Chapter 150: "Body Flicker" Kyosuke
At this time, on the southwestern front, perhaps because of the impressive performance of their other "allies," the Sand ninja's offensive was growing stronger with each wave.
Although their previous defeat had meant that the Sand ninja no longer had an overwhelming advantage in terms of troops and supplies, they were still a cut above the Southwestern Army.
Despite this, the Southwestern Army was still firmly holding the Sand ninja at bay outside the border. The reason for this, besides the Konoha ninja's desperate fighting, was the outstanding performance of one person.
This person was Uchiha Kyosuke.
Black patterns suddenly covered Kyosuke's body. At the same time, his hands formed hand seals at a speed that was difficult for the naked eye to see.
Instantly, seven afterimage-like figures charged at the Sand ninja opposite them.
The lead Sand ninja, who was controlling a puppet, saw this scene and couldn't help but exclaim in shock, "Not good! It's 'Body Flicker Kyosuke'! Retreat!!!"
However, to escape from the current Kyosuke, their "turtle speed" was not enough.
In just a few short seconds, seven Sand ninja, with strength above the chunin level, had their throats slit by the Kusanagi sword. In the end, only the jounin-level puppet master was left, struggling for his life.
"Damn it! I'll fight you!" the puppet master roared. At the same time, he finally found an opportunity and, with a large-scale shuriken attack, directly covered Kyosuke's few clones.
Unfortunately, the shuriken passed through the clones one by one, without causing any damage.
The puppet master looked at the scene before him with a desperate expression and muttered to himself, "Is this the afterimage attack from the intelligence report?"
"Correct, but there's no prize," a voice filled with killing intent suddenly sounded behind him.
Then, the puppet master felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and then he left this world for good.
At this time, Kyosuke's figure slowly appeared from behind the puppet master. He gently swung the sharp sword in his hand to shake off the blood, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.
"Seven chunin and one jounin. In the past, that would have been at least 200 experience points. But now..." Kyosuke muttered to himself, then opened the system menu and checked.
In the experience points column, a glaring "0" was so刺眼 that it almost made him shed tears of grief.
The reason for this was simple. All he had to do was look a little higher.
Level: 60.
Combat Power Rating: Jounin.
After so long of accumulation, and after personally killing countless enemies, Kyosuke's experience points had finally accumulated.
For this, he had unhesitatingly raised his personal level directly to 60, which was also the minimum threshold for "elite jounin" strength.
But this did not mean that the current Kyosuke had the strength of an elite jounin.
The reason was the same as before, when Kyosuke's actual combat power had exceeded his level. At this time, neither his many active skills nor his equally important passive skills had reached the skill level corresponding to Level 60. This was what had led to his current actual combat power not quite matching his apparent strength.
However, since he had overcome the great difficulty of accumulating experience points, these things were not too big a problem for the current Kyosuke.
Although he might not be able to gain experience by killing lower-level enemies in the future, he still had the mission system. Although the efficiency couldn't be compared to the former, it was enough to upgrade his skill levels.
And today, Kyosuke's squad had been sent to carry out a mission called "Obstruct the Enemy." The experience gained was also related to their mission completion rate.
As an aside, ever since Kyosuke had shown strength far beyond his previous level, Orochimaru and the others, while surprised, had also given him the greatest degree of freedom to act.
However, Kyosuke, for his own ulterior motives, had directly refused this privilege, saying that he was still "young" and needed to fight under his teacher's command.
Seeing this, Orochimaru did not insist and directly assigned Kyosuke's squad to his own command, to be personally commanded by him, with no one else having the right to question it.
The advantage of this was that Kyosuke could often receive war missions from Orochimaru, who was the commander-in-chief, instead of just blindly killing enemies for no reason.
For example, today's mission was an order personally given by Orochimaru last night.
He needed Kyosuke to lead the way to stop the enemy's surprise attack on the camp and repel the attacking Pakura.
As for the title of "Body Flicker Kyosuke," it was because he had frequently used the Body Flicker Technique to kill enemies before, so some of the Sand ninja who had been killed and feared him had given him this nickname.
Of course, Kyosuke's now Level 6 "Shisui Style: Body Flicker Technique" was also worthy of this title.
The reason Kyosuke's "Body Flicker Technique" level had increased so quickly was because he had poured all the experience he had gained from completing the previous few missions into it.
Although he might not be able to crush a veteran elite jounin or a Kage-level powerhouse with his current speed, for the lower-level ninja of the Sand, the current Kyosuke was a god of slaughter.
This could be seen from the terrified cries of the puppet master before.
However, at this time, because of the increased difficulty of obtaining experience points, Kyosuke was not prepared to invest too much experience in it. A Level 6 Body Flicker Technique was enough for him.
The reason was simple. If it was a powerhouse that the current Kyosuke could not match, it would be useless to raise the Body Flicker Technique's level by another two levels. And it was even less necessary for those who were weaker than him. It didn't matter whether he upgraded it or not.
So, Kyosuke had now turned his attention to other abilities that urgently needed to be improved, such as his swordsmanship, which could greatly enhance his close-combat strength, or his chakra nature training, which could improve his ninjutsu ability, or even his genjutsu ability.
No matter which of the above skill levels were improved, he was confident that Kyosuke's strength could also take a big step forward. The day he truly stepped into the "elite jounin" level was definitely not far off.
Of course, during this time, Kyosuke's dungeon-sweeping actions had not stopped. But unfortunately, he had not obtained any powerful "items." It had only greatly enriched his ninjutsu library and pushed up the levels of some of his ninjutsu.
However, at his current strength level, the current ninjutsu levels were still a bit lacking. And because the development of his nature transformation was relatively low, the power of his ninjutsu was also a bit behind his pace.
Overall, besides his speed, Kyosuke's other abilities urgently needed to be strengthened. Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to change the course of the war with his own strength.
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