"Fine, it's just a name change—we agree! But since we're now called Sea Ninja Village, the Land of Sea is getting a sweet deal. Extra funding from them sounds only fair."
Suikazan Fuguki hammered out the final decision. The Kirigakure negotiators shut their mouths at once.
Kirigakure Ninja cared more for real profit than for titles; the old 'bloody mist' never had a good name or cohesion anyway. If swapping names brought a fat budget, they could live with it.
Try the same with Konoha or the Cloud—getting them to rename themselves would be next to impossible.
A few days later the talks ended, and a bombshell announcement swept the Ninja World.
Every sea-bound nation had formed the Ocean Alliance. Centered on Kirigakure, it absorbed countless small Ninja outfits into a brand-new village—Sea Ninja Village!
It snowballed fast. Together, Sea Ninja and Kirigakure already commanded seventy or eighty percent of maritime power. Once united, the remaining minor factions lined up to join without Vegapunk lifting a finger.
After that Suikazan Fuguki spent his days sorting those little groups. Since the merger was complete and the name changed, absorbing every island Ninja felt only natural.
Yet among those tiny organizations and wandering Ninja, quality varied; spies from other powers and Great Villages lurked everywhere. The newborn Sea Ninja Village couldn't swallow them whole.
That messy job landed squarely on Suikazan Fuguki. Vegapunk merely lent him two lie detectors. With Kirigakure's foundation, ordinary spies would struggle to slip in; as for the extraordinary ones—if they were determined, they'd find a way regardless.
While others handled the trivia, Vegapunk buried himself in the lab. The fledgling Sea Ninja Village now outclassed both the Land of Snow and the Land of Sea in resources; any instrument on the open market could be obtained.
That delighted Vegapunk, and he launched into fresh inventions.
In a new world, exposed to the black-tech system called Chakra, his mind brimmed with ideas. Had basic facilities and time not held him back, his creations could already steamroll the planet—at least this world still lacking Ultra-Kage level fighters.
It was like a One Piece World without Admirals or Four Emperors; for the Vegapunk who once built Yonko Commander-class battle machines, resistance would be laughable.
Inside the Land of Water's newest lab, the original quantum brain—fed by copious energy—finally unlocked part of its compute power and glowed faintly. Vegapunk sat before a monitor reviewing data.
"The quantum brain still holds the intellect data of MetalSeadramon, Machinedramon, WarGreymon, and the regular androids. Pity there's no fusion reactor; even if I transplant their AI, output can't reach original levels."
For such warbots, combat strength hinges on three things: energy, materials, and artificial intelligence.
The AI data survived intact. Without Dream Star and the Gulp-Gulp Fruit chips from Egghead Island, materials had lost their edge, but Vegapunk's newly awakened magnetic and electric talents in metallurgy could partly compensate.
Energy mattered most. Without a fusion reactor, pushing those three mechs to full power would mean stuffing a Tailed Beast inside. Those three original mechanical beasts—each roughly Yonko Commander tier—equated to Third Raikage level here, so their appetite for power was hardly small.
"Let the Ninja and daimyo keep an eye out for radioactive ores. A mere coal plant can only run part of the quantum brain."
Vegapunk typed "Energy" on the keyboard—problem number one.
"This world's tech tree for machinery is brutal, but biotech is easy. Chakra suppresses rejection well—no surprise, given the eye-swapping antics in canon. In the real world every one of those surgeries would be fatal."
"Maybe manufacturing man-made Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits here would be simpler. In a way, those modification fluids brewed from summoning-beast genes are already close to Mythical Zoans."
"If I could get genes from the animal sages—great. Too bad Orochimaru's useless; he can't even secure the three snake girls, let alone the White Snake Sage."
"Bloodline Limits are fun too. Apart from the Ōtsutsuki hereditary ones, Chakra fusion can birth new Bloodline Limits and even stabilize them hereditarily."
"If someone could fuse water, fire, earth, wind, lightning, yin, and yang Bloodline Limits into one, they might evolve from human to Ōtsutsuki-class life…"
That was a Chakra cultivation path Vegapunk deduced. Odds? Even with quantum brain calculation and perfect Chakra control, millennia would be required; he couldn't see any normal human pulling it off.
Each extra attribute in a Bloodline Limit raises difficulty exponentially. A Kekkei Tota is tenfold harder; four attributes, hundreds of times; five attributes, tens of thousands… Yin and yang differ from the five elements. Fusing Yin-Yang Release with the five elements to reach Ōtsutsuki level is an impossible task for humanity.
"Excuse me, Dr. Vegapunk, are you in?"
Just then a voice sounded outside the lab, followed by the door sliding open. Vegapunk blinked, turned, and saw several Ninja walking in.
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