Chapter 460: Sun Maker Jutsu
On a certain day, Arthur sat on the throne. The daily governance was finally finished as he threw the last stack of trade reports to the dais. The entire room was practically littered with them.
Running a country required a dull rhythm, one that needed him to manage supply lines, approve grain distributions, and oversee border rotations. It was tedious work, but it was building the foundation he needed.
When he closed his eyes to think, he considered how he had to outline the latest goals ahead of him.
First, he had to re-secure his country. The world had woken up to his presence. Almost every major nation was looking for his territory by sending scouts into the blind spots of the map. Thankfully, the defenses he’d set up were just enough to both anticipate and repel intruders.
The second goal was the Ten-Tails. Acquiring the beast was not a single action. It required multiple steps to complete. He had to gather the scattered chakra, secure the right vessels, and manipulate the current powers into destroying each other while he operated in the shadows.
But there was a shortcut: his main body.
While the body of Ryugetsu’s clone was strong, it had hard limits. If Arthur could locate his original body during this long process, he’d most certainly put everything aside for the capturing of the Ten-Tails.
But he was not in too much of a rush; both the Ten-Tails could wait and the geopolitical maneuvering could wait.
Reclaiming his true form would have to be near the top of his goals. That way, he could expedite things by years. He just needed to figure out the how-to portion of locating it.
The solution lay in the variables.
As he kept his eyes closed, a scenario played in his head: one that recounted both the original timeline of the world and the highest course of action the otherworldly people would make when knowing what would transpire.
Jada, William, Alice, Margaret, Jasper, Alex—Arthur understood their patterns well because they were the only ones who knew the future of this world. This inevitably caused them to act with a specific kind of arrogance.