"A brat in a place like this?! Hahaha, talk about luck!"
Several men with pale faces and two spot-like marks on their foreheads looked at the black-robed Amane with disgusting expressions.
The reason they could tell Amane was a child was because she hadn't used Transformation Jutsu to disguise her height at all.
Amane didn't reply and charged straight at them!
Seeing the child before them act so decisively, the Kaguya Clan members were somewhat surprised, but this played right into their hands. Without a word, they extended bone spikes to meet the attack!
(The Kaguya Clan are mostly Taijutsu types; it's best not to fight in close quarters. Adamantine Sealing Chains consume too much mana; I'll just use Chakra Nature Transformation.)
It wasn't a question of whether she could afford the cost. Defeating the opponent with the minimum effort was Amane's combat logic and the fundamental principle of Sealing Jutsu.
Among the three Nature Transformations she had mastered—Lightning, Water, and Wind—Amane chose Wind.
With a light blow, she made the shuriken on her fingertip rotate at high speed and threw it, carrying a ring of Wind-natured Chakra.
Facing this move for the first time, the Kaguya clansman instinctively felt goosebumps—a danger signal transmitted by his genes that naturally loved battle.
But the speed boost Wind-natured Chakra gave to projectiles was simply too fast!
And unlike its appearance, an ordinary person could only see the trajectory of the shuriken, completely unable to see the larger ring of Wind-natured Chakra.
With no choice, he tried to block it with his bones, and the result was naturally a foregone conclusion—he was sliced in half!
(Not bad, my mastery of Wind Nature Transformation is better than I imagined.)
Thinking this, Amane closed her eyes and used Kagura Minds Eye to observe the enemy's Chakra to predict their movements. Her fight with Obito proved that in high-end matches, this was more useful than normal eyes, though it consumed mana.
While dodging the enemy's attacks, her Hand Seals were completed. A compressed Sealing Rasengan shot out, and another Kaguya clansman was sent flying.
Amane watched him fly over twenty meters before stopping; the Shikotsumyaku protruding from his abdomen had shattered, and a large amount of blood sprayed from his mouth.
But he had only lost consciousness; he wasn't dead yet.
(Rasengan isn't very effective; did the reinforcement from the bones negate a lot of the power? It seems that against the Kaguya Clan, Sharp-type attacks or Genjutsu are more promising.)
Having initially tested the situation, Amane began to get serious.
Since Wind Nature Transformation was so useful, Amane drew her personal short blade to enchant it and then went on a slashing spree, disregarding mana consumption!
Don't be ridiculous; this bit of Chakra consumption didn't even equal a single strand of the Adamantine Sealing Chains.
Soon, everyone except for one relatively strong enemy at the Chunin level had been dealt with by Amane.
"Damn it! What is the deal with this brat!"
Although the Kaguya Clan were battle maniacs and stubborn, they weren't so blind that they couldn't recognize the situation.
Realizing he might not escape this disaster, the Kaguya clansman took a large leap back to gain a brief moment to breathe. Then, with a loud shout, the bones in his body began to grow explosively!
"Hmm?"
Amane was stunned for a moment, but then immediately understood what he was doing.
(He's likely forcibly squeezing out his physical energy to activate his Bloodline Limit at full power.)
The Chakra inside him was still being produced incessantly, and the bone spikes on his body were already growing as high as trees. Amane had no doubt how conspicuous the completed form would be.
Furthermore, these massive bone spikes could serve as protection. Judging by the level of those few small fry just now, ordinary attacks would be hard-pressed to stop this.
(From the way the Chakra is changing inside him, these bone spikes should erupt in a large-scale burst all at once later, but this man won't survive it either.)
A large-scale AOE based on the sacrifice of one person.
But unfortunately for him, he had encountered an extraordinary opponent today.
(Your biggest mistake was using a technique that leaves you immobile.)
Her hands formed seals at extreme speed. Then, as she slapped her palm onto the ground, countless special runes made of Chakra formed a circle. The runes then began to crawl toward the bone pillar about to skyrocket, forming another circle around it.
"Seal!"
Amidst the painful screams of the Kaguya Clan Ninja, both he and the bone spikes he generated vanished. Only a giant character for'Seal' remained on the ground, surrounded by a ring of Chakra runes.
(A pity I don't have a scroll, otherwise I could take this setup away to use as a trap or a bomb.)
Amane could only feel regret about this.
A sealing scroll is a proper Ninja tool; not just any piece of paper will do.
With the meager pittance Amane had earned over the past two months, which at most left her with a little extra after three meals a day, she couldn't even afford a single scroll.
(Time to really go. First, I'll go to the previous contact point, package the intel, and send it back, and then...)
As Amane walked and thought, she continued to use Kagura Minds Eye. The closer she got to the final stage, the less she could afford even a hint of carelessness.
But at that moment, a humanoid Chakra signature about her size was rapidly approaching her.
A name came to mind—could it be him?
She estimated the distance; she had already left the boundaries of the base, and the nearest battlefield was about seven or eight kilometers away.
In that case, let's take a look.
Amane picked up her pace. If her calculations were correct, they would meet in a few minutes, and she would be even further from the base.
And so, as expected, the two of them stood face-to-face.
Long white hair and a youthful, even cute face. He wore faded blue hemp clothes covered in stains. Holding a bone-colored dagger across his chest, he looked at Amane with hostility.
"Are you from the Hidden Mist Village?"
(No mistake, it's Kimimaro.)
"No. If you're looking to join the battle, go that way. It's about ten kilometers; at your pace, it'll take about ten minutes."
Being told the location of the battlefield in such detail made Kimimaro pause, feeling as though this scene was somewhat familiar.
Oh! The pair he just met, an adult and a child, also said they weren't. However, they weren't as friendly as the person before him, who was also a child.
Amane even told him which way to go.
So, Kimimaro said very politely, "Thank you. Sorry for the trouble."
With that, Kimimaro was about to run past Amane.
"Wait. Why do you want to go to the battlefield? It's very scary there."
Facing Amane's question, Kimimaro stopped in his tracks. Then, he neither made any further reaction nor answered the question, but simply continued running away on his own.
Uzumaki Tian Yin, failed to pick up a conversation.
(Well... after all, although he's lonely now, he at least has something to do for the moment. How could he be stopped by me for a chat? The timing is just wrong.)
Thinking about it, Uncle Snake only ran over to say those cheesy lines to him after Kimimaro was the only one left alive.
Amane nodded with her arms crossed over her chest, denying the possibility that she lacked charm.
The important thing was the timing of the conversation!
Thinking this, Amane pulled her black robe back up to cover her face. She still wanted to see two more people.
(If Kimimaro is here, Zabuza and Haku shouldn't be far, right? I hope Kagura Minds Eye can sense them.)
As soon as she sensed, she found a suspicious target, so without a word, she sent a Shadow Clone over, while Amane herself took a different path to the meeting point.
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