Clone Replacement

"It seems I still need some data on higher-level Chakra... Hmm, it's time to develop the Kekkei Tōta... By the way, Pakura, you can stay here with me tonight."

Upon hearing this, Pakura blushed slightly and glanced at Hancock sitting on the sofa.

Surprisingly, Hancock didn't seem too angry. She just pouted like a spoiled little girl. "Darling, why did you let this guy disturb our time together! Am I not enough for you? Or have you already gotten tired of me? You were so infatuated with me yesterday..."

"Alright, alright," Vegapunk waved his hand, "I want to try fusing the three Chakra natures to see if Pakura can develop Kekkei Tōta. This is the important thing!"

"Alright then!" Hancock knew that once Vegapunk wanted to do an experiment, no one could stop him. She was just using this as an excuse to flirt with Vegapunk.

However, when Hancock looked at Pakura, her eyes and expression completely changed. "You need to understand your place! Serve your beloved obediently! Understand? Your servant!"

Pakura gritted his teeth in anger, his mind racing with thoughts of, "You can't beat her, you can't beat her!" That's why he didn't rush forward to get beaten up.

As for Vegapunk, he glanced at the interaction between the two and then continued analyzing the data on the computer.

Although Hancock seems to be going too far, Hancock is, after all, the person who is most loyal to him and has the deepest feelings for him. Vegapunk is not so incapable of not distinguishing between close and distant relationships.

"By the way, the funds from the Wind Country should have arrived by now, right?"

As if remembering something, Vegapunk looked at Pakura again and asked.

Pakura glanced at Vegapunk with a complicated expression. "It's here. A total of 32 billion ryo... This is already the total amount of funding that Sunagakure needs to operate normally for 30 years!"

Even for the Five Great Nations, spending such a large sum of money would be a huge financial burden. Under normal circumstances, no country would allocate such a large sum to a ninja village.

Even in Konoha, the annual budget wouldn't exceed 3 billion ryo, and that's with both the mission system and national funds included. If you really consider the Daimyo's allocation, it's probably less than 1 billion.

Pakura knew perfectly well why those Daimyo of the Land of Wind would do such a thing—because they had long since been replaced by clones created by Vegapunk. She herself had personally used her Scorch Release technique to dispose of the bodies of those Daimyo and nobles!

When Pakura first learned about Vegapunk's plan, she was shocked. Not only that, she also learned that most of the Daimyo and nobles of the Sea Country, the Water Country, and other overseas countries had already been replaced by Vegapunk.

Even Vegapunk's status as the heir to a Daimyo and a nobleman was nothing more than a fabrication using this method. When Pakura first learned of this, she was almost stunned by Vegapunk's madness.

However, by then, Pakura had already boarded the pirate ship and could no longer disembark from Vegapunk's ship. She could only obey Vegapunk's orders and collect the DNA information of those nobles from the Wind Country to hand over to Vegapunk.

Within just a few days, Vegapunk had created clones and implanted their memories. With Pakura giving the green light, the so- Kazekage Daimyo and nobles were easily switched over.

Subsequently, in order to break Pakura's psychological trauma, Vegapunk directly ordered Pakura to execute the so-called nobles of the Wind Country. Although Pakura was under great pressure at first, after killing a noble who was crying and begging for mercy, and seeing the ugly state of these high-ranking officials of the Wind Country from their initial threats to their final pleas for mercy, she suddenly felt enlightened.

After directly exposing all the high-ranking officials of the Wind Country, Pakura firmly stood on Vegapunk's side.

"Not bad, not bad, that's almost 1000 Asuma!" Vegapunk said with a laugh, making a joke that no one else understood. Seeing Pakura's confused look, he shook his head. "Very good, with this funding, the Weather Tower can be almost completely completed!"

"At that time, I will be able to control the weather of the entire Wind Country, and I can use this to explore the mineral resources of the entire Wind Country! Only in this kind of flat Desert terrain can it be so easy to use the Weather Tower to find mineral resources."

Pakura was slightly taken aback, only then realizing the purpose of the tower beneath his feet.

Initially, Pakura only followed Vegapunk's orders without question because of her trust in him, including the inexplicable construction of a tall tower in the middle of Sunagakure. However, Pakura never quite understood the tower's purpose.

The tower was built using Vegapunk's technology, and the cost was relatively low compared to the scale of the entire building. However, the Sand Ninja initially had some reservations about this strange building.

However, after the tower was built, Vegapunk began to open up some of his technology to the Sand Village. Although one had to complete his missions and obtain enough Contribution Points to receive his technological enhancements, it made the entire Sand Village flock to it. They instantly forgot about their dissatisfaction.

This tower was created by Vegapunk using his Atomic Disintegration ability to drive it hundreds of meters underground as its foundation, and then using Chakra to create its outer shell and Magnetic Control ability as its metal skeleton.

The reason for building this tower was to extract geothermal energy from the ground as a power source for various researches, but most importantly, Vegapunk also wanted to use this tower to control the climate of the entire Wind Country.

The technological development of the worlds of One Piece and Hokage has its own strengths. In most aspects, One Piece is stronger than Hokage. However, if we exclude the advanced technologies developed by Vegapunk and the ancient technologies discovered through archaeology, the gap between the two worlds is not that large.

However, in terms of weather research, the Pirate World far surpasses the Ninja World. In that hellish world, if your ship's navigator doesn't have a thorough understanding of the weather, then you'd better never set foot on the Grand Line.

Meteorologists and navigators who have mastered the study of weather can achieve effects comparable to top-tier Ninjutsu without using any Chakra, simply by borrowing some ordinary tools.

Due to environmental factors, Vegapunk also put some effort into meteorological research. With his talent, even with just a little effort, his research results surpassed those of meteorology PhDs in the Pirate World who had spent their entire lives researching.

Otherwise, no matter how powerful the Quantum Brain he placed in the Dream Star was, if its meteorological level was insufficient, it would not have the ability to destroy the world by using the butterfly effect.