Like Kusagakure, Takigakure, Yukigakure, Hoshigakure, and the other minor shinobi villages, their numbers and the quality of their ninja naturally couldn't compare to the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
But taken together, they were still a force to be reckoned with.
The minor villages had few powerful ninja, and sensor ninja were even rarer. They generally had no defensive barriers or sensory barriers, either, so Shinji didn't need to waste any effort. He could simply have Nameless infiltrate and mark them.
Even if something unexpected happened, with Shinji's current skill in genjutsu, subduing a few people with an illusion wouldn't cause a stir.
"Konoha accounts for ten thousand. If I can mark several hundred elites in each of the other four villages, that would be equivalent to marking another four or five thousand ordinary Konoha ninja. As for the other minor villages, they may have plenty of people, but their abilities vary too much to make optimistic estimates. Oh, and there are the samurai from the Land of Iron!"
Shinji thought of the Land of Iron.
The samurai of the Land of Iron ruled a country in the Shinobi World, and in the original timeline they had been powerful enough to participate in the Five Kage Summit as neutral parties. That showed their overall strength exceeded that of the average minor shinobi village.
So if he counted the samurai as well, marking all the minor villages and the samurai of the Land of Iron would be equivalent to marking another four or five thousand Konoha ninja.
By that calculation, if everything went smoothly, Shinji could obtain the Chakra of at least twenty thousand ordinary Konoha ninja.
That amount of Chakra was probably still less than the Ten-Tails had, but it was a considerable amount nonetheless.
"As for the rest, I'll have