Chapter 325: Air Force Concept

Chapter 325: Chapter 325: Air Force Concept

Before long, Shisui returned to the power room with Shinno in custody.

Looking at the sealing formulas that covered almost the entire power room, Shisui was dumbfounded.

"Th-These sealing formulas... Don’t tell me you set all of them up just now?"

Hyuga Kagami smiled. "What do you think? They should be enough to seal Shinno, right?"

"No wonder Kagami-senpai entrusted the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to you..."

Shisui immediately gained a newfound respect for the girl before him, who went by the name Uchiha En.

Shisui himself had dabbled a little in the field of sealing techniques, so he recognized at a glance that the sealing formulas covering the entire power room were no ordinary sealing formulas. They belonged to the Uzumaki Clan’s Four Symbols Seal.

The Four Symbols Seal could be considered one of the crowning achievements of the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing techniques. Although Shisui didn’t know how to use it himself, he had heard of it before. He knew perfectly well just how difficult it was to arrange so many Four Symbols Seals while ensuring that every single one operated without interfering with the others, maintaining a perfect balance between them.

Hyuga Kagami said, "This Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was only temporarily lent to me by Lord Kagami. Lord Kagami said that if you ever need it, I can transplant this Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan into you at any time."

To others, an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan might be a treasure they could only dream of possessing, but to Hyuga Kagami, it was merely a useful tool and a pair of eyes with significant research value.

Moreover, when he eventually used the Chimera Technique to merge all of his clones, the eyes in each clone had to be the defective Byakugan they originally possessed when they were created. Therefore, during the final Kekkei Mōra ritual, Hyuga Kagami would inevitably have to remove this Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan from his Fire Release clone.

In other words, as far as Hyuga Kagami’s most important Kekkei Mōra Project was concerned, this Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan was not a necessity.

"Even when faced with an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, you’re still able to cast aside your greed. As expected of someone Kagami-senpai chose." After sighing with admiration, Shisui continued, "I don’t need this Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. I’ve already told Kagami-senpai that, so you don’t need to worry. But I hope you’ll make good use of these eyes and turn them into a treasure that protects the village!"

Whenever Shisui saw this Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, he would instinctively think of the deceased brothers, Uchiha Ryota and Uchiha Hideki, and an involuntary sense of rejection would rise within him.

Therefore, even though his eyesight had begun to deteriorate, he had never once entertained the idea of taking this Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan for himself.

To him, these eyes were stained with far too much of his clansmen’s blood.

Seeing Shisui’s mood sink somewhat, Hyuga Kagami changed the subject and asked, "So? Did Shinno tell you where the Sky Ninja Village’s secret supply vaults are located?"

Shisui nodded. "There are three secret vaults in total. The supplies from two of them have already been transported into this aerial fortress by the Sky Ninja. There’s only one vault left that they didn’t have time to move."

"That saves us quite a bit of trouble!" Hyuga Kagami smiled, then continued, "Take me there and let me have a look!"

Under Shisui’s lead, Hyuga Kagami soon arrived at the third secret vault—the one the Sky Ninja hadn’t had time to empty.

This secret vault was filled entirely with flying ninja tools developed by the Sky Ninja Village, along with the weapons and equipment designed to accompany them.

In Hyuga Kagami’s memory, in the original timeline, the Sky Ninja had used precisely these flying ninja tools and their accompanying weapons to launch a large-scale aerial assault on Konoha.

They had struck Konoha so hard that the village had been completely unable to retaliate, forced to simply watch as the Sky Ninja came and went through the skies as they pleased.

Picking up one of the flying ninja tools, Hyuga Kagami weighed it in his hands.

The entire device was forged from metal, and when its wings were fully extended, they spanned a full two meters. Naturally, it wasn’t light. By Hyuga Kagami’s estimate, it weighed at least twenty kilograms.

After setting the flying ninja tool down, Hyuga Kagami picked up one of the standard-issue firearms designed to be used alongside it.

The firearm could launch specially made kunai. If delayed-detonation explosive tags were wrapped around those kunai, then a single Sky Ninja could essentially be regarded as a bomber aircraft.

Hyuga Kagami turned toward Shinno and asked, "Are all of these flying ninja tools operational?"

Still trapped within the genjutsu, Shinno immediately answered, "There are one hundred sets of flying ninja tools here. A small number require repairs, but the vast majority are fully operational..."

"One hundred sets..."

A sharp gleam flashed through Hyuga Kagami’s eyes.

One hundred flying ninja tools were more than enough for Hyuga Kagami to establish a sizable air force.

Shisui was also rather curious about these flying ninja tools. He asked Shinno, "What principle do these flying ninja tools operate on?"

Shinno pointed toward the rear of one of the devices and explained, "There’s a launching mechanism here. When used from a high enough location, the launcher provides the flying ninja tool with its initial thrust..."

Shinno then pointed toward the two wings of the flying ninja tool. "Once the initial thrust is obtained, the user needs to use their own chakra to activate the sealing formulas inscribed on the wings, thereby releasing the Wind Release ninjutsu sealed within them..."

Both Hyuga Kagami and Shisui were quite knowledgeable themselves, so after Shinno’s explanation, they quickly figured out how the flying ninja tools worked.

Simply put, the Sky Ninja Village’s flying ninja tools used Lightning Release ninjutsu to power a launching mechanism, providing the device with its initial thrust. Once the flying ninja tool became airborne, the Wind Release ninjutsu sealed within it would then be activated, allowing the device to maintain a gliding state in the air and achieve prolonged flight.

In other words, the Sky Ninja Village’s flying ninja tools operated more like gliders in principle.

Because of this, their flight endurance was exceptional. Even if they took off from the waters east of the Land of Fire, they could easily launch an attack on Konoha, located deep within the heartland of the Land of Fire.

However, precisely because their operating principle was closer to that of a glider, they suffered from a major lack of maneuverability and were incapable of engaging agile airborne targets in aerial combat.

Hyuga Kagami pondered, "As long as someone can use chakra, they can operate these flying ninja tools. In that case, I could simply use Tenseigan chakra to activate a batch of puppets and have the puppets operate these flying ninja tools!"

Just as Hyuga Kagami was considering the idea of forming a puppet air force, Itachi arrived and said, "I conducted a patrol around the perimeter and found traces indicating that some of them managed to escape."

Hyuga Kagami frowned slightly. "Looks like there’s no way to keep this under wraps. We need to repair the aerial fortress’s power system as quickly as possible, then relocate it immediately."

There were only three of them, while at least a hundred remnants of the Sky Ninja Village had gathered here. With such a disparity in numbers, it was inevitable that a few would slip through the net.

Hyuga Kagami wasn’t particularly worried about anything else. What concerned him was that, driven to desperation, those escaped Sky Ninja might inform Akatsuki that Shinno had been attacked and the aerial fortress had been seized.

Therefore, he had to relocate the aerial fortress as soon as possible...