Chapter 33 Heading to the battlefield
"You're here, Feiyu."

The Third Hokage smiled amiably and looked at Uchiha Feiyu, the troublemaker, with a kind look.

The Third Hokage already knew that Uchiha Feiyu had injured an Anbu ninja, but it was obvious that the old man did not care about it.

What surprised the Third Hokage was that Uchiha Feiyu, who usually had no motivation, actually seemed to be a little better this time, and his seriousness was different from usual.

"Hokage-sama, what's the mission?"

Uchiha Feiyu asked, which made the Third Hokage a little dazed. If the Third Hokage remembered correctly, this should be the first time for this fearful Uchiha to ask about a mission.

"Uh... actually nothing much... just wanted to ask you if you have any idea of ​​upgrading your ninja level?"

"I heard that you ran into a team from the Sand Village when you were on a mission this time, Feiyu, and you directly killed their team leader and two team members. According to later investigations, you directly killed a special jonin and two senior chuunins."

"With your current strength, it would be a waste to continue to be a Genin, so I plan to upgrade your ninja level. What do you think?"

"After you upgrade your ninja level, you can't stay in the team anymore, right?"

Uchiha Feiyu spoke calmly, and the Third Hokage nodded helplessly. It was impossible to hide such a thing from the other party.

"In other words, the Third Hokage wants me to go to the battlefield?"

"Well, now the battle between Konoha and Sand Ninja is not as fierce as it was in the initial period. If you are interested, you can go there to train."

"With your current strength as an elite jonin, it is unlikely that you will encounter any serious danger."

Uchiha Feiyu ignored the Third Hokage's advice and asked directly:
"Right now, the leader of the ninja army fighting against the Sand Ninja should be Lord Orochimaru!"

"Yes, it's Orochimaru."

The Third Hokage was somewhat puzzled by Uchiha Feiyu's question. After getting the answer, Uchiha Feiyu nodded and said:
"In that case, there is no problem in joining the war. When do we set off?"

Uchiha Feiyu's decisiveness caught the Third Hokage off guard and made him hesitate.

This kid is so active, does he have some idea? If the Uchiha in front of him made great achievements on the battlefield, would it have an impact on the current power distribution in Konoha?
Although Uchiha Feiyu has no roots in the Uchiha clan or in Konoha, after all, he is also an Uchiha. If he really shows unparalleled strength and earns huge reputation, there is a high possibility that the Uchiha clan will join him.

After all, Uchiha Feiyu is young and talented, and his surname also caught the attention of the Third Hokage, so it is not surprising that he has such thoughts.

Just because of this suspicion, it is undoubtedly irrational to hide the combat power of an elite jonin in the war. Not to mention that according to Uchiha Feiyu's previous personality, if he really wanted to hide him, the other party would probably go with the flow and would not be able to contribute any more in the entire war.

Thinking of this, the Third Hokage nodded:
"I didn't expect you to be so active this time, Feiyu. After you rest for two more days, you can set out with the team supporting the front line the day after tomorrow."

"In addition..." The Third Hokage smiled and took out a Chunin vest:
"From now on, you are a Chunin!"

After saying goodbye to his team leader and two companions and having a farewell dinner, three days later, Uchiha Feiyu, wearing a Chunin vest, joined Konoha's team to support the front line.

The entire team does not have many people, only a hundred or so in total, and ninjas themselves do not advocate large-scale troop combat.

The leader is a Jonin, and there are two special Jonins as deputies. The Chunin is the middle management level, and there are only ten people in total. As for the Genin team of nearly a hundred people, they are all experienced adult ninjas.

Unless it is at its wit's end, Konoha obviously would not send young ninjas to the battlefield. Everyone knows the principle of killing the goose that lays the eggs.

Generally speaking, unless they have outstanding talent, ninjas under the age of fourteen will mostly perform logistical work in the early stages of a war and will not enter the frontal battlefield.

They were all ninjas, a team of more than a hundred people, who began to advance silently. It took them almost a day to reach the front line of Konoha.

The place where Konoha and Sand Ninja are fighting now is not within their own country, but rather in River Country. The small countries between the big countries are originally buffer zones, and they are inevitably turned into battlefields during the battle.

Therefore, it seems natural for small countries like the Rain Country to hate big countries. After all, every time there is a war, the big countries lose their ninja reserves, and the small countries are almost directly destroyed.

The front-line position has a very familiar name - Mount Kikyo. Uchiha Feiyu vaguely remembered that there was such a battle of Mount Kikyo in Naruto's previous life, and the winner was also the Konoha side. At least there is no need to worry about the tragic battle like the one with the Iwagakure.

In the war with the Iwagakure ninja, Konoha was really exhausted. If it weren't for Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God to save the situation, all the ninjas on the front battlefield would have been wiped out. Even if they won in the end, only one ninja would have survived. It was extremely tragic.

Even if Uchiha Feiyu is now short of lives for sacrifice and wants to collect some souls, he will not be crazy enough to participate in that kind of battle.

After arriving at the front-line camp, the leader of the jonin and two special jonin went to report to the front-line commander Orochimaru, while the ordinary chuunin and genin were simply dispersed and assigned tasks.

Uchiha Feiyu was still thinking about how to meet Orochimaru, when the jonin who came out of the front-line command center called him directly:
"Touyu Chunin, Lord Orochimaru requires you to go to the command room!"

Hearing this, Uchiha Feiyu's eyes lit up and he went straight to the command center.

He found that he seemed to have underestimated the power of the elite jonin level. After all, in the original work, the strength of most of the fighting parties was no lower than that of the elite jonin, but in fact, there were very few ninjas of this level in the entire ninja village.

Uchiha Feiyu didn't know that even on the front line of a battlefield like this, there were only four ninjas at the level of elite jonin, and that was because the war had just begun and there were more people.

In another two or three years, when several other ninja villages take action at the same time and the fighting becomes more intense, each front will have, in addition to the Kage-level commander, at most two or three elite jonin to assist.

Therefore, even though Uchiha Toba is just a fourteen-year-old boy with only the title of Chunin, Orochimaru will summon him personally.

(End of this chapter)