"Erase it, Katakage!"
Katakura Asuka activated his Zanpakuto's Shikai, transforming it into two different pointed prongs.
Between the two prongs, streaks of electrical light flashed.
Katakura Asuka plunged Katakage into the ocean.
Crackle! Pop!
Lightning instantly spread through the sea!!
"What!!"
When the Hidden Mist Captain saw this scene, his eyes immediately widened!
This time, he finally saw clearly the attack methods of this group of samurai!
Those blades!
"Aaaahhhh!!"
Before he could think further, the screams of his squad members rang out.
The lightning on the surface of the sea was like venomous snakes, viciously tearing toward them.
Seeing this, the Hidden Mist Captain immediately fled without hesitation.
He used the Body Flicker Technique desperately, and even though he risked overuse and muscle tearing, he didn't stop.
He knew well that this ability couldn't be without limitations; if he just held out until then, he could survive!
Plop! Plop!
One by one, the Anbu were caught by the lightning, their bodies paralyzed, and they plunged into the deep sea.
He could only grit his teeth and run with all his might!
Just as the lightning was about to wrap around him, the electrical light suddenly vanished.
The Uzushigakure coast.
Staring at the retreating back of the Anbu, Katakura Asuka grumbled, "You Dead Monkey, I was about to slaughter him! Why did you suddenly interrupt me?"
Gori Takekatsu explained, "The Captain said to leave one person alive to return."
Katakura Asuka paused, then silently put away his Zanpakuto.
"Continue the patrol."
On the other side, Chihiro also received the news.
Leaving someone alive to return was, of course, Chihiro's idea.
To gain more prestige value, more people needed to know the news about the Uzushigakure.
Cast a long line to catch a big fish.
Chihiro stared at the prestige value on the panel, which had once again risen to six thousand, and chuckled, "Let the bullets fly a little longer."
The Land of Water, Hidden Mist Village.
The Anbu Captain, looking somewhat disheveled, reported the intelligence in the Mizukage's office.
The Third Mizukage, Minazuki Mei, narrowed his eyes, his expression unchanged.
Yet, he was deep in thought.
Samurai without Chakra, yet their blades were similar to the seven ninja swords of the Hidden Mist Village, possessing special abilities.
ninja swords with sound wave and lightning abilities... he felt strange about this.
Since they lacked Chakra, how exactly were they utilizing the ninja swords' abilities?
Noting this point internally, Minazuki Mei began to consider how to resolve the situation in the Uzushigakure.
Originally, he had decided to take advantage of Konoha being tied down by Iwagakure and the Hidden Sand Village to establish a garrison in the Uzushigakure.
Konoha couldn't spare many troops right now. Once they established a garrison and turned the Uzushigakure into a stronghold...
...they would gain the capability to project influence onto the Land of Fire.
Even if Konoha recovered, attacking the Hidden Mist forces stationed in the Uzushigakure would cost them dearly.
The fertile land of the Land of Fire.
Not only were the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth coveting it, but the Land of Water had also desired it for a long time.
Unfortunately, there was the sea separating the two countries, and previously, the Uzushigakure was right across from them.
This made it genuinely difficult for the Hidden Mist Village to extend its reach.
Just when the dawn seemed imminent, the Uzushigakure ran into trouble.
An unknown force had surprisingly snatched the prize.
The Third Mizukage certainly couldn't swallow this insult.
Furthermore, the user of the twin swords: flatfish, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, was missing and presumed dead in the Uzushigakure.
Whether Satō was alive or dead was not important; what mattered was the twin swords: flatfish.
The seven ninja swords were considered the Foundation of the Hidden Mist Village.
As long as the ninja swords remained, even if the owner died, the Hidden Mist Village could quickly train the next ninja sword user through the blades.
This ensured that there would be no gap in the high-level strength of the Hidden Mist Village.
Therefore, even if the Uzushigakure was a Dragon's Den, they had to venture in.
Of course, the Third Mizukage didn't believe this newly emerged force could withstand the power of a single ninja village.
Especially when that village was the Hidden Mist Village, one of the Five Great Ninja Villages.
"Notify the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to lead a squad, proceed to the Uzushigakure to wipe out the enemy, establish a stronghold, and retrieve the twin swords: flatfish!"
Given the lack of sufficient intelligence, and to be safe, the Third Mizukage decided to send the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
"Huh? You want all six of us to go?"
On his day off, Suikazan Fuguki reluctantly took the mission scroll after receiving the sudden notification.
After opening the mission scroll, he became even more displeased.
Suo muttered, "Uzushigakure? Wasn't it just destroyed? Why are we going there again?"
"Huh? That bastard Satō is dead? Hahaha! I knew he looked like he was destined for a short life!"
"Oddly shaped ninja swords? Possessing strange abilities?"
"Hmph! What class! How dare they use ninja swords of the same specifications as me, Suikazan Fuguki!"
At the same time, the other five also received the mission notification.
They began to gather Ninja and head to the Uzushigakure.
In the Uzushigakure, Chihiro stared at the rapidly increasing prestige value on the System panel and couldn't help but smile knowingly.
"It seems the fish have taken the bait."
This method of gaining prestige value is fast. In the future, I'll have the Shinigami put on more shows and heavily farm a wave of prestige value.
Of course, he wasn't sure if the Hidden Mist Village, after learning about the situation in the Uzushigakure, would still send people.
Chihiro felt it was more likely they would come.
After all, their ninja swords were still in Chihiro's hands.
Although he had already used them to recruit Troop Types, the Hidden Mist Village didn't know that.
As long as they wanted to retrieve their ninja swords, they would definitely send people over.
To be safe, the next few days should be a period of mass troop recruitment.
Currently, his prestige value had become 74,742 points.
To be honest, this number surprised him a bit.
Just by entering the Hidden Mist Village's line of sight, it could rise to over seventy thousand.
If this happened a few more times, wouldn't he be able to gather all the Heroic Troop Types from the shinigami series immediately?
He just didn't know if this situation was normal or if it was because it was the first time he had caught the Hidden Mist Village's attention.
For a moment, Chihiro even thought about poking the whiskers of the other Four Great Ninja Villages.
But he quickly sobered up.
With his current strength, dealing with just one Hidden Mist Village was already like dancing on the edge of a knife.
If a few more came, he wouldn't even know how he died.
Calm down!
Just one Hidden Mist Village is enough to farm. As for the other Ninja Villages, wait until I recruit more Heroic Troop Types.
After calming down, Chihiro first bathed and burned incense, then took a deep breath and began to recruit troops.
"System, first use fourteen thousand prestige value to randomly recruit one hundred Regular Troop Types."
As his voice fell, a white light flashed.
A motley assortment of Regular Troop Types appeared before Chihiro.
He had only casually glanced at them, but there was an unexpected surprise.
"Two Sekikan, and one Lieutenant! What's going on, System?"
"Ding! Each Rank's card pool has a chance to recruit higher-Rank Troop Types, the difference lies in the probability."
Chihiro's eyes immediately lit up.
So bathing and burning incense really worked!