Verdandi moved back to duty. The war has reached its next stage. It was time to once again make her own mark upon the lands of the sand. Having been commended by her superiors due to the intense investment of herself in the previous phase, their praise was however somewhat overshadowed by the fact that the villages weren't doing as well as they would have hoped for. Verdandi could see that the progress they made was still there but the resistance was certainly stronger than expected. On many fronts the village-nin had been pushed back and many new problems have surfaced into the battlefield. Verd was not all too excited to see that her first series of diplomatic missions has once again forced her to deal with the… certainly unusual tasks given by the Kumo administration.
The first one however was still a bearable one. Verd didn't mind to do some delivery services once in a while. The contents of the scroll couldn't matter less to her. Probably some contained gibberish about the greatness of the Raikage. The simple idea of it made her shake her head in idle displeasure. Verd jumped on her pets back. Squeezing her legs into Avalanche's hips and whispering in the bears ears to go slow. The pet bear jumped past the dunes like a born mount. He was far from being an intensely quick but traveling like that was simply very convenient. Verdandi giggled to herself. He started to have fun riding the sand dunes. Jumping into them and surfing them downhill before quickly charging back up the next one to do the whole thing all over again.
Verd casually fused her chakra into their bodies, as usual too keep the lot of them cool and protected below the unforgiving sun of the desert. Comfortably travelling into the lands of the heat. The pathways to their target was pretty easy. Verd could already see the intel station from afar. But she could also see something unusual. The target in question had a group of people slowly approaching it. Verd could only see black dots. But by the way they moved, it seemed to hold a weird pattern to their motion.
The closer Verdandi came, the more she was certain. Something was off about their behaviour. The targets in question seemed crouching and moving slowly. As Verdandi didn't slow down, she realized that they must have noticed her and were fleeing. Verd didn't agree to that at all and squeezed her legs once again into Avalanche's hips. "Burst…" she said as the polar bear suddenly raised his momentum and used the worst of his strength and speed to catch up with the targets in question. Once close enough Verd would see incoming projectiles moving her way. Five shuriken, three kunai. She quickly grabbed in her pouch and effortlessly answered each projectile with one of her own. Nullifying their importance to her.
Once it was clear that she was under attack. She leaned in and whispered to Avalanche. "Attack." And hence the bear did. The polar bear crashed into the first D-Ranked shinobi head on while still in burst speed. Crushing the poor lad into a mess of fractured bones and bleeding out slowly. Verd jumped off and unsheathed her blade against the chest of her own first target. Pressing the button on the katana to surface the saw teeth. Her second slice would render the skin of her enemy apart and blood would spill in nasty amounts all over the place.
Seeing as two of the five had already been dealt with. Verdandi saw one of them inhaling for what probably would end up being a wind technique. But before he could, Avalanche had already jumped on him and bitten his jaw into the guys neck, ripping his flesh away and starting to claw himself into the poor sod. Charging her sword shortly with a mass of Hyouton chakra. Verd moved forth to slice her ice-covered blade past them. First rendering a nasty saw wound on their chest before the frost of her technique started to completely cover their front and let them die under an extremely painful frostbite, burning them from inside out as well.
The last guy had the pleasure to be hit by the exhaled wave of the ice-cold cut. Basically, covering his whole front in deep frost and burning him while Avalanche jumped in to clash his claws into his back. All of this had but happened in such a short time Verd couldn't really comprehend what happened. She'd ask for the intel post's men to… clean up. Leaving the message scroll with them as intended. Bowing her head and taking her leave. It started to become clear to her that her raise in rank and power had brought a superiority to her skills she was yet not really aware of…
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- Chakra 160 / 200:
Yuki Clan pay 20 Chakra to keep themselves cool in the desert.
Name: Ice Release: Cold-steam Cut (Hyouton: Himoya-Kizu)
Origin: Library / Custom
Rank: B
Type: Offensive
Element: Hyouton
Range: 12m radius
Specialty: Bukijutsu
Duration: 1
Cool-down: 5
Chakra: 20
Description: The user readies their weapon and flows chakra down the length of it. Said hyouton chakra proceeds to freeze down far below zero as much as almost minus fifty degree. It then flows over the blade and lingers at it's surface. Already being dangerous like that. It can however not be maintained and has to be thrown from the blade by the end of the first post or it'd vanish and dissolve on it's own again. During the post however, one is allowed to swing the blade with said enchantment giving it's frostbite powers to the blade.
Eventually swinging the weapon around themselves once, while triggering the technique to release, turns the user into the epicenter of the technique and the chakra is exhaled away from the center in a 360° radius around the user. It basically looks like the user suddenly extends their blade for up to 12 meters within the technique. But actually the wave that is exhaled from the epicenter travels at 25mp/s forward until it ends at it's 12 meter reach and isn't longer than 1m and not thicker than the blade itself. However, since it takes a very short time for the wave to reach it's target it is often mistaken as some sort of ghost-blade extension.
Anything that comes in contact with the ghost-blade wave will suffer from the hyoutons sub-zero frostbite effect in form of a major 2nd degree tissue damage.
Deep Freeze: This technique is extremely cold. When in contact with water or suiton, the hyouton chakra causes said water to instantly freeze into ice within a 5 meter radius around collision impact and then continues to freeze the remaining body of water as usual. This ice has no specific effect other than it's natural properties. The interaction powers against suiton remain exactly the same.
- WC Usage:
750 for minimum mission pay.