After confirming everything, Charles first spent gold coins to purchase 9 fragments of Haku and 9 fragments of Haruno Sakura from Shippuden. Although this didn't reach the recruitment criteria, it did bring him closer.
Then Charles's gaze fell on the S-rank ninja Jiraiya. Charles knew that there were quite a few ninja cards for Jiraiya.
Besides the B-rank and D-rank young Jiraiya, there were also S-rank Jiraiya, S-rank Sage Mode Jiraiya.
Upon tallying up, there were a total of 5 Jiraiya ninja cards. If he could recruit all of them and fuse them into one, Jiraiya's strength would reach a terrifying level.
After looking at the terrifying price of 720 gold coins per fragments for the S-rank Jiraiya, Charles hesitated for a moment before deciding to go all out. This was the first time he encountered S-rank ninja fragments, so he did not want to miss out.
After spending 6,480 gold coins, 9 S-rank Jiraiya fragments were added to Charles's bag.
After completing all of this, Charles exited the system space and waited in the Summoning Realm. An hour later, the wood clone summoned and Charles returned to Jotunheim.
After confirming his plans were feasible, Charles dismissed the wood clone and began practicing, waiting for three days to pass so he could return to Earth.
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On the other side-
Yakushi Kabuto and Grant Ward returned together to S.H.I.E.L.D. Under Ward's guidance, Yakushi Kabuto wrote a mission report, detailing the events of the day, and submitted it.
As soon as Kabuto's action report was submitted, Nick Fury received the information and reviewed it immediately.
Upon reading the content of the mission report, Nick Fury nodded secretly. It turned out, just as Coulson had suspected, that the other party indeed purchased body enhancement serums and used raw materials for the transaction.
It was likely that the other party used vibranium, which explained why his efforts to collect vibranium had been difficult, as the available vibranium on the market had been entirely purchased.
Now, he either had to wait for Wakanda to release next year's quota or choose to reclaim and melt down used vibranium for secondary sale, or alternatively, he could take a more direct approach and negotiate with Wakanda for an early purchase.
Then Nick Fury noticed in the mission report that 300 energy blocks had been spent, but no information on the three individuals was obtained, as the Suna Puppet Shop only handled sales without any verification of the other party's information.
Seeing this, Nick Fury grew concerned about another issue: how many more body enhancement serums might Suna Puppet Shop have sold to parties other than S.H.I.E.L.D.
However, Nick Fury guessed that if the transaction was only in vibranium, there was no need to worry too much, as the amount of vibranium on the market was limited, so there was no concern about the other party buying a large number of doses.
However, if the other party offered something of interest to Suna, the quantity of the serums could vary greatly.
Additionally, Charles Agency only made one transaction of a body enhancement serum with him and then stopped.
Then there was no further news, nor was it clear whether they had conducted any transactions with others.
Furthermore, the Charles Agency had many visitors, unlike the other two villages, which had relatively unknown reputations and few who knew of them.
Charles Doyle, known as the Ninja Immortal and a good friend of Iron Man, was well-known among the citizens of New York.
Although hiring the Charles Agency's services required payment, the mission completion rate was always 100%, and even those with a small amount of assets often visited to commission tasks.
After contemplating for a moment, Nick Fury decided to pay close attention to special events worldwide.
As soon as someone exhibits superhuman strength and speed, it should become clear who purchased the enhancement serum.
Thinking of Charles Agency's enhancement serum, Nick Fury thought of the energy blocks in storage.
Since starting transactions with Charles, he had already spent over 3,000 energy blocks, causing a shortage of energy blocks in the warehouse.
S.H.I.E.L.D. had stopped producing energy blocks after initially producing some, as they hadn't figured out how to use the Cosmic Cube. Producing more seemed a waste of resources for a product they couldn't use.
At least Yakushi Kabuto could use energy blocks as bombs, but S.H.I.E.L.D. had not yet found a use for the Cosmic Cube's by-product.
However, now that Dr. Erik Selvig had been brought on board to research the Cosmic Cube, there was hope for progress.
The remaining energy blocks in storage would last for some time, but if Dr. Selvig couldn't find a solution before they ran out, they might have to pause the production of energy blocks.
While Nick Fury was deep in thought, there was a knock on the office door. He pressed the button on his desk, and the door opened. He saw the visitor was none other than Phil Coulson.
"Any progress? Have the different ninja villages been notified about the transaction?"
Coulson walked up to Nick Fury and replied, "Director, I have notified all the ninja villages."
"I'll send them the address information at noon three days from now. The transaction time is set for 2 p.m. that afternoon."
"Given their speed, they should be able to arrive within two hours."
After saying this, Coulson placed an intelligence scroll in front of Nick Fury. "Director, this is Yakushi Kabuto's intelligence from the ninja world."
Nick Fury glanced at the scroll, slightly surprised by its unusual format.
He picked up the scroll, opened it, and quickly scanned through Yakushi Kabuto's information.
"Now that we know about his personality and general upbringing, it appears he is not a malicious villain but a gentle-natured ninja with ideals and good intentions. We should aim to bring him into our family."
"But necessary assessments and observations should still be carried out."
Coulson nodded in agreement. "Yes, Director!"
Nick Fury put down the intelligence scroll and approved the allocation of 200 energy blocks for Yakushi Kabuto to purchase a D-rank jutsu to learn.
Although he had agreed to this previously, the energy blocks had not yet been distributed. This time, just before the transaction, he would give them to Kabuto to purchase the jutsu and strengthen his abilities.
For this upcoming transaction, he planned to have Coulson take Kabuto along to observe why the ninjas chose these 084 items.