"I did not expect them to send you over." Komaki looked at the person who came from the Land of Whirlpools and said with a smile, "This is good. I will leave everything in the Land of Hot Water to you from now on."
Recently, these tedious matters had made him feel irritable.
Pacifying the refugees of the Land of Hot Water, managing the ninja of the Land of Hot Water, and being vigilant against the cult hidden within the Land of Hot Water...
There was just so much to do!
Especially now, with the Land of Hot Water in such a chaotic environment, people were filled with anxiety...
Fear, terror, and death constantly shrouded this country. Suddenly seeing so many ninja from other countries appear, let alone a group of civilians who had suffered greatly, even ninja who had experienced war were probably scared out of their wits now!
"There is not much happening back home, so they arranged for me to come," Uzumaki Hibiki said with a smile on his face. "How is the situation here now?"
"The cults in the Land of Hot Water have been mostly cleared out," Komaki spread his hands and said with a tired expression. "I have been exhausted this whole time. But..." His expression turned serious. "I found that this cult is very unusual!"
"What is it?" Seeming to catch the meaning in Komaki's words, Hibiki frowned and asked, "What did you find?"
"Strange symbols!" Komaki took a few drawings out from his bosom and said with a serious expression, "Look at this heptagram, and these..."
They were almost like sealing arrays!
"Perhaps they are just special symbols of the cult?" Uzumaki Hibiki looked at the patterns on the paper, pondered for a moment, and said, "They serve no other purpose."
They were only used for prayer rituals~
"Currently, it is still unknown!" Komaki shook his head and said, "During the subsequent clearing operations, I will carefully see if I can find any useful clues."
He thought for a moment...
"I have already copied all the patterns down. I will give them to His Highness Jun later. Perhaps His Highness Jun will know something about them?"
After all...
That was His Highness Jun!
"Alright," Uzumaki Hibiki nodded and said, "Also submit a copy to the Research Institute. Your concern is correct. A mysterious organization that suddenly appears here might not be as simple as we think on the surface?"
It wouldn't hurt to research it first!
"Now that you are here, I can relax a little," Komaki rubbed his forehead and said with a smile. "I will not worry about the rest. Letting those cults stay here for so long has given me a constant feeling of unease!"
It's better to clean them all up as soon as possible!
"You go attend to your matters!" Uzumaki Hibiki opened the memo and nodded, saying, "The higher-ups have sent a group of ideology and ethics teachers. I believe peace will be restored soon."
Especially since this time, the people sent were all professionals...
Coupled with sufficient food and stable jobs, he didn't believe these refugees wouldn't obey obediently!
"Then it's settled," Komaki nodded and said with a smile, "I have sealed the chakra of the surviving Hot Water ninja. Be careful, but there should be no problems."
Moreover...
With so few people left, even if their chakra wasn't sealed, it wouldn't matter!
After all, their Land of Whirlpools would station troops here.
The only worrisome thing now was this suddenly emerging organization...
How come nothing was discovered all these years?
What exactly is going on?
Uzumaki Komaki's heart was filled with unease...
He hoped His Highness Jun knew something!
...
"Achoo!" Uzumaki Jun rubbed his nose and looked at the scenery around him, shrouded in a fine drizzle. Especially at those impoverished people, skinny and bony, their eyes blank, standing in the fine rain like walking corpses, seemingly already accustomed to it!
He sighed helplessly in his heart...
"After so many years, the Land of Rain is still the same as before!"
"Yes!" An old man with a somewhat pale and aged face next to him nodded. His eyes were turbid yet carried a hint of remorse as he looked at the scene before him. "If I had been more ruthless back then, perhaps the current situation would be better!"
If it hadn't been for back then...
The old man sighed inwardly, shook his head, stood in the drizzling rain, and quietly watched the scene before him.
"So..." Hearing the old man's words, Uzumaki Jun rolled his eyes and said flatly, "Why did you ask me to come to the Land of Rain?"
"Demigod of the Shinobi World..."
His eyes suddenly turned sharp as he stared at the old man before him...
"Hanzo of the Salamander!"
For no reason, he had a ninja deliver a message saying the Demigod of the Shinobi World wants to meet you...
If he hadn't been idle with nothing to do, and also thought of the Land of Rain's abundant mineral resources, he wouldn't have come!
The country currently needed a lot of steel for bridge construction, and he had also ordered Chiro to research technology related to sea trains, to see if it was possible to build a sea train line between the Land of Whirlpools and the Land of Hot Water.
He understood the principle that to get rich, one must build roads first. The Land of Hot Water and the Land of Whirlpools were also quite far apart. If transportation wasn't convenient...
Then what was the use of him taking the Land of Hot Water?
So...
There was a shortage of iron ore!!
"Do not worry!" Hanzo of the Salamander shook his head and said calmly, "I bear no ill intent."
As soon as he finished speaking, a bitter smile appeared on his face...
"Even if I truly had ill intent, I could not do anything to you..."
"The newly ascended God of the Shinobi World..."
"The Daimyo of the Land of Whirlpools!!"
He looked at the Uzumaki Jun before him, who was young to an excessive degree...
In the end, he had indeed become the God of the Shinobi World. Back when everyone saw the youngest Kage, they all knew this little brat would surely dominate the shinobi world in the future, but no one expected...
It to be so fast!
So fast that no one could react.
Now, at his peak, who in the shinobi world could be his match?
"What do you think of the current Land of Rain?"
"Chaotic!" Uzumaki Jun pondered for a moment and said, "More chaotic than before."
He sighed...
"Simply, the people cannot live properly..."
"Yes!" Hanzo of the Salamander nodded and said with emotion, "Back then, for the sake of immediate benefits, I gathered all the common people together and trained them, intending to become the sixth great nation, the sixth great hidden village."
"But I did not expect..."
"The Land of Rain simply could not afford it!"
His face carried regret...
"With the perennial rainy season, the country was originally short of food, plus the never-ending wars."
Hanzo looked with hatred towards the three great nations...
The Land of Rain bordered three great nations, originally surviving in the cracks, but no one paid any attention. For their own interests, they constantly provoked wars, keeping the Land of Rain in a perpetual state of conflict. And he...
Hanzo of the Salamander, the Demigod of the Shinobi World, was the same!
Selfish, ignorant, greedy...
"Because of me, the current Land of Rain..." Hanzo of the Salamander showed a bitter smile and said, "If this continues, it will be destroyed!"
Truly, the country will perish...
He could already see it. The hidden villages and the Red Alliance were destined to fight eventually, a battle that would decide the future of the shinobi world. So...
Every hidden village was beginning to choose sides!
The Land of Rain, after long-term conflict, originally had a small population. Coupled with the countless ninja who died in the wars, if they joined the hidden village side...
They would be nothing but cannon fodder!
But if they joined the Red Alliance side...
"Save the Land of Rain..." Hanzo of the Salamander said with a pleading expression, tears in his eyes, "Please help the Land of Rain!"
"Do not let the Land of Rain..."
"Perish!"
Only then would there be a chance to survive!
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