"My lord!"
The busy figure in the laboratory sensed Yuzuru's arrival and immediately stopped working, bowing respectfully to him.
"How is the experiment progressing?"
Yuzuru got straight to the point with the man before him.
"It's ninety-nine percent complete. Only the final step remains before it can be perfected..."
The man answered at once. Clearly, he was very familiar with the progress of his experiment.
"Mm."
Yuzuru nodded after hearing this, then asked Lo and the others behind him:
"Has the matter with Hanzo the Salamander been handled? When does he intend to launch the Second Shinobi World War?"
Lo did not answer immediately. Instead, she looked toward Fire Woman, Poseidon, and the others beside her. They were the ones chiefly responsible for contacting Hanzo the Salamander.
Fire Woman naturally noticed Lo's gaze. As the leader in charge of contacting Hanzo the Salamander, she immediately answered Yuzuru.
"My lord, although Hanzo the Salamander has temporarily gained the right to summon Lord Xuanming, he has not decided to launch a shinobi war immediately. Instead, he plans to formally start the war three years from now."
"Xihe, did Hanzo the Salamander tell you that himself?"
Yuzuru called Fire Woman by name and asked.
"Yes, my lord."
Xihe nodded.
Back then, Xihe, Poseidon, and the green-haired girl had gone to the Land of Rain to deliver Xuanming's summoning scroll to Hanzo the Salamander. Their purpose had been to increase his strength and, secondly, to hasten the arrival of the Second Shinobi World War. However, though Hanzo the Salamander was ambitious, power had not blinded him. He knew that the Land of Rain's current strength made it difficult to change the status quo of the Shinobi World, which was why he proposed a so-called "three-year agreement" to Xihe and the others!
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