[Key Target #1: Rending Earth Bear (Elite)
Danger Rating: A+
Attributes: Earth, Lightning
Registered Innate Skills: Rending Earth Claws, Earthquake, Lightning Steps, Earth Armor, Earth Spears, Earth Wall, Earth Bullets, Rising Ground, Divided Earth, Lightning Orbs, Quagmire, Lightning Shock.
Description: A dual attribute bear-type, elite-class chakra beast, whose strength far surpassed the common Rending Earth Bears. It's incredibly heavy, yet unbelievably fast. This chakra beast usually relies on its incredible physical defense and the fatal cleaving power of the Rending Earth Claw innate skills to overwhelm its opponents and tear them apart.
Be especially careful of its Rending Earth Claw, which is sharp enough to cleave through a thick block of reinforced steel like a hot knife cutting a block of butter. Never, under any circumstances, take a direct hit from this chakra beast when it uses the aforementioned innate skill.
It's a very clever chakra beast that knows how to use battle tactics to deal with difficult opponents. Its favorite tactic is using Quagmire to trap its enemies and then using Lightning Shock to zap them to unconsciousness before finally killing them one by one.]
[Key Target #2: Rending Earth Bear
Danger Rating: A
Attributes: Earth
Registered Innate Skills: Rending Earth Claw, Earthquake, Earth Armor, Earth Bullet, Earth Wall, Earth Spears, Earth-style Movement, Rising Ground, Divided Earth.
Description: An Earth-attribute bear-type chakra beast with tough defense, overwhelming offense, and tactical terrain-altering capabilities.
It's a heavy, yet nimble chakra beast that requires the ninjas to possess Ninjutsu with superior offense, armor-piercing capabilities, and above-average evasion skills. An average Elite Jonin will have a tough time defeating it in a short time.]
[Other Targets: Three B-rank, at least eleven C-rank, and over twenty D-rank Earth Rending Bears.
Please note that the number of C-rank and D-rank Rending Earth Bear is uncertain. Proceed with caution.]
Seimei and Reina read the intel on the chakra beasts carefully before lifting their heads to look at each other.
They blinked a few times before smiling.
Seimei said, "Well, this is easy."
Reina agreed, "Too easy."
Seimei rubbed his chin with the thumb and the index finger of his right hand. "But still, we must prepare for any unexpected situation. No matter how easy the mission seems, preparing to deal with the worst-case scenarios never hurts."
Reina rolled her eyes. "What can possibly go wrong here?"
Hearing this, Seimei grumbled inwardly, I always have this feeling that you are raising red flags on purpose. But I have no proof. Let's hope nothing goes wrong.
However, after a couple of seconds, Reina still agreed, "But you are indeed right. I will pack tons of explosives, weapons, and explosive tags just in case."
Seimei reminded, "Don't forget to wear inner armor. Plus, pack plenty of rations, military pills, and food, too. Don't mooch off my supplies every chance you get."
Reina nodded, "Right, right. But Seimei, you are too stingy. Don't think that I don't know about the splash you made during your last missions, especially during the Goblin hunting one."
Hearing this, Seimei could only smile wryly.
They closed the scroll and stored it carefully.
"Okay, let's go home and pack up everything we need. How about we meet at the North-West Exit in an hour?" Reina asked, tilting her small head at Seimei.
Seimei agreed. "Sounds good to me. See you soon."
"See you soon," Reina acknowledged.
With that, both of them activated the Body Flicker Technique and vanished from the spot.
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An Hour Later…
Seimei quickly traveled back to the North-West Exit of Konoha's border barrier, only to see Uchiha Reina already waiting for him.
She wore a navy-blue, high-collared, tight-fitting, sleeveless top and black, half-thigh-length shorts. Her elbows were covered in black ninja support bands, and her left wrist had a tight-fitting, elastic yet metallic wrist guard that was actually a storage seal tool.
She sported a pair of near-knee-length ninja shoes and a strap supporting a ninja pouch on his right thigh.
She tied her hair in a ponytail and rested her back against a tree. She crossed her arms against her chest, which was already developing well, despite her being only twelve.
She was tapping her toes against the ground with a repeated rhythm, seemingly waiting for something.
Seeing her there, Seimei wasted no time and directly used the Body Flicker Technique to appear before her.
"Have you been waiting for a long time?" asked Seimei.
Reina looked at him and walked toward him. "A little more than five minutes. You are slow, Seimei."
Are you suggesting that I, a user of the Flying Thunder God Technique—the only non-Otsutsuki, space-time teleportation-type combat technique in the Shinobi world—am slow?
Then I don't know who can be faster than me.
Seimei thought as he resisted the urge to roll his eyes.
There was no need to argue right now. If they started bickering, it wouldn't end anytime soon.
So, instead, he replied, "I was just packing necessary things." Seimei paused for a bit before continuing, "Okay, since we are already here, we should head out."
"Hmm? Should we wait for thirty more minutes? We have gathered here within an hour. What if the one who is supposed to note our performance and 'protect' us hasn't arrived yet? We should at least confirm that the instructor is present."
Reina raised her right eyebrow and asked.
Hearing her question, Seimei stayed silent for a moment. But upon a closer look, Reina could see his lips twitching slightly for a brief moment.
No, Reina. There is no need to wait for the instructor. The instructor is already here, hiding approximately 60 meters away, using some kind of camouflage technique. Not to mention, he is from the Aburame clan, whose ninjas are famous for their bugs and for their extremely low presence.
Seimei thought inwardly as his Tenseigan easily found the instructor hiding in plain sight.
He thought for a moment before shaking his head, "Sakamoto-sensei asked us to leave within two hours. It means we can leave at any moment. The supervising instructor is surely nearby, following us and watching our actions."
Reina nodded, "In that case, let's go then."
With that, Seimei and Reina showed their exit permit to the gatekeepers of the North-West Exit and quickly ran toward their target's location according to the map's content.
A few seconds after they had left, the Aburame clan ninja, who was also their supervising instructor, slipped out of the exit like a speeding shadow.
At that moment, a copy of another exit permit silently floated toward one of the gatekeeper ninjas, leaving him momentarily stunned.
When the gatekeeper ninja squinted his eyes, he could see many very small insects gathered at the edges of the paper, silently helping the exit permit slip float in front of his face.
Even before taking a good look at the exit permit's details, the gatekeeper ninja immediately understood that it must be from one of the Aburame clan ninjas, infamous all over Konoha for their notoriously low presence and strange Ninjutsu.
"Damn Aburame!"
The gatekeeper ninja cursed under his breath.
It had happened to him before. And it had happened to many Konoha gatekeepers countless times.
He had lost count of how many times those sunglass-wearing, silent, bug-bearing ninjas from the Aburame clan had silently slipped out of the exit without his notice.
The way the exit permit papers suddenly appeared beside him out of nowhere and floated eerily still gave him palpitations.
It seemed that those Aburame clan ninjas were bad news for his heart health.
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After four hours of constant travelling and traversing nearly 250 miles, Seimei and Reina decided to stop and rest under the shade of a large tree.
"At this rate, we should be able to locate the first traces of our targets in about thirty minutes or so," said Seimei as he looked at the map and opened the cap of his water bottle.
Reina nodded. "Let's rest for ten minutes and fill our stomachs with dry rations."
"Yeah, let's do that. We will be having a battle in an hour at most." Seimei responded as he closed the map and drank water from his bottle.
Meanwhile, ninety meters away from the current location of Seimei and Reina, the Aburame clan ninja also bit into his sandwich.
"Tasty! Nom, nom!"
He ate his sandwich and exclaimed in a voice so low that even people standing right next to him would have a hard time hearing and deciphering it.
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