So, the mission was found. The only irony was that Konoha was doing the same thing herself—abducting innocent people for her monstrous experiments. If someone had instructed the Village of Liszt to investigate these disappearances, they would not have lifted a finger. Investigate? Looking for a solution? How could they find him if the truth revealed their own involvement?
We knew who the killer was. The problem was that we were one of them.
The situation of the unfortunate residents resembled a desperate attempt by the victim to call for help, only to discover that the guard she was calling out to was her tormentor. What a cruel mockery of fate.
It was thanks to the myriad of test subjects that Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru were able to perfect the main principle of Sealing Armor in such a short time.
It was not the primitive Konoha system that only formally supported life in bodies. That technology was the height of inhumanity: "life support" meant only preserving basic reflexes. As soon as a person found himself on the edge of its zone of action, his vital energy ran out, and all that remained of him was a weak heartbeat and fading brain activity. Seemingly alive, he was deader than any dead man—just a breathing piece of flesh.
Tobirama's technology was different. She provided genuine life support. As long as there was energy left in the Sealing Armor, a person could stay in the affected area for as long as they wanted and come out unharmed.
Of course, hundreds of human lives had to be paid for the improvement of this technology.
The energy powering the Armor was not an ordinary chakra, but a senjutsu chakra. For this, we should thank Mount Myoboku, who shared her intimate knowledge of natural energy with the entire Shinobi world. Now any organization, no matter what its purpose, could access this data.
This is what allowed Tobirama to create a stable senjutsu chakra. During the experiments, he found out that it was an order of magnitude better than the usual one: it allowed him to withstand the effects of the "Area of Dead Silence" longer and surpassed the usual chakra in all respects.
As for the source of this energy, there was Edo Tensei. Although those summoned using this technique were weak, they could convert natural energy into chakra almost indefinitely. Tobirama directly connected Edo Tensei with senjutsu, sacrificing all combat functions for a single purpose. This is how the "Senjutsu Edo Tensei" appeared.
After the summoning, the bodies of the resurrected automatically absorbed the natural energy and synthesized the chakra. Of course, this hastily created technique had its drawbacks. The summoned ones couldn't move, were incredibly fragile and crumbled at a single touch, and their strength was negligible.
But that was all that was needed. Summoning countless dead people as living batteries, they finally filled the Sealing Armor with energy.
Nagato looked at the armor and sighed heavily. So that's the method they chose.…
He involuntarily exhaled, feeling strangely relieved, but in the next moment, a sharp disappointment pierced his heart. Incredibly contradictory feelings.
Relief came from the realization that Uchiha Yue's power was so absurd that it could only be resisted with brute force, head-on. There was no easy way to neutralize it. After all, Nagato wanted to deal with Yue because he did not trust Obito Uchiha and felt that in the end he could only rely on himself. He needed Yue's eyes. By killing him and taking his dojutsu, he could immediately subjugate the Shinobi world, capture the nine tailed beasts, and become the god of a new world. If Tobirama had really found a simple way to strip Yue of his power, his whole plan would have collapsed. Yue's eyes would become useless. After all, if the method is simple, other villages will also figure it out soon.
The disappointment was born due to the fact that Uchiha Yue's strength turned out to be too indestructible. He hoped to get technology that would block it perfectly, but the threshold for its use had to be incredibly high — ideally, available only to him. Such technology would guarantee him victory over Yue. Then, having mastered his power, he would conquer the world before the others had time to come to their senses.
But he did not expect that the only solution would be the brute force method. Although... there was another way: to rip out Uchiha Obito's eyes and transplant them to himself. Combined with the Sealing Armor, Nagato felt that he would be able to reach Yue without loss.
Unfortunately, he understood that the one who called himself Uchiha Madara would never give up his eyes. Just like Nagato himself would never give up his Rinnegan.
"Uchiha Yue, I will kill you! Your eyes will become mine!"
Nagato clenched his fists, his gaze burning with determination. Although there was no perfect solution, the Sealing Armor was a good help. He had already seen the day when he would take Yue's eyes, bend the world to his will, and become a god bringing the ultimate peace.…
"Yahiko, do you see? I will definitely embody your ideal!"
Damn Uchiha Yue... Nagato remembered how he destroyed the Path of the Deva with one blow. His Yahiko... his body... shattered into pieces. If he hadn't spent so much chakra on the puppets back then, but had immediately entered the battlefield himself, perhaps things would have turned out differently? After all, at that time, Yue had not yet gained his monstrous strength.
Alas, he made a mistake. Yue tore off half of his body, turning him into a helpless stump. However, there was a silver lining: he received half of the White Zetsu's body, which allowed him to get rid of his crippled, immobile state. This new flesh was much better than the old one.
Moreover, he discovered that he was now able to use the Element of Wood. And after merging with the body of the White Zetsu, he seemed to find even greater harmony with his eyes and even discovered new powers in them. He had a strange feeling that he had never really possessed this gift before.
Isn't that his own power? Then where does this feeling come from?
In the end, he could only assume that it was all about the power hidden in this new half of his body.…