The Invisible Assassin of Konoha

Chapter 224 Meeting the Sannin
"The situation seems to be a little bad. There are still pursuers behind us."

Rikimaru was not far away just now, so he heard the words of Kirigakure assassinating the ninja clearly, which shocked him very much.

He is the leader of the support force. The support force was tracked by the Kirin. He didn't realize it.

After learning the news, he now has two choices, either rush back to join the support troops now, or stay on the battlefield here.

Mist ninja is already besieging the support troops, even if he goes back alone, it may be difficult to fight the storm, why not join the three ninjas of the frontline troops first, and then consider how to break the situation.

After making a decision, Rikimaru immediately started to act, looking for Jiraiya-sensei and the others on the battlefield.

"Have you found it? Mist ninja's offensive seems to have weakened."

Jiraiya Sannin gathered together, listening to the constant reports from his subordinates, Tsunade suddenly said strangely.

"Well, the Mist Ninja's offensive is indeed not as crazy as it was at the beginning, and it seems that many Mist Ninjas have started to retreat. What happened?"

Jiraiya also felt a little strange, Kirigakure finally found them, how could he start to retreat after fighting for a while?

Orochimaru suddenly asked: "Is Fujiwara Rikimaru's support force arriving soon?"

"This?"

Jiraiya's eyes widened, and he suddenly felt something bad in his heart: "Oshemaru, you mean that Mist Ninja might..."

"It's not a possibility, but a certainty, otherwise they wouldn't have retreated so easily." Orochimaru's tone was affirmative.

"Ok?"

As he spoke, his expression suddenly changed, and then, a figure suddenly appeared in front of the three of them.

"Rikimaru."

Jiraiya had just put on a defensive posture, when he saw that it was Riki who came, he was overjoyed: "You boy, you came quite quickly."

"Mr. Jiraiya, Master Tsunade, Master Orochimaru."

Rikimaru called out one by one, and then said directly: "Mr. Jiraiya, now is not the time to talk, something is wrong."

"Was the support force you led discovered by Kirinin?" Orochimaru asked without waiting for Rikimaru to say anything.

Rikimaru was suddenly surprised: "Master Orochimaru, how do you know?"

Jiraiya replied: "Someone reported just now that Mist Ninja's offensive has weakened a lot. We guess that there must be an accident. The only possibility is that we discovered the support troops you led."

Rikiru looked serious: "That's right, originally I wanted to use my speed to support you first, but just now, I found out the information from Kirinin. Encountered such a situation again, the fog ninja who were besieging you, now retreat quickly to besiege the support troops."

"Then why don't you go back?" Zilai also asked anxiously.

Tsunade said calmly: "If he goes back alone, what role can he play?"

Richimaru nodded: "Master Tsunade is right, although I think I am not weak, but in this kind of war with a large number of people, my strength alone is limited after all, so I want to find you first, and then unite All hands, go back and fight against Mist Ninja."

"it is good."

Orochimaru spoke concisely and directly expressed what he meant, and Tsunade and Jiraiya of course also agreed.

The support troops were originally here to support them, but now they are in crisis. Of course, they cannot just sit idly by.

"Let everyone mobilize, take advantage of the present, launch a counterattack, increase the offensive, and make sure that the fog ninja doesn't care about it."

Only when they put more pressure on Mist Ninja can they buffer the pressure on the support troops.

As for Rikimaru and Jiraiya and the others, they quickly led a small number of people towards the position of the support troops. Kirinin weakened the offensive on a large scale, and the battle here became simpler, and it was enough for the subordinates deal with.

And they are preparing to go to the support troops as quickly as possible, because according to Rikimaru, the elite fog ninjas like the Ninja Sword Seven have already gone to the support troops, and there is no room for delay in time.

"You boy, have you figured out the situation? You are the person in charge of the support force this time, how can you act alone?"

Jiraiya pulled Rikimaru behind him, and reprimanded Rikimaru with a serious face.

Rikimaru looked helpless: "I didn't worry about something happening to you, so I acted alone."

"Do things rashly, without considering the consequences at all."

Zilai also hated iron and steel and scolded angrily: "How can there be any reason for the commander-in-chief to leave without authorization? Now that there is a problem with the support troops, do you know what the high-level people in the village will think of you if it spreads to the village? Why don't you think about it?" where?"

"Who knew it would be like this?"

Riki is also very helpless. He didn't really want to be the person in charge this time, and because he was worried about Jiraiya, he ignored many problems. Even if he is reminded by Jiraiya now, there is no way to save him, so he can only take one step. Count one step.

"Oh, you boy, it's really not reassuring at all."

Jiraiya also lamented that Rikimaru was much worse than Namakaze Minato in terms of taking the overall situation into consideration. He knew that it wasn't that Rikimaru was not smart, but that Rikimaru and Namakaze Minato had different personalities.

Namikaze Minato will put the village first, so when thinking about problems, it is mainly from the perspective of the village; while Rikimaru has always put himself and his family and friends first, and naturally thinks about problems mainly from himself and others. Little consideration is given to the big picture.

From the perspective of the village, Rikimaru is very incompetent and selfish.

But from Jiraiya's point of view, he felt touched again. Rikimaru put him before the village, so the first consideration was to support him, not anything else.

"Why think about it so much, anyway, I'm not going to do anything big."

Riki didn't care, his behavior could only be regarded as improper command at most, even if the village's senior management had something to say, at worst, they would put him on hold as before.

But he is really not afraid of this, because he also has support. According to the current situation, it is estimated that before the third Ninja World War is over, his senior brother Namikaze Minato will become the new Hokage.

Namikaze Minato is different from Sandai Hokage, although the sun is mild, but he is a very assertive person, he will not be indecisive like Sandai Hokage, as long as Namikaze Minato becomes Hokage, he doesn't have to worry more.

But Jiraiya didn't know what Riki was thinking, he was even angrier when he saw Riki's indifferent expression.

His disciple is really a maverick, similar to him, he doesn't care about power at all, and he doesn't care what others think of him.

"Master Bogang, the number of Mist Ninjas is increasing."

Nagano Taro wiped off the blood on his face, and his face became very stern. He didn't expect to be attacked by Mist Ninja not long after Rikimaru left, and he was attacked back and forth.

It was okay at the beginning, they had an advantage in numbers, and Mist Ninja couldn't do anything to them, but killed many Mist Ninjas instead.

But later, the number of Mist Ninjas increased, and they came from the front Mist Ninjas, which made them immediately realize that the Mist Ninjas attacking the frontline troops were quickly killing them.

By this time, their large force had been dispersed, and many people had disappeared into the thick fog. Even if they wanted to contact them, they couldn't. The situation became more and more critical.

"Let everyone hold on, Fujiwara Jonin and Jiraiya-sama will come to support them soon."

They are almost unable to resist now, and can only hope that the frontline troops are in good condition and have room to support them.

The speed of Rikimaru and the others is indeed not slow, even if there are some Mist ninjas who stand in the way, but for Rikimaru and others, these people can't pose any threat to them at all.

Under the leadership of Rikimaru, the group shuttled at an extremely fast speed, not even needing those Mist Ninjas to slow down much.

As the night gradually fell, the fog became more and more serious. When Riki and the others were advancing, a large amount of water suddenly spewed out from the front and rushed towards them.

"Shh, shh, shh..."

Along with Riki to support, apart from Sannin, there are several ninjas, all of whom are the elite among the elite. Although the water flow came suddenly, they all dodged.

But what followed was a large number of water tunnel attacks, water dragons, thousand copies, hidden weapons, all attacked them.

Mist ninjas appeared one after another, dozens of them, including the Seven Ninja Swordsmen that Rikimaru had fought against before.

"It seems that our actions were seen through by others."

Surrounded by Mist Ninja, Jiraiya was not nervous, instead he said to others.

"This is the best. As long as they are solved, this battle will almost be over."

Orochimaru's tone was cold, although he didn't know how many people the Mist Ninja had dispatched this time, but looking at the dozens of Mist Ninjas here, there were more than a dozen top ninjas, and the others were not much different. It can be seen that Mist Ninja Most of the high-end combat power is gathered here.

"Konoha Sannin, I've been waiting for a long time!"

From the crowd of Mist Ninjas, a man about 30 years old walked out. This man was extremely pale, and he didn't have any momentum on his body, but he was able to stand out from many Mist Ninjas, obviously his status was very high.

"Who is this guy?"

Rikimaru asked Jiraiya in a low voice.

Jiraiya: "I don't know, I haven't seen it before. Seeing that the seven Kirin ninjas are standing behind him, this guy must be a powerful person, but why is he just a jerk? The jerks are so powerful now?"

Orochimaru's voice was hoarse: "You Kirin really have a good plan. You came up with this tactic so quickly. Use our people to surround the spot to fight for help, but aren't you afraid of breaking your own teeth?"

The person on the opposite side smiled slightly: "This must be Mr. Orochimaru, one of the Konoha Sannin. To deal with such big men as you Konoha Sannin, we can be said to be fully mobilized. This is a treatment that no one else has ever had."

"That's really our honor." Orochimaru licked his lips and smiled sinisterly.

(End of this chapter)