Chapter 229 [Happy New Year]
"Is this the Hokage-sama preparing for future wars?"
After sending Luna out, Minato did not go home immediately, but asked Luna. As a consultant, he is currently mainly responsible for protecting the Nine-Tails, as well as some affairs in the Wind Country and outside.
In short, with the Root under control, he now took over some of the Root's former powers. The affairs of the village are managed by Uchiha Fugaku on behalf of Tsunade.
In simple terms, it is security, which is a professional match for the Uchiha clan who came from the security team. Minato has a good relationship with Fugaku. When he sees Fugaku recently, he can always feel a kind of high-spirited temperament from him, which is very different from his previous gloomy and silent personality.
However, Minato could understand that after Orochimaru became the new Hokage and the Third Hokage abdicated, he cooperated with Orochimaru in continuously delegating power and took the initiative to pull away the two old advisors to make room for them.
All the crises that the Uchiha had once suffered were reversed by this series of events.
Fugaku no longer needs to suppress his ambition, nor does he have to worry about the future of the Uchiha clan. What's even better is that his eldest son Itachi is already qualified to compete for the next Hokage!
His wife Mikoto is about to give birth to his second child. According to the hospital's test, it is confirmed to be a boy. In this way, the future of the Uchiha clan will also have an heir! He even gave the child a name.
It’s the name that comes from the future: Sasuke!
When Itachi becomes Hokage, Sasuke, as his younger brother, can also inherit the Uchiha clan if he is strong enough. The two brothers will cooperate with each other. Just thinking about this scene can make Fugaku full of energy!
After finishing his recent heavy workload, he even found time to regularly assess Itachi's abilities.
Especially after the rights of the guard team were divided up and other families and ninjas were allowed to participate, the Uchiha clan concentrated on competing with Danzo, and their presence in the villagers' impression became weak. As a result, the reputation of the Uchiha guard team inexplicably improved a lot.
After dinner and drinking, Fugaku even pulled Minato aside and patiently shared with him his experience on how to be a qualified and dignified father. In the past, this kind of thing would never happen to Fugaku.
The village that had experienced the pain was indeed slowly recovering, but Minato was also very clear that although the Third Ninja World War seemed to have come to an end, the war was not completely over.
Because the intelligence from the Anbu showed that there were unusual movements in Kumogakure.
Although Kumogakure was the first to withdraw from the war after the start of the Ninja World War, due to the desperate efforts of the Third Raikage, Kumogakure's strength and vitality inexplicably became the strongest on paper at the end of the war.
Minato, who had many fights and clashes with Ai, the successor to the position of Raikage, also had some concerns about the Fourth Raikage, who seemed rude and violent but was actually a thoughtful person under his roughness.
Given the other party's personality, he might really take advantage of the fact that all the major ninja villages have been severely weakened and choose to attack one of them. Whether it is Iwagakure or Sandagakure, or even Konoha and Mistagakure, each is possible.
The training of ninjas takes time. The so-called scientific ninja tools proposed by Lu Nie opened the door to a new world for Minato. If such ninja tools can be manufactured, they can be regarded as an evolved version of ninja tools above detonating tags.
Even if it is useless against the strong, as long as it can quickly make the Genin have combat power, it is enough. Konoha is not short of high-end combat power now.
As for whether this would lead to a general decline in the strength of ninjas, Minato, who only regarded it as an evolved version of the detonating tag, did not care too much. For him, being able to make good use of his own and external forces to achieve victory is a strong and excellent ninja.
This external force can be a ninja sword or ninja tool, or it can be tools such as explosive tags and traps.
The only thing they need to worry about is the cost after manufacturing. If it is higher than the detonation tag, it cannot be rolled out and cannot be used on a large scale. Moreover, research and training of personnel require a lot of investment before results are achieved. Although the Fire Country Daimyo generously allocated another sum of money, it is only enough to maintain the operation of the village. Konoha still needs to take on external tasks and earn money.
"No, the teacher and I are more looking for more possibilities for ninjas."
"More possibilities for ninja?"
Minato was somewhat curious about Luna's unexpected answer. For a ninja, a profession born to fight and kill, could there be other possibilities?
"In addition to being used to kill people and wage war, ninjutsu can also be used to help villagers. Ninjas have always pursued lethal ninjutsu for combat. Many of them can be transformed into civilian ninjutsu with a few changes.
There is no lethality, but it can help the villagers get more food, or do more things besides fighting. Even if those ninjutsu have various defects, such as too many seals, slow seal formation, and impracticality for hurting people.
As long as there is enough food and goods, with Konoha's power in the ninja world, there will be more money and population."
Lu Nie didn't elaborate, but just gave an example casually.
But his words obviously confused Minato's usual understanding. Was he going to make ninjas withdraw from combat? In addition to medical ninjas and other types of ninjas, he was going to create a category of civilian ninjas?
is it possible?
Minato wanted to shake his head the first moment.
Because there are too many difficulties involved. The first thing that is difficult to guarantee is the release of chakra and ninjutsu. Although chakra is something that everyone has, there are still only a few who can successfully extract it and use it skillfully.
That is to say, there is a threshold!
Under the same training and teaching, a large part of these people may not even reach the standard of Genin. Even if they become Genin, most of them can only wield kunai for close combat. Apart from the most basic ninjutsu that is not difficult to master and is used by all ninjas, few Genin can successfully release a C-level ninjutsu such as the Great Fireball.
C-level ninjutsu is considered a difficult ninjutsu for most ninjas. Even for a Chunin, being able to skillfully use a few C-level ninjutsu is not considered a weakling among Chunins.
This is still based on the standards of the Chunin of the five major ninja villages. If placed in a small ninja village, it would not be uncommon to even become a Jonin.
What limits them, apart from the source of ninjutsu, is the amount of chakra they can extract. If the amount of chakra is not enough, what can you do even if you have an A-level or even S-level powerful ninjutsu?
If you use your ultimate once, you'll run out of mana. Worse still, you might not even have enough stamina left to fight back.
(End of this chapter)