The blinding light gradually faded, and the puppetization process neared its end.
The mortal body built on proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and vitamins had become a thing of the past. From this day onward, this model preservation device, linked to countless modular magical-power conduits, would become the "phylactery" of these mechanical liches, bringing about a tremendous transformation in the very form of their lives!
The gimmick of returning from the dead was enough to draw public attention anywhere.
In the past, Director Yamada had been limited by his own abilities, so he had always avoided topics like resurrection and immortality, fearing that he might get burned playing with fire...
But as both his own strength and that of his entire team continued to expand, those former taboos had gradually become bargaining chips in his contest against the Will of Chakra, placed one by one upon the table!
Especially in the Land of Wind, where puppet culture was already deeply entrenched, this narrative independent of the chakra system clearly had far more room to be accepted than in the other major nations!
But... the ritual of ushering across heroic spirits was not without its price.
One of the more obvious issues was the enormous amount of energy consumed by the process of reviving the dead itself.
—Using amplified magical power to forcibly destroy the original chakra imprint, then artificially altering it into a Human Puppet powered by magical energy.
Completing those operations was basically the equivalent of "empowerment" in a martial-arts world!
This was essentially a one-shot deal. Even peerless masters had never been heard of passing on their power to people as casually as a waiter poured tea...
That meant that if the entire ushering process depended on the divine child alone, then even if the girl Sasori could cheat