I founded the "Bragging Cult" in Naruto.

Chapter 85, "In principle, it's not allowed," means that you can try this time.

Tsunade ultimately handed over command to Orochimaru, who immediately sent a message back to the village. Such a big matter required him to consult with his teacher first.

However, Tatsuma did not have the opportunity to participate in this Naruto-themed "telephone conference" because it was a top-secret event. Although Tatsuma was the one who proposed the tactical ideas, he did not have the authority to participate.

Actually, Tatsuma regretted it after proposing it, because the plan required some ninjas to die, and they would die because of their own planning, rather than entirely because of enemy attacks.

While this tactic might have been advantageous for Konoha in terms of overall gains and reduced casualties in the war, it still involved deliberately sending some people to their deaths.

With a somewhat somber mood, Tatsuma was taken to the temporary camp. Before he could even rest, he was dragged along to act as a medical ninja, treating the ninjas injured in the battles of the past few days.

Tatsuma knew that his indecisiveness and fear of loss were his biggest flaws at the moment, but he couldn't change them in a short time.

Assigning him to be a temporary medical ninja is actually a good thing for his current emotional state, since it means he is helping "his own people" instead of trying to harm them.

To put it in a more mystical way, it's about redemption. To put it more directly, it's about preventing Tatsuma from having time to regret his actions.

Orochimaru acted swiftly, issuing the order to become the new battlefield commander to the camp that same day, without any discontent within the camp.

After all, Orochimaru had been arranging the work within the camp all this time, and this was just a matter of officially legitimizing his position.

The next day, Orochimaru reorganized the more than 1,000 ninjas in the camp. No one suspected anything, since the division was to fight the Sand Village head-on and create an opportunity for the Hyuga team.

Now that the Hyuga team has been completely wiped out, it will be difficult to gain an advantage in the short term in a head-on confrontation with similar numbers and overall strength, so it is natural to change the team allocation.

Under Orochimaru's arrangement, apart from the functional squads, the teams were divided into two categories: combat and disguise. The combat teams would continue to fight against Sunagakure during this period to buy time.

The disguise team, on the other hand, needs to set up various temporary outposts, sentry posts, and ambush lines in the land of rivers.

Of course, Orochimaru did not make the plan public. Even Tatsuma, after being reorganized, was only tasked with following the squad leader to set up a temporary outpost.

It can be said to be a fairly easy task. In addition, during such extraordinary times, the difficulty of a batch of tasks is not too different, and the merits recorded are also about the same.

However, this was not the mission that Tatsuma wanted to carry out. With his doubts and plans in mind, Tatsuma went to the outside of the command camp to see Orochimaru, the current battlefield commander.

Before long, Tatsuma was allowed to enter the camp. Orochimaru was in front of a sand table, using precise control of Wind Release and Earth Release chakra to calculate the changes in the battlefield.

After Tatsuma entered, he glanced around and was about to greet him when Orochimaru spoke first, saying, "There's another task on my desk. Take a look."

Tatsuma raised his eyes, somewhat surprised. After all, Orochimaru shouldn't be the kind of person who would preach in the dead of night with such mystique. But he still walked to the desk and picked up the scroll.

Upon unfolding it, he discovered it was a notification to follow the combat team to the front lines. Tatsuma frowned, a question arising in his mind. He felt that Orochimaru had absolutely no chance of preparing two mission scrolls at the same time.

To put it bluntly, if Orochimaru did that, it wouldn't fit the stereotype he had of Tatsuma.

"This document in your hand is Tsunade's arrangement. She said this is what you wanted. I didn't expect that you two would have such a tacit understanding as master and disciple."

Orochimaru turned around at some point, a strange and eerie smile on his face, and looked at Tatsuma. Tatsuma suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, shivered, and then asked abruptly:

"Lord Orochimaru, was the task of setting up the temporary outpost assigned to me by you?"

"It wasn't me; it was a special arrangement made by the village."

After Orochimaru finished speaking, Tatsuma seemed unsure how to react to the news. Orochimaru, however, didn't seem to care and asked, "You seem to have some reservations about the preferential treatment others have given you? That's troublesome."

"No, I'm just a little surprised. By the way, what do you mean by 'trouble'?"

"The village wanted to treat you well and prevent you from going to the battlefield, but more than one person guessed that you would go, and almost all of them asked me to 'take extra care of you.'"

Orochimaru spoke while staring at Tatsuma, seemingly trying to discern something from him. Tatsuma scratched his head and chuckled, saying, "Is that so? Maybe it's because I seem easy to get along with."

And I could guess that Jiraiya-sensei and Tsunade-sensei would treat me well.

"Not just them."

Orochimaru shook his head, then pointed at Tatsuma and said, "Did you bring Sakumo-senpai's sword?"

"what?"

Tatsuma was somewhat puzzled, but he still took out the scroll containing the chakra dagger, made hand seals to release the seal, and a dagger that was almost worn smooth appeared in his hand.

Seeing that Tatsuma showed no sign of wariness, Orochimaru frowned slightly but said nothing. Instead, he walked to Tatsuma's side, picked up the chakra dagger, and said:

"Your chakra is insufficient, but your chakra control far surpasses that of your peers, and you have already mastered the chakra scalpel. However, how is your training in wind-style chakra nature transformation progressing?"

"Not bad. Learning some B-rank Wind Release ninjutsu shouldn't be too difficult."

Tatsuma said "modestly," while Orochimaru smirked. B-rank ninjutsu is not simple; many veteran Chunin only possess two or three as trump cards.

Tatsuma actually said, "There's no barrier to entry." Orochimaru could tell that Tatsuma wasn't lying. In fact, he felt that this wasn't Tatsuma's limit, but Jiraiya's limit.

Although Jiraiya often boasted that he was proficient in all four elemental ninjutsu (wind, earth, water, and fire), Orochimaru knew his teammate very well and had no patience to study high-level A-rank ninjutsu or even more difficult ninjutsu.

Relying on his talent, he squandered it recklessly, learning a whole bunch of low-efficiency B-rank and C-rank ninjutsu, and then wasting his chakra to inefficiently defeat his enemies. This is how Orochimaru sees Jiraiya now.

In other words, Tatsuma only dared to say that there was no barrier to learning B-rank Wind Release ninjutsu. The reason was not that he couldn't learn A-rank, but that Jiraiya couldn't teach Tatsuma A-rank Wind Release ninjutsu.

However, Jiraiya has changed a bit recently. Perhaps it's because he has disciples now, and as a teacher, he knows he shouldn't continue to be unreliable. Or perhaps it's Tsunade's recent training that has given Jiraiya a sense of ambition.

Orochimaru heard that Jiraiya was also researching a technique similar to that of the First Hokage, but Jiraiya refused to reveal it. However, Orochimaru could guess that it was Jiraiya's technique, since the First Hokage was most famous for his Wood Release.

"Lord Orochimaru?"

Seeing that Orochimaru was somewhat lost in thought, Tatsuma gently called out to him. Orochimaru was pulled back to reality and subconsciously nodded, even though he had no reason to nod.

"Ahem~" Orochimaru cleared his throat and said, "You don't have Lightning Release chakra, so Sakumo-senpai's swordsmanship isn't suitable for you. Therefore, Sakumo-senpai asked me to teach you a technique before you go to the battlefield."

"What kind of technique?"

Tatsuma's eyes lit up. Orochimaru looked at the chakra dagger in his hand, drew it, and then gathered wind-style chakra in his throat, spitting it into the blade.

In the blink of an eye, the blade, which was only a hand and a half long, transformed into a ninja sword seventy or eighty centimeters long under the influence of wind-style chakra. Orochimaru also spoke:

"A B-rank ninjutsu, Wind Release: Wind Blade. Lord Danzo also has a similar technique called Vacuum Blade, but that's not suitable for you."

(End of this chapter)