Chapter 30: Encounter Battle
"Tenki?"
As the commander, Akimichi Motoyasu looked at the Hyuga clan's Chunin named Tenki with a stern face.
"Senior Motoyasu, there are fifteen huge chakra fluctuations in front of us, rapidly approaching our position, and the leaders have at least two—no! More than three Jounin auras!"
Hyuga Tenki's eyes were already completely bulging with veins.
He released his detection ability to the limit.
Even though the distance was still very far, Tenki could already clearly capture the opponent's intelligence information.
In front of the elite scouts of the Hyuga clan, unless it was some extremely special existence or a strange technique like space ninjutsu, even a Kage-level strongman could hardly escape the lock-on detection of the Byakugan.
'Are they prepared? No, it may just be a coincidence, but since we met here, it is too difficult to avoid it. Three Jounins should still be able to deal with it!'
In a flash, Motoyasu made a decision in his heart.
Their surprise attack team not only had several more people than the opponent but also one more Jounin. With the powerful insight of the Byakugan, they had also detected the whereabouts of the opponent in advance. It could be said that they had all the advantages of time, place, and personnel. If they wanted to eliminate the base set up by the Cloud Ninjas not far away, they must give priority to dealing with this batch of Cloud Ninjas.
According to Motoyasu's estimation, the target of this team of more than a dozen Cloud Ninjas must be a regular harassment attack team. Deliberately avoiding them here was equivalent to adding trouble to their own defense line. Akimichi Motoyasu would not make such a choice.
"Shihui, wait a moment..."
With a quick decision, he immediately arranged tasks. According to the intelligence feedback from their own scouts, the opponent was still a short time away from their own team, enough for them to make corresponding deployments.
Fifteen Cloud Ninjas—there were three Jounins among them. If they could be eliminated here at the lowest cost, the subsequent stronghold removal battle would be a little easier.
Each task was assigned.
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
"No problem!"
The other three Jounins in the team, from the Aburame clan, the Gekko clan, and the Shiranui clan, agreed with Motoyasu's tactics.
Masashi and the other "middle and lower ninjas" naturally had to obey the orders of the senior Jounins. Masashi had no intention of deliberately showing off his own strength in such a battle. He would always remember what his first goal was.
Fighting and the like were almost all secondary.
"Then! Disperse!"
Akimichi Motoyasu arranged their respective tasks in just one minute. He suddenly waved his right hand.
"Yes!"
The Konoha ninjas, who had gathered together, scattered in an instant, hiding in the surrounding jungles. They then followed the corresponding routes, forming a semicircular encirclement formation around the Cloud Ninja squadron that was galloping not far away.
Each of them had a concealed breathing technique. The formation was quietly deployed with the purpose of surrounding the dozen Cloud Ninjas as much as possible. However, there were obviously perception-type ninjas in the Cloud Ninja team. Although their perception methods were not as good as the Byakugan, their personal abilities were still a little lacking.
The range of perception was much worse than Hyuga Tenki's Byakugan.
But when the Konoha ninjas gradually approached, the faint chakra breath was revealed in the wind and was still captured by one of the Cloud Ninja's perception ninjas.
Therefore, before they completely entered the Konoha encirclement, the perception-type Cloud Ninja's expression suddenly changed, and he shouted loudly, "There is an ambush ahead!"
"Do it!"
When the leading Cloud Ninja suddenly paused, not far away, under Tenki's reminder, Akimichi Motoyasu also had a strong murderous aura between his eyebrows. He shouted loudly, and the figure that had rushed out first exclaimed, "Partial Multiplication Technique!" aiming directly at the captain of the Cloud Village Senior Ninja in the front position, attacking.
"Boom!"
"It's a Konoha ninja! Deploy the formation! Don't panic!" This Cloud Village Senior Ninja also reacted immediately, shouting loudly as a strong chakra aura instantly burst out from his body.
"Zizizizizizizi!" When the thunder roared, a figure suddenly flashed.
"Thunder Style!"
The Thunder Style technique was performed at high speed and faced the attacking Akimichi Motoyasu head-on.
"Bang!"
When they intersected, the violent dust burst out, the roaring waves exploded.
"Water Style—Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"
"Thunder Style—Ground Walking Technique!"
"Fire Style—Great Fireball Technique!"
"Earth Style—Earth Array Wall Technique!"
In the surrounding area, the Konoha ninjas suddenly attacked, fighting with the remaining Cloud Ninjas. The Jounins of the Aburame clan and the Gekko clan stopped the other two Jounins of the Hidden Cloud Village. The rest rushed forward in one breath.
Masashi did not deliberately seek out the Hidden Cloud Village Jounin. After all, this was Masashi's first actual battle in this world. Even though Masashi had sparred with other clansmen, including one with Shisui, over the past six months, he had experienced it no less than ten times, but there was still an essential difference between the two.
At this moment, what he needed to face was the real 'test of blood and fire!'
The scarlet Sharingan in Masashi's pupils turned up, and the three black magatama slowly rotated. The gloomy murderous aura flashed out.
"Swoosh!"
The flashing cold light; Masashi jumped out, coming directly in front of a Hidden Cloud Village Chunin.
The extremely fast figure elicited an instinctive reaction.
"So fast!" In just a moment, the pupils of the black-haired Cloud Ninja shrank suddenly. He responded by instinct.
"Keng!"
The blades met with a sharp roar of heavy blows as the powerful force transmitted through their contact. The face of the Cloud Ninja changed as he struggled to contain this force. The change of tactics could not be made at all.
The next moment, as their eyes involuntarily met, the Cloud Ninja saw the pair of dark and scarlet Sharingan.
"No! It's Sharingan!" In an instant, he realized he had encountered the most terrifying existence of the Uchiha clan.
The Cloud Ninja wanted to look away and withdraw immediately, but it was too late. Under the blade, even if it was Masashi who only used 70% of his strength, it was not something this Cloud Ninja could easily evade.
Moreover, this most fatal eye contact led to—
"Illusion!" For the Uchiha clan, who used the Sharingan to cast illusions as skillfully and easily as breathing, it took less than 0.5 seconds for this Cloud Ninja to fall into the endless illusion that Masashi had carefully prepared for him.
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