To better train Nintaijutsu, the village higher-ups cleverly came up with the idea of using external assistance for training.
Thus.
Since the Second Raikage took office, Hidden Cloud had always been a ninja village inclined toward technological development.
Whether in terms of various public facilities or electrical equipment, Hidden Cloud was even more well-equipped than Konoha, the wealthiest and most powerful village in the ninja world!
The two chatted as they walked, and before long, they arrived outside a secret chamber.
This was a special materials warehouse with heavy security and constant temperature control!
After their identities were confirmed, the heavy sealed doors slowly opened. Sora, Yunai, and Uzumaki Kana stepped inside together, greeted by a distinctive scent mingling metal, minerals, and cold air.
The warehouse was softly lit. Rows of display racks held all sorts of materials that gleamed with strange lusters or emitted unusual energy fluctuations.
Black ironwood used to forge high-strength puppets.
The venom sacs and fangs of deadly scorpions and insects.
There was even a small section of an enormous horn that radiated terrifying chakra.
With just one glance, Sora recognized it—the broken horn of the Eight-Tails, a trophy personally severed by the Third Raikage in the past!
But these were clearly not Sora's target.
Yunai led Yotsuki Sora and the other two straight toward a display stand covered by a transparent protective barrier.
Several fist-sized, irregularly shaped ores lay quietly within.
They were an extremely deep blue. Rather than smooth, their surfaces were covered in fine silver crystalline specks like fragments of stars. Under the lights, those specks reflected faint glimmers, as though a miniature starry sky had been sealed inside the ores.
"These are them, Lord Sora."
Yotsuki Sora said nothing, his dark crimson eyes fixed tightly on the ores behind the barrier.
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