“Bastard! You Konoha dog scum!”
The Iwagakure Jonin, currently locked in combat with Senju Ken, was covered in blood and cursing loudly.
However, he was being firmly suppressed by Super Strength and couldn’t break away to help, forced to watch his subordinates die miserably.
“Ziye! Don’t worry about me! Take the remaining people and break out!”
The Iwagakure Leader reacted extremely quickly, shouting hysterically as he withstood Takagi’s violent onslaught.
“You dare to get distracted while fighting me?”
Takagi’s eyes flashed with murderous intent, and the lightning in his hands flared brilliantly.
“Lightning Release: Gale Thunder Slash!”
A violent flurry of sword strikes descended like a storm!
Although Takagi knew clearly that he was slightly inferior in raw strength, by seizing the initiative and utilizing the piercing power of his Lightning Release, he managed to corner the Iwagakure Leader.
“Do you really think I’m afraid of you?!”
The Iwagakure Leader roared, taking a direct hit from Takagi’s blade with his shoulder, using the impact of the Lightning Release to fly backward.
Blood sprayed wildly.
While in mid-air, his hands were already moving so fast they became a blur.
“Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet Technique!”
As soon as his feet touched the ground, the Iwagakure Leader slammed one hand onto the earth.
Boom!
A hideous mud dragon burst from the ground, opening its bloodthirsty jaws and spitting out lethal mud bullets like a machine gun.
Takagi dared not take it head-on and could only retreat in a sorry state to dodge.
After forcing Takagi back, the Iwagakure Leader changed his hand seals.
“Earth Release: Earth Shore Return!”
He bit his finger and slammed his bloody palm hard into the soil.
The earth rolled and twisted violently!
The surrounding terrain changed instantly as thick earthen walls rose from the ground, shielding the remaining Iwagakure Ninjas and creating a defensive bunker that could both attack and retreat.
Senju Ken watched, feeling anxious.
The Iwagakure Ninja in front of him, who was using the Hardening Technique, was like a stone in a latrine—stinking and hard—and he couldn’t break away to support Takagi in the short term.
Rinya arrived at the battlefield behind the team and was met with the sight of the drastically altered terrain.
“This group of elites is truly troublesome!”
Rinya cursed inwardly.
He had thought it would be a one-sided crush, but he hadn’t expected them to cause such a commotion in their death throes.
Swoosh!
Swoosh!
Takagi leaped a few times and retreated to Rinya’s side.
Sarutobi Takumi also quickly approached with the decoy squad.
Panting heavily, Takagi stared fixedly at the earthen wall fortress in the distance: “Rinya, Jieyi, Shinichi! You all take people to surround and annihilate the remaining Iwagakure Chunin! Takumi, let’s go chop up the enemy leader!”
Don’t give the enemy a chance to catch their breath!
Before the words had even faded, Takagi transformed into a streak of lightning and charged out again.
Sarutobi Takumi followed closely behind, his hands forming seals rapidly.
A scorching sea of fire rolled toward the Iwagakure Leader, forcing him to dodge.
Takagi seized the opportunity to engage in close-quarters combat, his lightning-flickering blade aiming straight for vital points with every strike.
Sarutobi Takumi also drew his short blade and joined the fray.
The two Konoha Jonin joined forces, completely sealing off the Iwagakure Leader’s space to form seals and dragging him into the most dangerous close-quarters blade fight!
The battle situation instantly became clear.
Seeing that Takagi and the other had stabilized the situation, Senju Ken became ruthless, the power of his Super Strength surging again, beating the Iwagakure Ninja in front of him until he was forced to retreat step by step.
Battles between Ninjas are always a race against time.
Rinya watched coldly, instantly seeing through the situation.
The key to breaking the deadlock lay with them, this group of Chunin!
As long as they killed the small fry on the other side first and freed themselves up to gang up on the rest, Iwagakure would undoubtedly lose!
“Charge!”
Hyuga Shinichi roared and, relying on the Byakugan’s perspective ability, was the first to rush toward the earthen wall fortress.
Jieyi bit her red lips, forcefully gathering her Chakra and following.
Rinya lagged behind.
His scarlet two-tomoe Sharingan spun wildly, and his hands formed seals rapidly in front of his chest.
It was time to steal the kills!
Rinya was wealthy and imposing now; the amount of Chakra in his body was simply incomparable to an average Genin.
There was no pressure to be a bit reckless.
Besides, there was a group of big shots like Senju Ken holding the line behind him.
If he didn’t seize the chance to steal kills and trigger rewards now, where else would he find such a good opportunity later?
“Fire Release: Blazing Fireball Technique!”
Rinya kicked off the ground hard, vaulting over Hyuga Shinichi who was rushing in front like a cannonball.
While still in mid-air, he had already finished forming his seals, unleashing his strongest killing move directly at the Iwagakure position.
The Iwagakure Ninjas hiding behind the earthen wall were caught off guard, but they were elites after all, and their reactions were extremely fast.
Three Iwagakure Ninjas gritted their teeth simultaneously and slammed their hands onto the ground.
“Joint Ninjutsu: Triple Earth Shore Return!”
Rumble!
Three thick, solid rock walls rose from the ground like a simplified version of Rashomon, blocking firmly in front of them.
A cold sneer curled the corner of Rinya’s mouth.
Want to block?
The mutated fireball, strengthened three times by the system, was not something that could be blocked by such broken rocks!
However, just to be safe, Rinya’s hands flew again.
“Fire Release: Blazing Fireball Technique!”
Another scorching fireball erupted!
Bang!
The first Blazing Fireball slammed into the rock wall, the violent high temperature instantly piercing through the three layers of defense, but the fireball’s volume also shrank by half.
At this critical moment, the second fireball Rinya added arrived later but reached the target first, merging directly with the remaining fireball!
Boom—!
The fireball, originally five meters in diameter, instantly expanded into a terrifying fire meteor over eight meters in diameter!
The scorching flames swept out like a tsunami.
The Iwagakure Ninjas who had just breathed a sigh of relief were instantly struck with despair.
“Help!”
“Earth Release: Earth Replacement…”
The screams were heart-wrenching.
The two Iwagakure Ninjas hiding behind the rocks didn’t even have a chance to run and were burned to charcoal on the spot.
The remaining Iwagakure Ninja reacted quickly enough to desperately activate Earth Replacement, but he was still grazed by the edge of the fireball, suffering extensive burns all over his body, rolling on the ground in agony.
The terrifying fireball continued to roll forward with undiminished power, forcing the remaining Iwagakure Ninjas to flee in a sorry state, unable to even consider counterattacking.
Rinya’s eyes glowed with greed.
These weren’t enemies; they were walking gift bags of rewards!
He didn’t rush to loot the bodies; he charged forward in a few steps, cleanly and neatly slit the throat of the heavily injured Iwagakure Ninja with a Kunai, and then dived into the trench plowed by the fireball to continue hunting the fleeing soldiers.
[Ding! Killed three Chunin, gained 9 Plunder Points!]
Listening to the mechanical sound in his head, Rinya felt completely satisfied.
Because the Iwagakure Leader had previously used Ninjutsu to change the terrain, the surroundings were full of towering earthen walls.
Rinya charged forward wildly, disappearing from the Konoha squad’s field of vision in the blink of an eye.
“Rinya…!”
Chiba Mai looked in the direction where Rinya had disappeared and was about to shout for him to watch out for traps, but when she turned and saw the bottomless, charred trench on the ground that smelled of barbecue, she swallowed the second half of her sentence.
With this level of destructive power, it wasn’t certain who was setting a trap for whom.
“Mai, your teammate’s Fire Release is simply absurd!” Hyuga Shinichi gasped and swallowed his saliva, “He insta-killed three Chunin in one go! We have to hurry too, or we won’t even get to drink the soup!”
“Shinichi! Hurry up and activate your Byakugan to find where the remaining Iwagakure Ninjas are hiding! We can’t let this kid Rinya take all the credit!” Chiba Mai was anxious, looking at Hyuga Shinichi with eager eyes.
The other Konoha Chunin also tightened their grips on their Kunai, full of fighting spirit.
Steal the kills!
Hyuga Shinichi, however, looked troubled and shook his head helplessly: “Everyone, I’m really sorry. My Byakugan… can’t see through such thick rock walls yet.”
After saying this, Hyuga Shinichi could only follow the footprints left by Rinya and chase after him.
The pain of the Hyuga Branch Family, who understands?
His Byakugan purity was insufficient, and coupled with the suppression of the “Caged Bird” Curse Mark on his forehead, his insight was greatly reduced, and he simply couldn’t perform X-ray vision.
…
Deep inside the earthen wall fortress.
The four Iwagakure Chunin who had luckily escaped stopped.
“Everyone, stay steady!” One of the Iwagakure Ninjas looked back at Rinya, who was chasing after them, a flash of ruthlessness in his eyes, “He’s the only one chasing! And he’s just a Uchiha brat!”
“He just used that level of Fire Release twice in a row; his Chakra must be bottomed out!”
“Let’s join forces and kill him! If we can bring back a pair of Sharingan, it will definitely be a great achievement!”
The other three Iwagakure Ninjas’ eyes instantly became heated upon hearing this.
The temptation of the Sharingan, who could resist it?
The four of them stopped simultaneously, drew their Kunai and short blades, spread out in a fan shape, and stared fixedly at the charging Rinya.
Rinya looked at these four Iwagakure Ninjas who didn’t run but instead prepared to counter-kill him, and almost laughed out loud.
I was just worrying about how to wipe you all out, and you delivered yourselves to my doorstep!
Rinya instantly pressed his hands together, Chakra surging wildly within his body.
Want to counter-kill?
Today, I’ll send you all away!