067 Naruto Mobile Game

[Leaderboard——Server Ranking]

[Organization Battle Power:]

[Rank—Organization—Level—Leader—Organization Battle Power—Members]

[1st: Land of Fire——1——Fire-sama——4.71 million——10/10]

[2nd: Hokage——1——Heir of Fire's Will——3.401 million——10/10]

[3rd: Hyūga Main House——1——Sunlight——3.399 million——10/10]

[4th: Member of the Nara clan——1——Konoha Strategist——3.33 million——10/10]

[...]

[8th: Konoha Root——1——Konoha's Shadow——2.568 million——10/10]

Patta~

Danzo closed the leaderboard, sinking into thought.

This feature was activated only after today's update. Before this, hardly anyone imagined there would be a separate ranking for battle power.

He had checked his personal battle power, but he didn't think it mattered much. What he cared about most was the organizational battle power ranking.

The Organization Dominion Tournament would begin in a few days, though the exact rules were still unclear.

But it was obvious this was about evaluating a group's overall strength, just like the Territories battlefield.

One person's ability couldn't change the situation. With a numbers disadvantage, there was no way to hold out.

And recently, Danzo discovered something—

Battle power actually changed the numbers!

In the Friends Duel function, there was an option to enable battle power. He had done a PK match with a Root member he favored.

It was supposed to test real strength, but unexpectedly, his damage was noticeably higher than that Root member's.

To verify, he categorized all Root members by battle power and then challenged them one by one.

Sure enough, higher battle power crushed lower battle power!

Only then did Danzo finally realize why he could never beat Hiruzen in Territories.

So it wasn't about technique at all. It was simply—your battle power is higher than mine!

"Hiruzen, that bastard!"

Danzo gnashed his teeth. That guy had discovered the battle power issue long ago but didn't tell him.

He wanted to curse him out more, even go confront Hiruzen directly—he had already prepared the perfect accusation.

The Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, out of personal motives, failed to disclose a major discovery, halting the progress of the entire server.

A grievous dereliction of duty! Strongly recommend he steps down and let a wiser man take the position of Hokage.

As for the new Hokage candidate—well, the three Legendary Sannin had the highest reputation, but they were Hiruzen's disciples, and the previous generation's Hokage had their own stains. Absolutely unsuitable.

The younger generation was too young; their achievements were lacking.

So among those left, who had seniority, a spotless background, major accomplishments, and a proper upbringing?

Naturally—Shimura Danzo himself!

What a pity...

Danzo shook his head in deep regret. He had everything planned out, but now there was no way to carry it out.

In Chapter Four of the story dungeon, Sarutobi Hiruzen sacrificed himself heroically to protect the village.

Just that alone made Danzo powerless.

Otherwise, if he tried to impeach the Hokage and people asked where he was during the invasion of Konoha—he wouldn't know what to say.

What would he say? "I was in Konoha Root waiting for the village to be destroyed, and once the damage looked about right, I'd step out and be the hero who saves the day"?

If he said that out loud and still walked out of the office alive, that would mean Danzo's luck was miraculous.

Thinking something privately was one thing, saying it aloud and doing it was another.

So overall, regarding the goal of removing the Third Hokage, he couldn't say he made no progress—he had actually gone backwards.

Actually, he was worse off than before.

Now, Hiruzen's reputation had soared. The entire ninja world knew that Orochimaru, that ungrateful apprentice, had killed his master, and everyone also knew what Hiruzen had done.

No matter what mistakes the man made as Hokage, at least his death was beyond reproach.

Sigh… life is hard, becoming Hokage even harder.

But when Danzo remembered losing in Territories before, he had thought he simply couldn't match Hiruzen's strength. He never imagined he had actually lost to financial power.

Shameful pay-to-win players!

"Should I contact Orochimaru?" Danzo thought repeatedly, but ultimately gave up that tempting option with regret.

He picked up his phone, which he had never turned off, and began the daily battle-power tasks.

He had done dailies in the past few days too, but he hadn't played them carefully. He didn't care much, and because of that, the entire Root's battle power wasn't very high.

How the leader played was how the members played, after all—there were no outsiders in Root.

In this regard, Danzo was rather slow-witted.

But it wasn't entirely his fault. Battle power had never been clearly explained at the start. He always assumed battle power only affected dungeon difficulty.

He didn't expect it to influence other modes.

Fortunately—or unfortunately—the Duel Arena didn't include battle power; it was purely a technical mode.

Danzo made up his mind. He would play battle power!

Even though he was starting a few days late, the rankings were still open. He still had a chance to catch up.

Danzo reopened the leaderboard and suddenly fell silent. "Hmm… the Daimyō's organization battle power already passed five million."

What—just in those few minutes?!

Of course. When it came to wealth, who could compare to the Land of Fire's Daimyō?

And honestly, as subordinate ninja in name, they couldn't overshadow the Daimyō anyway.

"Then second place—Hiruzen—I will definitely pull you down!" Danzo shifted his target.

But after doing everything possible in Ninja Mobile Game for the day, he had only raised about thirty thousand battle power.

[Battle Power——319247]

Seeing that number, Danzo went quiet.

His battle power was the highest in Root, but barely over 300k—still lower than the average battle power of the top organizations.

At last, he realized—playing battle power required money!

Danzo dumped one hundred thousand ryō into Ninja Mobile Game, then swept the shop clean, buying every item possible.

But even that only raised his power so much.

He had no choice but to look at the ninjas themselves… Was the only option to draw fragments and Upgrade Star?

Swish! Swish swish swish!

Watching ten-pull after ten-pull go down with painfully low rates, even Danzo, wealthy as he was, couldn't help twitching at the corners of his face.

And this wasn't even his only account! If it were just his own account, fine—but there were nine other people in the organization!

Danzo stopped, thought for a moment, and summoned all Root ninjas.

Ssshhhh~

Looking at the subordinates he personally trained, he stood and paced left and right.

A few minutes later, he made his decision.

"Redistribute. The nine members with the highest battle power step forward and join the organization I created in Ninja Mobile Game. Everyone else… hand over your phones!"

Root ninjas: ???

Though they didn't know what Danzo planned, they still obediently divided into nine members.

Then those nine immediately moved and confiscated everyone else's phones, piling them together.

Danzo swept his gaze across the room, as if he could see confusion on most faces even through their masks.

"From now on, you are forbidden to touch Ninja Mobile Game—and forbidden to touch phones!"

"Your mission is to accept every commission—whether from inside the village or outside. I don't care."

"Money. You must find every possible way to make money. I only look at results. I need massive funds!"

"All of you, move out!"

Root ninjas had long buried their humanity. No matter how unreasonable the command, they never questioned—only obeyed.

The ninjas who filled the room just moments ago vanished, leaving only the nine selected members behind.

Danzo sat back down, his eyes unusually deep.

Yes—this was his plan. To use all of Root's strength… to raise battle power for a ten-man organization!