Suicide mission (2)

Everyone was silent. Captain America and Clark now had really an ugly face when John spoke of the dead people. They never thought one day would come where the people would vote for being necromancers. All their life they had been taught that the dead should be respected but here they were trying to debate whom to send for this mission.

"Is there no other way?" Clark asked.

"Of course there are but we don't have innumerable people."

After a moment of silence, everyone gave a nod to Orochimaru to use edo tensei. He could choose some of the finest past ninjas and bring them to live., for example the 7 swordsmen of the mist. All the past 7 swordsmen died and now it was time to bring them back to service, though not everyone could be back as they would need swords for this.

But then Tony decided to provide them swords fit for the use of the dead swordsmen. After much discussion it was decided that some of the Akatsuki members would be brought so that they could at least be useful for the upcoming war after causing much havoc before.

They were Kage kevel shinobi and John didn't want to lose the previous kages. John needed the edo tensei for the war and he wasn't sure how strong the other party was. The edo tensei was a great tactic for sure and they couldn't be killed so easily. Very few things out there could actually kill someone who had been revived by edo tensei.

But then there was magic too, which could restrain the people revived by that. And thus John couldn't put all the eggs in one basket when it came to edo tesei. For this reason he had chosen shinigami and even magic among them. Except for Gildarts everyone was expendable.

If they died, John would spend some fan vales to bring Gildarts back and he could always retrieve what had happened in the Amalgam universe. After much discussion it was decided that a team of 20 people would be sent.

Gildarts would lead the team. He would be the captain. The 8th Kepnapchi would be the vice-captain for the Shinigami but he would always have to listen to Gildarts. And Kisame who would be revived would be given some control over his own self in the expedition.

Everyone was in favor of the lineup. A team of Shinigamis and Shinobis. They would be perfect. After the approval everyone went to work. Genryusai would personally visit the dungeons, while Orochimaru would have to unseal some of the sealed people who had died during the war.

Of course he would need help from Kabuto in order to unseal everyone and get a proper hold of them. But this was not a huge deal, because at the end the summons' summons were under John and they would be micro controlled from all aspects.

The team came together for induction and mission briefing the next day. The new faces came together for the first time. Some Shinigamis were surprised to see that the shinobis that would accompany them were actually dead. Gildarts came at the last and he walked in a tip-toed manner.

There was a reason for this.

He was so powerful at times that he could subconsciously destroy the surroundings. It had happened multiple times before. At times, the place where he sleeps gets turned into debris after he wakes up. So handling Gildarts was quite tough and he had to be particularly aware of what he was stepping on or what he shouldn't over act.

The Shinigamis and the Shinobis looked at their captain. They had already been briefed about the mission and all of them knew that they might not come back ever. And the Shinobis would be the first sacrifice if anything went south.

The shinobis didn't have much reaction to this as they had already been dead and they had been conditioned by Orochimaru and Kabuto to listen to the instructions by Gildarts.

"Yo!! Seems like the whole team in place. I won't bore you with details and give a long speech about bravery. All we need in this mission is intelligence about the enemy and any new information that would be helpful for the war. From what I understood we would soon go to war or try to help the other multiverse in any way we can and we can only do this if we reach the hidden universe in the Wall."

"I will say this outright that we might not even be able to reach their universe as Perpetua might be somewhere in the Wall as we are not sure how far the Wall has broken on the other side. This mission is the definition of suicide mission and we might die before we even start the main content of the mission."

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