The capital of the Land of Rice Fields.
"So this is the place."
Orochimaru stood at the entrance, looking at the plaque over the Daimyo's Mansion. "Even the daimyo of small countries live quite well."
If he could establish a partnership with the daimyo, perhaps his research would never lack funding again.
No one could resist the temptation of immortality.
Especially these wealthy people in positions of power.
If he could launch an immortality research project and get these wealthy people to invest, he would not have to worry about research funding.
Experiments, after all, burned through money.
Back when he researched Hashirama cells in Konoha, he had enjoyed unlimited financial support from Shimura Danzō.
That had allowed Orochimaru to research Hashirama cells without restraint.
Then Shimura Danzō had been killed by Uchiha Jin during the Nine-Tails' Rampage. Without Root's financial support, Orochimaru could only pour all the money he had saved over the years into his research.
He had spent it all within a few months.
After his human experimentation was exposed, he had been forced to leave the village and look for new ways to make money.
First, he would use threats and incentives to make the Daimyo of the Land of Rice Fields authorize the establishment of a ninja village.
Once the laboratory was built, he would launch an immortality project and seek investment from the wealthy people of the shinobi world.
With sufficient funding and his brilliant mind...
Immortality would be within reach!
Growing more excited the more he thought about it, Orochimaru approached the entrance and told the guard.
"I am Orochimaru, one of the Konoha Sannin. I have important matters to discuss with the Daimyo of the Land of Rice Fields."
Normally, he would never have used the front entrance. He would have gone