Of course, although it wouldn't take a thousand years, it would still take quite a while for the Divine Tree to produce a single Chakra Fruit.
Unfortunately, Shinji only had two or three years left.
That time limit applied both to T33 and to the Shinobi World. There might be some difference between the two, but probably only by a year or two. So lying low here and waiting for the Divine Tree to produce a Chakra Fruit wasn't realistic.
Shinji thought, I'll gather as much Chakra as I can.
As the Divine Tree absorbed T33's energy, the world's spatial barriers would weaken too. It was like the Overlord attacking from outside while the Divine Tree dismantled the world from within, a two-pronged assault. T33 might not even last two or three years.
In that situation, Shinji couldn't afford to expect too much.
He summoned Little Round to his side. Bored, he pulled up some of the latest information in her database.
After browsing at random for a while, Shinji noticed a bounty list among the many pieces of information.
The main reason it caught his attention was that he recognized one of the names on it immediately: Ryuhei Ubuyashiki.
"How could it be him?!"
Curious, Shinji told Little Round to retrieve all the information about the bounty list, then read through it.
Evidently, there were plenty of bastards in the Lantern Bearer community too.
The Lamps' ability to travel through space gave Lantern Bearers an enormous advantage. In particular, when a relatively powerful Lantern Bearer accidentally entered a weaker world, they often had free rein to do as they pleased. Some Lantern Bearers with little sense of morality would then play the part of "space pirates," plundering weaker worlds.
Shinji's old acquaintance, Ryuhei Ubuyashiki, was one such man.
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