Chapter 292: Cloud's Assault

Ninja Academy Teacher, I Get Stronger by Teaching Chapter 210: Cloud's Offensive. "Just today, a large number of Cloud ninja rushed our border from the Land of Hot Water." Sarutobi Hiruzen said with a serious expression.

Some of the younger jonin looked solemn; although Cloud had been at war with Konoha for a long time, there hadn't been a major battle between them.

However, most of the jonin remained calm, because they knew if the situation were truly urgent, there wouldn't be a meeting—ninja forces would be dispatched directly. Since they still had time to hold a meeting and discuss it, the situation must still be manageable.

"Fortunately, our front-line ninja have been very tenacious, effectively holding back the enemy's offensive and stopping the Cloud ninja forces outside the Land of Fire." Sarutobi Hiruzen paused and said.

On one hand, reconnaissance ninja had detected the unusual activity, and on the other, Minato had encountered the new AB Combo, so Sarutobi Hiruzen had reinforced the border garrisons, preventing major problems.

"But the situation is still far from optimistic. We need to send more ninja to the border to thwart Cloud's schemes." Sarutobi Hiruzen continued.

Choosing a commander to lead a ninja force to support the front line was one of the items on the meeting agenda.

In fact, before this, Sarutobi Hiruzen had already held a small meeting with Danzo and the other two. Originally, Hiruzen wanted Jiraiya to continue as commander, but Danzo thought Orochimaru would be better. In the end, they decided to let the jonin meeting make the final decision.

Sarutobi Hiruzen looked at Jiraiya, hoping he would volunteer to lead the reinforcements to the border.

The best way to become Hokage was to achieve feats that surpassed everyone else. Jiraiya had just defeated an Iwa ninja force, and if he could also defeat Cloud, his reputation in Konoha would reach new heights.

"Minato, what's it like teaching disciples? Watching them grow day by day under your guidance is pretty great, isn't it?" Jiraiya turned and said to Minato, avoiding eye contact with Sarutobi Hiruzen.

"Mm." Minato nodded with a gentle smile.

"Sigh, this guy." Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed inwardly as he watched Jiraiya conveniently turn away.

The meeting was quiet for twenty seconds, then Orochimaru spoke: "Lord Third, I am willing to go to the border to provide support."

Because they were in a meeting, Orochimaru did not address Sarutobi Hiruzen as "teacher."

Seeing Orochimaru step forward, Danzo immediately voiced his support, praising Orochimaru's Will of Fire.

Seeing that Jiraiya had no desire to compete, Sarutobi Hiruzen finally decided on Orochimaru as the commander, leading a thousand ninja to reinforce the border.

After all, he had just rejected one of Danzo's requests, and Jiraiya himself didn't seem to want to go.

With the front-line support personnel decided, the meeting did not end. A jonin meeting wouldn't be called just to discuss that single issue.

"The ninja world is in chaos, with wars raging between all the nations. Under these circumstances, what actions do you think Konoha should take?" Sarutobi Hiruzen asked the jonin.

Compared to deciding who would lead the reinforcements to the front line, this was the main topic of the meeting. The candidates for the former were limited, and everyone had a rough idea before it even started.

"Of course, we should actively participate in the war and let the Daimyo and clients recognize our strength. This way, Konoha's prestige can reach a new peak." Danzo immediately stated his opinion.

A ninja village's missions don't come out of nowhere, especially foreign commissions—they're basically based on the village's strength. The better a village performs in the shinobi world war, the more missions it will receive after the war ends; conversely, it might see a decrease.

"Counterattack into the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth! Let those guys know the power of us Konoha ninja!" As the leader of Konoha's hawk faction, Danzo had barely finished speaking when a hawk-aligned jonin chimed in.

"We can send spies to investigate the Land of Wind. Having lost the Third Kazekage and engaged in fierce battles with Cloud, Suna is weaker than ever."

"Forget that. Since the war is getting more intense, shouldn't we train more medical ninja? If every squad could have a medical ninja, casualties would drop significantly." Tsunade, who had been silent until now, spoke up.

She hadn't wanted to say anything—she had just planned to go back and lie down after the meeting until Moyue finished cooking—but she couldn't stand the hawk faction's remarks.

Repelling invaders was fine in Tsunade's book, but wanting to attack the Land of Wind, a country they currently had no conflict with, was just plain crazy.

"We do need to train more medical ninja, but equipping every squad with one would be very difficult to achieve." Sarutobi Hiruzen shook his head slightly.

His statement was meant to save face for Tsunade. In truth, he would never agree to that proposal because it would waste manpower and resources with no real benefit.

Konoha's standard squad consisted of four people—one captain and three members. If one out of four had to be a medical ninja, then out of four thousand ninja, one thousand would have to be medical ninja.

The number of ninja Konoha could support was limited; it couldn't expand endlessly. Increasing medical ninja would mean reducing the number of regular ninja, which would lower the overall combat power of Konoha's ninja forces.

Moreover, training medical ninja was more costly and difficult than training regular ninja. Why would Sarutobi Hiruzen spend money to weaken Konoha's strength?

"If we want to cultivate talent in medical ninjutsu, I have an idea. Generally, people with good chakra control are more gifted in medical ninjutsu. If we start training such talent at the Ninja Academy stage, we can both screen for gifted individuals and shorten the training time." Moyue thought for a moment and said.

"Establish a specialized medical class, allowing students who aspire to become medical ninja to enter that class for focused training."

System rewards were both random and fixed. Teaching students brought fixed improvements—teaching taijutsu boosted taijutsu, teaching ninjutsu boosted ninjutsu. He wanted to narrow the scope further and try teaching only medical ninjutsu to see if the rewards would be limited to medical ninjutsu alone.

If successful, Moyue's plan to reform the Ninja Academy would have great potential. In the future, if he wanted to improve in a specific field, he could teach students in that specialty and receive targeted rewards.

Moreover, Moyue felt that saying this now might also earn him some favor with Tsunade.

"Specialized medical class..." Sarutobi Hiruzen showed a thoughtful expression, feeling that Moyue's idea was quite good—much more reliable than Tsunade's proposal.

Tsunade's mouth opened slightly, and she looked at Moyue with a hint of surprise. After thinking it over, she also felt the proposal was very good and friendly to medical ninja.

Next, Moyue did not say much more. This was not a big matter, not worth discussing too much in the emergency Jonin meeting. It wasn't like they were rebuilding a ninja academy that only recruited medical ninjas. The Education Department and the Ninja Academy could just hold their own meeting and that would be about it.

The meeting quickly returned to the topic of Konoha's actions in the war.

After the meeting ended, Moyue briefly exchanged some thoughts on taijutsu with Teacher Chen, then went to Tsunade's house to cook dinner and study medical knowledge.

Because the basic breathing method had been tested enough, Moyue began teaching Rin the basic breathing method.

However, because the main body was busy, except for weekends, it was basically shadow clones doing the teaching. There was no help for it; even Shisui was the same.