Chapter 126: Can't Win, So You Fight?

Half a day later.

The Land of Waves Shipping Company promised to be willing to form an alliance with Kirigakure, with permanent friendship.

All factories, cargo ships, piers, and ports were to be taken over by Kirigakure.

At the same time,

All spies from forces such as Iwagakure, Sunagakure, and the Konoha Empire who had infiltrated the Land of Waves were recalled, and they ceased their infiltration work.

The Akatsuki organization lost two Shadow-level rogue ninjas and suffered a heavy blow to its vitality.

According to custom, any force that caused damage to the Akatsuki organization would receive its crazy retaliation, but Kakuzu and Hidan, who died in the Land of Waves, seemed to have been deliberately forgotten, and the Akatsuki organization took no action.

Konoha Family Territory,

The Cailiaogongfang, completed after construction, was a building with brass gears and iron hinges exposed on its outer walls, with a hammer-shaped sign in the center.

The interior space was large, but very empty.

A heart-shaped brass machine could be used to synthesize high-quality hearts.

Tsunade stood in front of the machine, her face full of nervousness, about to throw the prepared adhesive and low-quality heart into the machine.

"Granny Tsunade!"

Uzumaki Naruto discovered the anomaly, ran over in a hurry, and snatched the materials away.

Being discovered, Tsunade pursed her lips.

Asuma said helplessly: "Lord Tsunade, your luck is indeed a bit... terrible; it is better to leave this kind of thing to Naruto."

Having long heard the rumor that Tsunade was called a "Big Fat Sheep" in casinos, he did not expect that even in the game, her terrible luck had not changed.

"Purple hearts are more expensive; I still have four blue hearts here. If you don't mind, you can give it a try."

Asuma took out the hearts that he hadn't even warmed up yet and handed them to Tsunade.

Looking at the Heart Synthesis Machine emitting a faint light, he felt exhausted.

Building the Cailiaogongfang alone had cost the entire output of a Soul Rock Vein, and the subsequent purchase of adhesive and low-level hearts had completely emptied his accumulated family fortune.

And the result?

Synthesizing hearts was not as simple as imagined at all!

The initial success probability was very low, and to increase the success rate, one needed to upgrade the Heart Synthesis Machine.

The game merchant opened up low-level materials and synthesis functions, and although it gave players a chance to compete for the number one family, it did not consider families like theirs that were not well-funded.

The materials alone to upgrade the synthesis machine required thousands of Reward Points,

After gritting his teeth and selling a piece of purple equipment, Asuma tried to upgrade it, only to find that the success rate did indeed increase by two percent.

Continuing to upgrade further required even more materials... After thinking for a long time, Asuma could only choose to give up.

It was truly impossible to compete.

Even Uzumaki Naruto, who had the constitution of a lottery ticket harvester, could not succeed every time and also had times of consecutive failures.

Uzumaki Naruto could not help but complain on the Ninja Channel.

"The Konoha Family is clearly the strongest; does considering the strongest family only depend on who has more money? That is too superficial..."

As a result, he was caught by the game merchant, who replied: "The strongest family is certainly not necessarily the richest family, but a family that cannot even scrape together money is definitely not the strongest."

"Experts have plenty of ways to make money; how can you dare to call yourself the strongest family without money?"

The usually glib Konoha troublemaker was rendered speechless by this sentence.

He felt depressed for a long time.

Watching the materials fall into Tsunade's palm, Uzumaki Naruto widened his eyes and asked: "Captain Asuma, are the four blue hearts just going to be wasted like this?"

That attitude of "giving them to Granny Tsunade is equivalent to throwing them away" caused Tsunade to be ashamed and angry: "You brat, do you want to die?"

"It's fine."

Asuma sighed, having already given up on snatching the Family Badge (fixed).

Every time he obtained a Silver Heart to expand the Family Territory, he could see not only his own family but also the expansion degree of other families.

The strongest was the Dawn family, which had invested a full eighty Silver Hearts.

Next was Kirigakure, which was biting hard, having invested seventy-four Silver Hearts.

Then came the Konoha Empire and Sunagakure,

Orochimaru opened the national treasury and paid out of his own pocket to buy tickets to invite players to clear dungeons; except for heart materials and adhesive, everything else belonged to the players, which immediately attracted countless rogue ninjas and civilian players.

But starting too late, it was still impossible to surpass Dawn and Kirigakure.

Sunagakure,

Rasa plunged his hands into the soft yellow sand, activated Magnet Release, and a steady stream of chakra erupted, infiltrating the desert.

Large swaths of the desert rose and fell like a yellow ocean, and grains of gold sand shimmering with brilliant radiance gradually detached from the yellow sand, flowing like water toward the tents where the sand ninjas were stationed.

The sand ninjas, who had been prepared for a long time, took out cloth bags and sealed the openings after the gold sand flowed in.

"Father, let's stop here for today. Don't consume any more chakra. If you continue to overdraw your body and mental energy like this, there will be sequelae."

"Although you have defensive gear for energy recovery, it is low-level equipment after all and cannot support this level of Magnet Release consumption."

Temari showed a worried expression.

The poor Sunagakure was able to suppress Konoha and Iwagakure by relying on Rasa's "daredevil" style of constantly mining gold sand.

For this reason,

Kankuro spent tens of thousands of Reward Points to hire blacksmith players from Iron Country to forge a set of defensive gear for Rasa that could recover chakra.

There was no other way; although they could get two Game Invitations every month after the family was founded,

However, the Kazekage, who was famous in the ninja world, only had a game level of 【5】. 5-level equipment had very limited amplification for a Shadow-level, so he had to spend a lot of money to buy Reality Equipment.

"It's okay."

Although Rasa was exhausted, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.

As long as he can change the current situation of Sunagakure, even if he is exhausted, he, the Kazekage, has no regrets.

On the Blood Wasteland, at the Dawn Family territory,

gusts of wind mixed with the smell of blood battered the walls of the Dawn Family.

"Clan Head, there are still some remaining Reward Points; do we need to upgrade the city walls?"

"Not for now."

There is still half a day left before becoming the number one family and obtaining the special reward.

Although the Wuyin Family has been catching up with all their might, the gap of seven Silver Hearts cannot be bridged in a short time, unless they are willing to go all-in and frantically synthesize them at the last moment, which might give them a sliver of a chance.

However, the Dawn Family has members specifically monitoring the family expansion ranking; once the Wuyin Family invests a Silver Heart, the Dawn Family will instantly add one to maintain a safe distance.

The outcome has already been decided.

Just then, a family member hurried over and reported with a serious expression: "Clan Head, some unfamiliar players were just discovered lingering near the family territory; although they have been driven away, something feels wrong."

Konan frowned slightly and asked: "Players from the Death Soul Mountain Range?"

Although they are all players from the Ninja Novice Village,

players from the Blood Wasteland and the Death Soul Mountain Range have their own fixed hunting grounds and do not wander around without reason.

"Not sure."

The family member was also unsure.

Konan nodded slightly, assuming it was just a player who had a sudden whim to change their hunting ground.

But soon, two more family members rushed over, saying that players were gathering near the family territory, and this time they discovered familiar faces—they were players from the Wuyin Family.

"Wuyin?"

Konan's heart sank.

Paper wings sprouted from her back, imprinted with winding red patterns containing the power of wind, capable of increasing flight and movement speed.

She suspected that the Wuyin Family could not gather enough Silver Hearts and wanted to launch a direct attack on the Dawn Family.

After all,

the first rule of the Samsara Game family content is that once the clan monument is destroyed, the family is automatically disbanded.

(End of this chapter)