After parting ways with Sigurd, Tokiju and Uchiha Hikari continued toward the Land of Hot Water.
As for Sigurd, he was now heading for the Village of the Grass Shadow.
He planned to rescue Karin and her mother first.
There was no way he would let such a valuable member of the Uzumaki Clan fall into the hands of that evil Uchiha brat.
To be honest, in the original story, Karin suffered no less after joining Sasuke Uchiha than she had in Kusagakure. It was a hard life from beginning to end.
Thinking of this, Sigurd immediately took out a map and checked his current location.
He had bought it earlier in that small village and now kept it in the System Space so the two of them could access it whenever they needed.
After checking the map, he saw that he wasn't far from the Land of Grass. At his current speed, he could easily reach Kusagakure by nightfall.
The reason he could move so quickly was that Sigurd was flying.
After all, he was essentially a mechanical puppet and could produce thrusters from anywhere on his body.
Besides, it was broad daylight, and sunlight was plentiful enough to offset the energy required for flight.
Tokiju, in his original body, couldn't do that. He still couldn't shape the sunlight energy, so there was no chance he could fly.
But he was working on it. He really didn't want to keep hopping from branch to branch.
By dusk, Sigurd had arrived above the Village of the Grass Shadow.
Looking down at the village, Sigurd frowned.
The Village of the Grass Shadow belonged to a country adept at developing and deciphering other nations' ninjutsu. It was a place that loved to learn.
Of course, that was the generous way to put it.
Put less generously, they were thieves!
They stole other countries' ninjutsu, made a few random changes, and then claimed it as their own—just like a certain Korea.
Turning his gaze back to Kusagakure below, Sigurd wondered what sort of nasty surprise he could give them.
But after thinking it over for a long while, he couldn't come up with anything. So he decided to wait until night, after he had confirmed what moonlight and starlight could do.
With that in mind, Sigurd quietly landed not far from the Village of the Grass Shadow and inscribed sealing runes on himself to conceal his presence.
The quality of the Village of the Grass Shadow's ninjas was so poor that there was no way they could detect him.
Although using Sealing Jutsu would consume the little chakra he had, Sigurd wouldn't stop as long as there was light around him.
Without chakra, he could only fight using light energy.
But that wasn't a big deal. If he ran low on chakra, all he needed to do was have his main body send over a clone to replenish him.
Besides, he still had plenty of chakra. He could use the concealment Sealing Jutsu he'd just performed more than a dozen times without a problem.
As time passed, the sun had long since set, and the moon had risen high in the sky.
Sigurd slowly spread his arms, carefully sensing the energy in the moonlight and starlight to see if they differed from sunlight.
After sensing them for a while, Sigurd discovered that moonlight and starlight were indeed very different from sunlight.
First, moonlight. Since it was essentially reflected sunlight, its original violent energy was cut in half.
As a result, moonlight energy was much gentler than sunlight and could be shaped with ease.
For example, Sigurd casually stretched out a hand, and a rather lopsided blue-green stick appeared.
This was the simplest application, with no advanced techniques involved. He had merely molded moonlight energy into the shape of a stick.
As for the other techniques, he could leave those to his mental main body to practice.
With this moldable moonlight energy, he believed his main body would soon master flight.
Starlight was more unusual. Of the three kinds of light, it was the dimmest, so it was naturally the hardest for Sigurd to absorb.
In any given area, the ratio of moonlight to starlight was an astonishing 100 to 1—and that was with the stars shining relatively brightly.
Though starlight was the hardest to absorb, it also had the most unusual properties of all the kinds of light.
In essence, starlight was sunlight from so far away that, after traveling such a great distance, the sunlight's violent energy had been completely worn away, leaving behind the purest life energy.
This life energy was special and had an extremely powerful healing effect.
But starlight was so scarce that soaking in it all night might not even compare to a single casual Mystical Palm Technique from Tsunade.
Of course, as a mechanical puppet, Sigurd couldn't sense the starlight's ability to heal injuries.
All the information about starlight had been relayed from his mental main body.
And that wasn't all. His main body had also discovered an even more mysterious power hidden in the starlight.
But he hadn't absorbed starlight for long enough, and there was too little of it, so he still couldn't identify that mysterious power.
All in all, sunlight (orange-yellow), moonlight (blue-green), and starlight (emerald green) each had their own unique properties, living up to the name Eye of Light.
Tokiju had given these three kinds of light from beyond the world a collective name: "Heavenly Light."
Of course, besides these three kinds of light, there was also light produced by living things or technology in nature, such as the light from fire and electricity.
Tokiju called this light from the ground "Earth Light." It had no offensive power whatsoever.
Only when fused with chakra could this light become silvery-white Light Release chakra.
And only with this silvery-white chakra could anyone perform the ninjutsu known as Light Release.
It was also the only way to give this Earth Light any offensive power.
That was the general scope of the Right Eye of Light's abilities.
After getting a general understanding of how to use all kinds of light, Sigurd stopped absorbing the light energy around him and fixed his gaze on Kusagakure.
Meanwhile, inside Kusagakure, at the Kusagakure Medical Clinic.
It was called a medical clinic, but in truth, it was just a dilapidated shack that could barely keep out the wind and rain.
Several Grass Ninja stood outside the clinic. Every one of them had bloodstains on them.
They had clearly just returned from missions.
They stood in line outside the clinic, chatting as they waited.
"Damn, that mission was no joke. My injuries are pretty bad. I'm definitely taking a good bite out of that bitch this time!"
"Take it easy. I heard that bitch suddenly got pregnant. If you bite her and something goes wrong, Lord Kusakage might kill you."
"Heh, I heard that too. I wonder if the kid she gives birth to will inherit that bitch's constitution..."
"True. If the kid inherits it, Kusagakure could stay prosperous for decades!"
"Exactly! With decades to build on, Kusagakure will surely surpass the Five Great Nations and become the Ninja World's new leader. Hahaha!"
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