Mari sighed. "Asuma nixed the name because, quote, 'this is getting ridiculous and is an incredible headache to me, the person that actually has to deal with all these foolishly named organizations, so please find literally any other tolerable name that isn't maximally confusing to anyone with a brain,' end quote. Anyway, we got the Nara to help survey the route and sent out some civilian lumberjacks with Force Wall saws to clear the path. It's snowed over now, but once it clears up, we'll have to get Kei to have her Pangolins roll the path once to clear the stumps, then we can send in the civilian worker crews to level the ground while we hire ninja en-masse to build the roads themselves."
"What happened to the plan of draining and killing chakra beasts along the way to fuel the road construction?" Hazō asked.
"Apart from the fact that none of us can drink that much chakra water and that Noburi doesn't know Earth Element? Well, the ground needs to be level for the three MaRI walls to join up nicely and make a flat road, and that takes more time than just casting the jutsu. It's not nearly as hard as leveling a foundation for a building so unskilled worker crews can do it fast, but not as fast as we could go by draining chakra beasts and building as fast as possible. They ran the numbers; it's basically equally efficient to hire it out as missions and have the ninja protect the worker crews while they're out there. More expensive, but it saves Noburi's time, which currently seems definitely worth it. If you have a better idea, let me know, but otherwise we're going to need a couple million ryō saved up come the spring thaw."
