The Friendship Between Kumogakure and Konohagakure Lives On

On January 15th, Kumogakure sent an emissary to Konoha to discuss peace treaty and war compensation for Konoha.

This time, the Kumogakure's emissary no longer had their usual condescending attitude. They lowered their posture, and no matter how reluctant they were, they still squeezed out a smile on their faces.

They just lost too quickly this time.

With the Fourth Raikage and two of their Jinchuriki being captured, the emissary had to be more respectful to Konoha this time. If Konoha was displeased and decided to keep the Fourth Raikage and their two Jinchuriki imprisoned, then Kumogakure would really be in trouble.

While the other countries did not know what was going on as Kumogakure's Raikage and Jinchuriki were brought to Konoha.

Right when the other villages knew what was going on, Kumogakure's situation was already pretty bad.

Konoha sent a negotiation team to let Kumogakure know that they had a bargaining chip in their hands that Kumogakure could not refuse.

Although Kumogakure's emmisaries knew that Konoha was being greedy, they could only reluctantly agree with a smile.

"May the friendship between Konoha and Kumogakure last forever." After signing the peace treaty, Nagasawa smiled and patted the emissary's shoulder.

This time, he was the leader of the negotiation team and was responsible for the peace treaty with Kumogakure.

This reminded him of the negotiation with Kusagakure a year ago.

That time, it was Minato who forced him into the negotiation team in order to increase his achievement.

Because the target at that time was Kusagakure, and Minato was quite adamant in recommending Nagasawa, he managed to become a vice-leader.

A year had passed, and for the negotiation with Kumogakure this time, Nagasawa was the group leader, while Shikaku Nara was the vice group leader.

Shikaku Nara did not think much of this. As far as he was concerned, Nagasawa's negotiation skill was top-notch. At least that was the impression he got during the negotiation with Kusagakure.

"May the friendship between Konoha and Kumogakure last forever." The messenger Kumogakure squeezed out an awkward smile.

Even though he was smiling, Kumogakure's emissary was actually cursing deep down. Kumogakure sure lost a lot this time. In addition to paying a large amount of money, they also had to compensate Konoha with the Land of Thunder's specialty, ores.

Each of the Five Great Shinobi Countries had their own specialties.

Land of Fire had a lot of flat terrain with vast hills covering the entire land. It was especially suitable for planting various kinds of crops. Land of Fire also produced abundant food every year because it was located almost in the center of the Five Great Shinobi Countries. 

On the other hand, Land of Wind was the largest country among the Five Great Shinobi Countries. However, most of its land was comprised of desert that was difficult for ordinary people to live in.

The Land of Thunder was full of towering mountains and their specialty was their rich mineral resources.

The exports of various ores were its main financial source.

As the main military force in the Land of Thunder, Kumogakure was given a considerable mining rights.

After signing the agreement, Kumogakure would mine the ore for Konoha for some time. Because of this, they would earn less, but they had no choice.

Nagasawa was in a good mood as he had successfully obtained a lot of benefits from Kumogakure.

When Kakashi's Sharingan evolved into Mangekyō Sharingan, he became a Kage-caliber Shinobi based on the system's judgment, and the system rewarded Nagasawa with 50,000 points.

After implanting Secondary Hashirama's cells, his strength increased significantly, and he got additional points.

In addition, the damaged caused by Nine-Tails' rampage had also been repaired. Now, Konoha's Prosperity had surpassed the amount before the Nine-Tails' attack.

[Current binding: Konohagakure]

[ - Prosperity: 2050]

[ - Points balance: 180,000]

Nagasawa opened the template page again. Now, Whitebeard's template and Yoriichi Tsugikuni's template reached 100% fusion rate, and both of them had already disappeared from the panel. Only Tobirama Senju's template remained.

Nagasawa checked the fusion rate, which was only 67%. He was still 23% away from unlocking the Challenge Mission.

Nagasawa thought for a moment and spent 156,000 points to raise Tobirama's template to 78%.

Nagasawa's points was reduced to only slightly more than 20,000 points in an instant, but Nagasawa didn't feel stressed. The points he used would return sooner or later.

This also made him realize the importance of the template selection. If he picked a template from Konoha, it would be much easier to upgrade than other templates.

For example, hadn't it for the fact that he was bound to Konoha, it would take 30,000 points to raise 1% of Tobirama's fusion rate once he reached the 70% fusion rate, but since Tobirama was from Konoha, it would only cost him 15,000 points to raise 1% fusion rate, saving half of the points he needed to raise the fusion rate.

Moreover, he got 40% fusion rate on Tobirama from the get-go, which was simply amazing.

At this rate, he only needed 200,000 points to reach 90% fusion rate to unlock the challenge mission, and it would probably take two months.

When Tobirama's template completely integrated into his body, he would be the master of Forbidden Technique. Although he knew most of Tobirama's Forbidden Technique, he could not develop Forbidden Techniques with just his own knowledge and understanding.

In fact, with his knowledge and understanding of the Chakra system, it was not difficult to develop some Forbidden Techniques, but it would be far from Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation.

However, it was not that he was completely incapable of developing strong techniques. Sun Breathing that was fused with the Chakra system, could definitely be called a Forbidden Technique, and it would be one of the strongest among the Forbidden Techniques.

Nagasawa was looking forward to obtaining Tobirama's talent in developing Ninjutsu, and what kind of sparks it would bring for him.

However, Nagasawa sure had no clue what Tobirama's challenge missionwould be.

If it was just defeating Kinkaku, Ginkaku and their men, it would be quite easy for him now.

Although Kinkaku had Nine-Tails' Chakra and Treasured Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths, they weren't a threat to Nagasawa. Although they could fire Tailed Beast Ball, Tailed Beast Ball was nothing to Nagasawa.

Judging from his Tobirama template, which was not long after Tobirama became a Hokage, Nagasawa had a feeling that fighting against Uchiha Clan was more plausible than Kinkaku and Ginkaku.

Of course, that was only his guess. If the system didn't play by the book and decided to mess with Nagasawa, the Challenge Mission might just be defeating Six Paths Obito, Six Paths Madara and Kaguya in the Fourth Shinobi World War.

After all, Tobirama was also involved in the Fourth Shinobi World War.

If that was really the case, Nagasawa was really speechless. He was a nearly invincible existence during the Nine-Tails' attack, but he might not be that significant in the Fourth Shinobi World War.