The Day of the Succession Ceremony

This showed that Konoha was already capable of training scientific researchers, putting it far ahead of the other nations.

Even if the other nations intended to develop technology, Konoha's various inventions had raised their technological standards to heights they should never have reached.

As a result, they aimed too high and failed to understand how to begin research from the most basic level, instead trying to dismantle existing inventions.

The result was bound to be failure, which was why the other nations' technological development remained so slow.

Only the Land of Water seemed to have settled down and focused on research. Over the past year, the number of low-end products they purchased had greatly decreased, clearly indicating progress in their research.

But it did not really matter. Torikaze was not particularly concerned about it.

After all, low-end inventions had long since been outsourced to the Replicator, and the Factory had stopped producing them.

The Factory now produced nothing but products such as electric vehicles and tablet computers.

Even if they were given several more years, they might not be able to achieve any results with those.

But by then, Konoha would already have developed something new.

That was the advantage of being technologically ahead, something the other nations and villages could neither experience nor understand.

Konoha changed with each passing day, and none of it could have happened without Torikaze's contributions. The various Blueprints he had provided had driven the technological development of the entire village.

Of course, Amado had also played a crucial role.

But as time passed, both Torikaze and Amado would gradually step back, leaving opportunities for more outstanding young people.

And Torikaze had already reached that stage.

On the day of the Fourth Hokage's succession ceremony, Konoha was completely deserted.

Though it was not yet noon,