After teasing Nadare Rōga a little, Zou Hyuga turned his attention back to the Chakra Armor.
Before dismantling it for a thorough study, he needed to test the Chakra Armor's specific functions and strength. After all, he had never actually handled it before.
After several hours of research, Zou Hyuga finally understood the Chakra Armor's functions and limits.
During testing, the Chakra Armor's performance had failed to satisfy Zou Hyuga. In fact, he was a little disappointed.
Although the armor could increase the combat power of chunin and even jonin to some extent.
It required chakra control at chunin level or above to operate properly.
Yet genin and chunin, the ninja who most needed the Chakra Armor's assistance, struggled to use it.
And overall, the Chakra Armor's performance was nothing exceptional. Forget matching a kekkei genkai-it could not even keep up with ordinary secret techniques.
Still, Zou Hyuga was interested not in what the armor was now, but in what it could become.
In a sense, combat in the shinobi world was far too crude. Ninja who possessed ninjutsu capable of mass destruction could only fight small-scale skirmishes in squads.
When it came to large-scale battles, or even army-level warfare, the role of ninja became rather awkward.
Those battles often became solo performances by elite jonin or even the Five Kage.
But perhaps the development of Chakra Armor could change the situation to some extent.
As time passed, Zou Hyuga began dismantling the armor, only to encounter a new problem almost immediately.
He could take the armor apart and reassemble its components, provided the Chakra Armor was undamaged.
In fact, after the intensive testing, the already damaged armor was only one step away from falling apart.
In the end, Zou Hyuga did not dismantle it. Instead, he used his Byakugan