UK:GSW Chapter 393 – The Sky Ninja: "We'll Win!"
In the end, the plan to directly overthrow the old system of the Land of Fire and replace it with a brand-new one was not approved.
The reason was simple—Konoha lacked sufficient talent reserves and was still in a critical stage of development. If they were to reform the Land of Fire's system now, it would inevitably interrupt that progress and trigger a series of chain reactions.
For one, the moment other countries saw what Konoha had done, their alertness would spike to the maximum. Nobles and daimyo across the nations would be terrified by Konoha's actions, immediately pushing all factions to join forces in besieging Konoha, while cutting off all possible supplies from entering the village.
Although Konoha now had the strength to challenge the entire world one-on-one, that's all it was—a challenge, not a steamroll. If real war broke out, even final victory would come at a considerable cost.
Even with a trump card like the First Hokage, this held true.
After all, in this supernatural world of shinobi, even if Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha joined forces and could beat the world into the ground, they couldn't be everywhere at once—and shinobi had no shortage of time or underhanded methods.
If those ninja were determined to go to ground and wage guerrilla warfare, Konoha would be forced into a drawn-out war of attrition.
Most importantly, what Konoha wanted was a relatively intact Land of Fire, with minimal losses—not a Land of Fire reduced to rubble.
Thus, in the matter of the Land of Fire's daimyo, Konoha could make a move against him, could even kill him—but the system itself would still have to remain as it was, without launching into reckless, sweeping reforms.
Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Kei showed no disappointment at this outcome. Clearly, both had expected it—or rather, their sudden proposal to topple the Land of Fire's old system had merely been a statement of intent, making their future ambitions and ideology clear as a young duo.
It also signaled something else—Konoha could now officially begin expanding its talent cultivation programs.
In fact, this was exactly the problem Tsunade and the others were currently worrying about.
As Konoha's development surged, even with the recruitment decree drawing talent from across the shinobi world, the village inevitably found itself plagued by a talent shortage.
After all, Konoha's rapid growth was akin to an industrial revolution in the shinobi world—and anyone who understood the talent-devouring effect of industrialization knew exactly what that meant.
They didn't just need specialists with advanced knowledge; they also needed a massive number of skilled workers with both literacy and technical ability.
Konoha's solution was to have shinobi join the production process, leveraging the chakra system's superhuman effects to make up for the initial shortage of skilled workers. To maintain the core production of Illusion Games, many Uchiha were dispatched to the workshops for the honorable task of "screw-driving," with other major clans sending their idle members into the factories as well.
Even so, as Konoha's population passed 300,000, and with the new district completed plus another new district already under large-scale construction, even the ninja doing screw-driving weren't enough.
This directly led to a development slowdown—despite knowing that continued expansion was beneficial, Konoha had no choice but to pause.
Population growth continued, with more people arriving to work and settle in Konoha, but with industrial activity stalled, jobs were in short supply.
This couldn't go on. Tsunade and the others even considered banning further immigration into Konoha.
But thanks to their advanced studies, they knew this was a terrible idea—an outright wrong move. In the unique supernatural environment of the shinobi world, it would be like shackling themselves.
So they were racking their brains for other solutions.
At this point—amid the stir caused by the Land of Fire daimyo's scheming—Uchiha Kei put forward a plan he'd long since discussed with Minato, and one they had previously hinted at to Tsunade and the others.
"Let's cultivate our own talent. Not the shinobi academy model—but a true, top-to-bottom educational reform."
"We can also open the Learning Space in a limited way through the Illusion Network and Illusion Game platform, using it to train a batch of ordinary people who can use chakra as high-quality workers."
"These high-quality workers don't need to learn how to fight like shinobi—just how to use chakra for industrial construction."
At this proposal, the council members representing Konoha's governing bodies—and clan interests—looked stunned, then fell into thought.
Finally, all eyes turned to Tsunade.
Given Konoha's current development and Tsunade's relationship with Uchiha Kei, it was clear that as the soon-to-be formal Hokage, she was the one who could decide everything. She was also the representative of the Konoha clan interest group—rooted in the Senju clan's influence—whose demands for benefits from the current boom were tied to her.
Similarly, the interests of Konoha's great clans, represented by the Uchiha, now converged entirely on Uchiha Kei's leadership. His proposal meant the Uchiha clan would fully back it.
After thinking for a while, Tsunade asked,
"Kei-kun, you do realize this policy will cause the biggest loss to the great ninja clans like yours?"
Kei smiled.
"Tsunade-neesan, you also know the things I see and understand are far above the shinobi world's current perception. I know very well that universal education and making the chakra system a public asset is a step we must take."
"Only this way will Konoha and the shinobi world have a brighter future—rather than rotting away in their self-built kingdoms until they're crushed by an advanced force from beyond."
"On this point, I have to say the First and Second Hokage had great foresight. Even if they didn't consciously realize it, their decision for the Senju clan to give up its surname and merge into Konoha was a step ahead."
Hearing this, Tsunade's beautiful face softened into a warm smile. Then, in her bold and heroic voice, she declared her support for the policy.
Her word meant the policy would inevitably be implemented—such was the authority of the "Senju Princess" as Hokage.
Next came the matter of how to grant ordinary people equal education rights, and how to awaken enough chakra in them.
For this, Orochimaru—representing Konoha's Research Division—offered a solution: they had already developed a drug that could awaken chakra in ordinary people.
This drug was based on a formula for an aphrodisiac drawn from the system lottery—whose uses and versatility turned out to be far greater than expected.
Working together, Orochimaru and Tobirama Senju modified it into a chakra-awakening agent.
After all, everyone in the shinobi world had been "contaminated" by Otsutsuki power—making them biologically akin to "plant people" with far more cells than ordinary humans. The problem was that normal people lacked proper nutrition and training, so their potential—and chakra—remained dormant.
This drug would awaken chakra without side effects.
Well—there was one "side effect," but for most people it wouldn't count: after using the drug, one would need to eat a lot more, as energy consumption spiked for a time.
This was similar to ninja training—except that in training, the increased food intake was gradual. Here, it could make someone eat like a Saiyan overnight.
Naturally, widespread use of the drug would massively increase food demand—but this was no problem for Konoha. Long ago, Orochimaru had created a plant growth accelerator, now used extensively in Konoha's farmlands. Despite the city's permanent population swelling into the hundreds of thousands, food shortages had never occurred.
With resources secured, only the education issue remained.
This would be solved with a special Illusion Learning Tool created by Uchiha Kei—linking through the Illusion Network, using Illusion Games as the platform.
The new public Learning Space would be under Kei's full control—only those with his approval could enter, and instructors could also be brought in to teach there.
To speed up education, NPCs would handle the basic instruction. Konoha couldn't spare living talent for teaching.
Fortunately, Kei's mental network world could produce countless excellent teachers—and while educating chakra-using workers didn't require top-tier educators, he could simply build NPC teachers with the required knowledge pre-loaded.
Thus, education was no longer a problem—only the will and policy support were needed.
All this was the chain reaction to Kei's release of the Shinobi World War map editor—and Konoha's response.
Meanwhile, the daimyo's plan to strike wasn't set for the near future. He intended to wait until Tsunade was officially instated as Fourth Hokage, then invite her and Konoha's leadership to the capital under the guise of a celebration—and attack then.
Before that, he planned to secretly recruit powerful fighters, including wanted criminals and S-rank missing-nin.
Though these were dangerous figures, the daimyo—used to life at the top—didn't believe such "stray dogs" would dare touch him. If he went to the trouble of recruiting them, they should feel grateful enough to die for him.
Doubt his brain if you want—but this was genuinely how he thought, the result of centuries of indoctrination under the shinobi world's feudal system.
To be fair, he wasn't entirely wrong. In a thousand years of shinobi history, while S-rank missing-nin could indeed be destructive—like Sasori destroying a nation—that destruction only threatened small countries.
Major nations like the Land of Fire, and their daimyo, were rarely touched by shinobi conflicts—save for the Fourth Shinobi World War. Normally, ninja warfare avoided harming these "masters" of the world.
Under such a system, daimyo lived without a sense of crisis. Even during the Fourth War, when gathered together, they showed no worry for the future—just sat there playing mahjong.
And when discussing rewards for the ninja who fought and bled for them, they thought it natural to hand out worthless medals.
This proved that, wise or not, they were still feudal monarchs.
Konoha's current opponent was one of these men. By historical standards, the current Land of Fire daimyo was relatively enlightened—but his nature as a feudal ruler was unchanged, and his worst traits were on full display.
To Kei, his slow, roundabout plotting was far too sluggish—nothing like Li Shimin, who would decide one day and act the next.
Still, the wait suited them—it gave Konoha time to prepare.
And in the meantime, in a forested border area of the Land of Fire, the Sky Ninja Village was preparing a surprise attack on Konoha.
The plan was simple: no elaborate plots—just using their Sky Fortress to hide above the clouds, then drift over Konoha under cloud cover and unleash an aerial strike.
Yes—an aerial strike.
With Black Zetsu's technical support, the Sky Ninja's control over the Zero-Tails was unmatched, with limitless energy supply. On this basis, they had developed superweapons even stronger than those in the original movie—more than enough, in their eyes, to give Konoha a taste of a shock far ahead of its time.
At least, that's what the Sky Ninja thought. Confident in their overwhelming tech advantage, they believed—
"We'll win!"
Of course, Black Zetsu's own assessment was: "Hopeless teammates—can't carry them.jpg."
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