After research, Drake finally understood that what was magical wasn't the Rainbow Wall, but the energy of Chakra.
The Rainbow Wall was just releasing the energy of Chakra, which made the Land of Snow enter spring in an instant.
But the Land of Snow's technology for using Chakra was somewhat commendable, and gave Drake a lot of inspiration.
After participating in Kazehana Koyuki's succession ceremony, the Fairy Tail group returned to the guild in Konoha.
And on the street, Drake heard the villagers already discussing the upcoming Chūnin Exams.
Drake even saw several ninjas wearing forehead protectors from other ninja villages.
Because the national environment and culture of each ninja village were different, even without looking at the symbols on the forehead protectors, one could roughly distinguish the ninjas from different ninja villages.
For example, the green vests of Konoha ninjas and the symbol of the allied Uzumaki clan on them, the headscarves of Sunagakure, the straw hats of Amegakure, etc., were all quite obvious symbols.
The residents of Konoha also felt quite fresh about the fact that ninjas from other villages had come to the village. After all, ninjas were a profession that valued secrecy.
Strictly preventing their own information from being leaked and trying every means to obtain information from others was originally the main business of ninjas. These kinds of exchange activities really didn't conform to the principles of ninjas.
Strictly speaking, the rank promotion of ninjas didn't reflect the strength of the ninjas. What was needed was just the approval of the higher-ups of the ninja village.
And the appearance of the Chūnin Exams was actually a show put on by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, in order to show off his muscles to the allied countries after the First Hokage had died, and to show that Konoha hadn't declined because of the loss of the First Hokage.
After that, inviting allied countries to jointly hold the Chūnin Exams became a tradition, because officials, nobles, and even daimyo from various countries would occasionally come to watch the battles, so the Chūnin Exams also became a competition for each ninja village to win requests.
And only in the final round of the elimination matches were ordinary people allowed to watch the matches. Now, the various ninja villages participating in the exams had just arrived, and there was still some time before that.
Drake had originally thought that he could leisurely wait and watch the fun, but on this day, a special guest walked into the guild.
It was a tall woman, wearing a forehead protector from Kusagakure.
Kusagakure was a ninja village in the small country of Kusagakure, which was located between the two great countries of Fire and Earth. It had been devastated as a battlefield in the previous ninja war.
This was the common sorrow of many small countries in the ninja world, but the situation in Kusagakure was still a little better than that of the neighboring Amegakure.
Kusagakure followed the set of being all things to all men. During the war, it maintained an alliance with Konoha while also providing convenience to Iwagakure.
The event that changed Obito Uchiha in the beginning took place at the Kannabi Bridge in the territory of Kusagakure, and that was the key to the transport route of Iwagakure's supplies.
Although this approach was somewhat disgraceful, it did preserve the strength of Kusagakure. Even the major countries had handed over the management of the ninja prison, Hōzuki Castle, to Kusagakure.
Therefore, Kusagakure was also an ally invited by Konoha to this Chūnin Exams.
But Drake could feel that this woman who had come to the guild was definitely not an ordinary Kusagakure ninja.
Not to mention that he had already noticed the particularly gloomy aura on her body, just by seeing her strangely eerie pupils, Drake had guessed the other party's identity.
The Third Hokage's disciple, Konoha's former pride, one of the Sannin who had defected because of conducting forbidden human experiments - Orochimaru the Cold-Blooded!
As one of Konoha's most wanted renegade ninjas, Orochimaru naturally wouldn't use his own face to appear in Konoha.
So he had used the Living Corpse Reincarnation to change into the face of a female ninja from Kusagakure and entered Konoha with the Kusagakure team.
Drake couldn't help but narrow his eyes. He knew very well what Orochimaru was going to do when he returned to Konoha this time.
Shouldn't he be trying to keep a low profile as much as possible before he started the Konoha Crush plan? Who knew what he was trying to do coming here at this time.
He shouldn't be afraid of exposing his identity with the Anbu and Root ninjas monitoring his doorstep all day long?
Orochimaru hadn't thought too much before crossing the door.
Since Natsu had collapsed the mountain with one punch, Fairy Tail's reputation had spread throughout the ninja world.
Although Orochimaru had left Konoha alone, after so many years of operation, coupled with the assistance of an ally who was the darkness of the ninja world, his intelligence ability was not bad at all.
Although the events in the Land of Waves and the Land of Snow hadn't spread to the outside world, Orochimaru knew about Fairy Tail's performance in them.
For ninjas who valued intelligence, these powerhouses who broke the mold were worth paying extra attention to. So he felt that approaching in the guise of gathering information wouldn't attract attention.
And in fact, he had indeed come to gather information.
Before the Konoha Crush plan officially started, any strong people in Konoha had to be taken into consideration. This was an essential quality for a qualified ninja before taking action.
But upon entering this guild, he almost habitually stuck out his long tongue and licked his lips.
Just like his name, Orochimaru was a ninja who was like a snake in all aspects. Including that keen sense and intuition.
Because everyone was waiting to see the excitement that Drake had talked about, everyone had stayed at the guild recently, and in Orochimaru's eyes, everyone in this house gave him a special feeling.
Each person here was full of vigor and vitality. Although they were all young, the powerful feeling of each person was as if they had been tempered and didn't have the slightest frivolity.
In order to realize his dream of immortality, Orochimaru had created a forbidden technique called Living Corpse Reincarnation.
It allowed him to constantly change into younger bodies to achieve immortality. So Orochimaru had been collecting young ninjas with all kinds of talents as vessels.
The last vessel he had been most optimistic about was Itachi Uchiha, who had the Kekkei Genkai Sharingan, but he couldn't do anything to him, so he had to give up.
But now, the qualifications of each of these people he was seeing were perhaps no less than Itachi Uchiha. Remembering that the information had said that they might possess special abilities different from Chakra, Orochimaru's interest greatly increased for a time.
At the same time that Orochimaru's gaze, like a cold-blooded animal crawling over them, appeared, Drake also looked over.
Orochimaru only felt as if his eyes had been burned by a branding iron, and instantly calmed down.
But he didn't leave. Instead, he showed a smile and walked to the counter, looking at Drake, who gave him the greatest sense of threat, and said, "Can I issue a request here?"
Drake nodded and said, "That's right. What do you want to request?"
Orochimaru said, "Can anything be requested?"
Drake was also curious about what he wanted to do, and replied, "Indeed!"
Orochimaru continued, "If I said I wanted to request you to assassinate the Hokage, would that be okay too?"
Drake showed a mocking smile and said, "If you want to do that, put the request form on that display board, and then wait for someone to be willing to accept it."
The smile on Orochimaru's face disappeared. He was joking. If he dared to do that, the Anbu at the door would definitely jump out and arrest him.
But Drake's expression still looked like he was looking forward to him doing that, which made him wonder if he had exposed something.
But from Drake's tone, he had also confirmed one thing, which was that Fairy Tail wasn't with Konoha. This was good news.
"Just kidding, I was just a little curious after hearing the name of Fairy Tail!"
Orochimaru said this, and finally looked at everyone in the guild greedily before turning around and leaving.
He was greedy, but that vague feeling of danger was too uncomfortable.
Drake sighed after watching Orochimaru's figure completely disappear. It seemed that he had been targeted by the most troublesome guy this time!
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