Gulp, gulp...
It was like drinking juice. Right before its eyes, the Slug's round, plump, and glistening body slowly began to wither and shrivel up.
Finally... the Slug could endure no longer!
"I yield! I yield!" It cried out, merging its scattered parts back into one single body. Helplessly, it bowed its head before Aoi Ren.
"As long as you don't drain me dry, I am willing to sign the contract with you!"
The Slug had finally submitted...
However, what it never expected was that even after signing the contract, Aoi Ren still intended to drain it dry.
The only difference was that now, instead of one person draining it, there would be an army doing so.
With a fresh supply of Sage Chakra now available, the Divine Grace Compound in the Land of Rain resumed operations with renewed vigor.
An army of two hundred thousand Cursed Seal soldiers was now within reach.
Meanwhile, Hiruzen Sarutobi had successfully united the entire shinobi world.
A massive force of thirty thousand ninja marched forth and invaded the Land of Rain with overwhelming numbers.
When the two armies clashed, the Cursed Seal Forces immediately gained a massive advantage.
Attacking with reckless disregard for their own lives, they inflicted heavy casualties, killing three thousand enemy ninja at the cost of only one thousand of their own.
If things continued this way, Aoi Ren might be able to unify the entire ninja world simply by sacrificing half of his army...
But then came a development that left Aoi Ren stunned. Following the initial defeat of the Allied Shinobi Forces, the Samurai of the Five Great Nations joined the battle!
The reason wars of the past were known as "Great Wars" was precisely because, before the era of the Shinobi Villages, the Samurai had always been the primary force in warfare.
While individual samurai might not be as powerful as ninja, their sheer numbers were vast.
Suddenly, the greatest advantage of the Cursed Seal Army — their overwhelming quantity — was neutralized.
And that wasn't all. The elite among the samurai possessed power equal to that of a Jōnin, or even greater. Men like Mifune...
"We completely forgot about this military force."
As the battlefield situation grew dire, complaints began to rise everywhere. Aoi Ren could only smile bitterly to himself.
It wasn't just this force I forgot about... I forgot about the class system itself!
Between the commoners and the ninja elite, there existed an entire class of warriors: the Samurai.
To the samurai, the ninja were powerful, but few in number.
As long as they were paid and maintained, they posed no threat to the samurai's rule over the world.
But when the common masses attempted to revolt and directly replace the ninja class...
The ones who panicked even more than the ninja were the samurai!
"If these lowly peasants become ninja, we'll be left with nothing!"
The Feudal Lords of every nation came to a firm resolution: the Cursed Seal Soldiers must be eradicated like a disease, and their authority must be secured.
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"So in the end... I still lost?"
Aoi Ren walked slowly through the ruins of the Land of Rain, shaking his head with a hint of resignation.
"It seems I cannot succeed relying solely on the Cursed Seals."
Unless... Unless he could find a way to win over or subjugate the entire samurai class as well!
"That is him! The Divine Child!"
He was spotted quickly. Signal fires flared up all around, and nearly a thousand ninja surrounded him completely, leaving no path for escape.
"Next time... I will do better."
Aoi Ren smiled and shook his head. If he let one or two failures break him, he might as well have stayed in Tsunade's care, living a lazy life without ambition.
Why else would he seek greater power?
Since he had arrived in the world of Naruto, he would never be satisfied until he had created a legend that was truly his own.
"Next time?"
Hiruzen Sarutobi sneered, raising his staff high. "You won't have a 'next time' in this lifetime!"
"Tsunade loved you so dearly... and yet you repaid her by killing her!" Jiraiya roared, spewing a massive fireball straight at him.
"Just die already!"
"If you want me dead that badly... then I shall grant your wish."
Aoi Ren stood perfectly still, waiting calmly as the fireball approached, until he was completely engulfed in blazing light.
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