Chapter 49: The Mizukage Eager to Perform a Merit

"It's obvious that if they just do something, our situation will be even worse, with even more severe losses and even the risk of our entire team being wiped out. So why did they let us go?"

Along the way, the Mist Ninja Captain was thinking about this question. He couldn't understand why the Heavenly Ninjas would let go of the enemies who entered their territory for no reason.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Mist Ninjas were going there to find out detailed information about the Hidden Sky Village.

"Are they really stupid? Or..."

The captain's eyes flashed:

“Or maybe they are afraid of our Kirigakure’s strength, so they don’t dare to offend us too much, but they can’t pretend to be weak and ignore our entry into the Tea Kingdom.

That’s right, these damned ninjas must be thinking so!”

He smashed his right fist into the palm of his left hand and stood up in an instant:

"Everyone, let's go back to the village and wake up those who are asleep."

They obviously didn't get enough rest. Although the Mist Ninjas were very unhappy, they still stood up and pulled their companions up as well. These tired Mist Ninjas slowly walked towards the direction of the Hidden Mist Village.

. . . . . .

"Alright, these detonating tags should be able to catch the Mist Ninjas off guard."

Lu Lin pointed to the several large boxes at his feet and said slowly:

"Those who are good at shadow clones are out in the ranks."

The ninjas in front of him looked at each other.

"There's none?"

Lu Lin frowned:

"I feel like I'm using my shadow clone well. Step out. I'll confirm it myself."

At this time, several ninjas walked out of the team, including Mingyan and Mizukawa who had just arrived.

"very good."

Nodding with satisfaction, Lu Lin dismissed the others and led the ninjas out of the line towards the coast.

"In order to reduce the impact and damage of the detonating talisman on us during the battle, I decided to use the shadow clone to detonate the detonating talisman. In this way, even if the clone dies, it will not cause much harm to us."

As he spoke, Lu Lin formed seals with his hands, and "whoosh", two people who looked exactly like him appeared beside him.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Lin sent his two clones out to teach his subordinates.

And he himself began to rest.

. . . . . .

Kirigakure Village.

In the Mizukage's office, the captain of the Mist Ninja who invaded the Tea Kingdom was looking at his own Kage in awe.

The person sitting on the chair is the Third Hokage of the Hidden Mist Village, about whom there is no information at all in the original work.

He was flipping through a document about Tianyin Village in the Land of Tea.

After listening to his subordinates' report, the man put down the information in his hand and slowly raised his head:

"Is that so? So you think that the Tianyin Village is just bragging and that their strength is not that strong?"

"That's right, Sandaime-sama."

The captain nodded and said respectfully:

"If they are really strong, how could they let us go?"

The Third Mizukage's eyes flashed, and he waved his hand to let the captain go down for the time being.

Soon, he was the only one left in the office. He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

The Third Mizukage was originally the bodyguard of the First Mizukage. The reason why he was able to take the position of Mizukage after the Second Mizukage was simply because he was senior enough.

However, since the death of some of the old people who supported him, the people below have gradually become dissatisfied with his rule, especially those blood-inherited families.

As we all know, the number of bloodline families in the Hidden Mist Village is comparable to that of Konoha.

Moreover, there is a family in their village that is even more paranoid and warlike than the Uchiha clan, and that is the Kaguya clan.

Their corpse bone bloodline provides them with powerful close combat capabilities, and even in the entire ninja world, they are considered one of the few bloodline limit families.

But the Hyuga clan are generally very warlike and their brains are not very smart.

In the Hidden Mist Village, those who were dissatisfied with the Third Mizukage were a large number of bloodline limit families, led by Kaguya and the Hozuki clan.

The Third Mizukage was not strong enough, had no tailed beast by his side, and did not have enough merit, so he was very anxious to do something to consolidate his position in the village.

The Sandaime's mind had been replaying the captain's words. If what he said was true, then as long as he could lead his men to capture the Hidden Sky Village in one fell swoop and establish a Hidden Mist Village outpost there...

He will have enough credit and can also demonstrate his powerful strength to completely destroy some bad remarks in the village!

The Third Mizukage suddenly stood up from his chair, his eyes revealing strong ambition. He slowly walked to the window, looking at the huge Mist Village below, with his hands open in an embrace:

"Soon, I will make the entire Kirigakure Village fall under my rule, real rule!"

. . . . . .

A few days later, Lu Lin was enjoying his lunch in a makeshift room.

"Master Dai-ichime, will the Mist Ninja be afraid and not dare to come?"

Mizukawa has been going to the coast whenever he has time these days, and even drove a small boat into the sea several times, just to see if the Mist Ninja troops have arrived.

But to his regret, there was no shadow on the sea except for the birds hunting and the fish jumping out of the water from time to time.

"Don't worry, Mizukawa."

Lu Lin slowly picked up a piece of fish and put it into his mouth. You can't tell, this freshly caught fish tastes so fresh. He chewed it twice and swallowed it. Then he looked at Shuichuan:

"You should change your temper. Besides, even if the Hidden Mist Village really doesn't send anyone, isn't that a good thing for us? War kills people."

He temporarily withdrew a part of the Tennin. After all, there was more than one place in the Tea Kingdom that could enter the country.

Those ninjas are still needed to guard the border area with the Land of Fire.

Moreover, his previous caravan bait plan has not stopped yet. Hatake Sakumo has already set off with the caravan and is estimated to have entered the heart of the Fire Country.

He dispersed all his combat forces at once. Although it was not very rigorous, these people were enough.

Lu Lin slowly walked out of the hut and looked at the people who were eating lunch. This was not a must-pass route for them, and there were people specially monitoring the sea, so Lu Lin and his friends had lunch instead of those cold and tasteless ration pills.

Just as Lu Lin was sitting on the ground and chatting with his men, a black shadow suddenly shot out from the bushes beside them. It turned out to be the ninja that Lu Lin sent to monitor the coast.

"Sir, a suspicious ship has been spotted at sea."