Chapter 120: Chapter 120: Unlocking Navigator, Reunion with Mikoto

"No sign of them."

Natsuki jumped down from the roof and said. "I have an idea."

He thought of the Misaka Mikoto template’s Electromagnetic Wave Sensing.

Its unlock condition was to detect five enemy infiltrations.

Infiltration and sneak attacks were basically the same thing.

Electromagnetic Wave Sensing was extremely useful in war.

He wanted to unlock it as soon as possible.

"Minato, your squad hide in the shadows, and we will draw the Amegakure ninjas out."

Natsuki continued.

When Jiraiya briefed them yesterday, he mentioned that the Amegakure ninjas’ main combat style was sneak attacks.

"I think this idea is feasible."

Maruboshi Kosuke pondered for a moment and said.

"Alright."

Namikaze Minato nodded.

He, Uzumaki Kae, and Inuzuka Suzume immediately hid themselves.

Natsuki and the other three casually left the village, heading toward the next location.

The sun set in the west.

It wasn’t quite night yet, but the sky in the Land of Rain had already darkened. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

At this time, on a hillside four kilometers away from Natsuki and the others.

Seven people were hiding in the woods, blending in with the rain. Without looking carefully, it was impossible to spot them.

Right at that moment, a figure appeared before them.

"Four people, confirmed to be Konoha ninjas."

The figure wearing a raincoat and a gas mask spoke up.

"Then let’s make our move."

The Amegakure Jonin acting as the captain said with a cold tone.

The eight people immediately disappeared from their spot.

"It’s about time. We’ll rest here for the night."

Natsuki stopped in his tracks and said.

"I’ll set up the tent."

Nawaki immediately complained. "I really can’t stand this annoying rain."

"It’s fine. The mission will be over soon."

Natsuki said with a smile. "They are already approaching us."

Four kilometers was a sensory range that the vast majority of sensory ninjutsu could not reach.

But his Clairvoyance happened to be exactly four kilometers.

Natsuki glanced at his Misaka Mikoto template.

As expected, infiltration and sneak attacks were the same. He now had one-fifth of the progress.

"They? You mean Amegakure ninjas?"

Nawaki was stunned for a moment, then realized, excitement surfacing on his face.

"Set up the tent well to make it convenient for them to sneak attack."

Natsuki gave a meaningful look and said.

"Understood!"

Nawaki immediately opened a storage summoning scroll.

Before long, a tent was set up on the spot.

The four people crawled into the tent.

"Eight people, seven o’clock direction, distance six hundred meters."

Maruboshi Kosuke said while maintaining his sensory ninjutsu.

Nawaki raised his hand and gripped the Greatsword Samehada on his back.

Natsuki and Yakushi Nonou were very calm, making no extra movements.

"One hundred meters."

Maruboshi Kosuke said again. "Get ready to strike."

Shadow Assassin!

Natsuki formed hand seals with both hands and disappeared from his spot.

A mass of shadow left the tent.

The rainy night provided him with the perfect cover.

The hurrying Amegakure ninjas didn’t immediately notice an extra shadow on the ground.

In the next second, Natsuki leaped up.

The surrounding rainwater paused slightly, then was drawn in, swirling around him.

Water Breathing: Tenth Form — Constant Flux!

A water dragon accompanied by several rotating slashes attacked the eight Amegakure ninjas.

"We’ve been discovered! Be careful!"

In an instant, the eight Amegakure ninjas reacted.

The Amegakure Jonin rapidly formed hand seals.

A water wall rose in front of them.

But Natsuki’s target wasn’t him, but the Tokubetsu Jonin next to him.

The Amegakure Tokubetsu Jonin had just taken out a black umbrella when he saw a water dragon.

His expression changed drastically, and he instinctively opened the black umbrella to meet the water dragon.

BOOM!

The water dragon crashed onto the black umbrella.

Just as the Amegakure Tokubetsu Jonin was rejoicing that the black umbrella blocked the water dragon, a sword blade entered his vision.

Kurosawa pierced through the black umbrella and pierced through his head.

The Amegakure Tokubetsu Jonin let out a grunt and collapsed to the ground, dead.

"Damn it!"

Losing a Tokubetsu Jonin in the first encounter, the Amegakure Jonin was instantly furious.

Right at that moment, Maruboshi Kosuke, Nawaki, Namikaze Minato, and Uzumaki Kae all appeared and joined the battle.

Only the medical ninjas, Yakushi Nonou and Inuzuka Suzume, did not participate in the fight.

"Fight while retreating!"

The Amegakure Jonin instantly realized they had fallen into an ambush.

But in terms of numbers, they held the advantage. They just didn’t know the opponents’ strength.

Therefore, he didn’t retreat directly but chose a fighting retreat.

If Natsuki and the others’ strength was lacking, he would immediately order a counterattack.

After speaking, the Amegakure Jonin suddenly took out a poison bomb and threw it on the ground.

In an instant, poison gas spread.

"Poison!"

Namikaze Minato immediately warned. "Hold your breath, don’t touch the poison gas directly!"

He had dealt with Amegakure ninjas many times and already knew how to deal with their poison bombs.

As long as one didn’t touch the poison gas directly, the poisoning wouldn’t be too deep, and medical ninjas could save them.

Although Maruboshi Kosuke and Nawaki had the Curse-Breaking Poison Recipe, there was no need to get poisoned on purpose.

After dodging, they formed hand seals with both hands.

Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!

Bolstered by the rainwater, the two water dragons were a size larger than usual.

They roared as they rose into the air and charged toward the Amegakure ninjas.

Natsuki locked onto another Tokubetsu Jonin and, with a Soru, arrived in front of him.

The Amegakure Tokubetsu Jonin’s vision blurred. When he saw Natsuki, his heart jolted.

He almost thought he was hallucinating.

However, as a Tokubetsu Jonin, his strength was ultimately not bad.

In an instant, he pulled out a flying sickle ninja sword identical to Hanzo’s and slashed at Natsuki.

The Eclipse!

Natsuki showed no mercy, unleashing both swords simultaneously.

The Amegakure Tokubetsu Jonin had just swung his ninja sword when he froze in place.

A twenty-seven-hit combo erupted instantly.

His entire body was covered in cuts, and countless streams of blood sprayed out.

And the final strike slit his throat.

The Amegakure Tokubetsu Jonin lost his life standing just like that.

Natsuki spun his body and fiercely threw the Kurosawa in his left hand.

Kurosawa attacked the last Tokubetsu Jonin at extreme speed.

He was currently fighting Namikaze Minato.

Hearing the sound of tearing air and turning to see Kurosawa, Namikaze Minato suddenly thought of something and hurriedly retreated backward.

The Amegakure Tokubetsu Jonin couldn’t help but be stunned.

He didn’t understand why Namikaze Minato wanted to widen the distance. Was he worried about friendly fire?

But this ninja sword was clearly aimed at him and wouldn’t hurt Minato at all.

The Amegakure Tokubetsu Jonin casually opened a black umbrella.

Just as he was about to use the black umbrella to deflect Kurosawa, Kurosawa suddenly exploded.

Countless fragments sliced open the black umbrella and, without losing momentum, all landed on the Amegakure Tokubetsu Jonin.

He opened his mouth, and a massive amount of blood spilled from the corners of his mouth.

"You are Natsuki?"

Hearing the explosion, the Amegakure Jonin instinctively looked over and suddenly exclaimed.

After the battle between Konoha and Sunagakure, Natsuki became famous in the ninja world.

Among those circulating stories, the most classic was that his ninja tools could explode.

Whether it was swords and blades, arrows, or ninja tools like kunai and shuriken, it was all the same.

Seeing Kurosawa explode, the Amegakure Jonin immediately thought of Natsuki.

Without a word, he hurriedly shouted. "Retreat!"

And he himself directly abandoned his other teammates, using the Body Flicker Technique to run away.

"I’ll go after him!"

Natsuki immediately gave chase.

Although the Amegakure Jonin was fleeing, he hadn’t lost his rationality.

Upon sensing Natsuki, he flicked both hands backward.

The sound of tearing air rang out.

A massive amount of senbon attacked Natsuki.

The senbon flickered with an abnormal luster in the rain.

Obviously, they were coated with deadly poison.

Natsuki originally wanted to use Armament Haki, but suddenly thought of something and immediately raised Kurosawa.

Water Breathing: Third Form — Flowing Dance!

He swung his sword multiple times in an instant, the water flow deflecting all the densely packed senbon.

"Die!"

Seeing the senbon fail, the Amegakure Jonin immediately threw two poison bombs.

A massive amount of poison gas surged out instantly, drowning Natsuki.

But Natsuki had Poison-to-Medicine Conversion, so the poison gas was actually a tonic for him.

He ignored the poison gas and gripped Kurosawa tightly.

One-Sword Style: Iai — Lion’s Song!

Like a blade, he split open the poison gas and also split open the Amegakure Jonin.

With a miserable scream, the Amegakure Jonin’s eyes widened. He looked at Natsuki, completely unable to understand why he didn’t care about the poison gas.

But his thoughts quickly vanished because he was split in two, his body sliding several meters left and right on the ground.

Natsuki put away Kurosawa.

There was no need for him to intervene with the other Amegakure ninjas.

After all, one Jonin and three Tokubetsu Jonin had all been dealt with by him alone.

[Congratulations, Host. You have unlocked Nami Template Ability 2: Navigator.]

Natsuki nodded slightly.

Although the Navigator ability was useless in the Land of Rain, unlocking one ability meant one less thing to do.

And with the unlocking of Navigator, the Nami template was also fully integrated.

Besides that, the progress for the Artoria template’s Mana Burst reached one-fifth.

Its unlock condition was to defeat five Jonin relying solely on kenjutsu.

The Amegakure Jonin he had just defeated also met this condition.

This was why he didn’t use Armament Haki to block the senbon.

"Sometimes having teammates who are too strong is also a headache."

Nawaki shook his head and said.

"Why do you say that?"

Having finished the battle, Namikaze Minato asked subconsciously.

"I haven’t even used my full strength yet, and they’ve already been defeated by you guys."

Nawaki complained. "Especially Natsuki, actually taking out four enemies so quickly."

Hearing this, Namikaze Minato thought of Natsuki’s performance just now and fell silent.

This strength was much stronger than the rumors.

Namikaze Minato suspected he couldn’t even last one round against Natsuki right now.

Without having learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, he was at the level of an elite Chunin, not yet reaching the Jonin level.

And his specialty, Wind Release, seemed too slow in front of Natsuki. Being able to release one was already a stroke of luck.

Namikaze Minato sighed inwardly.

"Doing missions isn’t about being competitive."

Maruboshi Kosuke said with a smile. "Completing the mission is what matters."

"Let’s go back and submit the mission."

Natsuki smiled and said. "This is a war. There will be times for you to shine."

"I was just saying."

Nawaki chuckled and said.

After Natsuki put all the corpses of the Amegakure ninjas into the storage summoning scroll, the group left.

Storage summoning scrolls normally could not hold living things.

But corpses were fine.

Late at night.

The group returned to Konoha’s main camp.

Although it was getting late, there were still many ninjas on duty who hadn’t slept.

After submitting the mission, Natsuki and the others returned to their tents to sleep.

A new day.

While waiting for missions, everyone didn’t waste time and began training one after another.

Namikaze Minato instantly noticed a problem.

Maruboshi Kosuke, Nawaki, and Yakushi Nonou were all practicing taijutsu.

"A taijutsu I created, Konoha Rokushiki."

Natsuki asked with a smile. "Do you want to learn it?"

"I can learn it too?"

Namikaze Minato was slightly taken aback.

He knew very well the rules regarding learning ninjutsu in Konoha.

Moreover, most ninjas wouldn’t easily teach the ninjutsu they had mastered.

Unless it was to their students.

But he obviously wasn’t Natsuki’s student.

"Are you not going to learn it?"

Natsuki blinked and said. "There is one taijutsu among the Konoha Rokushiki that is particularly suitable for the Flying Thunder God Technique."

He was referring to Shigan.

Although the Flying Thunder God Technique was very broken, it also had a flaw.

That was, it was too fast, so fast that Namikaze Minato didn’t have time to form hand seals.

Think about it. When Namikaze Minato teleported behind an enemy using the Flying Thunder God Technique, would he use a ninjutsu attack at that moment?

Although his hand seal speed was very fast, it still took time.

And in combat, especially against Jonin, a split second was enough for them to counterattack.

Then the Flying Thunder God Technique would lose its effectiveness.

At this time, there were only two types of attacks that could be adopted.

One was ninja tools.

This was also why both Senju Tobirama and Namikaze Minato liked to use shuriken.

The other was seal-less ninjutsu.

Namikaze Minato developing the Rasengan was certainly inspired by the Tailed Beast Ball, but it was also because of the Flying Thunder God Technique.

The Flying Thunder God Technique plus the Rasengan made him invincible during the Third Shinobi World War.

Against most Jonin, he could cut them down like chopping melons and vegetables.

It’s just that when encountering certain special Jonin, the power of the Rasengan seemed insufficient.

But if Namikaze Minato learned Shigan, his lethality would definitely reach a higher level.

In the original work, during his battle with Uchiha Obito, if he knew Shigan, he might have been able to directly pierce Uchiha Obito’s heart.

"I’ll learn!"

Namikaze Minato said immediately.

Since Natsuki had put it this way, it would be impolite to refuse.

After hearing about Shigan, he finally understood why Natsuki said it was particularly suitable for the Flying Thunder God Technique.

"Thank you."

Namikaze Minato said gratefully.

Although he had long considered Natsuki a good friend, teaching him Shigan would elevate their relationship to the level of good brothers.

"How much longer until you learn the Flying Thunder God Technique?"

Natsuki asked curiously.

In the original work, although it wasn’t stated when Namikaze Minato learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, it was definitely before the Third Shinobi World War.

Natsuki remembered his first time using the Flying Thunder God Technique should have been during his battle with Kumogakure’s Fourth Raikage and Killer B.

Calculating the time, there were still several years from now.

Of course, because of his appearance, many butterfly effects had occurred.

For example, Namikaze Minato had already received guidance from Jiraiya before graduating.

"I estimate I’ll have to wait until this Shinobi World War ends."

Namikaze Minato replied. "During wartime, there isn’t much time to learn the Flying Thunder God Technique."

"That’s soon. There’s a high probability you’ll be able to learn it next year."

Natsuki nodded and said.

It was already November now. Next year wasn’t too far away.

However, just learning the Flying Thunder God Technique wasn’t enough. He also had to learn advanced ninjutsu like Flying Thunder God — Second Step and Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder.

But the Flying Thunder God Technique was the hardest. Being able to learn it meant he was already more than halfway to success.

Watching everyone practice his Konoha Rokushiki, Natsuki couldn’t help but stroke his chin.

He wondered when this teacher-type character template would awaken.

Was it because the number of students wasn’t enough? Or was their fame not enough?

Natsuki thought for a moment and stopped thinking about it.

Anyway, it would awaken when it was supposed to.

He also began to train.

He temporarily stopped developing Magnet Release ninjutsu, primarily because developing it in Konoha’s main camp would cause a lot of commotion.

He didn’t plan to expose his Magnet Release ninjutsu yet.

Natsuki already had a plan.

The advancement of creating ninjutsu was undoubtedly creating forbidden jutsu and Kekkei Genkai.

As time passed and his strength increased, it would be very reasonable for him to create Magnet Release.

Of course, the most important thing was that with his current status and position, even if it was unreasonable, no one would look into it too deeply.

It’s not like he could say he was the Third Kazekage’s student, right?

Who would believe that?

Although it was common for the Five Great Villages to send spies to each other, no Kage had ever sent their own genius out as a spy.

Except for Pot-Shadow Shimura Danzo.

But he wasn’t a Kage.

Natsuki began practicing Lightning Release and Wind Release.

By the afternoon, they received a notification from the Anbu to gather at the entrance of Konoha’s main camp.

"What does this mean? Why not just tell us the mission content directly?"

Nawaki scratched his head and asked.

"It’s a joint mission."

Namikaze Minato pondered for a moment and said. "Besides us, there are other squads participating."

Nawaki understood upon hearing this and didn’t ask further.

The seven people arrived at the entrance of Konoha’s main camp.

Just as Namikaze Minato said, there were two other ninja squads.

Natsuki scanned the area and spotted an acquaintance: Uchiha Mikoto.

But her teammates were no longer the ones from before.

Uchiha Mikoto also noticed him and couldn’t help but be somewhat surprised.

During this time, although she hadn’t seen Natsuki, she had heard many stories about him.

Like defeating Rasa and becoming the youngest Jonin in Konoha.

Thinking back to when their strength was still on par, now things had completely changed.

"Natsuki will be in charge of this mission."

Jiraiya handed Natsuki a mission scroll and said.

"Yes, Lord Jiraiya."

Natsuki opened the mission scroll and began to read.

Jiraiya, on the other hand, turned and walked toward the main tent.

This mission was similar to the last one, but instead of targeting an Amegakure squad, it targeted an Amegakure stronghold.

And after taking down this stronghold, they had to defend it for three days.

Because this stronghold was quite important.

Within these three days, Orochimaru would make other arrangements, repel the Amegakure ninjas, and ultimately turn this stronghold into Konoha territory.

"Who are the captains of your two squads?"

Natsuki put away the mission scroll and asked.

"I am the captain, Uchiha Mikoto."

Uchiha Mikoto took a step forward and said.

Natsuki raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

Because he remembered that Uchiha Mikoto was still just a squad member before.

Did she awaken the three-tomoe Sharingan during the war and become a Jonin?

But that was normal. The battlefield was the easiest place to be stimulated into awakening the Sharingan.

Uchiha Mikoto was inherently about five years older than him.

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