Konoha's Hextech Ninja

"Holy crap, it's starting so soon?!"

Yagami Yoruichi was startled and quickly cast the Lava Shield on herself while dodging to the side.

While dodging, Yoruichi Yagami tried to create clones, but unsurprisingly, she failed.

Whether it's the basic Shadow Clone Jutsu or the more advanced Water Clone Jutsu, Wood Clone Jutsu, etc., they cannot be used.

Yoruichi Yagami tried the Flying Thunder God Technique, the Body Flicker Technique, and even Ryze's [Overload] skill.

However, anything that is not related to the 'fire attribute' cannot be used.

Even the most basic physical techniques are the same; there is an invisible force that restricts Yoruichi Yagami, allowing her to only exert the strength and speed of her normal physical attributes, and preventing her from using techniques such as 'Body Flicker Technique' through physical skills.

"As expected, all abilities except fire-based ones are unusable."

A thought silently flashed through Yagami Yoruichi's mind.

Yoruichi Yagami was not surprised by this.

Since there's no chance to find an opening, we should just use fire-type skills to defeat Bland.

In just two seconds, Yoruichi Yagami made many attempts and simultaneously increased the distance between herself and the point where the fireball would land.

Boom!

The fireball crashed into the high wall, and a wave of heat swept through.

Yagami Yoruichi glanced back and saw that the high wall was undamaged, suggesting that the fireball's attack power was not strong.

But from the intense heat emanating from behind, Yoruichi Yagami knew that the fireball was definitely not insignificant.

It must be at least at the level of a Kage-level peak ninja's commonly used special techniques.

By analogy, it is roughly equivalent to the Third Raikage's 'Four-in-One Technique' or the attack power of Sakumo Hatake's sword techniques.

Even with such attacks, not a single mark was left on the floor or walls of the 'colosseum'.

Is it an indestructible 'terrain'? Or is the material itself ridiculously strong?

Yagami Yoruichi pondered the composition of this instance.

Is it a virtual world?

Or is it in some special world, in a place that truly exists?

This question obviously cannot be answered, nor is it that important.

It's not that important right now, at least not.

Right now, the most urgent thing is to defeat Brand and obtain the 'World Rune - Enlightenment' from him.

Brenda was gathering her magic power, preparing to launch a second attack.

Yagami Yoruichi quickly formed hand seals and simultaneously exhaled a ball of blazing flame from his mouth.

"Fire Release: Great Fire Extinction!"

The arena is not small, with a diameter of about two kilometers.

However, with Yagami Yoruichi's chakra reserves, a single wide-range ninjutsu would be more than enough to cover the entire arena, giving the opponent no chance to dodge.

Use skills to counter, block movement, and then predict the enemy's position to deliver a fatal blow.

That's not Yagami Yoruichi's style.

Unleash a wide-range ninjutsu attack, and no matter how you move, you'll be wiped out!

Having a large amount of chakra is just unreasonable.

Terrifying flames instantly engulfed the fire-wielding man, Brendan.

Faintly, Yagami Yoruichi seemed to hear a roar filled with anger.

Chapter 211 [World Rune - Enlightenment]

"call……"

"It's finally over..."

In the real world, in the land of the Thousand Hands Clan.

Yagami Yoruichi, panting heavily, used medical ninjutsu to heal her wounds.

The battle with Blade was far more intense than Yoruichi Yagami had anticipated.

The opponent's strength was not at all the 'peak of cinematic level' that I had guessed, but had indeed reached the 'super cinematic level'.

In particular, the opponent has a unique ability to absorb Yagami Yoruichi's attacks to strengthen himself, becoming stronger the more they fight, causing Yagami Yoruichi a lot of trouble.

Fortunately, this ability also has its limits.

After fighting for more than ten hours, Yoruichi Yagami's chakra was almost exhausted before she finally caused Brand, the Fire Man, to explode and die from the immense energy.

The 'World Rune - Enlightenment' within his body also fell into the hands of Yagami Yoruichi.

After resting for a while and regaining some of his energy, Yagami Yoruichi looked at the rune in his hand.

The runes were blue and white, resembling a special planet with three Dyson ring-like structures on the outer layer, constantly rotating around the stars inside.

The structure looks incredibly complex, but the runes are actually quite small; including the outer ring, they are only about the size of a ping-pong ball.

The 'planet' inside is only the size of a marble.

As Yagami Yoruichi's gaze fell upon the 'planet', a system notification automatically appeared.

[World Rune - Enlightenment: A World-Class Treasure.]

[Attribute 1: Can absorb attacks of all energy types and temporarily boost all attributes and rank. The maximum absorption limit is no more than three times the user's maximum energy, and the maximum duration is 24 hours.]

【Attribute 2: Insufficient conditions, not unsealed.】

With a thought, Yagami Yoruichi caused the rune to disappear from his palm and be stored in the system space.

World runes do not need to be carried around or implanted in the body like Brand does.

It can still achieve the same full effect when placed in the system space.

Strictly speaking, this can be considered an 'ability' granted to the holder by the World Rune, or it can be seen as a special 'skill'.

"An attack that absorbs energy? It's somewhat similar to the Rinnegan's Hungry Ghost Path ability, but judging from the description, it's ineffective against physical attacks like Earth Release and Wood Release."

Yoruichi Yagami finally understood why Brand, the Fire Man, could absorb the energy from her Fire Release ninjutsu and continuously grow stronger.

This wasn't due to his own ability, but rather because he relied on the [World Rune - Enlightenment] to achieve this.

He ultimately succumbed to his injuries and died from an overabundance of energy, far exceeding his capacity to withstand it.

As for other additional functions, the system did not display any prompts if the unlocking conditions were not met.

Yoruichi Yagami speculated that she would likely need to obtain other runes, or even all of them, before she would have a chance to unlock more of the abilities of the World Runes.

As for the present, although Yagami Yoruichi really wanted to study it in detail, the battle with Fire Man Brand had consumed too much of Yagami Yoruichi's chakra and stamina.

After storing the [World Rune - Enlightenment] in his system space, Yagami Yoruichi could no longer hold on. He activated the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport back to his bed, too lazy to even change his clothes, and immediately fell asleep.

After sleeping for more than ten hours, Yagami Yoruichi finally woke up.

After almost a day and a night of rest, Yagami Yoruichi's chakra only recovered a small portion, almost nothing at all.

With chakra so vast that it's difficult for normal eating and rest to quickly restore chakra, as is the case with Yoruichi Yagami.

Even if they eat regular soldier pills as meals, it will take them one or two days to recover to their peak condition.

Normally, Yagami Yoruichi uses a large number of wood clones to maintain a high level of training, consuming various tonics worth tens of thousands of ryo every day, in addition to a large amount of high-calorie food.

Otherwise, it simply cannot sustain such consumption.

This expense would make even a village kage feel heartbroken, let alone a regular jonin.

If it weren't for the fact that Yagami Yoruichi had killed enough enemies in the war, accumulated a large number of mission records, and received high rewards, she wouldn't have dared to spend money like this.

After contributing a sum of money to support the establishment of the power company, Yagami Yoruichi still had tens of millions of ryo left, enough to support herself for several years.

In fact, it won't take that long at all.

According to Nishimura's report, the power company's expansion was very smooth, and its market share was being captured very quickly.

Without slowing down the expansion pace, we expect to be able to distribute several hundred million taels of silver as dividends by the end of this year.

With just over 5% of the shares held by Yagami Yoruichi, receiving tens of millions of taels of silver wouldn't be a problem.

Nishimura even proposed an even more radical plan: to acquire all the small electrical appliance industries in the Land of Fire, such as light bulbs and radios, thus monopolizing both upstream and downstream industries and creating even greater profits.

However, there will be considerable resistance if we really do this.

Although the daimyo and aristocratic classes were primarily based on a landlord economy in an agricultural society, with the vast majority of their interests dependent on land, many large merchants and companies had intricate connections with these nobles.

Konoha's desire to monopolize the industrial chain naturally comes with pressure from these nobles.

This plan was only recently submitted to Yoruichi Yagami.

However, Yagami Yoruichi was busy improving her strength and was not in a hurry to recover. Instead, she sent her ANBU to gather intelligence, especially on the backgrounds of nobles involved in the power-related industries.

Only after understanding these factors can we decide whether to proceed with the supply chain monopoly plan.

This is not merely a business decision; it will have profound political implications and cannot be viewed simply from a business perspective.

"The secret service was just dispatched, and it's estimated that they won't be able to gather enough detailed information for a while. We can put this matter on hold for now."

Yagami Yoru glanced out the window and pondered, "It seems like there's nothing else to worry about lately. I just accompany Kurenai in her training and occasionally give Kaori and the others some pointers on their training. That's about it."

"In that case, let's continue grinding skill proficiency. Ryze's four skills reaching [Perfect] will trigger the rune quest. Will there be any special changes if we max out all the other heroes' skills as well?"

With that thought in mind, Yagami Yoruichi quickly made a decision: the next hero he would choose would be Zyra, whose four 'Wood Release' skills would be upgraded to perfect.

……

The Land of Rain.

Inside a secret hideout in a small town.

"who?!"

A boy with orange-yellow hair picked up a kunai and stood warily in front of his two companions, adopting a defensive posture.

“Yahiko, you’ve grown up.” Jiraiya emerged from the shadows with a complex expression and said, “The toads of Mount Myōboku told me that you died in the war. Was it a faked death? Why would you do that?”

After receiving the mission to investigate the Akatsuki organization, Jiraiya left the battlefield of Kumogakure and infiltrated the Land of Rain.

With his abilities, it was not difficult for him to find clues about the still very immature Xiao organization, and he also found his three former disciples by following these clues.

However, Jiraiya did not rush to show himself, but instead observed from the shadows for several months.

The information Konoha obtained from Naruto and Yamato regarding the Akatsuki organization in the 'future' was not kept secret from Jiraiya.

It also details the Akatsuki's dangerous ambitions and the terrifying threat it poses to the five great ninja villages, including Konoha, in another world located in the future timeline.

Although the Akatsuki organization now seems to inherit Jiraiya's ideals, trying to make people understand each other and eliminate conflicts.

However, with the information provided by Konoha, no matter how much Jiraiya trusted his disciple, he remained somewhat vigilant and secretly observed for more than half a year.

Even after he was completely certain that Mi Yan and the other two truly wanted to promote the idea of ​​'mutual understanding between people', he still hesitated for a long time before deciding to meet with his disciples.

Of course, Jiraiya's caution was not solely due to the information provided by Konoha.

Furthermore, not long after he left the Land of Rain a few years ago, he learned of the 'death' of Yahiko and the other two from the toads of Mount Myōboku.

But everything he saw told Jiraiya that his three disciples were not dead, and that the toads of Mount Myōboku had probably been fooled by their feigned death.

Why fake your death to prevent yourself from tracking their whereabouts?

Jiraiya harbored deep doubts.

This also made him instinctively wary.

"Jiraiya-sensei?"

When Yahiko and the other two saw Jiraiya, they all showed surprised expressions.

The outspoken Yahiko instinctively exclaimed, "Jiraiya-sensei, why haven't you contacted us for the past few years?!"

The moment the words left his mouth, Mi Yan realized something was wrong.

What did Jiraiya just say?

Jiraiya was also taken aback: "You can't contact me?!"