Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

On the borders of the Land of Fire, the smoke of war rises once more.

A new wave of war clouds has once again mercilessly enveloped the entire ninja world.

Chapter 95 The Furnace Project

In the fifty-second year of Konoha, the snow in all areas completely melted.

As the aftermath of the Nine-Tails' Night continued to reverberate throughout the ninja world, the severe damage to Konoha's strength finally made those Garou, who were dissatisfied with their gains in the Third Shinobi World War, unable to contain themselves any longer.

The army of Kumogakure from the Land of Lightning brazenly crossed the border of the Land of Hot Springs.

Onoki, from Iwagakure in the Land of Earth, also deployed troops in the Land of Grass, creating pressure.

The border skirmishes, large and small, quickly escalated into small-scale battles that swept across several countries.

For the five great powers, this was a battlefield of bloodshed and sacrifice.

But for Loulan, located deep in the desert of the Land of Wind, this was a once-in-a-lifetime "era of exorbitant profits".

Beneath Loulan lies the core laboratory and the main control room of the arsenal.

"As you predicted, the war has broken out again, Lord Yue."

Sarah placed a thick battle report on the metal tabletop.

"The price of ninja tools on the black market has doubled in the past two weeks, especially explosive tags and chakra conduction weapons, which are practically priceless. Wandering ninjas and mercenaries from various countries are frantically buying them up."

War, in essence, is about logistics and production capacity.

Otherwise, the Third Hokage wouldn't have acted against his Will of Fire just to ensure logistical stability.

Uchiha Yue was wearing a white lab coat and was playing with a piece of black metal ore the size of a baby's fist in his hand.

He casually tossed it onto the table, making a dull metallic clang.

"In the traditional ninja world, to forge a superior chakra conduction tool, one needs to find an extremely rare ore, and then a top blacksmith spends several months hammering the chakra patterns into it, one hammer blow at a time. As for the explosive tags, they need to be drawn stroke by stroke by the ninjas of the sealing team."

“This kind of purely handmade workshop-style production might be used to demonstrate the so-called ‘craftsman spirit’ in peacetime. But on the meat grinder of the battlefield, it seems too slow.”

"Sarah, Project Furnace should be almost finished, right?"

For some time, Uchiha Yue did not focus all his energy on biology (Hashirama cells), limited by the short-term shortage of Loulan money, the backdrop of renewed war, and the lack of Ming's sealing hardware.

During this period, Uchiha Tsukuyomi focused his research on chakra metals.

Based on the understanding of Yang Release and Yin Release, and through scientific research and repeated deductions by the left eye's Eight Meanings, Yue can now confirm that "Chakra Metal" is not simply a metal, and its internal structure is not just metallic bonds, but a special structure in which chemical bonds and metallic bonds coexist.

This means that it is not a metal in the conventional sense at all, but a very special composite material formed by organic fossils and metallic minerals.

Yue speculates that in the distant ancient times, the roots of the divine tree, or perhaps an ancient behemoth containing immense natural energy, were buried deep underground after its death.

Their remains, under the high temperature and pressure of crustal movement, underwent tens of thousands of years of sedimentation, carbonization, and mineralization, constantly combining and reconstructing with metal ions in the strata, eventually evolving into this "chakra metal".

This perfectly explains why such cold, inanimate objects can so efficiently store and conduct "chakra," which is a form of life energy.

Because it itself retains the microscopic structural characteristics of ancient life!

Given Loulan's current technological level, it is almost impossible to artificially replicate this substance.

Interestingly, just as oil is abundant in the depths of deserts, this substance, which combines the properties of fossil fuels and metals, is also found in large quantities deep underground in deserts.

It's a very deep place, and it's really difficult to explore with human power unless someone of the highest rank, like a Kage, intervenes.

However, Loulan possesses heavy machinery, which, although not as colossal as the ones in the previous life, still has the ability to mine these chakra metals.

There is a lot of chakra metal deep underground in the desert.

This is a huge fortune enough to buy the entire ninja world, but Uchiha Tsukuyomi doesn't want to be just a "coal boss" who sells raw materials.

He also wanted to earn the added value from the industrialization of chakra metal.

The "Furnace Project" was thus born.

During this period, the two Kage-level fighters, Moon and Light, have been personally taking action, using gravity and fire release combined with dragon vein energy to forcibly create a huge chakra metal smelting plant underground.

Subsequently, Sara mobilized one-third of Loulan's skilled workers and began a vigorous equipment manufacturing industry using an industrialized assembly line die-casting model.

Just two months after the project was approved, the results are already in sight.

"The first batch of trial products has rolled off the production line and is awaiting Lord Yue's personal inspection." Sarah smiled slightly and led Yue toward the finished product display area of ​​the arsenal.

The head of the refining plant stood respectfully to the side and unveiled the waterproof cloth covering the product for Yue.

[Individual Chakra Storage Armguard]

"The core of this arm guard is a 'miniature chakra battery' made based on the property of chakra metal that can store chakra," the person in charge reported.

"Even a genin who has just learned how to refine chakra can instantly obtain an external chakra burst that is slightly weaker than that of a chunin as long as he wears it. The battery is disposable and can be modularly replaced within ten seconds on the battlefield."

[Multi-functional exoskeleton armor]

"This is our cutting-edge product from the past two months. Based on the blueprints you provided, we have crafted the core framework using high-purity chakra metal."

Utilizing its excellent energy conduction properties, this armor can be directly connected to the energy storage arm guards to achieve a dual hybrid drive of 'mechanical hydraulics' and 'chakra amplification'.

The armor's advantages and disadvantages in actual combat are extremely extreme.

Its advantages lie in its exceptional ability to survive in a position and its devastating firepower.

Tests have shown that this ability is comparable to that of veteran Chunin on the black market in a direct combat setting, capable of withstanding their C-rank ninjutsu.

However, its flaws are equally fatal: excessive weight results in severely insufficient maneuverability.

In real-world testing, a seasoned genin wearing this armor was able to hold his own against the wandering ninjas in the black market who called themselves 'elite chunin' in a head-on confrontation.

However, if the battle is not resolved quickly, the pilot, lacking agility, will ultimately be outmaneuvered and killed by the opponent's physical skills and teleportation techniques.

"It's quite suitable for tackling key problems or positional warfare," Yue thought to herself, before looking at the last product.

This is a "scrap product" that came after Chakra Metal successfully produced two products in terms of shaping.

Modular Multifunctional Shuriken

"This thing is molded from the chakra waste alloy we extracted. Its slots can be embedded with miniature explosive tags and various ninja tags with extreme precision. The moment it hits the target, the metal shell will shatter into 128 high-temperature fragments with chakra attached, and activate the ninja tags inside."

"..." After various explanations and a month of hands-on practice, he nodded in satisfaction.

"Sarah, what are the results of the market research? Have you decided on a pricing strategy?"

"There are no similar products on the market of the five major countries. The only thing we can refer to is the price of those handmade chakra metal ninja tools."

Currently, the price of small chakra metal ninja tools (shuriken) on the market is approximately 5-2 ryo.

Medium-grade items (knives, swords) cost approximately 15 to 50 taels;

Large items or famous swords (such as the Kusanagi sword) are priced at 100 taels or more;

The range of fluctuation depends on the concentration of chakra metal within the ninja tool.

"What about the production cost?"

"A preliminary cost estimate is less than one-fifth of the price of products on the market. If mass production is carried out, the cost is estimated to be reduced to one-twentieth or less."

Tsk tsk.

Even in the current initial stage, there are huge profits of up to 400%. Once the production capacity is fully utilized, the profit margin will be over 2000%!

Even capitalists would weep upon seeing this.

"Let's start by pricing it at 90% of the market price. Shuriken will be priced as a small item, energy storage arm guards as a medium item, and exoskeletons... for now, we'll sell them at half the price of large items." Yue weighed the profits, reputation, and market layout, deciding to quickly seize market share with slightly lower prices.

Sarah was slightly taken aback: "Lord Yue, our costs are so low, why not drastically reduce prices and directly crush the market of traditional blacksmith shops with low prices?"

"If we sell them too cheaply, those ninjas will just think they're cheap fakes, so we can't lower the price too much for now."

Chapter 96 Full-Scale Invasion

The first week after the outbreak of the local war.

The Land of Lightning, Hidden Cloud Village.

"We have carefully evaluated the combat effectiveness of this batch of new ninja tools and the test video you brought. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to come to our Hidden Cloud Village. Lord Kazekage, Lord Raikage said that the specific combat tests of this batch of ninja tools will be held soon. If needed, the subsequent purchase list will be sent to the Land of Wind as soon as possible."

Mabui, the chief secretary of Kumogakure, adjusted his glasses and handed over a preliminary letter of intent for cooperation.

"No problem, no problem. As long as Yunyin's deposit is in place, we guarantee to deliver the goods on time. We look forward to the day when we can do business together."

The fourth-generation Kazekage, Rasa, sat on a luxurious leather sofa and reached out to accept the letter of intent.

However, as soon as Mabui turned and left the reception room, Luo Sha's smile vanished instantly, and his eyes were filled with intense humiliation.

"This is outrageous..."

Luo Sha gripped the letter of intent tightly in his hand, his knuckles turning white from the force.

The supreme military commander of the Land of Wind, the Fourth Kazekage! Yet he traveled across mountains and rivers to the Land of Thunder like a humble traveling merchant, just to sell weapons to Loulan?

If this gets out, what will become of Rasa's reputation, and the reputation of Sunagakure?

Back in Iwagakure in the Land of Earth, when facing that old fox Onoki, he also forced a smile and handed over the "product catalog".

As Uchiha Tsuki's current designated "full-time sales manager," Rasa's identity has indeed proven remarkably effective.

The fact that a current "Kage" personally endorsed and personally promoted the weapons was an unprecedented level of prestige, which shocked the Raikage and Tsuchikage and also aroused their curiosity about the weapons.

“Uchiha Tsuki... what do you take me for! No, I can’t slander you.”

Luo Sha roared inwardly in a helpless rage.

but……

Luo Sha's gaze unconsciously fell on the long string of zeros at the end of the letter of intent.

According to the rules set by Uchiha Yue, if this multinational arms deal worth tens of millions of ryo is successfully completed, he, as the "sales manager," can directly take 10% of the net profit as commission.

10% commission!

That's real gold and silver!

Sunagakure is located in the desert year-round, and the daimyo has repeatedly cut military spending, leaving the village so poor that it can barely afford to replace parts for its puppet troops.

If these two deals can be finalized, the commission alone...

"Never mind..."