Pokémon Ninja Scrolls of the Mizukage

Chapter 462 Puppet Army

The blazing sunlight at noon seemed to have only slightly dispelled the fog in the Hidden Mist Village.

The ninjas in charge of guarding were standing on the tower, chatting and talking to each other out of boredom.

After all, this is the headquarters of Kirigakure, one of the five major ninja villages.

Thanks to the excellent geographical location around the Hidden Mist Village, it has basically not been subjected to any serious attacks since its successful establishment.

Moreover, there are many standing guard towers in some places further out than the Hidden Mist Village. If there is any danger, the sentry towers more than ten kilometers away will issue early warnings.

Therefore, the guards near the gate of the Hidden Mist Village are more focused on preventing trouble than actually preventing enemy attacks.

If it weren’t for the war a few years ago, the village would have been attacked by a wave of tailed beasts from the Hidden Cloud Village.

Now the attitude of these Kirigakure ninjas who are in charge of guarding may be even more lax.

A middle-aged Kirigakure ninja looked at the two young people who were chatting happily next to him, leaned his hands on the tower railing in annoyance, and sighed.

"Alas, there's not even any blood in the missions in the village lately. If I had known earlier, I might as well sign up to be an examiner in the Chunin Exam. Maybe I could even watch those brats from other villages fight each other."

On the other side, a slightly plump ninja laughed and teased.

"You're talking as if you'll be selected just by signing up. This time, those bastards from the Ministry of Ability took up nearly half of the places. And you're still an examiner? I think if you go, you'll just be a peripheral guard!"

"You're itching for trouble, aren't you? How dare you tease your senior? Come here, I'll let you bleed!"

While the two were laughing, another person in the team frowned and looked into the distance with some confusion.

In the mist, there seemed to be a slight vibration sound coming from nowhere, but it did not sound like the scale of an ordinary caravan coming to the Hidden Mist Village to issue missions.

The fog surrounding the Hidden Mist Village protects the village, but it also blocks the vision of the defending ninjas.

"Nishizen! Come here, sense the ninjutsu!"

"Captain? What's going on?"

"Stop talking nonsense! Perception Ninjutsu!!!"

Hearing the captain's surprisingly stern tone, the perception ninja named Nishimae Tadahisa did not dare to delay any longer and immediately formed hand seals to perform his perception ninjutsu.

However, just as the perception waves of the ninjutsu had just spread out, Nishimae Tadahisa's face turned extremely pale in an instant.

However, out of ninja instinct, he immediately reported to his captain.

"Chakra fluctuations, the scale is over a thousand! There are more outside the sensing range! The scale fluctuation of the jonin is over twenty, and..."

In Nishimae Tadahisa's perception, the chakra fluctuations of more than twenty jonin seemed to be filled with a strange evil aura.

But this was just a feeling, and he didn't know how to explain it for a moment.

However, at this moment, the captain had no time to continue listening to his nonsense.

Just the first half of the sentence, a ninja army of thousands of people, and more than twenty jonin, was enough to make his expression change drastically.

"Enemy attack! Sound the alarm! Flare!"

After roaring out orders, he didn't care whether his team members could react or not.

He first took out three highest-level flares from his arms, detonated them directly and threw them into the air.

When a ninja force of this size approached the outskirts of the Hidden Mist Village, there was no prior notification from the top brass, and no early warning was sent from the sentry post more than ten kilometers away.

Then he must treat this as an enemy attack force with malicious intent.

After dropping the flare, the garrison captain stared at the fog in the distance as he heard the enemy attack alarm begin to sound.

The footsteps that were only faintly heard there seemed to be getting heavier. "Captain, the number of chakra fluctuations in that direction is about to exceed two thousand."

Nishimae Tadahisa, who had been maintaining the perception ninjutsu, now looked even paler.

However, the garrison captain ignored his condition, but looked at the ordinary people who were still queuing to enter the village below with some disgust, and then gave orders again.

"Xingji! Go inform the elder Yuanshi and explain the situation here! Miyata! Take your team and go down to evacuate the people! Send all the ordinary people near the village entrance to emergency shelter!"

Yuki, who was called first, immediately withdrew the kunai in his hand and ran quickly towards the village.

Then a team leader named Miyata looked at the captain of the guard with astonishment.

"Captain Kondo, are you crazy?! What's the point of calling them ordinary people at this time? Get these poor people out quickly, closing the gate is the most important thing!"

However, his words were met with an extremely ferocious look from the captain of the guard.

Captain Kondo shouted directly at him.

"Stop talking nonsense! Do you want to disobey the will of the Mizukage-sama? Follow the order!!"

Seeing the top person in charge here getting angry, no matter how angry and confused they were, everyone immediately started to take action.

In fact, Captain Kondo himself is also aware of this.

Evacuating the people at this time might not only delay the defense work, but might even cause enemy spies to sneak in and cause damage due to negligence.

However, as a jonin, he knew better than those below him that Lord Mizukage had actually been pushing for changes in the atmosphere of the Hidden Mist Village since he ascended to the throne.

If we leave these people alone, or even allow the merchants who come to issue missions to be locked outside and left to die.

It might make all of Mizukage-sama’s efforts go to waste.

However, he appropriately chose to ignore the fact that some of the ninjas who were evacuating the people below were using heavy hands against civilians who did not obey orders.

At this moment, dozens of Anbu ninjas had already arrived at the gate of the Hidden Mist Village. The leader ignored the situation on the scene and asked Kondo directly.

"Kondo, what's going on here?!"

However, Kondo didn't need to answer, the synchronized footsteps had turned into a roar that shook the earth.

This sound was clearly inconsistent with the footsteps that a ninja should make while marching, and it made everyone present even more suspicious.

"All wind-style ninjas! Combined ninjutsu! Dispel the fog ahead!"

The captain of the dark team who led the team did not bother to slowly inquire about the situation, and directly asked the ninjas present to clear the fog.

Immediately afterwards, a dozen ninjas stood out from the crowd and lined up outside the gate of the Hidden Mist Village.

Then they started to seal the seals at the same time.

"Wind Style* Breakthrough"

"Wind Style* Breakthrough"

"Wind Escape Great Breakthrough" xN
More than a dozen wind bombs, large and small, were fired at the same time.

The natural fog ahead was instantly blown away, and the scene became clear immediately.

However, after the fog dissipated, everyone looked at the scene in front of them with shock.

The seemingly endless army of clay puppets now marched in uniform steps, slowly and coldly rushing towards the Hidden Mist Village.

"Go, go and ask Master Qing to come over!"

(End of this chapter)