Challenge

"Interesting. It took him six years to graduate from Academy. From there on, it took him six years to become a Chunin, and three months ago, he was promoted to Jonin..." Orochimaru smiled as he put down the data about Nagasawa.

In his eyes, Nagasawa's data was rather strange.

Before Minato became the Fourth Hokage, Nagasawa was nothing but an ordinary Chunin, who had never completed any high-level mission.

However, after Minato became Hokage, it was as if his past record was no longer relevant.

After joining the Fourth Hokage's Anbu, he completed three S-rank Missions at an extremely fast speed and was promoted to Jonin...

According to the intel, Nagasawa and Minato were close friends, and Orochimaru quickly figured out the reason.

He believed that Nagasawa was a genius and powerful, but he did not like the attention, so he remained an ordinary Chunin despite his strength.

However, his close friend, Minato, became the Hokage, and in order to help Minato, Nagasawa joined Anbu and no longer hid his true strength.

This was the most plausible reason that Orochimaru could think of based on the information.

At this moment, he was sure that Nagasawa was no ordinary Shinobi. Being able to intimidate him like that, there was a high chance that Nagasawa was also a Kage-level Shinobi.

Orochimaru felt that it was necessary to tell Danzo about this news. After all, Danzo was at odds with the Fourth Hokage at the moment. Having a skilled Shinobi on Fourth Hokage's side should be an important piece of information.

Although he and Danzo had some minor conflicts, their interests were still in line.

But he remembered that Nagasawa said that he was interested in experiments, and he had some ideas.

Could Nagasawa be an expert in research as well?

If that were the case, even if Nagasawa could not solve the problem he was facing now, he might be able to provide some ideas from another perspective.

However, he couldn't let Nagasawa see what he was experimenting on. In addition, Nagasawa was the Fourth Hokage's man, so the possibility of cooperation between them was very low.

However, Orochimaru would never give up just because of that. He would do anything in order to achieve his goal.

"Let's test his skill in research first, then test his attitude towards the experiment."

Orochimaru quickly thought of a plan. If he wanted to achieve the two goals above, he had to get close to Nagasawa first.

He was originally a Root member, and he barely knew the Anbu member.

But now that Root was forcibly dismissed by Minato, he had now become an ordinary Jonin with no position.

However, for Orochimaru, becoming Anbu was an extremely simple matter.

If Orochimaru joined Anbu, who wouldn't welcome him?

However, it was impossible for him to join Anbu.

Although Orochimaru wasn't really interested in the Hokage's seat, the Third Hokage actually chose Minato over him.

This made Orochimaru a little irritated, and he was also irritated with Minato.

Minato was Jiraiya's disciple, and the Third Hokage chose Jiraiya's disciple instead of him, his own disciple.

What did he mean? He was the genius Orochimaru, and he lost to Jiraiya's disciple?

There were some things that he couldn't accept, but he had to accept it.

However, even if he couldn't join the Fourth Hokage's Anbu, he could join the Third Hokage's Anbu. Both Anbu now shared the same base anyway, so they had a lot of opportunities to interact with each other.

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One day, early in the morning.

This was the day Nagasawa could collect points. He opened the panel skillfully and received points.

Now that Anbu's reform had just begun, there was no obvious change in the degree of prosperity. It was just a slight increase.

After spending 7,500 points to raise Yoriichi Tsugikuni's fusion rate to 90%, Nagasawa discovered that the addition number next to the fusion rate had turned gray.

Then, the system notification rang.

[Fusion level has reached 90. You need to complete the template challenge. ]

[Yoriichi Tsugikuni's First Challenge: Kill Muzan. Completion Reward: Fusion Rate 10% ]

Nagasawa carefully read through the details of this challenge.

So the max Fusion Rate he could reach using point was 90%. Then, he had to complete the challenge mission as he could no longer increase the Fusion Rate with points.

However, as long as he completed the challenge mission, he would get 100% Fusion Rate for his Yoriichi Tsugikuni template. He could save his points to raise Whitebeard's template, which cost more points.

Moreover, he didn't necessarily have to cross into Demon Slayer Universe to kill Muzan.

Instead, Nagasawa would enter an illusion created by the system. Even if he failed, he would only have to spend points to do it again.

He could also use all his abilities, including the abilities of other templates.

Nagasawa assumed that the Challenge Mission for Whitebeard Template should be saving Ace.

That was a lot more difficult. Summit War of Marineford had so many strong people. Even if he had a 90% fusion rate by that time, he would still have a hard time.

Even Whitebeard himself had a hard time, let alone him.

Nagasawa thought about it and did not immediately attempt the challenge.

This challenge can be done at any time, so there was no need to be hasty. It was better to deal with a more pressing matter first.

The first assessment of the training team was very successful, and many First Division members asked to ​​join the training team to learn the Six Powers.

Nagasawa decided to expand the training team ahead of time and then included some First Division members Anbu to join the training team.

The reason why the First Division was not immediately included in the training team was that Anbu also had a mission.

Even Nagasawa's Anbu training team had to do mission in addition to their training.

If all Fourth Hokage's Anbu were included in the training team, none of them would be available to do the mission.

Even in this peaceful time, Anbu could not slack off.

Thankfully, the Third Hokage's Anbu had a lot of Shinobi, so they did most of the mission while the Fourth Hokage's Anbu could concentrate on their training.

Otherwise, Nagasawa would not have been able to form the training team in the first place.

At noon, when Nagasawa was about to leave Anbu base, an Anbu knocked on the door of Nagasawa's office with a document in his hand.

Nagasawa said lightly, "Come in."

The Anbu entered the office and said respectfully, " Nagasawa-sama, this is from the Third's Anbu."

"Third's Anbu... let me take a look." Nagasawa took the document and opened it curiously.

Could it be that Third was going to give him another talented Shinobi?