"Come and challenge you, the one and only new god who reigns supreme over the entire world!"
When Mei Terumi's words fell in the empty Divine Grace Hall with a dramatic, aria-like tone, the air in the entire hall seemed to freeze at that moment.
Tsunade, Konan, Kurotsuchi were utterly shocked, their minds even momentarily blanking out.
Shimura Danzō? Orochimaru?
These two names, long since swept into the dustbin of history, have somehow crawled out from the shadows again?
Moreover, they actually dared to resurrect the three Hokage to oppose our lord?!
How absurd! How utterly reckless!
Tsunade's feelings were the most complicated.
The First Hokage was her grandfather, Second Hokage was her great-uncle. Both of them were figures she revered like gods.
But now, they're being used as tools against their lord by those two madmen, Orochimaru and Danzo, and are being sacrilegiously summoned back from the Pure Land?
This is the ultimate insult to her faith!
"My lord! Please give the order!" Tsunade suddenly knelt on one knee, her beautiful brown eyes burning with unprecedented rage. "I am willing to personally lead the Ministry of Medicine and the ' Void God Unit ' to raze the Land of Rice Fields! To burn Orochimaru's snake Orochimaru, along with his filthy experimental subjects, to ashes!"
"My lord! Iwagakure is also willing to send troops!" Kurotsuchi knelt down immediately afterward, her beautiful face filled with determination. "My father, since he chose betrayal, must pay the price for his foolishness! I will personally lead the troops to cleanse this house!"
Immediately, public sentiment was agitated.
However, Uchiha Gen'yō, sitting on the throne, unexpectedly smiled.
He smiled.
It wasn't that kind of cold, murderous sneer.
It was a heartfelt laugh, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, full of joy and amusement.
"Hehe, hehehehe, interesting, really interesting."
Gen'yō slowly rose from his throne. He stretched lazily, his languid posture suggesting that what he had just heard was not a shocking conspiracy that could overthrow the entire Divine Kingdom, but a harmless bedtime story.
He slowly walked down the steps and came to the huge holographic sand table.
He looked at the red dots marked by Mei Terumi on the sand table, representing the "rebels," and instead of anger, his eyes were filled with the admiration and curiosity of a child seeing a beloved toy.
" Shimura Danzō, that old dog who struggled in the shadows of Konoha his whole life, was still thinking of biting me even in his dying moments."
" Orochimaru is forever pursuing so-called 'truth' and 'immortality,' but he doesn't know that everything he seeks has already been trampled under my feet."
"And the elders of Ebizo, Kitsuchi, and Kirigakure."
Gen'yō's fingers lightly traced the red dots of light, and with each name he uttered, his smile deepened.
"Look how hard they work!"
He turned his head and looked at Tsunade and the others who looked puzzled, his smile becoming meaningful.
"They exhausted all their wisdom, risked their lives, and even made a deal with the devil to summon the dead from hell."
"They meticulously planned all of this, thinking it was flawless, believing they could shake this towering tree of mine."
"They're just like a group of pitiful ants struggling to reinforce their nest before a storm hits."
"Don't you think that when we see such a brilliant drama, full of tragedy and futility, we, as the 'audience,' should give it the warmest applause?"
Tsunade and the others were completely stunned.
They couldn't understand their lord's thinking at all.
This is clearly a rebellion against you! Why are you so excited?
"My lord, what do you mean..." It was Mei Terumi first understood Gen'yō's intention. Her beautiful emerald green eyes began to sparkle with the same hunter's excitement as Gen'yō's.
"My meaning is very simple." A cold and cruel smile curled at the corner of Gen'yō's lips.
He reached out and gently touched the area that represented the " Land of Rice Fields ".
"Since they've already set the stage, hired the actors, and even written the script for this 'god-slaying' drama..."
"Then how can we not grant their wish?"
"Pass on my orders."
Gen'yō's voice suddenly turned cold and filled with undeniable Kamui at this moment!
Mei Terumi.
"Your subordinate is here!"
"Your ' Divine Punishment ' forces are now entering the highest level of 'silence'. I do not require you to interfere in any way, nor do I require you to eliminate any 'traitors'."
"What I want you to do is be the best 'director'."
"I want you to use all the surveillance equipment in the Divine Kingdom to record every single detail of this rebellion clearly!"
"From their secret meetings to their rebellion, and then to their summoning of the so-called ' Hokage Legion '."
"I want to turn this grand ' Fallen Moon ' operation into one that's open to the entire Shinobi World, no, to the entire universe..."
Live broadcast!
Live broadcast?!
Tsunade and the others were once again stunned by Gen'yō's wildly imaginative idea!
To broadcast a rebellion that could shake the very foundations of a nation live to the world like a movie?
What an insane, confident, and utterly disdainful idea this is!
"But my lord!" Tsunade said anxiously, "What will become of the Divine Kingdom's majesty? If those newly surrendered people see this, it will only shake the Divine Kingdom's rule!"
"Wave?" Gen'yō scoffed. "No, Tsunade, you're wrong."
He slowly Earth Flow Tsunade, reached out, and gently lifted her smooth chin, forcing her to look into his deep, golden Kamui eyes, as vast as the universe.
When someone feels fear towards another person, they will try to resist.
"But."
"When one person feels a deep-seated despair towards another, a despair so profound that even looking up to them is impossible."
"He would completely abandon thinking and worship the other person as a god."
Gen'yō released his grip, slowly turned around, and walked back towards the supreme throne.
"What I want is not an empire maintained by oppression and fear."
"What I want is a Divine Kingdom where everyone wholeheartedly worships me as their sole faith!"
"And this final lament, starring the spirits of the old era, is the best 'bible' I bestow upon this world."
He slowly sat back on his throne, his gaze seemingly piercing through endless time and space, landing on the dark cave in the Land of Rice Fields, and on the three coffins that were about to be opened.
"Let them perform to their heart's content."
"Let them unleash their most brilliant, glorious, and final brilliance under the gaze of the world."
"Then..."
A smile, both divinely compassionate and demonically cruel, curled at the corners of Gen'yō's lips.
"I will personally bury them, along with the corrupt old era they represented."
He paused, as if he had remembered something.
"By the way, Itachi," he said casually.
A figure draped in a black robe with red clouds appeared silently in the main hall.
"Exist."
"Pass on my orders." Gen'yō's voice returned to its usual calm, but the killing intent it contained was enough to freeze the stars.
"Have all the new generation of clansmen in ' Hope Academy ' who have awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan assemble immediately."
"We don't need too many people, a thousand will be enough."
Itachi's body trembled slightly, a hint of confusion flashing in his eyes.
Why use such a large force to deal with just a few Impure World Reincarnation dead? Besides, they are just children.
As if seeing through his thoughts, Gen'yō's lips curled into a meaningful smile.
"Itachi, don't misunderstand."
"I didn't send them to fight."
"Those old guys aren't qualified to be their 'first battle' opponents."
He slowly raised his head and looked up at the dome of the Divine Grace Hall, at the vast starry river simulated by the " Amaterasu " main brain, which was being slowly "eaten away" by an invisible force.
"I just want them to go to the site and see for themselves."
"Let them get used to the smell of war beforehand."
"After all..."
Gen'yō's voice, carrying a hint of excitement and anticipation for the upcoming hunt, slowly echoed in the empty hall.
"After we finish dealing with these tedious 'household chores' on the ground..."
"Our next 'family meeting' will probably have to go to the stars and the sea."