Just then, at the Five Kage Summit venue, the main door was pushed open and an imposing figure in an Akatsuki cloak slowly walked in.
Following that figure were Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan.
Uchiha Madara glanced at the Kage and said, "As the host, it would be somewhat inappropriate for me not to participate in this meeting, so I came."
After saying that, Uchiha Madara casually found a stool and sat down, while the three founders of Akatsuki stood behind him.
The Five Kage, seeing this, immediately felt that it would have been better if Madara hadn't come at all. There were things they could have said, but now, in front of Madara, they didn't dare to say them.
Only Namikaze Minato's expression remained fairly normal. He smiled and said, "Since everyone is here, and you've appointed me as the one to run this meeting, I won't be polite. I declare this meeting officially begins!"
After a pause, Minato continued, "Lords, if you have any requests, you may speak up now."
Rasa hurriedly said, "Our Land of Wind is too poor, the daimyo doesn't manage things, energy is scarce, so we need more chakra converters. We hope that once Akatsuki finishes producing this equipment, you'll prioritize supplying us."
But Yagura immediately replied, "We don't lack chakra converters. Lord Kazekage, don't think I don't know, you got those machines from Akatsuki at an extremely low price, you've already benefited. Now you're acting humble?"
Raikage Ay also said, "Don't hog them. The chakra converters are ours. I brought two billion ryo specifically this time, for machines like that, I want Akatsuki to give me two hundred units."
Onoki snorted, "Three billion ryo, three hundred units, Iwagakure will pay the highest price and order the largest quantity, so we should have priority."
The four Kage then started quarreling like market stall hags.
After a long while of arguing, they suddenly realized something and all looked toward Minato.
Minato was taken aback, "Why are you looking at me?"
Onoki said, "Hokage, surely such a useful thing as a chakra converter is something you'd want too, right?"
Of course Minato needed them, desperately. He not only had Kushina's special Nine-Tails chakra version, he even knew where the production line was located and could pick up supplies anytime.
But now, he couldn't exactly say this was a case of theft by a guard, so Minato could only say begrudgingly, "It's just that you're arguing so fiercely that I'll let you two have it first."
Ay didn't take that and said, "If this keeps going, it gets us nowhere. Since you're the chair, Hokage, give us an allocation plan."
Minato nodded, thought for a moment, and finally said, "How about this?"
"Each village puts up two billion ryo and orders two hundred units; Akatsuki's stock should be enough."
At this point Minato realized he shouldn't sound too sure and quickly turned to Madara and asked, "It should be enough, right?"
Madara, seeing Minato's clumsy performance, didn't bother exposing him. He simply folded his arms and said, "I'll give you as many as you want. One unit is ten million ryo, don't worry about Akatsuki not being able to produce them."
The Kage were all intimidated by Madara's domineering air. But actually they also knew that once you had the right technology, production wasn't that hard.
It was just that the sealing technique inside the chakra converter was quite complex; they couldn't crack it for now, the technology was the bottleneck.
So the Kage all nodded. The main purpose of coming here was to settle the distribution of the chakra converters; once that was solved, they would have to deal with how to handle Madara and how to handle Akatsuki.
At that moment, Madara spoke coolly, "Do you know why I called you here?"
Right, it was Madara who summoned the Five Kage this time, which was why the meeting was held at Akatsuki headquarters.
Before anyone could speak, Madara continued, "I might as well tell you straight, I'm going to die soon."
"""What?"""
Those words hit like a bomb and stirred everyone present.
Onoki trembled and said, "Madara… sama, is what you're saying true?"
Uchiha Madara snorted, "I don't have time to lie to you."
Onoki's excitement surged, 'Could it be that the greatest shadow hanging over the ninja world is about to dissipate?'
'Living so long has its benefits after all,' he thought.
Madara continued, "Just because I'm going to die doesn't mean Akatsuki will disband, nor does it mean Akatsuki has lost the power to intimidate you."
Everyone's hearts tightened; some of their ill thoughts were slightly suppressed, but most didn't take Madara's words to heart. They didn't believe anyone existed stronger than Madara in this world.
Madara said, "I'm not used to lying, so I can tell you plainly: there is someone inside Akatsuki stronger than me. If he wants to, he could destroy your Five Great Nations in an instant."
"As for who that is… since he refuses to show himself, I won't tell you."
This time the Kage were shocked again.
Madara's credibility was excellent. If he said he didn't lie, there was no need to deceive them.
But inside Akatsuki… could there really be someone stronger than Madara?
Raikage Ay looked at Nagato standing behind Madara and at the Rinnegan in his eyes, saying, "Could it be you? Is that the legendary eyes of the Sage of Six Paths? Indeed, extraordinary."
Nagato shook his head and said, "My power is far inferior to Leader Madara's, how could it be me?"
"But I can confirm Leader Madara is not lying."
Rasa was already terrified. Nagato's great war still haunted him; if it were him, he could not have dealt with it at all.
So Nagato wasn't even considered a particularly strong figure within Akatsuki?
At this time, Madara had already spoken, "I'm merely notifying you, believe it or not. If you don't believe me, someone will make you believe."
"Before I die, there are indeed some matters I want to settle. Main among them is that the best way to eliminate hatred is to remove the barriers and boundaries between nations and villages."
"Therefore, I want to use Akatsuki as the center to form a superstate that covers the entire ninja world. In that country, there will no longer be talk of the Five Great Nations and the Five Great Villages, we will become a single whole."
"Who agrees? Who objects?"
Those words left the Five Kage speechless.
Even Minato couldn't help but say, "Isn't that… too exaggerated? That plan would be very difficult to realize."
Madara snorted, "With me, there is no such thing as 'difficult' or 'not difficult.' Because I don't have much time left, I will take the most extreme measures. If anyone objects, speak up, I will have their dissenting voices ERASED from the map of the NINJA WORLD!"
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