At Any Cost

Beep beep...

Beep beep...

Beep beep...

The alerts from the incubators rang out incessantly beside Hyuga Kagami's ears. Rows upon rows of green lights on the instruments rapidly flickered, turning into glaring red lights before going out one after another!

Each indicator light that went out meant that the cell tissue in one of the incubator's culture dishes had failed to survive the cell fusion stage and had completely died.

As he watched the green lights on the display grow fewer and fewer, Hyuga Kagami's expression barely changed.

No one understood the tyranny of the First Hokage Cells better than he did, so this situation was entirely within his expectations. There was nothing surprising about it.

Soon, all five hundred indicator lights on the incubator went out.

Without the slightest hesitation, Hyuga Kagami immediately removed all five hundred culture dishes whose cell tissue had completely died, then swiftly replaced them with a fresh batch.

In order to produce the Type-One Bio-Armor as quickly as possible to deal with the emergency, Hyuga Kagami was no longer considering the cost.

No matter how much money he had to spend or how much nutrient solution and culture medium he had to consume, he would not hesitate. If he failed this time, not only would Karin's life be in danger, but he would also lose two pairs of Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.

Even Mangekyō Sharingan alone were priceless treasures in the shinobi world, let alone two pairs of Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan that were only one step away from the Rinnegan.

Even Hyuga Kagami could not bear such a loss.

Thus, amid the repeated failures of incessant alerts and constantly extinguished indicator lights, Hyuga Kagami calmly replaced batch after batch of culture dishes.

When he reached the twenty-second batch, one green light on the incubator finally