Chapter 16: I Wish To Serve You, My Lord!
In the cabin, when Kado came back to his senses again, he was already drenched in cold sweat, his eyes filled with fear and awe toward the mysterious person before him.
Illusion Technique, though just a simple C-rank Illusion Technique, was no different from a “Divine Technique”-like existence to an ordinary person like Kado who had no chakra.
“Lord!” After coming out of the Illusion World, Kado immediately prostrated himself at Menma’s feet, his voice trembling.
“Kado is willing to serve Lord!” Kado raised his head, his small eyes full of panic and awe.
Afraid that he had no value to be used and would be skinned alive by the other party.
Illusion Technique could make the victim see the deepest fear in his heart.
And Kado’s fear was ‘people die before the money is spent’.
In the Illusion World, he experienced countless reincarnations, watching helplessly as his hard-earned Kado Company became a world-class conglomerate, but he died for various reasons.
Sometimes due to accidents, sometimes involved in ninja wars, and other times simply assassinated by ninjas.
Various illusions, no less than a million times.
The time Kado experienced in the Illusion World, converted to real time, exceeded a year.
Of course, Menma added some extra ingredients in the illusion, letting Kado see how those high-and-mighty daimyo and nobles were wantonly slaughtered by powerful ninjas.
Therefore, after Kado came out of the Illusion World, he immediately begged for mercy from the mysterious ninja lord before him, pleading to serve him.
This also completely shattered Kado’s faith in the old order of the Ninja World.
Previously, Kado’s views on the rule of those nobles and daimyo, and his worldview, were completely dismantled in the Illusion Worlds he experienced.
Menma nodded in satisfaction and placed his hand on top of Kado’s head.
Kado nervously lowered his head.
“Blood Contract Seal!” As Menma’s dark, brutal chakra surged into Kado’s brain, a swastika curse mark appeared deep in Kado’s tongue.
This was a curse seal technique developed by Menma in the Limited Tsukuyomi World.
It was very similar to Root’s Tongue-Cutting Sealing Technique, but Root’s Tongue-Cutting Sealing Technique would cause full-body paralysis and inability to move if Danzō’s information was leaked.
While Menma’s Blood Contract Seal was even more cruel; as long as the victim leaked Menma’s information to outsiders, the brain would be directly destroyed, preventing enemies from obtaining more intelligence by reading brain memories.
However, Menma had improved this technique, allowing it to store the amount of chakra of an ordinary genin, greatly enhancing the victim’s physical qualities.
“I need your money-making ability to contribute funds to the organization.” Menma floated in mid-air, scrutinizing Kado kneeling on the ground.
Feeling the subtle chakra energy in his body, Kado’s face lit up with joy, and he knelt down again.
“Thank you for the gift, Lord! Kado swears to serve Lord to the death!”
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At night, the waves lapped against the hull, making slight sounds.
Kado’s office had been cleaned up, those corpses thrown into the sea, and after tidying the room, it became Menma’s rest room on this ship.
“Lord, this is the top tea from the Land of Tea specially offered to the daimyo. Shall I brew a cup for you to try?” Kado carefully served at the side.
“Mm.” Menma was still wearing his mask, lazily reclining on the sofa.
The little Nine-Tails had already run out from Menma’s fur collar and was sitting on the tea table, eating dessert in big mouthfuls.
Kado hurriedly offered pastries, like serving a deity.
“Your current task is mainly to manage the company’s revenue well and reserve funds for the organization.” Menma flipped through an ancient book from some country in Kado’s collection, his right hand clenched into a fist propping up his cheek.
“Yes! I shall obey Lord’s command!”
Although handing over all his earned money to the organization made Kado feel some pain, he had also gained power and held a certain status in this lord’s organization.
In the future, he might even become a noble in the new world!
“How much longer until the fleet arrives at the Land of Lightning’s port?” Menma suddenly looked up and asked.
“Replying to Lord, about five or six days. It’s the north wind season now, so the fleet’s speed will be much faster.”
Departing from the Land of Fire port, they needed to go around the Land of Hot Water, pass through a bay, and reach the Land of Lightning’s coastline.
The distance wasn’t too far, roughly equivalent to the distance from Konohagakure to the Land of Hot Water.
Calculated at an elite jonin’s speed of 300 kilometers per hour, it would take about a day, minus rest time in between, for a distance of over 5,000 kilometers.
This ship was a wooden sailing ship, and with the north wind season’s wind boost, it should have about 18 knots, or 3 kilometers per hour, with a daily maximum of 800 kilometers.
So indeed, it would take five or six days to reach the Land of Lightning coast.
By this calculation, the Ninja World was still pretty big.
It was just that ninjas were too fast.
When Naruto and his group supported the Sand Village, they went from Konohagakure to the Sand Village in three days. Even assuming they all had elite jonin stamina, at 200 kilometers per hour, sleeping only five hours a day, a day’s journey was 3,800 kilometers, and three days was over 11,000 kilometers.
And the Earth’s circumference before Menma’s traversal was only 40,000 kilometers.
It seemed this planet’s size was indeed planned according to Earth, with the entire Ninja Continent’s population around 300 million, each of the Five Great Nations having 30 to 50 million people.
Menma stroked the little Nine-Tails’ head with one hand and added, “Besides earning funds, your company must open branches across the Five Great Nations and some surrounding small and medium-sized countries, collecting intelligence from each country.”
“May I ask, what aspects of intelligence?” Kado inquired.
Menma thought for a moment and slowly said, “Terrain features of each country, major cities and important passes, port situations, population conditions and social structure, contradictions between nobles and commoners, etc., all can be collected.”
“What about the ninja villages?” Kado asked softly.
Menma didn’t say that an ordinary person like Kado was fundamentally unsuitable for probing ninja village intelligence, merely saying indifferently, “For the ninja villages, I’ll arrange a separate intelligence team.”
“Yes, Lord!” Kado replied solemnly.
The little Nine-Tails, wearing a red-and-white kimono like a little child, sat on Menma’s lap, holding a large piece of dessert in both hands, about to take a bite, when it suddenly looked up at Menma and said.
“By the way, what about that Cloud Village corpse? Aren’t you dealing with it?”
Menma then remembered that in his storage scroll, there was still the Cloud Village special envoy’s corpse unprocessed.
“Where is the bounty exchange in the Land of Lightning?” Menma asked Kado.
This time passing by the Land of Lightning, he could check the bounty exchange to see if he could exchange for some money.
Also go stroll around the Cloud Village.
And by the way, deliver some local specialties from their hometown.
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