"How's the situation?"
Inside the Akatsuki's secret base in the Rain Country, ripples of space appeared in the air. The Masked Man and Pain emerged in the spacious hall, where Konan and Black Zetsu were already waiting.
Pain's call made the two turn around. After walking over, Konan first glanced at the Masked Man before saying to Pain, "The number of White Zetsu puppet clones has reached one hundred thousand. I tested them as well. Almost all of them possess Chunin-level strength. But Nagato, if we start a war..."
"Konan, these major villages should have paid the price for their actions long ago."
Pain seemed to know what Konan was about to say and replied furiously. The group walked onto the viewing platform. Below them stretched a densely packed sea of green, each one a head with emerald-colored hair.
Once there were more than ten thousand people, the crowd seemed endless, let alone one hundred thousand White Zetsu. That was equivalent to the combat power of one hundred thousand Chunin. Not a single village, including Konoha, could mobilize so many Chunin.
Of course, calling them equivalent to Chunin was only a general comparison. In reality, White Zetsu were even more troublesome than ordinary Chunin.
White Zetsu possessed not only Chunin-level combat power but also the ability to copy Chakra. Through physical contact, they could duplicate another person's Chakra and techniques, and sensory-type ninja could not detect them.
They were natural infiltrators. By touching a ninja, they could copy that person's body and Chakra. Once transformed, a White Zetsu emerging at night to infiltrate a ninja camp and carry out assassinations and sabotage would be an extremely formidable tactic.
However, every advantage had its drawback. White Zetsu were difficult to detect, but once the means to counter them were discovered, they