Naruto: The Ninja World's Life Buyer

Chapter 251 The Boiling Sea, Draining the Deep-Sea Beast

The next morning. Ogosho Port.

A massive ocean-going merchant ship is moored at the deep-water pier.

They have completely changed their appearance.

The wooden hull was welded with a thick layer of high-strength steel sheeting. Inside the steel sheeting, there was a layer of insulating rubber.

These ships are indestructible.

Along both sides of the ship, countless dark firing ports protruded. Those were city-breaking crossbows, each bolt strapped with numerous explosive tags.

"Boarding."

Sosuke gave the order.

One hundred limbed ninjas stepped onto the springboard.

The metal parts on their bodies were too heavy.

Fighting on the sea would consume a tremendous amount of chakra in order to maintain their water-walking ability, and they wouldn't be able to last long. Falling into the water would mean certain death.

Therefore, Sosuke didn't let them wade in the water.

Since we can't win at sea, we'll build sturdy warships.

Sousuke walked onto the deck.

Yecang was already waiting at the bow of the ship.

She was wearing a backless combat suit, and her dark green hair was slightly disheveled by the sea breeze.

Her brows were furrowed tightly.

"The air here is too humid, which will greatly weaken the power of the Scorching Release technique."

"I know."

Sosuke walked up to her.

"Therefore, I have provided you with absolutely powerful support measures."

A warship slowly sailed out of the harbor.

We entered the deep waters of the open sea.

This is the absolute home ground of Kirigakure.

A thick fog gradually rose over the sea. The fog was damp, cold, and sticky, causing visibility to drop sharply.

The technique of concealing oneself in mist.

Hyuga Masaru's Byakugan had already been activated.

Grayish-brown veins protrude at the corners of his eyes.

"Boss, there's movement underwater."

Hyuga Katsu coldly reported to his superior.

"To the southeast, in water twenty meters deep, there are approximately thirty chakra sources rapidly approaching the bottom of the ship."

The assassination squad from the Hidden Mist has arrived.

Their tactics were old-fashioned, but effective. They used dense fog as cover to infiltrate underwater and then used chisels or water-based techniques to damage the hull.

Once the ship sinks, the people on board become their sitting ducks.

"Want to scuttle the ship?"

Sousuke sneered.

"Notify the hold to dump fuel."

"yes!"

The hatch in the lower compartment was opened.

Barrels upon barrels of black heavy oil were dumped directly into the sea.

The viscous black oil quickly spread across the sea surface, forming a thick oil film.

Twenty meters underwater.

The assassin ninjas from Kirigakure are rising rapidly.

They held chisels in their hands, their eyes filled with cruelty.

"This ship is made entirely of sheet metal?"

A ninja from the mist touched the bottom of the ship, somewhat surprised.

"It seems it will take a while."

He had just picked up the chisel.

Suddenly, he felt the seawater above him become somewhat viscous. Moreover, the light became extremely dim.

"What happened up there?"

On the sea.

Yekura walked to the very front of the ship. Four orange-red fireballs appeared around her.

"The nemesis of Water Release has never been Earth Release."

Sosuke stood behind her and said calmly.

"It's boiling."

Yekura pushed forward with both hands.

"Scorching Release: Overheating and Killing!"

Four fireballs drifted into the oil-saturated sea.

boom-!!!

The sea is ablaze.

The heavy oil was instantly ignited by the scorching high temperature.

Terrifying flames spread across the sea, forming a sea of ​​fire hundreds of meters in diameter.

The most deadly factor is temperature.

The characteristic of the Scorching Strike is that it instantly evaporates moisture.

With the help of heavy oil combustion and the scorching effect, the surface seawater temperature exceeded the boiling point within seconds.

"Glug glug"

The sea surface was like a giant cauldron, boiling violently.

Five meters or ten meters underwater.

The Hidden Mist ninjas, who were preparing to scuttle the ship, suddenly felt the surrounding seawater become scalding hot.

"What's going on?!"

"It's so hot!"

They panicked and tried to dive down to escape the water.

But it was too late.

Boiling water can penetrate anywhere.

They struggled frantically underwater. Their skin turned white and blistered instantly in the boiling water, then peeled off.

The muscle is cooked, and the fat melts at high temperatures.

"Hiss—"

On the sea surface, besides the black smoke from the fire, a layer of pale, crumpled flesh began to float up.

They were boiled alive. Completely cooked.

This way of dying is horrifying.

Dozens of skilled swimmers from the Mist Shadow Assassins were thus boiled into a pot of meat soup on their own turf.

On deck, several merchant sailors who had never seen anything like it couldn't help but lean against the ship's railing and vomit.

"Watch out, this isn't over yet."

Sosuke remained expressionless.

"The enemy ships are coming."

A dozen or so light wooden speedboats, barely visible in the thick fog, emerged from the mist.

They originally planned to collect the drowning victims after the ship sank.

But now, what they see is a sea of ​​fire and the cooked flesh of their comrades floating to the surface.

"Damn it! What kind of fire is that?!"

The fog-kissed passengers on the speedboat were terrified.

"Prepare to fire."

Sousuke ordered.

The iron plates on both sides of the ship were lowered, revealing the firing ports of the city-breaking crossbows.

"put!"

Bang bang bang bang! ! !

The thick crossbow bolts tore through the dense fog.

The detonator on the arrow detonates violently.

Boom!!!

The wooden speedboat was instantly torn to shreds.

Wood chips and severed limbs shot into the sky along with jets of water. A powerful, intense water jet cleansed the ground.

This is Sousuke's fighting style.

The edge of the sea of ​​fire.

Four figures stood on the water, their faces ashen.

The remaining four members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist are: Raiga Kurosuki, Jinpachi Murashi, Juzo Biwa, and Erin Tobigusa.

They witnessed firsthand the assassination squad being boiled alive and the speedboat being torn apart.

"This is a merchant ship?!"

Wu Li Shenba gripped the explosive blade Fei Mo, gritting his teeth.

"How can the firepower be so intense!"

"Ordinary tactics are no longer effective."

Kurozuki Raiga crossed his twin swords, his eyes cold and sinister.

"The underwater area was sealed off by heavy oil and fire, and there were those terrifying heavy crossbow bolts on the surface."

"Since conventional methods can't sink this ship—"

Raiya looked at the other three.

"Then we'll have to use that trick."

Pipa Juzo frowned.

"Using that psychic magic in the deep sea? If it gets out of control, we'll be eaten too."

"Do we even have a choice?" Kusanagi scoffed. "If we don't cut off this shipping route, the Mizukage will skin us alive!"

The four reached an agreement.

They both bit their fingers, and the blood smeared on the water.

"Hai—Xu—You—Shen—Wei!"

Four massive streams of chakra were simultaneously injected into the deep sea.

"Summoning Jutsu: Umibozu!"

Rumble—!!!

The sea suddenly began to churn violently.

A huge whirlpool formed in front of the warship.

The seawater was displaced.

A monster, larger than a merchant ship, slowly emerged from the water.

It has no eyes; its head is a gigantic, abyssal maw covered in spiraling, sharp teeth. Its body is covered in fleshy growths and large tentacles, and its surface is covered in a thick, foul-smelling slime.

This is a strange creature from the deep sea.

"roar!!!!"

The monster let out a piercing roar, and the sound waves created giant waves tens of meters high on the sea surface.

"not good!"

The warship rocked violently in the giant waves.

"Smash them!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Muli Jinpachi leaped up and smashed his Exploding Blade - Flying Drops into the side armor of the merchant ship.

"Lightning Release: Lightning Dragon Tornado!"

Black Hoe Raiya stirred up the dark clouds in the sky, and a violent bolt of lightning struck the deck of the merchant ship, following the water column stirred up by the giant monster.

"A mixture of water and lightning—even sheet metal can't stop it!"

times of crisis.

A figure in deep purple walked to the very front of the deck.

Uchiha Mikoto.

She slowly raised her head.

Those clear black eyes instantly turned crimson. Dart-shaped patterns spun rapidly in their eyes.

Kaleidoscope Sharingan.

His right eye was fixed on the lightning strikes, the explosive tags, and the giant waves.

"Divine Might - Divine Concealment"

Mikoto whispered.

hum.

An invisible force, centered on her, instantly enveloped the entire warship.

A bizarre scene appeared.

Raiya's violent lightning strike stopped abruptly just half a meter from the ship's hull.

No, it didn't stop.

Of all the people present, only Hyuga Masaru knew what was going on.

He witnessed this ability once again.

In the white eye's field of vision, that half-meter distance was forcibly stretched by a terrifying pupil force.

One centimeter was stretched into one thousand meters, then ten thousand meters.

Stretch indefinitely.

The lightning bolts kept striking forward within that folded space, but they could never touch the ship's hull.

The same applies to the explosive tags of Shenba.

The flames and shockwaves from the explosion, just inches away from the ship, seemed to be sucked into a bottomless pit and dissipated silently.

Physical attacks are completely exempt from spatial rules.

"How is that possible?!"

Raiga and Jinpachi stared wide-eyed as their proud attack vanished into thin air.

"What kind of ninjutsu is that?!"

However, the cost of using such a powerful eye technique that touches upon the rules of space on such a large scale is extremely high.

Even with the support of the vortex factor.

"Well----"

Visible blood flowed from Mikoto's right eye. Her vision became blurred.

Her vision went black, and she fell backward.

An arm caught her.

Sosuke.

"Thank you for your hard work, Mikoto-sama."

Sosuke handed her over to Yokura behind him.

"Leave the rest to me."

Sosuke looked up at the deep-sea monster.

We absolutely cannot allow the Blade Blade crew to cooperate with this monster in launching a second attack, or everyone on the ship will be doomed.

He took off his black trench coat.

On his right hand, he put on a black glove with a red vortex sealing spell drawn on it.

With his left hand, he drew a knife from the sealed scroll.

【Hungry Ghost - Bone Eater】.

The blade is dark red, and the spine-shaped handle pulsates slightly like a heart.

Sousuke stepped down.

Instantaneous movement technique.

He leaped directly off the merchant ship protected by "Divine Might" and landed on the back of the enormous sea monster.

The slime on the sea monster was highly corrosive, and white smoke instantly billowed from the soles of Sosuke's shoes.

But he didn't care at all.

Beneath his skin, the white periosteum had already covered his entire body.

"Eat."

Sousuke gripped the hilt of the sword upside down with both hands and plunged the [Gaki: Honebami] into the sea monster's body.

This blow was nothing more than a needle prick to a sea monster the size of a mountain.

However, the sea monster's massive body stiffened for a moment.

"What happened? Why did Umibozu stop?"

Raiya noticed the sea monster's unusual behavior.

"Look! It's that knife again!"

Muuri Jinpachi pointed at the bone in Sousuke's hand.

"Gurgle—gurgle—"

The chilling sucking sounds were amplified by the sea breeze.

Honebami got excited.

The dark red keratin layer on its blade burst open.

Countless thick, grayish-brown wooden bones with wood grain patterns pierced through the inside of the blade.

They spread along the sea monster's blood vessels, nerves, and muscles.

Parasitic growth from the inside out!

"roar!!!!"

The deep-sea monster let out a mournful and painful roar, and thrashed violently.

But inside its body, those wooden bones are frantically absorbing its nutrients and are rapidly expanding.

Sharp bone spurs pierced its skin, exposing it to the air.

Ten, a hundred, a thousand!

In just thirty seconds.

The sea monster's roars ceased.

It stopped rolling.

It was drained of all its vitality and completely ruptured by the bones that grew inside its body.

finally.

On the turbulent sea.

A gray skeletal reef appeared.

Huge bone spikes pointed straight to the sky, with the sea monster's shriveled flesh hanging on them.

Sosuke stood at the very top of the Bone Reef.

He drew his knife.

Because he had eaten too much, the blade of Honebami's sword turned a deep, glistening red and throbbed violently.

It even tried to turn on its master, with several small bone spikes piercing Sosuke's wrist.

However, the red sealing spell on the right glove emitted a blinding red light.

"Buzz!"

The one-way valve is locked.

With a mournful cry, the bone-spiked beast obediently retracted its bone spikes and returned to its knife-like shape.

Sousuke gripped his sword and looked at the four ninja swordsmen.

The four ninja swordsmen were utterly terrified.

"monster----"

Black Hoe Raiya gritted his teeth, his hand gripping the thunder blade trembling.

"Retreat! Retreat now!"

Without the slightest hesitation.

The four ninja swordsmen turned and ran wildly into the depths of the thick fog.

Sosuke returned to the deck and took off his sealing gloves.

"Mr. Sosuke, should we go after him?"

Hyuga Masaru came to Sousuke's side.

He was carrying a man who was soaking wet.

The commander of the Hidden Mist Navy. He had been locked onto by the Byakugan long ago and had nowhere to escape. His chakra was sealed by Hyuga Katsumi's palm strike, and he was captured alive.

"I'm not going to pursue it anymore."

"

Sosuke put the sword back into the scroll.

"The ocean is too vast; if they really want to escape, we can't afford to waste time."