46 3.8

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I had already lost 4100 Points since the beginning of this mission, meaning I only had 3200 Points left. Assuming I manage to protect the Ame Orphans, I would be with a theoretical 6200 Points, meaning I could only allow three more deaths in my team, before I would die.

And I wasn't confident I would be able to save so many people through this mission. Like 5%. And those aren't odds I want to take.

Since I can't think of any way to earn more Points if all we did was flee, the only real option for me was to fight.

More newbies would certainly die this way, but I wasn't a selfless saint. Between them and me, I choose myself eleven out of ten times.

It was a big decision for them though, so I kept it short, "Hanzo won't hesitate to cover the entire country in poison to get us if we hide… but for now, we should worry about getting to that base. I need to recover, and you to rest."

The three nodded, and quickly organized their men, while I limped my way towards my team.

They were surrounding our two dead comrades. We were lucky that Yahiko's water barrier had stopped the enemy from drowning us in poison, because that's most definitely what they would have done, and other than Erik with his Qi, and myself of course, I doubted anyone could have survived that.

Looking at the two, one was the fat middle aged man, while the other was a woman in her fifties. They looked the most average out of the group, and didn't surprise me as the two first casualties.

Most of the others had some injuries, bare a few, so it wasn't bad luck that had killed them, but incompetence.

I'm sad they lost me Points, but that's about it. With this kind of mental and performance, they would have died sooner or later, and probably sooner.

I ordered, "We're moving."

One of them, the police woman, immediately protested, "We can't just leave them to rot here!"

With how much I had been using the Dark Side in this battle, my anger quickly rose as I growled through my charred vocal cords, "We are, and I'm not taking no as an answer."

She was about to add something, but the woman next to her nudged her with her elbow, stopping her. Wise decision.

And so, we started moving. Running was quite hard for me in my present state, but since most of the group was slow as hell, I could still keep up while putting in some effort.

It took us around 2 hours to reach the base, and while I didn't feel anything, I was sure we had been followed, and the enemy was already preparing their attack.

On the way, I drank some of the Health Potions we had brought. Mine had been destroyed by the battle, but Sarah had some with her.

Actually, I was happy I had decided not to bring along my Hunting Bow with Soul Trap as it certainly would have broken in the battle.

The Minor Health Potions didn't really do much, but it was better than nothing, and helped my case not worsen from the trip.

Then, once we arrived at the base, I fell into meditation, while I let several of their medics work their magic on me.

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[Jordan's POV]

Even now, inside the Akatsuki's planning room, I could still hardly understand what had happened. I was quite the avid reader of fictions and fanfictions in general, and I had dreamed of reincarnating in Naruto more than a few times, along with other fictional worlds.

But things had turned out to be quite a lot different from what I had dreamed. First, I wasn't reborn, I was just transported with my actual body, which lacked any kind of martial or useful training for this world.

Moreover, I had received a mission I thought to be honestly impossible to achieve. In the anime, the only reason Nagato and Konan did not die was because Nagato used the power of the Rinnegan. But that required for Yahiko to die, which meant game over for me.

Yet, against all odds, all three of them had survived, along with most of our team, solely thanks to the monster that was Alexander.

To be honest, I felt a little jealous of the man. Part of myself was convinced that if I had appeared in the same mission as him, I would at least be as strong as him by this point, if not stronger.

But then, I learned that when he started, he had someone even stronger than him in his team. That did not really hurt my ego though, because I had now recognized that he was one tough bastard.

I knew he was injured, but listening to the words of the medics examining him as he was deep in Force Meditation, which is super cool by the way as he is literally levitating an inch above the ground, he not only had been burnt on the outside but also in the inside, and it was amazing for him to be alive.

But even more impressive, was that the man's burned skin was visibly flaking, newer layers being regenerated beneath.

The medics were helping quite a bit by infusing tons of Yang Chakra into him, but it was impressive nonetheless, as his sole enhancements, according to the veterans, were Super Soldier Physique and the Force.

I was quite familiar with Marvel too, and while Captain America has a stronger Healing Factor than the average man, it still remains human, so most of it must come from his Force Healing. Meaning he must be quite advanced in uses of the Force to be healing so well.

In comparison, his companions were quite lackluster. Objectively they were interesting, with one going Skyrim's path, another going for Cultivation, a wizard and a shooter, but they were so much weaker despite going through as many movies.

As for the rest of the 'newbies', as they called us, they were of a surprising quality, according to the veterans.

Nearly everyone, except those who died, were competent in at least one thing, and that made them more valuable than most newbies they usually got.

Funnily enough, it didn't take a genius to understand I shouldn't have been in the list of 'talented' people, yet Alexander speaking with me was enough to place me in the top among the newbies in the veterans' eyes.

I thought they were a little too docile at first, but now that I had seen what the man was capable of, I understood where they came from.

Besides, I'm pretty sure I am the most knowledgeable about Naruto in the group, and knowledge is power.

Something I intend on proving.

The reason I was in the command room, with the Ame Orphans, as well as Alexander who was meditating in a corner but surely still passively listening, was because I had a plan to help our mission, and more particularly Alexander and the path he wanted to follow.

I had heard the way he spoke to the three, which made it clear he would rather fight a war against Hanzo than hide. Ruthless to us, but in his position, I would have done the same. Even in mine, actually, as this was the best way for me to reach him.

I had heard that to get strong, you needed to complete side missions, and only by going against the easy path could one complete these.

And so, I exposed my plan to the leaders of our group.