The Cheat’s First Battle

"Bang! Bang!"

Gunshots suddenly rang out in the quiet forest night, echoing through the woods. Muzzle flashes burst from the dim, dense canopy, and the heads of the two Jonin shooting toward it exploded like watermelons.

"Damn it, they’ve already discovered us. He’s not a Genin. Kill him."

A low growl came from behind a nearby tree. Ohno stepped out from behind it, his hands already forming seals.

‘Wind Style: Gale Palm.’

Before the two Jonin corpses could hit the ground, a huge transparent wind blade shot toward Yueguang Han in the canopy. Gale Palm launched a massive, sharp wind blade several meters long from the user’s hand. It was incredibly fast and possessed tremendous cutting power.

‘Wind Style: Beast Wave Palm.’

The hidden Sand Shinobi also emerged from behind trees and bushes around them. Dozens of kunai and numerous foot-long wind blades shot continuously toward the canopy where Yueguang Han was hiding from every direction, sealing off all his routes of escape. Their coordination was excellent. Beast Wave Palm formed several small wind blades in the user’s hand and launched them to kill enemies.

Faced with Wind Style ninjutsu coming from all directions, Yueguang Han did not dodge. Gale Palm was too fast to avoid, while the wind blades from Beast Wave Palm and the kunai thrown by the Sand Shinobi were too dense to evade completely. So he simply did not bother.

"Rustle, rustle…"

The canopy crackled as the wind blades sliced through it. Branch after branch was severed, and masses of leaves fell from above. In less than a moment, the dense canopy had been cut completely bare.

Within the canopy, Yueguang Han’s chest was torn open by the massive wind blade from Wind Cutter. The several-meter-long blade seemed intent on cutting him in half as it sent him flying. In the end, he crashed heavily onto the ground several meters away from the tree, leaving behind a shallow human-shaped crater.

Yueguang Han’s body was covered in wounds carved by the smaller wind blades. Every gash was deep enough to expose bone, while kunai were buried deeply in his body. From a distance, he looked unquestionably dead.

In the Sand Shinobi’s eyes, Yueguang Han had been engulfed by their attacks before he could even use Substitution Jutsu. None of them believed he could survive being struck by so much ninjutsu. Only two Chunin approached the fallen Yueguang Han, while four other shinobi walked toward the Sand Jonin who had been shot in the head beneath the tree, preparing to seal their corpses into scrolls and take them away.

"Damn bastard!"

The Sand Shinobi squad leader gritted his teeth. Despite being so careful, they had still lost two Jonin to their enemy. He was no fleeing Genin at all—he was a sentry, and very likely a Jonin as well, perhaps even an Elite Jonin. That earlier noise had been so loud that other Konoha Ninja had probably already noticed it.

None of the Sand Shinobi noticed that Yueguang Han’s body, which they believed to be dead, was rapidly recovering. The wounds deep enough to expose bone were already nearly healed.

The T800 Endoskeleton really is tough! As expected of a robot made for modern warfare! I might as well be bolder from here on out! Yueguang Han thought as he lay on the ground. His hands had already transformed into two M249 LMGs, their ammunition already chambered. (They materialized with the rounds automatically chambered.)

"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat…"

Intense gunfire suddenly erupted. Just as the Sand Shinobi were simmering with anger, Yueguang Han, whom they believed to be completely dead, abruptly sat up. His hands had transformed into strange objects aimed at them, their muzzles flashing continuously as they produced a rapid series of crisp, thunderous sounds.

"Puff, puff, puff, puff, puff…"

Almost instantly, jets of blood burst continuously from the two Sand Shinobi approaching Yueguang Han, as though something with tremendous penetrating power had passed through their bodies. The two Sand Shinobi fell stiffly to the ground.

The Sand Shinobi collecting the corpses of the fallen Jonin suffered the same fate. Wood chips and bark kept spraying from the tree trunks beside them, proving how dense the attacks were.

"How is that possible?" Seeing the enemy who should have been dead suddenly come back to life and kill another six comrades in the blink of an eye, the remaining Sand Shinobi stared in disbelief. Some quickly hid behind nearby trees, concealing themselves in the darker parts of the forest.

"Die!" Some of the nearby Sand Shinobi roared as they drew kunai and charged Yueguang Han, while others formed seals to cast ninjutsu.

"You don’t have a chance." Yueguang Han’s voice was icy as he turned the Light Machine Guns spitting flames in his hands. A crimson stream of bullets swept toward the two Sand Shinobi forming seals in the blink of an eye.

"Puff, puff, puff…" Before they could even finish their hand seals, much less dodge, the two Sand Shinobi preparing to use ninjutsu were pierced by bullets, leaving several bleeding holes in their bodies.

"Bastard!" Ohno, the Sand Shinobi squad leader who had hidden himself again, stopped forming seals and clenched his fists tightly. It was too fast. Not even a second had passed—so fast that even he, an Elite Jonin, had no time to use Defensive Ninjutsu to save them.

"Bastard, die!" The three Sand Shinobi charging Yueguang Han finally reached him. Their poison-coated kunai and tachi, glowing purple, slashed viciously into his body.

"Clang…"

The kunai and tachi easily cut through Yueguang Han’s skin and muscles, but when they struck his bones and tried to pierce his internal organs, they rang with the sound of metal colliding. The blades could go no farther.

"How is that possible?" The Sand Shinobi stared in disbelief at the kunai and tachi that had pierced through skin and muscle but could not advance any further. It felt as though they had stabbed a rigid puppet wrapped in human flesh and skin.

"Surprised? Too bad you’re about to die." An icy voice rang out as Yueguang Han’s hands transformed into shotguns and pressed against the abdomens of two of the Sand Shinobi.

"Run!" Feeling the barrels against their stomachs and hearing Yueguang Han’s icy words, two of the three Sand Shinobi instantly broke out in cold sweat. Death enveloped them. Their bodies instinctively leaped backward, trying to get away from Yueguang Han.

"Too late!"

"Bang! Bang!"

The cold words pronounced their deaths. With two muffled gunshots, the two Sand Shinobi were blasted away by the tremendous power of the shotguns. Their abdomens had turned into mangled flesh, blood and internal organs spraying through the air together.

"Damn it!"

Seeing his two companions blasted away in such miserable deaths, the remaining Sand Shinobi was terrified out of his wits. He immediately leaped backward with all his strength, raising his hands to form seals and cast Defensive Ninjutsu.

"Forming seals in front of me—do you think you have time?" An icy voice rang out.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" Eight crisp gunshots rang out alongside the cold voice, and flashes of fire flickered repeatedly in the night.

Still in midair, his hands only just raised before his chest, the Sand Shinobi was engulfed by hundreds of steel pellets and blasted even farther away. By the time he hit the ground, the front half of his corpse had become a bloody mess.

"Bastard!" Seeing his comrades die miserably once again, Ohno roared. He had wanted to save them this time as well, yet he still had not even managed to finish his seals. Everything had happened too fast. Of the twenty-man Sand Shinobi elite squad he had brought, only seven remained.

"Die!" Ohno roared, his hand seals breaking past his previous limit.

‘Wind Style: Pressure Damage!’

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