Traveling through Naruto with Heroes of Might and Magic

Chapter 139 Underground Gold Exchange

"Fire Release: Flame—Ah!!!"

Just as Ryuji finished forming the hand seals for his C-rank Fire Release: Flame Bullet, his four raised fingers were snapped off at the root by the Magic Arrow.

"Ninjutsu without hand seals!"

"Be careful!"

Long Yi's eyes narrowed, realizing that this time it was ultimately due to a lack of information and carelessness.

"Fire Release: Demon Lantern!"

Although he was a Jonin from a small ninja village, Ryuichi's hand seals were much faster than Ryuji's.

Countless will-o'-the-wisps emerged from all directions around his body, paused slightly, and then shot rapidly toward Qingwu.

However, what he saw before him quickly made Long's eyes widen in fury.

The young man waved his hand, and a silver figure, seemingly a psychic creature, spread its wings and slammed the large net, along with Long Si who was holding the rope, into the wall.

At the same time, the young man's fist slammed squarely into Ryuzo's broadsword.

clang!!

Long San's tiger's mouth split open, and his ninja sword flew out in a spinning motion. The young man's powerful fist continued to pound on Long San's face.

Blood splattered, and Long San collapsed limply.

"impossible!!"

Dragon instinctively gasped in surprise.

Although his brothers were only Chunin, they had worked together for a long time and had even fought against Jonin from major ninja villages.

But today... in a single encounter, all three of his brothers were instantly killed.

The "Fire Release: Demon Lantern" that he had placed so much hope in was easily blocked by two short figures who suddenly appeared in front of the young man, wielding warhammers.

With a flash of the magic [Protective Shield], the two dwarves and the silver pegasus were summoned back by Qingwu.

He didn't want to reveal too much this time.

As news of his great battle with the Four-Tails Jinchuriki, Roshi, spread, more and more people in the ninja world learned about him.

The combat method of summoning out troops and then immediately recalling them.

They are able to conceal their "true identity" as psychic beings as much as possible.

Most importantly, as long as he doesn't reveal the Wood Release: Root Entanglement, others won't know that he has a Wood Release bloodline limit, and thus won't associate him with the famous "Senju Seigo".

"Who...who are you?"

Long Yi has lost his will to fight.

He could take down three brothers in one round; even a Jonin couldn't do that.

Seeing the young man opposite him looking at him, Long Yi trembled, but did something that surprised Qing Wu.

"Thump!"

Long Yi knelt on the ground like a rogue, pulled a scroll from his pocket and held it high: "My lord, please spare my life."

Qingwu: "..."

He didn't know that the person who came was originally a Grass Ninja, otherwise he wouldn't have been surprised.

After all, the Grass Ninja are the most unscrupulous ninjas in the ninja world, that's a consensus!

"There is one million taels inside," Long Yi said, bowing his head. "Although it may only be enough for one night's entertainment for you, sir, it is all the assets of my brothers and me."

As he spoke, he pushed the scroll forward, "Sir, there's no benefit for you to kill me. Consider it payment for my life."

Long ago, Qingwu did consider looting the body after killing someone, but ninjas rarely carried large amounts of cash on their person.

They either deposited it in a bank, or, if possible, stored it on a sealed scroll.

If the original owner doesn't unlock the seal scroll, it requires specialized personnel to decipher it, which is not only time-consuming and laborious but also potentially inexpensive.

Qingwu chuckled as her gaze fell upon the raised sealing scroll. "So you're not middlemen, but here to bring me money?"

"Yes!" Long Yi said, "If you agree, sir, I will take out the money right away as payment for my life."

"Fine," Qingwu said casually, "Take it out."

"The master hasn't agreed yet..." Long Yi asked tentatively.

"I agreed, hurry up." Qingwu walked impatiently toward Long Yi, who was kneeling.

Long Yi hesitated for a moment, not daring to say anything more, and gritted his teeth to use his chakra to release the seal scroll.

Qingwu picked up the money box, opened it, and glanced at it casually. He said, "This isn't right. There's only 10 taels. That's far less than the 100 million taels you said you'd spend to buy my life."

Long Yi's face turned pale instantly.

Doesn't he know how much money is in there? It's obvious that the young man in front of him is dissatisfied.

"Instead of trying to win back the 'fat sheep' at the casino, you resort to such despicable acts. I wonder how many people have fallen victim to your evil deeds."

Hearing the young man's words, which sounded like a "sentence," Long Yi could no longer suppress his fear and instantly jumped onto the roof to escape.

However, a faint, yellowish-brown halo instantly enveloped him, causing Long Yi's steps to falter.

"I don't know who you are, but... you're unlucky to have messed with me."

This was the last sentence Long Yi heard in his life.

Qingwu pierced Long Yi's heart with a single [Magic Arrow].

"Tsk~!"

Crouching down, Qingwu carefully examined the fatal wound.

The LV4 basic air magic [Magic Arrow] is more powerful than the initial version, has a shorter casting animation, and travels faster.

But ultimately it is a single-target spell, and its role on the battlefield is not as significant as that of any type of unit.

This makes his offensive tactics seem inadequate.

【Ding! 】

[Battle Results: Experience +500, Natural Energy +50, Gold +50]

Qingwu glanced at the experience bar; it was still more than halfway to reach level 40.

"Hopefully, the next spell will be an area-of-effect attack!"

Thinking to himself, he was just about to turn and leave—

call out!

Two more figures blocked the way in the alley.

What day is it today that everyone is gathered here?

Qingwu raised an eyebrow and looked at the uninvited guest.

"Damn it, I'm late!"

"Who would have thought that these brothers weren't at their lodgings in the middle of the night, and someone beat them to it."

Hearing their conversation, Qingwu had a guess.

His eyes darted around, and he asked, "Did you also receive the bounties for these people from the gold exchange?"

Upon hearing this, the slightly overweight ninja opposite him replied in a frustrated but polite voice:

"That's right. These few rogue ninja from Kusagakure have a bounty of 850 million ryo on the black market, but they've been moving around to different places and are very slippery."

Another thin ninja wearing a Sand Village headband added:

"I tracked down these four brothers a couple of days ago, but I was worried I couldn't handle them on my own. Who knew that by the time I was calling for reinforcements, you had already killed them all by yourself."

That's right, the reason these two were so polite to Qingwu was because Qingwu alone wiped out the four Long brothers. If it were them... even if they joined forces, they wouldn't be confident of victory.

Qingwu's heart skipped a beat, but he pretended to be generous and said:

"So we're all 'bounty hunters' after all. In that case, everyone gets a share. I'm a bit of a germaphobe, I don't want to get myself stained with blood or anything like that."

"You help me collect the body, we'll go exchange it for money together, and then we'll split it among you... two million taels, how about that?"

The fat man and the thin man opposite them looked at each other, and then the fat man nodded hurriedly, "Okay, okay."

Is there such a good thing?

You can make a fortune without even having to fight.

Just by cleaning up the battlefield and then going to the gold exchange, everyone can get 100 million taels.