Over a hundred million ryō looked like a lot, and it truly was no small sum. After all, the economics of the ninja world had always been a mystery.
There had never been any especially detailed or systematic explanation, so most of the time, one could only analyze it oneself.
However, after Kenichi Amamiya came to this world, he discovered that the ninja world's economic standards were indeed strange. An ordinary S-rank mission required at least a million ryō.
Of course, many ninja did not seem to live particularly well either, mainly because of the costs of replenishing ninja tools and learning ninjutsu.
Kenichi had even heard his teacher mention that the missions issued by the village had a portion of their payment deducted. Those fees became village funds, used for many other purposes.
His teacher had completed more than a hundred S-rank missions, which was how he had saved up so much money. Yet Kenichi had gotten this much money from Gato, saving him an enormous amount of time.
"But where did that Lightning Dragon I threw go? It shouldn't cause any trouble, right?" Kenichi scratched his head. He was not very sure.
Ordinary lightning in nature could not strike very far, perhaps only three to five kilometers. Yet certain unusual lightning bolts could stretch for more than seven hundred kilometers, which was utterly absurd—so much so that people might doubt whether it was real.
Thinking of this, Kenichi became a little less confident.
"Nothing... should happen, right?" Kenichi did not sound very certain. The Land of Waves lay south of the Land of Fire, a tiny island nation surrounded by the sea. Yet beyond that sea, it also bordered other countries.
"Sasori of Sunagakure, what do you think of my proposal?" Meanwhile, in a secluded valley within the