Akatsuki Ninja Village.
In the Meeting Room, the ninja clans that had recently joined Akatsuki Ninja Village gathered together.
The Kaguya Clan, the Snow Clan, the Kurama Clan, the Hatake Clan, the Suoh Clan... Clans large and small filled the room. Uchiha Makoto had even poached some that should have joined Konoha. Stealing someone else's recruits was addictive. One day, the true heirs of Konoha would all be in Akatsuki Ninja Village!
And still...
Uchiha Makoto wasn't satisfied!
The more ninja clans, the better!
Unfortunately...
Akatsuki Ninja Village's foundations were still too shallow. If it hadn't ridden Konoha's wave of attention, recruiting clans wouldn't have gone nearly so smoothly, even with the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire's backing and plenty of money to throw around.
Besides, the powerful clans of the other four great nations had begun establishing ninja villages of their own. Their founding Kage were competing for the Ninja World's strongest clans too. Heroes were as plentiful as fish in a river!
So apart from clans he recognized by name, most of those joining Akatsuki Ninja Village were small and midsize clans from across the Ninja World. They had neither Bloodline Limits nor Secret Techniques. They would barely have been noticed in Konoha, so they had settled for Akatsuki Ninja Village instead.
Uchiha Makoto took them all.
He was panning for gold in the muck.
With a large enough pool, even if he couldn't draw an SSR-tier genius, a few R- or SR-tier ninja were bound to turn up. Those who interested him most came from the Land of Sky and the Land of Artisans. They preferred spending their time and energy developing technology to fighting.
Of course...
"Science and technology" was a term from Blue Star. Here in the Ninja World, it was called Ninjutsu