Chapter 47: Invader 4

  "Ah." It was indeed him. I knew these bombs looked familiar, after all we had spent the past few days researching and testing them together. Under our experiments, at least 40% of that mountain wall had disappeared, and the formula for that strange-colored smoke was one I had provided, just a mixture of some special metal powders in a certain proportion.

  "You... how did you... end up here? ...Spirit." The blond-haired youth stuttered as he pointed at me.

  I looked at the blond boy's eyes, which were wide with surprise, and couldn't help but laugh. Was he really that shocked? Weren't we supposed to meet up again tonight anyway? I had no idea the blond boy thought he was responsible for my injury, and that he left in such a way because of it. He actually thought I wouldn't want to see him again, and even thought I would hate him!

  The twists and turns in the heart of a young man with yellow hair are certainly not something I can understand, so I just responded in a very ordinary tone.

  How did I end up here? That's a good question, how should I answer it? In short, "I live here." Just living here.

  "So this time's mission target is you! Hmm!" "Investigate the border mountains of the Earth Country, where there are suspected traces of a foreign S-level rogue ninja base. Once the target is found, immediately purge the inside of the base." Got it!

  "So you're going to kill me?" Thinking back to the ninjas' attack methods earlier, it's not hard to imagine that the mission's objective is annihilation or total elimination.

  "No, I won't!" The yellow-haired youth retorted quickly, he didn't mean that at all, just paused for a moment, only because of temporary surprise.

  The blond youth saw me suddenly fall into his arms and cried out in surprise! "What's wrong with you, spirit?!"

  Something sharp stabbed me in the back from behind, and I didn't even notice! "I... *cough*... *gasp*..." The wound reached my lungs, affecting my breathing and speech.

  Someone is attacking me! From behind! Who is it? Is it Iwao or a third party?

  Due to my depleted chakra shield from the previous two explosions, and not being in top condition today, I carelessly removed "Dōjutsu: Sharingan" because it consumes too much chakra, without noticing someone approaching me!

  While Shirakawa and Kumamaru were still reeling from the explosion, I was caught off guard with no one behind me for a moment. And to think that someone would try to sneak up on me! The stealth technique of the attacker didn't give off any signs or presence, not even a hint of their attack, something that even an ordinary Jonin's hiding jutsu couldn't achieve... Could it be the Bloodline Limit?!

  Who is it? I tried hard to turn my head, but my body wouldn't listen and fell into the arms of the blond-haired youth. (Severe lung injury may cause massive hemoptysis!)

  When the blade-like chakra touched my skin, I felt it, its target was the heart! But when the blade entered my body, I controlled the muscles behind the chakra hardening in time, and made the blade that was originally aimed at the heart deflect to one side, stabbing into the left lung.

  A warm feeling appeared on the chest of the blond-haired young man, but in his heart was an unusual coldness.

  "What's going on... what happened? Is it me? I was fine just now! Did I do something wrong? Was it my fault? Was it because of my bomb?" The blond-haired youth thought that the explosion and shockwave from the bomb had caused internal bleeding in his organs.

  Bai Hejun saw me conversing with that blond-haired youth, falling down and spitting blood, all in an instant.

  How could this happen! They just left the adults' side for a moment!

  "Adult!" Kunamaru's right hand performed the Karasu no Mai, his entire arm was covered in sharp reverse scales.

  "Let go, adults! Ice Escape?Ice Spin Blast!" This is Bai's strongest killing move at present. It is based on the principle of Spiral Ball and developed by Bai. The outer circle will cause the object to be instantly frozen and produce a brittle phenomenon, with a loose overall structure. Inside, there are rapidly rotating wind blades that crush the target like withering leaves.

  Hakuren and Kunma simultaneously launched their strongest ninjutsu at the blonde-haired youth, from their perspective, it seemed as if I had been attacked by the blonde-haired youth and was being held hostage.

  "Halt!………Whoa!" I raised my left hand with all my might and made a stopping gesture.

  After seeing my gesture, Kuma Ryu's Tenson no Mai can retract the bones and then swing his left hand forcefully to the other side, changing direction, not letting himself collide with me and the blonde-haired boy; Bai's ninjutsu has not yet reached the point of being able to be released and retracted at will, in an emergency, he can only change the target of his attack to the ground in front of the blonde-haired boy.

  "Hmph!"

  A half-meter-wide depression appeared on the ground, with the floor resembling a water surface being attacked by gravity, sinking in the center and radiating outward in a rotating pattern of shattered stones, mud, and ice that had frozen into massive ice crystals.

  Within several meters around the ice crystal, the ground also showed icing.

  A brave little kid, seeing this move for the first time, couldn't help but be curious, and approached to touch the edge of the ice crystal.

  There was a loud "bang", and a cold air spread out in all directions, instantly shattering and dispersing the ice that had just covered everything. The view was filled with white icy dust, and the small hole also expanded to a larger area, extending all the way to the feet of the blond-haired youth.

  The blond youth felt the ground beneath him suddenly lose its support, and he hastily hugged me and jumped backward. As soon as we landed, I suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, which instantly stained the blond youth's clothes with its vibrant red color.

  As expected! The sneak attacker won't be satisfied with the first attack not killing me or dealing enough damage, and my chakra is almost depleted, my shield on the verge of collapse. He won't get a better chance to assassinate me than this, so he'll definitely make a second move.

  I don't know what method the killer used to conceal himself and his attacking chakra, but since he didn't even leak out any breath, I'll pour my remaining chakra into the attacker's body at the moment of attack. I won't believe that the Nine-Tails' chakra can be concealed so easily! Of course, the price is that I got hit again.

  The other kids in the base were some distance away from us, and I didn't feel that their number had changed at all, so the person who ambushed me must still be around me, within my line of sight.

  The blond-haired young man, Bai Hejun, was in a standoff, and the sneak attacker didn't dare make another move at this time. However, the previous wave of icy mist was a good opportunity.

  Unfortunately, this opportunity also leads to death at the same time!

  The blond youth and Bai Hejun already knew that there was an assassin, yet he struck again right in front of them!

  When a person's body contains someone else's chakra, it usually causes rejection reactions. Except for a small number of people with special talents, the control of chakra in the body will be affected, and ninjutsu cannot be performed normally. The use of Bloodline Limit will require the rotation of chakra, so the ninja qualifications of the owners of Bloodline Limit are generally higher. This is also because the body has a habitual rotation of chakra, which is like a kind of invisible daily training without interruption.

  In short, the sneak attacker was affected by the Nine-Tails' chakra, that violent, arrogant and invasive chakra, even a high-ranking ninja like him couldn't be completely unaffected.

  So the sneak attacker revealed his true identity in an instant when he lost his special hidden ability of Blood Inheritance Boundary!

  "Red Wild!" The white killing intent was almost enough to freeze a person's soul.

  "Kurenai no Yorokobi na!" Kuma Rutoru was calm, but this calmness was like the stillness before a storm.

  "Bastard! Hmm!" The blond-haired youth's anger was like a flame that had taken physical form, his entire face twisted in a ferocious expression.

  I originally killed that middle-aged man outside the base, and I knew their mission target was a bunch of little demons. It didn't matter at first, but yesterday I hurt a spirit, and the spirit's age was also like a child. So today I don't really want to kill little demons, just doing bomb experiments on the outside, not wanting to go in. So I threw some bombs for them to try out, anyway, all along the way, they've been looking at me with disgust, openly or secretly. Accidentally running into them is like being touched by a monster, if it weren't for thinking of coming out to take a stroll, and not being allowed by the elder council to do tasks alone, who would still tolerate them!

  But unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time outside, the others still hadn't finished their task and come out. Just killing a group of less than twelve-year-old little demons, it was actually taking so much time, feeling impatient he hid himself to take a look at the situation.

  Unexpectedly, a black-haired young man in his twenties actually blocked the powerful explosive bomb specially developed by the elves for himself!

  The blond-haired youth felt that his and the spirit's lifeblood had been trampled!

  Unforgivable, so he immediately threw out a specially made dual-color bullet with hidden cold energy. However, after this explosion, he unexpectedly witnessed the target of his previous attack transform into the "Spirit" that had been on his mind all along!