He had been in Root for two years, and now he had another mission-an undercover assignment, all on his own...
Lin Chuan thought back to the undercover mission he had drawn at Root before leaving. How could he be so unlucky!
As their strength improved, they no longer carried out missions in pairs, but went alone instead. Compared with the others, though, he was actually lucky.
He had drawn an assignment to infiltrate a small ninja village, while the others had drawn major villages. Root had sent undercover operatives to all four major ninja villages outside Konoha. Their missions were simple: investigate what had been happening in those villages lately.
Whether any gifted ninja had emerged, whether any major incidents had occurred, how the ninja in other villages lived, or what local prices were like-most of it involved investigating everyday life.
He could more or less guess what Root wanted this information for. They were probably running simulations for a shinobi world war, checking whether any villages were stockpiling supplies or conducting secret research, and so on...
But Kusagakure, his destination, was a small ninja village in a small country. Would the small countries really go to war while the major countries were observing a ceasefire?
The Land of Grass bordered the Land of Waterfalls and the Land of Rain. He really had no idea whom Kusagakure could fight. They certainly couldn't beat the Land of Rain; the Land of Waterfalls was harder to judge. He just hoped he wouldn't arrive in the middle of a war!
After two years of grinding in Root, he felt he was about to break through to Chunin level. If the undercover assignment hadn't come along and forced him to leave on a mission, he would have made it. He was truly only a