Uchiha Akaishi Tour

Chapter 278 Special Countermeasures Unit

After meeting up with and reporting to the special countermeasures unit, Akaishi also learned about the current situation from Chief Kenzumi.

The Uchiha's special operations force is now completely focused on "Hidden Void Village" —

"The way the Sky Ninja flies is more like gliding. They need to depart from the Sky Village's flying fortress at high altitude. Therefore, as long as we keep an eye on this floating fortress, the enemy's position can be monitored in real time, making it impossible to launch a surprise attack on Konoha's stronghold."

Once this fortress is under surveillance, we won't be caught off guard like before—after the previous attack, Konoha's medical units are already operating beyond capacity!

At this point, Jiancheng glanced at the Anbu members and said, "Of course, more importantly, even if some Sky Ninja manage to get out of the way, our Uchiha clan can immediately use long-range genjutsu at the line-of-sight level to disrupt them, causing them to lose control and fall to their deaths, hahaha—"

Guan Ze: ————

The Uchiha clan's "oppression" of the Anbu was instinctive, and Guan Ze was used to it. Just like when Akaishi was still a rookie ninja without a headband, he would shove his neck at the Anbu around Mito.

and----

Guan Ze then spoke up, "Yes, the genjutsu of the Uchiha clan's Sharingan is said to be able to be cast as long as the opponent can be seen—"

"In complex terrain with cover, this distance isn't too exaggerated, but when the target is in an open area, it immediately becomes a long-range illusion, and in the boundless sky—it is indeed an ultra-long-range illusion attack."

Akaishi glanced at him—

Previously, Akaishi had discovered that, whether it was due to some side effect of the Yamanaka clan's secret technique or Guan Ze's own personality weakness, this guy seemed unable to resist explaining things he knew after seeing them!

When they first set off, when Akaishi asked him about Yakushi Nonou, whom he didn't know, he rattled off Yakushi Nonou's medical ninjutsu and its variant techniques without any hesitation.

At this point, they even started supporting the Uchiha clan.

Clan Chief Jiancheng, who had been interrupted and hadn't spoken up himself, seemed somewhat disheartened upon seeing this.

Guan Ze's information might have come from the Yamanaka clan, or it might have come from the Hokage's Palace; in any case—

It's mostly correct, but there are some discrepancies in the details. However, Jian Cheng won't explain these discrepancies to him!

After all, this is the Achilles' heel of the Uchiha clan's genjutsu—

The Sharingan's genjutsu, "can be used as long as you can see it," is true, and it doesn't even require the other person to see your eyes clearly. But how do you know if someone "can see" you?

It's not enough to vaguely realize "there seems to be a target there"; you must clearly see the other person's eye movements.

If you can observe the other person's eye movements for about three seconds, you can drag them into an illusion.

While the Sharingan isn't as good as the Byakugan in terms of long-distance vision, and it doesn't have the ability to see through objects, it is excellent in the unobstructed sky above—

The six Uchiha clan Jonin in the Special Countermeasures Unit, all except Kensuke, can lock onto targets from extremely long distances and use genjutsu to control any air ninjas who dare to fly out!

Only Jiancheng could no longer see clearly.

Because he awakened the kaleidoscope, and also used kaleidoscope illusions and enhanced his kaleidoscope eye power.

Although the Square Flower Sharingan improves vision, it is not enough to compensate for the weakening of vision during subsequent use.

Even though Kensei didn't use as much as Setsuna, Kensei's static vision is now even better than that of an ordinary Jonin, though still stronger than that of an ordinary person.

Ordinary Jonin who doesn't have eye techniques or special sensory abilities can only see the facial features of a target within fifty meters at most. However, for the Uchiha clan with the Sharingan, this range can reach five hundred to one thousand meters. More importantly, from the Sharingan's perspective, "locking onto eye movements" is easier than "seeing facial features"!

After all, eye movement is still movement.

"Clan leader, how high can this Void Hidden Village fortress fly?" Chishi looked at the mountain, which was several hundred meters high.

"It's much taller than a typical aerial ninja, and can fly at altitudes of over a thousand meters when in motion." Kenjo has been tracking this thing recently, so he naturally has some experience with it.

After a pause, Jian Cheng added, "However, this is only the height of the flying fortress. Those air ninjas who use special ninja tools to fly cannot stay at such a high altitude for long. Every time an air ninja is dispatched, it will first descend to within a thousand meters. After that, the air ninjas that come out will also quickly reduce their flight altitude."

"When air ninjas travel by air, they only maintain an altitude of five or six hundred meters. To conduct effective reconnaissance of the ground, they need to descend further. And to effectively attack the ground, they need to descend to one or two hundred meters. Their attack methods mainly involve randomly throwing explosive tags and using long-range wind-style ninjutsu."

Upon hearing this, Guan Ze and Nonou fell silent for a moment—"only" five or six hundred meters? That's still higher than most ninjas who can fight in the air!

However, Akaishi understood the clan leader's meaning—

While the Three-Handed Sharingan cannot directly lock onto air ninjas on the ground, it is sufficient to lock onto air ninjas in flight!

Seeing the reactions of these two, the Uchiha present were very pleased and began to speak up—

"With our Uchiha clan here, does the Hidden Void Village even think of attacking Konoha directly? What a joke—hahahaha—"

"Anyone who dares to show themselves in front of our Uchiha clan will immediately fall under a genjutsu. And if they fall under a genjutsu while flying at high altitude, we can even save ourselves the trouble of finishing them off!"

"Next comes mental confusion, loss of control of ninja tools, and being shattered to pieces—"

"The Hyuga clan, what a joke! They can see—but what good is that?"

"Exactly! Those short-armed, short-legged soft fists can't even touch a hair on Kong Ren's head!"

"What's the use of just looking at it? This fortress is huge, are they just there to look at it?"

"You can't say that. The Sky Ninja's tactics are still very strong. What would we Uchiha do without them?"

"Yeah, what should we do?"

Guan Ze: ————

While boasting about themselves, the Uchiha clan never forgets to belittle others, as always.

However, the Uchiha clan was not exaggerating at this point—although they had not yet directly attacked the aerial fortress, their special countermeasures unit had completely limited the Sky Village's capabilities.

With the Uchiha clan present, the so-called aerial combat of the "Hidden Sky Village" poses no threat to Konoha Village, let alone on the front lines!

This explains why, despite suffering heavy losses at the beginning, Konoha was able to quickly stabilize after retreating a bit, even though its original forward positions collapsed. The stalemate zone was pushed back a little, and there was no major strategic defeat.

"These days, Kongyin Village has been trying to shake off our surveillance, constantly moving its location—" Gong Zhijiu said sarcastically.

Akashi understands this all too well!

The initial destination when I accepted the mission was clearly in the desert—the land of wind is mostly desert.

However, they've already reached the primeval forest near the land of rivers —

"Hmm? How long has this Hidden Village been here? Should we take this opportunity to sneak in?" Akashi asked after looking at the hilltop again.

"More than two hours—we were originally planning to sneak in and gather intelligence, but we received your signal, so the clan leader waited for you a bit," Gong Zhijiu said.

The reason for waiting for Akashi is that Kenjo now feels he can directly become the "top attacker"!

Seven Uchiha with the Sharingan of the third generation, among whom Kenshin could also awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan.

In Jiancheng's opinion, this lineup is enough to annihilate any small ninja village except for Amegakure!

"The Hidden Void Village only has special methods; there aren't any particularly skilled experts there. Moreover, once we infiltrate their lair, their aerial combat techniques won't be very effective. The only thing to be careful about is—there might be other unknown methods within this mysterious fortress." Jian Cheng initially wanted to gather intelligence first.

But now—

Upon hearing that Clan Chief Kensuke intended to launch a full-scale attack, Guan Ze became somewhat uneasy. As a ninja in charge of intelligence, he naturally paid extra attention to intelligence. However—he felt that his advice was nothing but a joke in front of the Uchiha Clan Chief.

"Clan leader, why did this Kongren suddenly stop here? He must have some ulterior motive," Akashi said.

Hearing Akaishi speak, Guan Ze felt a surge of hope—hoping that Akaishi could persuade the Uchiha clan leader.

"Why don't we all go out and completely thwart their evil plan!" Akaishi advised.

Guan Ze: ————

Guan Ze felt he shouldn't have relied on an Uchiha, and besides—

Is "all out in full force" a suitable way to describe myself?

"Good, Akaishi, you've grown. When facing enemies, you should think about things from a different perspective." Kensuke nodded with satisfaction.

Nonou, standing to the side, glanced at Akaishi, then at Kensuke, who was ready to order a full-scale attack at any moment. After hesitating for a moment, she gritted her teeth and said, "Clan Head Uchiha, Captain Akaishi has been personally keeping watch all night along the way and hasn't had much rest. Don't you think—"

Jian Cheng was taken aback upon hearing this, but his expression relaxed slightly as he said, "Is that so—"

"I'm fine!" Akaishi said immediately.

However, Jian Cheng shook his head and said, "Haste makes waste. Why don't you rest for a bit? We can also use this time to investigate the fortress."

Guan Ze: ————

Guan Ze also realized that the Uchiha clan's strategy was to always have a point, no matter what they said, it was actually all based on their own ideas!

However, this also confirmed Guan Ze's suspicions. It seemed that Uchiha Akashi was indeed very important to their clan leader, as he had been persuaded with just a few words.

Dongdong: In the original Chunin Exams, during Orochimaru's fight against the Third Hokage, the ANBU member who was explaining outside the barrier had the code name "Elephant" and was 36 years old. That means he should be around 11 years old now. In this book, Guan Ze is set to be the father of the next "Elephant".