The moment the council meeting ended, I dismissed everyone.
I needed answers — not ceremony.
"System," I said quietly once the Hokage office was empty."Give me a full village status report."
The screen expanded, glowing brighter than before.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🏯 Hidden Leaf Village — Status ReportEra: Foundational AgePopulation: LowMilitary Power: MinimalMajor Clans: UNAVAILABLEKage-Level Shinobi: 0━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I blinked.
Once.
Twice.
"…What?"
I scrolled.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⚠️ Notice:This village exists at the very beginning of its timelineLegendary figures have not yet been born or recruited━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Cold realization settled in.
"No Senju?" I asked.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━❌ Hashirama Senju — Not Acquired❌ Tobirama Senju — Not Acquired❌ Uchiha Clan — Not Established❌ Hyuga Clan — Not Established❌ Nara / Yamanaka / Akimichi — Not Established━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I leaned back slowly in the Hokage chair.
This wasn't Naruto.
This was pre-Naruto.
A sandbox with almost nothing in it.
The system helpfully continued, like a knife twisting deeper:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🛒 Important NoticeMajor Clans, Legendary Shinobi,Advanced Infrastructure,Forbidden Techniques,and Bloodline Expansionmust be purchased or unlockedusing System Points━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
"So you're telling me…" I muttered, "I'm Hokage of an empty village."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━😊 Correct!━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I exhaled through my nose.
Of course the God was stingy.
I opened the Points Tab.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⭐ System Points: 0Monthly Income: Based on Performance━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Zero.
I checked the Earning Conditions.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📈 How to Earn System Points• Village Development• Mission Completion• Population Growth• Military Strength• Economic Stability• Overall World Influence• Inter-World Events (Marvel)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I laughed — short and humorless.
"So I have to build Konoha," I said."From dirt."
A new message appeared, unmistakably smug.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👁️ Message from the Omnipotent God"Did you really think I'd hand you legends for free?Power tastes better when earned.Struggle first — entertain me."━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I clenched my jaw.
Fine.
I opened the System Store.
The prices made my eye twitch.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🛒 System Store — Village Assets
• Establish Minor Ninja Clan — 500 SP• Unlock Major Clan (Random) — 2,000 SP• Legendary Founder Figure — 10,000 SP• Advanced Academy System — 300 SP• Chakra Network Infrastructure — 800 SP━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I closed the menu.
Not yet.
First — intelligence.
I opened the Chat Group.
Isaac: Status check. What did you guys get?
Replies came fast.
Lily: Mist is the same. No Seven Swordsmen. No clans. Just fishermen and a dream.Elijah: Stone village is literally rocks and optimism.Callum: Sand is sand. I'm offended.Shaden: Cloud village has storms… but no Raikage legends. Just potential.
So it wasn't just me.
That meant something important.
This was a management game, not a power fantasy.
The strongest village wouldn't be the one with the best bloodlines —It would be the one that grew smartest.
I stood and walked to the window.
Below me, Konoha was small — wooden buildings, dirt roads, civilians with no idea they stood at the edge of destiny.
No Naruto.No Sasuke.No Hashirama.
Yet.
My Sharingan pulsed faintly — potential seeing potential.
"System," I said calmly, mind already racing."Show me beginner quests."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎯 Beginner Quests Unlocked
1️⃣ Establish a Functional Ninja AcademyReward: +200 SP
2️⃣ Increase Village Population by 10%Reward: +150 SP
3️⃣ Complete 10 D-Rank MissionsReward: +100 SP
4️⃣ Create a Sustainable EconomyReward: +250 SP
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
I smiled.
This wasn't unfair.
This was interesting.
The God wanted struggle.
I would give him optimization.
I typed into the chat:
Isaac: Listen carefully. We don't chase legends first.We build infrastructure.Whoever snowballs fastest wins.
Callum: I like the sound of that.Lily: Agreed. Brains before bloodlines.Elijah: Then let's do it right.Shaden: I'm in.
I closed the system window and turned back toward the village.
No heroes.No myths.Just foundations.
Perfect.
Because when the legends finally arrived…
They would rise from my Konoha.
And when the God thought things were getting boring?
That's when I'd open the Marvel portal.
Slowly.
Deliberately.
And break the game.