Meeting and Gifts

To prevent his forces from suffering losses, the moment Nawaki received the intelligence, he created a jōnin-level True Clone to handle official duties in his place. His main body, retaining most of his strength, then used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport directly to Akatsuki's headquarters.

With the help of Anbu branch stations over the past few years, Nawaki had used Wood Release to leave spatial coordinates in every important city and location throughout the Shinobi World. As long as a place was not too remote, he could reach it with a single thought.

Unfortunately, in recent years, the major ninja villages had all successfully developed spatial interference barriers. Within their range, these barriers continuously generated irregular, minute spatial vibrations. Such vibrations had no effect on ordinary people, but they were fatal interference for space-time ninjutsu. Forcing the use of space-time ninjutsu within a barrier could produce unpredictable results. If one was lucky, the destination would merely be wrong. If unlucky, one might become trapped in a spatial rift, or even have different parts of their body emerge in different spaces, shattering them into pieces without leaving a corpse behind.

Although these barriers were expensive to construct, the major ninja villages spared no expense in building them to guard against space-time ninjutsu, enveloping their entire villages within them.

Thus, Nawaki could not freely teleport into the interiors of the major ninja villages. Konoha, however, had not wasted money constructing such a barrier. The only three people in the entire Shinobi World capable of using space-time ninjutsu were all Konoha ninja, so the barrier offered Konoha no defensive benefit at all. Instead, it would limit the strength of its own people, making it worthless.

In the blink of an eye, Nawaki crossed tens of millions of miles and appeared within