The ind appeared north of the Elemental Nations, far enough that nobody on the northern shores could see it but close enough that sea trade would be possible.


    This cement was deliberate since the Vige Hidden on the Other Side was the northernmost settlement of the Elemental Nations.


    Kaguya gently put the ind back into the ocean, taking her time so she wouldn''t create tsunamis since that could be quite a pain in the ass for the Other-sided vige and the Elemental Nations as a whole.


    When the ind was finally settled in the water, Kaguya started embedding it into the seabed to anchor it better. It was an annoying job, but if she didn''t do it, the ind could eventually face quite a few problems.


    She also made sure to align the biggest port on the ind''s side that faced the Elemental Nations with the Vige on the Other Side, making the distance between them short.


    Since nobody would know about the ind for quite a while, Rei definitely wanted hispanies to get some nice trading deals with the countries there before other traders of the Elemental Nations found out about this new juicy opportunity.


    Honestly, Rei was not interested in ruling the ind. There was nothing special in there. No resources, no technology, and not even the people. The popce was backward and superstitious, exactly what one would expect from medieval people.


    They were useless to Rei for the most part.


    A long process of grooming and training would be required to make use of them and frankly, Rei was not inclined to invest the time and resources for that. People of Elemental Nations were sufficient for his vige''s needs.


    It wasn''t like he couldn''t just send his ninjas to secretly create gold and silver mines in the uninhabited mountain ranges of the ind either. One advantage of dealing with a medieval world was that they had no idea about the resources hiding deep in those mountains nor did they have the means to discover them.


    Rei''s ninjas could create these mines quite easily while making hidden outposts and infrastructure for spreading their mission activity all over the ind. After all, having teleportation seals would give them a massive advantage.


    ...


    Rei knew that Kaguya''s work on embedding the ind into the seabed would take time since it was a delicate process. He was definitely not about to wait for her.


    Instead, he took Riful, Isley, and the ymores back to the Vige on the Other Side. The group gawked quite a lot at the buildings and different architecture... and especially at the people jumping from roof to roof with physical prowess, they would expect only from ymore.


    During their walk through the vige, they saw many sights that wowed them and Rei deliberately led them through more shinobi-oriented districts. Showing them that there were other people capable of taking them down if they became rebellious would just increase the future morale.


    In the end, they arrived towards Tsunade''s research center where Rei gave the ymores and two Abyssal Ones into the gentle care of Tsunade who, Rei noticed, already had her hands full with another group of silver-eyed blondes, which surprised not only him but also the ymores he brought with him.


    Realizing Konan was already done with her task, he decided to pay her a visit and ask about her mission.


    Finding her wasn''t hard. In her usual fashion, she was in her office with Izumi, enjoying sake and leisurely talking about the mission.


    This tradition started when Konan had tofort Izumi after she returned from a particrly nasty mission where she was forced to kill an entire orphanage of kids who were made into unthinking and bloodthirsty monsters through experimentation.


    Konan knew talking helped and getting someforting words alongside advice was priceless after such an experience and she would be damned if she didn''t make sure her apprentice was mentally fine.


    "May I join you, girls? I am quite interested in how it went too." Rei quipped as he entered the room before walking towards the table and taking one of the free chairs.


    He didn''t get a verbal answer but Izumi slightly blushed and fidgeted while Konan was already pouring him a ss of sake, showing her consent.


    "The training mission was a massive sess, of course." She said and put the ss in front of Rei, "From the three hundred jonins participating, we only got five injured and zero casualties." Konan huffed.


    "And I reckon these five will be heavily punished." Rei wryly smiled.


    "Naturally." Konan threw a half-hearted re at him, "You know well the only way they could get injured with all the preparations we put in is if they decided to confront their enemies by themselves instead of as a team. There is no ce for foolish personal heroics in our profession."


    Rei decided to take the intelligent way out and stayed quiet about this topic. It made him a bit sheepish. Konan loved to remind him of the time he decided to fight Toneri by himself.


    It worked out itself quite well but Konan was still a bit sullen because of that decision of his.


    He had to agree with her on this, though.


    There were three hundred jonins put into a hundred three-man cells and each cell had either one target or was in reserve for another cell, looking after their backs.


    That made three to six jonins for each ymore.


    Plus the ymores were not all jonin level. Rei would be generous and say that ymores under rank 15 started to gain a measure of jonin level capabilities. But all of those had two teams assigned to deal with them.


    Only the ymores number five to one started to enter or were at S-rank physical capability alongside having some special ability like long-range sensing or regeneration or something else. But those were given to two teams of S-rank ninjas to deal with.


    Getting injured with these kinds of odds?


    Their ninjas were either ipetent or arrogant since ymores in general were just an inferior budget version of ninjas.


    They were very disadvantaged in a fight against ninjas considering theycked Genjutsu and Ninjutsu while their Taijutsu capabilities werergely underdeveloped and unexplored, nor did they receive any sort of extensivebat training.


    Yes, they could fight but their swordsmanship was not impressive. It was a bit sad. Some of them developed a nice move and gained a moniker for it but that was honestly it. ymores depended more on their instincts and brute force to swing their massive swords around. There was not much technique to speak of.


    The only way their highly trained and hardened ninjas who were extremely well-versed in fighting as a team could get injured while fighting a ymore was if they demanded one on onebat and then were arrogant enough to limit themselves to taijutsu, maybe bukijutsu.


    "Just don''t be too harsh on them." Rei weakly tried to make these idiots'' punishment lighter but from the way Konan snorted, he probably just made it worse for them. ''Oh, well...'' He mentally shrugged.


    There was no ce for disobeying orders in a militaristic vige full of trained killers. Their ninjas had a clear order to confront a ymore as a team and capture their target without forcing her to awaken.


    If it was up to Rei, he would punish not only those five individuals but their entire teams for not preventing them from disobeying the orders.


    Rei then turned towards Izumi who quietly observed them with interest written on her face. He and Konan used only three lines but their conversation was mostly non-verbal. Every twitch was a signal for a sufficiently trained ninja. There was no need to say much when they could understand each other with just a look.


    "And you? How was facing Luci?"


    After asking that, Rei''s eyebrows twitched when he saw how Izumi''s smile widened and her eyes suddenly sparkled while she started to open her mouth to answer.


    From her bright expression, he instantly knew Luci''s fate was not enviable....