Birth of Sea Ninja Village

"All right, it was only a name change. We agreed to that much! But renaming it Sea Ninja Village gave Sea Country quite an advantage. It should be perfectly normal for Sea Country to provide us with more funding, shouldn't it?"

Suikazan Fuguki made the final decision. After hearing this, Kirigakure's negotiators said nothing further.

Kirigakure's ninja placed greater importance on tangible benefits and cared little for titles. The original Blood Mist had never possessed much of a good reputation or unity to begin with. If changing the name could bring in a substantial sum of funding, they could accept it.

If it had been Konoha and Cloud Ninja, however, getting them to change their name would have been extraordinarily difficult.

Several days later, the negotiations concluded, and stunning news rapidly spread throughout the Ninja World.

All the nations upon the sea formed the Ocean Alliance. With Kirigakure as its core, it absorbed numerous small and medium-sized ninja organizations and established a new ninja village—Sea Ninja Village!

It was like a snowball rolling downhill. Sea Ninja Village and Kirigakure together already accounted for seventy to eighty percent of the forces among the ocean nations. Once the two joined hands, Vegapunk did not even need to do anything else before the remaining small ninja factions expressed their desire to join.

Over the following period, Suikazan Fuguki continuously sorted through these minor ninja factions. Since they had already joined Sea Ninja Village and even changed their name to Sea Ninja, absorbing all the ninja scattered across the islands was only natural.

However, the small ninja organizations and Wandering Ninja varied greatly in quality. There were no shortage of spies from other organizations and major ninja villages among them, so the newly established Sea Ninja Village could not simply take them all in without distinction.

Naturally, this troublesome work was handed over to Suikazan Fuguki. Vegapunk merely provided him with two lie detectors. Given Kirigakure's foundations, ordinary spies would have found it difficult to infiltrate anyway. As for extraordinary spies, if they had the opportunity, they could generally get in regardless.

Vegapunk left the miscellaneous matters to others and threw himself into the Laboratory. The newly founded Sea Ninja Village possessed foundations far surpassing those of Snow Country and Sea Country. In the present Ninja World, it could be said that any instrument available on the market could be acquired.

This delighted Vegapunk immensely, and he began another round of invention and creation.

Having arrived in a new world and encountered the black-tech system known as Chakra, Vegapunk had so many ideas in his head that they were nearly bursting out. If not for the inadequate basic infrastructure and the short time he had spent here, his inventions would already have been enough to crush the world head-on—at least in a world that did not even possess Super-Kage Level fighters, Vegapunk could absolutely crush it with ease.

It was equivalent to the Pirate World having no admirals or Four Emperors-level powerhouses. For Vegapunk, who at his peak could create combat machines at the First Mate level, it would have had virtually no ability to resist.

Inside Water Country's newest Laboratory, the Quantum Brain had finally freed up a portion of its computing power under the supply of vast amounts of energy. It emitted a faint, eerie glow as Vegapunk sat before a computer screen, examining its data.

"The Quantum Brain still contains the intelligence data of MetalSeadramon, Machinedramon, WarGreymon, and those ordinary robots! Unfortunately, without a Nuclear Fusion Reactor, even if their intelligence data were transferred out, their combat power could not reach its original level."

For combat machines like these, the three primary factors determining their combat power were energy, materials, and Artificial Intelligence.

The Artificial Intelligence data had been preserved intact. In terms of materials, they had lost the enhancement of Dream Star and the Munch-Munch Fruit Chip from Future Island. However, Vegapunk's awakened Magnetic Field Ability and Electric Current Ability made him highly skilled at metal refining, so he could still make up for some of it.

The most important factor was energy. Without a Nuclear Fusion Reactor, making those three combat machines reach maximum output would require stuffing a Tailed Beast into each of them—after all, while the original three mechanical beasts each specialized in different areas, their overall combat power was roughly at the First Mate level. Converted to this world, that was approximately the combat power of the Third Raikage. Naturally, the energy they required would not be a small amount.

"For now, I'll have the ninja and Daimyo keep an eye out for news of Radioactive Mineral! With the power of a Thermal Power Station alone, even the Quantum Brain can only use part of its functions."

Vegapunk typed the words "energy source" into the computer. This was already the foremost problem he needed to solve.

"The mechanical technology tree in this world is hard to climb, but the biotechnology tree is much easier. Chakra has a certain ability to suppress rejection reactions. Still, that makes sense. With the absurd methods of swapping eyes in the original plot, if it were the real world, every last one of them would be dead."

"Perhaps creating some Artificial Fantasy Devil Fruit would be easier in this world. But in a sense, the enhancement fluid made from Summoning Beast genes as raw materials is already very close to Fantasy Species."

"If I could obtain the genes of those Animal Sages, that would be even better. Unfortunately, Orochimaru is somewhat useless. Forget the White Snake Sage—he cannot even handle those three Snake Maidens."

"And Kekkei Genkai are quite interesting too. Apart from the Kekkei Genkai inherited from the Otsutsuki, Chakra can also fuse together to form new Kekkei Genkai, which can even be passed down."

"If someone could fuse the Kekkei Genkai of Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Yin-Yang into one, perhaps they really could evolve from a human into a Lifeform like the Otsutsuki..."

This was also a cultivation path for Chakra that Vegapunk had researched. Of course... as for its feasibility...

According to Vegapunk's estimates, even with the Quantum Brain's computational power and Chakra control ability, accomplishing this would take thousands of years. He truly could not imagine how an ordinary human could possibly achieve it.

With every additional attribute added to a Kekkei Genkai, the difficulty rose exponentially. Kekkei Tōta was more than ten times harder than Kekkei Genkai. If four attributes were fused, the difficulty might increase by several hundred times; five attributes might increase it by tens of thousands of times...

Yin and Yang attributes in particular differed greatly from the Five Elements attributes. Fusing them into Yin-Yang Release was about as difficult as fusing the Five Elements. Then combining Yin-Yang with the Five Elements and tracing it back to the level of the Otsutsuki was an absolutely impossible task for humans.

"May I ask if Dr. Vegapunk is here?"

At that moment, a voice called out from outside the Laboratory door, followed by the sound of the door opening. Vegapunk paused slightly and turned his head, only to see several ninja walking over.