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"It can indicate the mission location and provide navigation."

"???"

Hidan's eyes widened. "It's already possible to do this much?"

"There are only five of these watches in the entire Mercenary Guild, and they are worth a billion."

Kakuzu casually remarked, "You can look at the exchange's sign; I bet some people have already bet up to 10 billion."

"...Then why are you still worried about losing 100,000 taels!?"

Hidan was shocked.

"Shut up, let's go, let's finish the mission."

Kakuzu glared coldly at Hidan, then grabbed him and ran excitedly toward the mission location.

But when he arrived at the mission location, he immediately sensed that something was wrong.

"Wait, Hidan."

Kakuzu frowned, glanced at the mission location on his watch, then looked at the surrounding environment, and a sense of foreboding rose in his heart.

"what?"

Hidan, carrying his scythe, said with obvious displeasure, "You won't let me do this or that. Why is it so complicated for you mercenaries to do a mission?"

"...We may have fallen into a trap."

Kakuzu narrowed his eyes, his doubts growing.

Why is it me?

Don't they know they are the second-ranked ninja on the mercenary list?

No, they must know, otherwise they wouldn't have specifically assigned the task to me.

In other words, someone bribed the mercenary guild to change their position.

"Hmph, not bad, but you're a hundred years too early to kill me!"

Kakuzu got angry. No wonder his compensation took so long to process, and he was even given a compensation task on purpose.

He didn't resent the Mercenary Guild; what angered him was that some nobody had actually used the Mercenary Guild to deal with him.

Kakuzu unleashed his aura, startling Hidan, but he quickly recovered.

"what? What?"

"Are there any enemies?"

"Where is the enemy?"

He excitedly unleashed his aura, and after briefly sensing the surrounding situation, he decisively rushed forward.

Right in front of him and Kakuzu, there were several "weak" Jonin auras.

"Eh hahaha!"

"Someone actually dared to set us up! They must be tired of living!"

"Let me, Hidan, take you on!"

Hidan charged forward without a care in the world; he was not afraid of death or the trap.

Immediately, Kakuzu narrowed his eyes, and Hidan exploded.

Chapter 717 The Terrifying Kakuzu

Bang!

With a muffled thud, Hidan was sent flying backwards, landing right in front of Kakuzu.

His body was completely charred black, with not a single patch of healthy flesh remaining.

Even so, Hidan's bright eyes remained unchanged, showing no trace of fear or dread, but rather an air of excitement.

"...Asuma, you released it too early!"

"Such a great opportunity wasted!"

Shikamaru said with exasperation, squatting on the tree behind him and kicking Asuma.

"How many times have I told you! Don't act impulsively! Don't act impulsively!"

"Are you even an elite Jonin?"

He clasped his hands together, his head aching. The explosive tags he had acquired for over ten thousand taels of silver, along with the hidden threads behind them, were all ruined. All the traps that Naruto had painstakingly set up with his shadow clones were now wasted.

"...Seeing this guy so arrogant, I couldn't help myself, sorry..."

Asuma gritted his teeth as he spoke, having already sensed the chakra left behind by Jiraiya from Hidan. It was the ninjutsu Jiraiya used to track enemies.

Given Hidan's personality, he wouldn't take these things to heart unless he was forced to.

Tracking ninjutsu?

come.

He already had too many similar marks; to him, it was like having too many lice and not being afraid of being bitten, or having too much debt and not being burdened by it.

Furthermore, Hidan himself is a follower of the evil god and is the evil god's representative on earth.

The more people Hidan kills and the stronger the sacrifices become, the happier the Jashin will be. As a reward, the Jashin will continuously increase Hidan's strength.

With these tracking marks, Hidan actually had an easier time.

Part of being a ninja is a chain of revenge. These ninjas who leave tracking marks will attract other ninjas with whom they have a bond. Those who dare to track are usually people who are confident in their own skills.

They would come at him one after another, like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather.

They even saved time finding someone to kill them.

Asuma is a typical example of this; he excitedly destroyed Shikamaru's trap, causing Hidan, who was supposed to be blown into the wire zone and cut up, to fly back to Kakuzu's side.

It's hard.

"I already took care of Hidan! Asuma, you idiot!"

Shikamaru wanted nothing more than to kick Asuma to death. Asuma knew he had made a mistake, so he touched his face and said nothing.

"Alright, Shikamaru, since we're out of options, let's just take action?"

Naruto said to Shikamaru, "Anyway, that guy Hidan shouldn't be able to move now. If the whole group goes to deal with Kakuzu, we should be able to beat him, right?"

“It’s hard to say…”

Shikamaru frowned. Kakuzu was at the peak of the Kage level, and although Chiaki said he could handle him, Shikamaru still wasn't very confident.

Well.

However, according to Chiaki, Hidan was even harder to beat than Kakuzu, but now he's lying down.

Therefore, one cannot always trust Qianqiu's judgment.

Ultimately, you have to rely on yourself.

Before Shikamaru could fully consider his options, he felt Asuma pull him up and run backward.

"What?"

Shikamaru was stunned. He looked around and saw that not only Asuma was running backward, but Ino and Choji were also retreating quickly.

Needless to say, Team 7, with Sai's help, Sakura and Naruto rode on a tiger and charged backward.

"You dare to lay a hand on me? You're really asking for trouble!"

Kakuzu clapped his hands, and a black monster suddenly rose up beside him. The monster wore a mask, took a deep breath, and spat out a small fireball.

"Fire Release! Head Engraving!"

Kakuzu's face was contorted with rage, as if he intended to destroy the entire forest where Shikamaru and his companions were hiding.

In fact, that's what he did.

The small fireball spat out by the Earth Grudge looked ordinary, but after it landed in the forest, it immediately spread into a sea of ​​fire!

The raging fire almost completely destroyed most of the forest, and the temperature suddenly rose by more than ten degrees!

"What kind of ninjutsu is this!?"

Asuma carried him away, Shikamaru's eyes widened. He murmured incredulously, "This level of destructive power is at least an S-rank ninjutsu, right?"

"No... Head-Digging is a B-rank ninjutsu..."

Asuma responded to Shikamaru with a rather unpleasant expression.

A ninja who can make a B-rank ninjutsu look like an S-rank ninjutsu is generally a monster.

B-rank ninjutsu has low energy consumption and is easy to execute; even Chunin can release many of them.

Once you reach the peak of the Kage level, the number of B-rank ninjutsu you can unleash is almost limitless.

In other words, if Kakuzu were to use this B-rank ninjutsu, which is comparable to an S-rank ninjutsu, as a regular tactic, he would be a human cannon turret, impossible to approach.

Shikamaru understood this as well. His face was grim as he let Asuma carry him backward until the flames stopped approaching. Only then did the group stop.

"My God, who is that person?"

Naruto jumped off the tiger and muttered to himself.

Sakura shook her head. "That's amazing. I've never seen a fire jutsu like that before, not even Sasuke-kun..."

She paused, but everyone understood that even the Uchiha clan ninjas, who were most skilled in fire-style techniques, might not be able to use such an outrageous fire-style jutsu. Kakuzu was truly a monster.

"My suggestion is to retreat and seek the intervention of a higher-level ninja."

Sai offered a reasonable suggestion, "There should be at least one Kage-level..."

"Do not."

However, Shikamaru and Asuma both rejected Sai.

"?"

Sai tilted his head in confusion. "Knowing it's going to fail, you still want to try?"