The One
The sounds of explosions and along with them cries of the victims continued to echo throughout the battlefield for 10 minutes until stopping completely.
The formation of the shinobis from Konoha were in a complete disarray. Out of everyone present, only the Jonins and 2 Chunins and a genin had survived. This short battle had drained their chakra and had reduced their numbers by half.
The surviving ones weren't doing good either, with minor injuries and fatigue settling in their bodies.
Whereas in the centre of the battlefield, the shinobis of Iwagakur, the instigators of this assault stood. With 4 people on each corner forming a huge rectangle, and the rest 8 just standing leisurely as if they came for a walk in a park.
A purple barrier with a slight shade of dark blue surrounded them.
After waiting for the dust to completely settle down, and looking at the devastated land before him, he smirked and said
"Open the barrier. It's time for a head to head confrontation. Those pathetic bastards fell right into our trap and suffered a lot of casualties, fighting them now would be eas--"
Before the leader of the group even finished speaking, a bright white light struck the barrier. It was so fast that not even the leader could react. Everyone present in the barrier, instinctively stepped back.
The white light wasn't only fast but the force it carried with it was also very powerful. Powerful enough that the barrier started to show cracks after only been attacked once.
A second passed and the force of the light got even more powerful. On seeing this, the leader immediately reversed his order and asked the 4 ninjas to enforce the barrier even more.
After 5 more seconds, a huge explosion took place which completely repelled the light as well as shattered the barrier to smithereens.
The ninjas inside the barrier, were completely unharmed physically. Since the barrier absorbed the impact caused by it, and broke. Well everyone, except the 4 who maintained the barrier, they were bleeding out of their eyes and nose because of over using their chakra. Currently their chakra were dangerously low.
On the other hand, the white light was completely repelled to 180 degree and sent back a few meters., digging up a shallow trench along it's way and then finally stopping.
'Su-uch powerful ninjutsu' Thought the leader of the group admiring and at the same time dreading the firepower of this jutsu. Unknown to him that this wasn't any ninjutsu but a person
'On top of the firepower, this was a lightning style ninjutsu. There are not many Lightning style users in Konoha who are this skilled...Then is it an attack from Kumo? How did they know about are presence here? Even Konoha came to know about it because we purposefully leaked this news to them so that they will send an elite team that we could neutralise...If it really is Kumo then this will turn into a three way fight between us, Konoha and them. We will be at a disadvantage against Kumo since there will be lightning users and the one who launched the attack would be among them as well. We can't retreat either because they will track us down and when they do, they will also find out about the Kanabbi Bridge being our new supply route.'
"Haaa" The leader sighed and looked up
"You guys get out of here and run as fast as you can."
"Huh?" The Iwa shinobis were perplexed at the sudden order of their captain.
"But captain the mission---" On of the ninjas raised his concern but....
"Shut up! The mission will be considered as failed because of Kuno's interference."
"Kumo??"
"Yes. So leave now. I will try to buy as much time as I ca---"
He was cut off because of the sound of the wind whooshing.
When he saw in the direction where the attack came from, he saw a child whose height was no more than that of 10 years old standing in front of him. The boy was carrying a sword in his hand. Wearing Konoha's headband and it's uniform. His body was covered in dust and scratches all over, his clothes tattered and his hands bled. However, there was a fierce look in his eyes, threatening to consume anything that comes in sight.
"A kid?" One of their ninjas said while smirking.
"This was all because of a kid?"
"His headband isn't from Kumo so he must not be the one who launched that attack right~?"
"Are there any ninjas from Kumo here anyway?"
Confusion filled the crowd. Even the leader himself was confused whether the boy in front of him was the one responsible for frightening attack they faced earlier or not.
'If it was really this child, then he must have already used most of his chakra.' the leader did not under-estimate the child in front of him. Since, Konoha has been known for being a cradle of geniuses and among those geniuses, sometimes a monster appears as well.
The leader was already aware of that.
"******"
A very faint sound of murmur came from the boy which wasn't heard clearly by anyone.
But at the very next instant, an enormous pressure dawned upon everyone present in the area.
Whether it was the Jounin leader or the other Chunins and Jounins present in front of the child, everyone felt shivers going down their spine. The all felt the urge to bow in front of the person present in front of him. As if that was the only way that the majestic creature in front of him will even think about giving hem mercy.
The chunins couldn't even last 5 seconds in front of this pressure and fainted. The 4 shinobis responsible for the barrier were already inches away from dying and this pressure dealt the final blow and killed them.
The Jounins were also shivering in fear, though much lesser than the chunins. And the only one who was albeit slightly but was able to calm himself down was their leader, the only Elite Jounin in the group.
Those who were underestimating the boy in front of them were scared from just his look. The more they looked into his eyes, the more they lost themselves in panic and fear. They had one single thought flowing through their mind, They were hoping that whatever he whispered before releasing this pressure onto them would not be the last thing they will ever hear.
Whereas what he actually said was...
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"The One"
As soon as I whispered these words, the skill was activated and an immense amount of pressure oozed out of my body.
[The One]
{A skill that enables the user to instill fear into the opponent's minds resulting in them feeling like they are standing in front of a sovereign that overlooked everything. The skill is usable against all enemies however, the effectiveness will depend on the power difference between the user and his opponent}
A skill introduced in an amazing webnovel I used to read. The skill which allows you to dominate a person just by fear.
Currently, in the effects of this skill mixed with my killing intent killed 4 of their shinobis and 4 more were knocked out.
And I could judge by just looking at the remaining Shinobis, that their combat power must have been decreased by at least 30%.
The only thing I lacked for this skill right now was the chakra, since the skill currently was very taxing. It would have been a different case, had I not exhausted most of my chakra surviving their attack and saving a few of my team members.
'I have to finish this fast.'
With my current amount of chakra, I will be able to maintain this skill probably for a minute or two and if use my top speed on top of that, I will end up killing myself by consuming all of my chakra.
Knowing this, I immediately rushed to the enemy by only augmenting my body and sword with chakra. I can't afford to use any elemental technique right now.
I instantly closed the distance between us and performed a horizontal slash.
The elite jounin was able to get out of the way, but the same could not be said for the rest of his teammates. Even after being jounins, they were able to take out their kunais to defend. but my strike cut through them and slashed all 3 of them.
I immediately changed my path and assaulted the one remaining nuisance. I threw my sword at him with all of my strength.
He dodged it with only a slight tilt of his head. Though the sword still grazed his cheek
'His reaction time is getting slightly faster.'
Even with my skill on as long as it is an experienced and skilled shinobi, they will be able to get used to the pressure overtime, and build slight resistance over them. But as long as the strength gap between the two of us is reduced, he will be nothing more than the chunins who died earlier.
'Now then time to bait him in.'
I slightly slowed down my movements. Even lowered the amount of bloodlust and started to breathe slightly unevenly.
He took the bait, his eyes showed a lot of excitement and relief right now. He didn't want to waste this chance and rushed straight at me.
Now, the thing with "Scan and Project" is that the items that I "Project" can be controlled by me however I want. Even after the projected object is deflected, dodged or whatever, I could still control it however I wished.
When he was only 2 steps away from me, I stopped advancing and at that exact moment, he was stabbed in his back with a sword. He fell before even grazing me.
His face filled with shock and horror and even un-acceptance of the fact that he was beaten by a child.
"How can I be beate- Keohh!!!" he spoke while coughing up blood
He held the sword piercing his left chest through his back, trying to cling to his life.
"You Little Bastard!!!"
He wore a new look on his face, he was angry, raging actually. Mustering all his remaining strength, he tried to again stand and ran at me again. But before even standing properly, I summoned my real sword out of the wrist band and cut off his head.
His lifeless body fell before me and I stopped using 'the one'.
'I have about 5% of my chakra left with me.'
Now I walked towards the unconscious chunins and tied them to a tree with a rope.
'I should rest for a while now.'
Accept for draining my chakra, I wasn't even slightly injured. And I can probably recover it enough in 15-20 minutes. But I did not have that time.
I was still in the area very close to the border, and if there are any enemy reinforcements coming this way, I can't guarantee my victory. Depending on the strength of the reinforcements of course.
Just now, multiple shinobis landed a few feet away from me. They were the surviving members from my team.
'....Damn! I completely forgot about them.'
I got so distracted in the fight that I completely forgot that I was with a team.
Putting on a cheerful smile on my face, I waved at them
"~Yo~"