Secret Letter

"Sorry to trouble you both, making you come all this way in person."

In the reception room of the Huiyue main estate, Qi said to the Nanaya siblings before him, "If there's anything, you could have just sent someone over."

Over the past few years, Qi had come to fully appreciate the sheer resourcefulness of the nobility. Perhaps because these people no longer had to concern themselves with military affairs, they had poured all their energy into developing production. The Nanaya Clan's abundant resources over the past few years had truly shown Qi just how astonishingly powerful a great noble could be.

Ninjas were probably the most resource-consuming profession in the world today. The sheer volume of resources provided by the Nanaya Clan had left not only the Huiyue Clan, but even the entire Root, feeling like newly rich upstarts over the past few years.

Food, money, and even all sorts of raw materials that could be traded for finished ninja tools—they had everything.

Qi had been able to develop the current Root in a manner that was practically throwing money around, but without the Nanaya Clan's resource support, that would have been absolutely impossible. It also allowed him to imagine the foundations of the three great clans—the Senju Clan, Uchiha, and Hyuga Clan. The additional resource support they received from the nobles friendly to them alone was already a terrifying source of power.

For decades, those three clans had never lacked experts, with elites everywhere, and each generation had produced more than the last. Their reserves of ninjutsu and the fixed resource allotments they could obtain through the ninja village system alone could never have supported that.

Fortunately, his Huiyue Clan now possessed such conditions as well. Given enough time, unless some great upheaval occurred, even if the Huiyue