Orochimaru's Second Defection

Charlotte sent his consciousness into the System Space and took down the B-rank Ninja Orochimaru Fusion card. In the room, Orochimaru's figure vanished as well. Guren's eyes widened at the sight. She had not sensed at all how Orochimaru had disappeared.

Choose whether to fuse S-rank Ninja Orochimaru with B-rank Ninja One of the Sannin—Orochimaru Fusion.

Yes!

Following Charlotte's choice, two Ninja Cards flew out of the ninja column and began spinning rapidly in midair. After a burst of golden light, they fused into a new Ninja Card—three-star S-rank Ninja Orochimaru Fusion.

Orochimaru's Ninjutsu skills increased to nine. Looking at the new Ninja Card, Charlotte placed it back into the Deployment Slot.

Please choose the manifestation location. Charlotte glanced at it, then chose the position from before the recall. Orochimaru's figure appeared in the room once more, while Guren still had not sensed how Lord Orochimaru had appeared.

At that moment, Orochimaru had his eyes closed. He was receiving his newly added memories: losing both parents at five, graduating from the Ninja Academy at six and becoming the disciple of the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, earning the title of Sannin together with Tsunade and Jiraiya at twenty-three, taking Nawaki as a disciple at twenty-four and witnessing Nawaki's death, then witnessing Dan Katō's death at twenty-five and lamenting the fragility of life.

During that time, he took Anko as a disciple, witnessed Itachi Uchiha's Sharingan in his childhood, took Yakushi Kabuto as a disciple, and at forty, after conducting human experiments and researching forbidden techniques such as Wood Release, he was discovered by the Third Hokage and defected from the village.

Having failed to become Hokage, he established his own Otogakure in the Land of Fields and gathered a group of subordinates.

As Orochimaru finished digesting all those memories, he opened