"It seems I still need data on some higher-level Chakra... Hmm, it's time to develop Bloodline Removal... By the way, Pakura, stay here with me tonight."
Hearing this, Pakura's face flushed slightly, and she glanced toward Hancock, who was sitting on the sofa.
Unexpectedly, Hancock didn't look too angry, she just pouted like a little girl throwing a tantrum: "darling, why let this person disturb our world for two? Am I not enough to satisfy you alone? Or, darling, have you already grown tired of the old and obsessed with the new? You were clearly so infatuated with me yesterday..."
"Alright, alright," Vegapunk waved his hand, "I want to try merging three types of Chakra natures to see if Pakura can develop Bloodline Removal. This is serious business!"
"Fine then!" Hancock knew that once Vegapunk wanted to conduct an experiment, no one could stop him. She was just using it as an excuse to act spoiled toward him.
However, when she looked at Pakura afterward, Hancock's eyes and expression changed completely: "You better understand your place! Serve darling properly! Understand? Under-servant!"
Pakura grit her teeth in anger, chanting wildly in her mind, 'You can't beat her, you can't beat her!' Only then did she refrain from lunging forward to get a beating.
As for Vegapunk, he glanced at the interaction between the two and then continued analyzing the data on the computer.
Although Hancock seemed excessive, Hancock was, after all, the person truly most loyal to him and the one with whom he shared the deepest feelings. Vegapunk wasn't so confused as to not distinguish between those close to him and those who weren't.
"By the way, the funding from the Land of Wind should have been delivered by now, right?"
As if remembering something, Vegapunk looked at Pakura again and asked.
Pakura looked at Vegapunk with a complex expression: "It's here. A total of thirty-two billion Ryo in funding... This is already the total amount of funding required for the normal operation of the Hidden Sand Village for thirty years!"
Even for the Five Great Nations, coughing up such a large sum of money would be a major blow. Under normal circumstances, no country would give a ninja village such a large appropriation.
Even for Konoha, the annual funding wouldn't exceed three billion Ryo, and that's counting both the mission system and national funding. If you only counted the Daimyo's appropriation, it probably wouldn't even reach one billion.
Pakura, of course, knew very well why those Land of Wind Daimyo and nobles would do such a thing—it was because they had long since been replaced by Clones created by Vegapunk. Back when they had to destroy the evidence of those Daimyo and nobles' corpses, she had personally used her Scorch Style to do it!
When she first learned of Vegapunk's plan, Pakura was shocked. Not only that, she also found out through this that most of the Daimyo and nobles in overseas nations like the Land of Sea and the Land of Water had already been replaced by Vegapunk long ago.
Including Vegapunk's own status as a Daimyo heir and noble, it was all just a fake identity created using this method. When she first learned this news, Pakura was almost stunned by Vegapunk's madness.
But by then, Pakura was already on the pirate ship and couldn't get off anymore. She could only follow Vegapunk's orders, collecting the DNA information of those Land of Wind nobles and handing it over to him.
In just a few days, Vegapunk had manufactured the Clones and instilled them with memories. With Pakura, the Kazekage, giving them the green light, the so-called Daimyo and nobles were easily swapped out.
Later, to break Pakura's psychological shadow, Vegapunk directly had Pakura execute those so-called nobles of the Land of Wind. Although Pakura felt great mental pressure at first, after she personally killed a noble who was weeping and begging for mercy on his knees, seeing the ugly behavior of these Land of Wind high-rankers shifting from threats to begging, she suddenly felt enlightened.
After directly wiping out all the high-level officials of the Land of Wind, Pakura stood firmly on Vegapunk's side.
"Not bad, not bad. This amount is nearly 1,000 Asumas!" Vegapunk said with a laugh, using a meme others wouldn't understand. Seeing Pakura's bewildered face, he shook his head: "Very good. With this funding, the weather tower can be almost completely finished!"
"By then, I'll be able to control the climate of the entire Land of Wind, and I can use it to explore the mineral deposits throughout the country! Only in this kind of flat desert terrain is it so easy to find mineral deposits using a weather tower."
Pakura was slightly stunned, only now learning the purpose of the high tower beneath her feet.
At first, Pakura had followed his orders without any hesitation simply out of trust in Vegapunk, including inexplicably building a high tower in the middle of the Hidden Sand Village. But as for what the tower actually did, Pakura had never quite understood.
The tower was built using Vegapunk's technology, and the cost was quite low compared to the scale of the entire structure, but at first, those Sand Ninja still had quite a few complaints about this strange building.
However, after the tower was completed, Vegapunk also began to open up some of his technology to the Sand Ninja. Although they had to complete his tasks to earn enough contribution points to receive his technological enhancements, it made the entire Sand Ninja population flock to him for a time. Their slight dissatisfaction was instantly forgotten.
This tower was created by Vegapunk using his Atomic Disintegration ability to drive hundreds of meters underground as a foundation, then using Chakra to create the shell and Magnetic Control abilities as a metal skeleton.
The reason for building this tower was to extract geothermal energy from the ground as a power source for various research, but most importantly, Vegapunk also wanted to use this tower to control the climate of the entire Land of Wind.
The technological developments of the One Piece World and the Naruto World each had their strengths. In most areas, One Piece was stronger than Naruto, but excluding the black technology developed by Vegapunk and the ancient technology excavated, the gap between the two sides wasn't too large.
However, in terms of weather research, the One Piece World was definitely far beyond the Naruto World. In that ghostly world, if your ship's navigator hadn't researched weather thoroughly enough, it was better not to set foot on the Grand Line for a lifetime.
And those meteorologists and navigators who had studied weather to the most profound degree could achieve effects comparable to top-tier Ninjutsu using only some ordinary props, without any Chakra.
Because of environmental factors, Vegapunk had also put some effort into meteorological research. With his talent, just a little effort resulted in research achievements that surpassed those of the meteorological doctors in the One Piece World who had studied it for a lifetime.
Otherwise, no matter how strong the computing power of the quantum brain in the Dream Star was, if his level of meteorology wasn't high enough, it would be impossible for him to have the ability to destroy the world by utilizing the Butterfly Effect.
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