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It was still that gloomy underground chamber, its crisscrossing passageways like a maze, making it impossible to tell direction.

Rows of torches burned along both walls of the passageways, illuminating the way forward for Mizuki and Orochimaru.

These prearranged fixtures had clearly been triggered automatically after the two entered.

With Mizuki and Orochimaru's visual abilities, none of this was actually necessary. At their level, dim-light vision was practically a given. Only a genjutsu like the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique, which completely deprived people of all light, could truly obstruct their sight.

Mizuki had only come here to bear witness. What happened next would no longer be centered on his main body.

What Mizuki valued in Orochimaru's final prepared force was not its combat capability, but its potential to provide faith. Yet with his operations in the Land of Rain, these artificial humans Orochimaru provided could only be considered a welcome bonus. They were not worth Mizuki abandoning the important matters already in hand.

In comparison, fully refining the Shinigami he had just obtained and improving the completion of his Yin-Yang Release might benefit him more. As for the artificial human army Orochimaru had placed such high hopes on...

Before them lay a vast underground cavern carved out by nature itself, even larger than the base in the Land of Frost where Mizuki had seen Uchiha Obito hide the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

"No wonder you placed most of your resources in the Land of Fields. A place this large makes it worthwhile all by itself."

Mizuki could not help but sigh. No wonder Orochimaru had abandoned the underground laboratory in Konoha's back mountains—which Mizuki had relied on so heavily—without hesitation. And there was also the biological weapons laboratory on Demon Realm Island in the Land of Sea, which Orochimaru had