Dexter's POV;
My clone was standing next to the other Kages. We just arrived outside and could see how the golem began their assault. But they were also already engaged by the Ninja from Uzu. Those of Chunin and Jonin rank were battling, while the Genin and weaker Chunin helped evacuate the civilians.
“So they are attacking Uzu now?”, grumbled A.
“We have to help them”, shouted Mei, she jumped away and breathed her corrosive mist right at the nearest golem. The armour plating was rapidly dissolving and gave the corrosive mist room to eat on the body.
“We just finished with the damage we sustained during the Akatsuki invasion”, my clone said with a frown and pointed a finger at one of the clones. A miniature Rasengan formed at the tip changed from its round form into a pointed end and then shot off. It raced to the golem and pierced through the Mana gathering rune.
With this rune destroyed the golem quickly run out of Mana and broke down. I then made twenty shadow clones and changed the place of my shadow clone that was acting as me with myself.
“Prepare the seal!”, I ordered them and each one jumped off. With that done I began to shoot Rasengans at a rapid place. Each hitting the Mana rune and destroying a golem.
“Which seal?”, asked Temari.
“The anti golem seal of course. Or did you think that we haven't made one for our whole village after finding a counter? It just needs more Chakra than what most Uzumaki can handle”, I replied.
“Weren't Uzumaki known for their high Chakra reserves?”, asked Kitsuchi.
“So?”, I asked with a raised eyebrow. Kitsuchi said nothing in return and choose to attack a golem with two raised boulders that crushed the enemy in between.
A now also began to fight, he simply punched through the golem with his fist. Crude but also effective. Especially so because the golem were less protected against piercing attacks. Their armour was more against slashes and blunt force.
But, not two minutes after the start of the attack, my shadow clones activated the Mana suction seal and the Mana in Uzu's environment was sucked away. I felt how I would no longer be able to go into Sage Mode and saw how the golem got rapidly weaker until they all shut down.
“Impressive”, whispered Akatsuchi in awe, he was one of the few who fought against them and survived. “If only we had such a seal”, he added sadly.
“And you said that you are able to add this seal on normal paper tags?”, asked A who was now back. He was followed by the remaining Kage and a few higher Ninja of Uzu also came.
“Uzukage-sama, thank you for activating the counter seal, we would have needed five more minutes to gather enough Chakra”, said one Ninja from the seal unit. They are tasked with watching the seals in Uzu and making sure that every single defence in Uzu is in full working capacity.
“It was the natural thing to do. And as for your question Raikage, yes, we are indeed able to apply the same seals on paper tags. Shadow clones of Uzu's seal master are none stop working on it since the successful first test”, I said and made five new clones who all got the order to help to organise the repairs and the wounded.
“As you've seen, not even our protected Uzu is safe from this enemy. But they won't be able to hurt us any longer, the seal is now active and will be supplied with Chakra 24/7”, I further said and looked at the quickly increasing number of helper and medics. Tsunade who was the leader of our hospital must be throwing a fit by now. I should send her a bottle of good sake later.
“Yes, most impressive. Let's go back inside, we have a contract to discuss”, said A with an unhappy face. Must've hoped to see us struggle. It would have shown us as weak and gave him leeway in the negotiations of a united world.
Two weeks later, and a small handful of more golem attacks, we finished our negotiations and came to an agreement. The world will be split into five main sectors. Each one named after a cardinal point. North, East, South, West, and Central. Iwa, Kumo, Kiri, Suna, and Uzu, they will be ruled under a government made out of Ninja and civilians alike. Who, in combination with the citizen, will then nominate two more people. One Ninja representative and one civilian, they will then represent their sector and live inside the capital, which will be built on top of the ruins of what once was Konoha.
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The place is almost in the middle of the continent and perfect for a shared government. Uzu will be responsible for what once was the land of Fire and a few smaller nations around. For now, the Kage of each nation will take place as the representative for their sector. It will most likely not change because they are well liked in their land and most already know how to do politics.
I came up with the cliche name of Eternal. And so the nation of Eternal was born. The many smaller villages did not know of this yet, but my golem have done a great job and none of them would be able to raise any protest against such a thing. And over time anyone who was against it would quiet down by the betterments or die from old age.
We also decided to start the 'search' of the evil mastermind that is attacking the world. Naturally, they haven't found me or Kura-chan, but they did find a factory base build inside a mountain north of the previous village of Iwagakure. This base was deemed the headquarter of the enemy and will be under siege in a few hours.
The plan was rather simple, bring a few elite troops to the base and let them place Hiraishin marks for mass transportation of troops. The Raikage, as the person with the most military experience, was the leader of this attack. I choose not to protest, as it does not matter to me. I simply left a clone in place and was watching the whole thing from the sky.
He was with us in a commanding bunker south of Iwa. The information department led by Ao was providing communication to and from the field.
The elite troop was indeed good. Mikoto was part of it, as were Daichi and Akatsuchi. They took out some randomly placed archer golem from me and activated the pre drawn Hiraishin seals.
A bright flash of light revealed the strongest Jonin of each nation. With the exception of Kura-chan, who was not an official Ninja, and the Kage. Mom, Daichi, even Tsunade was with them.
Most of the Uzu Ninja had even Chakra armour. The golem I left would not be able to successfully defend against such strength.
That was if I wouldn't have had placed a general golem in their ranks. This little guy was a force half as strong as my wall guard golem. So around a high Kage? Anyway, it's a three-meter tall plate armour golem with a two hander in one hand and a tower shield in his other. He also had a tail with a long blade and could fire a laser out of his eyes. The reason for his lasers was because I could. And it's funny as hell when he burns a hole into the head of someone who is blocking his attack.
Their shocked looks are always priceless.
Anyway, I was proud of my work on the base. It was a small fortress build into the mountain with walls and watchtowers. Golem guards were standing on its balustrades and watching for any sign of Chakra. A sign that was showing itself in the form of an artillery Jutsu performed by some Iwa Jonin.
Car sized boulders were ripped out of the ground and flung at the walls. These walls were not protected by seals, nor runes and quickly caved under the onslaught of incoming boulders.
The puppet I have created wasn't able to really draw runes and power them. He only looked like he was.
His only purpose was to be the evil guy. I even wrote a diary in which he claimed to be a war orphan that wishes to destroy the world. In his quest for destruction, he has found an old book about nature Chakra and its applications in combination with seals. The end describes his search for some new knowledge in the art of nature Chakra. With the Uchiha being one of the eldest clans in the world he searched there but found nothing.
Not really something original, but that also did not stop Akatsuki from their stupid attempt at peace. Mine is way better, still not a good plan, but better than fear of constant death. I'm practically forcing the canon-end with a few minor changes. So nobody will ask too many questions, at least I hope no one will. And if they do, there will be no answer. Any traces of my Chakra or scent are gone and I always had an alibi with a clone in place.
But back to the assault. A troop of a hundred elite golem, slightly better golem than the normal variant, came out of the fortress and were defending it. Archer and mage golem were helping from the remains of the wall. Still, they were pushed back. A single seal can take out a golem in little time and the attacking Ninja were skilled enough to not get hit.
Some were still killed, but that was the minority. All in all the attack went off without a problem, that was until they reached the entrance to the innards of the fortress. There they were now inside narrow passages with a dozen of defending golem. Each having a tower shield and backup from mages and archers.
Mikoto and those with the Uzumaki chains were able to overcome the defence. Mikoto was using her Susano'o with the chains of the Uzumaki as a second defence. They then slowly pushed forward and took one golem after the other out.
Some especially skilled Uzumaki even pulled the mages from behind the lines forward with their chains. Those were then killed by the allied Ninja further back.
The fortress itself was built like a maze and had many twists and turns. Some leading to storerooms, other into rooms that were sealed off and if opened activated a group of stored golems. The golem inside were shut off but would activate if its sensors detect any sign of Qi. Which the intruders were practically leaking on mass.
Two hours later and information came in about a found cave with thousands of golem, all neatly lined up and ready to be deployed. They also all activated the moment our task force stepped inside and attacked with only a single sentence of warning.
Needles to say that it wasn't easy for our troops to overcome this cave. But their strategy was good, they simply blasted the roof of the cave away and buried the incoming golem. The few seal master that came with them then prepared a seal that would suck out the nature Chakra of the passage and any golem in pursuit would shut off from the lack of Mana.
The next room was the last stop before facing my puppet. It was the general golem. Sadly his fight was short, it seems like Mikoto was pissed off from something and burned the poor golem to ashes with her Amaterasu. These Uchiha are always such killjoys.
Well, she banished the flames afterwards and they broke down the gate towards the lab. Inside was my puppet, an elderly man with a long beard.
The report said that he was attacked by three Jonin almost instantly and manhandled them with ease. Nature Chakra was still a very strong force. But he was then captured by the Chakra chains of the Uzumaki member.
Without any way to escape he started his final order and supercharged his body with nature Chakra that then turned his body into a stone statue. I couldn't risk them questioning him and finding out that the guy was only a puppet. His mind wasn't even developed enough to truly think, only to do a line of what if's.
So his death through nature Chakra was a necessity. The task force then began to clean the whole fortress of any golem and began to prepare the same seal we used in Uzu against the golem.
They haven't done that in the beginning because it takes time and the golem would have stopped them from even drawing the whole thing. It was massive and I was tasked with activating it, no one else had enough Chakra to do so without risk of suffering Chakra exhaustion.
The documents I forged were gathered and investigated. The conclusion was that a man, who has gone mad with grief over the losses in a previous war, saw that destruction of the villages was the old way to end the suffering of war.
I liked the analysis of the intelligent department and readily agreed.
His first one was horrendous, claiming that the documents held to little information and that the personal things of my puppet were not used enough for his age. He agreed with my view after only a single talk. That the analyst was mildly influenced by a Rinne-Sharingan powered Genjutsu had nothing to do with the result. Nothing at all!
Now nothing stands against my new goal. Building a scientific nation that would use seals to conquer space. I always wanted to see space ships powered by seals. Mana/Qi can do so much in combination with sience.