There was a mistake in the previous chapter.

Ogata's Shiranui-ryu jujutsu is also "advanced" now.

Previously, at the beginning of Volume 6, when leveling up at Owari's Calabash House base, Shiranui-ryu jutsu was upgraded to the fifth level. After possessing 3 exclusive skill points, Ogata used 2 of them to upgrade Shiranui-ryu jutsu.

, upgraded from intermediate to advanced.

The author accidentally forgot this plot...

My pot, my pot. So let’s spread the word here and correct this mistake.

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Ogata didn't understand military strategy, so he couldn't understand the level of sentry layout of this group of bandits.

But Atachi understands it even though he is not very proficient.

When Amachi was doing ninja training before, he received training on "how to judge the alert status of the enemy's position."

Even Atachi, who was not very proficient in this "course", could see that the sentry layout of this group of bandits was very poor.

All the sentry personnel were not concentrating on their sentry duties.

The placement of sentries is also in a mess.

According to Amachi, the location of the bandits' sentry posts gave her the feeling that "it was based on mood."

The number of sentries is also completely insufficient.

In a nutshell: There should be no one among this group of bandits who knows how to set up a camp and place sentries.

But from another perspective, it is quite normal that there is no such talent.

After all, apart from peasant uprisings, this country has never had any wars in the past two hundred years.

The samurai do not know how to fight. This group of bandits transformed from "original samurai" do not know how to set up camps and post sentries, which is related to war. It is completely normal.

A-Machi said: The only advantage of this group of bandits' sentry arrangements is that they know how to arrange hidden sentries.

The arrangement of concealed whistles is much more difficult than the arrangement of whistles.

Where is it appropriate to place a concealed whistle, where is it unnecessary, and where is it counterproductive... These are all highly technical matters.

This group of bandits even arranged the open sentinels so poorly, let alone the hidden sentries, which were almost random.

When receiving ninja training before, Atachi also received training on "how to find the enemy's hidden sentry". Of course, Atachi did not learn this "class" very well.

It's just that the knowledge A-Machi has is more than enough to deal with these bandits who have arranged both light and dark sentries in a mess.

At this moment, A-Machi detected a secret sentry ahead, and a relatively thin bandit was standing in the darkness.

Sure enough, the bandit was paddling in the water and was not keeping watch seriously at all. He was just yawning.

Ogata and Atachi looked at each other.

Let me do it. Ogata said to Omachi with his eyes.

And A-Machi didn't say much nonsense, just nodded, and then stopped where he was.

In order to prevent the saber at his waist from hitting something and making an abnormal sound, Ogata carefully held the saber at his waist with his left hand while squatting half-crouched, using the Shiranui-ryu stealth technique, bit by bit.

He leaned back towards the bandit who was standing guard.

The bandit was not concentrating on sentry duty at all, and he did not seem to have the ability to detect Ogata, who possessed the "intermediate" Shiranui-ryu stealth technique.

When he got close to the bandit, Ogata quickly became violent and covered the bandit's mouth with his left hand. With the other hand, he quickly pulled out the great freedom and used the bird thorn of Sakakibara's sword to strike from his back.

It penetrated the neck and exited from his throat.

The shorter Da Zi Zi is more suitable for assassination.

Just like penetrating a piece of soaked rice paper, Da ZiZhou penetrated the bandit's throat easily.

Under the influence of the flashback, the bandit burst out with powerful force and struggled violently, trying to break free from Ogata's control.

It's a pity that Ogata's current strength value is 20 points.

In Ogata's eyes, the bandit's struggle was like a puppy in his arms trying to kick its legs.

After struggling for only a moment, the bandit slowly stopped moving due to the slow loss of life force.

"2..."

[Ding! Sakakibara Itto-ryu Bird Thorn, kill the enemy]

[Acquire 70 personal experience points, 65 experience points for swordsmanship "Sakakibara Itto-ryu", and 10 experience points for ninjutsu "Shiranui-ryu Ninjutsu"]

[Current personal level: LV35 (7205400)]

[Sakakihara Itto-ryu Level: 12th Dan (42209000)]

[Shiranui style ninjutsu level: 6th level (40804500)]

Because Ogata had just used the Shiranui-ryu stealth technique to sneak up to the bandit's back before launching an attack, so according to the system's judgment, the Shiranui-ryu ninjutsu also gained a little experience value.

Even though it's not much, it's better than nothing.

After laying the lifeless bandit in his arms flat on the ground, Ogata waved to Atachi to indicate that he was safe.

Even God is helping Ogata and the others tonight. It is cloudy tonight. Thick clouds separate the sky from the earth, and the moonlight is blocked above the clouds.

This dim sight made it easier for Ogata and others to hide their figures.

The two of them continued to go deeper, and then discovered a bandit's outpost.

This time not only was the open post discovered, but also a hidden sentry not far from the open post.

The distance between the two outposts is extremely close. If you kill the bandits at any one outpost, you will be discovered by the bandits at the other outpost.

So if you want to avoid being discovered, you can only kill these two bandits at the same time.

Then Ogata and Omachi exchanged glances again.

Without any communication, just by exchanging glances, the two made decisions and assigned tasks.

Ogata walked towards the bandits at Ming Sen.

Omachi walked towards the bandit who was sent out secretly.

A-machi's movements are gentler than Ogata's, and she is less likely to be noticed because she also has the Shiranui-ryu Breath Holding Technique: a technique that reduces one's own breath by controlling the breathing rhythm.

Because Ogata felt that the Shiranui-ryu Breath Holding Technique was useless to him, he never spent any skill points to learn it.

Ogata repeated the steps he had just taken to assassinate the bandit under the secret sentry: he used the Shiranui-ryu stealth technique to sneak around behind the bandit, then used a bird thorn to pierce his throat, killing him with one blow.

While Ogata killed the bandit at the open post, Amachi also killed the bandit at the secret post.

Omachi used the Shiranui-ryu Assassination Technique, a swordsmanship technique specifically used for assassination.

After covering the bandit's mouth with his left hand to prevent him from making a sound, he flattened the side of his right hand and stabbed the bandit's heart accurately along the gap between his ribs.

The reason why the blade should be laid flat is to avoid being blocked by the bandit's ribs when it stabs through the bandit's heart.

Atachi who used the Shiranui-ryu assassination technique was much more agile than Ogata who simply stabbed the bandit through the throat.

Although among the four techniques of Shiranui style, apart from Jujutsu, Atachi's other three techniques - Stealth, Assassination, and Breath Holding - can only be regarded as weak compared to his peers, but they are still enough to deal with these weaklings.

Bandits.

"3, 4..."

After silently recording the number of bandits that he and A-Machi had killed so far, Ogata continued to head deeper into the bandit stronghold with A-Machi...

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"ha……"

A bandit with a big beard who was carrying a bottle of bad wine yawned loudly, and then said to a fellow bandit with a mustache who was sitting not far away from him:

"What time is it now?"

The bearded bandit and this little bearded bandit have been friends for a long time.

Both of them were samurai who were ruthlessly abandoned by their respective vassals due to "famine at dawn".

After becoming ronin, they got to know each other by various chances and coincidences.

After working as a thief for several years in partnership with several other companions, I was invited by the bandit leader, Koizumi, 2 months ago, so I joined Koizumi's subordinates and changed my position from a thief.

Today's bandits.

As soon as the big bearded bandit finished speaking, the little bearded bandit raised his head and glanced at the sky:

"It's cloudy now, so I can't tell what time it is. But it must be quite late."

After saying that, the mustachioed bandit raised the bad wine in his hand again and poured the bad wine into his mouth.

In this wilderness and wild forest, drinking heavily has become one of the few pleasures of bandits like them.

After dinner, the big-bearded bandit and the little-bearded bandit sat face to face under a certain tree, drinking low-quality rice wine and chatting nonsense.
To be continued...