"Ah!"
A short scream sounded.
Seimei expressionlessly pulled the short sword out of the chest of the Iwa-nin in front of him, completing the final finishing blow.
Standing up and looking around, he could see that many Konoha ninjas were doing the same thing as him.
And on the ground around them, lay the corpses of many ninjas from both sides.
Today was the twentieth day since his physique attribute broke through, and also the last day of their mission to guard the stronghold.
However, the Iwa-nin, who were more than twenty kilometers away and confronting them, seemed unwilling to let them leave just like that, and actually launched an attack today.
Fortunately, they had the home field advantage, and after paying a certain price, they repelled the attacking enemy.
As for why they suddenly launched an attack?
Seimei didn't want to think about this question. Anyway, they would be going back tomorrow, and no matter what the other party's plans were, it had nothing to do with him.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Seimei and the other Konoha ninjas returned to the small town stronghold.
As soon as they returned to the stronghold, Furukawa was called away for a meeting.
Seeing this scene, Seimei inexplicably had a bad feeling.
Facts proved that his premonition was not wrong.
In less than half an hour, Furukawa came back, and also brought a very bad news.
That was, tonight, to be precise, three hours later, all of them would be divided into four teams to launch an attack on the Iwa-nin stronghold more than twenty kilometers away.
This order was directly issued by the base camp, and they could not refuse it.
Moreover, they were not the only stronghold to receive the order. Almost all the strongholds on the front line confronting Iwagakure received the same order.
In other words, this was a full-scale attack.
'Could this be Orochimaru's revenge? Isn't this too childish!?'
'Besides mutual losses, what's the point of this? Konoha doesn't have a numerical advantage on the Land of Rain battlefield, this kind of exchange is completely meaningless!'
Seimei was extremely puzzled.
At the same time, he also felt a strong sense of malice. He could have gone back in another day, but suddenly this happened.
If the order wasn't directed at all the strongholds confronting Iwagakure on the front line, Seimei would have suspected that he or this stronghold was being deliberately targeted.
'Forget it, anyway, there's no must-complete objective for this mission, I'll just slack off then.'
Thinking this in his heart, Seimei opened the proficiency panel.
In his vision, the light blue screen quietly emerged:
[Name: Uchiha Seimei
Age: 11 years old
Physique: 7→8
Spirit: 9
Chakra: 3450 (5027→6100)
Bloodline: Sharingan - Single Tomoe (160/1000) → (271/1000)
Skills: Chakra Refinement Technique: lv3 (762/1000) → lv3 (986/1000)
Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique: lv2 (30/500)
Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique: lv2 (101/500) → lv3 (12/1000)
Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique: lv2 (13/500)
Magic: Binding Technique: lv1 (110/200) → lv2 (5/500)
Body Flicker Technique: lv2 (375/500) → lv3 (225/1000)
Shadow Clone Technique: lv0 (5/100)
Konoha-Style Kenjutsu: lv3 (1/1000) → lv3 (430/1000)
Heart Reflection Technique: lv4 (186/2000) → lv4 (716/2000)
Shurikenjutsu: lv3 (570/1000) → lv4 (3/2000)
Chakra Control: lv3 (180/1000)
Three Body Techniques: lv3 (0/0)]
Originally, Seimei was worried that after coming to the front-line stronghold, he would not have time to practice. Who would have thought that Iwa-nin was unexpectedly calm.
This gave him a relatively stable training environment.
Therefore, in the past month, the skills he focused on had all improved considerably.
First of all, it was chakra. Twenty days ago, his physique attribute unexpectedly broke through, and the shackles of his body were opened. Subsequently, his chakra limit began to increase.
It took almost half a month for it to increase from 5027 points to 6100 points.
However, it got stuck after that.
After all, it was just a one-point increase in physique attribute, and the potential it brought was limited, which was enough for his chakra to increase this much.
'Chakra Refinement Technique', on the other hand, progressed a little faster. In just over a month, it had reached lv3 (986/1000).
As long as he didn't die tonight, after returning to the base camp, it wouldn't take him two days to upgrade it to lv4.
At that time, whether it was gaining proficiency in other skills or increasing the evolution speed of the Sharingan, everything would be on the fast track.
Speaking of other skills...
It could be seen that in the past twenty days, the proficiency of his 'Konoha-Style Kenjutsu' had increased by a large margin again, and almost half of the lv3 progress had been completed.
According to Furukawa, his swordsmanship could already be compared to some Jonin.
Even Furukawa himself, if they only fought in close combat, at most he could only draw with Seimei.
Or, if it dragged on for a bit longer, Seimei even had a chance of winning.
By the way, Furukawa was no longer a 'one-armed man'. Orochimaru had reattached an arm for him.
Although it wasn't his own, at least he could form hand seals.
It was also from then on that Seimei learned that Furukawa was actually from Orochimaru's faction.
Rounding it up, he was also considered to be in Orochimaru's faction.
Every time he thought of this, Seimei felt a bit absurd.
Not to mention how obsessed Orochimaru would be with the Sharingan in the future, just the fact that he would be purged by the village after defecting was troublesome.
However, Seimei only thought about it for a moment and then ignored it.
With the help of the proficiency panel, if he still didn't have the ability to fight against Orochimaru by then, then whatever happened to him was his own fault.
As for the village's purge...
At that time, if he didn't destroy Konoha, it would already be giving Hiruzen Sarutobi face. If they still dared to purge him, did they really think he was easy to bully?
Pulling back his thoughts, Seimei looked at 'Shurikenjutsu'.
Thanks to the assistance of the Sharingan, its proficiency had broken through lv3 and reached lv4 (2/2000).
At this time, with the cooperation of the Sharingan, he could already play with kunai and shuriken in various ways.
Unfortunately, they were ultimately flying projectiles. Unless the enemy's level was really too low, it was still very difficult to directly kill the enemy.
However, it was excellent as a supplementary means.
In addition, lv4 was still not the limit of the 'Shurikenjutsu' skill, but it was relatively slow to accumulate proficiency now.
In addition to these skills, the skills that had improved significantly in the past month were 'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique', 'Magic: Binding Technique', and 'Body Flicker Technique'.
The former had already broken through the lv2 level and reached lv3 (12/1000).
At this time, when using this technique again, not only was it faster, but the control was also more precise.
If he faced Shiraishi Kaito again now, Seimei was confident that he could suppress the opponent for a considerable amount of time without opening his eyes.
Of course, to achieve what he did before, forcing the opponent to have to fight back, he still needed the Sharingan to predict the opponent's movements.
In addition, he also tried practicing 'Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique' and 'Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique' after first improving the level of 'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique', and it did indeed speed up the process.
However, his chakra was currently limited, and he didn't plan to waste time on these two ninjutsu.
Whenever he upgraded 'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique' to lv4 or even lv5, then he would go back and practice these two ninjutsu, and the speed would be faster.
Moreover, with 'Konoha-Style Kenjutsu', his need for ninjutsu had decreased a lot, and temporarily having one 'Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique' was enough.
Not to mention, he also had 'Magic: Binding Technique' and 'Body Flicker Technique' to assist him.
Under Seimei's deliberate attention, both of these skills had been upgraded by one level.
Among them, 'Magic: Binding Technique' had been upgraded to lv2, with faster activation speed and stronger control effect on the enemy.
'Body Flicker Technique' had been upgraded to lv3. After activation, the movement speed was about 20% faster than before, and the effect was better whether it was for escape or surprise attack.
It was precisely because of the improvement of these skills that Seimei didn't have much resistance to the surprise attack on the Iwagakure stronghold. Otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to save his own life, let alone care about anything else.
In the end, strength was the foundation of everything.
Without strength, any wave could kill you, but with strength, even if a tsunami came, he could remain calm.
(End of Chapter)