Konoha: Starting with Sage Mode

At that moment, his eyes gleamed.

The next moment, he clapped his hands, and five blue chakra chains, each the size of an arm, shot out from his body, then made various movements in mid-air according to his will.

After the sealing technique, Adamantine Sealing Barrier, reached level 4, the effect was as he expected. The chakra consumption was reduced to nearly half of what it used to be, and he could release it without hand seals, further enhancing its binding power.

Kirito played with the five chakra chains, then put them away and took out a scroll from his person and opened it.

This is a storage scroll containing multiple sealing techniques with the character "傀" (puppet) engraved in the center.

Kirito placed his hands on these sealing techniques, infused them with chakra, and used the Sealing Technique: Release Technique.

A puff of white smoke appeared, and five humanoid puppets appeared in front of Kirito.

These five humanoid puppets were the finest examples of his practice works before creating the Sacred Beast puppets. Although the materials used were far less precious than those used for the two Sacred Beast puppets, in terms of quality, they were definitely among the finest of all the puppets made in Sunagakure.

The five humanoid puppets, both male and female, are exquisitely designed, dressed in beautiful clothes, and wielding various weapons. They are just like large, exquisite figurines. If you don't look closely at some inconspicuous seams on the surface, you would definitely mistake them for real people from a distance.

Kirito injected the puppet strings into the five humanoid puppets, and the five humanoid puppets immediately opened their bionic eyes. Their originally dim eyes quickly lit up, and then they all stood up from the ground.

Next, under Kirito's control, they all clapped their hands, and a blue chakra chain immediately shot out from their bodies.

"Combining puppetry with sealing techniques will definitely catch the enemy off guard. Luckily, a good practice subject has just arrived here, so let's use him to practice."

Upon seeing this, Kirito smiled slightly.

After saying that, he removed the sealing barrier in the room, and one of the female puppets that Kirito named Raijin immediately started to move.

The Thor puppet was designed based on a character from a game in his previous life. She was a beautiful purple-haired female warrior with two weapons: a naginata that was displayed on the outside and a katana that was hidden inside her body.

It pushed open the window, jumped outside, and began to move about on the walls and rooftops.

Kirito manipulates a puppet to close the window, then closes his eyes, allowing his optic nerves to connect with the Thunder God puppet.

The third eye.

This is a ninjutsu from Sunagakure with excellent reconnaissance capabilities. It uses earth-style chakra to create sand that forms eyes, which are then connected to the user's optic nerve in a mysterious way.

With this ninjutsu, Kirito can remotely control the Thunder God Puppet through chakra threads.

As soon as the Thunder God Puppet emerged from the inn, it immediately attracted the attention of some foreign ninjas hiding nearby, who all sent out men to follow it from a distance.

"An unfamiliar female ninja came out of Kirito's room. She's probably someone delivering information. Ino, do you want me to go with her?"

At the same time, in the tavern across from the inn, a man in black wearing a rabbit mask asked a question.

“If you want to go, go by yourself. Don’t drag me along. You know we’re probably already on that brat’s blacklist. If we go after him now, he might follow us too.”

"The pig-masked man opposite said coldly."

She had some knowledge of the power of spiritification. If a person who has mastered this technique has a strong enough memory, they can remember the soul aura of others to distinguish them, and can even use it to find people from a distance.

She killed Onizo and others not long ago to frame the White Fang Team, and this matter certainly couldn't be kept from Tohsaka Kirito, who is hailed as a genius of Konoha.

She was indeed quite confident in her illusionary abilities, but she wasn't arrogant enough to easily defeat a powerful individual who had mastered the art of spiritification.

Kirito Tohsaka's mastery of the Spirit Transformation Technique means he has a high level of skill in Yin Release and extremely high resistance to genjutsu. In addition, his opponent is a genius in sealing techniques and a medical ninja, so his own control over chakra must be astonishing.

As expected, even if the opponent fell for her illusion, they were able to break free instantly.

No matter how you look at it, Kirito Tohsaka is the type of enemy that illusion-type ninjas least want to face.

"Hehe, then forget it. That kid is very powerful. If he catches up, we'll both be dead. Let the Rooster, the flying fellow, go and check it out. Anyway, our main task is to follow them from a distance and we don't need to confront them directly."

When the Rabbit saw that the Pig refused without hesitation, it laughed it off and also gave up on following.

As soon as he finished speaking, he took out a scroll from the container, opened it, and revealed a painting of flying birds.

The next moment, the bird in the painting actually flew out of the scroll and went outside.

The Thor puppet scaled the walls and rooftops of the town, then quickly left the town and arrived at a large river on the west side of the town.

At that moment, a white-haired ninja was wading across the river at high speed.

The person who came was none other than himself.

When Jiraiya saw the Thunder God puppet suddenly appear on the other side of the river, his eyes widened, and he stared lecherously at the chest of the Thunder God puppet, who was wearing a purple off-shoulder fitted kimono. With a smile, he said, "Beautiful lady, what brings you here? I am Jiraiya, the Toad Sage."

Kirito didn't install a megaphone on the Thunder God puppet, but he could understand what Jiraiya was saying by reading his lips.

He said nothing about it. He came to see Jiraiya only to test the effect of the Adamantine Sealing Technique he had just mastered, not to catch up with Jiraiya.

Although it would be unfair to Jiraiya to fight without saying a word, he just happened to walk right into my path.

"This guy must have sensed the abnormality in the natural energy of the town, which is why he rushed over from nearby. It seems that the sage techniques of Mount Myōboku are really not simple. At least they are excellent in the perception of natural energy. But then again, the other party has a sage technique lineage of over a thousand years, unlike me, a self-taught sage. I guess he has done in-depth research on the use of natural energy perception."

Kirito pondered the reason why Jiraiya had suddenly appeared here and sighed inwardly.

Then, he manipulated the Thor puppet to clap its hands, and a large number of sealing spells quickly flew out from its body and landed on the ground. Within a radius of fifty meters, a simple shield-type sealing barrier began to form rapidly.

Although Jiraiya is a lecher, he is also a thoughtful person who never lets you down when it matters.

Often, his lustful nature is merely a facade.

Therefore, Jiraiya had already made his move when the Thunder God puppet created the sealing barrier.

A stream of oil spurted from his mouth and quickly turned into a huge fireball.

Fire Release: Flame Bullet!

A terrifyingly hot fireball hurtled towards them. A flash of purple lightning appeared in the Thor puppet's purple eyes, and a blue chakra chain the size of an arm shot out from its body, instantly striking the incoming fireball.

Like the Sacred Beast Puppet, the Thunder God Puppet also has two sets of chakra meridians, allowing Kirito to use two different ninjutsu techniques simultaneously.

In an instant, the fire-style chakra contained within the fireball was imprisoned, unable to continue generating flames, and the fireball went out.

"what!"

When Jiraiya saw his Fire Release ninjutsu being broken in this way, his eyes widened in disbelief.

However, he didn't have time to remain in shock, because the chakra chains continued shooting straight toward him after piercing the fireball.

Jiraiya quickly dodged, not wanting to be hit by the strange chakra chains.

However, under Kirito's control, the chakra chains were as flexible as his own arms, and immediately turned in the air to continue shooting towards Jiraiya.

Jiraiya had no choice but to continue dodging.

During the process, he did not forget to retaliate, throwing two kunai with igniting explosive tags wrapped around their backs at the Thor puppet.

The Thunder God Puppet instantly drew the naginata from its back, and with a precise sweep, knocked away the two kunai, and then unleashed a chakra light blade formed from lightning chakra.

The chakra light blade was very fast, and its trajectory landed exactly where Jiraiya landed after dodging the chakra chains again. It was a preemptive attack.

Jiraiya had no choice but to quickly form hand seals to create an earthen wall for defense.

Earth Escape·Earth Flow Wall!

Lightning Release counters Earth Release.

The earthen wall created by Earth Release chakra was almost instantly sliced ​​in two by the chakra light blade formed by Lightning Release chakra.

But Jiraiya was no longer in his original position.

Kirito has excellent perception abilities, and Jiraiya's current location is within Kirito's perception range, so he naturally knows exactly where Jiraiya is.

The chakra chains on the Thor puppet suddenly pierced the ground behind it.

Then, Jiraiya jumped out of the ground, holding a kunai in his hand, and kept colliding with the chakra chains that were being attacked.

At the same time, he said, "Who exactly are you? Why do you use the Adamantine Sealing Technique? Is there some misunderstanding between us? Actually, I am also a Konoha ninja. We should be on the same side."

After fighting for so long, Jiraiya finally recognized the chakra chains that the Thunder God Puppet was currently controlling as a ninjutsu. It was the sealing technique, Adamantine Sealing Technique, that Kirito and Orochimaru had used during the Nine-Tails' inheritance operation.

Later, he learned from his teacher that this sealing technique, after being improved by Kirito, could be learned by ordinary ninjas.

Therefore, he now believes that the Thunder God puppet in front of him must also be a Konoha ninja.

The Thor puppet smiled without saying a word, and another chakra chain appeared on its body.

Two chakra chains attacked Jiraiya from the left and right like long snakes, making it increasingly difficult for him to dodge.

During this process of dodging the attacks, Jiraiya also tried to counterattack using other ninjutsu besides Fire Release, but found that all the ninjutsu he released were easily broken by the chakra chains and could not cause any damage to the Thunder God Puppet.

He wanted to get close to his opponent, but he discovered that his opponent was a ninja proficient in lightning release and possessed a powerful lightning release acceleration technique. At his current speed, he couldn't get close at all, and he might even be slashed by his opponent's naginata as soon as he got close.

"It seems I have to get serious. Watch out, beautiful lady."

Jiraiya was forced into a corner and prepared to unleash his ultimate move, Sage Mode, to fight, shouting loudly.

After fighting Thor's puppet for so long, he realized that the puppet had no intention of killing him and seemed to only want to fight him.

On the worst, it seems the other party was just using him as a testing tool.

The test was conducted on the two chakra chains that the opponent had been using as their primary attack method.

Otherwise, given the sealing techniques and lightning release abilities the opponent displayed, they would have had a good chance of defeating him in his current state.

"Ok?"

Upon realizing this, Jiraiya couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, preparing to teach the other party a lesson in Sage Mode later. However, when he seriously sensed the natural energy and began to gather the natural energy from the outside world, he immediately discovered the abnormality on the Thunder God Puppet.

He used his natural energy perception to discover a chakra thread on the Thor puppet's body.

This chakra line was extremely thin and inconspicuous, emitting a faint, almost nonexistent chakra fluctuation. If he hadn't been seriously perceiving natural energy, he wouldn't have been able to detect its existence at all.

"You're a puppet!"

Jiraiya finally realized the true identity of the Thunder God puppet, and was greatly shocked, exclaiming in surprise.

Who is behind this?

The fact that the opponent could control a puppet that looked just like a real person forced him to use Sage Mode to deal with it.

When Jiraiya discovered that the Thunder God Puppet was a puppet, Kirito decisively stopped testing the effects of the Level 4 Adamantine Sealing Chains with Jiraiya. He controlled the Thunder God Puppet to nod to Jiraiya and then actively dispelled the chakra chains.

Seeing this, Jiraiya knew that the other party did not intend to continue fighting, so he stopped gathering natural energy and asked again, "Who exactly are you?"

"Lord Jiraiya, it's been a long time. Please forgive me for my rudeness just now."

The next moment, Kirito's voice came from the mouth of the Thunder God puppet.

Jiraiya had an excellent memory, and he immediately recognized Kirito's voice, exclaiming in astonishment, "You, you are Mito-sama's disciple, Tohsaka Kirito, right?"

"Yes."

The Thor puppet nodded.

"Then what did you mean by that just now? Why did you suddenly attack me?"