Yōkō returned to the previous full moon night.
He was training his squad members on the correct use of the Earth-Style Wall, utilizing the trapezoidal slope to convert impact force into downward pressure, thereby increasing the wall's stability.
The squad members were practicing very hard.
[Mochizuki's Arc Activated!
The host has only one resurrection opportunity per month, reviving on the previous full moon night after death.
Reward: One draw opportunity:
1- Jōnin-level Chakra Reserve (Stackable);
2- Secret Technique: Steaming Danger Violent Demise (Beginner);
3- Secret Technique: Hydrification Healing Technique (Beginner).]
The first option was immediately excluded; Yōkō's current chakra was sufficient.
Both the second and third options were Secret Techniques, making Yōkō hesitate slightly.
Steaming Danger Violent Demise had terrifying destructive power and was a very strong combat method.
Hōzuki Muragetsu had used this technique against the Uchiha shinobi with excellent results.
The Hydrification Healing Technique, on the other hand, was a rare and powerful medical ninjutsu.
Yōkō mentally reviewed his abilities. He had many offensive methods, but his healing capability was a weak point.
The Senju clan's bloodline granted him slow self-regeneration, which was ineffective in battle and didn't really solve the problem.
He chose the third option, obtaining a healing ability.
There was no helping it; he was just that afraid of death.
If you're alive, you have everything; if you're dead, you have nothing.
[Host Status:
Chakra Reserve: 4.4x Jōnin-level.
Chakra Attributes: Earth, Water, Wind, Yang, Yin.
Bloodlines: Senju of the Forest (Mid-High), Uzumaki Bloodline (Mid-High), Uchiha Bloodline (Mid-High).
Ninjutsu: Water Release: Water Cutting Wave (Proficient), Water Release: Water Body Flicker (Proficient), etc.
Taijutsu: Bone-Crushing Copper Light, etc.
Sealing Techniques: Self-Cursing Body Binding Seal (Skilled), Contract Seal, Summoning Technique (Spear Egret, Eight Ninja Hounds, Stone Panda).
Secret Techniques: Absolute Defense: Copper Light, Hydrification Healing Technique.
Special Abilities: Stress Reflex (Second Breakthrough), Natural Chakra Growth, etc.]
His chakra reserve had naturally grown to 4.4 times the Jōnin level.
Even without drawing rewards, at this rate, by the time he reached 18 in a few months, his chakra reserve would reach the average level of an Elite Jōnin.
Many of his ninjutsu, through frequent use and training, had reached a 'Proficient' rating.
The Secret Techniques now included Hydrification Healing Technique; he could recover quickly even from serious injuries in the future.
After drawing the reward, Yōkō looked towards the direction of the headquarters tent in the main camp.
The upcoming ambush would turn into an ambush against them.
Five Konoha battalions would be ambushed by a massive number of Kiri-nin.
The Kiri-nin knew the personnel composition, ambush location, and ambush time of the five Konoha battalions perfectly clearly.
Hoshigaki Kisame had also said that he was one of Danzo's people as well.
Danzo truly had skillful methods, actually being able to bribe a Kiri-nin of such high rank.
Hoshigaki Kisame, even without the great sword Samehada, possessed the strength of an Elite Jōnin.
With Samehada, he steadily entered the Kage-level threshold.
Looking at his status panel, Yōkō suddenly noticed a problem.
He hadn't signed a contract with the Stone Panda clan yet, so why did it show Stone Panda among his summoning animals?
Perhaps Uzumaki Yuka hadn't completed the summoning contract with the Stone Panda clan yet.
In the original story, when Jiraiya used the Summoning Technique without having signed a contract, he was reverse-summoned to Mount Myōboku.
Now, since Yōkō hadn't signed a summoning contract with the Stone Panda clan, he wondered if he would be reverse-summoned to the Stone Panda clan's habitat if he forcibly used the Summoning Technique.
He and the Stone Panda clan had already established some kind of special connection, just like Jiraiya was destined to contract with the great toads of Mount Myōboku.
It was a pity he didn't have time to research his summoning techniques now. What he needed to do was prevent the ambush from failing.
First, he needed to determine who leaked the information.
Danzo was inevitably going to take the blame for this.
If I can't deal with Danzo himself yet, can't I at least deal with Danzo's enforcers?
Someone specific must have carried out the act of selling out the intelligence.
Someone in the main camp obtained Yellow Dog's complete battle plan and then leaked it to Hoshigaki Kisame.
As long as he could find that key informant, he could eliminate the Kiri-nin's intelligence advantage.
Not long after, Black Gorilla came over to ask Yōkō about a ninjutsu problem.
"Squad Leader, I find the Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall a bit brittle. When defending against Explosive Tags, it's easily shattered by them. Squad Leader, is there a way to solve this problem?"
In the previous timeline's events, the Hanaka squad followed him, while the other two squads followed Yellow Dog.
Yellow Dog's battalion fell into a wire trap set early by Kuriarare Kushimaru, and Black Gorilla had both his legs severed by the wires, dying on the spot.
Seeing Black Gorilla again now, Yōkō felt somewhat dazed.
This kid was alright; it was best if he didn't die.
"The Earth-Style Wall is a bit brittle..." Yōkō thought for a moment and said, "I just had an idea. We can tentatively conduct some experiments to see if we can improve the Earth-Style Wall's protective capability."
Black Gorilla was very excited inwardly. Could it be that the Squad Leader thought highly of him, hence researching ninjutsu together?
Yōkō squatted on the ground, drawing diagrams with a branch while speaking:
"The protective capability of the Earth-Style Wall, I believe, is determined by several factors.
First is stability.
Against enemy ninjutsu, the Earth-Style Wall cannot be easily pushed over.
To solve stability, first, the part of the wall below ground needs sufficient embedment depth.
If the embedment is too shallow, a Water Shockwave could just push it over. If it's too deep, it wastes chakra.
Based on my experience, the embedment depth should be at least one-third of the height of the wall above ground.
Besides embedment depth, it's what I just taught you: the stable trapezoidal cross-section, wider at the bottom."
As Yōkō drew simple cross-sectional diagrams on the ground, he increasingly felt like he was building a dam.
Others, seeing the Squad Leader giving Black Gorilla extra instruction, gathered around to look at the diagrams.
Yōkō continued:
"After solving the stability issue, the second problem is the strength of the Earth-Style Wall.
The strength of the Earth-Style Wall is primarily determined by the amount of chakra invested.
The more chakra invested, the harder the wall, and the better the protective effect.
However, harder materials are more prone to brittle failure when they break, suddenly cracking and shattering.
At this point, we need to add some tensile reinforcement skeleton within the Earth-Style Wall."
As he spoke, Yōkō even felt like using Earth Release to create a reinforced concrete wall.
The strength of a reinforced concrete wall is more than ten times that of a plain concrete wall.
Adding steel reinforcement to the Earth-Style Wall, giving the shinobi world a little shock of construction techniques.
But Earth Release users couldn't produce steel.
Yōkō said:
"Black Gorilla, next, follow my instructions and create three Earth-Style Walls to test their strength.
The first one is the Earth-Style Wall you made before, as a control group.
The second one uses the wire from your tool pouch as a skeleton mesh, having the Earth-Style Wall encase the wire framework.
The third one involves locally increasing chakra input during the creation of the Earth-Style Wall, forming root-like pillars or pilasters."
Black Gorilla created three Earth-Style Walls according to the Squad Leader's requirements.
Yōkō generously took out nine Explosive Tags and gave them to Hanaka.
"Hanaka, throw three Explosive Tags at each wall, test the effect."
Three Explosive Tags exploded against each wall.
The first Earth-Style Wall was shattered and collapsed by the three Explosive Tags.
The second Earth-Style Wall was cracked by the explosion, but with the wire holding it together, it cracked but did not collapse.
The third Earth-Style Wall, due to the pillars and pilasters, had localized fragmentation but also did not collapse.
After analysis, Yōkō said:
"The wire-reinforced Earth-Style Wall has the best protective effect, but requires preparation, setting up the wire mesh, which is difficult to execute in combat.
The pilaster Earth-Style Wall significantly improves stability and structural integrity, much better than the plain slab Earth-Style Wall.
The casting speed can be improved with practice.
Let me summarise: from now on, the Earth-Style Wall used by our squad must be the trapezoidal cross-section version with pilasters."
Several Earth Release users nodded in agreement, acknowledging the Squad Leader's research results.
Yōkō thought to himself that he was determined to become the Battalion Commander. After becoming the Battalion Commander, he would need some capable subordinates.
The members of these three squads all needed to be properly nurtured.
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