Uchiha's personal opinion

"You need to shake all the eggs on land to make sure they're evenly mixed!"

"I'll split all the earthworms vertically in half!"

As the blood-soaked commands echoed above the fleet, the ninjas erupted in a frenzied cheer!

The Uchiha ninjas and Kirigakure ninjas, in particular, drew their weapons and began to wield them!

……

"Lord Tokumitsu!"

In the office of the Konoha Governor's Office, a Uzumaki ninja from the Sealing Team rushed in.

Urgent report from the eastern sea area!

"Give me!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu immediately snatched the telegram from the Uzumaki ninja's hand and began to read it.

"The hurricane barrier is actually starting to weaken..."

It seems the campaign to conquer Mount Myoboku must be accelerated once again!

Chapter 453 The New World

Inside the Konoha Governor's Mansion, Ashina Uzumaki, who had been stationed at the overseas reef base for more than a month, waited anxiously with his head bowed for Uchiha Tokumitsu's orders.

Uchiha Tokumitsu's face was also ashen, and he read the twenty-page report no less than ten times.

Ashina Uzumaki became even more uneasy.

He knew how absurd the report's descriptions were, but if they weren't interpreted that way, then everything—including the massive investments in experiments and tests, and the countless expensive flares fired at the hurricane barrier—would be meaningless.

Therefore, there must be a concrete description and inference of the observation process, no matter how absurd the result may be!

"Snapped!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu slammed the report on the table, staring intently at the trembling Ashina Uzumaki with a cold gaze for the first time.

This was the first time Uchiha Tokumitsu had shown such an expression in front of the Uzumaki clan leader since the two clans formed a blood alliance.

"Squad Leader Ashina!"

"To!"

Ashina Uzumaki jumped up, straightened his back, and answered loudly.

"...Never mind, you don't need to be nervous."

Uchiha Tokumitsu was now somewhat helpless. He was afraid of scaring the elderly Uzumaki clan patriarch into having a mental breakdown. "Pull over a chair, let's sit down and have a proper talk..."

"Yes!"

Ashina Uzumaki breathed a sigh of relief, but was still somewhat nervous.

After all, Uchiha Tokumitsu's gaze just now was terrifying...

While Uzumaki Ashina was pulling out a chair, Uchiha Tokumitsu picked up the report on the table again, his gaze lingering on three striking characters amidst a plethora of convoluted sealing terminology in its title—

"A New World!"

Still appearing very tense, Ashina Uzumaki pulled up a chair and sat down at Tokumitsu Uchiha's desk.

"Chief Ashina, we've known each other for quite some time now. To be fair, I haven't treated the Uzumaki clan very well over the years..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu said quietly, "Even when the Uzumaki researchers at the Engineering Institute were recklessly squandering funds on some utterly pointless research projects, I always supported them; even Kushina, as the Nine-Tails' Jinchuriki, I allowed her to live freely within the Uzumaki clan's territory..."

"The general's kindness surpasses the waters of the four seas!"

Ashina Uzumaki immediately replied, "The entire Uzumaki clan is deeply grateful; even a thousand deaths would not be enough to repay this debt!"

"But how do you explain this report?"

Uchiha Tokumitsu raised the report in his hand, his tone softening somewhat, but still carrying an inexplicable chilling undertone: "Behind a hurricane barrier lies another world?"

"Even though I haven't studied space-time ninjutsu, I know this is impossible!"

"Moreover, your report is full of unfounded speculations! Is this how sealing techniques are researched?!"

"Tell me! What exactly is the principle behind it?"

"...Perhaps it is the work of nature."

After holding it in for a long time, Ashina finally managed to utter a word.

Uchiha Tokumitsu almost suffered a brain hemorrhage!

"So you mean my fleet—ten ironclad battleships and ten ironclad cruisers, along with the thousands of ninjas on board—has gone to another world?!"

"I suppose you understand psychic arts? Don't you know how much energy it would take to swap so many people and objects across time and space?"

Uchiha Tokumitsu couldn't help but roar.

"...and for this reason, the other side of the hurricane barrier may be another world."

Ashina Uzumaki mustered his courage and said, "If it weren't for the entrance to a new world, coupled with the collision and turbulence of world forces, it would have been impossible to withstand such a fierce hurricane."

"I understand……"

Uchiha Tokumitsu immediately calmed down, which left Uzumaki Ashina somewhat at a loss.

"Have you ever tried launching a Tailed Beast Ball at the Hurricane Barrier?"

"Uchiha Tokumitsu asked."

"No……"

Ashina Uzumaki whispered in response, "The Six-Tails' chakra needs to supply all the chakra reactors in Fubuki Castle and the Engineering Institute. Without a plan, it's impossible to allocate it; otherwise..."

"Furthermore, based on the signal attenuation levels reported by the high-frequency signal flares we fired during our observations—but the flares only had a range of fifty kilometers, and the attenuation pattern was not caused by hurricane interference—this is sufficient to demonstrate that what lies beyond the hurricane barrier is a very open and distant area..."

"A New World!"

"Uchiha Tokumitsu said."

"Yes."

Ashina Uzumaki nodded repeatedly: "To verify this result, we launched a total of three hundred signal flares modified from guided chakra rockets for repeated experiments before arriving at this conclusion!"

"How many!"

Uchiha Tokumitsu's voice cracked slightly: "Three hundred guided rockets?!"

"How much inventory does Fubo City have?"

"Those are top-secret supplies that the expeditionary ninja army planned to use to carry out the Myoboku Mountain cleanup plan!"

"Although... Lord Deguang, it was all worth it."

Ashina Uzumaki continued to argue, "Furthermore, of the three hundred guided rockets filled with Tailed Beast Chakra that we launched, only eight penetrated the hurricane barrier, and these were all necessary and normal losses."

"The premise is that behind the hurricane barrier, there really is a new world."

Uchiha Tokumitsu also gave his assessment: "This is the premise of everything!"

"Furthermore, given the current rate at which the hurricane barrier is decaying, what would happen if the hurricane completely subsided?"

"Perhaps a passage to a new world will appear..."

How long will it take to completely quell the unrest?

"Based on the current decay rate, it will probably take about another year."

Ashina Uzumaki replied hesitantly, "And there's another possibility, which is..."

"The so-called world passage will disappear completely, and my fleet will never be able to return to the ninja world, right?"

"Uchiha Tokumitsu said."

"Yes, that possibility cannot be ruled out."

Ashina sighed and nodded.

"It really is a difficult choice..."

The Uchiha clan members were somewhat helpless.

The only certainty is that, whether or not there is a new world behind the hurricane barrier, this matter must remain a closely guarded secret until the answer is fully revealed.

Uchiha Tokumitsu, as the ruler, knew all too well what a new world would be like for the barren ninja world.

In fact, it wasn't just him; countless powerful figures throughout history, including Madara Uchiha, had grown weary of the endless fighting for every little bit of gain on the ninja world.

But no matter how weary one may be, the current state of existence in the ninja world will not change because of an individual's will.

Ultimately, it's because the Ninja World Continent is too barren relative to its vast population, and too cramped for the strong.

But the barren and cramped continent is already the only habitable place in the entire world, or even on this planet; apart from that, there are only strange and mysterious places like Mount Myōboku or barren wastelands devoid of life, with no opportunity for external exploration.

At this moment, Uchiha Tokumitsu must make a decision: whether to continue researching the world beyond the hurricane barrier or ignore and destroy it.

"The research continues!"

Ultimately, curiosity about the unknown triumphed over the fear of it.

Uchiha Tokumitsu has always believed that his success was not only due to his own efforts and the course of history, but more importantly, to his precognitive, God-like advantage.

"And still no reply from the ocean-going fleet?"

Uchiha Tokumitsu once again brought up the fundamental reason for exploring the hurricane barrier.

"Not yet, but it might be due to the instability of the space channel, such as the decay of our signal flare feedback information..."

"I have an idea..."

Uchiha Tokumitsu interrupted Uzumaki Ashina's rambling.

"Since the signal flare information can be fed back, it means that the reason why the telegram from the Combined Fleet was not received was due to the power problem of the shipborne radio."

Uchiha Tokumitsu's fingers tapped incessantly on the desk. "If we send a guided rocket to launch a radio with a fixed transmitter, and use that radio to continuously send search signals..."

"This might be feasible, but in that case, even if the fleet radio receives the regular transmission, it won't be able to relay the information back to the headquarters radio station..."

After a moment's thought, Ashina pointed out the feasibility and shortcomings.

"Perhaps we will also need a telegraph base station, or rather a signal amplification station, as a relay station for information..."