Chapter 538: Seeking the Serpent's Aid

Chapter 538: Seeking the Serpent's Aid

Fujin looked at the scroll and analyzed, 'While I am quite fascinated with puppet mastery, trying to become a puppet master doesn't have much benefits for me. Though it is quite good, it is unlikely for me to raise my puppeteer skills to the level of my Wind jutsus. It also falls quite short of Flying Thunder God and Eight Inner Gates.

The only good thing is that learning it will be extremely easy for me. I can easily improve my control over chakra threads by spamming the Shadow Clone jutsu and I am already a Grandmaster in Fuinjutsu. More importantly, I have Sasori's puppets to study. I can easily learn the mechanisms of his puppets and raise my puppeteer skills to a very high level. Follow current novels at novelhall.com)

Within a few months, I can raise it to a level that would be below only Sasori and Chiyo's level. The only thing I lack is medical and poison knowledge. However, I am planning to study that as well. So I have everything I need to learn puppeteering.'

Fujin was in a strange situation. He didn't see much benefits to learning puppeteering. However, it was just too easy for him to master it with his current skills!

Fujin shook his head and decided, 'I will decide what to do after I improve my medical skills and learn more about poison. I have finally completed my training on Wind Domain and have mastered Flying Thunder God jutsu. Once I open the Fifth Gate, I'll ease up on training Eight Inner Gates as well. That will finally ease up my schedule. If I begin focusing on Puppeteering as well, then I'll be locked in another brutal training regimen for a few months!'

Fujin's time had been extremely tight for the last few years. He didn't want to go into such a tight schedule once again unless it was extremely critical for him.

Fujin analyzed, 'That said, there are some issues. For starters, the seals on these puppets Even though I am a Grandmaster in Fuinjutsu, I can't look down on others. I can't even begin to imagine the seals needed to convert a dead human into a puppet and retain that human's skills and Kekkei Genkai.

Even if I don't learn puppeteering, I should spend the next few days learning the seals Sasori used. Of course, the bigger issue is if there are any seals in these puppets that allow Sasori to detect the location of his puppets over a long distance.

Though I suppressed the seals, I can't be too sure as there are too many freaks in Akatsuki. Who knows what else they know? In addition, Sasori made no effort to chase me at all. It's too big of a risk to leave these puppets in the Phantom Haven base'

Fujin had the idea of giving these puppets to the Phantom Haven Society. If someone there had an interest in puppets and focused on it with dedication, the Fujin could raise an Elite Jounin in a very short time. However, if Sasori had any way of detecting the puppets and showed up there when Fujin wasn't present, the Phantom Haven Society would be history in no time.

Fujin didn't want to take such a risk. He decided, 'I guess there is no choice but to take them to Konoha. I'll give Hiruzen a few puppets and keep the rest to myself. Considering the level of these puppets, this might be a good opportunity to ask Hiruzen for another Forbidden jutsu. While I would like Edo Tensei, I doubt he will give it to me considering that he refused to share the Scroll of Forbidden Seals with me. However, getting that Forbidden jutsu might be doable.

Oh well, I'll do that. The only thing is that I will need to study the seals before handing the puppets to Hiruzen. That'll mean that I can't do the second mission that Hiruzen assigned me'

Fujin thought for a few seconds before deciding, 'Oh well, that mission isn't compulsory. Hiruzen can just deploy some more Anbu squads and dig to the bottom of those incidents.'

Fujin immediately changed his direction towards Tanigakure. Within a span of a few months, Tanigakure were in panic for the second time. A few months ago, Fujin and Shigeki had infiltrated the ninja village and killed a major family. The village had raised their defenses and made them several times more potent while the remaining powerful families were on alert.

Their situation was just like the situation in Konoha after Fujin destroyed the Root headquarters. Just when things had started to calm down, they received news of the destruction of the Yamakawa town!

Even though there weren't many civilian deaths, the Yamakawa family was wiped out! Apart from a few kids who weren't in the mansion, there were no survivors. The few ninjas who were present in the town informed them that they had seen Puppets attack the mansion and surround the town. A couple of them also reported that Sunagakure ninjas killed the Yamakawa ninjas and that the wounds on the Yamakawa family members were made by wind.

In a panic, Tanigakure sent several ninjas to the Yamakawa town and requested quick assistance from Konoha. When Hiruzen received the emergency request, he thought, 'Looks like Fujin did a great job. They are convinced that Sunagakure attacked them. But, how did he attack them with puppets? Did he practice puppeteering in secret? And, why did he kill the kids in the mansion?'

Hiruzen wasn't sure. Regardless, he quickly dispatched Guy and a couple dozen other ninjas to Yamakawa town to assist Tanigakure ninjas.

Unknown to Tanigakure, they had requested assistance from the very person who ordered the destruction of the Yamakawa family. And, the very person who carried out the destruction was leisurely strolling in their streets while muttering, "Now then, which are the three most corrupt Nobles here?"

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