Chapter 68: Ultimate Execution
"Good work, kid! Beautifully done!"
The scene of Yoru nearly instant-killing three Ame shinobi likewise reached Tsunade's eyes as she arrived.
This was her first time witnessing the Flying Thunder God Technique's combat application. She finally understood why, despite Second Grandfather inventing so many jutsu, only the Flying Thunder God Technique gained greatest fame, his title also relating to Flying Thunder God and Water Release.
Capable of both long and short-range teleportation, able to transport people and objects, even leaving Flying Thunder God seals on enemies then swapping enemies with Flying Thunder God kunai... the Flying Thunder God Technique's applications proved truly versatile.
After praising Yoru, Tsunade suddenly leapt skyward, delivering a high axe kick to the ground.
With a thunderous boom, Tsunade's foot collapsed the earth, revealing an entrance connecting underground.
Once the dust settled, Tsunade had already entered the underground base.
Splurt—
Simultaneously, Yoru also swung the Sword of the Thunder God, claiming the sealed Ame shinobi's life.
He didn't search the body for antidote but instead transformed into a black afterimage, pursuing the remaining three sensory ninja.
"Intruder's chakra position shifting repeatedly—not Body Flicker's movement pattern but resembling Summoning Technique... This is Space-Time movement. Preliminary assessment: the Flying Thunder God Technique recorded in information databases."
"Enemy very likely Konoha shinobi. Don't engage in combat—completely meaningless."
"Scatter and flee! Make noise!"
Yoru killed four Ame shinobi very quickly—occurring in mere moments.
Even so, the remaining three Ame shinobi, based on accumulated knowledge and radio communication, rapidly determined Yoru's identity and the jutsu he'd used to instant-kill companions.
Without hesitation, they immediately burst from camouflage, preparing to scatter through the bamboo forest.
Perhaps their assigned duties differed, or perhaps they'd forgotten in haste—none of the three Ame shinobi carried signal flares.
Thus they retrieved explosive tags carried on their persons, detonating them throughout the bamboo forest.
BOOM BOOM BOOM...
A series of explosions indeed created considerable commotion. Whether the tower noticed remained unknown.
"Those wearing flak vests truly aren't simple." Yoru sighed helplessly.
Such decisive choices—even with his Body Flicker speed, he couldn't prevent them.
One could only say Amegakure, famed for assassination techniques, lived up to its reputation. Every shinobi proved extremely cautious.
Though they successfully created commotion, Yoru still needed to pursue them.
These three sensory ninja had definitely discovered his movement method. Even if they didn't know about the Flying Thunder God Technique, once they reported to Hanzo of the Salamander, he'd certainly deduce it.
Once Hanzo learned, it equaled all of Amegakure—even the entire shinobi world—knowing.
Then Yoru would find using intelligence gaps to instant-kill enemies like before far less easy.
Thus Yoru stored the Sword of the Thunder God, retrieved his chakra blade from the storage scroll, simultaneously used intangibility and Earth Body Flicker to burrow underground, transforming into the shinobi world's most terrifying assassin!
"He vanished!"
Simultaneously, the three Ame shinobi using Body Flicker to escape the bamboo forest while forming seals for sensory techniques all discovered that chakra signature had disappeared.
Ominous premonitions arose in their hearts.
Seconds later, two Ame shinobi's expressions suddenly changed.
About to escape the bamboo forest, they personally witnessed two figures emerge from the ground at the forest's edge, charging toward them.
The Ame shinobi suspecting Flying Thunder God Technique instinctively wanted to avoid battle.
Scenes of despair immediately unfolded.
Those two figures' speed suddenly exploded, producing piercing sonic booms.
Their Body Flicker speed surpassed the Ame shinobi's.
Realizing they couldn't escape pursuit, the Ame shinobi finally stopped fleeing. One drew his shinobi blade, the other formed seals to release jutsu.
In another section of bamboo forest, the final Ame shinobi sensed companions being targeted, instinctively feeling worried, wanting to provide support.
But reason told him he couldn't do that—he should find reinforcements as quickly as possible.
Thus the Ame shinobi charged at full speed toward the forest's edge.
Soon his field of vision broadened. He'd successfully escaped that terrifying bamboo forest.
The Ame shinobi reflexively relaxed, failing to notice the rain-soaked stone on the ground ahead bore a tomato pattern containing the character for "night."
The next second, the Ame shinobi's eyes showing slight joy—his body suddenly froze in place.
Black lines gradually filled his vision. The world seemingly transformed into a floor mirror, shattering apart.
A white-haired, black-clothed figure stood before him at some unknown moment, back turned as he sheathed his blade.
Click—with the final section of blade returning to its sheath.
The Ame shinobi followed his companions' path, his body transforming into a dozen chunks of meat, falling to the ground.
Throughout this process, he likewise didn't produce a single scream.
The difference—he died to Yoru's Dimensional Slash, and Yoru had even shown mercy, not cutting him into hundreds of meat fragments.
Kicking the Flying Thunder God stone toward the corpse chunks, Yoru vanished again.
BANG! BANG!
Simultaneously, the remaining two Ame shinobi's attacks successfully struck the charging Yoru.
He neither dodged nor blocked, allowing blade and jutsu to hit him.
Then both Yorus transformed into white smoke.
"Shadow clones?"
Without the sensory barrier, both Ame shinobi's sensory abilities greatly weakened. Without forming seals for sensory techniques, they couldn't distinguish real from fake.
However, the enemy being merely shadow clones made them reflexively relax.
This very relaxation made their deaths identical to their companion's.
"—"
Without any sound, the white smoke from dispelled shadow clones and the jutsu about to scatter the smoke suddenly sprouted a black line, then separated left and right.
Simultaneously, this black line successively enlarged before both Ame shinobi's eyes.
When the black line vanished, their vision suddenly tilted left and right, gradually consumed by darkness.
Had they faced each other, they'd have seen each other's bodies split down the middle, cuts so smooth and straight.
After smoke dispersed, Flying Thunder God-sealed kunai lay where the shadow clones had been.
Clearly, shadow clones unable to use the Flying Thunder God Technique had only one task—bringing Flying Thunder God kunai before the two Ame shinobi.
"Whew..."
Finally eliminating the last Ame shinobi, Yoru exhaled heavily.
Sensing approximately 15% remaining Space-Time chakra within his body, Yoru murmured: "Without releasing the Yin Seal, this should be my ultimate execution!"
"Intangibility + Earth Body Flicker + Flying Thunder God Technique + Dimensional Slash combo... truly as underhanded as imagined." Yoru sighed slightly. "However... compared to this sneaky ultimate execution, I'd rather overwhelm everything with pure power!"
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