Mayuri Kurotsuchi Card Game, starting from Naruto

Chapter 305

The land of rain.

Inside the towering iron tower.

A tiny white snake slithered out of the dark corner and darted out quickly, almost instantly reaching Nagato and the others.

As Nagato and the others focused their attention on the little snake, it raised its head and, in full view of everyone, vomited a scroll much larger than its own body.

"Is there some important intelligence from Konoha?"

Seeing this, Yahiko narrowed his eyes. This method of information transmission was always a characteristic of Konoha, or rather, of the Fourth Hokage Orochimaru, or even Shikagure.

The White Snake only appears to deliver messages when it involves the four people present or matters related to them.

If it involves villages, then there are naturally formal ways for villages to communicate.

Nagato picked up the scroll from the ground, examined it, and then correctly unwrapped it using a specific seal. However, he did not read it immediately but instead placed it on the table in front of Yahiko.

Yahiko picked up the scroll and carefully browsed through its contents. Soon, his expression turned grim.

"What happened?" Seeing Yahiko's pale face, Konan, who had grown up and had a more mature demeanor, stepped forward and asked with concern.

The fact that Yahiko could show such a grim expression clearly meant that the news on the scroll was not good.

Is it because Konoha is parting ways with Amegakure for some reason?

The thought only flashed through Konan's mind before she dismissed it. Currently, the interests between Amegakure and Konoha are very close; in fact, strictly speaking, if it weren't for Amegakure's smaller size and weaker national power compared to the Land of Wind, Amegakure would be Konoha's top choice for an ally.

Given that the Fourth Hokage is Orochimaru, and the current high-ranking officials in Konoha are either their master, senior brother, or senior disciple, the probability of this happening is extremely low.

So it's related to those few?

Could it be Kirigakure (Hidden Mist Village)?

Konan was aware that many Kirigakure ninja from the Land of Water had appeared within the Land of Rain's borders, and they were hostile. The Rain ninja had already clashed with these Kirigakure ninja several times, with both sides suffering losses.

The troops from the Mist Ninja are powerful, and most of them are bloodline ninjas with bloodline secret techniques and considerable strength.

With the support of Konoha over the years, Amegakure has updated its ninja training model. Apart from not having experienced the Fourth Shinobi World War, in terms of basic strength, Amegakure is no weaker than that of a typical major ninja village. However, its high-end strength is still severely lacking.

Currently, the only top-tier power in the Land of Rain is still the four of them in the house.

Among them, Nagato, who possesses the Rinnegan, is the strongest, followed by him and Kakuzu, and lastly, she, who is half a combatant.

But if it's just information from the Mist Ninja, Orochimaru and Shikanobu don't seem to need to go to such lengths.

Because Nagato can use the Rinnegan to interrogate prisoners, it might be more troublesome if the other party has set up a dense array of restrictive seals in their mind.

They already knew that the Mist Ninja's visit was hostile and had prepared countermeasures and a counterattack plan.

"You all had better take a look. This time, our enemy isn't just Kirigakure! Or rather, the real enemy hasn't even appeared yet."

Yahiko sighed, gently pulled with his hand, and the scroll floated up into the air, drifting to Nagato's side with his gesture.

"Your skills are becoming more and more proficient."

Kakuzu was slightly moved as he watched Yahiko use his ability so effortlessly and without any hint of arrogance.

Although he still firmly believes that only money is the most trustworthy thing, he has watched these three little guys grow up and has entrusted them with the economic power of a village, and even a country in secret. So he treats these three little guys a little differently.

As for the Mist Ninja?

He didn't care.

Even without Konoha's warning and assistance, Amegakure has the ability to wipe out the two groups of Kekkei Kirigakure ninja who have infiltrated the Land of Rain within its borders.

Perhaps he can also acquire a lot of high-quality bloodline hearts?

Although it would be wasteful to eat them directly, it's still not a problem to exchange them one-to-one with that little black guy, Lu Nie, for a few new bloodline hearts as alternatives.

At this moment, the four hearts are providing him with powerful chakra energy through the Earthly Grudge.

The reason he hasn't recovered to the point of having five hearts is because his current limit is four bloodline hearts. If a fifth bloodline heart were added, his Earth Grudge Fear would be unbearable.

His life was already tied to Di Yuan Yu; if Di Yuan Yu had a problem, he would inevitably have a problem as well.

When the fourth bloodline heart was first introduced, Di Yuanyu felt so overwhelmed that he almost exploded, which gave him a huge fright.

For a long time, his strength even declined instead of increased, all in order to regain familiarity with and control over his body and the surging energy within him.

During that time, he could feel the swelling and pain coming from inside his body at all times. He didn't even dare to use his full strength, for fear that the Earth Grudge, which acted as his blood vessels, would explode, making it impossible to release any ninjutsu and even harming himself.

It was only through gradual, persistent effort, along with the potions and plans provided by Lu Nie, that the strength of the Earthly Grudge gradually increased.

Leaving aside the comparison of his combat power with that of the First Hokage and others, at least his current chakra reserves are on par with theirs, which can be considered at the level of a tailed beast.

This is quite a delightful thing for Kakuzu, who increasingly enjoys ninja bombardment and uses himself as a cannon.

"Zetsu, a traitor from the Uchiha clan, a Konoha rogue ninja? And a Hollow?"

When the scroll fell into Kakuzu's hands and he read it, he was also astonished by the information on it.

This guy, Zetsu, has been missing for a long time, but there's no doubt that he's somewhere secretly watching them, or rather, the three of them, Nagato.

Several times they nearly caught a glimpse of the White Zetsu, but their attempts always ended in vain. The opponent had become much smarter and more adept at hiding.

As for the other two, although they were from a long time ago, Kakuzu still had some impression of Uchiha Setsuna's reputation and Hiruko, the wanted rogue ninja with a bounty.

One was active during the reign of the Second Hokage, and the other was active during the reign of the Third Hokage; both were participants in the First and Second Shinobi World Wars.

He remembered that Uchiha Setsuna seemed to have disappeared from the ninja world suddenly, and Hiruko was wanted for conducting forbidden experiments and researching dangerous forbidden techniques in private.

More importantly, it's all just empty talk.

Kakuzu remembers this thing being closely related to that guy, Shiro! How did it suddenly fall into Zetsu's hands? Did something else go missing? Or is that guy plotting something again?

(End of this chapter)