Build the Swarm Tech Tree in Konoha

Chapter 78 Explosion in the Valley

Not far after leaving the battlefield, Aburame Tetsumaru stopped and joined the ten sword mantises who had received his order.

Aburame Tetsumaru asked his disciples to switch to new sword mantises. The consumption during the battle was much greater than usual. The two battles only took seventeen minutes. The weight of the six sword mantises participating in the battle all suffered a serious drop.

Especially the four riding mantises have lost a full quarter of their weight, and they will definitely die suddenly if they continue to run.

Replacing the sword mantis with strong physical strength will be beneficial to the subsequent battle and can also save the lives of the six sword mantises. Even if the nest can be mass-produced, the production cost of each sword mantis is still valuable, and it is not

That's a small amount.

In this battle, Aburame Tetsumaru lost more other bugs. If it had been produced according to the normal method, it would have been an exaggerated number. Fortunately, it had been communicated before the war, and all losses were reimbursed by the Leaf Village.

Well, I actually made all my money in vain, which is cool.

However, the Third Hokage is not stupid. For this battle mission to be carried out by regular ninjas, at least 300 ninjas must be mobilized. After the battle, at least 90 B-level mission rewards and 20 A-level mission rewards must be spent, plus

The cost of mobilizing the Ninja Army's baggage reached one Asma.

But if a battle breaks out, it will be serious. The inevitable casualty pensions, mission bonuses for combat upgrades, and if there is a Kazekage to fight, the price will go up. One or two hundred million can't be less.

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And if it is left to Aburame Tetsumaru, even if all the bugs have to be compensated until the end of the battle, the expenditure of Konoha Village will not exceed 40 million. Is it super cost-effective?

What the Hokage was really worried about was whether Aburame Tetsumaru could hold on, but Orochimaru made a special guarantee for this, and then he persuaded the Hokage to transport a large number of insects from the village to the front line.

Since it was time to replace the sword mantis, Aburame Tetsumaru simply decided to take a rest, channeled the logistics insect nest, and asked the three students to quickly replenish their blades and swallow the soldier's food pills to replenish their chakra.

Taking advantage of the rest time of the disciples, Aburame Tetsumaru communicated with the distant mother nest and prepared the explosive locusts to launch. This time, he did not bring any big bugs to attack, but chose a more violent attack tactic.

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After resting for five minutes, the four ninjas recovered a lot of their physical strength and continued to set off in high spirits. Their destination was the location where the Sand Bee squadron was annihilated ten minutes ago. Whoever was there would be annihilated.

Okay, I'll turn around and leave when Feng Ying is there, and today's battle will end early.

Aburame Tetsumaru laughed at herself.

Dao Mantis carried the ninjas up the hillside. There were more than fifty ninjas in the valley battlefield, and they were searching for survivors on the mountain of insect corpses.

Aburame Tetsumaru had already confirmed that the Kazekage was not here, and had given the order two minutes ago for the Bomb Locusts to be launched immediately.

He rushed down with three disciples and six other sword mantises. Looking from a distance, the dozens of sand ninjas in the valley were as big as fleas. They were indeed jumping around like fleas, and then they

There are not many ninjas in sight.

Ninjas who dare to stay where they are are strong, either forming seals with their hands to prepare powerful ninjutsu, or deploying large puppets.

Aburame Tetsumaru knew that the sand ninja was waiting for him to enter the attack range of ninjutsu. After the ninjutsu attack, he would throw shuriken, senbon, and finally kunai.

He gently snapped his fingers, and everything in the valley turned upside down.

[I left 800,000 to 900,000 bug corpses here and planned to fight another battle here. How could I not bury enough mine bugs in advance? 】

Ninjas have received professional training. When cleaning the battlefield, they will discover and disable poisons, traps, and detonating symbols. Generally speaking, it is difficult for mine bugs to escape the inspection of ninjas. Unfortunately, this place is covered with a thick layer of corpses of nearly a million bugs.

There are tens of millions of broken limbs and bodies of all kinds of bugs on this layer. Thousands of mine bugs don't need to be disguised. It's impossible to tell them apart if they just blend in.

This valley has experienced the ravages of legion ninjutsu. There are no trees or rocks left, only insect corpses covered in thick layers. Therefore, those hidden sand ninjas actually have no place to hide. They can only hide among the insect corpses.

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Therefore, many sand ninjas were very close to mine bugs when they exploded, and some were even directly next to them, so much so that Aburame Tetsumaru saw that the smoke and dust raised by the explosion were bright red in several places.

Before the smoke and dust from the explosion settled, thirty-six Bomb Locusts arrived and rushed directly into the battlefield.

These big guys carried more explosive bugs, and the power of the concentrated explosion was much greater. In the roaring explosion, whether they were hiding or not, the sand ninjas suffered heavy casualties.

Then the ten mantises did not slow down and rushed directly into the smoke and dust of the explosion, heading straight to the edge of the explosion, where there might be sand ninjas who survived the two rounds of explosions.

These surviving sand ninjas were no less than elites. They sensed the coming attack and launched a powerful counterattack in the smoke.

It is not well known that Aburame Tetsumaru usually covers his entire face with defense beetles, and he no longer needs his eyes to observe the world.

Therefore, the obstruction of his line of sight did not affect him at all in finding the exact location of the enemy. He raised the long knife in his hand and pointed at the enemy's position.

When the target heard the sound of the sword mantis running, he threw out a piece of Senbon in the general direction, and then waved his ninja sword and slashed randomly, trying to prevent the enemy from approaching him.

It doesn't matter to Senbon. The shell of the sword mantis cannot be penetrated by Senbon. There is no need to worry about the heavier Ninja Sword. As long as it is not made of chakra metal, there will be no problem.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, five ninja swords, I made a mistake, this is a puppet.

Aburame Tetsumaru frowned slightly, but Dao Mantis was very fast and did not allow him to stop and slowly search for the hidden puppet master, so he could only continue to attack the puppet.

After all, it is a result of battle. As long as the puppet is fully destroyed, it is equivalent to destroying the combat effectiveness of a Jonin.

However, the methods of attacking humans and puppets are completely different. For the depth of attack on humans, the first choice is piercing attacks, which can be done by piercing two holes.

For puppets, if the damage is large enough, the first choice is to hit it hard with a hammer. It must be smashed into pieces before everything will be fine.

Aburame Tetsumaru did not master the Senju family's signature nintaijutsu, nor did he carry a large weapon with him. The glove appendage insect that he originally kept was replaced by a long sword appendage insect, so all he could do was point the finger at the puppet.

He raised his long sword high and struck with all his strength.

The stagger is equivalent to doubling the relative speed, and neither side can react more delicately.

The puppet's head and three sword-holding arms were severed. Tetsumaru was unlucky enough to be hit on the forehead by a ninja sword, and the outer armor on his head was split open. Fortunately, it didn't go deep and only broke some skin.

After passing by, the speed slowed down a bit. Tiewan used the appendages behind his back to pop out, and the sharp terminal insect limbs penetrated the center of the puppet's torso, and then broke inside the puppet.

There is a mine bug hidden in the insect limb that was broken into the puppet's body. This is a special weapon for destroying puppets that has been tested in actual combat for more than a year, and the effect is very outstanding.

As the mine bug exploded inside the puppet, the puppet was blown to pieces. Surprisingly, the smoke from the explosion was red, and then Iron Pill could smell the fresh smell of blood.

He suddenly realized that the puppet master was hiding in the puppet, and he was also an unlucky guy.

It is also possible that the puppet master had hidden nearby before, but was unlucky enough to be injured by the mine bugs ambushing underground, and had to be transferred to the puppet, and then was killed.

In short, this guy is unlucky.

Dao Mantis stumbled while running, which aroused his alert. When he broke out of the explosion smoke, he bent down and looked over.

Good guy, Dao Mantis has an open wound on his right leg, with a broken ninja sword embedded in the wound.

Aburame Tetsumaru couldn't understand that the sword mantis only used four legs to support a weight of 400 kilograms, so the carapace on the legs was specially strengthened to the thickness of four fingers. A mere puppet holding a ninja sword without chakra enhancement,

No matter what, we can't cut such a big wound.

Tewan bent down and pulled out the broken knife from the wound on Dao Mantis's right leg. He looked at it and determined that it was not chakra metal. However, the time and occasion were not suitable for careful study, so he put the broken knife away.

In addition, the sword on Dao Mantis's right side was broken along the joint. It must have happened to hit a fragile joint.

Soon other sword mantises rushed out from the valley shrouded in darkness by the explosion, six in total. Fortunately, three students rushed out, which made Aburame Tetsumaru breathe a sigh of relief.

This charge was very dangerous. Two of the three genin were injured, especially Nara Yoshino, who was the most seriously injured. All six sword mantises suffered injuries of varying severity.

Aburame Tetsumaru looked at the status of his disciples: Nara Yoshino had wrapped the wound himself, and the amount of bleeding was not large during the bumps. There should be no fear for his life;

When Hiro Uchiha was fighting the enemy, he was stabbed in the ribs by a ninja sword. Fortunately, there was an appendage insect blocking the edge of the blade. Only two ribs were cracked, so it was not a big problem;

Inuzukao had the best luck. He was not injured or bloody, but his head was shoveled with a bare runway, but it was the most thrilling.

The six sword mantises did not stop, but quickly climbed over the hillside to the west, then turned around and headed south.

After climbing over the hillside, Dao Mantis' speed slowed down, and Aburame Tetsumaru and the three students took the opportunity to deal with their injuries.

"Teacher, will the next attack on No. 1 Squadron continue?"

Nara Yoshino wrapped up the stab wound on his abdomen and couldn't help but ask.

From Nara's perspective, the situation of Team 121 is not good. All the insects have been lost, everyone is injured, and everyone except the captain has used up half of their chakra. Can they still attack at least one squadron of sand ninjas?

Different from yesterday's guerrilla warfare, today's battle was a real mobile battle. Three consecutive head-to-head attacks allowed the three genin to experience the power of the sand ninja.

Except for the heartless Inuzukao, Nara Yoshino and Uchiha Hiro felt that they could no longer hold on.

The first two attacks were okay under the cover of a huge number of insects. In the third attack, except for the cover of two rounds of explosions, he only had a sword mantis to accompany him to face the elite ninjas of the Sand Ninja.

Fighting on the thin line between life and death, it was not just the Konoha ninjas who exploded with powerful fighting power at that moment. The Sunagakure ninjas also exploded. The high-speed impact in the smoke left no room for playfulness for both sides. They could only rely on strength, experience and luck.

Hard fight.

Being able to survive is really mainly due to the thick shell of the mantis, and a certain degree of luck.

Nara Yoshino's luck was not good enough. The enemy's ninja sword slashed across the sword of Dao Mantis. The broken fragment penetrated into his abdomen from the other side. He suffered secondary damage during the subsequent running and was cut open.

A full 10cm opening.

Fortunately, a huge wound with an abdominal width of more than 10 centimeters is not fatal to a ninja. Whether it is blood loss or infection, there are ways to solve it.

"It doesn't matter, I will change my tactics next. You three don't need to charge, just help me attract attention on the hillside."

Aburame Tetsumaru smiled. Although the three little guys were as good at fighting as Chunin, they were too young and there was no way to make up for their shortcomings in endurance during continuous battles.

The main force in the final battle is the 160 explosive locusts still flying in the sky. Each of these locusts has 106 mineworms in their bodies, and the total number is close to 18,000.

thousand.

The scene of this explosion was absolutely huge, far greater than the explosion in the valley just now.

After this fight, they had to run away. The scene of thousands of mine bugs exploding at the same time was already quite big. With another round of large-scale explosions, it was impossible for the Sandaime Kazekage not to notice it, and he would definitely be able to attract this shadow.

Don't say that the three disciples don't need to participate in the battle. They just rush in and see if they can pick up some advantages along the way. They don't dare to use more time to expand the results of the battle.

【My luck is so good today!?】

Within three kilometers of the Sand Ninja Squadron No. 1, Aburame Tetsumaru heard the roar of ninjutsu and the noise of insects in advance in the Secret Technique Field Barrier, and the battle here was not over yet.

Incredible.

Aburame Tetsumaru arranged for the other sword mantises to continue moving forward along the valley, while he climbed over the hillside to the west and entered the narrow valley where the battlefield was located. When he turned a corner and saw the battlefield, he understood at a glance why the battle was still going on.

Continue.

The sand ninjas here are not just Squadron 1, the number is close to a hundred. It should be formed by three squadrons moving closer to each other. The key is that the leading ninjutsu of this large-scale sand ninja team is the rare earth escape.

Layers of earth walls were erected on the battlefield using Earth Release Ninjutsu. The core position not only had a towering earth platform, but also a thick curved dome to defend against locust attacks.

The Sand Ninjas hid in this Earth Release Fortress and used neat Earth Release Ninjutsu to attack those who besieged them.

The speed of earth escape is much slower, but in front of this fortress, the crawling poisonous needle beetles can only climb up and down along the undulating earth walls, making it very difficult to attack.

Earth Escape·Seismic Core

After a round of ninjutsu, the height of the outer earth wall will change, and the insects located in the depression will be buried underground by the undulating earth.

Locusts were spread all over the dome of the fortress, but they were unable to attack them. They could only attack along the few reserved passages. Pieces of them were crushed to pieces by the boulders of Earth Escape, and then swept away by Wind Escape.

The rhythm is controlled steadily, and except for the slow killing efficiency, there are no flaws at all.

Aburame Tetsumaru saw clearly and knew that there was no advantage to be taken. He immediately started to climb the slope. The five sword mantises on the other side of the hillside also climbed up the slope at the same time. The two sides met at the top of the slope and stopped.

(End of chapter)