Chapter 410: A & B
ARTHUR WATCHED THE RETREATING figure of the Five-Tails. It wasn’t long until it vanished into the shadows of the forest, leaving him alone in the night.
He paused for a moment to consider his achievement. In his grasp was the fur of the beast, a tangible sign that his mission was had progressed as he desired. His purpose in coming here had been clear from the start: to gather samples from the Tailed Beasts.
Three had been secured so far. Now at least one remained.
Rather than return to the congregation where Fujin’s wrath was surely brewing, Arthur decided to press on. There was another place he needed to visit: the shrine where the 8-Tails was held.
Currently, he was in the Waterfall country. The memories he had taken from the fallen monk with the Sharingan told him that the shrine lay somewhere in the Lightning Country, hidden within the folds of the mountain range.
From those memories, he knew that if he was to reach the shrine, he would need to travel northeast—across the land that was not fully connected to the Lightning Country.
And so, he took to the skies as a cloud of smoke.
Two days of travel passed in relative silence. The landscape beneath him shifted from hills to what looked like the expanse of the Fire Country. From above, he observed that there was hardly any patterns of man’s involvement in the land. There were also no real roads or settlements.
The Nine-Tails, he reasoned, might be in these parts, but he saw no immediate reason to seek it out. For now.
Around the third day of his journey, he spotted a settlement nestled in the mountains. It was small, almost like a village, but it looked fortified.
Deciding to descend, he touched down quietly among rocky ground. Then he entered into his Sage Mode to verify a few things. From what he sensed, there were indeed powerful monks here. Even the guards were different from those he had encountered before. They seemed to be using ninshu as opposed to ninjutsu than the monks of Fujin’s congregation.
’Transformation jutsu...’