Chapter 49: Reorganization of the Dark Department

The so-called powerful and eternal power refers to the tailed beasts on the surface.

Because the power of the tailed beasts is indeed powerful, and as a huge chakra energy body, it is immortal and indestructible, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is eternal.

But the meaning of Minato Namikaze's words is obviously more than that.

"Of course, now I am committed to pursuing the truth of this world." Orochimaru seemed to be interested and replied without hesitation: "But compared with the almost eternal power of the tailed beasts, human power seems too fragile."

"The life of the flesh is too short and too impermanent."

"Fourth generation, don't you yearn for eternity?"

Orochimaru's hoarse and gloomy voice, like the whisper of a devil, seems to have an invisible guiding force.

There were not many opportunities to debate with the philosophers of the ninja world, so Minato Namikaze suddenly became interested and replied calmly: "Lord Orochimaru, there is nothing eternal in the world."

"It is not wrong for humans to yearn for eternity, but unfortunately..."

"When human power is limited, even the tailed beasts in our eyes, or even lives that are more powerful than tailed beasts, cannot live as long as the heaven and earth."

"Things are not only meaningful when they are eternal, but short-lived ones may be more exciting..."

Jiraiya and two consultants on the side felt that the conversation between Minato Namikaze and Orochimaru was a little inexplicable.

Just when they were hesitating whether to interrupt, Orochimaru suddenly frowned and denied: "That's not the case, Fourth Generation."

"If you can take everything into your hands, you will definitely be able to discover the so-called truth in this world."

"And the premise is to break the shackles of human limited lifespan first."

"For this, even if you sacrifice anything, it is worth it..."

Looking at the fanaticism in Orochimaru's eyes, Minato Namikaze sighed in his heart and frowned.

It seems that it is impossible to change Orochimaru's ideas by talking.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about sacrifice in this kind of situation today..." Jiraiya couldn't help but interrupt.

"That's right. The village suffered a lot of losses in the Nine-Tails incident. Orochimaru and Jiraiya, you two should stay in the village for a while." Mitomon Yan also said: "For the missions in the Land of Fields, send others first."

In the Nine-Tails incident, due to the decrease in the number of elite middle and upper ninjas, the number of high-level missions will obviously be backlogged.

At this time, it is great to bring the three ninjas back to the village to relieve the pressure of high-level mission commissions.

These two consultants are still good...

In the meeting, Minato Namikaze, who proposed the suggestion of preparing for war in advance, did not expect that recalling the three ninjas would have such benefits.

When Orochimaru heard that he had to stay in Konoha, he hesitated for a moment, then suddenly glanced at Danzo who had been silent, and finally chose to agree.

The sky became more and more gloomy, and soon it began to rain.

Many villagers who came to attend the funeral ceremony later took out umbrellas that they had prepared long ago and lined up to enter and exit in an orderly manner.

The funeral lasted for most of the day before it ended, but the rain was getting heavier.

As soon as he returned to the Hokage Building, Minato Namikaze received a document from the Root.

The content was to recruit new Anbu members in accordance with the decision of the last meeting. In the Nine-Tails Rebellion, the Anbu members lost almost half of their members. The Anbu Fourth Division, which was directly under the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, was specially arranged to guard the periphery of the Jinchūriki production barrier. It was successively subjected to two fierce battles with the combined White Zetsu and the Nine-Tails, and was almost wiped out. Only the team leader and the remaining two team members survived.

Compared with them, the Anbu members in the first and second divisions, who were baits at the fake barrier, did not suffer too many casualties. Their casualties all occurred at the gate of Konoha, participating in the battle to attack the Nine-Tails.

This document lists the names and information of the Anbu recruited ninjas in rows.

Because of the special nature of the Anbu, as long as the ninja is determined to become an Anbu, his identity card will be sealed separately and secretly, and will not be stored together with the information of ordinary ninjas in Konoha.

Once this list is approved, the ninja information on it will be temporarily kept secret, and then the ninjas on the list will first enter the root training, and after passing the training, they will become official Anbu.

Their ninja information cards will be officially stored in the top-secret database on the same day.

As for the training tasks of Anbu members, all of them are the responsibility of the root managed by Danzo, so the relevant matters responsible for recruiting new members of the Anbu are usually also the responsibility of Danzo. Although the rules of the root are harsh, the ability of the Anbu training department in charge of Danzo is still worthy of recognition.

As an Anbu member, it is different from ordinary ninjas. They perform high-risk and high-pressure tasks all year round, and it is still necessary to instill strict time-conscious thinking.

These names and ninja information on the list now need to be personally reviewed by Minato Namikaze, and then stamped and confirmed.

Looking around, all of them were Konoha ninjas of the elite Chunin and special Jonin levels. Since Minato Namikaze didn't recognize any of these names, he just glanced at them and put them aside.

Sitting in the chair, listening to the sound of rain outside the window behind him, Minato Namikaze's eyes were suddenly attracted by a report at the end of the file.

This proposal written by Danzo himself clearly stated that through this opportunity of training new members to join the Anbu, the Root would also expand its organization by one team.

The organization of the Root members is the same as that of the Anbu.

A team also has four members, but the size of the Root is extremely small. The Anbu has nearly 70 people, and the number of members of the Root plus the personnel in charge of the Anbu training department is actually only more than 20 people.

Namikaze Minato originally wanted to reject Danzo's request, but on second thought, he stamped the document again.

Because he suddenly thought that although Shimura Danzo replaced Sarutobi Hiruzen's position as Hokage assistant on the surface, in fact, because of the existence of the Root, he is unlikely to ask for his own direct Anbu like Sarutobi Hiruzen.

And the death of Sarutobi Hiruzen actually made it natural for Namikaze Minato to take back the direct command authority of the Anbu Fourth Division.

So if Danzo's request is agreed, it can be regarded as a reason to prevent him from getting involved in the Anbu Fourth Division again.

Kumogakure and Iwagakure are eyeing it covetously. Seeing that the war is imminent, Danzo, a fighting faction, is just the time for him to play a role. The matter of overthrowing Danzo and reorganizing the Root can only be postponed.

The reorganization of the Anbu obviously has to wait until this batch of recruited ninjas have completed their training.

Minato Namikaze thought about it and suddenly recalled Orochimaru's matter, and couldn't help but start to have a headache again. Now Orochimaru is staying in the village for the time being, I hope he can restrain himself.

"Wait, stay in the village..."

Minato Namikaze suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and then immediately summoned two experienced Anbu.

He conveyed a top-secret mission in person: "Linjiao, Ying, please go to the Land of Fields..."

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