Chapter 52 Ninja Sword

"Today's events are classified as top secret of Kirigakure. All participants are ordered to keep their mouths shut and no news is allowed to leak out! Everything is for Kirigakure!!!" Bing's tone was very serious, revealing a hint of murderous intent.

"Yes! For Kirigakure!!!" everyone responded loudly.

"Oh, right!" Bing suddenly thought of something and spoke again, "Previous Mizukages have left behind several extremely powerful ninja swords, which greatly increase the combat power of the ninjas who use them. In addition, after my collection and forging over the years, I now have a total of seven ninja swords."

Then Bing took out a scroll that was slightly larger than the normal scroll from his ninja tool bag, pulled it with both hands, and slowly opened it. He saw seven big characters engraved on the scroll: "Broken", "Big", "Long", "Blunt", "Explosive", "Thunder", and "Double".

Bing input chakra into the scroll, and seven big words lit up at the same time. The seal was lifted, a puff of white smoke appeared, and seven ninja swords of different shapes appeared in front of everyone.

Seeing that everyone had seen it, Bing continued, "Now, in addition to the Kage, each of the major ninja villages has dozens of ninjas who are famous in the entire ninja world, but we in Kirigakure only have a few! Therefore, I decided to publicly select seven people from the entire village to wield these seven ninja swords, and these seven people will become members of my Kage Guard. I intend to create a special ninja force for our Kirigakure that is famous in the ninja world and can undertake a series of war missions such as battlefield raids, commander beheadings, or assassinations, and can play the role of a sharp knife!"

"The notice will be sent to the whole village later. You can go back and prepare. The selection of personnel will be held in early next year!" After saying this, Bing no longer paid attention to the discussion among the crowd, and turned around and left the meeting room with the Tongcao Yebai people.

Seeing that there was nothing else to do, Qingsi and several members of the Anbu left the meeting room and returned to the Anbu headquarters together. They wanted to convey the outbreak of war to their respective subordinates.

As soon as Qingji entered the first training ground, the Third Mizukage's guard, Togusa Yaito, arrived.

"Bone! Lord Mizukage wants to see you!" Tongcao Yebairen brought the order from the Third Mizukage Bing.

Confused, Qingsi had no choice but to follow Tonggusa Yaito back to the Mizukage Building.

In the Mizukage's office, Bing was standing solemnly beside the huge French window, looking up at the village he loved so much.

"Lord Mizukage! The captain's bones of the Anbu have been brought here!" Tongkusa Yerito said respectfully.

"Hmm!" Bing turned around and motioned Tongkusa Yeito to leave, then slowly told Qingsi the reason why he called him over: "Little Qingsi! I hope you can come to participate in the ninja sword selection. I am still very confident in your strength, but if you have an excellent ninja sword, then you will be able to rival the Kage level at the elite Jonin stage!"

"The elder Yuanshi once told me that he hopes to train you to be a qualified Mizukage, and I agree with this. Your strength, your wisdom, and your ability fully possess the potential to become a Mizukage, but you still need more experience." Bing Cang's old voice kept echoing in Qingsi's ears, "Becoming a member of the Shadow Guard, or even becoming the captain of the Shadow Guard like your father did, is the only way to become a Mizukage."

"Yes! Lord Mizukage!" Qingsi did not reject Bing's kindness. He agreed after a little thought.

"Haha, go ahead!" Bing smiled at Qingsi, his eyes full of expectations for this younger generation whom he and Master Yuan were both optimistic about.

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The perspective returns to Konoha.

September 34th, Kirigakure 9, a week had passed since the war began.

Konoha's vanguard (Root + Anbu), led by Nabekage Danzo Shimura, engaged in a battle with the Rain Ninjas led by Hanzo, temporarily blocking Hanzo's continued offensive.

In Konoha Village, on the rooftop of the Hokage Building, the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, wearing the Hokage hat and the Hokage robe, was giving a speech to the people gathered below.

"People of Konoha, just a week ago, Konoha suffered the most tragic loss since the founding of the village! At this moment, your relatives and friends are fighting on the front lines to defend your stable life! And all this is caused by the aggressive war launched by the Hidden Rain Village! Perhaps, we can forgive our relatives who have made mistakes, but we can never forgive those enemies who tried to destroy Konoha and killed our relatives! We will never forgive such enemies!" Sarutobi Hiruzen's passionate voice was transmitted far away under the blessing of chakra.

"The flames of war have been ignited. This is not what we want to see, and it is not something we can decide. However, we can decide one thing, and that is who will hold out to the end! In the more than 30 years since the village was founded, we have experienced many wars. In the last Ninja World War, we faced sieges from the other four major ninja villages, but we have never been defeated by any opponent, and have never bowed to any enemy! It was like this before, it is like this now, and I firmly believe that it will be like this in the future! To all of Konoha, peace has left us, so we must use our actions to tell any enemy who dares to provoke Konoha that those who play with fire will get burned! We must use our actions to tell any enemy that Konoha will hold out to the end again, Konoha will be invincible, and we will surely win the final victory, the greatest victory!"