The Great War (3)

Screech!!

An eagle's cry descended from the sky, making people instinctively look up.

Two eagles circled overhead, fighting over the food clutched in their talons. Their feathers drifted down like raindrops, eventually landing in the hand of a man wearing an Auspicious Cloud Robe.

Nagato stared at the feather in his hand for a while, then gently blew on it. The feather floated back into the sky as he asked in a low voice, "Uchiha Madara, has the plan begun?"

As soon as he spoke, a man wearing a Swirl Mask approached. Seeing that Nagato had left his wheelchair and was standing, a hint of complexity appeared in his expression.

Ever since he had summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Nagato had become abnormally weak from excessive Chakra consumption and needed a wheelchair to move around.

In Obito's memories, Nagato could still occasionally stand and go out for a walk before creating the "Deva Path" puppet. But after the puppet appeared, he had never left that wheelchair again.

Seeing the other man's skin, pale from never seeing sunlight, Obito pushed off the ground and shot forward, replying in a deep voice, "The plan has already begun."

"Good!" Nagato instantly appeared beside Obito. He gave him a long look, then shifted his gaze toward the Land of Lightning and fell into thought.

He felt incredibly good right now—better than ever before.

Originally, he had planned to have Konan push him to the Land of Lightning. But after some adjustments, Nagato discovered that he could stand without effort, and his weakened body had recovered considerably.

However, Nagato had not found the method to restore his body. The Masked Man had voluntarily told him about it.

The other man seemed to understand the Sage's Eye even better than Nagato, its owner,