Nine Types
"Huff~"
The late autumn night wind howled, masking the already faint sound of their landing. Four ninja quietly appeared on the rooftop.
They were all wearing brown, streamlined uniforms with dark blue half-body armor over them. The iconic respirators and the Rain Hidden Village Forehead Protectors on their foreheads reflected a faint light in the dim moonlight.
After the leading ninja made a hand gesture, the four separated and infiltrated the hotel from different angles.
None of them noticed the dark, short shadow clinging to the ground in the interplay of light and darkness on the rooftop.
One of the long-haired ninja walked along the wall to the window on the top floor of the hotel, reached out, pressed on the window, and gently pushed it open. Without any extra movements, he directly entered the room.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, he saw a short Konoha ninja standing coldly in the distance, watching him.
A Konoha brat.
He subconsciously formed a hand seal, and then he heard a whistling sound from behind him.
Shadow Clone, or— The long-haired ninja, holding a Kunai, raised his hand to parry. His years of combat experience allowed him to judge the position of the attack by the sound of the wind, easily blocking the attack from behind. Based on the height of the attack, he could basically determine that it was about the same height as the short Konoha ninja opposite him.
Then attack the main body.
He gathered Chakra and instantly dashed forward, Kunai in hand, towards the short Konoha ninja opposite him.
"Pfft~"
The short ninja flicked his fingers, and four fingers transformed into Senbon, piercing through the air.
The long-haired ninja waved the Kunai in his hand continuously, deflecting the Senbon that were average in speed and power. A strange secret technique, but the power is a bit lacking.
Although he was not injured, his speed inevitably slowed down a bit. Seeing the short ninja opposite him taking the initiative to charge, he felt a sense of foreboding in his heart, but it was a bit difficult to change direction temporarily when rushing towards each other.
Since a collision was inevitable, he would strike first! He slashed the Kunai towards the short ninja's neck. In terms of attack distance, he, as an adult, would definitely have the advantage—
His head fell off!
The head of the person opposite him fell off along with his neck, leaving only the body holding the Kunai to cross paths with his attack. Although he was shocked, he still instinctively made the most correct decision, deflecting his body and using his arm to bear the attack.
"Pfft!"
The sound of the Kunai entering flesh rang out. The long-haired ninja endured the severe pain and kicked the short ninja's headless body away. Before he could recover.
"Bang!" The flying headless body turned into white smoke, and the sound of two Kunai piercing through the air from below and behind him rapidly approached.
It's over!
"Pfft!" x2 The last thought flashed through his mind as his lower abdomen and the back of his neck were brutally pierced by Kunai. The intense pain completely exceeded his tolerance, and his consciousness plunged directly into darkness.
"Thud!"—"One."
Lin Ke released his hand, pushed away the blood-spraying corpse that had fallen on his back, pulled out another Kunai, and turned to leave the room expressionlessly.
The shadow had transformed back into two dimensions, passing through walls and rooms, and returning to the corridor to scout.
He followed closely behind, quickly arriving at the scene of another battle.
"Bang!" The Rain Hidden Village ninja was kicked into the wall by Yuan Wei. Xia emerged from the shadows, thrusting a Kunai through his temple, twisting and pulling it out.
Seeing Lin Ke arrive, Yuan Wei held up two fingers.
Four people, three have already been dealt with. The last one should have gone straight to the room where the merchant is…
Lin Ke nodded, not saying anything, and left after making a gesture to stay alert.
The floor of the corridor was not only covered with the corpses of Rain Hidden Village ninja, but also the corpses of two guards from the caravan. For the ninja they could easily deal with, assassinating a few samurai and Ronin was also very simple.
Arriving at the corridor outside the room where the merchant was staying, the samurai leader of the caravan stood leaning against the wall, clutching his bleeding abdomen. The three samurai corpses lying scattered nearby were riddled with Senbon. Nara Yan Shui was putting the scroll back into the Scroll Kit, and on the floor next to him, the Rain Hidden Village ninja leader's real headless corpse lay on the ground.
The three exchanged a glance, none of them saying anything. In the completely silent and solemn environment, they returned to their positions.
The surviving samurai also began to clean up the battlefield.
This was not the first assassination they had experienced.
Lin Ke leaned against the wall, closing his eyes to recover his strength and adjust his mental state, while reviewing the battle just now in his mind.
There was actually nothing to review. He could now instantly kill ordinary ninja without any trump cards.
Even his weakest taijutsu, when amplified by the Clone Jutsu and teaming up with a shadow in a righteous two-on-one, was something no ordinary Genin or Chunin could hope to withstand.
As for why he didn't summon a Substitute, use Shadow Clones to weaken the opponent, or summon an Earth Dragon...
There was no need.
Ninja battles heavily rely on information, and for him, the more hidden cards he had, the better.
He had a full nine ways to kill his opponent, nine! But when it came down to it, the simpler, more direct, and less revealing of information, the better.
As the convoy gradually approached the Land of Rivers and reached the border, they had already encountered three attacks: one by a group of Ronin, one by rogue ninja from the Grass Hidden Village, and this was the third, ninja from the Rain Hidden Village.
The first two didn't even require him and Nara Yan Shui to take action; Yuan Wei and Xia had taken care of them.
Would there be stronger attacks upon entering the Land of Rivers? Lin Ke didn't know, but it was highly likely that there would be no fixed rest time for the next two days.
He quietly waited in his assigned position until dawn, took a Soldier Pill, and prepared to set off.
The corpses and bloodstains in the hotel had been cleaned up, and there was almost no trace of the fierce battle from last night, but there was still a faint smell of blood. The ninja and samurai were responsible for the fighting, while the ordinary people accompanying the convoy were responsible for cleaning up the battlefield and taking care of the wealthy merchant.
After meeting up with his two companions and Nara Yan Shui, before they could set off, they saw the pot-bellied merchant wearing loose clothes and loudly berating the pale-faced samurai leader:
"You idiot..."
Even though the man had risked his life to protect him last night, his dissatisfaction stemmed from the fact that the noise last night was a bit too loud, affecting his 'sleep'.
Two beautiful women in low-cut dresses left the room.
Lin Ke watched coldly. Yuan Wei clenched his fists, his expression somewhat indignant, but Xia stopped him. He said nothing, only glared at the merchant with angry eyes.
Nara Yan Shui ignored it, nodded to his three subordinates, and then the four of them followed the merchant and samurai out of the hotel.
This was the world: the ninja, who wielded the strongest force, saw themselves as tools, creating killings that were neither black nor white under the manipulation of the ninja system.
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