Special Trial: Utmost Benevolence and Goodness

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Mission World: Naruto Derivative World Y7781 (This Derivative World has not yet been affected by other reincarnators)

World Type: Team Cooperation

Challenge Difficulty: Low–High

Time Limit: 30 days

Note: Due to the effect of Proof of Sin and Karma, your appearance and identity information have been altered (appearance and identity will be subject to hidden three-dimensional adjustments)

Note: You have been granted Permanence: Language Comprehension in this world

In this world, you may obtain and unlock the following milestones. Milestones will affect mission ratings and title acquisition.

Assassin: Kill more than 10 people without being detected

Bounty criminal: Have a bounty placed on you by any nation

Mystical Scholar: Encounter more than 10 types of special magical creatures

Thousand Eyes (Rare): Obtain more than 3 types of eyes possessing special Pupil Techniques simultaneously

Visitor from Another World: Encounter a living member of the Otsutsuki Clan

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Coo, coo~

The brief birdcall sounded somewhat abrupt in the night. Bai Cangshu’s senses returned to his body, and when he opened his eyes, he found himself in a room.

The surroundings were deathly silent, making that brief birdcall seem eerie and unsettling.

By the moonlight filtering through the window, he could clearly make out the room’s furnishings. With his current physique, he had begun to be able to see in dim light.

It was a typical Japanese-style room, with tatami mats covering the floor. A low table sat atop them, along with a flask of sake and two small dishes. A cylindrical scroll lay beside the sake flask.

As Bai Cangshu picked up the scroll, his ears twitched. He heard faint footsteps nearby. Someone seemed to be moving barefoot across a wooden floor. The movements were subtle, but he still caught them.

Bai Cangshu untied the red cord around the scroll and unfurled it. Clear red characters appeared inside. This was the Space’s customary method of issuing the Main Mission.

Special Trial: Utmost Benevolence and Goodness

Trial Mission, Phase One: Ensure the survival of Plot Character Hiranaka Hana within seven days

Mission Description: A woman named Hiranaka Hana has hidden a piece of critically important intelligence, drawing the pursuit of multiple ninja villages. Ensure her survival.

Mission Reward: Unlock Trial Mission, Phase Two

Mission Penalty: Activation of the Special Sequence: Virtue will fail, and the card will be lost from the Backpack

"Utmost Benevolence and Goodness…"

Bai Cangshu looked at this Special Trial for the Virtue Sequence, a strange smile appearing on his face. He had long grown accustomed to becoming inexplicably entangled with villainous characters in mission worlds, yet this time, he had received a mission called Utmost Benevolence and Goodness.

He found it quite novel.

"Tch, it was practically tailor-made for me."

Bai Cangshu pushed open the window. The creak was especially distinct in the night.

As he opened it, the stench of blood drifted into his nostrils along with the wind blowing from the woods at night.

"Hey, be careful! The enemy hasn’t left yet. Don’t come out!"

Bai Cangshu’s act of opening the window drew a reaction from someone in the street below. The newcomer wore black night gear, completely wrapped up so that his original appearance could not be seen.

But Bai Cangshu noticed a woman in the small house behind him, cautiously surveying the surroundings through a crack in the window.

Bai Cangshu knew that the woman he was meant to protect had to be nearby. Otherwise, there might be a situation where a reincarnator failed the mission before even discovering the target Plot Character.

Whoosh!

A faint sound of something cutting through the air arose in the night. The ninja in night gear gripped a black kunai in his right hand, raised it, and precisely knocked aside a Shuriken. With two rapid flicks of his wrist, two Shuriken sank into the spot from which the enemy had just attacked.

Thunk! Thunk!

The sound of Shuriken embedding themselves in the wooden house told him that he had missed again.

Bai Cangshu watched the scene below without rashly making a move. The place he was in seemed to be the commercial street of some unknown small town. A stone-paved road roughly four or five meters wide ran through the middle, flanked by two- and three-story wooden buildings.

Bai Cangshu was on the second floor of an inn.

The street was quite long, extending more than a hundred meters. Numerous corpses lay strewn across it, some wearing ninja uniforms, though most appeared to be passersby dressed like ordinary people.

A remarkably brutal massacre had taken place here.

Creak.

At this moment, people in the other small buildings lining the street also began opening their windows one after another.

After exchanging a few glances, they all confirmed one another’s identities as reincarnators. Then they noticed Bai Cangshu, and their expressions changed.

"Mercenary Tao…"

Bai Cangshu smiled and waved at them. Whether in its choice of mission world or mission type, this mission’s difficulty had been reduced.

It was probably because his low evaluation in the last mission had caused the Space to lower Bai Cangshu’s rating.

Seeing that Mercenary Tao was not crazed as the rumors claimed, but instead waved at them in an uncharacteristic manner—and since this was a team-cooperation mission world—they all relaxed their guard somewhat.

Bai Cangshu saw one of them take out an optical telescope and begin observing below, while another person in the same room directly set up a machine gun at the window.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~

A large number of Shuriken rapidly flew through the air from the darkness below, shooting toward these people who had opened their windows to converse without any regard for the corpses covering the ground.

The ninjas below presumably understood that anyone behaving like this under such circumstances could not possibly be ordinary people.

Clang, clang, clang…

A string of impacts rang out as the Shuriken were stopped by protective barriers.

The Naruto World’s upper-tier combat power was actually ranked quite highly. Whether in terms of versatility or destructive force, it was nothing to scoff at.

But the vast number of low-level ninjas relied on kunai, Shuriken, poison, traps, Explosive Tags, and similar methods to fight. Against reincarnators who had practically armed themselves to the teeth, they held little advantage.

Moreover, even those Kage-level Ninja in the Naruto World retained the weakness of having fragile physical bodies. That was likely one of the reasons reincarnators favored this world so much.

Everyone believed they had a chance to assassinate some major figure and obtain substantial rewards.

But…

Bai Cangshu tilted his head. A kunai grazed past it and shot into the room.

Sizzle~

The Explosive Tag burned extremely quickly, detonating the instant it lodged in the room.

Boom!

Flames swallowed the entire room in an instant.

Ran, who had just set up the machine gun, felt his eyelids twitch.

"Hey, hey, Mercenary Tao didn’t just get blown to death, did he?"

The woman beside him, who was using optical equipment to search for enemies while marking coordinates, said irritably,

"Don’t dream. While Mercenary Tao hasn’t made a move yet, let’s first harvest some mission completion progress. With someone like him entering alongside us, those reincarnators who entered this world ahead of time are really capable."

"Tch, so according to the Space’s assessment, if we didn’t have powerful support on Mercenary Tao’s level, we’d basically get crushed in this Main Mission without any suspense…"

The woman had shoulder-length short hair, though her bangs were left only on one side.

Whoosh, whoosh~

Two kunai, both wrapped with Explosive Tags, flew toward her. Without even looking, she raised her left hand. The air instantly congealed, and the two kunai seemed to be gripped in midair by an invisible hand before exploding in the air the next instant.

At the same time, Ran pulled the trigger.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang…

The fierce gunfire completely tore apart the silence. The ninjas’ silent slaughter was shattered by the reincarnators’ unrestrained desire for destruction.