Hiding in the sand, splitting into many places, starting with Arkham

By the time the dizzy and battered Shimizu crawled out of the fat puppet, the little boy was already bound by the black ant's long arms, unable to move. The mechanisms on the back and sides of the salamander were completely dismantled, and Scorpion himself was being held by the collar by the bull-headed puppet, a captive.

"You both performed very well."

Chiyo, controlling the bull-headed puppet, put Scorpion down and praised him with a smile.

Chiyo couldn't have been more satisfied with Shimizu and Scorpion's performance.

At their age, Chiyo herself might not have been so outstanding.

"Scorpion, you relied too much on your own judgment during the battle. You didn't leave yourself any escape routes. In other words, when you made a move, you didn't think about what to do next, how the enemy would respond, and how you would counter. You also hesitated at crucial moments, which could lead you into a desperate situation in future battles due to negligence."

Chiyo put away the puppet and began to comment on Shimizu and Scorpion.

"You've done well in puppet manipulation and the development of puppet functions. What you should do now is get to know more people and spar with different types of ninjas to gain combat experience."

Chiyo found a rock to sit on, while Shimizu and Scorpion sat on either side of her.

"As for Shimizu, you have much more mission experience than Scorpion, and you've been on the battlefield before, although not on the most dangerous front lines. Your practical experience is not bad, but you still have some shortcomings."

"You lack experience fighting enemies stronger than yourself. This may be because your strength has increased rapidly in the past year, outpacing the improvement of your combat awareness. Also, your combat style differs from that of traditional puppeteers, which brings some drawbacks."

"You call the fat puppet an 'armored puppet.' This method of wrapping the puppeteer's body in the puppet can indeed enhance the puppeteer's self-preservation ability. With the characteristics of multiple puppets matched together, the offensive power is indeed not bad, provided that your puppet's performance is excellent. I have confidence in you in this regard, but it's still the same problem as before. If you encounter an enemy stronger than you who breaks through your armored puppet, what will you do?"

Chiyo looked into Shimizu's eyes and asked.

"I can only run. If the enemy can do that, it means the little boy has either been destroyed by him or is being held back by other enemies. And if the opponent can defeat the fat one, it means their combat ability must be far superior to my main body's."

Shimizu thought for a few seconds and replied.

Chiyo nodded in satisfaction.

"Your analysis is quite accurate. Although you usually exist in the form of a team when performing tasks, your teammates won't let the puppeteer's main body fall into a desperate situation. But once you encounter irresistible danger, the ability to escape and save your life becomes very important."

As Chiyo spoke, she took out two ninjutsu scrolls from her ninja pouch.

"The contents of these two scrolls are the same. They both record two ninjutsu. One is the 'Mechanism Shield Seal' that I just used, a B-rank ninjutsu used in conjunction with puppets. It uses the puppet's mechanisms as a medium to convert chakra into a solid form for defense. The strength depends on the puppeteer's individual chakra strength and the quality of the chakra circuits in the mechanism. Even now, this technique is my most commonly used defensive ninjutsu."

At this point, Chiyo sighed.

"But the Lightning Release Chakra Mode is the result of several generations of research by the Raikage lineage in Cloud Village before it was even established. My own attainments in ninjutsu are acceptable, but how can I compare to the lifelong research of generations of top figures? Fortunately, I have gained a little, which is the Wind Release: Wind Swift Technique you see."

"So, what is the effect of this Wind Swift Technique?"

With Scorpion speaking less, Shimizu took on the role of responding and engaging in conversation.

"Speed. Releasing Wind Release chakra through the body's main chakra points to propel oneself, reducing air friction and resistance, thereby greatly enhancing one's own speed. For puppeteers, having enough speed undoubtedly greatly enhances their ability to protect themselves on the battlefield."

Afterward, Chiyo explained the training methods for these two ninjutsu to Shimizu and Scorpion in detail.

The Mechanism Shield Seal requires making chakra circuits in the corresponding puppet mechanisms in advance, using materials with good chakra conductivity. When the puppeteer injects a large amount of chakra into this circuit in a short period of time, the released chakra can be materialized, providing good defense.

The strength of the defense depends on the design of the circuit's materials and structure, as well as the puppeteer's chakra quality and the amount of chakra injected.

This is a puppet technique with both a high lower limit and a high upper limit of defensive power.

As for the Wind Swift Technique, it is divided into several stages.

The first stage, which is easy to master, is to output wind attribute chakra from the body's main chakra points, as Chiyo said, in order to speed up one's own movement speed. The overall difficulty is only slightly lower than some conventional B-rank ninjutsu.

The second stage requires mastering the nature transformation of wind attribute chakra and reaching a certain level of form transformation, turning the wind attribute chakra into a membrane covering the body surface.

Although the defensive power is not very strong, it can take the speed that has already been improved to another level.

This difficulty is already very high. After all, the nature transformation of chakra alone is already the difficulty of a Jonin level. Chiyo herself is at this stage.

As for further down, Chiyo only put forward a hypothesis, hoping that later generations could improve it.

That is, like the Raikage lineage in Cloud Village, to develop a complete Wind Release Chakra Mode.

Only to do this, the attainment of Wind Release must reach the peak level, and also require a physical body no less than that of the Raikage lineage.

Without an extremely strong physical body, the body would not be able to withstand the violent chakra when the Wind Release Chakra Mode is activated.