Chapter 73: Negotiation Success and the Mission

"What!? The remains of over 2,000 ninjas?"

Danzō frowned tightly and looked up at Orochimaru:

"What do you take my Root for? A crematorium for Konoha? With this many ninja corpses, that's almost the entire ninja force of some small ninja villages, isn't it?!"

"But Elder Danzō, you will certainly be able to gather them, won't you? Didn't that selection battle just now already gather the corpses of sixty or seventy ninjas?"

"With just twenty or thirty more selections, gathering 2,000 people will be easy, won't it?"

Hearing Orochimaru's words, Danzō was nearly furious; although Root was cruel, it was certainly impossible to frequently play such battle-royale-like selections, otherwise, no amount of orphans would be enough for them to use up.

This kind of large-scale ninja slaughter selection was held at most once a year. If it weren't for the need to give Uchiha Feiyu a show of force, how could it have been held so easily?

"Spare me the nonsense. If you want that many corpses, a single method to remove rejection reactions is not enough!"

Danzō glared as he spoke, his every word reeking of a demand for more payment, while Orochimaru began to argue with Danzō in all seriousness.

The two did not hide their discussion from Uchiha Feiyu; Orochimaru was very clear that Uchiha Feiyu was no pushover, and as for Danzō, just seeing how Uchiha Feiyu remained unmoved after watching so many young ninjas die, he knew this was also a cold-blooded character.

After discussing for about ten minutes, the two finally reached an agreement; Orochimaru would provide some research results, and as for those corpses, Danzō would gather and deliver them within a month.

That 2,000 ninja corpses could be gathered within a month—even if these so-called corpses were only the most ordinary Genin, and it was currently wartime with plenty of corpses to go around—showed the capability of Danzō's Root.

After joining Root with Orochimaru, Orochimaru was busy with experiments for the first few days, so Uchiha Feiyu simply practiced at the Root training ground until, a few days later, Danzō came to him.

"Elder Danzō, I wonder what business you have with me?"

Uchiha Feiyu, having just finished his routine training, looked at the leader of Root who had come to him and asked with some curiosity.

"Root has a mission for you now. Of course, the danger is not high, and the merit earned upon completion is not low. How about it? Are you interested?"

"If there's such a good thing, of course I'm willing. Just say it, what kind of mission is it?"

"To hunt down a traitor of Konoha. It is a Konoha Jonin who has defected to the Cloud Ninja! He is carrying a large amount of confidential information from Konoha; once he defects to the Cloud Ninja, it could very likely cause huge losses to Konoha..."

"Enough, I don't want to ask for the reason. Where is the person? He hasn't already reached the Cloud Ninja Village, has he? I don't have the guts to charge into the Cloud Ninja Village to kill someone."

"Of course not... I said this mission has no danger for you. This Konoha traitor is currently being blocked by our ninjas within the border between the Land of Frost and the Land of Fire, and has not yet crossed the border of the Land of Fire."

"However, once he crosses the Land of Fire and enters the Land of Frost, it will be difficult to handle. Currently, both the Cloud Ninja Village and Konoha are massing troops on the border of the Land of Frost; once Konoha ninjas enter in large numbers, it could very likely ignite a war."

Although Danzō was a thorough hawk and feared no war, he did not want to go to war with the Cloud Ninja Village when he was not prepared.

Konoha was still entangled in fighting with Iwagakure; in the eyes of this old geezer, it wouldn't be too late to fight the Cloud Ninja after finishing off the Rock Ninja.

"I see. Give me his photo and location, and I'll set off right now!"

"Wait a moment, I will send a few ninjas to act with you."

"Forget it. As long as your intelligence is not wrong, I don't need anyone's help at all. I will bring his head to you when the time comes."

Uchiha Feiyu directly refused the Root ninjas under Danzō; he did not feel that he needed any ninjas to help him now.

Possessing a large number of souls available for learning, Uchiha Feiyu was now close to an all-around ninja; whether it was Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Sensory Ninjutsu, or Medical Ninjutsu, he had achieved no small level of mastery. One person was worth a squad of Jonin-level ninjas, and he no longer needed the cooperation of ordinary ninjas.

Danzō didn't say much more; the strong always had their own privileges. After handing the intelligence to Uchiha Feiyu, he let him go to execute the mission directly.

After walking out of Konoha, Uchiha Feiyu stuffed the mask provided by Root into his pocket—given his Power Level and fighting style, this thing had no concealing effect on other ninja villages; at most, it could fool ordinary Genin.

"Finally left Konoha... Let me look at the intelligence first. Hmm, the maximum time to complete the mission is 20 days? Perfect, I'll go kill this guy first, and the remaining time will allow me to practice Magnet Release!"

Magnet Release came from the unlucky Fourth Kazekage Rasa; the soul of this Fourth Kazekage was still in Uchiha Feiyu's hands!

However, practicing Magnet Release was a grand affair, especially Gold Sand Ninja Art, which was extremely conspicuous. As long as Uchiha Feiyu did not want to expose that he had learned Magnet Release while in Konoha, he would certainly not practice it in Konoha.

As for Gold Sand Ninja Art, Uchiha Feiyu himself did not care much about it. Although this was also a path that could lead directly to Shadow-level, it was clear that the strength achieved by relying on Magnet Release was a bit "hollow."

Although Magnet Release appeared to be both offensive and defensive and immensely powerful when dealing with foot soldiers, in battles against opponents of the same level, neither the Fourth Kazekage nor the Third Kazekage had any real record of victory.

Moreover, there was nothing about Magnet Release that could complement Uchiha Feiyu's White Fang sword style; in fact, the successive Kazekage could be called weaklings in taijutsu, otherwise they wouldn't have been so easily assassinated.

The reason Uchiha Feiyu wanted to practice Magnet Release so much was that his biggest goal was to use the power of the Bloodline Limit to nourish his physical body, improve his own physical and spiritual strength, and the quality of his chakra. As for the Magnet Release power itself, it could only serve as a supplement.

Or, in the future when he had no money, he could learn from a certain Fourth Kazekage and go pan for gold dust—the Fourth Kazekage could become the economic pillar of Sunagakure just by panning for gold; if this were applied to one person, it could easily make someone a billionaire.

With this Ninja Art, at least Uchiha Feiyu could achieve financial freedom in the future, and it would even be very easy to build some small forces with large amounts of capital.

Imagining a beautiful future, Uchiha Feiyu accelerated and sped toward the location provided by the intelligence.

(End of chapter)