Ultimate Mission! The F4 Reunite! Conspiracy!

Half a month later. Konoha, Hokage Office.

Outside the window, Konoha was immersed in an unprecedented carnival of prosperity.

The streets and alleys were festooned with decorations, while merchant caravans stretched into long lines, completely clogging Konoha's gates.

The carts were loaded with reparations and tribute from the Land of Lightning, the Land of Earth, and dozens of neighboring minor countries.

Gold, rare minerals, precious medicinal herbs...

Resources that Konoha once could not obtain even by fighting desperately were now being delivered to its doorstep amid tearful pleas, as cheaply as cabbages.

Inside the office, Shikaku Nara held a stack of documents as tall as half a man. The circles beneath his eyes were as black as a panda's, yet his spirits were exceptionally high.

"Lord Tobirama, this month's financial report is out."

Shikaku's voice trembled. "Just half a month! Our treasury intake has already exceeded the total of the past ten years! The warehouses are full, so I've urgently requisitioned three vacant Uchiha Clan training grounds to store the gold."

Tobirama Uchiha sat in the broad Hokage chair, his feet casually propped on the desk as he flipped through an intelligence scroll, his expression calm.

"Stay calm. This is nothing yet. Wait until the follow-up tribute from those two vassal states arrives, then you can get excited."

"Yes... yes! Your methods are practically a Divine Miracle!"

Shikaku composed himself, then his expression darkened slightly as he pulled out a black scroll.

"However, there's a troublesome matter."

"An organization calling itself the Earth-Lightning Anti-Konoha Allied Resistance Army has recently appeared along the border."

"Most of its members are radical ninja who defected from Kumogakure and Iwagakure, along with quite a few wandering samurai. They don't dare attack Konoha head-on, so they specifically target our supply convoys. Three merchant caravans have already been robbed these past few days."

"They're just stray dogs."

Tobirama did not even raise an eyelid as he casually tossed the scroll into the trash.

"Ignore them. Our priority right now isn't suppressing bandits—it's digestion."

"Tell Orochimaru that the development of the Scientific Ninja Tools I want must be accelerated. Even if we have to throw money at it, get that Chakra Storage Device built."

Shikaku froze. "But... those supplies..."

"Let them take them."

A cold smile curled across Tobirama's lips, and a profound gleam flickered in his eyes.

"You get more profit by fattening livestock before slaughtering it. Besides, they can serve as whetstones for the village's new generation of ninja to gain real combat experience."

"Think further ahead, Shikaku. Once our Scientific Ninja Tools enter mass production, and even a Genin wielding a Chakra Cannon can blast a Jonin to death, these clowns will be wiped out with the flick of a finger."

"Hiss..."

Shikaku sucked in a breath, and the reverence in his eyes deepened.

This was true vision!

While others still haggled over gains and losses in a single city or territory, this man was already planning to overturn the entire Ninja World's combat system!

"Understood! I'll go urge Orochimaru's side immediately!"

Shikaku bowed respectfully and withdrew.

Only Tobirama remained in the office.

Just then, a cold mechanical voice suddenly exploded in his mind.

[Ding! Detected that the host has effectively subdued the Ninja World, and Konoha's prestige has reached its peak!]

[System version update complete. Ultimate main quest issued: Unify the World!]

[Quest objective: Annex the Five Great Nations, abolish the Daimyo System, and establish the Ninja World's sole Empire!]

[Quest reward: Determined by final rating.]

Tobirama's eyes suddenly lit up.

Unify the Ninja World? Abolish the Feudal Lords?

This system suited his tastes perfectly.

This trash era of division and regional rule should have ended long ago.

With a thought, he opened his Attribute Panel.

[Host: Tobirama Uchiha]

[Identity: Konoha Acting Hokage, Uchiha Clan Head, God of Shinobi]

[Power Evaluation: Six Paths Tier (On this planet, you are a walking god)]

[Core Abilities: Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan, Eternal Mangekyo, Perfect Sage Body, Flying Thunder God...]

[Money: 60 million ryo]

[System Evaluation: You are the tallest mountain and longest river of the Hokage. All you need to do is let time ferment, and you will become the world's only legend.]

"The tallest mountain, the longest river..."

Tobirama closed the panel, lit a cigarette, and gazed at prosperous Konoha outside the window.

"If that's the case, then I'll pile this mountain even higher."

Meanwhile. Hiruzen Sarutobi's private residence, underground chamber.

Under the dim light, four old faces were so gloomy they seemed ready to drip water.

Former Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, former Hokage advisor and current human stick Shimura Danzō, along with the two advisors Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu.

The legendary Konoha F4 had gathered once more.

Only this time, their situation was even more miserable than before.

"We're finished."

Mitokado Homura was the first to break the silence, his voice filled with despair.

"Ever since that tyrant Tobirama Uchiha took power, the Mitokado Clan's mission allocation has been cut by eighty percent! The younger members of the clan can barely afford food now. They can only work for the Uchiha Clan!"

"The Utatane Clan is the same."

Utatane Koharu gritted her teeth, her face full of venom. "He gave all the lucrative positions to those civilian ninja and the small clans that joined him. Now the village knows Tobirama but not its advisors! If this continues, our two great clans will become commoners!"

"Cough, cough..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi puffed on his tobacco pipe, his face ashen as though he had aged ten years.

"The Sarutobi Clan has it even worse. Shinnosuke was sent to guard the gates, and the talented younger generation has been dispatched to marginal departments. He's boiling us like frogs in warm water, trying to wipe us out completely."

"Then make him die!"

A shriek like that of a vengeful ghost rang out.

Everyone turned to see Shimura Danzō sitting in a specially made wheelchair.

Only one of his limbs remained—an arm—and he relied entirely on Medical Ninjutsu to keep himself alive. In that single eye burned a towering blaze of hatred.

"Danzō..." Hiruzen sighed. "How do we make him die? You saw it yourself. He can even summon meteors. With that kind of power... what can we use to fight him?"

"If we can't beat him with power, then we'll use righteousness!"

Danzō said sinisterly.

"Don't forget, although the Hokage is chosen by the village, the appointment must nominally be confirmed by the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire before it is legitimate!"

"Tobirama Uchiha is only the Acting Hokage right now. He has yet to receive the Feudal Lord's formal appointment!"

Hiruzen narrowed his eyes. "You mean..."

"Contact the Feudal Lord!"

Madness flashed in Danzō's eye. "Tell the Feudal Lord that Tobirama Uchiha is a madman. Not only does he intend to annex other nations, sooner or later he will also move against the Feudal Lord! What Feudal Lords fear most are uncontrollable warriors!"

"As long as the Feudal Lord issues an order rejecting Tobirama's position as Hokage, or even calls upon the Ninja World to punish him... he will lose all legitimacy!"

"This..."

Mitokado Homura hesitated. "This means borrowing outside forces to interfere with the village's internal affairs. If we're discovered..."

"Discovered my ass!"

Danzō roared. "We're about to die, so what are you still worried about? And the Feudal Lord alone isn't enough."

"I have channels to contact that Earth-Lightning Anti-Konoha Allied Resistance Army."

"Give them intelligence! Give them supplies! Let them cause trouble! The bigger the mess, the better!"

"As long as the front lines descend into chaos, and the Feudal Lord pressures us from the rear, those within Konoha who are dissatisfied with the Uchiha Clan will begin to waver. Then, we'll have our chance to seize power!"

Hiruzen remained silent for a long time.

The tobacco in his pipe burned out, its glow flickering on and off.

It was a dangerous move, even an act of treason against the village.

But when he thought of Tobirama Uchiha's arrogant face, when he thought of the Sarutobi Clan's decline...

"...We'll do it."

Hiruzen closed his eyes, his voice low.

"For Konoha's legitimacy, for peace in the Ninja World... this tyrant must be eliminated."

"Danzō, you handle contacting the resistance army. Keep it clean."

"As for the Feudal Lord... I'll go personally..."

"Hehehe... Don't worry, Hiruzen."

Danzō's mangled body trembled as he let out a strange laugh.

"I'll let him know that politics cannot be solved with fists alone."

Hokage Office.

Tobirama was preparing to inspect Orochimaru's laboratory when an inconspicuous C-rank mission scroll on his desk caught his attention.

[Mission Rank: C-rank (Suspected hidden risk)]

[Client: Fujikaze Yukie (Famous actress)]

[Mission Details: Escort a film crew to the Land of Snow to shoot The Great Adventures of Princess Fengyun.]

[Mission Reward: 500,000 ryo.]

"Fujikaze Yukie..."

Tobirama lightly tapped the desk with his fingers, an amused curve appearing at the corner of his lips.

"Kazahana Koyuki, princess of the Land of Snow."

"If I remember correctly, the Land of Snow seems to have a technology called Chakra Armor?"

"Although that thing looks crude now, its core concept is rather similar to the individual combat armor Orochimaru is researching."

"Interesting."

Tobirama directly picked up his seal and stamped the mission scroll with a red mark: S-rank, personally handled by the Hokage.

"I've been staying in the village long enough lately. It's getting a little boring."

"Orochimaru's research has hit a bottleneck, so I'll take the Land of Snow's technology and bring it back for him to study... no, borrow it back for his reference."

"While I'm at it, I'll see what that so-called famous beauty of the Ninja World actually looks like."

As for those rats plotting in the sewers?

Tobirama did not take them seriously at all.

Before absolute power, any schemes and conspiracies were nothing more than a little seasoning added to an otherwise boring life.