Everyone in the entire base vanished in an instant.
Along with them, everything in the base that he considered useful was collected from a distance and stuffed into his Storage Ring.
In the blink of an eye, the place was empty.
Uchiha Yan proceeded methodically, using the leads provided by the Root ninja he had already controlled to locate every Root hideout, one after another.
Anything useful was packed up and taken away.
All the personnel were brought under his control with an enslavement technique.
With just one exception, everyone was sent to the Dark Star Trading Company.
There were quite a few children among them.
They, too, were all branded with an Enslavement Mark.
There was no helping it. They had grown up under Root's conditioning, and their personalities were already badly damaged, their emotions and values incomplete.
Uchiha Yan simply used the Enslavement Seal to repair their personalities and emotions, then used the Spiritual Illusion Technique to reshape some of their values.
"The elders of the Dark Star Trading Company will take over the training for the rest."
Uchiha Yan made the decision and handed off the follow-up work.
He had plenty of confidence in those people.
"Let's go, Yamato. Come back to Konoha with me."
He beckoned to a wooden-faced boy.
This kid was Konoha's future number-one construction foreman—Captain Yamato.
He had previously been called Kinoe, or Tenzo.
Uchiha Yan had given him this name, which happened to match his name in the original timeline.
"Yes, Lord Yan."
Yamato answered respectfully and quickly took his place behind him.
Whoosh—
The next moment, the two vanished into thin air.
When they reappeared, they were already standing in the Hokage Office.
Tsunade jolted in fright.
"Damn it! You little brat, do you have a death wish? Appearing out of