Just as Oguri Hayashi safely left Kumogakure and headed for Iwagakure, two squads belonging to different ninja villages were active on the battlefield between the Stone Shinobi and the Cloud Ninja.
These two squads were undoubtedly Reincarnator squads from the Infinite Hall.
Just as the Sand Shinobi had a Reincarnation Squad on each side while Konoha had none, Amegakure in the Land of Rain had a Reincarnation Squad. And in the most important conflict of all, the war between the Stone Shinobi and the Cloud Ninja, Reincarnator squads had naturally joined both factions to secure their own profits.
The battle between the Stone Shinobi and the Cloud Ninja involved over a hundred thousand people. The Land of Hot Water, the Land of Fields, and the Land of Waterfalls lay between them, so their fighting took place among these small countries. If they had not exercised such restraint, the battlefield might even have spread into the Land of Fire.
Naturally, this was deeply humiliating. There was no need to mention the Land of Fields or the Land of Hot Water; even the Land of Waterfalls and Takigakure, which possessed the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, did not dare utter a word in the face of a battle between two major nations and great ninja villages.
To the Reincarnators, ninja taijutsu scrolls and ninjutsu scrolls could all be exchanged for points. Though they themselves did not follow the Naruto world's Chakra enhancement path, this immensely popular world still offered considerable opportunities to earn points.
"Hey, Xiao Chen, Cain. Could you two at least do something? Haven't we been the ones completing the missions all along?" Even if ninjas had been present, they would not have understood what they were saying. After all, this was authentic native speech.
This was a standard four-man squad, but strangely, one of the silver-haired young men seemed as though he had not woken up at all, constantly yawning.
The other was a middle-aged white man with short hair and a sorrowful face. His hair was largely grayish-white, and his entire bearing seemed to embody the word "suffering." He even appeared somewhat dazed and sluggish. He wore a linen shirt and linen trousers, with straw sandals on his feet. Through the fabric, one could vaguely see his strong yet scar-covered body. He held a plain cross-shaped sword in his arms, as naturally as a farmer carrying an old hoe.
Yet the silver-haired man narrowed his eyes, his gaze unfocused, while the gray-haired middle-aged man wore a mournful expression and looked around blankly, as though he had no idea what was happening around him.
Opposite them stood four well-trained Stone Shinobi clad in red robes and light armor.
The Stone Shinobi wore red headscarves. One Jonin led three Chunin, and they were disciplined and flawless, their expressions grave and stern. Yet they were being forced back by the two teammates of those two utterly motionless men.
Saying they were being pressed by two people was not quite accurate. Though both men were tall and powerfully built, relying entirely on their flesh-and-blood fists to fight, they had a large dog like a White Wolf and a pitch-black humanoid creature whose face could not be seen at their sides.
Those two things were the reason the pair could still suppress three Chunin and one Jonin despite being outnumbered.
Those things were none other than the so-called Stand attacks.
In the JoJo world they had originally come from, ordinary people without Stands could not even see their Stands. But the laws of the Naruto world were unique. Stands could only be considered special abilities, similar to the Byakugan and Sharingan, and other ninjas could see and defend against them. A Stand's greatest advantage was its invisibility; once it could be seen, its threat was reduced severalfold.
But if one wanted to say their combat power had been weakened because of this, they only had to look at how their Stands and their own attacks alternated against the Stone Shinobi's stubborn defense. Even against three Chunin and one Jonin, they still held the advantage.
"Damn it, we can't drag this out any longer!" The opposing Stone Shinobi Jonin shouted, and the Chunin who worked seamlessly with him immediately began forming hand seals.
"Earth Style: Earth Wall!"
"Earth Style: Antlion Hell!"
"Earth Style: Earth Corridor!"
"Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bullet!"
In an instant, the four of them completed a combination of three C-rank ninjutsu and one B-rank ninjutsu, engulfing all four opponents at once. Blocked by the Earth Wall and Earth Corridor, their opponents had no way to escape above or below.
Seeing the four people swallowed by Earth Style, the Stone Shinobi smiled. But before their smiles could fade, a flash of sword light instantly cleaved through all the earth and stone, swallowing the four ninjas whole.
"We can go back now, right?" The sorrowful middle-aged white man asked the others with his eyes.
The two men who had been fighting on the front line exchanged glances. The somewhat dark-skinned one shrugged, while the other tall and muscular man coldly shook his head.
"Mission complete. Return to the Hall."
Light flashed over the four of them, and they instantly vanished from the space. "By the way, Li Hongbin, did you launch your miniature satellite array?"
"I sent it into the sky long ago. Don't worry. Next time we come, we can go to the moon and see just how beautiful Kaguya Otsutsuki is."
As their conversation continued, the four of them gradually faded from existence.
Less than ten minutes after the four vanished, two girls wearing fiery-red Stone Shinobi uniforms landed one after the other on the spot where they had disappeared.
They did not even spare a glance for the four dead Stone Shinobi.
"Damn it, they completed the mission before us." Both girls were in their twenties, but one was Asian and the other white, with completely different appearances and temperaments. The short-haired girl with shoulder-length hair stamped her foot, sniffed the air, and said angrily.
"They're stronger. Avoid them. Good thing." The other girl was smaller than her, with long hair reaching her waist. Her face remained calm and composed as she spoke a few words.
"Oh, right!" Hearing that, the other girl immediately beamed. "Then now that they're gone, isn't this the perfect chance for us to farm points?" The Asian girl laughed. "Raff, let's go! While no one's around, kill a few more Cloud Ninja. If we can get a high-level ninjutsu scroll, we'll strike it rich!"
"Cloud Ninja. Hard to deal with."
Despite having a translator, the foreign girl still spoke the language like a toddler learning to talk.
"Don't worry, don't worry. Together, the two of us are invincible!" The short-haired girl hugged the foreign girl's face and rubbed against it, convinced that she would make a huge haul in the coming battle between the two armies.
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