Jiraiya casts the Summoning spell, summoning a yellow-brown toad.
The yellowish-brown toad is only the size of a palm.
"Take me closer to the city."
Jiraiya whispered to the tawny toad.
The brown toad nodded, released a stream of Chakra, enveloped Jiraiya, and then pulled Jiraiya into his body.
When Jiraiya entered the toad's body, he felt that he was in an extremely silent and dark space, but he could still sense everything outside very clearly.
This toad is called Toad Sky. Like the Gourd Toad, it has another space in its abdomen. However, the space in Toad Sky's abdomen is not solid. It cannot be used to seal things or attack.
But the space in his abdomen is very effective in blocking the breath.
In the original work, Jiraiya relied on this ninjutsu to successfully sneak into the Rain Shinobi Village.
After Jiraiya hid in Gamaku's belly, Gamaku took Jiraiya towards the Iron Mine City.
The size of the toad is not very big, and the Rain Country is rainy and watery, so there are many toads, so one toad will not attract the attention of the Rain Country ninjas.
As they got closer and closer to Iron Mine City, Jiraiya knew that taking down Iron Mine City would not be an easy task.
The entire Iron Mine City is made of pitch-black ore. The city walls are almost six meters high. Many runes are carved on the walls, connected into a formation.
These formations can weaken the attacks of various ninjutsu.
Some important buildings in Konoha are also engraved with these formations to enhance the defensive capabilities of the buildings.
However, this kind of formation can only be drawn by Grandmaster ninjas who are proficient in various sealing techniques. Other ninjas are not capable of drawing it.
Almost every wall of Iron Mine City is engraved with formations, from this we can see how much importance the Rain Country attaches to Iron Mine City.
Moreover, on the walls of the Iron Mine City, there are many mechanical ninja tools that look like cannons.
Although the technology in the Hokage world is not well developed, some large-scale equipment for siege and defense can still be manufactured.
All of these devices are powered by Chakra, and the power they can unleash varies.
In the original work, the Land of Lightning has a very powerful Chakra cannon that is powerful enough to pierce the moon, and the Land of Snow has developed things like Chakra armor that can enhance the strength of ninjas.
These Chakra cannons that look similar in appearance and are placed in the Iron Mine City naturally cannot have the power of the Chakra cannon in the Land of Lightning.
If it had a very strong power, Konoha's stronghold would have been destroyed by a single shot.
Among all the major ninja villages, the one that is best at making various machines is the Land of Wind, because their Grandmaster puppetry and research on various machines far surpasses other ninja countries.
Konoha also has some large mechanical blades, but not in large numbers.
Because this kind of mechanical ninja tool can only be used when defending and attacking a city. It is not useful at all in small wars.
Because the large mechanical blades have very poor maneuverability and the ninjas are very fast, they are simply unable to aim and deliver accurate strikes.
After all, the technology in the Hokage world is still very backward, and it is impossible to conduct tracking and attack.
These large mechanical ninja tools are only effective when attacking immobile targets.
Konoha is the most powerful of the five ninja nations, which leads to the ninjas being somewhat conceited and believing that no ninja force can reach the Land of Fire's homeland.
Therefore, they are not interested in the research of such large machinery.
Some small ninja countries, due to the small number and strength of ninjas, will think of other ways to enhance their own strength.
To develop some large machinery.
The most famous one is the Snow Country, a remote and tiny country with a very limited number of ninjas. However, their country's heavy industry is extremely developed and has produced many equipment that can enhance the strength of ninjas.
"Captain, we have already leveled the surrounding hills and forests. If there are ninjas approaching, we can easily see them. I think our patrol is almost unnecessary."
"What a fool! Our enemies now are the Kingdom of Wind, the Kingdom of Earth, and the Kingdom of Fire. They are all extremely powerful and have mastered many powerful secret techniques. We must be careful and never let them get close to the Iron Mine City."
Iron Ore City is extremely important to our Rain Country.
Once it is lost, our Rain Country's outer defense line will collapse completely, and the enemy will be able to directly penetrate into the heart of our Rain Country.
Therefore, patrols are necessary to prevent enemy ninjas from quietly approaching Iron Ore City. "
"Captain, I understand."
A patrol team passed by Toadkong.
They did not find anything unusual about Toad Kong, because Toad Kong looked exactly like an ordinary toad.
Gama Sora successfully brought Jiraiya closer to the Iron Mine City.
They encountered patrols from the Rain Country three times in total, but without exception, no ninja paid any attention to a tiny toad.
"It seems that it is impossible to sneak into the Iron Ore City to gather intelligence."
Looking at the high city walls, Jiraiya gave up the idea of entering the Iron Ore City. Although Toad Sora could take him to the top of the city wall, it would be too conspicuous. It is impossible for an ordinary toad to jump so high.
At that time, they will definitely be fired upon by the ninjas on the city wall.
Jiraiya would certainly not do such a stupid thing.
Jiraiya used his Eye of Insight to the fullest extent possible and observed the situation inside the Iron Ore City through the city wall.
Although the Iron Mine City is engraved with many formations, the Eye of Insight can still see through them.
In Gama Sora's abdomen, all kinds of probing ninjutsu and illusions can still be used, but offensive ninjutsu can no longer be used.
After using the Eye of Insight to see through the walls of the Iron Ore Castle, Jiraiya discovered that there were nearly 800 ninjas stationed inside the Iron Ore Castle, not counting the Jōnin.
The information was much different from the search of the Konoha base.
Jiraiya also discovered that there was a building in the Iron Mine City that was decorated with a large number of barriers. Even the Eye of Insight could not see through all of them.
The building was guarded by Elite Chunin, and ordinary Chūnin could not get close to it.
Moreover, Jiraiya only saw three Jōnin in the city. There is no doubt that the remaining Jōnin and Elite Jōnin mentioned in the intelligence must all be in that building.
Jiraiya is unsure whether there are other Jōnin and Elite Jōnin in that building.
But that building is definitely hiding something, otherwise the ninjas from the Rain Country would not have set up so many barriers.
And something hidden must be of great importance.
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