Chapter 108: One-sided Slaughter!

After dodging the senbon needles, Uchiha Sorata flickered away from his location and suddenly arrived beside Seimei.

He and Seimei scanned the battlefield and saw a total of seventeen enemies in front of them.

Fourteen Chunin and three Special Jonin-level ninjas. At least, that was what Seimei deduced based on their chakra reserves. They could be stronger, though.

But it didn't matter, because even if some of them were stronger than what their chakra reserves suggested, they would be a Jonin-level ninja at most.

Did exceptions exist? Yes, they did.

For example, in the original Narutoverse, Uchiha Itachi only had enough chakra to barely qualify him as an Elite Jonin-level ninja according to official standards.

But was he only as strong as an Elite Jonin-level Shinobi?

The answer was a resounding no.

His true strength was enough to give most Kage-level ninjas a run for their money. Uchiha Itachi possessed precise chakra control, genius-level combat instincts, formidable Taijutsu, exceptional Genjutsu, and Mangekyo Sharingan.

All these factors made him a truly strong Kage-level Shinobi, even though his chakra quantity barely passed him as an Elite Jonin-level ninja.

If not for his excessive chakra extraction from a young age, which damaged his physical foundation and caused him to suffer from a severe disease, his chakra reserves would have been much higher.

However, Uchiha Itachi was a generational genius—an outlier.

And these Sunagakure or sand ninjas?

No way.

The norm was actually having a huge amount of chakra and lackluster combat prowess. Not the other way around.

Anyway, back to the battlefield.

Fourteen Chunin and three Special Jonin from Sunagakure were glaring daggers at Seimei and Uchiha Sorata.

Among them, five Chunin and one Special Jonin-level ninja were puppet-users.

And puppeteers were annoying, no matter how you look at them.

They had to be careful of random flying senbon laced with deadly poison while fighting.

It doesn't matter.

As long as some S-rank ninja doesn't pop up, I can handle them without breaking a sweat.

The reinforcement is already on the way.

They should arrive here within two or three minutes.

Seimei thought inside while looking at the murderous eyes of his enemies.

He suddenly said, "Tsk!"

"These ninjas are too boring."

"At least, if they were cultivators, we would have had some heated exchange."

"You would have shouted 'You're Courting Death' at me, while I would have face-slapped you in return."

"Cliche? Yes. But for me, it would have been undeniably refreshing."

"If I killed you, your father would have come after me. If I killed your father, your grandfather would have come after me. Then, your ancestor, your fiancé, her family, and then the sect behind them."

"After I annihilated all of you, some supreme sect's elders would have tried to kill me. After that, the grand elder, the sect master, and the sect founder."

"Once I razed the entire sect to the ground, some ascended immortal would have targeted me."

"Unfortunately, none of those thrilling things will happen here."

"And you all will just die meaningless death and rot in suspended animation in the Pure Land."

"And what will your Kazekage do if this happens?"

"At most, he would put out some bounty on me, which no one will ever get."

"What a sad, dog-like life you have."

"But that doesn't have anything to do with me, so let's just fight."

Hearing Seimei's calm yet bewildering outburst, the Suna ninjas suddenly froze. Their jaws almost dropped to the ground by the absurdity of his statement.

The Suna Ninjas: What is a cultivator? What the hell is that courting death shit? What was that 'the son dies, so the father comes, and the father dies, so the grandfather comes' nonsense? What the fuck, bro?

Meanwhile, Uchiha Sorata, who was equally bewildered, looked at Seimei, his partner for today's patrol and search mission, with a strange gaze.

He had a lot to say, but he decided to shut up, for now.

After all, there were enemies ahead.

Six of them were even super-annoying puppeteers.

Things could get ugly at any moment.

He quickly began to form several plans to counter his enemies, including the puppeteer, as efficiently as possible.

Then he turned his head to look at Seimei, and Seimei also turned to him.

And they immediately sprang into action.

Seimei made a single-handed seal and puffed his chest, gathering a large amount of wind chakra in his lungs.

Wind Release: Great Breakthrough

A gust of wind as intense as a powerful hurricane was exhaled by Seimei. Inside the hurricane of wind, he also hid countless sharp wind blades, which were ready to tear the Suna ninjas apart.

At the same time, Uchiha Sorata also formed three hand seals to gather a considerable amount of fire chakra.

Fire Release: Stream

Sorata exhaled a high-pressure stream of flames from his mouth, which quickly expanded as it traveled further before merging with Seimei Wind Release Ninjutsu.

Wind and fire fueled each other. The temperature of the fire increased even more, making it deadlier. Meanwhile, the fire also scorched the air, making the wind blades hidden in it even more lethal.

The whole release of Ninjutsu and the combination happened in less than half a second, leaving many Suna ninjas dumbfounded as they saw the flaming hurricane rushing toward them.

At that moment, the Special Jonin puppeteer shouted, "Move. Get out of the way. Scatter in all directions."

The puppeteers stayed at the rear while sending their puppets in the front, so all six puppeteers dodged the incoming hurricane of flames in time.

The other two Special Jonin also reacted quickly and retreated.

Unfortunately, the other nine Sunagakure Chunin weren't so lucky.

The flames and searing air blades moved too quickly. They just didn't get enough time to dodge as they were standing in the front, drawing their blades and ready to unleash their Ninjutsu.

Four of them had their faces, throats, limbs, and different body parts slashed by the hot air blades, which killed them almost instantly.

Three were heavily injured by the wind blades and were engulfed by fire.

The last two Suna Chunin dodged the wind blades, but they were still hit by searing hot wind and ferocious flames, which left them with severe burns, decreasing their overall combat power.

The Special Jonin who shouted the retreat order could only see his comrades dying helplessly as he retreated further.

His eyes almost turned bloodshot in anger and grief as he stared at Seimei and Sorata, who cast such a devastating combination Jutsu, with hatred.

He was about to use his puppets to launch attacks at them when he suddenly felt his throat, hands, torso, and legs being bound by some thread.

At the same time, he heard a cold yet amused voice that had a hint of childishness from behind, "Where are you looking at? Are you sure it's okay not to pay attention to your surroundings?"

The Special Jonin's face immediately turned pale. He tried to unleash his chakra and use chakra reinforcements to increase his physical strength and break the threads binding him.

But all of his attempts were futile.

He tried to use his fingers and control his puppets using his chakra threads to attack the enemy behind. But to his horror, he found that he could no longer move his fingers, and the chakra threads that connected him to his puppets had been severed.

At this moment, Seimei, who was restraining him, asked, "Chakra threads are interesting, aren't they?"

"They are generally very weak, only good enough to control puppets and train chakra control."

"But when you have enough control over your chakra, understand a bit of Yin Release, and master basic elemental transformation to a certain level, they can display surprising might."

"For example, I used Earth Release chakra to empower the chakra threads, and they became surprisingly sturdy with powerful tensile strength. They can bind you, a Special Jonin, with ease."

"Well, you are a bit physically weak, but you are still a Special Jonin, right?"

"Now, what would happen if I suddenly flow wind chakra through these threads?"

The Suna Special Jonin's eyes widened in horror. He was about to say something.

But Seimei didn't give him the chance.

He immediately channeled wind chakra through the threads, making them very sharp. 

And as he tightened these sharp chakra threads around the ninja's body, the threads tore through his neck, limbs, fingers, and torso, leaving an extremely bloody, nauseating scene behind.

Seeing this, Seimei sighed and muttered, "Ah! You died before hearing the answer."

Then, he looked around and saw five more Seimei also killed the other five Chunin-level puppeteers using chakra threads.

Some used lightning chakra to destroy the skin and muscles, and electrocuted the Suna Chunin, killing them from extreme shock.

Others used fire chakra threads to scorch the enemy.

One Seimei just restricted the movement of the puppeteer using the earth chakra thread and pierced the ninja's neck using a kunai.

They were swift, efficient, and extremely deadly.

Seeing this, the Seimei who killed the Special Jonin-level puppeteer mused, "I guess our job's done here. Let's disperse."

Soon, he and the other five Seimei formed the dispelling seal and disappeared with a puff of smoke.

Obviously, they were shadow clones.

On the other side, the real Seimei finished off another Special Jonin by slamming a Rasengan to his chest, which left a bloody, spiraling hole on the corpse.

Then, he turned his head toward Uchiha Sorata's fight, only to see him pulling out his red, flaming short sword from the heart of the last Suna Special Jonin.

He knew that Sorata had also dealt with the other two Suna Chunin, who were scorched but alive a few moments ago.

After that, Seimei looked around at the fiery destruction and the bloody carnage around him before falling into a deep thought.

No, he wasn't reflecting the meaning of life. He wasn't that lunatic Uchiha Itachi, but a sensible person with a stable mind.

What the fuck? 

That was almost too easy.

Is this group of Suna ninjas too weak, or is that Masaru guy too strong?

Anyway, there's no need to overthink.

That guy has already slipped away.

Let the team leader, Haku, deal with it.

Seimei lampooned internally as he waited for the reinforcement to arrive.

Seriously, why is our reinforcement team so slow?

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