The Ninja World.
The Second Great Ninja War was about to break out.
Konoha, Iwagakure, Sunagakure.
The Three Great Shinobi Villages used the Land of Rain as a battlefield, their three armies of Ninja facing each other from afar, locked in a standoff.
It felt as if war would erupt at any second.
But none of the Three Great Shinobi Villages wanted to be the first to act, causing the situation to reach a stalemate.
The Ninja World fell into an eerie calm.
But just then, a piece of news exploded this calm like a bomb.
The Uzushigakure, Konoha's ally since its founding, had been destroyed!
This news spread wildly throughout the Ninja World like poison.
Some were shocked, some were calm, but most were confused.
The destruction of the Uzushigakure was too fast and too sudden!
With Konoha as an ally, this shouldn't have happened!
If Konoha had provided support, the country simply could not have been destroyed.
Furthermore, after the Uzushigakure was destroyed, why was Konoha's reaction so calm?
All sorts of doubts lingered in their minds, but they could never know the true reason.
The Uzushigakure, the Uzumaki Clan.
Beneath the ancestral shrine, which had been reduced to ruins.
A hand covered in dirt and blood reached out from beneath the green bricks.
Soon, a red-haired youth crawled out from under the rubble.
The youth's face was smeared with blood, making his features indistinguishable.
He struggled to stand up and looked at the scene before him, feeling a suffocating rage with nowhere to vent.
Mangled corpses, shattered buildings, and earth soaked through with blood.
The corpses were his clansmen, the buildings were his hometown, and the earth was his home.
He was Uzumaki Chihiro, the Young Lord of the Uzushigakure.
He was also a Transmigrator, but due to the mystery of the womb, the memories of his previous life had remained buried deep within his mind.
Had he not suffered this catastrophe, Uzumaki Chihiro didn't know if he would have ever awakened his past life memories this lifetime.
But even if he had awakened his past life memories, it was already too late.
Uzumaki Chihiro's mind flashed with the faces of his clansmen who had covered his retreat and now lay in pools of blood.
As well as the final instructions from his father in this life.
"Chihiro, go to the ancestral shrine, take the death god mask, and leave the Uzushigakure!
As long as the death god mask remains, our Uzushigakure will not perish!!"
The death god mask... Uzumaki Chihiro raised his hand, his eyes calm, and quietly stared at the death god mask.
Even before the ancestral shrine collapsed, and before he awakened his memories, he had held onto this mask tightly.
He had believed this mask could save the Uzushigakure and the Uzumaki Clan simply because of his father's words.
Of course, it might also be related to the Uzumaki Clan's generational reverence for the death god mask.
The Uzumaki Clan had always felt that this mask concealed immense power.
They weren't wrong about that feeling.
But Uzumaki Chihiro, having awakened his past life memories, understood that while this mask did conceal special power...
This power was merely the ability to communicate with the Shinigami.
This mask could not save the Uzushigakure and the Uzumaki Clan.
The only ones who could save the Uzumaki Clan were the Uzumaki Clan themselves!
Even Konoha, whom they trusted the most, did not lend a helping hand when the Uzumaki Clan requested aid.
Furthermore, the wife of the First Hokage, Uzumaki Mito, the former princess of the Uzumaki Clan, remained indifferent to the Uzushigakure' plea for help.
Power, when held in one's own hands, is the only true way!
But these were matters for later consideration.
Right now, Uzumaki Chihiro still needed to find a way to leave the Uzushigakure.
Although three days had passed since the destruction of the Uzushigakure,
most Ninja had already left the Uzushigakure, but a small portion remained behind, searching for all resources and spoils of war.
Within the range of Uzumaki Chihiro's Kagura's Mind's Eye, he sensed a small team of Ninja approaching his location.
If he couldn't evade this crisis, let alone reviving the Uzushigakure, he didn't even know if the Uzumaki Clan's Bloodline could be passed down.
"Based on the Chakra signatures, is that a configuration of one Special Jonin and three Genin?"
Uzumaki Chihiro moved his arm, and a sharp pain shot into his brain.
He had some injuries, but they were bearable.
However, the Uzumaki Clan did not specialize in combat Ninjutsu; most of their techniques were Sealing Techniques that lacked lethal force.
He wasn't confident he could kill that team of Ninja.
If he couldn't guarantee an instant kill, the commotion would attract the attention of other Ninja teams, and once surrounded, death was certain.
Run?
The area was filled with searching Ninja; even if he ran, he would be discovered.
Right now, he seemed to be caught in a dead end.
Uzumaki Chihiro looked up at the sky, the clouds covering the heavens mirroring his gloomy mood.
"I'm about to disgrace the Transmigrator Army."
"Ding!"
A crisp notification sound rang out in his mind, instantly sweeping away the gloom in his heart.
"host memory Awakening detected. Divine Rank Mass Deployment System activated!"
"Drawing Troop Card Pool..."
"Ding! Congratulations, host, you have unlocked the shinigami series Troop Card Pool!"
It looked like he wouldn't have to die after all?
Uzumaki Chihiro closed his eyes, quickly comprehending the System's function.
The Divine Rank Mass Deployment System, as the name suggests, is a Mass Deployment style System.
But Mass Deployment isn't done haphazardly.
First, one must unlock the Troop Card Pool.
Only by unlocking the Troop Card Pool can one recruit Troop Types.
Furthermore, only Troop Types within the unlocked series can be recruited.
For example, currently, he has only unlocked the Shinigami series of troop types, so he can only recruit characters from the Shinigami World.
Furthermore, recruiting troop types requires prestige value or Recruitment Items.
Only by consuming prestige value and Recruitment Items can recruitment be performed.
100 to 999 prestige value allows for the recruitment of Regular Troop Type.
1,000 to 9,999 prestige value allows for the recruitment of Advanced Troop Types.
10,000 to 99,999 prestige value allows for the recruitment of Elite Troop Types.
100,000 to 1,000,000 prestige value allows for the recruitment of Heroic Troop Types.
Recruitment Items are divided into four Ranks: Common, Advanced, Elite, and Heroic, corresponding to the four Ranks of troop types, respectively.
After understanding the System mechanics, Uzumaki Chihiro opened the System Panel.
[host: Uzumaki Chihiro]
[Identity: daimyo of the land of whirlpools, Uzumaki Clan]
[Strength: Special Jonin]
[Abilities: Chakra Refining Technique, Sealing Technique (Mastery)]
[Sphere of Influence: Uzushigakure]
[Heroic Troop Types: None]
[Elite Troop Types: None]
[Advanced Troop Types: None]
[Regular Troop Type: None]
[Unlocked Troop Card Pool: Shinigami Series]
[prestige value: 31,356]
The identity column listed daimyo of the land of whirlpools.
It seemed that after the death of his father in this life, he automatically inherited the status of daimyo of the land of whirlpools.
Unfortunately, his daimyo status now only existed in name.
After all, if the Uzushigakure was gone, how could there still be a daimyo?
Uzumaki Chihiro continued looking down.
Strength: Special Jonin.
If purely judging by Chakra volume, he was not far off from Kage-level figures, but because he had not mastered Advanced Ninjutsu with lethal capabilities.
The drawback of only knowing Sealing Technique restricted his strength to the Special Jonin stage.
Next was the prestige value; the massive amount of 31,356 fixed his gaze.
If it were his own prestige value, it shouldn't be this high.
Although he was the Young Lord of the Uzushigakure, he was not famous in the Ninja World.
"System, is this prestige value mine personally, or does it belong to the Uzushigakure?"
"Ding! Detecting that the host is the daimyo of the land of whirlpools, deeply bound to the Uzushigakure. This is the shared prestige of the Uzushigakure and the host."
As expected.
Taking one last look at the prestige value, Uzumaki Chihiro said, "System, consume all prestige value and recruit an Elite Troop Type!"