Warrior Race

After dealing with the island's natives, the Uchiha Clan was temporarily settled.

Over the next two days, Yoru directed the clan members in thoroughly restoring the camp.

For the Uchiha, who possessed ninjutsu, the process was incredibly simple.

With several Earth Style techniques, every tree within a five-hundred-meter radius was uprooted, and the ground became flatter than if it had been rolled by a steamroller.

Then, with a few more Earth Style: Earth Flow Walls, the outline of a small town took shape.

If the Uchiha had possessed any Wood Release ninja, they could have cast the Art of Three Rooms and Two Halls a few times.

This place could have turned back into a bustling town in minutes.

At the same time, amid the clan members' astonished cries, Uchiha Yoru took out enough supplies from his scrolls to sustain over a thousand people for years.

He gave them all to the clan for free!

There was no need to thank him too much.

After all, Yoru had spent the past half year tirelessly embezzling the clan's wealth, then secretly using it all to purchase these supplies.

He had kept every last bit hidden in scrolls, not daring to touch any of it, all for this very day.

Furthermore, because the clan members had been tricked by Yoru into coming to the Pirate World, they had not had time to bring any wealth with them when they left.

There was no need to worry about that either.

After sending all the clan members away during the day, Yoru created dozens of Shadow Clones and searched the Uchiha Compound inside and out several times.

Now, in Uchiha Yoru's private warehouse—

There were piles of Explosive Tags, bundles of Kunai and shuriken, and thousands of neatly arranged daggers and swords.

Of course, the most important thing was the scattered savings totaling eight hundred million Ryo.

Uchiha Yoru was so poor that all he had left was money!

What, you were asking why he did not return the money to the clan members?

Because currency from the Hokage World held no value in the Pirate World. To help the clan members integrate into this world as quickly as possible—

After giving it some thought, Yoru decided that the Uchiha needed to cut ties with this useless wealth.

He would keep this useless money for them.

What, you were asking why he had gone to such lengths to collect money if it could not be used in the Pirate World?

Naturally, even if he could not use it for the time being, he could not let Konoha benefit from it for nothing!

So when the Third Generation, Danzo, and the others eagerly prepared to clean up the battlefield at the Uchiha Compound—

They would probably find nothing but a pile of useless buildings.

That was a matter for later.

In short, in just one day, this land that had once been forest—

Had transformed into the Uchiha Compound.

By the next day, as dawn began to break—

Sandersonia arrived with several veteran Imperial Guards from Kuja Island and was startled by what she saw.

Was this still the forest from yesterday? How had a small town suddenly appeared?

"Who knew these people's little tricks did not have much offensive power, but they still had their uses."

Kikyo, following behind, caught sight of the scattered Uchiha clan members nearby who were still using Earth Style and Fire Style to build structures.

She spoke with obvious bitterness.

Kikyo cared deeply about having lost so quickly to someone who could not use Armament Haki.

After regaining consciousness yesterday, she had learned from the conversation between the other side's clan head and the Empress that this clan specialized in using their eyes to control their enemies.

She had carelessly fallen for it during battle yesterday.

She believed it had all been caused by her own carelessness.

If they fought again now, she was confident that she would not lose to that person from yesterday!

"Just as we are unfamiliar with them, they are equally unfamiliar with the power of our Armament Haki. They are not weak. On the contrary, they are very strong."

Thinking of how she had been cleanly defeated by that one-eyed man yesterday, Sandersonia felt somewhat uncertain.

"If they truly all learn Armament Haki, their overall strength may become even more terrifying!"

That was Sandersonia's concern. Those people did not seem like kind-hearted individuals.

If they really learned Haki as well, could the Kuja Tribe still live peacefully on the island?

"There is no need to worry, Lady Sandersonia. Armament Haki is not so easy to learn. Many members of the Kuja Tribe have studied it for over a decade and only grasped the basics.

As for them, a bunch of bumpkins who had never even seen Haki before, how much could they possibly learn?"

Kikyo said disdainfully.

The Kuja Tribe had begun training in Haki from childhood, and even then, they had only barely reached the point where the entire tribe could use it.

Did they really think just any random group could reach their level?

That would be looking down on the Kuja Tribe, the warrior race, far too much!

Even if they were taught the method of cultivating Haki, only a handful of them would ultimately learn it.

Haki was, in the end, an ability only the strong could master!

The group entered the Uchiha Clan's camp with varying expressions.

Upon seeing them arrive, Shisui immediately gathered all the Uchiha ninja except Yoru, numbering around three hundred.

Those three hundred were all of the Uchiha's combat personnel. Eighty percent of them had awakened the Sharingan, though the overwhelming majority possessed only One-Tomoe or Two-Tomoe Sharingan.

Among the Uchiha, the rate of awakening the Sharingan was roughly thirty percent.

Clan members who reached a certain age without awakening it would gradually leave the ranks of ninja and no longer serve as combat personnel.

As for the remaining twenty percent of ninja who had not awakened it, if they could never do so, they would gradually be persuaded to retire and become ordinary clan members.

This was the Uchiha Clan, the strongest warrior race of the Hokage World.

Without awakening the Blood Wheel Eye, one was not even qualified to be a combatant!

Standing before the Uchiha clan members, Sandersonia's enormous body radiated immense pressure as she began explaining in a low voice.

"Listen. Haki is a latent power possessed by every human in this world. It is divided into Observation Haki, Armament Haki, and Conqueror's Haki.

What the Empress has permitted us to teach is Armament Haki. It can strengthen one's defense, transform into offensive power, and is also the only way to capture the physical bodies of Logia Devil Fruit users."

Kikyo swept her gaze across the Uchiha before her. Their bodies were exceptionally slender, yet their gazes were unusually sharp. With a trace of barely perceptible contempt, she added:

"However, you should not hold out too much hope. The awakening and cultivation of Haki, especially Armament Haki, are closely tied to one's will and convictions.

Haki belongs to true powerhouses!

Without the unyielding heart of a powerhouse, without a sufficiently 'hardened' will, it is exceedingly difficult to even get started.

Many people cannot even touch the threshold in their entire lives. You... should be prepared to spend years, perhaps even longer, on this."

Her words were half reminder, half warning—or perhaps a way of discouraging them.

Deep down, she perhaps did not believe these outsiders could easily master the power that Kuja Warriors took such pride in.

It was not that she looked down on them.

It was simply that on Kuja Island, where strong physiques were considered beautiful, the people before her looked far too weak.

Those thin arms and skinny legs.

They looked exactly like a group of ordinary people who could not fight at all.

Were all men this small?