Nara Shikahira stroked his beard, offering no comment, and turned to look at his son.
"Shikaku, what do you think? What should we do now?"
"All right."
Nara Shikaku sighed; he knew he would be in trouble.
"First of all, I think the Queen of Roran will definitely continue to postpone after tonight, because no matter what, Konoha has defeated Suna here. Rōran has to consider the consequences of refusing Konoha and offending Konoha. Even if she really doesn't want to form an alliance, she will definitely not refuse openly. In other words, no matter how bad the situation is, we still have a chance to turn things around."
"As Jonin Shirakumo said, we should try our best to influence the Queen's thoughts. The lowest risk and fastest way is to get the ministers who have enough influence with the Queen to speak on our behalf. So we can bribe some ministers to speak for us."
"Secondly, we still need to gather intelligence to understand why Rōran is in its current situation and whether there are other forces supporting Rōran behind it. Only in this way can we find other better ways to persuade the Queen of Roran and complete the mission."
Afterwards, Nara Shikahira questioned Meikyō and the others in detail, and finally made arrangements according to Nara Shikaku's analysis.
He and Shirakumo Tokinobu, went out Jonin usual to visit the various ministers of Rōran to see if there was anything they could win over. The others left clones in their rooms while their main bodies went out to gather intelligence under the cover of night.
Meikyō, of course, was happy to see this happen.
Acting alone, he would naturally have the opportunity to contact the Dragon Vein and steal its power to repair his Reincarnator's Wristwatch.
The night was dark and the wind was high; in the vast desert, the starry sky was bright.
Rōran, the royal palace, inside a palace.
"The Reincarnator's Wristwatch is reacting most intensely here; it seems this is the location of the Dragon Vein Seal!"
Uchiha Meikyō, who had quietly infiltrated the palace, looked at the scene inside with delight.
From here, he could see the location of the Dragon Vein seal at a glance.
The reason is simple: in the very center of the hall, there is an open space with mysterious Sealing Technique drawn on it. Around the seals are several cylindrical machines that receive the Chakra of the Dragon Vein and transport it to the connected pipes.
"However, I must thank this Mukade. If he hadn't persuaded the Queen to unlock part of the Dragon Vein's seal to draw out its energy for the development of Rōran, I really wouldn't have been able to break the Dragon Vein's seal and absorb Dragon Vein Chakra."
Uchiha Meikyō walked to the edge of the Dragon Vein seal, took off his wristwatch, and placed it on the edge of the gap in the seal.
Instantly, a visible purple Chakra was slowly drawn into the Reincarnator's Wristwatch.
[Reincarnator ID: 95277]
[Current Task:...@#...**? Information incomplete, connection lost with the mainframe of the Reincarnation Space...]
[Spacetime energy detected. Please replenish it as soon as possible to repair the Reincarnator's Wristwatch. Locate your world coordinates and proceed with the mission!]
[Contact with spacetime energy has been made; currently drawing in, absorbing, and connecting to the main brain of the Reincarnation Space... Connection failed... Repeat, connection failed...]
[Abandon connection!]
[Locating world coordinates... No world coordinates are available in the Reincarnator's Wristwatch. Please set Reincarnator manually and use spacetime energy to automatically search for new world coordinates...]
Looking at the information on the Reincarnator's Wristwatch, Meikyō's face lit up with joy.
Although, before transmigrating, I was just a newbie who hadn't even had time to complete the beginner dungeons, and the wristwatch didn't record any world coordinates, it wasn't a big problem. As long as I paid a certain amount of spacetime energy, the Reincarnation Wristwatch could automatically search for other worlds in the void.
[The Reincarnator 'Reincarnator's Wristwatch has been repaired. Please manually set it to automatically search for new world coordinates using spacetime energy...]
Uchiha Meikyō looked at the Reincarnator's Wristwatch, now fully repaired and shimmering with a faint purple hue, and put it back on his wrist. He sat cross-legged beside the seal, allowing the watch to continue absorbing the Dragon Vein's energy while concentrating his mind and channeling his thoughts into it.
[Manual search enabled, restrictions set: the highest energy level of any living being in this world cannot exceed one energy level of the Reincarnator.]
Uchiha Meikyō now possesses the strength of Jonin. With his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, as long as he doesn't face powerful opponents like the Five Kage or Jinchuriki, he at least has the ability to protect himself or escape.
If Meikyō went to a world that was too high-level, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to come back. But if it was too low-level, it wouldn't help improve his strength.
Just as Meikyō was still controlling the Reincarnator's Wristwatch to continue accumulating Dragon Vein energy and searching for new world coordinates, a slightly chubby person with dark circles under his eyes quietly appeared outside the palace.
Anrokuzan, the minister of Rōran, is also Rogue Ninja from the future Suna, Mukade.
Upon noticing the arrival of the newcomer, Meikyō immediately put away the Reincarnator's Wristwatch.
Why are the Konoha Ninja coming to Rōran?
This was a question that Anrokuzan couldn't help but have when he learned that the Konoha delegation had arrived in Rōran.
This didn't happen in his original timeline.
Now, seeing Uchiha Meikyō standing before the Dragon Vein, he believed he had guessed the answer correctly.
Perhaps it was because of my arrival that Rōran underwent such a dramatic change, which is why Konoha has also set its sights on Rōran's Dragon Vein? If that's the case, then things are in trouble...
As someone who returned to the present from the future, Anrokuzan had already discovered that the world had changed—mainly because Dan Katō was still alive.
The best course of action now is to find a way to drive the Konoha Ninja out of Rōran, depriving them of their chance to seize the Dragon Vein!
"Konoha Ninja, I want to know why you came to the vital Dragon Vein of Rōran."
Anrokuzan stroked his beard and said solemnly, as if he were indeed a loyal minister of Rōran.
"I also want to know, why did the ninjas from Sunagakure come to Rōran and become the Queen's most valued ministers?"
Uchiha Meikyō smiled faintly, his right hand already resting on the wakizashi handle at his waist.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
Anrokuzan looked puzzled, but five Chakra Threads shot out from his hidden fingers.
He has decided to kill this Konoha Ninja here first, then use the power of the Dragon Vein to directly manipulate the puppets to kill the other Konoha Ninja, forcing the Queen of Roran to turn against Konoha. After that, he will use Suna to mediate and stabilize the situation, and finally continue his plan!
The next chapter will begin the journey to New World, specifically the Demon Slayer World. Those who haven't read Demon Slayer can give it a try; I'll try my best to write a story that even those unfamiliar with the original Demon Slayer manga can enjoy. Thank you!