Tch!
Standing up and pacing to the doorway, Chiba looked at the wall of rain outside and could not help clicking his tongue, a hint of irritation appearing on his face.
This torrential rain had actually continued for three days, and the rainfall had barely changed. Even now, the rain roared across the roof like a flood, showing no sign of stopping.
In fact, the village had already begun manually draining water near the city walls because of this rare downpour, to prevent Konoha from flooding.
That also made Chiba somewhat understand why Minato Namikaze wanted to develop this area. Although Konoha's terrain was not low—in fact, it occupied one of the best stretches of land on the continent and was an ideal place to build a village—the primitive forest to the west sloped from high in the east to low in the west. Konoha Village enjoyed favorable weather practically all year round and was a truly excellent place, but if it encountered a once-in-a-century stretch of torrential rain like this, there really was a threat of flooding.
But if the land were leveled out, it could be connected into a great plain. At the end of the primitive forest lay a range of rolling hills. As long as they retained a small section of the forest near those hills and left a stretch of open plain, any enemies coming from that direction could be spotted quickly. It would effectively make Konoha surrounded by mountains on three sides, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.
This would not only expand the residential area, but also eliminate the flood risk and add a mountainous defensive front. It would prevent enemies from exploiting the primitive forest's complicated terrain to infiltrate. In other words, aside from displaying Konoha's posture as the