Chapter 521: Immortal
At the northern border of the Land of Whirlpools, Ryo detached a small scroll and a slip of paper from the leg of the Summoning Hawk.
The slip of paper read: Please sign the Summoning Contract Scroll and inform us of the situation in Whirlpools.
The handwriting was elegant yet visibly rushed. Ryo could instantly tell that Ajisai was probably overwhelmed with work.
"Jugo, sign the contract with this hawk. You will handle communications with the Land of Rain. Inform them of Whirlpools' situation, and ask about the state of the other villages!"
"Yes, Grand Elder!"
Jugo was reliable and swift in his actions. With this hawk being summoned back and forth through the Land of Rain as a central relay, Ryo quickly gained a general understanding of the current situation across the shinobi world.
Only the six major nations were currently under attack by the White Zetsu and Reanimation forces. Furthermore, the Reanimation armies invading each nation were specifically tailored as "Ancestral Relative Battalions."
Among them, the Land of Whirlpools had already concluded its battle. Konoha, possessing immense military strength and not having to face any reanimated Hokage in their custom battalion, was also on the verge of wrapping up their fight.
However, the situation in the other four villages was critical. The Hidden Sand was already coordinating rescue logistics with Konoha, while the Hidden Mist and Hidden Stone were urgently requesting backup. Only the Fourth Raikage of the Hidden Cloud was stubbornly holding the line on his own, though his situation was far from optimistic—his very own biological father had manifested within the enemy's Reanimation vanguard...
"The Third Raikage," Ryo knit his brows. Wasn't that guy completely dismantled by my Particle Style back in the day? When on earth did they manage to harvest his biological cells?
Furthermore, several developments had completely bypassed Ryo's expectations. He had initially speculated that Konoha Village would be the absolute first to mandate rescue from the Land of Whirlpools.
Wielding their current strength tier, Konoha was undeniably formidable, yet Madara had historically escorted Tenji to aggressively excavate a massive volume of ancestral graves belonging to their noble clans. The Warring States period wove an immense pool of S-rank powerhouses, and the four supreme legends of that era were all certified SS-rank units. Even for the Konoha of the current timeline, containing an assault of that magnitude would be monumentally troublesome.
"None of those premier powerhouses have been deployed via Reanimation yet; Tenji is deliberately holding back his peak combat output down the line. As for the minor nations completely escaping the assault, that parameter is highly probable to be a testament to Teuchi's sovereign intervention, correct?" Ryo drifted into deep, silent contemplation. "Exactly what operational maneuver should my presence execute now... Why on earth hasn't Minato successfully journeyed back yet!"
"Summoning Jutsu (Kuchiyose no Jutsu)!" Jugo's voice resonated once more, and the Summoning Hawk materialized with a sharp poof.
Ryo smoothly extended his arm to detach the slip of paper from the hawk's leg. Unrolling the sheet, his focus given a sudden standstill—the handwriting had completely swapped characters!
Please personally advance to supply immediate backup to the Hidden Mist Village, Senior, and simultaneously dispatch the Land of Whirlpools' ninja battalions to reinforce the Hidden Cloud. Subsequent to clearing the crisis clamping down on the Hidden Mist, trouble you to instruct their forces to cross the maritime borders to reinforce the Land of Earth!
Ryo calculated the metrics for a brief half-second: "The logistical framework checks out flawlessly. The Land of Earth is anchored at an excessively distant coordinate; executing a round-trip journey block would consume a solid hour of duration, which means my personal presence flatly lacks the clearance to advance there. However, the maritime path separating the Land of Water and the Land of Whirlpools requires a mere five-minute flight circuit; stepping over to manage their coordinates poses absolute zero issue! Once this deployment settles, the adversaries besieging every single ninja village can be completely flattened. Furthermore, traveling to the Hidden Mist might potentially lure Tenji straight out into the open; this master-tier blueprint is monumentally stellar. Exactly which individual compiled this plan?"
Right at that exact fraction of a second, a brilliant flash of golden light erupted directly beside Ryo's flank, and Minato's physical frame cleanly materialized on location.
"The combat parameters have already hit their terminal conclusion? My deepest, most absolute apologies, Grand Elder, my vessel wove a delayed touchdown," Minato articulated with a trace of distinct internal guilt. "The Daimyo of the Land of Fire along his sovereign wife have been successfully escorted straight inside the ramen shop sanctuary, and Kushina's biological parents are securely anchored there as well, but..."
"Mmm, the data has been thoroughly parsed," Ryo gave a firm nod. He could easily expand his sensory arrays to parse that Kushina and Naruto were currently sprinting toward their coordinates at maximum velocity, single-mindedly desiring to chip in a layer of contribution to handle this war.
Regrettably, the Old Ancestor's execution parameters were simply far too rapid; they were structurally destined to miss out on the absolute peak intensity of the action...
"What exact anomaly struck Konoha? Evaluating your independent velocity parameters, your presence rightfully should have successfully journeyed back a solid twenty minutes ago."
"Absolute zero issue; the adversaries have already been cleanly decimated down to the final remnants. I simply executed a rapid detour straight to the Land of Rain to successfully drop Shikaku, Inoichi, and the alternative strategic brains on location."
"Shikaku, ah!" Profound realization smoothly blanked across Ryo's features, passing the paper slip straight into Minato's grip, "Meticulously audit these parameters."
"Great-Great-Grandpa (Old Ancestor), could it possibly be that the war has already hit its terminal conclusion down to the letter?" Kushina and Naruto blurted out the exact same inquiry in perfect, overlapping unison directly behind his flank.
"How on earth could an enterprise of this magnitude be that low-effort," Ryo shook his head smoothly. "Minato, the absolute second the battlefield clean-up rotation wraps up, coordinate the elite Jonin anchoring the northern frontier battalion to advance straight to reinforce the Land of Lightning. Assign Kimimaro to permanently operate as your primary second-in-command!"
"The directive has been cleanly parsed, Grand Elder!" Minato hesitated for a brief micro-second, letting out a soft sigh to inquire: "When charting our route past the Land of Rivers, should our forces instruct the Hidden Hot Springs Village to proactively coordinate a maximum-scale civilian evacuation block? If a high-powered, ferocious clash violently erupts down the chain, that specific frontier sector operates as the absolute optimal choice to serve as our primary battlefield zone."
Ryo was briefly startled: "The strategic logic checks out flawlessly. The active front lines must be strictly insulated from pushing back across the borders of the Land of Whirlpools; the Land of Rivers commands an exceptionally vast territory paired along a highly sparse population density, rendering it monumentally, thoroughly appropriate! Command their units to execute a rapid evacuation trajectory straight toward the Land of Whirlpools, and our forces shall systematically administer a dense layer of financial capital compensations subsequent to the war... How about compensating their lines by seamlessly granting them sovereign status as official residents of the Land of Whirlpools?"
Minato could only offer a bitter, helpless chuckle: "Your absolute words command the metrics!"
Ryo wove a gentle laugh: "Consequentially, Kushina, your primary mission parameters have successfully touched down! Coordinate your movement alongside Naruto to systematically intercept and manage the civilian refugees and ninja forces evacuating out from the Land of Rivers. Seamlessly deploy your Nine-Tails Chakra Mode to razor-sharply audit their heart parameters to bifurcate the pure entities from hidden malice; the absolute millisecond you lock onto an operative harboring underhanded intent, violently throw them straight inside an absolute confinement cell!"
"Absolute zero issue!" The mother and son chorused in perfect unison down to the letter.
"Compounding that detailing," Ryo given a subtle pause, "My personal presence is launching an immediate high-speed flight circuit to hit the Hidden Mist Village to supply backup. Tenji commands a highly minimized, localized probability to proactively materialize on location, single-mindedly desiring to unleash an offensive storm to abduct your vessels. If the Patriarch of the Dark Akatsuki violently breaches the perimeter to launch an assault, your units... shall systematically execute a tactical fighting retreat straight toward Nagato's coordinates. The Great Ancestor shall comfortably accelerate his velocity parameters to hit your flanks in a flash."
Naruto was briefly caught flat-footed, opening his maw to articulate a counter-argument, yet his prose was cleanly cut off by Kushina's sharp interjection: "Our forces have thoroughly parsed the directives!"
Ryo took a deep, sweeping breath of air. Verifying that every single operational safeguard had been flawlessly aligned down to the letter, he gave a firm nod to signal Minato, before his physical frame cleanly flashed out of active existence.
"Leveraging the premier strategic backup administered by Shikaku and Minato, the Great Ancestor has successfully woven a monumentally airtight, flawlessly synchronized battlefield layout. I explicitly cross-examine the cosmos—exactly how on earth can a war of this spectacular caliber log a single failure node?"
A mere three continuous minutes later, stepping straight onto the western frontier boundaries of the Land of Water, Ryo successfully crossed paths alongside a minor vanguard detachment of Hidden Mist shinobi permanently stationed on the coordinate.
"Senior, your absolute presence has finally touched down on location!" The vanguard leader bent his torso down to execute an absolute, point-blank bow: "Trouble you to please track closely behind my navigational course!"
Ryo smoothly shook his head to clarify: "Directly articulate exactly which compass quadrant the battle is unfolding upon; your independent velocity parameters are far too lagging!"
The unvarnished prose was monumentally blunt, yet the Hidden Mist shinobi manifested absolute zero internal friction to push back: "Stationed squarely across the eastern maritime sector; the adversaries aggressively launched their offensive blitz straight from the open seas!"
Ryo knit his brows into a narrow slit, only now catching a highly specific structural loophole hidden within the enemy's logistics. Setting the White Zetsu army aside completely, what precise technical methodology did they deploy to transport these massive Reanimation battalions to hit every major nation across the shinobi world concurrently at the exact same micro-second?
"Could it possibly be a decentralized deployment of proxy clones? If Tenji had proactively distributed a vast multitude of specialized clones across every sector of the world prior to launching the uproar, single-mindedly desiring to rely on the Reanimation Jutsu to trace their origin back to his primary base becomes a fraction unrealistic. Furthermore, our forces can be effortlessly blindsided by a high-powered diversionary tactic to draw my presence away; talk about a troublesome metric!"
Lightheartedly pursing his lips, Ryo shook his head smoothly, weaving a continuous string of Body Flickers to horizontally slice straight through the interior geography of the Land of Water. A brief two continuous minutes later, he successfully hit the eastern maritime sectors of the nation.
An array of monumentally ferocious, high-powered clashes was currently executing its active cycles across the waters. Ryo cleanly parsed the severe, grueling dilemma clamping down on the Hidden Mist ranks in a single glance.
Mei Terumi commanded an exceptionally formidable tier of independent prowess, yet the specific matrix she was structurally forced to engage was precisely the Second Mizukage—Gengetsu Hozuki, an extraordinarily potent shinobi whose raw combat output sat perfectly level alongside Tobirama's baseline. Had it not been for that specific, small-mustached legend operating with an exceptionally reliable, upright character—continuously utilizing his vocal apparatus to aggressively shout out structural warnings and technical instructions to guide Mei Terumi's counters—her defensive stance would have sustained a catastrophic collapse ages ago.
Having the current sovereign Mizukage of their village completely pinned down and dominated by the enemy's historical Mizukage was already an execution packed with profound, bitter despair. Yet, driving the situational parameters to an exponentially more apocalyptic tier was the unvarnished reality that the enemy battalion wove a supplementary duo of alternative Mizukage units!
Subtly focusing his cognitive parameters, Ryo wove a rapid spatial displacement, direct flattening his massive palm straight across the face of the Third Mizukage. Unleashing a dense layer of repulsive force to permanently lock down his physical articulation, he delivered a resonant command: "Eight Trigrams Seal (Hakke no Fūin)!"
The Hidden Mist shinobi monitoring the field violently brought their movements to a brief standstill, and Chojuro—anchored directly within the vanguard rows—couldn't resist shouting out with burning, ecstatic exhilaration: "The Senior's high-powered backup has finally successfully touched down down down down down!"
A short distance away, Mei Terumi let out a massive, sweeping sigh of relief, deploying her Boil Release: Skilled Mist Technique (Futsuton: Kōmyō no Jutsu) to forcefully push the Second Mizukage clear of her coordinates, her voice beautifully vibrating across every corner of the battlefield: "Senior Ryo, my independent coordinates can comfortably sustain a defensive hold for the immediate duration; trouble you to prioritize supplying immediate backup to flatten Gengetsu first!"
Gengetsu Hozuki unleashed a high-powered Water Release strike to cleanly disperse the dense, acidic vapor, muttering structural calculations under his breath: "Exactly which Senior Ryo? That styling carries a highly familiar visual profile..."
Mei Terumi wove an extraordinarily glamorous, enchanting smile across her features: "Naturally, it maps straight to the sovereign Grand Elder governing the Land of Whirlpools—Senior Ryo Uzumaki himself. Lord Second Mizukage, your matrix has officially hit the optimal milestone to be permanently sealed."
"Who?!" Gengetsu Hozuki's small mustache violently flared straight up into the air with absolute, blank bewilderment, "Ryo Uzumaki? Doesn't the current calendar explicitly designate Mist Year 63? How on earth is it logically possible for that specific monster to still be immortal and alive under heaven (Mada shindenai)?!"
Successfully finalizing the sealing rotation targeting the Third Mizukage, Ryo spun his physical frame around to project a warm, gentle smile: "The Great Ancestor remains completely immortal under the sun; do your parameters harbor a single shred of objection?"
Gengetsu Hozuki: "..."
It is undeniably him, it is flawlessly his absolute vessel!
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