dmims Chapter 57 Patrol Team
Chapter 57 Patrol Team
"Ahem!" After coughing, the Chunin of the Ayuna clan gave an order to the Hyuga Kanan squad.
"You should now know the patrol area. The second team will take over from you in eight hours. Once you find intelligence, send out a signal flare and then retreat. Now, set off."
Hyuga Kanan and his three companions nodded without hesitation and quickly moved to their assigned patrol areas. Since each person's assigned area wasn't large, they could monitor their own area quickly with a little time.
Joining the patrol team to conduct long-term monitoring and inspection of a front-line area is considered a long-term B-level mission.
The battle line between Konoha and Kirigakure stretched for tens of kilometers, and this line was divided into 28 zones, each requiring personnel to patrol and monitor.
The mission area for Hyuga Kanan's team is Area 13, which covers an area of approximately 10 square kilometers.
Fortunately, ninjas have very strong physical abilities and are fast, so even genin can quickly patrol and monitor along the patrol routes.
There were more than 50 patrol teams like Hyuga Kanan's this time, with more than 200 ninjas.
Patrol teams were deployed around the main camp, focusing on the front lines and rear supply routes of the Mist Ninja battlefield. Hyuga Kanan was assigned to the area along the Mist Ninja front.
Hyuga Kanan's team quickly arrived at the designated location, and then dispersed to move along their own routes, constantly patrolling the surrounding area.
According to the patrol captain's previous explanation, Konoha and Kirigakure have been locked in a stalemate during this period, with Konoha adopting a defensive posture and Kirigakure launching large-scale attacks and infiltration operations.
The numerous Mist Ninja squads launched attacks from various directions, keeping the Konoha frontline forces constantly on the move. Their patrol teams were exhausted, firing more signal flares than kunai, but they weren't the most tired group.
The most exhausted group was the mobile force directly under the command post. They had no time to rest at all, providing support everywhere. After swiftly eliminating the Mist Ninja squads, they would quickly leave to support other places.
Their patrol units were only responsible for patrolling the mission area, issuing warnings when they spotted the enemy, and then withdrawing to leave the mobile units to deal with them. Even they were exhausted, so you can imagine what the situation was like for the mobile units.
The patrol captain repeatedly warned the new recruits not to engage the enemy directly upon sighting them, but to fire a signal flare and retreat immediately. He explained that if they acted on their own initiative and engaged the enemy without warning, they would be in serious trouble if killed.
Not only would it delay the command post's intelligence reception, but it would also create loopholes in the defense line, giving the enemy the opportunity to advance unimpeded.
Therefore, patrol teams are not places to show off your strength. The correct choice for patrol teams is to immediately warn the enemy upon discovery, fire a signal flare, and then immediately retreat.
Therefore, the former patrol captain kept warning the newly arrived ninjas, including Hyuga Kanan.
This is a very good mission for Hyuga Kanan. He doesn't have to waste time fighting the Mist Ninja, and he has plenty of time to train. It's a perfect mission for someone like Hyuga Kanan.
But for other ninja members, this kind of mission is quite mechanical and tedious. They can't participate in battles, and the mission of constantly patrolling and monitoring around every day without being able to improve their strength is simply torture.
After arriving at his patrol post, Hyuga Kanan found a secluded spot to lie in wait and began to train. Every 10 minutes, he would sense his surroundings and resume training once he was sure there was nothing amiss.
And so, a full month passed.
The Mist Ninja ceased all operations after Hyuga Kanan's team arrived, seemingly ceasing all combat activities and remaining silent once they detected the arrival of Konoha reinforcements.
Konoha is still locked in a standoff with Iwagakure in the Land of Rain, with violent clashes erupting between the two sides from time to time. This leaves Konoha without enough reinforcements to launch a direct counterattack against Kirigakure and drive them into the sea.
So it seemed like both sides had pressed the stop button, and neither took any action. This allowed Hyuga Kanan to have a very comfortable month, with no combat missions and spending most of her time training in the patrol unit.
Hyuga Kanan, who is now over 11 years old, is getting closer and closer to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.
As time went by and with Hyuga Kanan's relentless daily training, his strength far surpassed that of an ordinary Jonin, making him comparable to an elite Jonin.
Furthermore, once one reaches the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, their strength will be able to completely suppress elite Jonin. However, the progress of spiritual power is very slow, requiring a significant amount of time to gradually improve through visualization techniques.
Although the power of divine sense increases slowly, its effect is extremely powerful, capable of directly annihilating the soul consciousness of a weak-willed genin. If it were to increase further, it could threaten the souls of chunin-level individuals, but only those with very strong consciousness and soul.
However, this greatly increased Hyuga Kanan's strength, and allowed her to probe at least a range of 50 kilometers, though that would consume a great deal of divine sense.
Hyuga Kanan's current overall strength is enough to hold his own against elite Jonin, but there is still a significant gap in combat experience, since cultivation is not a system known for combat.
Aside from nearing the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, Hyuga Kanan needs to start looking for a place to break through to the Innate Realm. Breaking through to the Innate Realm is a massive undertaking, capable of attracting a surge of natural energy and causing changes in the heavens and earth. Anyone with sufficient strength or a powerful soul can easily detect the breakthrough if they are close enough.
Fortunately, the world's will is not too resistant to Hyuga Kanan's breakthrough, otherwise it would have triggered a tribulation of lightning from the world's will to prevent humanity from breaking through the limits of human lifespan.
Hyuga Kanan's immediate goal is to successfully reach the Qi Refining Perfection realm, finish this mission as soon as possible, and find a secluded place to prepare for breaking through to the Innate realm.
While this mission wasn't something Hyuga Kanan could simply end at will, he would find a chance to leave the battlefield, even if it meant becoming a rogue ninja. Once he broke through to the Innate Realm, his strength would make him completely indifferent to the petty troubles of being hunted down by ordinary ninjas.
It was truly thanks to the World Will's leniency towards Hyuga Kanan. Otherwise, the tribulation lightning during his breakthrough would have attracted countless eyes, and he probably wouldn't have been able to hide it so well. Especially with the Sage of Six Paths watching the entire ninja world, without the World Will's protection, Hyuga Kanan would have been directly exposed to everyone.
Hyuga Kanan looked up at the sky, as if she could see through the blue sky and see the will of the world silently watching her, waiting for her to grow.
Until a voice interrupted Hyuga Kanan's reverie.
"Hyuga Kanan, our patrol time is over! Time to head to the rendezvous point for the shift change."
That voice, with its childlike tone, undoubtedly belongs to Kurama Hotaru, that somewhat frail girl. She's one of the members of this patrol team, a member of the Kurama clan—a girl from a family with a long tradition of illusion magic.
After spending some time together in the same squad, the group gradually became familiar with each other. However, Hyuga Kanan found it difficult to connect with them, mostly training alone, and this girl was always the one to take over his shift. The other two thought Hyuga Kanan was too aloof and didn't want to interact with him much, so this girl took the initiative to patrol with Hyuga Kanan.
Normally, she would simply find a secluded spot and lie in wait, then begin her silent training. Kurama Hotaru, on the other hand, would diligently patrol her assigned area, and when it was time, she would proactively remind Hyuga Kanan of the patrol shift change.
"Okay, I understand." Hinata Kanan glanced at the sweat-covered face opposite her, then got up without saying anything more, preparing to join her teammates for the shift handover.
Hyuga Kanan had already told Kurama Hotaru that her Byakugan had a wide range of vision, and that she would open it every 10 minutes to observe the surrounding area, so Kurama Hotaru didn't need to patrol it herself.
But Kurama always nodded in agreement, and when it was their turn to patrol, he would obediently go about his patrol.
After that, Hyuga Kanan said no more. Everyone has the right to make their own decisions. Her decision to go on patrol was her own.
As long as it doesn't interfere with his training, Hyuga Kanan won't interfere with the other person's actions. He had only told the other person what he could do; whether the other person listened or agreed was their prerogative.
Kurama Hotaru silently followed behind Hyuga Kanan. In fact, Kurama Hotaru was also very curious about Hyuga Kanan.
During this month, Hyuga Kanan rarely interacted with the others, spending most of her time training. Everyone else found the patrol missions incredibly boring, but Hyuga Kanan showed no signs of boredom. After Kurama Hotaru secretly observed her, she discovered that Hyuga Kanan genuinely enjoyed these missions, setting her apart from the others.
Moreover, he cultivates very diligently, without wasting a single moment. As long as there is nothing else to do, he can cultivate silently all day without feeling bored.
In Kurama Hotaru's eyes, Hyuga Kanan was a complete outsider, an excellent ninja living entirely in his own world. It seemed that nothing could attract his attention except for training. Even when he overheard other teams talking about him behind his back, calling him a freak, he didn't care at all and had no intention of arguing with them.
As Kurama Ying watched Hyuga Kanan's retreating figure, she kept recalling the time she had spent with him and realized that he was someone from a completely different dimension than the rest of Konoha Village or the entire ninja world.