Kapitel 384: Ch384. Kaguya's afternoon heavy-lifting
'Mhm. What about transferring this island closer to the north of the Elemental Nations?' Rei casually spoke.
Why not make use of overpowered waifu when he spent so much time trying to free her from her prison?
Hearing him, Kaguya shrugged as if he was just asking her something extremely mundane and her body started to be lifted into the air.
All the Claymores and Isley gaped at the sight while Riful's worshipful gaze increased in intensity. Flying was rare even among Yomas and flying without wings looked more like a miracle to them.
Frankly, Rei knew most ninjas would have reacted in much the same way so he couldn't really fault them.
"What is she going to do?" Flora gathered her courage and asked, bringing Riful's, Isley's, and other Claymores' attention to Rei.
"Ah, she is..." Rei found it hard to explain. How was he to say Kaguya was going to relocate their homeland, the place they considered as the 'whole world', without sounding insane? In the end, he just helplessly shrugged and said, "She is lifting this entire place into the air."
He also conveniently omitted to mention what 'this entire place' was supposed to mean.
Naturally, that still earned him some weird looks but Rei expertly ignored them. They would understand later on what happened anyway.
Kaguya's body flew up until she was among the clouds and then she spread her arms, more for focus purposes than to be dramatic. Nobody could see her so high in the sky anyway so there was no need for dramatics.
She also spread her senses, engulfing the entire island with them, and instantly her head received massive information overload, making her very happy that Rei forced her to practice when she was still capable of inhabiting only a low-powered clone.
Thanks to that, her chakra control was much better, and surprisingly enough, with each small step in controlling her chakra, her powers rose exponentially.
When she learned Tree Walking, she, among other things, for the first time, managed to use her Rinne-Sharingan's ability to manipulate gravity for other things than the preset techniques it offered her at first.
Rei told her that it was not her powers that were increasing, just that she had more access to them now that she had at least a small idea of what exactly she was doing. But that didn't matter. Kaguya felt much more powerful than even when she fought her sons and it brought her joy.
With each power-up, she felt less and less worried about other Otsutsukis.
The practice sessions were hellish and hard... Kaguya never complained as much in her life... but at first, she stubbornly kept practicing because she wanted to be praised by Rei. Then when she found out just how much it was helping her with her powers, Kaguya happily suffered, only becoming much more vocal with her complaining to annoy Konan or Tsunade or whoever was training her for the moment.
It was surprisingly fun!
Kaguya started pushing her chakra into the island below her, flooding it with her energy as if it was an invisible tsunami in much the same way Earth Jutsu practitioners were using their chakra.
The biggest difference was the scale and amount of power.
Kaguya's chakra filled the whole island to the brim, making nature bloom no matter the climate, and sick people suddenly started to get better simply because of the overabundance of nature energy present in Kaguya's chakra, and yet, Kaguya barely felt the drain on her reserves.
It was another thing that astonished her. The vastness of her real energy reserves. She never managed to feel all of it. That was what over-inflated her ego previously. She could never reach her limit so she thought she did not have one. She thought her reserves were infinite which was not true.
In the end, this arrogance led to her being sealed. She thought she could resist the sealing because of her chakra so she let her sons touch her with those blasted sealing marks. Contrary to the uneducated belief, a strong entity needed an extremely strong seal otherwise even Kyuubi could be sealed in a storage scroll for kunais.
Once a sealing process starts, it is like a tug of war between the chakra of the being that is being sealed and the seal trying to withstand its energy volume. If the seal holds, the being is sealed. If not, the seal gets torn to shreds.
That was why Kyuubi needed an Uzumaki host and also why Hagoromo used the Moon to seal her. It was not because it seemed cool to him at the moment. Nothing less than a planet could be used as a medium for the seal to hold Kaguya's chakra.
Sealing was still an extremely unfair thing, in Kaguya's opinion.
Now that the whole island was brimming with Kaguya's chakra, it was an easy task for her to...
Kaguya lifted her hand and the island started shaking as if a sudden earthquake hit it. Her chakra was forcefully separating the island from its connection to the seabed, breaking it and trying to lift the whole mass into the air via her gravity manipulation.
While this was going on, Kaguya could feel the panic that hit the inhabitants of the island. Some screamed, others were paralyzed from fear, while there were also those who fell on their knees and started praying to their deities for mercy.
It was quite amusing to Kaguya.
So much over-exaggeration! She was just relocating the island, geez!
She wondered what would have been their reaction if she crumbled it under their feet and let lava start to erupt from the ground. Now that would have been a situation proportional to their reactions!
It took her twenty minutes. Twenty long minutes of tremors and shaking, which spooked the ever-living daylight of the superstitious medieval folk on the island who thought this was some kind of judgment day, but Kaguya finally managed to loosen the island from the seabed and started to lift it to the sky.
Kaguya could have done it faster but the island was embedded into the seabed quite strongly. Doing it quickly could cause some chasms creating on the island or even destruction of a few mountain ranges.
Not that she cared much about the collateral damage but the island was basically already Rei's property! It wouldn't be nice to damage it.
That would have also caused the crumbling of the buildings built by humans. And since Rei would certainly not appreciate that, Kaguya made sure to be gentle enough and reinforced the buildings, mountain ranges, and the ground of the island with her chakra while trying to separate it from the seabed.
Thanks to her efforts, the land and cities did not look devastated like they would after a real earthquake.
Unlike the separation from the seabed, the lifting of the island was quite a peaceful process. Kaguya doubted the inhabitants even suspected something was happening with their continent. Especially when most of them were lying on the ground in relief that their world did not end and Gods showed them mercy or some other bullshit.
Only those living on the edge would have realized the island was lifting. Others... not so much.
The process was too steady and nobody witnessing the separation of the shores from the oceans would think or feel something was wrong.
Which brought up an interesting point. What about the people fishing in the ocean when the island was being relocated?
Well, Kaguya had an easy solution to that. She marked their ships and would teleport them around the island when it was relocated. Until then... the sailors will have to suffer in despair in order to learn not to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
When the whole island of the size of a small continent was finally above the sea, it suddenly disappeared. Anybody witnessing it would later swear that in one second it was there, in the next... nothing.
After all, why should she physically relocate it when she can just teleport it to her desired location?
Kapitel 385: Ch385. Training mission
The island appeared north of the Elemental Nations, far enough that nobody on the northern shores could see it but close enough that sea trade would be possible.
This placement was deliberate since the Village Hidden on the Other Side was the northernmost settlement of the Elemental Nations.
Kaguya gently put the island back into the ocean, taking her time so she wouldn't create tsunamis since that could be quite a pain in the ass for the Other-sided village and the Elemental Nations as a whole.
When the island was finally settled in the water, Kaguya started embedding it into the seabed to anchor it better. It was an annoying job, but if she didn't do it, the island could eventually face quite a few problems.
She also made sure to align the biggest port on the island's side that faced the Elemental Nations with the Village on the Other Side, making the distance between them short.
Since nobody would know about the island for quite a while, Rei definitely wanted his companies to get some nice trading deals with the countries there before other traders of the Elemental Nations found out about this new juicy opportunity.
Honestly, Rei was not interested in ruling the island. There was nothing special in there. No resources, no technology, and not even the people. The populace was backward and superstitious, exactly what one would expect from medieval people.
They were useless to Rei for the most part.
A long process of grooming and training would be required to make use of them and frankly, Rei was not inclined to invest the time and resources for that. People of Elemental Nations were sufficient for his village's needs.
It wasn't like he couldn't just send his ninjas to secretly create gold and silver mines in the uninhabited mountain ranges of the island either. One advantage of dealing with a medieval world was that they had no idea about the resources hiding deep in those mountains nor did they have the means to discover them.
Rei's ninjas could create these mines quite easily while making hidden outposts and infrastructure for spreading their mission activity all over the island. After all, having teleportation seals would give them a massive advantage.
...
Rei knew that Kaguya's work on embedding the island into the seabed would take time since it was a delicate process. He was definitely not about to wait for her.
Instead, he took Riful, Isley, and the Claymores back to the Village on the Other Side. The group gawked quite a lot at the buildings and different architecture... and especially at the people jumping from roof to roof with physical prowess, they would expect only from Claymore.
During their walk through the village, they saw many sights that wowed them and Rei deliberately led them through more shinobi-oriented districts. Showing them that there were other people capable of taking them down if they became rebellious would just increase the future morale.
In the end, they arrived towards Tsunade's research center where Rei gave the Claymores and two Abyssal Ones into the gentle care of Tsunade who, Rei noticed, already had her hands full with another group of silver-eyed blondes, which surprised not only him but also the Claymores he brought with him.
Realizing Konan was already done with her task, he decided to pay her a visit and ask about her mission.
Finding her wasn't hard. In her usual fashion, she was in her office with Izumi, enjoying sake and leisurely talking about the mission.
This tradition started when Konan had to comfort Izumi after she returned from a particularly nasty mission where she was forced to kill an entire orphanage of kids who were made into unthinking and bloodthirsty monsters through experimentation.
Konan knew talking helped and getting some comforting words alongside advice was priceless after such an experience and she would be damned if she didn't make sure her apprentice was mentally fine.
"May I join you, girls? I am quite interested in how it went too." Rei quipped as he entered the room before walking towards the table and taking one of the free chairs.
He didn't get a verbal answer but Izumi slightly blushed and fidgeted while Konan was already pouring him a glass of sake, showing her consent.
"The training mission was a massive success, of course." She said and put the glass in front of Rei, "From the three hundred jonins participating, we only got five injured and zero casualties." Konan huffed.
"And I reckon these five will be heavily punished." Rei wryly smiled.
"Naturally." Konan threw a half-hearted glare at him, "You know well the only way they could get injured with all the preparations we put in is if they decided to confront their enemies by themselves instead of as a team. There is no place for foolish personal heroics in our profession."
Rei decided to take the intelligent way out and stayed quiet about this topic. It made him a bit sheepish. Konan loved to remind him of the time he decided to fight Toneri by himself.
It worked out itself quite well but Konan was still a bit sullen because of that decision of his.
He had to agree with her on this, though.
There were three hundred jonins put into a hundred three-man cells and each cell had either one target or was in reserve for another cell, looking after their backs.
That made three to six jonins for each Claymore.
Plus the Claymores were not all jonin level. Rei would be generous and say that Claymores under rank 15 started to gain a measure of jonin level capabilities. But all of those had two teams assigned to deal with them.
Only the Claymores number five to one started to enter or were at S-rank physical capability alongside having some special ability like long-range sensing or regeneration or something else. But those were given to two teams of S-rank ninjas to deal with.
Getting injured with these kinds of odds?
Their ninjas were either incompetent or arrogant since Claymores in general were just an inferior budget version of ninjas.
They were very disadvantaged in a fight against ninjas considering they lacked Genjutsu and Ninjutsu while their Taijutsu capabilities were largely underdeveloped and unexplored, nor did they receive any sort of extensive combat training.
Yes, they could fight but their swordsmanship was not impressive. It was a bit sad. Some of them developed a nice move and gained a moniker for it but that was honestly it. Claymores depended more on their instincts and brute force to swing their massive swords around. There was not much technique to speak of.
The only way their highly trained and hardened ninjas who were extremely well-versed in fighting as a team could get injured while fighting a Claymore was if they demanded one on one combat and then were arrogant enough to limit themselves to taijutsu, maybe bukijutsu.
"Just don't be too harsh on them." Rei weakly tried to make these idiots' punishment lighter but from the way Konan snorted, he probably just made it worse for them. 'Oh, well...' He mentally shrugged.
There was no place for disobeying orders in a militaristic village full of trained killers. Their ninjas had a clear order to confront a Claymore as a team and capture their target without forcing her to awaken.
If it was up to Rei, he would punish not only those five individuals but their entire teams for not preventing them from disobeying the orders.
Rei then turned towards Izumi who quietly observed them with interest written on her face. He and Konan used only three lines but their conversation was mostly non-verbal. Every twitch was a signal for a sufficiently trained ninja. There was no need to say much when they could understand each other with just a look.
"And you? How was facing Luciela?"
After asking that, Rei's eyebrows twitched when he saw how Izumi's smile widened and her eyes suddenly sparkled while she started to open her mouth to answer.
From her bright expression, he instantly knew Luciela's fate was not enviable...
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