Earth Release: Earthshock Fish Technique!
Night Light continuously disappeared and reappeared. He wasn't traveling normally, constantly moving using Earth Release.
After arriving at the wooden wall of the town, he created a Shadow Clone and had the Shadow Clone climb over the wooden wall.
"There's someone there! It's an assassin Ninja!"
The Vortex Ninja and Samurai followed the Shadow Clone out of the town.
Seeing that his tactic was effective, Night Light once again disappeared using Earth Release Ninjutsu.
Finding a hidden alley, Night Light gasped for breath, slowly recovering his Chakra.
The mission was to kill the noble Town Leader, however, Night Light felt that wasn't enough.
If he wanted to become a formal Squad Leader, he had to gain the Brown Bear Squad Leader's trust; he had to do more.
Killing the noble Town Leader was to cut off supplies for the nearby Vortex Ninja, so there might be prepared supplies in this town.
Destroying those supplies would be exceeding the mission's requirements.
After catching his breath, Night Light re-entered the inner city.
After a brief investigation, the inner city was now like a startled bird, with two places being the most heavily defended.
One was the inner residential area, which contained the Town Leader's family and possibly the next generation of Town Leaders.
The other place was a building, surrounded by three Samurai Squads, and even a Vortex Ninja.
There must be something very important inside, otherwise the Vortex Ninja wouldn't stay there.
In a corner, Night Light slowly withdrew his head and eyes, estimated the distance, and began to form hand signs.
His body slowly sank.
Ripples like water waves appeared on the ground.
Earthshock Fish Technique consumes a lot of Chakra. This Ninjutsu involves injecting Chakra into the earth, changing the earth's density, and thereby allowing one's body to move through the earth like a fish.
To prevent exposure during infiltration, the earth behind him could not be left with a cavity; it had to be restored with Chakra.
The complex operation and large consumption of Chakra meant that the speed of this Ninjutsu was not fast.
Night Light had mastered the 入門級 of Earthshock Fish Technique; he wondered what it would be like after becoming more proficient.
After infiltrating behind the Vortex Ninja, Night Light extended his head and shoulders.
"Ah!"
The Vortex Ninja only felt a pain in his ankle, and when he looked back, he found that someone had cut his Achilles tendon!
He quickly stabbed downwards with a Kunai.
Night Light grabbed the Vortex Ninja's wrist with his left hand and stabbed the Vortex Ninja's abdomen with his right hand.
Although he stabbed the Vortex Ninja's abdomen, his own left hand was also stabbed by the Vortex Ninja's Kunai.
Ignoring his bleeding left hand, Night Light climbed out of the ground, dodging the Vortex Ninja's dying struggles.
The Vortex Ninja had just dragged his broken foot for two steps when he immediately realized: "Poison! It's poisonous! This poison... how is it our Village's poison?"
Night Light thought, it is indeed your Village's poison; Vortex Yuka's poison hasn't been used up yet, so it's perfect for you.
The Vortex Ninja lost his combat ability, and the Samurai rushed forward; Night Light fought with the Samurai.
Aside from the Samurai Squad Leader, the other Samurai had no Chakra; when they exchanged blows, they only felt weak and powerless.
The Samurai Squad Leader was a bit more difficult to deal with; Chakra infused into his muscles gave him great strength, but his flexibility was poor.
After killing four Samurai, the other Samurai scattered.
The Vortex Ninja lay on the ground, disoriented.
Night Light leaned against the wall, used Earthshock Fish Technique, and slowly sank into the wall.
Entering the house, he found that it was indeed a storeroom.
Opening one backpack after another, the backpacks were full of various supplies.
He grabbed six Kunai and put them into his Ninja tool pouch.
He put on a backpack, which was filled with soldier pills.
In another small backpack, there were even ten Exploding Tags.
He struck it rich; Exploding Tags were hard currency, extremely expensive, and only Ninja who mastered both Sealing Jutsu and Fire Release could make them.
The price of an Exploding Tag in Konoha Village was 10,000 ryo.
Anbu provided standard vests and Ninja swords, but did not provide Exploding Tags; Exploding Tags had to be purchased by oneself.
It was truly miserable to fight for Konoha and still have to bring one's own provisions.
He put the Exploding Tags into his Ninja tool pouch, feeling very satisfied.
The remaining supplies, such as tents, sleeping bags, and medicine, he could not take with him.
With a pang of regret, he took out an Exploding Tag, injected a little of his Chakra into it, and attached it to the other supplies.
He passed through the back wall and, after walking a considerable distance, he formed hand signs and remotely detonated the Exploding Tag.
Amidst the explosion, the Vortex Ninja's supplies flew into the sky.
Carrying a full backpack of soldier pills, he left amidst the chaos.
After escaping, Night Light did not rashly go to find the Brown Bear Squad Leader but instead hid.
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The full moon was like a silver disk, and the moonlight was like white frost.
It wasn't until after the full moon that Night Light found the Squad Leader by the sea.
Cautious, cautious, and even more cautious.
There was no one else beside the Brown Bear Squad Leader.
"Squad Leader, I have completed the mission. I assassinated the Town Leader who supported Whirlpool Hidden Village, and I seized some of the Town Leader's supplies. What I couldn't take, I destroyed."
Night Light put down his backpack and opened it; inside was a large bag full of soldier pills.
In addition, there were two Exploding Tags.
Night Light secretly kept the remaining seven Exploding Tags and would not hand them over.
These two were also reluctantly taken out, otherwise, he couldn't explain how he destroyed the supplies.
If you're going to put on a show, do it completely, leaving no flaws.
"Very good! Excellent! Your performance far exceeded my expectations. Aside from the slow speed in completing the mission, everything else was very steady. For such a long time, I even thought you..."
Brown Bear didn't say any more.
He sent Fox Squad to assassinate the noble, originally intending to put pressure on the Vortex Ninja, forcing them to station more Vortex Ninja to protect the noble, thereby alleviating pressure on the front line.
Now, that noble was truly dead, and the supplies were also destroyed.
"Squad Leader, what did you think of me?"
"Nothing, I am very satisfied."
"Squad Leader, there's also bad news."
"What bad news?"
Brown Bear's eyes were serious. Could it be that there was a hidden trump card of Whirlpool Hidden Village among the nobles?
"The bad news is that Song Niao unfortunately sacrificed himself."
Brown Bear immediately breathed a sigh of relief, having scared himself.
He said:
"For the Village, some sacrifices are necessary. We Anbu are the sharpest blades protecting the Village in the darkness. Blades that are too sharp are prone to breaking; this is inevitable."
Night Light felt much more at ease upon hearing the Brown Bear Squad Leader's comfort.
The Antelope Squad, the Azure Wolf Squad, and his current Fox Squad, everyone except him had died. He was afraid the Squad Leader would be suspicious, but he didn't expect the Squad Leader to not care at all.
If there weren't many Anbu casualties, he wouldn't have been able to join Anbu either.
Brown Bear said:
"Keep the soldier pills for me. These are urgently needed supplies right now, and I will distribute them to the other Ninja.
As for the Exploding Tags, you and I each get one. I'll leave one for you to save your life.
You have grown into an Anbu elite in battle, excellently exceeding the mission's requirements.
I now officially appoint you as a Squad Leader.
Our Squad has suffered significant losses. Next, I will try my best to assign you team members. If there are no suitable team members, you will carry out missions alone."
"The Squad is facing difficulties, I can carry out missions alone."
Night Light happily put away an Exploding Tag, not expecting that besides not caring about the lives of his subordinates, the Squad Leader was quite generous.
Now he had eight Exploding Tags, feeling completely secure.