Shikaku Nara stared at Kaguya Otsutsuki's file, the veins on his forehead twitching faintly.
"Lord Hokage, I need to confirm a few key questions first."
Shikaku opened a blank document in his mind, preparing to record the main points.
"First, how will this Kaguya Otsutsuki appear? Will she suddenly break out of a seal, or will she require specific trigger conditions? For example, gathering all nine Tailed Beasts, or some special sacrifice?"
Hiroki shook his head.
"To be honest, I don't know the exact method."
He was very candid.
"The Sage of Six Paths told me only one thing—she will definitely appear. And as the chakra network is laid out, the total amount of chakra across the Shinobi World is rapidly increasing. Once that figure reaches a certain critical point, the seal will automatically be released."
"But—" Hiroki paused. "What I can be sure of is that once she appears, she will frantically absorb chakra."
"Absorb chakra..."
Shikaku lightly tapped his fingers against the desktop, a habitual motion whenever he was thinking.
"That means her objective is very clear. And..."
He pulled up a map of the Shinobi World in his mind, densely marked with the locations of every chakra base station.
"If she wants to absorb chakra, the most efficient method would be to attack our core nodes directly. Our servers, Konoha's Great Barrier, the central base station in the Land of Wind, the hub in the Land of Earth—each of those places stores an astronomical amount of chakra."
These were the nodes deployed for the chakra network—each generated chakra through strange plants cultivated by Orochimaru.
Combined with the chakra collected as internet fees from the many programmers connecting to the chakra network, every regional base station possessed enormous chakra reserves.
"Right." Hiroki nodded. "And once these nodes are