Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 101 The Cult of Evil Gods

"Are those lunatics who worship evil gods again?"

Enraged, Ai smashed the table in front of him with a single punch, sending wood chips and fragments flying everywhere.

Shortly after the Cloud Village unit received the news and entered the Land of Hot Water, attacks began to occur on Cloud Village ninjas who were scouting around, carried out by civilians from the Land of Hot Water.

At first, Ai didn't care about these things at all. Even with a hundred civilians surrounding and killing him, not a single guarded genin was left alive.

Once enough of these mobs in the Land of Hot Water die, no one will dare to cause trouble for the Cloud Village forces anymore.

However, things took an unexpected turn for the better by all the Cloud Village ninjas.

That was indeed the case at first. After suffering heavy casualties without achieving any results, the resistance organization in the Land of Hot Water disappeared for several days.

The ninjas of Kumogakure assumed the matter was over and resumed their search for the mission target without worry.

However, starting one day, several female Cloud Village ninjas suddenly developed wounds one after another, and then these women even died from their injuries despite being heavily protected by other ninjas.

For a moment, all the Cloud Village ninjas were filled with fear and unease.

After a few days of calm, the resistance organization in the Land of Hot Springs resumed its suicide attacks on the scattered Cloud Village ninjas who were conducting searches.

Furthermore, a small number of ninjas were also inexplicably injured or killed after being attacked.

It wasn't until more than a dozen Cloud Village ninjas died that A and the others realized that this strange assassination seemed to require Cloud Village ninjas to be injured and have their blood taken.

The Cloud Village ninjas immediately suspended their mission and focused all their efforts on searching for and tracking the civilians who had been attacked. They eventually destroyed several secret strongholds of the resistance organization before they finally understood what had happened.

Previously, an evil god cult within the Land of Hot Water contacted the resistance organization, claiming that if they sincerely believed in the evil god, they might be able to master a curse technique.

This secret technique, by obtaining the enemy's blood and drawing a magic circle while sincerely praying to the evil god, can cause the opponent to suffer the same injuries as oneself.

Although only a small number of people within the resistance organization have mastered this secret technique, and those who have mastered it will also lose their lives if they want to kill the Cloud Village ninja.

Even so, these increasingly fanatical evil gods and the civilians who hated the Cloud Village invasion to the core were still willing to sacrifice a large number of lives to draw blood, and then use the life of a person who had mastered the secret technique to kill a Cloud Village ninja.

Fortunately, after several days of continuous searching and tracking, and after eradicating a large number of resistance strongholds, these people disappeared again.

Ai never expected that in such a short time, the other party would reappear and attack the Cloud Village ninjas, and even had the strength to wipe out a search team led by a Jonin.

Just as Ai was considering whether to pause the mission again and purge the evil cult once more.

The communications ninja, who had just recovered from Ai's furious table-banging, spoke cautiously.

"Um, Lord Ai, this time it doesn't seem to be the work of those evil gods and madmen."

Upon hearing this, Ai stopped thinking and fixed his gaze on the ninja in front of him.

The ninja who sensed something was amiss also realized that because they had been too slow in providing information, Lord Ai had not been able to obtain the complete details.

He immediately spilled all the information like beans from a bamboo tube.

"The search team near Valley Town went to the scene after seeing the distress signal. Judging from the traces left at the scene, it seems that the 15 people led by Jonin Losi had a conflict with ninjas from other countries."

"The traces left at the scene show that many ninjutsu were used. Although there were Earth Release and Wind Release techniques, there were more traces left by Water Release techniques."

"Furthermore, the investigation in Valley Town revealed that eight people dressed as samurai had entered the town before. Judging from the description, there were two adults and six teenagers, which seems to be the configuration of two standard ninja squads."

After quickly recounting a series of intelligence reports, the Cloud Village ninja immediately lowered his head and shut his mouth, not daring to look at Ai Tieqing's face, fearing that he would end up like the table from before.

However, someone present seemed oblivious to the awkward atmosphere.

"Hey~ Hey~ Look at how embarrassed my brother is~ It's my turn to step in~"

"boom--"

After a loud bang, Ai slowly lowered her straight left leg.

The communications ninja stared dumbfounded at the huge hole that suddenly appeared in the wall and Killer Bee's figure flying away, unable to close his mouth for a long time.

Ai looked at the communications ninja as if nothing had happened and said.

"Understood. Inform all squads to pay attention to the movements of those eight suspected individuals. Once they are spotted, release a signal flare immediately and notify me directly."

"Yes, sir! I'll go and inform them right away!"

After saying this, the ninja shakily walked away quickly.

Ai was left alone in the drafty room, lost in thought.

"Water Release ninjutsu? Could it be from Kirigakure? Or is it a disguised ninja from Konoha who came to their rescue?"

Regardless of how suspicious Ai was upon receiving the news.

Tachibana Kanagawa and her group stumbled and staggered into the mountain range at the border between the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Fire.

Thanks to Ao's sensory ninjutsu, he was able to evade the ninja squads of Kumogakure several times.

However, after entering the mountains, Qingye finally couldn't hold on any longer.

Activating sensory ninjutsu for an extended period of time consumes a tremendous amount of both chakra and mental energy. The fact that Ao could sustain it for so long is already something he can boast about among sensory ninjas.

"Teacher Qing, why don't you take a rest?"

Seeing that Ao's face was starting to turn pale, Mei Terumi worriedly offered some words of comfort.

Jianchuan Ju also hurriedly took out a handful of special soldier rations from his ninja tool bag and stuffed them into Qing's hand.

"Teacher Qing, take your medicine. No, take your soldier's ration pills. I made them specially, they have no side effects."

After returning to the village from the front lines, Jianchuan Ju received several B-level and A-level mission rewards at once, which filled his wallet a bit.

I immediately created some of the system recipes that I had successfully restored.

However, the original version of PP supplement pills was still chosen.

There's no other reason than that it's incredibly cost-effective. The only downside is that you have to eat a whole handful every time.

Seeing that Qing's complexion had regained some color, the group didn't dare to linger on the outskirts of the mountain range and set off again.

After advancing for a while, Qing glanced at the sky and thought it was about time to let everyone rest for a while.

However, a commotion arose from the dense forest deep in the mountains ahead. As the sound grew closer, all eight slowed their pace and became wary.

Qing forced himself to use his sensory ninjutsu again, but his expression turned strange as he spoke to the crowd in a somewhat uncertain tone.

"It seems like a group of people are attacking three ninjas? Or just a bunch of ordinary people!"

Qing emphasized this point at the end.

However, at this point, the others were also able to barely hear the sounds of the battlefield.

"Quick! Use grappling hooks to entangle them!"

"Charge! Slaughter all these ninjas who are ravaging the Land of Hot Springs!"

"Do not be afraid! The Evil God protects us! Offer them all as sacrifices to the Evil God!"

(End of this chapter)