"In reality, the Geothermal System developed by your father is already nearly perfect. Even for me, I could at most double or triple the energy utilization rate in the short term; it's impossible to keep the Geothermal System running indefinitely."
After understanding the overall operation of the Geothermal System, Vegapunk had a clear picture. He spoke to Fukaboshi Koyuki, "To make the Land of Snow stay like spring all year round, more abundant energy is required. There's only so much Natural Energy in the Land of Snow. Unless a new energy source is identified, there's no way to keep the Land of Snow in perpetual spring."
If he had sufficient materials and advanced instruments, Vegapunk could use Nuclear Fusion technology to create nearly infinite energy. However, even in the One Piece World, Vegapunk had the backing of the World Government and spent many years finding radioactive minerals. While coal was plentiful here in the Land of Snow, no radioactive substances had been discovered.
The old king's ability to utilize Natural Energy was likely a desperate measure, but there was only so much Natural Energy. No matter how much they tried to increase sources and reduce consumption, it would ultimately be impossible to cover the entire Land of Snow for a long duration and on a large scale.
"Is that so?" A look of disappointment appeared on Fukaboshi Koyuki's small face. However, Vegapunk shook his head, "Don't worry. Although it's impossible to maintain the climate of the entire Land of Snow, if we narrow the scope and develop just one fertile field for the Land of Snow, that would be an easy task."
According to Vegapunk's estimation, the developed field would be about one-fifth the size of the Land of Snow, roughly equivalent to a small country like the Land of Rice Fields or the Land of Rain. It could completely become the nation's granary.
The Land of Snow was vast but sparsely populated. Such a massive field would definitely be more than enough to meet everyone's living material needs. Combined with the country's rich coal and iron resources, the nation's hardware conditions were actually not much worse than countries like the Land of Water or the Land of Wind.
The only problem was its remote location, making transportation and communication with the mainland inconvenient. However, this perfectly met the needs for climbing the technology tree in the early stages.
Once his technology developed to a certain level, he could restart his plan to conquer the Ninja World.
As a mad scientist, Vegapunk's moral threshold was undoubtedly not very high, and his ambition exceeded that of ordinary people. Back in the One Piece World, he had already formulated a package of plans to conquer the world; otherwise, he wouldn't have invented so many weapons of mass destruction or consciously organized a powerful dark organization to penetrate the World Government.
Of course, Vegapunk's purpose for ruling the world might be a bit bizarre: it was simply to be able to conduct research without any constraints and use any resources at will. For a scientist who transcended his era like him, the more research funding, the better. If the whole world could support his research, that would naturally be the best.
Furthermore, the difficulty of ruling the Naruto World was definitely much lower than in the One Piece World. Although the Naruto World also had the transcendent power of Chakra, compared to Devil Fruits, which could appear anywhere uncontrollably, Chakra and Bloodline Limits were still traceable.
Moreover, the Naruto World didn't have as many ambitious schemers as the One Piece World. Compared to the completely chaotic and evil One Piece World, it was overall more inclined toward order.
Although these Ninjas seemed a bit neurotic, claiming to pursue peace while hacking other Ninjas to death, that was just the result of these uneducated fools having their brains tied in knots because they never took an ideological or political education course.
In detail, whether from a cultural or geographical perspective, the possibility of a grand unification in the Naruto World was much higher than in the One Piece World. Before returning to the One Piece World, it wouldn't be bad to practice on the Naruto World first.
While thinking this, Vegapunk reached out. Powerful electromagnetic forces covered the entire Geothermal Generator. Then, under the dual action of electricity and magnetism, the entire machine first rose from underground and then continuously writhed and changed shape like plasticine.
Storage system, energy system, light absorption panels, heat converters... Vegapunk's gaze gradually became serious and solemn, as if countless digits were flowing through his eyes. His quantum brain operated at its limit, and the entire machine constantly rotated and shifted according to his will, without a single hair's breadth of error.
Before changing his body, Vegapunk was completely unable to use Armament Haki due to physical factors, but his level of Observation Haki far exceeded that of ordinary people.
However, unlike the mind-reading, emotional infection, future prediction, or wide-area sensing abilities developed by other Observation Haki masters, Vegapunk's Observation Haki delved infinitely into precision. He could perceive things at the cellular level, even approaching the nanometer scale.
This kind of Observation Haki was undoubtedly a specialized type developed to complement his powerful scientific research capabilities. Although not very useful in combat, it was extremely effective in research. Especially after gaining the power of lightning and magnetic fields, Vegapunk possessed not only the ability to observe but also the ability to interfere.
Such a Vegapunk had essentially become a top-tier processing factory. Relying solely on his own abilities, he could easily modify this massive Geothermal Generator.
He cleared the conduction system, increased heat conduction efficiency, and reduced unforced losses... optimized the storage system to greatly increase its effectiveness and prevent energy from leaking... and strengthened the absorption system to significantly increase the efficiency of Natural Energy absorption... In just a moment, the entire Geothermal Generator had been modified beyond recognition by Vegapunk. It turned into an oval, disc-shaped object with a streamlined, mirror-smooth casing that looked somewhat like a UFO made by aliens.
The UFO-like Geothermal Generator slowly rose and floated in mid-air. Even an ordinary person like Fukaboshi Koyuki could vaguely sense a massive amount of energy being breathed in and out by this instrument.
Under the concentration of a large amount of Natural Energy, even before the machine had truly started operating, the snow and ice in its vicinity began to melt. A small puddle even appeared below it, where a few stubborn blades of green grass grew.
Natural Energy itself possesses powerful vitality. It can regulate more than just temperature; it can also stimulate the growth of plants and animals. Therefore, Vegapunk felt that the king's use of Natural Energy as the power source for the Geothermal Generator was a stroke of genius, precisely because Natural Energy itself is the most effective energy for environmental modification.