"This is a groundbreaking work; even ordinary people can use it freely, without needing to detonate it with Chakra."
"If this circular fuse is pulled out, it will explode in three seconds."
"Besides this, I have similar weapons. For example, bombs that can be buried underground and detonate instantly with just a little pressure."
Tobirama Senju enthusiastically introduced the new weapon, his expression becoming increasingly animated as he explained its principles.
Although Uchiha Nan couldn't understand it, he patiently listened to Tobirama Senju speaking, as a way of showing his respect for the technical staff.
" Tobirama, regarding weapons used for murder, I only briefly mentioned my thoughts at the time, and you've already produced one so quickly; it truly exceeds my expectations."
"I take back what I just said. You're not old, it's just that your talents aren't suited for those things!"
"You really are amazing!"
Uchiha Nan gave Tobirama Senju a thumbs up.
"Of course not you, who else would you be cursing!"
"This is a weapon I begged you to make!"
Just as Tobirama Senju was about to show a smug expression, he realized that Uchiha Nan's words had a hidden meaning.
This is a roundabout way of criticizing himself for being good at killing!
Senju has always been a peace lover; only the Uchiha reveres killing and violence!
"I did that to protect Konoha. Without strong military power, how could I protect such a large family Konoha?"
" Tobirama, you've become attached to appearances!"
Uchiha Nan skillfully raised the banner of protecting Konoha; although the excuse was old-fashioned, it was really effective.
"Hmph, so you're saying I'm the one in the wrong?"
Tobirama Senju snorted coldly; he was already used to Uchiha Nan's double standards and shamelessness.
Sometimes Tobirama Senju would genuinely doubt the bloodline of Uchiha Nan. Could someone with such a demeanor really be an Uchiha?
If the surname were Senju... cough cough, Senju wouldn't have given birth to such a bastard.
Tobirama Senju was lost in thought, Uchiha Nan stepped forward, picked up the spherical grenade in front of him, and began to examine it closely. Finally, something familiar and appealing had appeared in this world.
It's important to understand that the manufacturing process of Exploding Tag is complex and involves special Sealing Jutsu to seal fire-attribute Chakra within them. Each ninja village has its own set of sealing methods. The entire process requires the involvement of professionals, resulting in consistently low production volumes. This has led to the persistently high price of Exploding Tag, which hasn't dropped significantly even compared to the duration of the war.
After all, these are scarce strategic resources.
Even in a large and powerful village like Konoha, Exploding Tag are a strategic resource that is under strict control, and low- to mid-level ninjas can only purchase them in limited quantities.
As for Konan in the original Hokage manga, who used 600 billion Exploding Tag to set off fireworks for ten minutes, where did she get so many Exploding Tag from? That's a question for Kishimoto.
Anyway, at this point, even if you emptied Konoha, you still wouldn't be able to produce that many Exploding Tag.
If Konoha truly had the capability to produce 600 billion Exploding Tag, then Uchiha Nan wouldn't need to painstakingly cultivate the land. Such a massive quantity of Exploding Tag could easily devastate the Exploding Tag market in the Ninja world. Konoha could then effortlessly rake in money from arms sales.
However, now that they have grenades that can replace Exploding Tag, Konoha may have a chance to dominate the Ninja world's arms trade.
" Tobirama, besides these, have you made the gun yet?"
Uchiha Nan put the grenade back on the table, turned to look at Tobirama Senju, and inquired about the progress of the firearms development.
A ninja's personal weapons have always been the same three items: Shuriken, Kunai, and Exploding Tag.
But Shuriken and Kunai nowhere near as useful as guns. Whether it's the speed of bullets or the destructive power, Shuriken and Kunai far inferior.
Especially in this high-attack, low-defense Ninja world, even a Jonin can be killed with a single headshot if they are careless. Suppressive firepower is still effective against Kage Level ninjas, but above that, guns are just useless.
However, Uchiha Nan didn't expect the gun to be able to deal with enemies of this level. He simply wanted to innovate Konoha's equipment so that Konoha's ninjas could feel the kindness of a benevolent father.
They also made a fortune in arms sales.
Konoha, the largest armed organization in the Ninja world, didn't make money from arms sales. During the war, they even had to spend huge sums of money to buy Exploding Tag, letting others profit from it. This was truly unacceptable to Uchiha Nan.
"Gun?"
"I did manage to make a few prototypes, but I made all the parts by hand. To achieve the large-scale production you described, we'd need Machine Tools. I remember that only the Sky Ninja Village possesses this Machine Tools; they're not sold to outsiders at all."
"If I were to study Machine Tools from scratch, I don't know how much time that would take..."
Tobirama Senju offered an explanation to Uchiha Nan.
" Tobirama, if you're not capable, you can just say so. There's no need to make excuses. Sky Ninja Village can make something like this."
Uchiha Nan glanced at Tobirama Senju with a disdainful look, then slowly spoke.
"You don't know anything! Don't you know the saying 'a trade is like a mountain'? You have no idea about the technical difficulties involved."
Tobirama Senju couldn't stand Uchiha Nan questioning his abilities. That damned bastard always made unreasonable demands and then threw out a bunch of cold banknotes.
"Okay, okay, I understand."
" The Sky Ninja Village, is it? For you, Tobirama, I will destroy that village and take all their technological achievements back to Konoha to give to you."
Uchiha Nan chuckled as he reassured Tobirama Senju. Tobirama Senju had previously specialized in Ninjutsu, but in the past two years he had turned to developing technology, and his current achievements were already quite remarkable. After all, Tobirama Senju was just an "ordinary" person; he wasn't a god.
"Hmph, you did that for me?"
Tobirama Senju Uchiha Nan, even though it was Uchiha Nan who wanted the Sky Ninja Village's science and technology. Although he himself was quite interested.
"Yes, for you!"
Uchiha Nan's eyes revealed sincerity as he recalled information about the Sky Ninja Village.
The technology of the Sky Ninja Village is truly unique in the Ninja world!
The Sky Ninja abandoned in-depth research into Ninjutsu, since in this area, the Sky Ninja Village could never compare to the five great ninja villages with their profound foundations. Therefore Ninjutsu, they focused on developing technology, forging a different path in this ninja world specializing in Ninjutsu. They not only built aircraft carriers but also corresponding air forces, and even had aerial fortresses floating in the Air Fortress.
Of course, besides these high-tech features, the most important thing about the Sky Ninja Village is that they developed the artificial Tailed Beast Zero-Tailed Beast, which can create Dark Chakra using human negative emotions, allowing the Air Fortress to fly at a very low cost.
In the Ninja world, there are very few ninjas who can fly. Almost all of them are ground combat specialists. No matter how good they are on the ground, what can they do? Sky Ninja have completely changed their tactics. Relying on their self-developed ninja tools, they can launch Exploding Tag in the air. They don't even need Exploding Tag; cheap Molotov cocktails can also work. They can easily turn ninjas on the ground into cannon fodder.
In war, once air superiority is achieved, one naturally gains the strategic initiative. Frequent bombing raids from the sky are unbearable for any ninja village. The Sky Ninja Village later became so arrogant that it thought it could dominate the Ninja world and began to challenge Konoha's dominant position. The consequences were, of course, disastrous; it was directly ambushed and wiped out by Konoha and several other ninja villages.
Regarding the future technology tree of aircraft carriers, the Sky Ninja Village currently only has a concept at most, and can't even produce the design blueprints.
However, according to intelligence from Konoha's Anbu ninja, the Sky Ninja Village has been frantically conquering and seizing territory in the past year or two, and a large portion of the funds obtained, besides building its own air force, has flowed into a top-secret project.
The project was of a very high level; even the Anbu ninjas of Konoha didn't understand its details.
But Uchiha Nan knew the plot well, so this must be the Zero-Tailed Beast.
The artificial Tailed Beast Zero-Tailed Beast is probably already in its nascent stage... or even half-finished. The Sky Ninja Village is accelerating its pace, constantly expanding and collecting funds to build Air Fortress. The aerial forces are also collecting negative human emotions to feed Zero-Tailed Beast. When it is completely completed, the Sky Ninja Village will probably pick on the toughest target and recklessly provoke Konoha.
Uchiha Nan found a stool and sat down, then told Tobirama Senju in great detail about the information regarding the Sky Ninja Village.
"I never imagined that what was once an insignificant little ninja village would become so powerful, actually wanting to dominate the Ninja world and even try to establish its authority by attacking Konoha!"
Tobirama Senju looked surprised. He had been living in the underground laboratory for a long time and knew nothing about the outside world. Only when Uchiha Nan took the initiative to reveal some information could Tobirama Senju know what was happening outside.
"Hmph, of course. The five great ninja villages have been fighting each other for so many years, while those smaller ninja villages have been quietly making a fortune, and the Sky Ninja Village has been lying low for many years before rising to prominence."
A new Ninja world Amegakure, Amegakure, has emerged in the Land of Rain. Hanzo the Salamander of the Salamander is currently consolidating the ninja forces of the Land of Rain and is also planning to eliminate all the troublesome Daimyo and nobles. Once Amegakure takes charge of the Land of Rain, economy, and politics of the Amegakure, its power will be unprecedented.
"And then there's the En'yo Ninja Village of the Land of Mountains. During the war, they made a fortune selling Exploding Tag to the Five Great Ninja Villages. Konoha was one of their biggest customers. Now their power has grown so much that they've lost their minds. Recently, they even dared to clash with Konoha's ninjas and bare their teeth at their big customer. I think they don't want to live in the Ninja world anymore."
Even Takigakure was restless. During the First Shinobi World War, they relied on their advantageous location to stay away from the area and preserved their strength remarkably well.
Do you remember the Hero's Water experimental material I bought for you?
This thing is a specialty of Takigakure), and it can increase a ninja's Chakra dozens of times in an instant.
Konoha once took care of this small ninja village by giving Takigakure a Tailed Beast —the Chōmei! Now, Konoha is going to buy "a little bit" of Hero's Water.
Not only did Takigakure not offer a discount, they even dared to charge exorbitant prices!
" Tobirama, I'm still cleaning up your mess."
Uchiha Nan rarely spoke to Tobirama Senju about the situation outside, complaining that Tobirama Senju such a huge mess.
Being drowning in debt is bad enough...
For so many years, Tobirama Senju led Konoha in bloody battles against the four great ninja villages. Didn't he know to drag all the smaller ninja villages around him who were waiting to take advantage of the situation onto the war chariot and crush them all together?
In its final moments, the Tang Dynasty, on its deathbed, annihilated a host of neighboring southwestern barbarians, the Later Turks, the Uyghurs, and many other states, taking them down with it.
"You're blaming me now? Did I ask you to clean up my mess? There are plenty of people who would want to clean up my mess, my Disciple Hiruzen Sarutobi would definitely do a better job than you!"
"What a born evil Uchiha brat!"
"If you can't be Hokage, then get out of the way. I can take on this burden for you!"
Tobirama Senju Senju's expression changed, and he angrily retorted to Uchiha Nan. This damned Uchiha Nan was simply taking advantage of the situation and acting innocent. If he didn't want to be Hokage, he should step down as soon as possible. He was always ready to return from the dead!
"Alright, alright, Tobirama, you haven't done a very good job Tobirama Hokage, so how good can your chosen successor be?"
Sooner or later you'll realize that choosing Hiruzen Sarutobi to become the Third Hokage will be the biggest stain on your life!
When I become Hokage, all the ancestors of the Senju clan will have to kowtow to me. The safety of the entire Senju Clan rests on my shoulders!
Uchiha Nan immediately retorted, Tobirama Senju Hiruzen Sarutobi, which was practically an insult directed at him.
I am the savior of Konoha, the savior of the Uzumaki Clan, and the savior of the Senju Clan!
"You're talking nonsense!!"
Tobirama Senju immediately thought of Toma Senju, the spendthrift son of his elder brother. He would definitely give him a good beating when he had the chance. His wasteful behavior had made him look inferior to Uchiha Nan in their verbal sparring.
But Tobirama Senju would never admit defeat verbally.
Believe it or not!
Uchiha Nan and Tobirama Senju were arguing heatedly, their faces red and necks bulging. Orochimaru had just returned from the construction site wearing a hard hat, tiptoed over and brewed a pot of tea. Seeing that the atmosphere had eased considerably, he obediently served two cups of tea.
" Orochimaru, don't give it to him! He's dead; it's a waste for him to drink it!"
"Bullshit Orochimaru, I'm your master! Will you listen to me or this bastard?!"
Orochimaru silently took back the two cups of water and then quickly ran back to the construction site.
"Alright, Tobirama, there's no point in arguing. Once the Sky Ninja Village perfects the Zero-Tailed Beast technique, they'll attack Konoha immediately. They want to establish their authority by taking Konoha, and I won't give the Sky Ninja Village that opportunity."
After defeating the Sky Ninja Village Sky Ninja Village, Konoha will not only inherit its mature scientific and technological advancements, but also the crucial Zero-Tailed Beast. However, the Zero-Tailed Beast ' technology will certainly be incomplete, so you must help me fully develop it."
Uchiha Nan took a deep breath to calm himself down. Tobirama Senju Senju's constant barking and defiance were really annoying, but the core technology was in his hands. He still needed to discuss things with him.
Annoying!
I must have the technicians from the Sky Ninja Village!
" Zero-Tailed Beast?"
"What's so great about an artificially created Tailed Beast? There's a Nine-Tailed Demon Fox in the village. Can the Zero-Tailed Beast possibly be stronger than the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox?"
Tobirama Senju's expression changed slightly; he was surprised that the Zero-Tailed Beast could make Uchiha Nan care so much.