Prelude to a New Era
The scene was extremely quiet; everyone held their breath, their eyes fixed on the Three Platforms cabins.
The ninjas of Hidden Sand Village at this point were just a bunch of guys who only knew how to fight and kill.
They also understood what was going on: the Konoha ninja wanted to obtain power from the Dragon Vein through this series of devices.
People like Kakashi and Guy were greatly impressed.
Kakashi thought to himself, "They're all scrambling to become test subjects. I really don't understand what they're thinking."
Kai looked at the Three Platforms devices with a look of agreement; this must be the power of youth.
Time passed slowly, and the power of the Dragon Vein was continuously injected into the Three Platforms cabins. After undergoing some changes that Ren couldn't understand, it became natural and unpolluted Chakra, which was then poured into the three people's bodies.
It continuously strengthened the three people's bodies, and part of it gradually replaced the secondhand Chakra in their bodies that was full of backdoors and full of restrictions.
The three were not particularly powerful ninjas, and the process didn't take long, about five minutes later.
As the hatch opened automatically, Dou once again calmed the Dragon Vein down.
The three men who emerged from the capsule showed no unusual changes.
It had neither horns nor unlocked colored contact lenses, and its body did not glow; it remained as ordinary as it had been before entering.
However, the expressions on the three people's faces were filled with shock and joy, as if they had discovered a new world.
More than a dozen researchers swarmed around the three people, carefully examining their changes.
They all started asking questions at once.
How are you feeling?
"Try focusing your Chakra and see if anything changes?"
"Has the body been enhanced?"
"..."
Ren activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and began to observe the three of them.
Their weak Chakra was no different from before they went in; the only change was that their Chakra had become colorless and transparent.
Seeing the current state of the three, Ren knew that the experiment had been a success.
At least for Ren, it was a success.
Kabuto and Orochimaru didn't easily trust their eyes and feelings, and after conducting a thorough examination with the three of them...
Holding the freshly compiled data, Kabuto and Orochimaru discussed it for a while before Kabuto, frowning, approached Ren.
"What's wrong?"
Kabuto's reaction is strange. Has something happened to him? Ren asked proactively.
"The three of them are all fine; the experiment was a success!"
Dou immediately replied.
It was indeed a great success; everything went exactly as planned.
The three researchers underwent a complete transformation, from their skin and internal organs to their bones, and their Chakra were also completely altered.
While no longer flowing away naturally, the power of various techniques increases significantly. Most importantly, it is no longer a simulated effect of Chakra techniques, but is actually converted into corresponding matter and energy.
Another hypothesis was also confirmed: the three of them could easily sense the special energy permeating the entire world— Natural Energy.
No longer do we need to rely on instruments and equipment to calculate its existence; we can truly feel that magical energy.
Everything went exactly as expected.
After Kabuto explained in detail, Ren asked, puzzled.
"Then what's with your expression?"
"Ren, the three test subjects are all fine, but there's a problem with the conversion equipment; some of the data is abnormal."
As he spoke, Kabuto showed the data in his hand to Ren.
Ren stared blankly at the dense data, but fortunately Ren's skill level and thoughtfully added explanations above the data.
However, Ren remained completely confused until the very end.
One is the expected consumption of Dragon Vein energy, and the other is the actual consumption of Dragon Vein energy.
There was a slight difference between the two, which Kabuto also calculated, and all three experimental subjects had an error of one percent.
And without exception, the actual consumption exceeded the expected consumption in every single case.
Ren nodded knowingly. A 1% error is nothing, right? Why be so serious? As long as the experimenter is okay.
Perhaps because Ren didn't seem to care, Kabuto still explained.
"Sir, because we were unsure of the exact energy required for body enhancement, we deliberately left a sufficient surplus. However, judging from the measured data of the three test subjects just now, the excess consumption is far more than one percent, approaching five percent. This clearly exceeds the allowable margin of error!"
Inside a cave filled with Sealing Jutsu, at the location of the Dragon Vein.
A small white snake revealed a human-like smile, looking at the clusters of Chakra before it with great delight.
Ren- kun, it's just borrowing a Chakra, it shouldn't be a problem, right?
Faced with this situation, Ren pondered for a moment, but still had no clue, so he asked...
"So, will this have an impact on large-scale conversion?"
"No!"
Dou answered affirmatively.
"Then let's start the conversion in batches according to the list!"
"Yes, Ren!"
Kabuto agreed but did not leave. Ren looked at Kabuto.
"There's one more thing, sir. The researchers want to give real Chakra a new name."
"It's nothing, you can do as you please," Ren nodded in agreement, and casually asked a question.
"Have you come up with a name yet?"
"Yes, we originally wanted to call it True Chakra, but considering that it was too cumbersome, we combined it with the code name of the Chakra Project."
After a slight pause, Dou continued.
"Everyone agreed that this real Chakra could be called [True Essence]."