Mizukage's Pokémon Ninja Scroll

Chapter 499 The Shadow of War

Just as Tachibana was pondering, Mei Terumi swiftly pulled her hand back, her face flushed as she hid it behind her back, gently rubbing the back of her hand where neither of them could see.

Jianchuan Ju didn't seem to care much about this.

Once the mark of the 'Reply Command' is applied, he can activate the ability even without close contact.

Afterwards, Tachibana Kenkawa tested the ability of the "Reply Command" to break illusions.

As he expected, after Terumi Mei fell under the illusion spell "Inversion".

She doesn't need to dispel the genjutsu herself; all she needs to do is use the "Recovery Command" to quickly draw chakra from Mei Terumi's body to heal herself. This will also disrupt the flow of chakra within her body and dispel the genjutsu.

However, this sudden disruption of the body's chakra can easily affect the teammate's offensive rhythm and ninjutsu release in battle.

Therefore, when using Jianchuan Orange, it is necessary to pay a little attention to the actual situation.

Of course, even with some minor flaws, Tachibana Kanagawa still casually gave Zabuza the same mark as well.

This made Terumi secretly a little jealous.

However, Tachibana Kanagawa herself didn't have so many complicated thoughts in her mind at the moment.

Instead, they used the excuse that Zabuza and Mei Terumi needed to change clothes to kick them out.

After closing the door, Jianchuan Ju did not immediately begin changing her clothes.

Instead, he took out the "Communication Ring" and directly contacted Uchiha Hikaru, who was still searching for his own timeline in the ninja world.

"Light, how's your search for the sealed location going?"

Let's rewind a little bit.

On the other side of the ninja world, within the Land of Frost.

As a small country located between the Land of Lightning and the Land of Hot Water, the Land of Frost has always followed the lead of the Land of Lightning.

Furthermore, due to its geographical location, the Land of Frost has always been a necessary route for the Hidden Cloud Village to attack the Hidden Leaf Village.

However, due to the slowdown in the war between the two major ninja villages, even the Land of Hot Springs, which was the main battlefield, was able to catch its breath.

On the official roads of the Frost Kingdom, trade has long since resumed.

Recently, there has been a gradual increase in the number of caravans and civilians traveling on the official road.

However, in recent days, the road from the Land of Frost to the Land of Hot Springs has once again become deserted.

Even the usually arrogant and domineering noblemen were nowhere to be seen.

A moment later, a massive, dark army of ninjas, like a swarm of insects, swept past from afar.

The speed at which a large army can march is incomparable to that of a small group of elite ninjas.

At this time, the Fourth Raikage's forces had not yet arrived at the Five Kage Summit, and the Cloud Village army had only just begun its advance into the Land of Frost, not even reaching the Land of Hot Springs.

Suddenly, a hawk swept past at lightning speed, quickly locking onto the ninja troops marching below. It swooped down and plummeted straight down.

Seeing this, Kirabi, who was at the very front of the column, did not order the army to stop.

He stepped out from the crowd alone, grabbed the messenger beast that was about to fall, took an information scroll from its ankle, and opened it to examine it carefully.

It was clearly written on the scroll.

"The situation has changed. After the main force arrives at the front lines, it will wait for Konoha to launch an attack before counterattacking and invading the Land of Fire."

Killer Bee stared at the urgent report with a surprised look, his expression constantly changing, looking somewhat bewildered.

If he weren't absolutely certain that this was his elder brother's handwritten letter, he would have thought it was all just wishful thinking.

This large-scale military expedition was essentially an undeclared war.

The goal was to catch Konoha off guard.

It should be noted that at this time, the two sides that were originally fighting on the front line of the Land of Hot Water had less than two hundred active ninjas left.

It was purely a perfunctory task, a minimal-scale battle to declare to the enemy that the war was not yet over.

The unit he led consisted of several thousand combat personnel.

This is all the ninja that Kumogakure can mobilize while maintaining basic operations.

Throughout this operation, the Konoha ninjas within the Land of Hot Water were never taken seriously.

The goal is to annihilate Konoha's camp in the Land of Hot Springs in one fell swoop, and then, before Konoha can react, launch a full-scale attack into the Land of Fire.

Now the Raikage is saying he wants to stay in the Land of Hot Water and wait for the other side to launch the first attack?

"Lord Killer Bee, has any new order come from the village?"

The two Yugito who had been following Killer Bee noticed that their senior had a strange expression after receiving the information, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

As the new Jinchūriki of the Two-Tails, she is only thirteen years old this year, and has been a Jinchūriki for less than five years.

By the time she could barely control the two tails within her body to fight, the front lines had already entered a stalemate, and she had no chance to personally experience the battlefield.

Therefore, I am filled with trepidation and curiosity about everything at this moment.

However, even Killer Bee himself was somewhat puzzled by this new order.

The camp of about two hundred people on the front line of Konoha and the Land of Hot Springs.

After seeing his thousands of troops arrive, would they really dare to launch an attack?

Or perhaps, they should simply relinquish their initial advantage and quietly wait for Konoha to mobilize an army of the same size before engaging in a direct confrontation?

But even if the situation turns into a confrontation between two armies.

Given Konoha's already prepared attitude of seeking peace, would they really take the initiative to launch an attack and start a new round of large-scale war?

Moreover, by then, the Five Shadows Summit would probably have already ended. Was this war really necessary?

However, thinking about the battle situation and formulating strategic policies is not Killer Bee's forte.

More often than not, he appears on the battlefield as an arrowhead charging into battle, or to put it more bluntly, as a weapon of war.

Who would have thought about what kind of response to what kind of situation?

Even the order to select him as the commander of the army was somewhat strange.

At this point, all we can do is accept it and obediently follow the orders.

Ignoring Yugito's question, Killer Bee waved and gave orders to the Jonin teams that were gradually gathering around.

"Let's go! Order the entire army to advance at full speed! We'll rest and regroup once we reach the frontline camp in the Land of Hot Springs!"

"Yes!" xN

At the same time.

In the Land of Fire, within Konoha Village.

If such a large ninja army from Kumogakure were to be mobilized, and it were only within the territory of the Land of Lightning, news of it could be contained in a short time through strict defense.

However, even though the Land of Frost is considered a subordinate of the Land of Lightning, its control over the country is still significantly weaker.

The Cloud Village army had only been in the Land of Frost for a short time when Konoha scouts discovered their movements.

Meanwhile, news of the Cloud Village army's deployment finally reached Konoha.

The atmosphere in the Hokage's office was extremely tense.

(End of this chapter)