The next afternoon ca in the blink of an eye.
Inside the room.
Seii opened his mouth wide, letting out a long yawn.
At this mont, his eyes were half-closed, and his face was full of exhaustion, as if he would fall asleep the next second—clearly, he was extrely tired.
In fact, that was indeed the case.
For the past ten hours or so, aside from going out for als, he spent all his ti training. This not only drained a lot of his chakra but was also a huge strain on his spirit.
This was why he was so fatigued.
With a thought, Seii raised his hand and dispelled the Shadow Clone Technique.
The next mont, three waves of chakra, carrying three sets of mories, rushed into his mind, giving him a brief burst of energy.
But this only treated the symptoms, not the root cause.
Once Seii processed those mories, he felt even more tired.
He looked out the window.
The sun was already starting to set.
Seeing that it would be dark in a few hours and knowing that he had a mission tonight, Seii decided to stop training.
He stood up, walked to the bed, and, the mont he relaxed, collapsed onto it, falling asleep almost instantly.
…
Ti passed, minute by minute.
Soon, night had fallen.
Suddenly, Seii opened his eyes.
A mont later, there was a knock at the door: "Knock, knock, knock."
Seii extended his senses and instantly detected a person outside. Based on the chakra signature, he recognized the visitor as a Chunin ssenger from the Jonin commander.
After confirming this, he relaxed a bit, straightened his appearance, and then opened the door.
Looking at the visitor, Seii asked directly, "What's the matter?"
Hearing this, the Konoha Chunin outside handed over a mission scroll and said, "Jonin Seii, Captain Nobuhisa sent
to inform you of a change in tonight's mission."
Seii took the mission scroll calmly, opened it, and said slowly, "Go on."
Seeing Seii's composure, Ichiro Nakagawa admired him silently.
Without further thought, he quickly relayed everything Nobuhisa Sano had instructed.
"The village has just received information that a batch of reinforcents from Kirigakure may arrive tonight. The captain wants you to verify the authenticity of this intel. If true, you need to assess their strength and numbers."
"Additionally..."
He added, "The enemy's marching routes are on the scroll."
After hearing this, Seii remained silent for a while, carefully reading the scroll's contents.
It was roughly the sa as what Nakagawa had said.
Indeed, it seed that a batch of Kirigakure shinobi would be coming from the forward base tonight, but the exact number was unknown to the village.
So, they needed him to use his flying ability to scout.
As for the routes, there were three listed on the scroll.
It was clear that the spies Konoha had planted weren't in high-ranking positions, as the information obtained was quite vague.
Out of these three routes, only one was likely genuine.
And these routes were far apart from each other, which ant only a shinobi with flying abilities, like him, could scout them all in a short amount of ti.
For others, aside from trying to spread themselves thin, there wouldn't be many good options.
Moreover, compared to others, he had an additional advantage: even if discovered, it wouldn't be a big deal.
Because he could just fly away, without much concern for his safety.
As for crossbows...
Indeed, last night, Kirigakure's deploynt in Fish Town caught him off guard.
However, it shouldn't be forgotten that to reach here from the forward base, they could only take the sea route.
In other words, they had to travel by boat.
Under these circumstances, even if they carried crossbows, they wouldn't be able to use them effectively.
So Seii had no worries about his safety.
Various thoughts flashed through his mind.
Seii put away the scroll and said to Nakagawa Ichiro, "Alright, I understand the mission. You can go back and report."
"Yes, Jonin Seii!"
With that, Nakagawa Ichiro responded and turned to leave.
After watching him leave, Seii went back inside.
He first washed up to clear his head, then ate sothing to fill his stomach, and finally set out.
…
An hour later.
On a sea route from Fish Town to the Land of Waves.
Seii circled high in the sky, with his Sharingan activated, carefully observing the sea surface below in the bright moonlight.
However, even after spending nearly half an hour combing through an area of several kiloters, he found no trace of Kirigakure shinobi.
"Looks like this route is false."
Seii murmured and was about to leave, but then, as if sothing ca to his mind, he suddenly stopped and descended to the sea surface.
The next mont, the chakra wings behind him disappeared as he deactivated the Wind Release: Wind Wings.
Imdiately after, he raised his hands and ford the cross-shaped "Ne" hand seal, casting the Shadow Clone Technique.
*Poof*—
Amid a puff of chakra smoke, a shadow clone appeared.
Seii nodded at it, and both simultaneously ford hand seals.
The next mont, chakra wings grew out from both their backs, using the ninjutsu—Wind Release: Wind Wings!
*Whoosh*—
With two successive sounds of breaking through the air, they flew up again, with the shadow clone staying behind to continue patrolling this route for any Kirigakure reinforcents.
As for Seii himself, he proceeded to the next route.
Indeed, Seii did all this just to leave a shadow clone here for surveillance.
And the reason he had to descend to cast the technique again was because he hadn't fully mastered Wind Release: Wind Wings yet.
Although after last night's prolonged flight, its level was approaching Lv4, he still couldn't summon a shadow clone with chakra wings.
Thus, he had no choice but to land on the sea surface temporarily.
No doubt, this was quite cumberso.
However, after raising Wind Release: Wind Wings by another one or two levels, reaching Lv4 or Lv5, he probably wouldn't have to go through such trouble anymore.
With these thoughts in mind, Seii flapped his wings and flew off into the distance.
…
Half an hour later.
Seii completed a rough search of the second route but found nothing.
This ti, he didn't linger. He quickly did the sa, leaving a shadow clone for surveillance and moved on to the third route.
On the third route, he still found nothing.
However, Seii wasn't anxious.
Now that all three routes were under his watch, all he had to do was wait patiently.
With so ti on his hands now, he could spend it studying the Mind Synchronization Technique, which was close to being perfected.
If successful, communication between him and his two shadow clones would beco much easier.
With this in mind, Seii began recalling the relevant mories.
Monts later, he continued progressing along the path previously forged by his shadow clones.
(End of Chapter)
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