I, who just wanted to be lazy, was forced to become the Hokage.

Chapter 111 Explosion Attack!

Chapter 111 Explosion Attack! (Third update, 10,000 words)

At Orochimaru's signal, a ninja emerged from the shadows.

Just as he was about to lead Nara Rinka and the others to find a tent in the camp for them to rest in.

Suddenly, a scream came from the side.

"Mist! Lord Orochimaru!"

A Konoha ninja wearing a special mechanical helmet shouted loudly.

"At the ten o'clock position! That high-temperature steam, like fog, has reappeared!"

Sensory Ninja?

Nara Rinka watched the ninja scream in alarm, and a guess began to form in his mind.

Are these machines instruments used to enhance sensory abilities?

He turned his eyes, intending to see how Orochimaru would react.

But that familiar hoarse voice rang out from outside the tent.

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

Orochimaru stared at the thick white fog in front of him, his hands moving rapidly to form hand seals, and decisively released a C-rank Wind Release ninjutsu.

Although it's only a C-rank ninjutsu.

However, with Orochimaru's abundant chakra, he still managed to summon an incredibly violent hurricane that crashed into the thick fog ahead.

woo-

A fierce wind swept across the land, and the intense wind collided and intertwined with the thick white mist. The wind and water nature chakra contained within both sides came into contact with each other.

Under the impact of this violent wind, the white fog did not dissipate immediately, but its concentration decreased at a visible rate.

Orochimaru's expression remained unchanged. He touched the ground with his toes, leaned forward, and rushed out of the Konoha camp at an extremely fast speed.

next moment.

Boom—

A deafening roar erupted from afar, accompanied by bursts of intense light. A mushroom cloud of smoke and dust burst forth from the earth, shooting straight into the sky.

The ninjas in the Konoha camp were used to this sight.

However, for the Nara Lan Gui team, who were new to the area, it was an absolute "surprise".

"That little mushroom over there..."

Jingyin walked outside the tent and stared in astonishment at the distant earthen mushroom, her heart filled with shock.

"What exactly is that...?"

Nara Rinka was concentrating on using her perception abilities and did not immediately respond to Mute's question.

However, Hinata Rei, who was standing to the side, could not suppress the shock in his heart either, and activated his Byakugan to see into the distance.

"Lord Orochimaru is currently engaged in battle with the enemy."

Hinata Rei quickly reported what she had seen.

"The opponent was a peculiar ninja wearing armor and with a tail behind him..."

Armor? Tail?

And then there's this chakra, radiating astonishing destructive power and impact.

Nara Rinkashi withdrew his gaze, but in his mind he had roughly determined the other party's identity.

"The Jinchuriki of Iwagakure have been dispatched to the front lines!"

"Judging from the battle just now, the opponent is most likely... the Five-Tails Jinchuriki!"

"The Five-Tails..."

The battle between Orochimaru and the Jinchuriki of the enemy village.

Neither Konoha nor Iwagakure had any ninjas who could get involved.

Only a small number of sensory-type ninjas can observe the battlefield situation through their superhuman sensory abilities.

The Nara Rinka Squad did not receive any combat missions to support the front lines.

Furthermore, none of the other ninjas in the Konoha camp took any action.

Nara Rinkachi then abandoned his idea of supporting Orochimaru.

Led by the ninja they had just met, the four-man Nara Rinka team received a small tent.

My first day on the battlefield.

The four-person team squeezed together to rest for the night.

The next morning.

Feeling completely refreshed, Nara Rinka emerged from her tent.

"I must say, the Shadow Clone Technique is incredibly useful!"

"My main body is aching all over, but what does that have to do with the [Shadow Clone]?"

Compared to the calm and composed Nara Rinka.

Uchiha Shisui, Hyuga Rei, and Shizune did not perform as well.

Especially Hyuga Rei, who comes from the Hyuga main family.

Her fair and delicate face could not hide her haggard expression.

The dark circles around those clear, bright white eyes were particularly striking.

I looked at the refreshed and energetic team leader.

Uchiha Shisui and the other two looked at each other, feeling ashamed of their inferiority.

After a simple breakfast.

Hinata Rei, who hadn't had a proper rest, felt even more resentful.

Fortunately, she usually has a cold demeanor, and not many people can detect her subtle mood changes through her indifferent expression.

As agreed yesterday.

Nara and his three companions arrived at the wounded soldiers' camp, intending to take in their injured comrades and protect them on their way back to the village.

However, the situation of the wounded soldiers in the camp was somewhat beyond Nara Rinkei's expectations.

In the simple medical tents, Konoha ninjas could be seen groaning in pain everywhere.

However, these creatures that can hum and bark can generally be considered to have relatively abundant vitality.

In other words.

These ninjas all sustained minor injuries, at least their lives are not in immediate danger!

With the help of miraculous medical ninjutsu, this minor injury can be cured quickly.

However, compared to the large number of lightly injured ninjas.

Only one person could truly be described as "seriously injured".

And it's said that it was just sent back to camp last night.

As for the other "severely injured ninjas"...

Nara Rinka's gaze swept over the listless, gloomy-faced ninjas.

"Severed limbs, severed limbs, and more severed limbs... Where did all these crippled ninjas come from on the Konoha front lines?!"

A feeling that was hard to describe welled up in Nara Rinka's heart.

"A ninja with a physical disability has essentially lost his stable combat ability, so it's reasonable for him to be sent back to the village..."

"But the problem is, surely not all the ninjas in Konoha's camp fighting against Iwagakure are physically disabled?"

"The rest of the seriously injured patients, did they all die?"

Considering the atmosphere in the camp and the feelings of these disabled ninjas.

Nara Rinka did not voice the question that was on her mind.

He silently watched as the medical ninjas in the camp helped those who had lost their legs onto wooden carts.

Next, the Nara Lan Gui squad will use these wooden carts to escort these seriously injured ninjas back to Kikyo Castle.

This is merely a "preferential treatment" for ninjas who have lost their legs.

As for those ninjas with missing arms, they could only use their legs to walk back on their own.

"Mute".

Nara Ranka spoke softly, and the medic stepped forward in response.

Shizune knew that the captain also possessed extremely high-level medical ninjutsu.

However, considering the upcoming schedule, it is not appropriate for the captain to expend a large amount of his own chakra to help the injured heal their wounds.

After all the injured ninjas had gathered.

Nara, along with the four members of the Lan Gui group and a three-person medical team specifically for caring for the wounded, stepped out of the Konoha camp and headed towards the heart of the Land of Fire.

Compared to when I came.

The return journey was significantly slowed down by the wooden cart.

Nara Rinka felt as if he had returned to the time when he rode in a deer-drawn carriage to the capital of the Land of Fire.

"Hyuga, go to the front of the group and periodically use your Byakugan to scout out the situation ahead;"

"Silence, you and the medical team take care of the wounded in the queue;"

"Shisui, you guard the middle of the line. With your speed, you should be able to keep an eye on both ends."

Nara Rinkazu systematically assigned tasks to his team members, while he himself remained at the end of the group.

Having practiced the [Immortal Clan Guiding Technique] for a long time, Nara Rinka's own perception ability is not weak.

If he were to use the [Lacquer Eye] technique again, he could basically be considered a sensory-type ninja.

After careful consideration, Nara Rinkei took on the responsibility of staying at the back of the team.

In the blink of an eye.

Half a day has passed.

The wounded team arrived at a rugged mountain ridge.

Suddenly, a crow flew out from the very front of the procession.

Nara Rinka, who was at the very end of the line, first sensed the situation behind him and, finding no one trailing behind, went straight to the front of the line.

"Hinata, have you found anything?"

Nara Rinka gazed at the mountains ahead and asked softly.

The crows kept by Uchiha Shisui played a role in transmitting information at this time.

A crow signifies that there is something unusual ahead;

Two crows indicate that ninjas are lurking ahead;

Three crows indicate that the number of ninjas ahead has reached a considerable scale!

"At the two o'clock position, on that small hill, there are many chakra gathering points."

Hinata Rei remained expressionless and quietly reported to his superior.

"Ninja?"

"It's a trap."

Hinata Rei reported to the leader again.

"The distribution points of those chakras cover most of the key locations on the hill, and their eruption could potentially cause the mountain to collapse."

"It sounds like the work of the Iwagakure ninja."

Nara, holding a cassia tree, inquired about the Dao.

"Hyuga, do you have a way to destroy that chakra?"

"It's too far away."

Hinata Rei said somewhat hesitantly.

"But I might try to detonate those chakra nodes using ninja tools like shuriken or kunai."

"no problem!"

Nara Rinka raised his left hand, and the procession stopped moving.

[Summoning Technique: Lightning Sword Transformation]!

Nara Rinkashi withdrew his left hand and lightly touched the summoning talisman on his wrist, summoning a set of kunai from it.

As a meticulous and cautious ninja, how could Nara Rinka only store the [Nature Mask] in a summoning talisman?

"These are all high-quality kunai mixed with a certain amount of chakra metal."

Nara Rinka handed the kunai to Hyuga Rei.

"Begin your performance, Hinata."

"Remember what I said?"

"You Hyuga clan possess the innate Byakugan, yet instead of practicing ranged attacks, you obsessively focus on close-quarters combat. You're simply out of your minds!"

"I am also a member of the Hyuga clan, Captain!"

Hyuga Rei held the kunai tightly.

Taking into account Nara Rinka's instructions, she tentatively injected chakra into the kunai and clearly felt that her own chakra had been stored in these metal ninja tools.

"They're really rich!"

Hinata Rei took a deep breath, and bulging veins appeared on either side of her eyes.

She aimed at a spot on a hill not far away where chakra was concentrated, and hurled the kunai in her hand.

laugh!

The pitch-black kunai streaked through the air with a mournful sound.

With the aid of the Byakugan, the metal weapon infused with Gentle Fist chakra accurately shot into the hill and pierced through a pre-buried chakra trap.

puff!

The eruption of Gentle Fist Chakra directly destroyed the chakra trap that had been set up in advance.

But the next moment.

Boom!

The loud roar still echoed among the mountains.

The hill appears to have been set up as a series of explosive traps.

Hinata Rei's kunai attack damaged one of the nodes.

However, this also triggered a reaction in other nodes, resulting in a series of extremely violent explosions.

Boom! Boom! Boom! —

Amidst the continuous roar of explosions.

The mountain's structure was also severely damaged as a result.

Huge chunks of mud and rocks broke off from the mountainside and crashed onto the road below.