Shadow of the Wood

End of Chapter 32

Asma Sarutobi is tall, and Shikamaru is still a teenager at this time, so he doesn't have the slightest advantage in terms of strength and attack range. It is too difficult to find a flaw to break into the body from the front. If you want to find the opponent's defense gap, Close and forward, so it's best to grab the opponent's side!

Considering the existence of Sharingan, the reckless style of fighting head-on, is simply not practical for Shikamaru!However, if the defender in the inner circle turns around, his speed will naturally be faster than Shikamaru in the outer circle. Fortunately, this point can be supplemented by the skills taught by Asma.

The principle of the Blinking Technique is to use Chakra to weakly stimulate the leg muscles, and then spew out from the feet, so as to exert explosive speed. However, the tangible and intangible Chakra is difficult to be perfectly manipulated, and the slightest increase or decrease is difficult. The speed deviation brought about, as well as the adjustment of body balance in the process, will lead to changes in the moving distance.

In contrast, the body is much easier to adjust and master.

With his chest in his arms and his back straight, Shikamaru got short and ran towards Asma's side.

Shikamaru's right leg strode out to the right, a little chakra gushed out from the foot, and the left leg dragged on the ground, which played the role of adjusting the center of gravity and maintaining balance, and could rely on the friction of the sole of the left foot on the ground to offset the The momentum that increases or decreases due to the inaccurate amount of chakra gathered in the right leg.

Although this method cannot explode a large amount of chakra—in that case, Shikamaru, who is sideways and exerting force on one foot, will lose his balance and fly sideways—but it can well adjust the sudden increase in speed when moving laterally, Overall, it can be about [-]% faster than usual.

"Snapped!"

Shikamaru swept towards Asma's waist with Kunai in his hand, but was blocked by Asma's backhand holding the wooden knife upside down.

"Short blades are not suitable for large-scale slashing movements." Shikamaru's heart moved. The short blades are mostly held with one hand, and the length is not enough. The slashing lethality is weak, and it is not easy to attack the enemy. Cutting and picking are the main ones.

Shikamaru picked up Kunai, and was about to cut Asma's forearm, but saw that the opponent took a step back, took advantage of the length of his hand, no longer defended, but stabbed directly at Shikamaru's lower abdomen. If you can't hit Asma's body, you will be hit by the wooden knife before then.

Shikamaru fought back with Kunai to push the wooden knife away, and gave up the attack, but Asma took advantage of the situation and raised the knife slightly, slashing towards Shikamaru's neck.

If the weapon in Shikamaru's hand is a weapon such as an iron ruler, after blocking Asma's attack, he can also fork the wooden knife. Back, it will take more time.

Shikamaru sideways avoided Asma's attack, suddenly had an idea, flipped the right wrist holding Kunai, loosened his fingers, and threw Kunai to Asma's feet, but this Kunai, which had been magnified many times, came from far away. It's okay to throw forcefully, but at this distance and in a hurry, it's hard to bear the force, and the speed is slow, and Asma dodged it with a light leap.

"This shape is not flexible enough, it should be lighter." Shikamaru stopped and greeted Asma, signaling the end of the battle.

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A week later, with the help of Dazna, who is good at carpentry, Shikamaru's weapon template was finally completed, but it looked a little strange, like a sword but not a sword, like a sword but not a sword, and it was not related to Kunai, so that Dazna, who was in charge of the work, scratched his head.

In Dazna's eyes, this "short sword" is very strange and slender. This is because Shikamaru referred to the characteristics of the four-sided army thorns in the previous life when making it, and opened four large blood slots, which can further increase the stabbing. However, the difference from the military stab is that Shikamaru created a sharp blade on each of the ridgelines on both sides. The sharp blades are narrow. Although they cannot be used for chopping, they can also be used for cutting and wiping.

The sword nose at the end of the sword body is not the usual oval or rectangular shape, but reversely hooked at the end of the blade body to form two small hook blades (somewhat similar to the characteristics of the crest Minato on both sides of the Kumi blade end), the style After blocking the enemy's weapon, if the opponent pulls his finger back, just twist it a little, and the hook blade can fork the opponent's weapon. Not only that, when cutting with the blade, the hook blade can also take up a large area flesh and soft tissue.

The total length of this weapon is one foot and five inches, counting the small ring, the grip is four inches long, and the blade is one foot and one inch long, and the special shape can save a lot of materials.

"What is this? It's so ugly!" Ino looked at the strange weapon in Shikamaru's hand, pursed his lips, frowned slightly, and said dissatisfied.

"What is this?" Ino turned his head and found that there seemed to be small characters engraved on the handle, but Shikamaru's hand blocked him from seeing clearly, so he went forward and grabbed his wrist, turned it around, and exposed the handle on the handle. Ino looked carefully at the small characters, and murmured: "Yingxiu?"

"Is it the name of this weapon?" Ino raised his head, his eyes flickered, his light blue eyes stared at Shikamaru, and muttered, "Such an ugly weapon has a good name."

"Okay, Ino, you don't understand." Asma on the side laughed silently, patted the shoulders of the two, stepped forward and said, and at the same time took the weapon handed over by Shikamaru, and began to observe carefully.

"It's very good, and the name is also very good." After a while, Asma handed 'Yingxiu' back to Shikamaru, praising: "Now there is a lack of casting materials, but this will have to wait until after the mission .”

As a jonin and experienced Asma, because he is familiar with Shikamaru's fighting style, he naturally understood that this weapon can be perfectly matched with Shikamaru in a short period of time.

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One month later, the bridge in the Kingdom of Waves was finally completed thanks to the efforts of the people of the country.

This bridge of hope in the minds of the people of the Land of Waves spans the two banks. It is unusually tall. From a distance, it seems to divide the sea and the sky. The bridge deck is wide and strong. This bridge will surely become the link between this island country and the mainland in the future!

"Thank you so much." Dazna said with moist eyes and a low voice.

At this time, the bridge was completed, but it was also the day when Asma, Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji finished their missions and rushed back to Konoha. The four of them were standing at the bridge head with their backpacks on their backs. It was delivered, but in the process of walking along the way, people continued to accompany and gather, and by this time, it was already a mighty sea of ​​people.

"I didn't expect the welcome ceremony to be so grand!" Asma chuckled, extinguished the cigarette butt, looked at the crowd, and said with some emotion.

"This is what we should do!" Dazner sighed, looking back at the crowd who had also quieted down.

The sound of the waves beating against the rocks and the breeze blowing was heard from time to time, and the dense crowd quietly watched the two groups of people standing at the bridgehead to bid farewell. This scene made many people feel sad.

"Uncle Asma, sister Ino, brother Shikamaru and brother Choji..." Inari was choking at this moment, his eyes were already red and swollen, and he started sobbing all the way here, and there is no sign of stopping until now. He said intermittently: "You must come back to see me in the future!"

"You are the heroes of the Land of Waves, and you are also the heroes in Inari's heart." Tsunami smiled and patted Inari on the shoulder: "Without you, we really don't know what would happen."

"We didn't do anything, we just completed the task as usual!" Asma waved his hand and said with a smile: "The bridge was built successfully, but Mr. Dazna contributed, and our ninjas are only responsible for protecting him." It's just safe!"

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"Father?" The figures of the four people from the tenth class had gradually disappeared at the end of the bridge. Seeing that Dazna was still quietly watching the direction of the few people leaving, Tsunami couldn't help but shouted in a low voice: "They have already left."

"I know." Dazna came back to his senses, looked around, and said thoughtfully: "Speaking of which, this bridge hasn't been named yet!"

"I suddenly came up with a super good idea. With this name, the bridge will definitely become famous all over the world in the future!" Dazna laughed confidently and said, "It's called the Shikamaru Bridge! How about it!?"

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The wave country volume is over.