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Chapter 184 A New Idea for Enhanced Armor (Please subscribe and vote with monthly tickets)

After finishing his meal, Ryuji strolled around the mechanical city.

The original Loulan Tower's brick and stone walls were fixed with five-centimeter-thick solid steel plates using screws and gears, along with axles and chains, and then bridges were built to connect the various towers.

The original Loulan buildings will be redeveloped as the central administrative area, from which slightly shorter tower buildings will be built to serve as military administrative areas, and then even shorter buildings will be built to serve as commercial areas, and so on.

Different areas are divided using varying heights to create a 3D city on flat ground.

However, apart from the flight system area of ​​the military management zone, even the administrative area has not yet been fully renovated. Completing the entire construction plan will be a long and arduous task!

About an hour later, Ryuji had explored the entire Mechanical City.

Then, he didn't know what to do.

Although I was told I would have two days off, after getting used to a busy life, I felt a little uneasy suddenly having so much free time.

"Want to go read a book?"

Long Er scratched his head, looking somewhat bewildered.

Although reading is a good way to pass the time, he would spend two hours reading every day unless something unavoidable happened. Now that he had to use his rest time for reading, he felt it was a waste.

But apart from reading, he could find no other leisure activities.

The city of the government offices hadn't even been built yet, but it was already as big as the original Loulan.

Although Loulan is called a country, it is actually only the size of a little over three hundred towers, with a population of less than a thousand. It is even smaller than a small town in the former Hua Kingdom, and there is nothing interesting to do there.

"Looks like I've gotten used to being busy. Time to get back to the experiments!"

In the end, Ryuji sighed and ended his vacation early.

……

This time, Konoha compensated Sunagakure with 330 million ryo.

The 300 million is compensation for the mechanical bird and the steel fortress, and the 30 million is compensation for the 31 Sand Village ninjas.

Yes, you read that right.

Thirty-one lives, even if among them were two elite puppeteers who had mastered advanced medical ninjutsu and four elite Chunin guards, even with ten times the compensation, the value would only be one-tenth of the value of two puppets.

It's sad, but that's the reality of the ninja world; a ninja's life isn't worth much.

Of course, one could also say that Ryuji's puppet is too valuable.

These war machines, built with cutting-edge technology, are far more powerful than 310 Chunin. If sold individually, each one would fetch 500 million ryo, and even without after-sales service, they would be in high demand.

Chunin are everywhere, but only Ryuji can build this kind of machine.

And he is indeed worth the price.

Considering that most of Konoha was destroyed, coupled with the six-month-long war and the resulting financial strain, they couldn't afford to pay a billion yen in compensation.

Ryuji, who did not originally intend to fight Konoha to the death, quoted a price of 300 million after taking into account Konoha's financial situation.

This way, Konoha would suffer heavy losses without being completely demoralized and causing a collapse at the front lines.

As for Long Er's losses... how could he possibly lose money?

The two machines are worth 1 billion, but what's truly valuable is Long Er's knowledge and technology; if you only consider the material costs, they're only around 50 million.

Moreover, he recovered the remains of the mechanical bird and the steel fortress, and many things could be recycled and rebuilt, which wouldn't cost much at all.

"The mechanical bird is an excellent means of transportation and aerial firepower, indispensable, but the steel fortress..."

Long Er hesitated for a moment, appearing somewhat uncertain.

The steel fortress was designed to prevent encounters with overwhelming numbers of enemies, and was intended to quickly eliminate weak but numerous enemies.

However, with his body now transformed into a Sage Body, his chakra, stamina, and energy are abundant, and his recovery ability is incredibly strong. Human wave tactics... as long as the numbers don't reach a certain level, they won't be effective against him.

Therefore, is it still necessary to build steel fortresses?

"It's necessary!"

After thinking for a while, Ryuji came to a conclusion.

I may not be afraid of overwhelming numbers, but that doesn't mean I can quickly eliminate the enemy.

If you need to quickly eliminate enemies, the Steel Fortress can be of great help.

Furthermore, although the Steel Fortress was originally designed to deal with swarm tactics, it doesn't mean it's ineffective in battles between skilled opponents.

Its various weapons and even its powerful electromagnetic cannon can greatly assist Ryuji when he encounters a strong enemy, whether in close combat or long-range sniping.

Just like when fighting Danzo.

If it weren't for the threat posed by the Steel Fortress's sniping from the shadows that distracted Danzo, he wouldn't have won so easily.

Of course, his weaknesses are also obvious.

That is, it is large and bulky, making it easy for experts to destroy.

But now that we have the remains of the Steel Fortress, rebuilding it won't cost much, so making one won't hurt.

"Besides the mechanical bird and the steel fortress, the augmented armor also needs to be made as soon as possible."

The exoskeleton armor's power is even less than that of the Celestial Body itself, thus rendering it useless. As for the armor "Armor," which is derived from and extended from the exoskeleton armor, although its explosive power exceeds that of the Celestial Body, it is extremely limited.

However, the fact that "Armor" cannot be fully synchronized with one's spirit and is cumbersome to wear makes it somewhat useless.

After all, Ryuji is already at the peak of Kage level. Wearing the "armor" will make him even stronger, but he will still be at the peak of Kage level and will have two more weaknesses.

Ryuji is enough to deal with ordinary Kage on his own.

When facing a Shadow of the same peak, wearing "armor" may give you an advantage, but it also makes you vulnerable to being caught out and killed.

Aside from the advantage of the auxiliary system in predicting the landing point of a spatial jump, which is completely unpredictable, the rest are not worth the effort.

Therefore, the development of new armor is necessary.

However, developing armor that outperforms other armor types while also addressing their weaknesses is not an easy task.

No, let alone surpassing "A" in performance, improving weaknesses while maintaining the same performance is a difficult task.

A's weakness is that the auxiliary system cannot be 100% synchronized with the mind because the artificial soul is quantified and lacks the emotions that humans should have.

Its cumbersome movement is due to its large size.

To address these two weaknesses, we need to reduce the weight of the armor and increase the degree of assimilation between the armor and our own mind.

But we need to ensure performance while reducing the workload...

If such technology existed, "Type A" would not have had this weakness when it was manufactured.

Increasing the degree of assimilation between the auxiliary system and the host's soul can only allow the artificial soul to possess all the emotions of a normal human being.

However, this would cause the assistive system to lose its artificial intelligence-like assistive capabilities.

Although Ryuji now possesses far more knowledge and superior skills than when he was creating the armor, he still struggles to resolve these issues.

But Ryuji was also very quick-witted. Since it was difficult to improve, he decided to redesign it.

The armor worn by Gray and his group does not possess any power in itself, but when worn, it can react to the human body, enhance physical functions and chakra levels, and even enable them to transform into Sage Mode, thereby increasing their strength.

Why can't I change my approach and create something similar?

The immortal armor is all bikini-style, using minimal material and is extremely lightweight.

All you need to do is improve the amplification and design it to your liking.

(End of this chapter)