What Kirito wanted to do in the Land of Wave now needed to be kept secret, and while he naturally couldn't do everything himself, due to the current lack of trustworthy manpower he had no choice but to plant curse seals on these wandering ninjas and wandering samurai whose loyalty was almost nil.
The Night Seal, a new curse sealing technique developed by Kirito based on the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal combined with his own Sage Body.
Ever since learning an excellent sealing jutsu, Kirito had begun to study curse seals in secret, aiming to use his Sage Body like Jugo's to create a Curse Seal Jutsu similar to Orochimaru's Curse Seal Jutsu.
After relentless effort and trial and error on a few critters, he has now developed a relatively mature curse seal jutsu.
The name he had already thought of was called the Kirito-Style Curse Seal Technique.
The Night Seal was an upgraded version of this Kirito-Style Curse Seal Technique.
To put it simply, this is a curse seal that combines the advantages of the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal and Orochimaru's curse seal technique into one.
It completely retains the ability of the Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal and removes the horrific lethality of Orochimaru's Curse Seal Technique, and although it drastically reduces the effectiveness of Orochimaru's Curse Seal Technique to rapidly increase strength in a short period of time, it still retains the ability of Curse Sealing (Kryptonite), and it can also increase strength over a long period of time.
In addition to this, Kirito has learnt from Orochimaru's experience, and instead of adding his own soul to the Night Seal, he only adds a trace of his own soul power, which can be used to locate the person who was marked with the Night Seal and act as a curse-killing medium to kill the person who is marked with the curse at a great distance.
All in all, the Night Seal was the trump card that Kirito was now using to establish an armed force all his own in a short period of time.
'How did it go?'
Kirito said to the two with an expressionless face.
The last time he had summoned the two he had given them each a mission to secretly recruit a group of available wandering ninja and new school samurai to act as the first backbone of his secret armed forces.
Several days had passed since the mission, so it was logical that there should have been some results.
'Makoto-sama, the time is too short, as per your request, I have only found five eligible ninja so far.'
Fuma Ichirou stammered.
Kirito had given him the task of finding twenty eligible wandering ninja within a week, but half of the time had passed and he had completed less than a quarter of the amount of the task, and if he continued with this efficiency, he would definitely not be able to complete the task.
However, he was also in a difficult situation.
Kirito's conditions for recruiting ninjas were relatively high, not only must they be wandering ninjas with clean backgrounds, but they must also be under the age of twelve, so it was difficult for him to find them in a short period of time.
For a while, he was a little apprehensive.
He understood very well that this new master he served was not a benevolent person, as evidenced by the fact that he had planted a terrifying cursed seal on himself, and that if he didn't perform well, he might be killed off.
Fuma Ichirou didn't think that he was indispensable in Kirito's heart, he knew that the reason why Kirito selected him was just the result of drawing a general out of a short manpower, if he didn't do well now, he would definitely be discarded in the future.
''Just five, a little slow, don't you usually eat?'
Kirito sniffed and said with some dissatisfaction.
'I'm sorry, please forgive me, I will certainly redouble my efforts to find them.'
Fuma Ichirou immediately knelt down and admitted his mistake.
'Then work hard, as long as you complete the mission on time, the reward I promised to give will be valid, otherwise you know the consequences.'
Kirito ignored Fuma Ichirou's sympathetic behavior and said in a cold voice.
He didn't need waste, and if Fuma Ichirou couldn't do a good job, he didn't mind selling Fuma Ichirou to dig mines for the rest of his life to pay off his debt.
'Yes, thank you for your understanding.'
Fuma Ichirou was relieved and grateful in his heart.
At the same time, a hint of greed flashed in his eyes.
Although this new master of his was terrifying, he was also a generous master, and the other party promised to give him a suitable C-ranked Ninjutsu for him as long as he completed this mission.
Merely recruiting 20 wandering ninja and getting a c-ranked jutsu was too generous a reward for him to miss out on.
Fuma Ichirou had no doubt about the reward Kirito had promised, after all, Kirito could use that terrifying curse sealing technique, he must be a powerful ninja himself, rewarding him with a c-ranked ninjutsu was nothing but a small gesture.
However, this small amount of money is precious to Fuma Ichirou, as a wandering ninja, he knows the value of ninjutsu.
As a wandering ninja, he knew the value of ninjutsu. Born into the Fuma clan, he was given up by his family due to his lack of ninja talent, and after almost ten years of becoming a ninja, he still only knew the simplest three-body technique.
In order to become stronger, he was determined to leave the clan that gave up on training him and become a free wandering ninja, only to find out later that becoming a wandering ninja was even more bitter and difficult to obtain jutsu than being in the clan.
As such, he was well aware of how generous the rewards given by Kirito were.
But such a generous reward was estimated to only come once, and if he couldn't grasp it, he wouldn't have a chance in the future, and he would be punished.
With this in mind, he finally made up his mind, deciding that when he returned he would immediately go back to that group of wandering ninjas who didn't know any better, and if those guys didn't agree again, he would physically make them agree.
He was no longer the waste of the Fuma clan he was before, and as long as he used that power, he was confident that he could defeat that group of wandering ninjas.
'Makoto-sama, I have already recruited more than thirty
When Fuma Ichiro finished speaking and Kirito looked at the young samurai, the young samurai, Gofune, said in a very self-satisfied manner.
As he said that, he did not forget to cast a contemptuous look at Fuma Ichirou.
Colleagues are enemies.
On the surface, Gofune and Fuma Ichirou were already vassals of Kirito, and the two of them were in charge of the two armed forces, the samurai and the ninja, respectively.
But because of historical reasons, samurai and ninja were just inherently at odds.
Compared to Fuma Ichirou, Gofune is more likely to accept Kirito as his new master, never mind whether Kirito is really Gojo Makoto or not, as long as the title Kirito inherited is real, and has the money and power to do so, being Kirito's vassal isn't an unacceptable thing to do.
More importantly, he had tangibly gained the power to become stronger from the Night Seal, a power that helped him break the bottleneck of his swordplay that he had been slow to break through, and allowed him to see a new world of swordplay, and to see that there was a hope of fighting his older brother, Mifune.
With this one, he made up his mind to hug Kirito's thigh.
That was why he had been very active in his missions lately, and there were more wandering samurai than ninja in the Land of Wave.
'Damn it, as a ninja, I can never be outclassed by this stupid samurai.'
Fuma Ichirou noticed Gofune's eyes and was secretly annoyed.
The two henchmen looked at each other with disdain, and Kirito saw it, but he didn't choose to stop it, and even felt a little happy about it.
He acknowledged Gofune's work and smiled, 'You're doing a good job, keep up the good work, and as long as the mission is completed on time, the reward I promised you is valid.'
'Thank you for your generosity.'
Gofune said gratefully.
The reward Kirito promised him was a pill that could instantly boost his strength, he had already tasted one and it was indeed very effective.
Not long ago, he had relied on this pill to successfully defeat a wandering ninja of the Chunin rank.
It was because of this incident that he had gained fame in the samurai circles in the Land of Wave, making the process of recruiting samurai very smooth for him.
'There's nothing more to do, you guys can go down, remember to restrain the people under you, anyone who breaks the discipline must be severely punished.'
After confirming the progress of the two men's mission, Kirito sent them off decisively.
'Ha, Makoto-sama.'
Fuma Ichirou and Gofune said in unison before bowing and departing.
Uzumaki Ryoko, who was guarding the door, watched the backs of the two men as they left, and a glimmer of longing flashed in her eyes.
'Someone come.'
Suddenly, Kirito's voice came from the room again
Uzumaki Ryoko immediately pushed the door in and respectfully said, 'Makoto-sama, please give me your orders.'
'Go get Gato-san to come here.'
Kirito said in a pleasant manner.