Just as Uchiha Tenshu's Shadow Clone was quietly waiting in Harvest City for the moment it vanished.
"Lord Patriarch, a merchant caravan requests an audience!"
Outside the door, a newly recruited attendant knelt outside the newly built temporary residence and spoke softly.
"Hm? Where are they from?" Uchiha Tenshu calmly asked in the voice of the Otomo Clan's patriarch.
"They're from the Land of Lightning. They claim to be merchants from Kumogakure," the attendant answered quietly.
"What? Kumogakure?" Shadow Clone Uchiha Tenshu seemed to recall something, and an idea immediately flashed through his mind. I was just wondering how to arrange a reasonable disappearance, and now the perfect opportunity has come knocking!
A smile appeared on Uchiha Tenshu's face as he hurriedly told the attendant outside, "Bring them in at once!"
"Yes!" The attendant quickly went to summon the Land of Lightning's merchant caravan.
"So this is the famous Harvest City!" A burly, fierce-looking man with skin as dark as chocolate led more than a dozen people into the Otomo Clan's city lord manor, where everything had been burned away, leaving little but ruins.
Seeing the three-room "noble" residence cobbled together from wooden planks, a puzzled look appeared on his face.
What happened to the Otomo Clan? How could this... The Kumogakure merchant could not help but wonder. After suffering such a terrible disaster, would they still agree to his request?
Thinking of how he had been hired by the village to purchase and stockpile grain in the Land of Fire, he could not help feeling anxious.
They said Harvest City had the most grain in the northwestern region of the Land of Fire. It had enjoyed bumper harvests for several consecutive years and was even better than the best grain-producing regions in the Land of Lightning. Even after several