Trash! The Grass Ninja traitor unleashed a Fire Release, burning away Aburame Shikyō's insects.
Then, the remaining few immediately retreated a certain distance, looking at Satoru's team warily.
"Their vigilance is quite strong."
Aburame Shikyō raised his right hand.
From where the few had just stopped, dense insects swarmed out, retracting their bodies.
"That was a signal just now, which means they still have support, Captain, what should we do?"
Shikyō asked Satoru.
"What else is there to say? Take them out." Satoru's mission was to eliminate all of the opponents, not just bring people back.
How could he waste time?
Now is the calm period in Wind Breath Valley, time is of the essence, so the faster the better.
If it reached the violent period, research couldn't progress from weak to strong then.
The difficulty would increase significantly.
"I was just waiting for you to say that."
Woof~
Two Inuzuka Tsuyoshi made the same move.
Fang Over Fang.
Hyuga Chong and Aburame Shikyō also began to move.
Meanwhile, Satoru tilted his head slightly in a certain direction before forming hand signs and casting auxiliary Ninjutsu.
Those without information wouldn't find it easy to break his Genjutsu.
Subsequently, all those who had been affected earlier, when facing Hyuga Chong and the other two, gathered Chakra to prepare for a response, but their eyes all avoided Satoru's direction.
They had experience dealing with visual Genjutsu.
It was at this moment that a seed took root and sprouted within their Chakra.
The Genjutsu's influence, which they had just cleared with Chakra, actually re-rooted itself as they used their Chakra.
"Hmph, just hold on for a while, and you'll die here."
Facing the attack of two tornadoes, the leading chief gritted his teeth and formed hand signs with both hands.
Water Release: Double Water Dragon Bullet.
He wasn't afraid of such an attack at all.
Poof!
Two water dragons rose from the ground, facing Inuzuka Tsuyoshi's Ninjutsu attack.
But the chief was very surprised; the water dragons were summoned, but why were they so small?
In front of him, two majestic water dragons, only a palm's height, waved on the ground, seemingly trying to bite Inuzuka Tsuyoshi's attack to pieces.
As a result, they didn't even reach the height.
It was this moment of daze that Inuzuka Tsuyoshi's attack arrived.
He could only raise his weapon to block.
Then he was surprised again to find that his two-meter-long blade was now only palm-sized.
Bang!
Surprise after surprise.
With such a flawed movement, Inuzuka Tsuyoshi seized the opportunity, crossing over to cut him in half at the waist.
The chief's eyes were filled with disbelief.
He used to be a Jonin from Hidden Mist Village, and he was taken down like this.
His last conscious thought fell upon the unmoving Satoru.
"Is that so, the Genjutsu from earlier hasn't completely worn off yet." His last thought vanished.
The others weren't much better; all the Chunin, aided by visual displacement and form manipulation, were successively deluded, misjudging attack ranges and power, and died on the spot.
One of the Jonin, experienced and possessing a secret Ninjutsu, used an Earth Release Substitution Jutsu at a critical moment to evade Hyuga Chong's giant, golem-like palm.
However, what awaited him at his landing spot was a cluster of insects.
Ah~
A scream, and his Chakra was completely devoured.
Only his wide, unseeing eyes remained.
Rustle~
Aburame Shikyō retracted his insects, and Hyuga Chong and Inuzuka Tsuyoshi also returned to their captain's side with smiles.
At the same time, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
The Ninjutsu of these guys earlier were quite powerful; a single misstep could have cost them their lives.
It was clear that these Ninjas were traitors from other villages who were Jonin, and now that they were dead, they truly felt relieved.
They had originally thought it would be good if they could even escape, as they only had Satoru, a Jonin, plus their three Chunin.
They absolutely couldn't be a match for the enemies who annihilated the Hogoromo Clan.
However, their Chunin qualities made them realise that immediate escape might lead to a quicker death, so they adhered to the most probable method of survival.
Unexpectedly,
Their captain's Genjutsu ability was so strong.
Easy, too easy,
With the captain's assistance, facing a team of over a dozen people, including Jonin, was even easier than them facing Chunin from other villages on their own!
"Captain, you're amazing."
"As expected of the head of the Analysis Team, I think he's even stronger than Copy Ninja Kakashi!"
"I feel like he's stronger than my uncle."
After confirming that all enemies were dead, they praised him.
"Haha, I'm still far from it. Compared to Senior Shibi and Kakashi, I'm still far from it, haha."
Satoru smiled, not taking the bait.
There was no benefit in doing so.
Ninja battles are never guaranteed; it just depends on who has more information.
Even Kakashi, only won against him when he had information.
Aburame Shibi's appearances were too few, so he couldn't make any guarantees.
A Konoha Ninja with maxed-out offence, defence, and support, a bug tamer recognised by the Ninja World as unrivalled.
In the Third Shinobi World War, he was also a terrifying presence, though not as famous as Minato Namikaze and the Sannin.
Satoru knew too little about him, only that he was a Ninja who controlled countless types of secret insects.
Compared to such an experienced senior, Kakashi and Asuma seemed too naive!
That's why he wouldn't engage; wasn't that just asking for trouble?
He took out a small scroll from his Ninja tool pouch, infused it with Chakra to enlarge it, and performed a Sealing Technique, absorbing all the corpses on the ground.
These corpses were useful to Konoha.
And they could be exchanged for merits, accumulating merits so that when he needed to learn Ninjutsu, he wouldn't have to cram at the last minute.
Boom!
"You guys go ahead, I'll set a trap."
Satoru released the Chopped Pepper Fish Head from underground, and the Hogoromo Clan members also crawled out from its mouth.
Looking at the scene around them, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
The enemies who had launched such attacks were defeated, and from their appearance, it seemed very easy.
Hearing Satoru's words, they didn't object.
Hyuga Chong and the other two nodded at the words.
During the mission, they understood that they were to obey the captain.
Even though they didn't know why the captain wanted to set a trap.
They headed towards Konoha with the Hogoromo people.
It was after they left.
"Come out, Senior Orochimaru."
Satoru spoke towards the forest.
"Impressive, as expected of someone who can make our chief suffer a setback, Konoha's sensory Ninja, Satoru."
On a large tree, a small green snake suddenly spoke.
Then it opened its mouth, and a figure crawled out, looking at Satoru with great interest.
"A Ninjutsu that even the Byakugan couldn't see through, yet you discovered it. How did you do it?
Could it be that your sensory ability is already on par with the Byakugan?" Orochimaru smiled.
Satoru replied, "Senior Orochimaru, isn't that a bit rude, asking for my information as soon as we meet?"
He had no obligation to answer Orochimaru.
"My apologies, Satoru, you seem to know me?
We shouldn't have met before." Orochi apologised with a smile.
"I saw you once in front of the Memorial Stone, and Lord Orochimaru was the overall commander of the Third Shinobi World War,
How could I not know you?"
Satoru said.
He didn't understand why Orochimaru was looking for him.
Hmm, from the first sentence, it seems he knew about Pain's setback, or maybe Pain himself said it.
This means that the information about his battle with Pain, and the information he had revealed in Konoha, might have already reached the ears of AkatOrganisation members.