Chapter 124

"Shhh, this will be over quickly, and you won't even remember it." said Ren as he looks at struggling stone jonin who he is currently holding still.

' I didn't realize the number of guards the nobles had, putting them all under the same genjutsu turned out to be far more time-consuming than I expected.' Ren thinks to himself as his Sharingan appears in his eyes.

The process didn't last long as Ren stood up, taking his hand from the shinobi's mouth giving him room to get up and leave.

And he did just that, walking past Ren seemingly like he wasn't even there.

"The small suggestions I put on these guards are great, the first being that they are to ignore anything weird with the changes in the nobles they are to be protecting, mostly their decisions." Ren whispered as he disappeared.

Ren reappeared on the natural walls of the city looking out in the distance, his time here was done, all he wanted to achieve had been completed.

"The guards won't notice any changes in their masters because of the genjutsu, and the nobles will listen to the orders I pass along through the clone I leave behind."

"The clones will have to be renewed every two days, this could be avoided if I had mastered the wood release and was able to use wood clones, but that is for a later time."

"The next couple of years will be the last of peace for a while, the stone needs to develop rapidly during this time, increasing the combat power in both high-end and low-end, while also may adding a few more new clans to the village." Ren says as he smiles.

"This will be discussed with the old man when I return, and I still have to go learn sage mode and seals, so much to do, so little time."

(Tsuchikage office)

"I take it things went well?"

"Mhm, better than expected, we can expect an increase in our funds in the coming days." says Ren.

"Good, it would have been a pain having to hunt you down." Ohnoki says not even taking his eyes from the file he is currently reading.

"Broder reports?" Ren questioned.

"Mhm, all the borders have officially recorded an increase in shinobi, and all the villages have officially started preparing for war."

"That's to be expected, guessing we will be lowering our missions in a foreign land for the time being."

"Indeed, it would have made war preparation more difficult, but now with the new development, it won't make a difference, if anything we should be done with our preparations before the other villages."

"What about our combat power?" Ren asked.

"It's still not up to the level of the leaf, they have more Kage level ninjas and join than we do, the only place we almost equal out would be in chunin and genin numbers." says Ohnoki.

"Mhm, our plan can still be carried out, after all, it was made only taking the two of us and the two usable tail beasts in the village into consideration." says Ren.

"Yes, but it leaves us without any backup power in case the two of us are occupied, and an emergency happens."

"...."

Hearing this Ren was silent, it was the truth, but of course, he had a solution to this problem, but he hadn't really spoken to Ohnoki about it, but this seemed like a good a time as any.

"I have three solutions, the first being continuing with the introduction of new clans, the second is to get another tailed beast, the easiest would be the seven tails, and the last option would be human research." says Ren.

"What is it you want to do Ren?" Ohonoki asked his voice serious with a hint of threat.

"Relax, I just want to see if I can use the Uzumaki blood and find what exactly gives them more chakra, and transplant it into a few of our shinobi, of course after doing some tests on some captured shinobi first." says Ren.

".."

Hearing Ren Ohnoki fell into deep thought as Ren remained silent waiting for his response.

"Fine, you can conduct your research, but before you try this on any of our shinobi you must provide me with the results of the previous attempts on captured enemy shinobi and the shinobi from the village who this is to be done on must first not be forced, and second undergo serious checks to ensure their loyalty to the village." says Ohnoki.

"Very well."

"Before you leave, in the coming time the deeds you did or will do will start circulating the village in an attempt to build up your image in the village and getting your reputation started for your coming time as Tsuchikage." says Ohnoki.

"Huh? already?"

"You aren't dying are you?" Ren asked.