In the blink of an eye, a week had passed.
After two days of peaceful training, Seii's brief rest ca to an end. He resud leading his team to carry out missions.
However, due to the impact of the previous battle, the Yujing Port area remained sowhat calm.
As a result, Seii's assignnts weren't overly burdenso, leaving him enough ti each day to continue his training.
But such days did not last long.
A week was enough ti for ninjas with minor injuries to recover their mobility.
Thus, both the Konoha and Kirigakure forces beca active once again.
On the battlefield outside Yujing Port, small skirmishes between patrol teams resud.
And this was only the beginning.
It was foreseeable that it wouldn't take long for a decisive battle to erupt as both sides finalized their preparations.
That mont would determine the ultimate victor.
Even the sporadic skirmishes, however, affected Seii's training.
Frequent missions drastically cut into his daily training ti.
Fortunately, Seii could compensate by extracting chakra during these small battles and using nurous Shadow Clones to make up for lost ti.
The only cost was the imnse ntal strain he endured daily.
Were it not for the advanced evolution of his Mangekyō Sharingan and his strong spiritual energy, he wouldn't have been able to bear such pressure. Anyone else following the sa routine might have collapsed from sheer exhaustion.
While Seii was lost in thought, soone at the front of the team suddenly halted.
Noticing this, Seii quickly snapped out of his reverie. His blood-red Sharingan scanned the surroundings ticulously, seeking any anomalies.
At the sa ti, he perked up his ears, carefully listening to the sounds in the forest.
Soon, faint explosions reached his ears. The source seed to be in the direction of his right front.
Seii tilted his head slightly to look in that direction.
Just then, a Chūnin who had initially stopped ca forward to report.
"Captain, about 500 ters to the right, so of our comrades are engaged in battle with Kirigakure ninjas."
Hearing this, Seii glanced at the speaker, his gaze briefly brushing past the Hyūga's white eyes. His tone was calm as he asked, "How many?"
The Hyūga Chūnin, accustod to Seii's succinct manner, answered directly without any superfluous words. "On our side, there are two teams. One has already suffered one casualty and one seriously injured mber. Six remain combat-capable. As for the enemy…"
He paused, concentrating again and scanning the battlefield.
A few seconds later, he continued, "The enemy consists of four squads—sixteen in total, all uninjured. Two additional squads are approaching the battlefield and are about 300 ters away."
"Three hundred ters… a total of six squads."
Seii muttered to himself, casting a glance at the four squads—sixteen n—under his command. He then asked, "What's the enemy's strength?"
If the Kirigakure ninjas weren't too formidable, he could still launch an offensive, even with fewer numbers.
In response, the Hyūga Chūnin focused intently on the battlefield again.
This ti, it took him a bit longer—about ten seconds—before he reported, "Judging by chakra levels, the Kirigakure squads in combat include three standard Chūnin squads and one elite Chūnin squad. The two approaching squads are standard Jōnin squads led by two Jōnin."
A standard Chūnin squad typically comprises one Chūnin captain and three Genin.
An elite Chūnin squad consists entirely of Chūnin, including the captain.
Similarly, a standard Jōnin squad mirrors the structure of a standard Chūnin squad but with a Jōnin or Special Jōnin as captain and Chūnin as the team mbers.
In other words, the Kirigakure forces included two Jōnin or Special Jōnin, thirteen Chūnin, and nine Genin.
Judging by their composition and sequence of appearance, it seed that the three standard Chūnin squads had first encountered Konoha's two squads, initiating the fight.
Subsequently, the elite Chūnin squad arrived for reinforcent.
Finally, the two Jōnin squads served as backup.
This reflected the current state of the battlefield.
With the decisive battle looming, neither Konoha nor Kirigakure could afford to show any weakness.
As a result, whenever a skirmish broke out, regardless of the enemy's strength, reinforcents were sent imdiately. At a minimum, one Jōnin squad would rush to the scene.
The Jōnin squads served as the final guarantee while also aiming to end the battle swiftly.
After all, both sides could request reinforcents, and no one knew when the opposing Jōnin squad might arrive.
Thus, even these prelude skirmishes were incredibly intense.
With Jōnin potentially joining the fray at any mont, the battlefield's intensity could never remain low.
"Captain?"
A voice pulled Seii back to reality from his wandering thoughts.
"Hmm?"
Seii regained his focus.
The Hyūga Chūnin in front of him asked urgently, "Should we head over imdiately?"
After a brief mont of consideration, Seii nodded. "Lead the way. Squad One and Squad Two, follow
to intercept the two Jōnin squads."
"Yes, Captain!"
The eight ninjas from Squads One and Two responded promptly without hesitation.
Satisfied, Seii nodded before turning to the remaining two squads. "You've heard what Callia just said?"
"Yes!" The ninjas from Squads Three and Four quickly nodded.
"Good." Seii continued, "Now, head directly to the battlefield ahead. Use your fastest speed to reinforce our comrades."
Before they could reply, he added, "Rember, you don't need to kill the Kirigakure ninjas. Just hold out until I return."
Though Seii's tone was calm, it carried an air of absolute confidence, as if the two approaching Kirigakure Jōnin posed no threat to him.
His remark about "waiting for his return" made his aning clear.
Surprisingly, none of the Konoha ninjas found his seemingly arrogant words unusual.
They had seen Seii's strength during recent missions.
Two Kirigakure Jōnin? Even if two more joined them, they were confident Seii would return unscathed.
After all, such feats had already happened before.
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