Payne's Concern for His Members

Chapter 8 Payne's Concern for His Members

Moment of Judgment: A skill that summons an angel.

After noticing the effect of the Holy Judgment skill, Uehara Naraku finally felt a little relieved. He no longer had to worry about dying instantly.

Divine Judgment: Grants an invincible shield to yourself or another person for 3 seconds; at the same time, a Purifying Blade will appear around the invincible person, which will deal massive damage to the surrounding area.

Chakra consumption is related to duration. The minimum chakra consumption for this skill is 100 points, and the cooldown time is 160 seconds.

"Naraku!"

Konan's true form waved to Uehara Naraku in the air, and only after he landed did she ask, "Hey, Naraku, was that technique a bloodline limit?"

The power of the life-disintegrating energy ray was far greater than she had imagined!

When the purple energy first came into contact with the paper clone, it didn't feel very good; however, less than a second later, a burning pain burst out from within its body!

It's like having your body forcibly erased!

"Hmm, I don't know."

Uehara Naraku shook his head, immediately deflecting the question: "I'm not sure if it's ninjutsu or a bloodline limit. If my father were still alive, I could ask him if our family has any unusual bloodlines..."

"..."

Xiao Nan shook her head and didn't ask any further questions.

Perhaps it's because the Akatsuki organization has too many strange and unusual ninjutsu, such as Kakuzu's Earth Grudge Fear and Sasori's immortal puppets.

Payne stepped forward and said coldly, "His physical skills are terrible, even worse than yours, Konan. This will be a fatal weakness in battle..."

Xiao Nan: "..."

Payne smeared both of them with a single sentence.

Furthermore, Pain had previously stated that regardless of Uehara Naraku's strength, he must participate in the Akatsuki's revenge mission. How come he's being so picky now...?

Pain was right; Uehara Naraku's taijutsu was riddled with flaws, which even she, a ninja who wasn't particularly skilled in taijutsu, could spot.

Uehara Naraku scratched his head a little.

His physical skills are indeed somewhat lacking, but this will naturally improve once his life energy levels accumulate in the future.

"alright."

Payne glanced at Uehara Naraku, then turned to Konan: "Now that you've tested him, his strength is sufficient for that mission!"

Uehara Naraku looked up at the woman with light blue hair obediently: "Ms. Konan, what kind of mission are we going to participate in?"

"Attack the Amegakure stronghold, force Hanzo of the Salamander to gather his trusted men, and ultimately execute them all!"

When Konan mentioned that person's name, her face turned icy cold: "Twelve years ago, Hanzo of the Salamander, who was hailed as a demigod of ninjas, broke his promise and colluded with Shimura Danzo of Konoha to kill the leader of Akatsuki and most of its members..."

She kept everything that happened that day in her heart, day and night!

The Akatsuki organization, which was just about to move towards the light, was destroyed overnight. Except for her and Nagato, everyone else was killed!

Among them was Yahiko, the leader of Akatsuki.

That was their childhood companion, who led her and Nagato to survive the harsh realities of war, and guided those who trusted him in their pursuit of peace…

He did not die on the road to stopping the war, but in the conspiracy, leaving a huge shadow in the minds of his two close friends.

In addition, Nagato's legs were also injured by the explosive tags, and he lost his ability to move after that. He even made a pact with those two evil guys, leading the Akatsuki organization down a terrifying path.

In order to seek revenge and to commemorate him, Nagato chose to preserve Yahiko's body and create the strongest of the Six Paths of Pain, the Deva Path, so that the Deva Path Pain before him would be the eternal leader of the Akatsuki.

Twelve years.

Konan and Nagato endured for twelve long years until Pain's Six Paths were fully completed, at which point they finally had a sliver of confidence and decided to go to Amegakure for revenge.

Since it's about revenge, it's only right that no one else should interfere.

Who would have thought that their desire to reminisce about their old haunts before attacking Amegakure would lead them to encounter another boy who should have joined their quest for revenge?

Uehara Naraku lowered his head in thought. Their attack on Amegakure should have gone smoothly. Given Pain's strength, taking down Hanzo of the Salamander shouldn't have been difficult. In other words, this was just a casual trip.

The main purpose is to complete several tasks.

For example, a series of missions that Uehara Naraku had always overlooked.

Advanced Quest 1: Kill ten wandering ninjas (10/10), reward 100 Life Energy, 100 Chakra Energy, quest completed.

Advanced Mission 2: Kill ten Genin (3/10), reward unknown.

According to Uehara's speculation, the future missions will likely involve a series of genin, chunin, and jonin, and perhaps even a kage-level character in the end.

Okay, I'll probably say there will be.

Given his current strength, he is helpless against Kage-level powerhouses. Moreover, based on the characteristics of the missions issued by the system, those Kage-level powerhouses must be Kage from the five great ninja villages, not rogue ninjas like Kakuzu.

Uehara Naraku's only hope now is that the system's future advancement missions will preferably be ordinary Jonin, rather than Jonin like Might Guy and Kakashi who are full of bugs, which would be a real problem.

If you just want to improve your strength, you have to do the advancement missions. Uehara Naraku probably thinks these missions are just free life energy and chakra energy.

The reward shouldn't be too low.

When Uehara Naraku first transmigrated, he encountered some rogue ninjas who weren't very strong. Relying on his few skills, he was more than capable of killing them.

However, most genin have their own ninja villages and move around in groups. Even Uehara Naraku, during his wandering days, only encountered a small Iwagakure team that was running rampant in the Land of Rain.

To complete the required number of advanced missions, you need to find a ninja community, and there is no better place than a ninja village.

The opportunity to complete a large number of advanced tasks at once and thus greatly enhance one's strength is rare.

During the preparation time that followed, Uehara Naraku sensed that something was amiss.

According to his knowledge of the Naruto world, Nagato would store Pain away when he didn't need to use them, in order to conserve his chakra.

Who would have thought that during this period leading up to the war, Pain not only did not return to where he should have been, but instead frequently appeared at the training grounds where Pain and Konan were practicing, commenting on Uehara Naraku's physical training and asking him a bunch of questions.

"My arm strength is too weak to defeat the enemy..."

"Your kicking speed is too slow, which will give the enemy an opening..."

"That's terrible, kid. Are you just using your fists to tickle the enemy?"

The orange-haired man stood at the edge of the practice field, occasionally offering his critique, which really tarnished the image of Pain, who always seemed to have his own background music.

Uehara Naraku couldn't refute it.

Konan, unable to bear it any longer, spoke up in defense: "Pain, Naraku is only twelve years old. He's still very young and has a long time to grow..."

"I'm just concerned about the members of the organization."

The orange-haired man spoke with conviction, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

(End of this chapter)