My clan was exterminated when I was three years old, and you want me to beat Uchiha Itachi? Chapter 139

[Detected that the holder has successfully survived for one year]

[To conserve simulator energy, the simulation precision for this round has been changed to one year]

[Second Year]

Time flew by.

At this time, the cross-sea bridge entrusted to Tazuna for construction was completed. Furthermore, while Gato opened up shipping businesses, he also integrated the chaotic ninja forces near the Land of Waves and provided armed protection services for merchants passing through.

Meanwhile, due to the chaotic political situation in the Land of Water, a large number of merchants and even fishermen chose to leave, while the Land of Waves remained stable.

Gato keenly seized this opportunity, attracting the former clients and merchants from the Land of Water to this place.

In just one year, he transformed the once impoverished, geographically remote island nation into a major commercial hub in the southern part of the ninja world continent…

As for you, you spent a year in seclusion, dedicated to training various secret techniques.

First was “Dustless Blinding Fog.” On the basis of mastering it, you further overlaid it with the Transparent Release.

Not only did you achieve the anticipated effect of greatly enhanced concealment when the two were combined, but you could even unleash powerful ninjutsu while remaining invisible!

You even successfully combined it with Susanoo, allowing parts or the entirety of your Susanoo to briefly become invisible.

Additionally,

Your sensory abilities were already extraordinary. As early as when your Six-Tomoe Sharingan had just awakened, you were able to detect the presence of White Zetsu and sense spatial fluctuations.

Under these excellent innate conditions, and with your extraordinary understanding of sealing jutsu,

You effortlessly mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique.

You then spent some time successfully combining your reaction speed with it, and with your invisibility ability, you truly achieved coming and going without a trace.

As for the markings used as coordinates for Flying Thunder God teleportation, you directly used masks as substitutes. You also upgraded the masks for the Golden Mask, Silver Mask, and the promising Iron Mask, three lower-ranking members of your organization.

This way, once Gato’s commercial empire truly took shape, you would be able to leap back and forth across the entire ninja world!

You had also mastered the soul cultivation methods within the Spirit Transformation Technique.

Although for you,

In the ninja world of this era, apart from Nagato who went all out from the start, no one else could truly threaten you. However, your ambition was not merely to unify the ninja world.

It was to eliminate Black Zetsu and uncover the truth behind the ninja world.

This required the specific soul cultivation methods within the Spirit Transformation Technique. Although you only used fragmented time to practice this jutsu, you clearly noticed the improvement in your soul’s strength.

However, what bothered you the most was the “Splitting Technique.”

This ninjutsu was exquisitely constructed and involved cellular-level dismemberment and recombination. Yet, the practice methods and principles written by the Second Tsuchikage were extremely abstract.

You simply couldn’t comprehend the unstandardized colloquial terms and the scribbled diagrams that looked like ghost writing.

No wonder Onoki didn’t know this ninjutsu; it was simply impossible to learn!

But you were very envious of this jutsu’s functions, so you had no choice but to cram knowledge of the ninja world’s biological sciences.

Gato’s companies, therefore, began to venture into technological research and development, recruiting some civilian scientists and medical ninjas, and establishing initial cooperation with the Hidden Cloud Village…

At the same time,

Due to the rapid expansion of Gato’s company, its branches in other areas, apart from the Land of Waves headquarters, lacked strong ninja protection.

They soon became targets of local nobles and merchants. Many branches were attacked and suffered heavy losses.

Zabuza and Haku alone, being overwhelmed, simply couldn’t provide support to so many places…

Some even placed a bounty on Gato in the black market.

Assassinations followed.

The incoming attackers were extremely powerful. Even Zabuza and Haku, fighting together, were unable to stop them.

Fortunately, you had already replaced your subordinates’ masks with ones that could serve as Flying Thunder God coordinates.

Maintaining your invisible state, you arrived in time and easily dealt with the bounty ninjas using only a kunai. However, what surprised you was Kakuzu.

Kakuzu, who had already been recruited by the Akatsuki organization, actually came out to take on private jobs!

Or rather, was this sanctioned by the Akatsuki organization?

Maintaining your invisible state, you exchanged a few blows with Kakuzu, each punch landing squarely and cracking his iron-hard Earth Release armor.

Finally, when you grew tired of playing, you sealed Kakuzu in a thick block of ice, leaving only his head exposed.

You then used your Sharingan for interrogation.

Soon, Kakuzu’s will completely crumbled under your illusionary money offensive.

He then confessed that the assassination attempt on Gato was both to raise funds for the Akatsuki organization and to earn the billions of Ryo bounty on Gato from the black market exchange.

To this, you could only say that although Kakuzu was greedy, he was simply too honest and too dedicated!

He could have directly killed Gato and taken Gato’s enormous wealth, which couldn’t even be measured in money, but he chose to only take the small fraction that was the black market bounty.

No wonder Konan had 600 billion exploding tags.

…………

You also took an interest in Kakuzu. If Kakuzu could be poached from the Akatsuki organization, then Gato’s commercial empire would truly be unimpeded across the ninja world continent.

As for Kakuzu wanting money, you could simply have Gato pay Kakuzu a billion Ryo a month. Isn’t that better than constantly chasing after small sums like Asuma’s bounty?

Your only concern was the Akatsuki organization.

However, to be honest, your interests and Nagato’s did not conflict. There was even considerable room for negotiation and cooperation between the two sides.

Your combined forces could not only help the Akatsuki organization collect tailed beasts faster, but you could also use Nagato’s power to dig out and eliminate Black Zetsu and Obito, who were currently in hiding!

Therefore, after the interrogation, you released Kakuzu.

And asked him to deliver a message to the leader of the Akatsuki organization…

After this incident, the number of people in the black market who dared to place bounties on Gato significantly decreased.

Instead, Gato, enraged by these assassination attempts, directly let loose and offered high bounties on his competitors in the black market.

These exorbitant bounties quickly caught Kakuzu’s attention.

After Kakuzu took on the assignments, major merchants from various countries died unnatural deaths, and even some seemingly high-ranking nobles could not escape Kakuzu’s pursuit.

Soon, Gato rode this momentum and soared.

In just one year, he firmly secured the position of the wealthiest person in the ninja world!

[Third Year]

After completing the construction of the cross-sea bridge, Tazuna began recruiting artisans to complete the infrastructure construction of the Land of Waves and started to transform the Land of Waves into a tourist city, mimicking the Land of Hot Water.

Meanwhile, after overseeing such large-scale construction work, Tazuna, with Gato’s promotion, also pushed his construction company to the entire ninja world.

During this process, you incorporated the organization’s mask symbol into the construction company’s logo. From then on, as long as there was a building by this company in a local area, you could move freely, even within the major ninja villages!

And because of years of warfare and political strife, the Land of Water, including the Hidden Mist Village, which had been devastated, quickly introduced Tazuna’s construction company.

Thus, without anyone knowing, you openly entered the Hidden Mist Village’s barrier, relying on the harmless trademark on the buildings.