Chapter 356: Going to the Land of the Moon
Chapter 356: Going to the Land of the Moon
Kakashi was still confronting Kitsuchi on the front lines. The Jounin squad was assigned tasks by Shikaku.
The main task was to guard against the Stone Village and a possible attack from the Cloud Village.
The Stone Village's style was the same as always.
The Will of Stone! Like a rock sitting at your doorstep.
No fighting, no retreating, no surrendering. A bunch of Stone ninjas used Earth Release on the border, turning the Land of Rivers into something like a "Land of Walls," with thick city walls everywhere.
No matter how strong Kakashi's Lightning Release was, he couldn't just charge straight at them.
He could only lead the Konoha ninjas to build a defensive line together.
You build the Maginot Line, we build the Siegfried Line. Who's afraid of whom?
Unless the Third Tsuchikage personally took the field, with Kakashi's ability, he could completely block ninjas like Kitsuchi and Akatsuchi.
Konoha had also made many deployments in secret. Mitokado Homura had secretly gone to the Mist Village three times to discuss an alliance between the two sides. Currently, the progress was smooth. Apart from some details, the basic framework had been agreed upon.
Konoha was confident in fighting both the Stone Village and the Cloud Village at the same time.
The Yin Nine-Tails and the Mangekyō—these two matters were more important to Ino than completely mastering the Flying Thunder God.
Living piles were being collected in secret, and the ocular power for her Sharingan was also steadily increasing thanks to Shisui's Mangekyō.
The Sharingan couldn't take the Byakugan's path of accumulating small amounts to eventually become a super-large Tenseigan; it had to take the boutique route.
If it wasn't the ocular power of a Mangekyō Sharingan, absorbing it would be a form of pollution.
The level of the ocular power couldn't be too low.
Ino had her eye on the wall of Sharingan that Obito had collected. Would Fugaku Uchiha's Sharingan be among them? She remembered that this Uchiha clan head should have also awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.
She didn't know if it was destroyed or taken by Itachi. Ino thought the chances of Obito getting it were not high, but she felt she should still try. There was no loss anyway.
"Izumi, you still can't sense your own eyes?" she asked Izumi Uchiha at the old Uchiha residence.
Izumi was becoming more and more zen now. According to Ino's experience, the obsessions in her heart were rapidly disappearing. Things like Itachi and the future of the Uchiha clan were slowly fading in her heart. When she no longer had any attachment to this world, it should be the time for her to return to the Pure Land to rest in peace.
Ino applied her sensory ability to Izumi. The zen female ghost casually searched the surroundings.
"I really didn't find them, little Ino."
"Forget it. You should go rest first. I'll think of another way."
The Arasaka Corporation was still methodically building factories and research labs on the small hill.
Previously, when Ino was crossing the desert, the village sent Genma Shiranui to the Land of Snow and brought back all their chakra armor manufacturing technology.
Stealing others' technology, stealing others' secret techniques—for a hidden village, there was no moral pressure. Might makes right.
Facing Konoha, the snow ninjas certainly had no room to reason.
With funds, manpower, and technology invested, Ino converted all the Stones of Gelel she had into Sandevistan Type-2. Besides the fat guys of the Akimichi clan, a total of forty ninjas in Konoha were secretly equipped with the Sandevistan Type-2, reaching what Ino called the limit for ordinary people: a speed of 7 points.
For her, who possessed the Sharingan and currently had a "Speed" of 9 points, these ninjas were as slow as snails. But on an ordinary level, this speed was already very fast.
The forty ninjas were organized into an assault squad by Shikaku, led by Genma Shiranui. In the future, this squad would undertake more raid-type missions on the battlefield.
Utatane Koharu, who was in charge of the business liaison between Konoha and the Arasaka Corporation, hoped they would produce more Sandevistan Type-2. Ino had no good solution for this. A clever wife can't cook without rice. Without the Stone of Gelel, relying on the ninja's own chakra points to drive the Sandevistan Type-2 was too harmful to the body. Now, they could only wait for the search and mining in the southern continent.
Two months ago, the Daimyo's brother, Maroboshi Kyū, had already sent a fleet to the southern continent. The Yamanaka and Nara families had also sent some family ninjas along. The leader was the Yamanaka clan's Jounin, Yamanaka Santa. They should have arrived by now.
To what extent had they mined? No one knew.
There were no telephones in the ninja world.
Eighteen years later, Denki Kaminarimon's son, Denki, would use hot air balloons as base stations, finally allowing real-time communication between Konoha and Tanzaku Town.
Orochimaru also developed a biotechnology product similar to the Den Den Mushi around this time, the Telephone Snake…
These were all things of the future. Right now, there was no such technology. Everything had to be waited for.
Both Shikaku and Utatane Koharu were full of expectations for the Sandevistan Type-2, hoping this weapon would reduce the casualties of Konoha ninjas. As the financial backer, the Daimyo's brother, Maroboshi Kyū, also didn't want any accidents to happen to the fleet.
On the second day after Ino completed the initial training of Naruto's semi-Tailed Beast transformation, Yamanaka Santa's messenger hawk finally returned to Konoha. The letter said that the fleet had mined a large amount of Stone of Gelel and was currently on its way back.
Since she was already involved, the village gave Ino the order to rendezvous with the fleet.
Coincidentally, Tsunade received a "big job."
A former rich idiot she knew had introduced her to a big spender. Now, the big spender had found Konoha and commissioned them as guards.
The big spender was from a southern island country, the Land of the Moon.
Because of the turbulent situation in the East Sea, Prince Michiru and his party from the southern Land of the Moon sensed that the situation was not right and immediately sent a commission to Konoha, hoping that Konoha ninjas would escort them back to their country.
Putting aside whether it was dangerous or not, the commission fee for the mission was as high as eighty million ryo!
Prince Michiru was particularly generous, saying that if they encountered danger on the way, he could add more money!
Seeing the fat prince waving banknotes and activating his "money power," constantly shouting "add more money," even Ino thought he was indeed rich and powerful. Her money had been taken away by Rino and Hinata, and she was very poor now. So what else was there to say? She took the mission!
Ino was responsible for killing, sensing, and healing. Shikamaru was responsible for coming up with ideas. Choji was responsible for his image—after all, the employer was also a fat guy. If their side also had a fat guy, they would have more in common.
In the end, the three of them took on this mission.
Jiraiya thought for a moment. Considering that missions in the ninja world were usually in groups of four, it was a bit irregular for three people to go out now. As for adding Asuma? That was completely unnecessary.
After much thought, he added Sakura, who had been idle, to the mission list.
Having a female character on the mission would make communication more convenient. You say Ino? Ino was now a human-shaped nuclear bomb. Who goes to negotiate while holding a nuclear bomb? The nuclear peacekeeper Gandhi?
Sakura was idle now, so it was perfect to give her a mission. This mission wasn't dangerous, and even if it was, it was fine. Ino was going, so the ones who should feel the danger were the enemies.
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