Starting with Naruto, I'll become stronger through my own efforts.

Chapter 99 Konoha Village Faces Another Challenge

Aleister is the overarching chairman of Academy City, and his character is incredibly powerful.

He was once recognized as the world's strongest magician and had lived for over a thousand years.

To achieve his goals, he single-handedly created the current scientific power and established a complete system for developing individuals with special abilities.

As the ultimate boss who combines the powers of both factions, Aleister possesses extremely terrifying power, but also has a huge, insurmountable flaw.

His consciousness was so powerful that every thought and idea could be infinitely amplified, eventually becoming a vivid and independent personality.

A personality developed based on such a "possibility" is full of contradictions.

On the one hand, his personality is extremely pure and strong, possessing an indomitable determination.

On the other hand, it is also incredibly fragile; as soon as the possibility of the source is denied by the facts, the entire personality will collapse.

In this state of extreme contradiction, Aleister Crowley went mad, becoming an unprecedented super schizophrenic.

In order to maintain his own consciousness, he shut down most of his thinking ability and handed over most of his thinking power to the computer.

However, the mechanization of his consciousness plunged his body into a crisis of collapse. In order to maintain his own life, he went a step further and handed over the operation of his life to the machine.

Aleister froze his entire body, including his brain, forcing himself into a state of hibernation.

His rigid and excessive mechanization allowed him to adapt seamlessly to life in the vat, and he didn't mind his unconventional upside-down posture at all.

Therefore, Misaka Mikoto and Misaka Natsuzo especially liked to call him: the upside-down man.

"Hey, Mr. Chairman of the Hanged Man, now that I'm standing before you, shouldn't we change the terms we discussed earlier?"

Misaka Natsusa's verbal tic disappeared because what appeared here was not a prepared body, but Natsusa's electromagnetic clone.

The clone directly carries the soul, bypassing the limitations of the physical body, and her behavior is closer to that of Xia Zuo in her previous life.

Yes, Xia Zuo has become feminized.

Misaka Natsusa smiled and squatted down, waving her hand to use electromagnetic force to bind her scattered silver hair together, revealing Aleister Crowley's beautiful face.

She exclaimed happily, "She's so beautiful that you can forget about her gender!"

Ignoring Shazo's offense, Aleister calmly said, "You're right. As the stronger party, you should set the terms."

Misaka Natsusa laughed: "Hehe, I like your attitude."

"Rest assured, Your Excellency Chairman, I will not take your life or your freedom, nor will I disrupt your goals."

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The hibernation of his body and mind stripped Aleister of most of his power, leaving him utterly powerless against the invincible Level 6 ability user right before him.

Through computer analysis, survival became the top priority, and Aleister, controlled by the machine, signed a shameful humiliating treaty.

Fortunately, Misaka Natsuzo didn't go too far. She didn't turn him into her slave, but merely stripped him of the power that might threaten her and the beautiful girls around her, and plundered half of the nanomachines "Airborne Loop".

Misaka Natsusa would never seize Aleister's power; that would be a bottomless pit, a tragedy filled with work that only a supercomputer could handle.

What she wanted was very simple: safety of life and happiness in life.

The Ninja World, the Land of Fire, Konoha Village.

Xia Zuo lay lazily under the big tree in the yard, enjoying the warm spring sun, but he felt a little troubled.

More than a year has passed since he last returned to the dream world, and he still hasn't returned. Summer of Konoha year 58 is just around the corner.

Having not gained new power and knowledge for a long time, Xia Zuo's progress has slowed down considerably.

Xia Zuo has completely digested the Dugu Nine Swords and integrated it into his own combat system. He is only a little bit away from developing his bloodline limit and will be able to complete the fusion of the last bloodline limit, Flame Release.

Then you can begin the fusion of bloodstain elimination.

The thought of being able to perform Bloodline Elimination quickly improved Xia Zuo's mood. He began to imagine what changes would occur in his body after completing his Bloodline Limit, and what kind of tricks he could play with Bloodline Elimination.

Beside Xia Zuo, Uchiha Izumi also closed her eyes to enjoy the warm sunshine, except that she had two wads of cotton stuffed in her ears—

Paper.

Because standing next to Xia Zuo and Quan was the only elder of the Uchiha clan, Uchiha Shisui.

This man was relentlessly urging Xia Zuo to step forward again and take charge of the overall situation in Konoha Village.

Konoha Village, which had just enjoyed three years of peace, is now facing new challenges.

As expected, the challenge still came from Kumogakure (Hidden Cloud Village) and from the Fourth Raikage, A.

In fact, only this village, which retained its strength intact during the Third Shinobi World War, has the confidence to challenge Konoha.

After three years of peace, Konoha Village recovered its strength quickly, and its economy flourished, leaving Sunagakure, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure far behind.

Only Kumogakure, which preserved its strength in the two most recent major wars and finally completed its initial accumulation, has shown a development speed that surpasses that of Konoha.

Beyond economic development, Kumogakure has also seen a surge in talented ninjas over the past three years, surpassing Konoha for the first time in terms of total ninja numbers and Jonin strength.

At this moment of great joy and celebration, the Fourth Raikage keenly sensed the danger.

The difference in foundation between the Land of Lightning and the Land of Fire is too great; both the population they can support and the economic benefits they can obtain have reached their limits.

In a few years, the Land of Lightning will become the biggest factor restricting the development of the Hidden Cloud Village.

In other words, if Kumogakure wants to continue to develop, it first needs the Land of Lightning to expand outwards, acquire better land, and gain more people.

The Raikage therefore wants to start a war!

For the Land of Lightning, the only profitable target for war is the Land of Fire.

Thus, the ninjas of Kumogakure (Hidden Cloud Village) gathered together to form a ninja army and once again came to the Land of Hot Springs.

Uchiha Shisui's incessant chatter eventually disrupted Xia Zuo's reverie. He tilted his head and said, "Shisui, neither you nor I are the Fifth Hokage of Konoha. The one who currently controls Konoha is the Third Hokage."

"Konoha is in danger, and it's only natural that the Third Hokage should handle the problem. Are you so eager to push me out here to incite me to seize power?"

Uchiha Shisui was speechless: "Huh? Lord Natsusa, I only asked you to deal with the threat to Kumogakure, I didn't instigate you to seize power."

Xia Zuo scoffed, "Zhi Shui, you're older than me, but you don't understand things at all."

"What do you think power is? Is it the title of Hokage? Is it the appointment of the previous Hokage? Is it the ability inherited from your parents?"

"Neither. Power is the ability to solve problems, and the credibility accumulated after successfully solving problems."