Chapter 103 - 103 (1/2)

The following day, Konoha and the Mist went to battle again. As before, Ryo went straight to fight the 3rd Mizukage.

Since Jirraya arrived with [Reverse Summoning]. Only Ryo and Shikaku knew about his presence.

Ryo ordered that the matter should not be exposed for the time being. After his battle with the 3rd Mizukage began, the plan was for Jiraya to kill the Mizukage's guard before joining Ryo to finish to the Mizukage himself.

The 3rd's usually had the 3rd's Anbu for opponent. Both were reliant on Ninjutsu, and close in level. None of them had ever got an edge of the other during the past 6 month.

The Aim of Ryo's plan was to finish a Quasi-Kage and Kage at one battle, so that the Mist take a severe hit when it comes to high-end combat power.

There were only three of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist left alive, with Jūzō Biwa's and Raiga Kurosuki's morals being shattered by the incident.

Ryo also speculated that they still had powerful Ninjas left in the village. it is impossible for a village such as the Hidden Mist to have Kage tier Ninja being the Mizukage. But since they have spent so much time fighting Ryo and his team without bringing in any reinforcements, there must be something wrong happening within their village.

Killing a Kage and a quasi kage should most probably push the Mist to retreat ending the warfare in the Wave Country. This should lead to him not having to worry about supporting his camp here when he goes to the Lightening Country.

Jiraya was a veteran Kage Tier Ninja. It wasn't much trouble for him to kill a Quasi Kage, so he put his attention on the Mizukage's guard at first.

Their Ninjutsu showdown didn't take too long before Jiraya found his opening to finish him, leaving spectacularly as usual.

On the other side, the battle between Ryo and the 3rd Mizukage was at its peak. Having fought each other many times before, the two knew very well each other's strength.

With the help of the electromagnetic field produced by his Denjiki Rasengan, Ryo practically killed his opponents potential to use Hydrification, thus limiting his power by around 30%.

But the 3rd Mizukage's power was so simple to be limited to Hydrification. Just like Mangetsu Hozuki, the 3rd was capable of wielding all 7 Legendary Swords, switching between those of the 4 swordsmen killed by Duy. That was the main reason why Ryo could not take him down for so long.

With the added power brought by their swords, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist could actually pose a threat to a Kage. The power of such swords in the hands of the Mizukage himself was immense.

He relied on the these knifes in battle. So even without his Hydrification techniques, he was still very powerful.

It was just that Ryo was getting slowly familiar with the four swords, and his consecutive battles against the 3rd Mizukage allowed him to acc_u_mulate a lot of combat experience.

Even without Jiraya's help, if Ryo keeps this progress he should probably be able to take the 3rd Mizukage down around within two months.

Ryo kept fighting his opponent, while keeping attention to the guard's Chakra. Once it faded, he used his Ice to limit the Mizukage's movement while once again condensing an Ice Bow.

Like before, Ryo pulled the bow's string, as crystal clear Ice Arrow appeared.

The 3rd Mizukage felt a huge threat from the little arrow, and quickly waved the sword he had in his hand to carve out path in the ice around him, in order to be able to escape.

But at the same time, Jiraya rushed in blocking his path, so the Mizukage could not escape in time.

Following the plan, Jiraya then directly hid into Mount Myoboku he saw Ryo's arrow coming. The arrow directly hit the Mizukage's shoulder.

It then blossomed, just like before, into an Ice Flower that grew bigger and bigger, engulfing the 3rd Mizukage in Ice.