During his months on the front lines, Uchiha Makoto had achieved impressive results, but he had felt thoroughly stifled when it came to using his core ability, "lie-into-reality."
The battlefield was a complicated place, with people constantly coming and going. Each day, he encountered only a handful of suitable targets whose trust he could "farm" and whose "weight" was high enough.
Fugaku, Minato Namikaze, and Orochimaru.
With them, he did not dare try anything too outrageous. He could only "materialize" relatively plausible lies that were not too far-fetched.
It was not as though he had gained nothing, but compared with freely materializing things back in the village, those gains were a mere drop in the bucket.
Now things were different!
Back in the village, his "prime targets for harvesting"-Shisui, Obito, and Might Guy-were all there. Kakashi apparently had yet to return from wrapping up a mission in the Land of Hot Water!
Most importantly, he could finally return to his Secret Base in peace, carefully plan how to use those precious "materials," and exploit his system's ability to materialize the advanced research equipment, forbidden knowledge, and technology he needed most to turn his ideas into reality!
After saying goodbye to his clansmen, Uchiha Makoto hurried back to the little aboveground house that served as his cover. Then he slipped silently through the hidden passage into the core Secret Base deep underground.
Inside the base, the temperature and humidity remained constant, and various instruments hummed as they ran under preset chakra formations.
Today, however, the base's containment and sample storage areas were busier than ever.
Uchiha Makoto first went to the area holding his living test subjects.
Four specially made transparent tanks covered in sealing runes stood side by side, filled with pale green nutrient fluid.
A figure lay submerged in