"Don't even think about catching me."
Seeing this, Nawaki cursed and immediately used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique with his hands in a seal.
A white smoke appeared, and more than 20 shadow clones appeared.
As soon as these shadow clones appeared, they immediately charged towards the eight incoming tentacles, either attacking directly with the body technique Konoha Whirlwind, attacking with Kunai, or directly attacking with explosive talismans to die together with the tentacles.
In the blink of an eye, more than 20 shadow clones suffered heavy losses, but five of the eight incoming tentacles were either repelled or seriously injured.
Nawaki took advantage of the shadow clones' distraction to quickly escape the tentacles' range of attack.
However, at this time, a large amount of lightning once again fell from the sky, targeting Nawaki and his remaining shadow clones.
The lightning was so fast that Nawaki and his remaining shadow clones had no chance to dodge and were instantly hit.
The remaining shadow clones instantly disappeared, and Nawaki was also electrocuted, letting out a painful cry, his body went numb, and then he fell into the water.
Seeing this, Kirito moved his right hand and used the chakra thread to pull Nawaki back to the surface. He quickly considered his next move, and with his other hand, he took out a summoning scroll and used the summoning technique Release without a trace.
A huge turtle appeared under Kirito.
It was the Black Tortoise puppet.
The tentacle monster under the water also finally revealed its true form, a huge octopus ninja beast.
Its master's orders were clearly to kill Nawaki, and when it saw Kirito rescue Nawaki, the octopus's eight huge tentacles immediately lashed out at Kirito, spitting out a stream of strong, fishy-smelling octopus ink.
Suddenly, there was a loud clap of thunder, and a beautiful sword light appeared in the air.
The octopus ink was cut, and all eight tentacles of the giant octopus were also cut off, spewing out a large amount of blood. The giant octopus also let out a scream immediately.
At the same time, a slender mask with a mask with three hooked jewels fell on the head of the giant octopus.
"Be careful, Chizuru, there is still a guy hidden inside this guy."
Just as Chizuru was about to use the Lightning Strike in her hand to behead the giant octopus, Kirito's voice appeared in her mind, and she was reminded to jump up immediately.
Yamanaka Secret Art: Mind Body Transmission Technique!
The next moment, a sharp shinobi blade covered in chakra pierced the head of the giant octopus, and a green-haired ninja wearing a Kirigakure forehead protector broke through the head.
If Chizuru had not left in time, she might have been seriously injured by now.
"Kirigakure!"
Kirito said in surprise when he saw the ninja forehead guard on the ninja's forehead.
The Land of Water, where the Kirigakure village is located, is very far away from the Land of Fire. Moreover, the Sandaime Mizukage has recently implemented a policy of closed-door isolation, mysticism is prevalent, and due to the rise of the Blood Mist faction, a purge of dissidents is underway.
Unexpectedly, even so, Kirigakure still sent a strong assassin to kill Nawaki.
The current Kiri-nin in front of him was not weak, a true elite jōnin, and his ability to conceal himself was very strong.
This guy hid inside the octopus summoning beast, and his own soul fire was concealed by the huge soul fire of the octopus summoning beast. If Kirito didn't carefully screen him, he would have really concealed it.
From this, Kirito found a way to deceive the Spirit Transformation Technique's soul perception.
The regenerative power of the giant octopus is very strong. The eight tentacles that were cut off by Chizuru are regenerating rapidly, as is the large hole on its head. It is obvious that the wound on its head has not caused it any fatal harm.
Once the green-haired ninja emerged from its body, it launched another attack, spewing a huge jet of water from its mouth, still targeting Nawaki.
Kirito saw this and clapped his hands, causing a huge water dragon to leap out of the river beneath him, colliding with the incoming jet of water before advancing against it, slamming into the giant octopus and creating a huge hole in its head.
Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!
"He actually unleashed the Water Dragon Bullet Technique without using a seal."
The green-haired ninja saw that Kirito could actually unleash the Water Dragon Bullet Technique instantaneously without using a seal, and his face immediately showed a shocked expression, realizing that this assassination mission was far beyond his expectations.
But a mission is a mission, and there was no way he could back out at this point.
He immediately began to form seals, attempting to first repel Kirito and then find an opportunity to kill Nawaki.
However, just as he was about to make his move, he sensed a fatal crisis approaching.
It was Chizuru who struck, unleashing her Sword Technique: Thunder Flash once again. She charged at the green-haired ninja, almost turning into a bolt of lightning, and surrounded him with more than ten afterimages.
But the green-haired ninja was an elite Jōnin and a master swordsman himself. Chizuru's Sword Technique: Thunder Flash was blocked in time by a wind-attribute sword technique, and then, to Chizuru's astonished gaze, he quickly completed the seal.
One ice mirror after another appeared in midair.
Ice Release: Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals!
After a large number of ice mirrors appeared, the green-haired ninja immediately dove into one of them, and then his figure kept appearing in one ice mirror after another.
"Ice Release, interesting, Kirito, I'll take care of this guy, you stay out of it."
Chizuru immediately muttered to herself upon seeing this.
Kirito heard Chizuru's words and decisively turned his attention away from the green-haired ninja and looked up into the sky.
The next moment, another huge bolt of lightning fell, and was finally blocked by the Chakra Shield formed by the Puppet Technique: Mechanical Light Shield Block released by the Black Tortoise puppet.
This time, there was not only the green-haired ninja among the Mist ninjas who came to assassinate Nawaki, there was also a Mist ninja in the sky who was good at using Lightning Release. It was not clear how the opponent used whatever method to fly into the clouds in the sky and precisely release Lightning Release jutsu to attack.
In addition, the enemy also deployed a large number of troops to target Hatake Sakumo, a Kage-Level powerhouse.
On the other side, Hatake Sakumo, who was fighting six Mist ninja wielding five ninja swords of different appearances, suddenly received a message from Kirito: "Hatake Sensei, we are at a disadvantage fighting these Mist ninja here. If we can't end the battle quickly, our problems will only get worse."
Hatake Sakumo heard Kirito's words, but remained calm as he used his Shunshin technique to avoid the combined attacks of the six enemies, before forcing back with a single strike an elite jōnin in front of him using a strange ninja sword that looked like a scroll.
Then, he secretly contacted Kirito: "I know, but the six guys I'm dealing with now are members of the Kirigakure's Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Bloody Mist. Their average strength isn't strong, but they work well together. I can't kill them for a while, and I need your support."
"The Seven Ninja Swordsmen? Then the ninja at the top should be Raiga Kurosuki, who uses the Thunder Blade. They're all good prey."
Kirito turned his head and looked at Hatake Sakumo, who was being besieged by the Six Ninja Swordsmen. A greedy look flashed in his eyes.
These six members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen appeared suddenly out of nowhere.
It is no surprise that someone from the Kirigakure used a summoning technique or spent a huge price on some expensive summoning equipment to summon the six of them at the same time.
To be honest, Kirito did not expect Kirigakure to send the Seven Ninja Swordsmen to assassinate Nawaki, but since they are here, he has no intention of letting them go.
At this time, the octopus summoning beast's attack came again.
Its regeneration ability is indeed very strong. Just now, a large hole was punched in its head by the water dragon bullet technique, but now it has almost completely recovered, and its brain seems to be functioning normally. The octopus's eight tentacles quickly swept towards Kirito.
"What a nuisance,"
said Kirito coldly as he watched the giant octopus launch another attack like a cockroach.
The next moment, his eyes turned bloodshot.
Ketsuryūgan activated!
In an instant, the wounds on the giant octopus' body burst open, spewing out a large amount of blood. The entire body began to rapidly shrink, and the eight huge tentacles also rapidly shrank and lost their vitality.
In less than two seconds, the huge octopus, which had still been lively and jumping around, turned into a small dried up octopus corpse.
"Shoutarou!"
The green-haired ninja angrily yelled as he watched his partner's summoned beast, who he had been working with for many years, die, and then glared at Kirito.
"You're dealing with me, Ice User.
But before he could attack Kirito, Chizuru's cold voice, tinged with resentment, came, followed by her ninjutsu attack. A huge ball of high-temperature flames instantly spewed from her mouth, forming a terrifying fire wave.
Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!
Even though it was weakened by the rain, the power of Chizuru's Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation was still astonishing, far exceeding the power of a normal Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation.
The reason for this was that Chizuru had already activated the curse marks on her body, allowing her to enter the Curse Mark Transformation and then use Curse Mark Chakra to amplify her Jutsu.
A large amount of ice mirrors instantly melted away.
The green-haired ninja had to quickly get out of the ice mirror and used Water Release: Water Formation Wall to create a thick wall of water to prevent the high-temperature flames released by Chizuru from destroying the ice mirror. He then continued to use ice ninja techniques and swordsmanship to fight Chizuru.
The young Uchiha in front of him had suddenly become much more powerful after using some kind of secret technique, and if he wasn't careful, he might find himself in trouble.
At this moment, a huge, blue blood sphere appeared above Kirito's head.
A dark red chakra line shot out from Kirito's finger and pierced the blue blood sphere.
As Kirito injected the Ketsuryūgan chakra into the blue blood sphere, its color quickly changed from blue to red.
"Kirito, my body no longer feels numb. Please let me go and support Hatake Sensei,"
Nawaki's eyes, which were acting as a humanoid Chakra power bank, spoke to Kirito from the pit in the middle of the back of the Black Tortoise puppet.
Ever since he was rescued by Kirito, he had been stuck in the groove on the back of the Black Tortoise puppet, and then the Chakra in his body began to flow out rapidly, absorbed by an unknown sealing array below the groove.
Now, only about half of the Chakra in his body remained.
Due to the loss of a large amount of chakra, he is now starting to feel a little uncomfortable.
"Okay, you can't even walk steadily on this water, so what's the point of fighting? After this battle is over, honestly work harder to improve your chakra control. For now, obediently provide chakra for my puppet. This chakra shield consumes a lot of chakra, and you should think about who I'm activating this chakra shield for."
Kirito mercilessly rejected Nawaki's request to fight.
Nawaki lost his temper instantly when he heard Kirito's words, but inwardly he blamed himself for holding back. Then he closed his eyes and obediently concentrated his chakra to pass it to the Black Tortoise puppet beneath him.
Seeing that Nawaki was being honest, Kirito focused his attention on the Six Ninja Swordsmen who were fighting Hatake Sakumo, and continued to ignore the lightning attacks that kept falling from above.
"Damn, this kid actually has such a powerful defensive puppet in his hands. The guys in the intelligence department should all have a funeral."
From the clouds, Raiga Kurosuki, who was standing on a large bird summoning beast, couldn't help but let out a sigh as he saw with the miniature telescope he was wearing on his left eye that he still couldn't break the Black Tortoise puppet's shell with the powerful Lightning Release jutsu he had unleashed with his Thunder Blade, and Kirito had completely ignored his attacks.
Although he could use the Thunder Blade to condense the lightning in the sky and earth to use with Lightning Release jutsu, thereby greatly reducing his own chakra consumption, since the start of the battle, he had used twenty powerful Lightning Release jutsu attacks in a row.
Therefore, there was not much chakra left in his body.
"No, I have to change my target,"
Raiga Kurosuki rationally thought, and his gaze began to fall on Chizuru, who was fighting the green-haired ninja.
Chizuru sensed that she was being targeted by Raiga Kurosuki and immediately noticed. She swung her Lightning Strike, which was wrapped in blue and white electricity, and split a lightning bolt that suddenly fell from the sky in half. Then, she sneered at the green-haired ninja in front of her, "Looks like I won't be able to continue fighting you happily."
The green-haired ninja's heart sank when he heard Chizuru's words, and he instantly realized what she meant. He quickly lowered his head and avoided looking into Chizuru's eyes.
Since the start of his battle with Chizuru, the Uchiha ninja with the Three-Tomoe Sharingan had never used the illusions commonly used by the Uchiha clan to attack.
He had originally hoped that it was just because Chizuru was young and her illusionary abilities were low, but from what she had just said, it was clear that she simply wanted to use him as a practice partner to improve her own strength.
Now that Raiga Kurosuki had rashly interfered in his fight with Chizuru, she had lost interest in using him as a practice partner.
Although it was a great shame for him, the successor to the Minazuki clan's Hyōtona Bloodline Limit, to come to this conclusion, he had to admit that the young Uchiha brat was truly powerful, like a monster, and had the strength of a elite jōnin despite his young age.
The green-haired ninja's head dropped too slowly, because Chizuru's Sharingan had already been released while she was talking.
The green-haired ninja suddenly saw a huge Three-Tomoe Sharingan appear on the surface of the fast-flowing river in front of him. It stared at him so intently that he couldn't help but feel a trace of fear.
"Oh no."
The green-haired ninja instantly realized that he had fallen for an illusion, and he cursed under his breath, quickly forming seals to dispel the illusion.
However, he failed to do so after using it several times in a row.
Finally, when he came to his senses, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed before his eyes, and then he couldn't see anything anymore.
While Chizuru successfully dealt with Kirigakure's ice ninja, Kirito waved his hand forward, and the blood sphere above his head, which had completely turned blood red, suddenly shot out a large number of dark red senbon, targeting the six members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
Although the Six Ninja Swordsmen of the Seven were not sure what the bloody senbon shot from the blood sphere were, they had fought countless battles and instantly sensed an incredibly deadly aura of danger from these bloody senbon. They quickly used Water Release: Water Formation Wall for defense.
Hatake Sakumo also had a creepy feeling about these blood-colored senbon, and he was afraid that he would be accidentally injured by Kirito. He quickly used the Shunshin technique to pull away from the Seven Ninja Swordsmen.
In this place with water, the Water Release: Water Formation Wall's defensive capabilities of the water wall are undoubtedly very impressive. Kirito's released Bloody Thousand Swords did not manage to hit the Seven Ninja Swordsmen this time.
Seeing this, he immediately used the Mind Body Transmission Technique again to communicate with Hatake Sakumo: "Hatake Sensei, don't worry about fighting. These Bloody Thousand Swords of mine are not lethal to you, but they are very lethal to those guys. Please help me create an opportunity to kill them."
Hearing Kirito's words, Hatake Sakumo didn't hesitate and once again used the Instant Body Technique, instantly appearing in front of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, one of whom was Jinpachi Munashi, who was holding a Shibuki. The short, white-fanged knife in his hand was already unsheathed once again.
Ninjas who are proficient in swordsmanship or knife skills have very fast reaction speeds and amazing dynamic vision.
As the holder of the Shibuki, Jinpachi Munashi is naturally a ninja who is proficient in the art of the blade, in addition to being an elite jōnin with outstanding strength.
Therefore, although he was unable to completely underestimate Hatake Sakumo's movements, he was able to see a little of them.
And this little bit was enough to allow him to react and block.
If he managed to block successfully, and if Hatake Sakumo dared to continue attacking, his other teammates could take the opportunity to seriously injure or even take the opponent's life.
If he could trade his life for the name Konoha White Fang, it would be worth it.
"I was guarding against you."
Jinpachi Munashi shouted, successfully blocking Hatake Sakumo's White Fang short knife with the Shibuki in his hand, which looked like a scroll.
Hatake Sakumo didn't care about this and sneered, then once again released Shunshin without a seal to avoid the joint attack from Fuguki Suikazan and Kushimaru Kuriarare in time.
The next moment, a large number of blood-colored senbon attacked, which immediately made Jinpachi Munashi, Fuguki Suikazan, Kushimaru Kuriarare change faces. They tried to defend, but it was already too late.
Fortunately, they had teammates. By quickly forming a seal, Biwa Jūzō used Water Release: Water Formation Wall to create a thick water wall in front of the three of them, successfully blocking Kirito's blood-colored senbon sneak attack.
However, Biwa Jūzō used his jutsu to block the attack for his teammates, but a flaw appeared in his own body.
Kirito's left hand's index finger moved, and a huge lightning spear suddenly shot out from the mouth of the black snake on the tail of the Black Tortoise puppet under Kirito.
Lightning Release·False Darkness!
Biwa Jūzō only had time to take out his decapitation greatsword and use it as a shield to defend, and the entire person was hit directly by the huge lightning spear, and then instantly killed.
"Damn brat!"
The other five members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen saw Biwa Jūzō die after being attacked by Kirito. They glared at Kirito in anger, but then saw a strange smile on his face. At the same time, his strange eyes lit up with a bright red glow, and bloody tears flowed from them.
In an instant, the Five Ninja Swordsmen of the Seven noticed that they were in the middle of a huge pool of blood, and in front of them were the enormous, bloodshot Ketsuryūgan of a pair of eyes that were weeping blood.
The five immediately knew that they had been caught in an illusion and hurriedly formed seals with all their strength to break it.
However, among the five, only Fuguki Suikazan, who had a Samehada, was able to successfully break the illusion for the first time by using his own enormous chakra and the chakra transmitted by the Samehada, a living ninja sword, to help, and then avoid Kirito and Hatake Sakumo's attacks in time.
The remaining four were still standing in the same place with blank expressions on their faces, and then Chizuru easily finished them off with her Sword Technique: Thunder Flash, and their heads fell one after the other.
"Damn it, retreat!"
Raiga saw the four people killed, and fear immediately arose in his heart. Without hesitation, he threw two smoke bombs to block Kirito and the others' view, then quickly completed the seal, dispelled the summoning technique on his body, and made himself disappear in place.
In the clouds, Chakra, who had almost used up his energy, saw that his side had lost the upper hand, and decisively ordered the summoning beast under him to quickly leave.
Although Kirito felt a sense of loss at the departure of Fuguki Suikazan and Raiga Kurosuki, he was still in a very good mood, as he had gained a great deal from the battle.
Listening to the voice of the system, which sounded like music to his ears, Kirito suddenly felt that it had been a good thing for him to act as Nawaki's babysitter on the battlefield.
[You have changed the fate of Biwa Jūzō and gained 1 Enhancement Point]
[You have changed the fate of Jinin Akebino and earned 1 Enhancement Point.]
[You have changed the fate of Jinpachi Munashi and earned 1 Enhancement Point.]
[You have changed the fate of Kushimaru Kuriarare and earned 1 Enhancement Point.]