Zombie Sage in Naruto

Chapter 14 A Little Wave Caused by Kaede Tsukasa

The zombie's rotting flesh suddenly exploded, and splattering pus mixed with dark green substance wrapped around the enemy's arms like living things. The Sand Village ninja was horrified to find that his skin was festering at a visible rate.

"Poison has no effect on dead people."

Kaedeji's fingertips still retained the chakra used to detonate the zombies.

The zombie with its head pierced demonstrated its last remaining value on the battlefield, transforming into a human bomb, bombarding the attackers at extremely close range.

The Sand Village ninja tried to retreat and escape the moment he heard the sizzling sound, but one of his hands was grabbed tightly. With a sudden burst of strength, the skin and flesh on the surface were torn apart, but he still couldn't escape. He could only watch helplessly as the flames of the explosion came towards him, and one side of his body became like a piece of charcoal or a piece of withered branch scorched by flames.

Morino Isuke's kunai delivered the final blow, killing the enemy.

He stood beside Kaedeji, wary of enemies from other directions, glancing out of the corner of his eye at the charred corpses of the Sand Village ninjas curled up, then turned to look at the sealing scroll at Kaedeji's waist: "You injected poison into these corpses?"

"I simply stored the venom extracted from the bamboo dragonfly in the corpse's gallbladder. I don't believe that every ordinary ninja in Sunagakure carries an antidote for this kind of poison. If they can use this poison against us, then it's perfectly reasonable for me to extract some and use it on them."

Kaede Tsukasa said in a low voice, then summoned another zombie to block his way. On this kind of battlefield, in addition to launching attacks in a specific direction according to the orders of the commanders and staff, one also has to deal with all sorts of chaotic situations. Perhaps one of the corpses on the ground is the sixth brother who is pretending to be dead, waiting for someone to get close.

Concealing one's strength when one lacks it is tantamount to courting death. Kaede Tsukasa can only summon new zombies to prioritize his own safety. When the enemy sees two figures, they will naturally disperse their attack intensity, thus indirectly increasing Kaede Tsukasa's safety.

Genin are the group least qualified to guarantee their own survival, but if they have a special skill, they can usually last longer unless they are extremely unlucky.

Bang bang bang!
As the Sand Village's poison smoke bombs exploded in the sky for the third time, Kaedeji's personal tactics were constantly overturning the understanding of many Konoha ninjas.

New zombies appeared, forming a humanoid walking barrier. Pus, blood, and poisonous mist circulated among the horde, like a walking bio-fortress. Anyone who got close would be doomed; the best outcome was being blown up and scared away.

A startled reaction, which forces the ninja to dodge, means that they have exposed an opening. Other nearby Konoha ninjas will seize this precious opportunity to launch a strong attack, often reaping unexpected rewards and taking down enemies.

In the battle that lasted less than an hour, when similar situations occurred three times at Kaedeji's place, the Konoha ninjas naturally noticed this—on a battlefield full of difficulties, it seemed that getting close to this medical team always brought unexpected surprises.
With a loud bang, a zombie kicked the enemy away with all its might. The force was so great that the leg that used the kick exploded on the spot!
With just that one kick, the enemy's chest caved in, and the blood he coughed up was mixed with fragments of internal organs. His expression was forever frozen in that moment of terror.

"This zombie is basically useless now. It's a real shame I didn't put any explosive tags on it..." Kaede Tsukasa always kept one hand in a hand seal position, ready to summon new zombies at any time. He would occasionally change the hand seal in order to detonate the zombies at any time. He said this with some regret.

This was still because he hadn't fully unleashed the zombies' power—the truly astonishing aspect of zombies lay in their insidious contagiousness. If Kaede Tsukasa were to go all out, completely disregarding the consequences, each time he detonated a zombie, the splattered flesh and blood could trigger a small-scale zombie crisis, causing infected enemies to return to the camp, become zombies themselves, and then infect healthy enemies...

It expands wildly like a snowball, capable of causing unimaginable and massive damage before the enemy's high command can react and build an isolation system.

But Kaedeji wouldn't do that. He was just a genin, and due to his physical condition, his potential was limited. Before obtaining a body that satisfied him, Kaedeji wouldn't unleash his full power. The true terror of Corpse Release shouldn't be openly displayed in the sunlight.

World War II was the stage for Konoha's White Fang, the Legendary Sannin, and Minato Namikaze, not for Kaede Tsukasa.

His true shining moment will not be now; if all goes well, it should be in the third World Cup a few years from now.

Kaede Tsukasa must ensure that he survives until the end of the war and demonstrates his talent in a specific field.

"You call this the Death Soul Technique? The Death Soul Technique can be used like this?"

The more the medical ninjas in the group learned, the more dumbfounded they became.

A medical ninja was following the other Konoha ninjas, positioned at the rear. He had just used Healing Palm Technique to heal a wounded soldier who had retreated hastily. Just as he saw the soldier charge forward again, he turned his head and saw Kaedeji forming hand seals with one hand and pointing with the other. A Chunin zombie was running at high speed, its legs showing signs of breaking. After getting close to the enemy, it traded blows, frantically stabbing with kunai. After losing all its fighting power, it decisively self-destructed.

This usage is practically a suicide tactic using shadow clones, but a sane ninja would never be so extravagant as to casually send shadow clones to self-destruct. This painful way of dying would completely feed back to the original body, placing a heavy burden on the brain, and they wouldn't have enough chakra to dare to play around like this.

When rumors spread that this was the Death Soul Technique, all the medical ninjas who knew about the technique were dumbfounded, as were the other ninjas who learned from the medical ninjas what the technique was originally supposed to be.

Taking advantage of the moment when one of his subordinates was killed, Morino Isuke used a chakra scalpel to sever the throat of the attacking Sand Village ninja, and then retreated behind his other comrades to catch his breath: "This kid has done this to a corpse. It's unheard of. Even the ninja who created the Dead Soul Technique probably never thought it could be used like this."

The medical ninjas were the most deeply affected. They discovered that this technique was not as useless as they had imagined. It made medical ninjas more unpredictable, which meant a higher survival rate. Ninja battles were essentially intelligence wars, and any practical and unexpected technique was useful.

Hmm, it seems that Naruto thought the same thing when he used the harem technique on Kaguya Otsutsuki.

But in the end, everyone only thought about it in their heads. The Death Soul Technique is not a proper ninjutsu. Just the fact that it involves playing with corpses makes many people hesitate to use it. It is not suitable as a universal ninjutsu to be popularized to too many Konoha ninjas.

(End of this chapter)