A game merchant who started from the ninja world

Chapter 23: Yakushi Kabuto's Defection

Asuma covered his injured right arm and stared at Kabuto Yakushi with his eyes.

The dark clouds were getting lower and lower, and raindrops as big as beans hit the eaves on both sides of the street, making crackling sounds.

"Yakushi Kabuto, have you betrayed the village?"

Asuma wanted to reach into the ninja tool bag, but before he could act, two shurikens flew over and interrupted his action.

With the protection of chakra, the ninja's body is not as hard as rock, but it is definitely stronger than ordinary people.

only,
When Kabuto Yakushi throws a kunai, it adds throwing enhancement and poisoning skills.

As a result, iron tools with little killing power are often used as pathfinders and become the fangs of highly venomous snakes.

Asuma could feel his right arm gradually becoming numb, but he didn't dare to act rashly.

There is an antidote in the ninja tool bag.

But his intuition told him that if he revealed the slightest flaw, Kabuto Yakushi would continue to attack.

"betray?"

Yakushi Kabuto looked at Asuma, his teammate who fought side by side in the game, and said with a smile in his eyes: "You can say that. After all, the word betrayal is not difficult for me to accept."

ninja,
Regardless of strength, everyone has a sense of belonging to the ninja village, whether strong or weak.

Even if a rebel ninja has been wandering for years, he would not be as unresponsive as Kabuto Yakushi when hearing the words "betraying the village".

puff.

While he was talking, Asuma tried to find a flaw and quickly took out the antidote from his ninja tool bag and stabbed it into his right arm.

at this time,

Kabuto Yakushi, who was standing in place, suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, he had jumped behind Asuma.

Shadow Blitz.

A sharp dagger pierced through the waist and abdomen.

Asuma endured the pain, red mist emerged from his shoulders, and swung his fist to hit behind him.

Flame Punch.

The tip of the fist swept across Yakushi Kabuto's chest, but he narrowly dodged it.

But the scorching flames wrapped around his fist instantly burned through his clothes, and even the flesh underneath turned black as charcoal.

If it hits completely, it would probably crush Yakushi Kabuto's internal organs.

The distance is getting bigger.

The stealth fighter focuses on sneak attacks and assassinations, and will flee into distance after one strike, so it is naturally impossible for him to engage in close combat with the boxer.

Yakushidou sweated profusely on his forehead. He glanced at the blackened area on his chest and said with a smile, "That was a close call. This is the skill that Captain Asuma awakened. It's really terrifyingly powerful."

First, he used a poisoned kunai to launch a sneak attack, and then took advantage of the opponent's detoxification time to inflict fatal injuries to the opponent.

The purpose is achieved.

Asuma's fighting power was severely weakened.

He ignored the flowing blood, stared straight at Yakushi Kabuto, and said, "Can you tell me why you betrayed me?"

"Because Captain, the ghost flag in your hand is a treasure that Lord Scorpion values!"

Pharmacist Dou smiled and said slowly, "I know you are stalling for time. Unfortunately, I chose this time on purpose. This street is very remote. I also cast a large-scale illusion to isolate anyone who might interfere with us. No one will notice that you, Captain Asuma, have been attacked."

"scorpion?"

Asuma recalled that he seemed to have heard of this title before, a wandering ninja with bloody and vicious methods who had attacked several small countries.

It turned out to be for the purple quality equipment [Ghost Banner].

At the same time, he was also somewhat relieved.

Although this equipment is precious, it is also a good thing that it can attract hidden traitors. Although the cost is high, allowing the other party to continue lurking will only cause greater losses to the village.

Asuma said in a cold tone: "I will not be lenient towards traitors!"

He did not ask Yakushi Kabuto to surrender. The other party came prepared and obviously would not be moved by a few words from him.

Yakushi Kabuto kept smiling, took off his glasses, carefully put them into his ninja tool bag, and said, "Captain, don't underestimate my strength, or you will suffer a great loss." "Really?"

Asuma remained silent, holding the two chakra ring knives in his hands.

The nature of the wind-attribute chakra changes, causing the ring knife to be attached with a layer of chakra wind blade.

Breath of fire.

A mighty flame burned up, attached to the fist, and under the influence of the chakra wind blade, dragged out a long and narrow flame tail.

It looks like he is holding a pair of tumbling flaming swords.

"The breath of fire can attach the power of fire to the fist. It is the passive ability of the Fire Fist Master."

Pharmacist Kabuto calmly analyzed the situation and said, "In order to achieve this effect, has the captain's passive skill been upgraded to level five?"

The skills in the reincarnation game are very powerful.

After becoming a professional, you can awaken a professional skill every 5 levels. If you want to master other skills, you need to learn skill scrolls.

But so far, unless some outstanding skills are revealed, everyone’s focus is still on professional skills.

There is no other reason.

It’s purely because of the characteristics of reincarnation games, it’s a real money-sucking rip-off.

After awakening the initial skills, you must continue to upgrade them to unleash the full power of the skills.

Every time you upgrade your skill level, you not only need to continuously release skills and improve your proficiency, but you also need to spend reward points.

Skills also have quality. The higher the quality of a skill, the more reward points you will spend when upgrading it.

For example, Asuma's passive skill [Breath of Fire] was awakened with blue quality by sheer luck. The initial upgrade required a hefty 100 reward points, and subsequent upgrades required 300 or 500 reward points.

Pharmacist Kabuto himself has two professional skills, white and green.

Therefore, since they could not defeat Asuma head-on, they chose to use a sneak attack to reduce Asuma's health before continuing the battle.

"If your poisoning skill could be upgraded to level five, I might not be able to stand up."

Asma was very grateful.

The skills in the reincarnation game are too powerful. The level 1 white skill is already comparable to the power of C-level ninjutsu.

What's even more terrifying is that its power will continue to increase through skill upgrades.

If Kabuto Yakushi upgrades his poisoning skill to level 5, he will gain a passive state called deadly poison. The kunai he just used to launch a sneak attack would make him unable to move.

"A lurker is such a despicable and amazing profession."

Asuma took a deep breath, stomped the ground with his forefoot, and rushed out like an arrow.

Quick fight.

Everyone is a member of the Konoha team, and they are all aware of each other's strengths and weaknesses.

As long as he can get close enough, a melee boxer can even kill Pharmacist Kabuto with one blow.

Flame punch.

Countless burning red fists gathered in front of Asuma, and along with him moving at high speed, they pounced towards Kabuto Yakushi.

Shadow Step.

Yakushi Kabuto did not dodge, but very accurately controlled the moment before the flaming fist fell and activated his skill.

His entire body seemed to be shrouded in shadow, and he actually penetrated the flames and appeared behind Asuma.

"Lord Scorpion, you are determined to get the ghost flag. You are willing to give up two high-quality puppets for this. Give me the research funds to buy skill scrolls."

Yakushi Kabuto swung the dagger, which had a purple-black poison on its surface, and stabbed it towards the back of Asuma's heart.

At the same time, he kept hinting that the mastermind behind this action should be the traitorous ninja, Scorpion of the Red Sand.

After all, the [Konoha Collapse Plan] is about to begin, and as an excellent subordinate, I may not cause trouble for Lord Orochimaru.

According to the original plan,
He needs to lurk until the Konoha collapse plan begins, and then betray Konoha.

But the temptation of the ghost flag to Lord Orochimaru was too great, and he was even willing to activate this deeply hidden chess piece in advance to get it.

(End of this chapter)