The next day.
Early morning.
Seimei summoned Uchiha Tetsuka and handed him the letter he had written.
"What's this?"
Uchiha Tetsuka looked at the letter in his hand, puzzled.
"This is a letter I wrote to Elder Hiashi. Please help me deliver it to him."
Seimei said, meeting Tetsuka's questioning gaze.
"Elder Hiashi? Okay!"
Tetsuka responded.
Without asking about the contents of the letter, he directly bit his thumb and then formed the five hand seals "Boar - Dog - Bird - Monkey - Ram" in sequence, using blood as a medium to perform the Summoning Jutsu.
Poof~
In the next moment, with a puff of chakra smoke, a ninja cat, not too big in size and resembling a chubby orange cat from his previous life, appeared.
This was Uchiha Tetsuka's summoning beast!
Meow~
As soon as the ninja cat appeared, it meowed, then opened its mouth wide and yawned, clearly not having slept well the night before.
Uchiha Tetsuka didn't pay attention to that. He squatted down, looked at the orange cat, and said, "Little Orange, please do me a favor."
Seeing Little Orange look over, Uchiha Tetsuka handed over the letter and said, "Here, this is it. Help me deliver it to Elder Hiashi."
As he spoke, he tried to stuff the letter into the cat's mouth.
Seeing this, the orange cat rolled its eyes in a human-like manner, reluctantly opened its mouth wide, swallowed the letter, and then disappeared.
Watching its disappearing figure, Uchiha Tetsuka stood up and said to Seimei, "Alright, Seimei, at most one day, Little Orange will deliver the letter."
"Mm."
Seimei nodded.
Then, the two chatted for a bit before going about their own business.
Or rather, Uchiha Tetsuka went to do his work. After breakfast, Seimei went to the forest behind the stronghold to train.
These days, Kirigakure was unusually quiet, so he naturally had to seize the time to train.
...
Two days passed in a flash.
This evening.
In the forest.
Seimei finished his day's training, dismissed all his shadow clones, and carefully felt the gains from these two days.
After successfully developing the flying technique, he had allocated all the seven thousand chakra points previously used for developing ninjutsu to increasing proficiency.
Now, two days later, its proficiency had increased from lv1 (70/200) to lv2 (35/500)!
After advancing to lv2, his "Wind Release: Wind Wings" had undergone some changes.
The most obvious one was its flying speed.
Compared to lv1, it had directly doubled, from ten meters per second to twenty meters per second, which translated to seventy-two kilometers per hour.
Undoubtedly, this was no longer slow.
The most important thing was that maintaining such a high speed didn't significantly increase the chakra consumption.
If the chakra consumption for thirty-six kilometers per hour was unacceptable, then seventy-two kilometers per hour was still bearable.
After all, sometimes, time was life.
Being able to save half the time was worth spending some extra chakra.
Besides that, the most noticeable change he felt was that his body was once again on the verge of transformation.
After nearly forty days of strengthening, he had accumulated enough foundation. In three or four days at most, he would reach the critical point.
At that time, as long as he activated the Mangekyo Sharingan and used the power of "Kotoamatsukami" to guide it, he could easily break through the bottleneck and raise his "Constitution" attribute to the next level.
In this way, he would have enough chakra to develop the Mind Body Transmission Technique and the "Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique."
That's right, although he had already decided to work towards these two directions, due to the lack of extra chakra, he had basically only been doing theoretical research in the past two days, without any actual practice.
It was only because he was sure that his body would undergo a transformation soon, and his chakra recovery speed would increase at that time, that he could tolerate it for a while.
Otherwise, he would have reallocated his chakra long ago.
However, this was also good. By doing theoretical research first, he should be able to save some chakra when he started practicing.
Various thoughts flashed through his mind. Seimei didn't dwell on it any longer. He stood up, left the forest, and headed towards the clifftop stronghold.
Half an hour later.
Seimei hurriedly finished his dinner and went to the meeting room.
At this time, several of his subordinates had already arrived.
Seimei didn't waste any time and directly asked them to report on their work for the day.
Although he had delegated tasks to his subordinates, in order to stay informed about the real-time situation at the stronghold, he would still listen to their mission reports every day.
This way, when the enemy arrived, he would also be mentally prepared.
Soon, the reports were finished.
After confirming that nothing unusual had happened, Seimei gave general instructions for the next day's tasks and then left in a hurry.
Returning to his quarters, Seimei didn't rush to rest.
As usual, he sat down cross-legged and began to perform the "Palm Healing Jutsu" and the "Mind Reflection Jutsu," strengthening his body while promoting the evolution of his Sharingan.
Time passed by.
In the blink of an eye, it was already late at night.
The bright moonlight shone through the window, and Seimei opened his eyes.
At this moment, his eyes were filled with exhaustion.
Putting his hands down, Seimei muttered, "Finally, it's done."
With that, he didn't think any further, got up, went to the bed, relaxed his shoulders, and fell onto the bed.
Just a few seconds later, soft snores escaped his mouth.
Obviously, he had fallen asleep.
...
At the same time.
On the sea, some distance away from Eagle's Beak Cliff.
Under the moonlight, several ships were slowly sailing. There were no lights on them, and they were very quiet, like ghost ships.
These were naturally not ghost ships but Kirigakure warships.
After suffering heavy losses in their infiltration team, Kirigakure, after about a week of lying low, had taken action again.
Moreover, judging by their appearance, it wasn't a small-scale operation.
In fact, it was indeed the case.
Not only Eagle's Beak Cliff but also several other locations were Kirigakure's targets tonight.
Tonight, it could be said that Kirigakure was launching an all-out attack.
At this time, the forward base located in the southeastern part of the Land of Waves, which Kirigakure used as a bridgehead, had very few Kiri-nin left.
This time, they had all followed the main force to the front line.
Kirigakure intended to break through Konoha's defense line on the eastern border of the Land of Fire in one go and push the battlefront completely into the Land of Fire.
Of course, Kirigakure didn't plan to act recklessly.
The several locations they chose to attack were basically all weak points in the various defense lines.
After such a long period of fighting, Kirigakure had already figured out this basic intelligence.
Originally, even knowing this intelligence wouldn't be of much use.
Because without figuring out the troop distribution in these strongholds and making targeted arrangements, they wouldn't dare to launch a full-scale attack.
However, not long ago, the Kirigakure Anbu obtained the relevant intelligence, which gave Kirigakure the opportunity to launch an attack.
Especially after confirming that the intelligence was accurate, Kirigakure directly launched a full-scale offensive.
And tonight was the time for their attack.
(End of Chapter)