Mitarai spoke quite amiably to Uchiha Gen.
An Uchiha with a Three-Tomoe Sharingan was worthy of being treated as an equal by the vast majority of Jonin.
"Then—I'll call you Big Brother Zixiao. I hope it's not too presumptuous?"
"It's fine."
"Take a look at these documents first, check the data, and then list your suggestions."
"After you're done, I'll go over them with you."
"For now, I'm going to take a break."
Mitarai pushed a thick stack of documents in front of Uchiha Gen with a beaming smile.
Well, maybe the reason he was so polite just now was because of this; the guy simply wanted to slack off.
"No, no, no, Big Brother Zixiao, I've only just started handling these things."
"I only need a little bit to practice with."
"You are the pillar most trusted by Orochimaru-sensei!"
Most of the thick stack of documents was immediately pushed back in front of Mitarai.
"Then—how about we split them half and half?"
Uchiha Gen looked at Mitarai silently.
"Big Brother Zixiao, I still have matters in the medical area to attend to."
Under the gaze of the former, the latter immediately took back the larger portion of the stack of documents with an embarrassed look.
"Ahem, it was inconsiderate of me."
"Anyway, let's get to work, let's get to work."
Uchiha Gen spent that afternoon in this office.
These were all tedious tasks that weren't particularly important but were unavoidable.
They included reviewing and approving mission reports, assessing and rewarding war merits, and compiling statistics for supplies like ninja tools and medicine.
Most of them had precedents to refer to and a mature processing system, but they still required careful consideration to provide an opinion.
The work the two of them were doing was equivalent to being the commander's chiefs of staff.
If Orochimaru found their decisions reasonable upon his return, he would approve them directly, which greatly reduced his workload.
Only if there was something he was dissatisfied with would he personally review it again.
A few days later.
Uchiha Gen's injuries had basically finished recovering, and the rhythm of his life suddenly became tightly packed again.
In the morning, he presided over affairs in the medical area and treated the wounded.
In the afternoon, he helped Mitarai process documents that couldn't be handled in time.
After finishing, he made time to cultivate, exploring the Nature Transformation of Earth Release and Wind Release.
Sometimes, when severely wounded patients arrived, Uchiha Gen had to drop what he was doing and go treat them first.
He had frequently been woken up in the middle of the night to save lives.
Some could be saved, while others had injuries so severe that even Uchiha Gen was helpless.
Medical ninjutsu wasn't omnipotent.
Even Tsunade had times when she couldn't save someone, let alone Uchiha Gen.
If someone with only one breath left could be saved, that wouldn't be medical ninjutsu; it would be the Six Paths Yang Power.
He could only do his best.
A week later.
When Uchiha Gen finally finished his tasks for the day and was preparing to cultivate, the two previous missions were finally settled.
For B-rank missions and below, Elder Homura Mitokado was granted the authority to make decisions.
However, A-rank and S-rank missions were generally more important and related to the hard requirements for a ninja's promotion to Jonin.
Therefore, they all needed to be personally reviewed and evaluated by the Third Hokage himself.
Coupled with the fact that the Third Hokage was currently stationed in the Land of Hot Springs to confront Kumogakure, he didn't have much time to handle administrative affairs.
This was why the mission settlement took so long.
The wait was a bit long, but the final result was very satisfying.
One fixed A-rank and one S-rank.
In the two missions, he was the core in the first and the absolute main force in the second, so the experience gained was significant.
Combined with the surplus from the last war campaign instance settlement, he directly leveled up three times.
[Character Name: Uchiha Gen]
[Character Level: 35]
[Currently Loaded Character Cards: Tsunade (Young Girl), Uchiha Sasuke (Ninja Path)]
[Currently Available Item Cards: 0]
[Available Card Draws: 3]
[Special Items: None]
[Current Attribute Values: Nin: 7; Tai: 5; Gen: 6; Str: 5; Spd: 7; Eng: 5; Seal: 8; Int: 7; Total: 50]
"The total value of the eight ninja attributes has finally broken the fifty mark."
"It wasn't easy."
By the pond, Uchiha Gen sat under an umbrella, kneading mud to practice the Nature Transformation of Earth Release.
He looked at the system panel, feeling a bit sentimental.
If he could learn the Nature Transformation of a second ninjutsu now, then combined with these values, he would barely meet the passing line for a Jonin.
At most, he would have shortcomings in taijutsu and chakra volume due to his age.
The reason he currently possessed strength close to the upper-middle tier of Jonin was that, while the various abilities of the two character cards and the Three-Tomoe Sharingan were important, the true foundation was the attribute bonuses from the cards themselves.
The young Tsunade had the Senju Constitution, and Ninja Path Sasuke was a seventeen-year-old Uchiha ninja nearing adulthood.
Their physical fitness and chakra volume were already far beyond those of ordinary ninjas.
When stacked together onto Uchiha Gen's body, it made his chakra quite massive, even among Jonin.
After a brief moment of sentimentality, next was the exciting moment for drawing cards.
[Drawing in progress—]
[Congratulations on obtaining: Cultivation Acceleration Card (Green) ×1, Skill Proficiency Card (White) ×1, Ability Borrowing Card (Blue) ×1.]
Uchiha Gen's movement of scooping mud couldn't help but pause.
Getting a green card was no longer surprising, but getting a blue card was truly good luck.
"I remember this card seemed to be just a proposal; its design wasn't finished."
"The originally decided ability in the plan was that one could choose to forcibly borrow an ability from a friendly character unit in battle, temporarily transferring it to a new card for one game turn."
"As a price, that friendly character card would become unusable for the rest of the game."
This was a type of special card created to provide diversity in game matchups.
However, because it might break the game balance and potentially create some overpowered boss-level monsters, this plan was never truly finalized.
Instead, it was left as a proposal with room for adjustment.
He just didn't know what this card would become in this real world.
[Ability Borrowing Card (Blue) ×1]
[Item Description: #@￥%—Anomaly detected, adaptive repair in progress.]
[Repairing—]
Uchiha Gen couldn't help but frown, but his brow slowly relaxed after the repair completion symbol appeared.
Fortunately, he had almost thought it bugged out into a useless card.
[Repair Complete!]
[Ability Borrowing Card has been changed to Ability Transplant Card!]
[Ability Transplant Card (Blue)]
[Item Description: Can be used on a character card with a rank one level lower than this card's quality or below.]
[After use, the character card will be destroyed, and a specifically designated ability of that character card will be extracted and transferred to the user.]
Holy crap?
Holy crap!
Uchiha Gen's eyes suddenly widened.