Chapter 191 The war begins

The Land of Rain, the headquarters of Akatsuki.

After eight years of development, the Land of Rain has almost completely become the world of the Akatsuki organization. Even the Rain Village founded by the Salamander Hanzo now has to avoid their edge.

Fortunately, more of Akatsuki's business is actually carried out in the five major countries, which allows the Rain Village to still have a way out and not be forced into bankruptcy by Akatsuki.

At this moment, the Akatsuki headquarters has far exceeded its size eight years ago, and has even been built into a small city. It is even larger than the original five major ninja villages.

Of course, it is definitely not as good as the five major ninja villages today - among the five major ninja villages today, only one is called a village in name. In fact, each ninja village is equivalent to a large city and has developed into a warlord model.

Even the Akatsuki, which is nominally closer to a public welfare organization, now shows signs of becoming a warlord. This is not even due to Nagato's will, but is the effect of spontaneous clustering from the bottom up.

When it had only a few dozen or a few hundred people, Akatsuki could operate based on its ideals. But now that it has become a large organization with tens of thousands of people, it is no longer possible to rely solely on so-called ideals.

The void trembled, and Nagato walked out with a cold look in his eyes. Looking at the ninja village in front of him that was as big as a city, a smile appeared on his face.

"It's time to let the world feel the pain... Since I'm playing as Nagato now, I naturally have to find a ninja village to resist!"

When this Nagato puppet walked into the city where the Akatsuki organization was located, the Akatsuki ninjas looked at him with different eyes. Some were excited, some were in awe, and some were in admiration. With just a glance, Uchiha Feiyu knew about Nagato's position in the Akatsuki organization.

"Nagato, you're back."

A few pieces of paper floated in the sky, and Konan, with white paper wings, fell from the sky. She looked at Nagato, gently wiped the corners of her eyes, and looked at Nagato with a complicated look.

"Yes, I'm back, Konan, help me gather all the jonin of Akatsuki, I have something very important to tell them."

Nagato looked at Konan with a smile on his face, causing her to be slightly dazed for a moment. Then she came to her senses and nodded very seriously:
"I understand, Nagato, I'll gather them right away."

There is a large round table in the conference hall of the Akatsuki organization center. Perhaps in order to reflect more fairness, this round table is used as a prop for conference discussions.

At this moment, the round table was already full of ninjas, and it even looked a little crowded. Although the round table was very large, there were too many jonins in the Akatsuki organization, with at least 50 jonins sitting around the table.

When Nagato and Yahiko set up the round table, Akatsuki was not poor but clean at the time. The entire organization had only a hundred people in total, and as for the jonin, there were only three of them, including Nagato. At that time, they could never have imagined that Akatsuki would develop to this extent, and they even thought that the table was too big.

In fact, as an organization of tens of thousands of people, Akatsuki now has nearly a hundred jonin in its ranks, but Akatsuki has a very large presence, with nearly half of its ninjas operating in other countries.

Generally speaking, the ratio of jonin to ordinary ninjas in a ninja village is about 100 to 1. Even though all ninja villages have undergone large-scale expansions in recent years, this data has not changed much because they have accepted talented civilians.

However, compared with other ninja villages, Akatsuki organization is mostly composed of ordinary ninjas with weak strength due to its own needs. From this point of view, the number of jonin in Akatsuki organization is far from enough. If the ratio is the same as that of normal ninja villages, even if the big round table is blown up, it probably will not be enough.

A moment later, Nagato and Konan walked into the conference room one after another. A group of jonin looked at the two of them, especially at Nagato, with eyes full of awe.

These jonin knew very well that the Akatsuki, an organization that could be described as purely idealistic, had been able to develop to its current level not because of anything else, but entirely because of Nagato's own immensely powerful strength.

Many ninjas of the Akatsuki organization have regarded Nagato as the modern Hashirama Senju and believe that he can completely change this era. The only thing that makes them dissatisfied is that Nagato's character is even more naive than Hashirama Senju.

Unlike ordinary ninjas, Jonins have more experience and, in addition to their ideals, they also consider reality more.

The jonin joined Akatsuki partly because of Nagato's desire for peace, but more because of his admiration for Nagato's powerful strength.

Nagato walked into the room, glanced at everyone's gaze, stood at one side of the round table, and said calmly:

"A few days ago, according to the intelligence I received, I finally found the Uchiha who would bring disaster to the world in the fable, and I have killed him."

A group of Akatsuki's superiors looked at each other in bewilderment. Most of these people joined Akatsuki at a later stage. They knew that Nagato had been hunting down a certain Uchiha, but had not found any trace of him. However, they had no idea what kind of person Uchiha Feiyu was or what kind of strength he had.

As for Uchiha Feiyu's battle achievements, most of them were carried out in secret. Even though he plundered all the human sacrifices of the five major ninja villages, the five major ninja villages did not publicize it openly. So although these people knew that Uchiha Feiyu was very strong, they did not have a clear idea of ​​how strong he was.

However, among them there were two old members of Akatsuki who knew what happened when Uchiha Hiba attacked the Akatsuki base. Although Uchiha Hiba did not attack them at that time, the aftermath of the battle with Nagato had already caused Akatsuki to suffer the worst losses in its history.

Based on this alone, the two members of Akatsuki knew how powerful Uchiha Toba was. He was at least a powerful ninja who could fight against Nagato.

"That's great, Lord Nagato! Today, we have finally avenged the Akatsuki organization!"

"Without Uchiha Feiyu, Lord Nagato, you are now the most powerful person in the ninja world!"

"By the way, Lord Nagato, where is the tailed beast that Uchiha Feiyu plundered? Are the tailed beasts of the nine great ninja villages also with you, Lord Nagato?"

Tailed beasts!? Upon hearing this, the Akatsuki jonin, who had originally been a little nonchalant and thought it was an exaggeration, suddenly became serious.

Although some of the most confidential information was not known to these jonin who joined Akatsuki later, they had heard that all the tailed beasts of the five major ninja villages were abducted by one person, but they were not sure whether it was true or not. Now it sounded like that Uchiha was not an ordinary person, and it was impossible for an ordinary ninja to capture all the tailed beasts of the five major ninja villages!
"Uchiha... is he so powerful?"

"Those guys with Sharingan eyes that have grown to the sky are indeed very strong, but they are not that powerful, right?"

"That's not just any Uchiha. Our Akatsuki organization was attacked by him before... No, it can't even be considered an attack. The aftermath of the battle with Nagato-sama already caused us heavy losses!"

"What!? Is there anyone who can fight against Nagato-sama?"

"Yes... The ruins of our Akatsuki organization are actually the product of that great war."

After a series of discussions, all the senior ninjas present knew about Uchiha Feiyu's strength and the hatred between him and the Akatsuki organization. They knew that this time Nagato had truly eliminated a serious threat.

"Okay, don't discuss it anymore, it's over."

Nagato waved his hand, and the ninjas below immediately stopped talking and looked at him. After a moment of silence, Nagato said:
"Now that we have eliminated the great threat Uchiha Feiyu, the next phase should be the development period of Akatsuki... If you have any ideas, please speak up."

The development period of Akatsuki?! Several jonin with simpler personalities were a little surprised and said:
"We will continue to develop according to our previous development model. There are no major wars in the ninja world today. Even the sequelae caused by the original National Chakra Plan have been completely suppressed by us. Even if we don't do anything next, the entire ninja world will develop better and better!"

However, most of the ninjas were silent. Some ambitious jonin were making eye contact with each other, with a hint of excitement in their hearts.

In the past, these jonin had hinted at Nagato's efforts, hoping that he could "go a step further", but in the end they were all firmly rejected by Nagato. However, now, things seem to be different.

Some ninjas who are more familiar with the history of the ninja world associated Uzumaki Nagato and Uchiha Toba with Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara. The formation of the five major ninja villages and the First Ninja World War were both closely related to the alliance and split between Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.

Now it seems that Uzumaki Nagato, the modern-day Senju Hashirama, directly killed Uchiha Toba, the Uchiha Madara. Doesn't this mean that the entire ninja world belongs to him alone?

Thinking more deeply, he had just killed the only opponent who could compete with him, and now he started asking about the development direction of Akatsuki organization... It seemed that the boss of Akatsuki organization was beginning to feel lonely.

However, although they had a lot on their minds, these ninjas did not speak, but finally focused their gazes on Nagato. Their gazes were filled with excitement, anticipation, fear, and various other emotions.

And Uzumaki Nagato lived up to everyone's expectations and said something completely different from before:

"You said it well. The ninja world is indeed peaceful now, but the key is, how long can this peace last?"

"As everyone knows, when the first Hokage was alive, the entire Ninja World was very peaceful. But as soon as he died, the five major ninja villages immediately launched the First Ninja World War. And in just 30 or 40 years, there were three consecutive Ninja World Wars!"

"If one day, I am no longer here...will the current peace in the ninja world suddenly collapse?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the simple-minded jonin were stunned and speechless.

The average life expectancy of these ninjas in the ninja world is only thirty or forty years old. Coupled with the fact that several Ninja Wars have occurred in succession, the entire ninja world has not had more than 30 years of peace in the past few hundred years. This has made all ninjas relatively short-sighted - because these people simply cannot imagine what hundreds of years of peace are like!
Nagato said that when I am alive, I can maintain peace, but what about after I die? For these simple ninjas, it is good enough to maintain peace when they are alive, but after death? Then they can only leave it alone.

However, there are very few simple people among the jonin. Most of them are ambitious but also eager to make progress. At this moment, a jonin who was blind in one eye had a bit of excitement on his face and said:
"Lord Nagato, I have a way to bring lasting peace to the Ninja World!"

"As long as the five major countries of the ninja world are combined into one country, and the five major ninja villages and our Akatsuki organization become one ninja village, then everyone will no longer need to fight each other, and permanent peace will come, right?"

As soon as these words were spoken, it was like a bomb dropped in the muddy water, and all the ninjas began to discuss:
"This is a good plan. As long as the ninja world is unified, there should be no war in this world for at least a hundred years!"

"How can this be possible? Isn't our Akatsuki a peaceful organization? Annexing other ninja villages and countries is completely contrary to the purpose of our Akatsuki!"

"For long-term peace, some sacrifices are always needed. The sacrifices made now will become the cornerstone of future peace!"

"Haha, that's what the five major ninja villages said when they launched the Ninja World War!"

"Do you think Lord Nagato will be the same as those ninjas from the five major ninja villages? With Lord Nagato's power, it would be easy for him to conquer the five major ninja villages."

"The purpose of our Akatsuki organization is to achieve peace through dialogue, not violence!"

"The times are different now! No one can stand up to our Akatsuki organization anymore!"

The ninjas under his eyes were making louder and louder noises, and Nagato's Rinnegan burst out with a strong pressure without hesitation. The terrifying pressure made all the jonin tremble, and they all shut up one by one.

Staring with a pair of purple six-magatama Rinnegan, Nagato glanced at all the jonin. Every jonin who looked at him felt terrified and lowered their heads one by one.

All the ninjas below his eyes fell silent, and Nagato nodded:
"What you said makes sense. If we want permanent peace, unification is indeed a good solution."

"As for violating the purpose of Akatsuki... you must understand that the most fundamental goal of Akatsuki is peace. It makes no difference whether this peace is achieved through dialogue or violence."

(End of this chapter)