Naruto's civilian cannon fodder starts with the three-body technique

Chapter 243 Returning to the Front Lines
"This is the Angkor Fortress of the Sky Ninja Village! We're rich! We're rich!"

As soon as Kakuzu landed, he was extremely excited, and bursts of golden light seemed to erupt from his deep blue eyes.

No wonder he was so excited. Even if this Angkor Fortress were sold as scrap metal, it would be worth tens or even hundreds of billions. Not to mention that it is a technological creation, which multiplies its value. It is indeed a behemoth built by the Sky Kingdom with the full strength of the nation. The Sky Kingdom's decades of accumulation are basically all here.

Sasuke Unno was quite impressed with Versailles: "Kakuzu, although he's valuable, he can't be cashed in, so he's just so-so."

"Are you even speaking human language?"

Kakuzu rolled his eyes, then announced with great enthusiasm, "I'll be living here from now on, sleeping on these gleaming steel plates, giving me the feeling of lying on money."

Looking at Kakuzu, who was already acting a bit neurotic, Umino Sasuke couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Kakuzu used to be very cold-blooded, but since becoming the company's financial manager, his personality has become increasingly strange. For example, when it comes to raising the three little guys, given his previous personality, it would have been considered humane if he hadn't sold them on the black market. Now, however, he seems to be becoming more and more like a human being, and his strength also seems to have improved a lot.

It wasn't because he had a stronger heart, but rather because since becoming the company's financial manager and resettling a large number of refugees in the Land of Waves, Kakuzu's personality had gradually become more gentle, and the power of the Earth Grudge Fear had strangely increased considerably.

Even Kakuzu himself doesn't know the reason. Sasuke Umino read the memories of the Third Hokage and obtained some of the magical secret techniques. He does have some guesses that Kakuzu's successful fusion with the Earth Grudge Fear is probably related to his state of mind. His current increase in strength is probably also related to this. Of course, this is just a guess.

Because of Kakuzu's increased strength, Sasuke Umino was once somewhat wary. Unexpectedly, this guy had no intention of betraying him at all. In his words, his five hearts were like money, never to betray him.

Moreover, he doesn't really like money; he just enjoys the pleasure of making and counting it.
Since cultivating the Earthly Grudge, he has lost all of humanity's basic desires—the desire to sleep, the desire to eat, and the desire for sex, the three major human desires. Moreover, he is immortal. If he didn't have some pursuit of money, he would have ended his own life long ago.

Kakuzu was left lying alone on the steel plate, while Sasuke Unno, along with his men, went to the inner dungeon of the fortress to arrange for their custody.

There was no other way; these subordinates were all wild ninjas or rogue ninjas recruited by Kakuzu from the Gold Exchange. They didn't seem to be very strong or loyal, but with the restriction seal in place, guarding the dungeon and maintaining the daily upkeep of Angkor Fortress wasn't a big problem.

As for the issue of defection, even without the restrictions on their bodies, with Umibozu guarding this place, it would be difficult for them to escape. Even if they successfully defected, with the Flying Thunder God mark, it would be useless to escape to the ends of the earth.

Moreover, the company's benefits are quite good, much better than living a precarious life. With a strong person like Kakuzu protecting them, any smart person would not even think about defecting.

"Iwata, you'll be in charge of things in the dungeon from now on. I'll come every day to collect a standard Jonin-level chakra. You can arrange it accordingly."

"Yes, my lord."

Iwata was very respectful and immediately assured that he would complete the task on time.

Since meteorites cannot provide energy for the mecha golems, we have to find another way. Fortunately, there are quite a few prisoners held in Angkor Fortress, who are all good sources of chakra.

He even found several vicious ninja prisoners and sealed some of the Five-Tails' chakra into their bodies, hoping to cultivate them into pseudo-Five-Tails Jinchuriki.

Fortunately, they managed to steal quite a few advanced sealing techniques from Iwagakure, otherwise they would have had to wait until the Land of Whirlpools was wiped out before they could figure out what to do.

The Iwagakure village's tailed beast sealing technique is quite good; sealing a pseudo-Five-Tails Jinchuriki is a piece of cake, and it's come in handy now. "Sizzle sizzle~"

Just after Samehada finished consuming the chakra of a Star Ninja, it exhaled a large number of bubbles again, looking as if it had eaten spicy food.

Samehada likes to eat star chakra because star chakra is beneficial to its growth. In particular, the radiation energy that star ninjas avoid has a stimulating effect on Samehada. This stimulation is like activation, and through the neutralization of food energy, it has many benefits for its growth.

"This is the start of them wanting to switch allegiance to the Ten-Tails."

As the parasite of the Three-Tailed Isobu, Samehada now seems to be trying to level up due to the side effects of the Ten-Tailed Remains.

If it could truly evolve, it would be the nemesis of the tailed beasts. However, for now, it's just wishful thinking. While the Star Chakra does have an effect, it's not very noticeable; it only has a stimulating effect on him.

After absorbing the star's chakra and gaining some of its stimulating activity, Samehada transferred the star's chakra to the energy storage system to charge the mecha puppet.

The amount of chakra needed to produce one Jonin-level chakra per day is clearly not enough with just these prisoners. Fortunately, we are about to go to the front line in the Land of Grass, where there are plenty of prisoners. As a high-ranking officer in the front-line war zone, it is not difficult for him to absorb some prisoners' chakra and manipulate it a little.

After giving some instructions to Kakuzu, he returned to Konoha Village.

Just after dinner, Hiruzen Sarutobi issued an order requiring him to lead a group of newly graduated Konoha seedlings and mobilized troops to support the front lines of the Land of Grass early the next morning.

Early the next morning, Umino Sasuke was woken up by Might Guy after his morning exercise. Uchiha Shun also arrived, bringing with him three Uchiha clan members, who he said were Uchiha ninjas arranged for him by the Hokage.

"Hey, beautiful lady, we meet again."

"You big pervert, don't even think about getting any funny ideas, or you'll regret it."

Mikoto Uchiha raised her delicate fist, looking both cute and fierce, which was quite amusing.

In addition to Uchiha ninjas joining his frontline mobile support unit, the Ino-Shika-Cho clan also sent ninjas, and they were even the new generation of Ino-Shika-Cho.

This was something Nara Shikasa and he had discussed long ago; it was a way of politically courting each other.

Of course, the main reason was that his frontline mobile support unit had a consistently low casualty rate and made great contributions. That's why Nara Shikasa arranged for Nara Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza to come in, hoping to gain some credit and be promoted to Konoha Jonin as soon as possible. He wanted the three old guys to retire early and let these three twelve or thirteen-year-old boys take their place. He really played his cards right.

Aside from the Uchiha and Ino-Shika-Cho clans, other major ninja clans used their connections to force in a considerable number of ninjas.

Things are different now. The frontline mobile support unit, which was once renowned for its outstanding combat achievements and ridiculously low casualty ratio, is now the opposite; one must find connections and be introduced to join.

If it weren't for Sasuke Umino consistently allocating a fixed number of civilian ninjas, the area would probably have been overcrowded with these Konoha ninja clans long ago.

(End of this chapter)