"Take your places at the tips of the triangle, I will focus the energy of the ritual, you try to keep a constant flow in the smaller circles of the ritual" - a deep voice sounded in the early morning on a field full of blood and mounds, with some trees burned to the ground.
"Ready/Hmm" - we replied at the same time, taking our positions at the corresponding position, well replied is a bit exaggerated in the case of my partner, as he is deaf, but Junichi is quite a talented boy, being a bit younger than me, he is already on the 3rd level of "Exorcist" monks, in total there are only 4.
The third person is our boss on this mission, he is the chief examiner, who will test us all day long, starting with small rituals and ending with a big one, which should clean and calm the energy flow on the battlefield, which was between Konoha and Kiri on one of the islands near our coast.
There is a problem with the battlefield, here Kiri used Sanbi and his chakra poisoned the area, so our temple was sent here to deal with the aftermath. The only good news is that something happened to Jinchuriki and he is no longer a threat, so Kiri-nins retreated from this part of the front.
"Prepare yourselves. Three, two, one." - A yellow-golden light appeared around us and started to move from us towards the examiner. The exorcist then began to direct it to the area. Unfortunately, he cannot see where to focus, so he can only rely on his feelings and experience for many years, but eventually, after some time, he finished the process and we moved to another part of the area where I was to do the same.
The process of cleansing is about calming the epicenters of disturbance and then letting the world do it's job because it takes too much energy and time to calm the energy everywhere. At the same time, we can't just let nature do its job, because in some cases, if the chakra changes are too drastic, the place can just adapt to it and change the pattern.
At first glance it's not a problem, just the area will change, either the flora or fauna or both, will be replaced for some time, from a few dozen to a few hundred years, the place will gradually adapt even neighboring ecosystems, but it will not be hospitable for humans, at least not for farms. In many cases it is still not a big deal, there is a lot of land, but this island has cocoas growing on it, which is a luxury resource, under the direct ownership of the 2nd minister, so they paid (officially donated) a lot of money to the temple, so they sent here 3 high-ranking exorcists to finish the job quickly.
As for my situation, after about 15 months of training, I am almost done with my training at the temple, I have already done everything they wanted according to our agreement. The only thing I did not consider was the price of the staff. It is made of expensive metals with and without good chakra metals. It is not only an instrument, it is also a status symbol. The temple head's staff even has some rubies and sapphires in it. So I paid for my staff with a few more seals, but this time on the temple.
The latest news from the front that we receive is that the Land of Wind has been thrown back into sand, they have even lost some agricultural land on our borders. Their main focus are northern borders of their country and holding us back, but no one really sends troops into the deserts and semi-deserts, as they have no strategic value to advance and lose many inexperienced in fighting in these conditions troops for. In conclusion, the land of rivers is almost completely under our control.
The land of earth controls a little more than half of the land of grass, they cannot cross the river with enough troops to continue fighting, so the front there is almost frozen.
In the waterfall country, the situation is a bit unclear, some say they are neutral. Some say we control half of it, others that it is under the control of Light and Earth Country, but in my opinion the truth is somewhere in between. Most likely, everyone holds some territory there and at the same time they cannot occupy the hidden village and the nearest regions, because as I know from the past life, they just send kamikadze attacks on the attackers by using some water from the tree they live around, which turns even some Genin ninja into a Joinin level, even if for some time and at the cost of their lives. This tactic eventually scares the invaders away, as they just think that the enemy has a lot of Jonins.
The Land of Iron is still under attack. In the land of rice, the southern half is under our influence and the northern half is under Kumo. As for the Land of Frost, we lost almost all of our lands there, but we still have a few forts there.
On the eastern border, the situation is a bit unclear, as I mentioned before, the Junchuriki of Theree-tails lost water, but they still continue to fight us passively, most likely they will not advance anymore, but I have a feeling that something is wrong. At the same time, they are still fighting for the Land of Sky, on the other side of the Kaitoku Sea. There, they are fighting against the Land of Light and the Wolf Coalition, consisting of Wolf, Marsh, Bird, Sky, and Honey. The latter is a lost colony of the Land of Water. But in general, they are under enormous pressure, even though they have one of the strongest individual ninjas, they are just fighting everyone around them, which will eventually lead to losing everywhere.
As for me and Konoha... I am still not in the book of Bingo. This is thanks to my uncle and his allies from Akimichi and Nara, as well as from Sarutobi. They already noticed some sneaky moves of a future multi-eyed masturbator over Uchihas, so after some investigation, they found small network of people with different views on the future of some clans, or simpler ttold traitors, but they are still waiting for the end of the war to officially do any further steps, which eventually will also be one of the reasons why voierist monkey will step down from his position. So my parents are still guests of the Ichimaru family.
As for me, I have not told anyone exactly what I am doing right now, except to send coded messages that I am alive. After I get what I came to the temple for, I will just travel and learn some more things and maybe overcome some fears.
"Well done Ichumaru, Junichi, you are next. After we finish this part, we will move to the fighting position against Sanbi, where the most difficult part will start and since you do not have as much chakra as Makkuro, we will help you a little more than usual."
"Hmm" - Junichi nodded and we continued our long work.