Chapter 15: An Unprecedented Golden Age
After leaving the royal capital, the brothers quickly put distance between themselves and the city.
Along the way, both of them were visibly excited.
Strictly speaking, this was the first time they had ever left the capital on their own.
In the past, Yuu had taken them out to travel, but they were always accompanied, always under someone's watch.
This time was different.
It was only the two of them.
No attendants. No escorts. No one trailing behind.
For them, it felt like a first since the dawn of time, so their mood stayed high through the entire journey.
Even the scenery became its own kind of joy.
As they traveled, they saw well maintained roads stretching across the land, and countless villages where commoners lived.
Decades ago, these places would have been nothing but devastation.
War, famine, disasters of every kind. To the people at the bottom, any random calamity was fatal, cruel enough to swallow lives by the handful.
But now, under Yuu's rule, everything had changed.
Chakra had been popularized, and chakra academies had been forcibly established everywhere.
With that power spread across society, many things became far easier than they had any right to be.
Uneven land that was hard to farm could be leveled with Earth Release.
Drought or water shortages could be eased with Water Release.
Illness and injury could be treated through Medical Ninjutsu.
In almost every aspect, chakra was close to omnipotent.
Whether that power became a tool for killing or a tool for saving lives depended entirely on the people who held it.
And in this era, chakra was being poured into production.
With its help, roads were leveled quickly, and farmlands across the land saw their yields climb drastically.
Industry expanded throughout the regions, creating massive employment and absorbing enormous numbers of people.
The scale of the change was overwhelming.
In Yuu's eyes, this still was not enough.
But to everyone else in this world, it was already a magnificent feat.
A golden age had arrived.
Hunger and war had been nearly erased from the world. Even the smallest child no longer had to worry about food and clothing, and no longer had to fear for their safety.
The brothers saw it the same way.
They were not ignorant of the outside world. They knew what the Ninja World's past looked like, and they knew exactly what kind of lives people used to endure.
Because of that, their respect for their father ran deep, carved into the core of their hearts.
"I heard this place used to be a battlefield, but now it's become farmland…"
Passing through one area, their interest was stirred. They climbed onto the remnants of an ancient battlefield and looked out across the land.
As far as the eye could see, newly cultivated fields stretched in every direction.
Crops grew thick and green, lush enough to fill the chest with a quiet sense of satisfaction.
Within the farmlands, hired academy scholars were working in different areas.
Unlike ordinary people, these scholars were talents who had mastered chakra.
After specialized training in the academies, they developed skills in different fields and could use chakra techniques to accomplish all kinds of tasks.
And speaking of techniques, Ninjutsu itself was another one of Yuu's contributions.
In the original development of the Ninja World, Ninjutsu would have taken a long time to mature. The earliest hand seals and the earliest Ninjutsu legends were said to trace back to the era of the Sage of Six Paths' eldest son, Indra.
Indra was the one recorded as the inventor of Ninjutsu, the one who laid the foundation for the ninja that came after.
But in this world, with Yuu's arrival, the one who pushed Ninjutsu forward had naturally changed.
Even though Yuu had only been an ordinary student in a ninja academy in another world, he still knew basic techniques and hand seals.
With those as a foundation, the development of Ninjutsu here accelerated rapidly.
By now, countless new types of Ninjutsu had already been created, and they were being used in every aspect of life.
Within the Land of Ancestors, there was even a patent law, meant to protect the rights and interests of inventors who developed new Ninjutsu.
The scholars the brothers were seeing now worked in agriculture.
Their main task was assisting production, using chakra to control pests, level land, adjust irrigation, and handle other needs.
After that, the brothers entered a city.
Compared to the countryside, the changes in the urban areas were even greater.
Inside the city, various devices powered by chakra could be seen everywhere. There were even chakra streetlights, illuminating the roads at night.
"The things over there look pretty good…"
"There seems to be a lot of delicious food over there…"
The moment they stepped into the city, the brothers were quickly drawn in by the sights. Their eyes could barely keep up.
They kept looking around, reluctant to leave any street without seeing what was there.
As they continued traveling, they spent several months touring different places, learning, playing, and absorbing the world around them.
And that was exactly why Yuu had allowed them to go out.
To ordinary people, this kind of travel might look like wasted time, nothing but wandering and indulgence.
But Yuu was glad the brothers could enjoy life, glad they could gain real pleasure from the small things.
Because for them, this would help preserve their humanity.
They were children conceived after Kaguya consumed the chakra fruit. They naturally carried pure Ōtsutsuki bloodline, and within that bloodline lay a portion of divinity.
Divinity was not inherently bad.
But as a father, Yuu still hoped his sons would have more humanity, and some simple, untainted joy.
The time ahead was still long.
Over a vast span of years, if nothing preserved their humanity, something terrible could easily happen.
Judging from the results, the brothers not only possessed humanity, but the human part of them even seemed a little too strong.
Yuu did not know whether that was good or bad.
So he could only let it develop naturally.
For now, the two brothers were close, traveling in harmony, their bond unshaken.
Starting from the royal capital of the Land of Ancestors, they passed through most of its territory before finally slowing their pace.
At last, they arrived at a certain place.
Within the Land of Ancestors, this place was called a Holy Land, a forbidden zone for most people.
In the entire Land of Ancestors, aside from a select few, almost no one was qualified to enter.
"This is…"
Under the vast sky, Hagoromo lifted his eyes ahead, and a trace of awe surfaced in them.
"The Divine Tree…"
As the sons of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, both brothers felt an inexplicable closeness to it.
Because the power they carried and the power of the Divine Tree came from the same source.
Especially Hagoromo.
As the elder brother, what he inherited from Kaguya leaned more toward the part that originated from the Divine Tree itself.
So his affinity for the Divine Tree's power was even greater than Hamura's.
Just standing there, he could already feel the change.
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