

This ninjutsu was not yet finished at present, but it was getting close.

"Uchiha Goenji, lead a squad to the east of the Land of Rain, at the source of the Diving River, to rendezvous with and support the Anbu ninjas."

At this moment, Danzo spoke to Goenji.

Goenji's thoughts instantly pulled back: "Understood, Lord Danzo."

"Your teammates, Aburame Fuzei, Ze, Ryoma..." Then Danzo assigned teammates to Goenji.

All three were Konoha Chunin.

They slowly walked behind Goenji.

"This is the code."

Finally, Danzo handed a scroll to Goenji.

Taking the scroll, Goenji opened it and discovered that many of the codes inside differed from the ones popularized in Konoha; they were much more professional instead.

It belonged to super encryption.

As expected, there's a major operation, and they're even operating separately!

Goenji knew that a fellow like Danzo would definitely not easily let Amegakure and Iwagakure retaliate without preparing other measures.

Now he couldn't help but sigh in admiration. Shimura Danzō had been able to contend with Hiruzen Sarutobi for the position of Hokage back then; looking at it now, it was indeed well-deserved.