Starting as the mastermind behind Naruto

Chapter 17 One Hundred Million Explosive Talismans

After the meeting, everyone left the base.

Konan looked at Uehara Naraku with a worried expression and scolded him, "Naraku, I've told you, Akatsuki matters are not your business."

"Teacher Xiao Nan..."

Uehara Naraku looked somewhat dejected and lowered his head.

Payne shook his head and gently advised, "Konan, we must be fair. Uehara is a member of the organization, and there should be no exceptions."

"But he's still a child..."

Konan lowered her head and looked at Uehara Naraku, saying, "When we were that age, we were just following Jiraiya-sensei and hadn't learned any ninjutsu. Although Naraku's power isn't weak, he's going to the Land of Water, which has always been closed off to the outside world. Biwa Juzo died there. What if something happens to Naraku there..."

"No, teacher."

Uehara Naraku spoke up to calm her down, preventing her from saying anything unlucky.

"Alright, there's no need to worry."

A thin black rod appeared in Pain's palm. He gently broke it in two and walked up to Uehara Naraku: "Uehara, have you learned summoning jutsu?"

"Uh, not yet..."

The boy looked slightly embarrassed. He had not yet learned the orthodox summoning techniques of the ninja world, but he could complete his own summoning skill with just a thought.

Currently, he only has one summoning contract, Galio the Colossus of Justice. However, Galio's summoning requires 3,000 chakra points, which is far from enough for him.

"I will now teach you the art of psychic communication."

After Pain finished speaking, he began to demonstrate the hand seals for the Summoning Jutsu, explaining as he performed the seals: "The Summoning Jutsu is the simplest space-time ninjutsu. Before forming the seals, you need to use your own blood as a contract to summon the contracted object."

After Pain demonstrated the hand seals for the Summoning Jutsu to Naraku Uehara, and saw him nod to indicate that he had memorized it, he handed him the small black rod in his hand: "If you encounter danger in Kirigakure, insert the chakra sensor into yourself, and then use the Summoning Jutsu directly. Understand?"

"Yes."

Uehara Naraku nodded with a strange expression, because at that moment his brain 'dinged'.

Side quest completed: Learn the art of necromancy (1/1). Quest complete. Reward: Necromancer Contract: Deep Sea Titan Nautilus.

Summoning Contract: Summons the deep-sea titan Nautilus, consuming 2000 chakra points.

Uehara Naraku felt that the system's summoning contract was a complete trap. Whether it was the Colossus of Justice or the Deep Sea Titan, his chakra was not enough. He could only try to complete the advancement mission or save up money to buy some equipment to increase his chakra.

Fortunately, he could also communicate with other things.

Uehara Naraku took the chakra sensor from Pain's hand. This chakra sensor existed in each of the Six Paths of Pain, and Nagato, hidden behind Pain, used these sensors to input chakra into Pain and control their actions.

Besides these functions, it also has the purpose of spiritual communication.

Konan, who is right next to them, is an example. Because the small lip piercing under Konan's mouth is also a chakra sensor, she can be summoned by the Animal Path Pain or she can summon the Six Paths of Pain herself.

Because of the presence of chakra sensors, Pain, in addition to being incredibly powerful, is also a kind of summoning entity, similar to a ninja beast.

Uehara Naraku had always had this suspicion in his heart, and now that he saw Pain hand him the black rod, he understood everything. This chakra sensor could help him summon Pain, and whichever one of them was able to save his life.

Unlike Konan, Payne has never been very kind to him. Who would have thought that this guy is actually a tsundere?

Uehara Naraku sighed inwardly, looked at the two people present, and asked provocatively, "Konan-sensei, Yahiko-sama, didn't you both feel that the masked intern senior was a bit strange...?"

In order to maintain the persona of the Akatsuki's heir, Uehara Naraku could only continue to call Pain Yahiko; conversely, Konan generally called Pain Nagato.

Payne nodded, glanced at Konan, and explained, "His identity is inherently different from others. Just now, like Konan, I also suspected he might harm you... So when you go to the Land of Water, I will warn him not to do anything unnecessary."

"..."

Uehara Naraku's expression was subtle.

It's been twelve years since Yahiko died in battle, why are you still so naive? You're twenty-seven years old this year!

If the mysterious masked man wanted to do something detrimental to him, he wouldn't need to lift a finger himself. He could simply manipulate the Fourth Mizukage of Kirigakure and Kisame Hoshigaki to achieve his goal.

This was something that Konan and Payne had never considered.

This is also due to a lack of intelligence.

Uehara Naraku wasn't too afraid of the masked man's tricks. Now that he had the skill of Holy Judgment, which made him invincible for a short time, and the flying skill of Flying Technique, he could escape or leave whenever he wanted.

If the mysterious masked man still wants to stir up trouble behind the scenes, Uehara Naraku wouldn't mind translating for him what a surprise is!

However, Konan immediately gave Uehara Naraku a surprise. She took out several summoning scrolls from her person and handed them to Uehara.

As the boy stared at the scroll with a puzzled expression, Xiao Nan ruffled his hair and softly explained, "There are one hundred million explosive tags inside..."

Naraku Uehara: "..."

Even though he understood Xiao Nan's technique, he was still shocked by the concept of one hundred million explosive tags. How long would it take him to use such a large number of explosive tags?

Moreover, the system in my brain kept beeping, as if it was about to crash.

When Uehara Naraku checked the system panel in his brain, he only saw a bunch of completed tasks, which left him speechless.

Side Quest: Collect one Ninja World Explosive Tag (1/1). Quest complete. Reward: Skill: Multiply Explosive Tag Technique.

Side Quest: Collect 100 Ninja World Explosive Tags (100/100). Quest Completed. Reward: 100 Gold Coins.

Side Quest: Collect 10000 Ninja World Explosive Tags (10000/10,000). Quest Completed. Reward: 150 Gold Coins.

Side Quest: Collect 100000 Ninja World Explosive Tags (100000/100,000). Quest Completed. Reward: 200 Gold Coins.

Side Quest: Collect one million Ninja World Explosive Tags (1000000/1000000). Quest Completed. Reward: 250 Gold Coins.

Side Quest: Collect 10 million explosive tags (10000000/10000000). Quest complete. Reward: 300 gold coins.

Side Quest: Collect 100 million explosive tags (100000000/100000000). Quest complete. Reward: 350 gold coins.

In addition to the aforementioned rewards, Uehara Naraku observed that there were still four or five explosive tag missions remaining, with the final mission deadline being the collection of 600 billion explosive tags.

Uehara Naraku couldn't help but glance at Konan. His teacher was being incredibly generous, giving him several scrolls and having him complete a bunch of tasks...

Konan thought he was frightened by the number of explosive tags, so she reached out and helped him put the sealing scroll into his ninja tool pouch, saying softly, "I can make explosive tags myself. One hundred million isn't a particularly large number. Your safety is the most important thing."

"...Yes, teacher."

Uehara Naraku nodded, but in his mind he thought of the Mutual Multiplication Explosive Tags technique that the system had rewarded him with. Unfortunately, it was a system skill and he couldn't teach it to Konan.

However, this skill comes from the ninja world.

Uehara couldn't help but harbor a secret plan: if he had the chance, he definitely wanted to go to the Konoha Forbidden Technique Room to help Konan obtain the training method for the Mutual Explosive Tags Technique...

If this woman, who possesses the most explosive tags in the ninja world, were to obtain the Mutual Explosive Tags Technique, it's uncertain whether she could withstand the mysterious masked man's attempts to harm Konan...

(End of this chapter)