Chapter 491: When Great Minds Work Together
After recovering his mind, Fujin observed the results of Danzo’s experiments.
Chimera Buds have the characteristics of swallowing flesh and blood and it constantly changes its shape and form at its own will. Therefore, maintaining control over the Chimera Buds for a long time is a very difficult task even with the use of Fuinjutsu.
And engraving and activating a seal on Chimera Buds is not that difficult, the difficult part comes afterward, during the ritual process. If the seal on the Chimera Bud is not deactivated during the Ritual, the Chimera Bud will be unable to swallow the Flesh and Blood of others, but if the seal is deactivated, then the seal engraved on the Chimera Bud will start to have defects in it and deteriorate because of the change in shape and form of the Chimera Buds during the expansion and contraction process.
Once these defects and deterioration reach a certain level, the Seal engraved on the Chimera Bud will completely lose its effects and will naturally fail to play the intended role.
And this is clearly evident gore sight in front of Fujin.
The subjects in whom Shimura Danzo’s research team implanted the seal engraved Chimera Buds are floating inside the Large Incubation Capsules, and looking at the gruesome sight before him, Fujin can clearly see that the results were a failure.
The seals must maintain a fixed form and shape, but because the Chimera Buds inside the bodies of the test subjects were constantly deforming that is, changing their shape and form so the seals were unable to maintain their shape as a result the bodies were either mutilated or looked like gruesome beasts… and without exception, all of the test subjects are dead.
‘Double Tetragram Seal…’
‘Eight Trigram Sealing…’
‘Reverse Tetragram Seal…’
‘Self-Cursing Seal…’
‘Evil Sealing…’
‘Five-Pronged Seal…’
Upon further observation of the dead test subjects, Fujin recognized many seals… some of them have been mastered by him, while others have never been seen by him, of course, with his understanding and mastery of Fuinjutsu, Fujin was able to easily analyze all these seals.
And after analyzing all these seals, Fujin had no doubt why these seals did not provide any result, the reason is simple… these are shape-dependent.
Thinking so, ‘Even if a seal is Rank-A or higher it would be of no effect in restricting the Chimera Buds… majorly because these seals are shape-dependent… what we need is a sealing Jutsu that is either not shape-dependent or can constantly alter itself…’
In Fujin’s understanding, ‘Adamantine Sealing Chains’, ‘Reaper Death Seal’, ‘Nine Phantom Dragon Seal’ and a few other seals fulfill the requirement of restricting the Chimera Buds, however, the person carrying out the ritual must perform the seal in order to constantly restrict the Chimera Buds and to ensure that they don’t take over the body, outsiders can not perform it.
Therefore, many of these seals can directly be rejected as Danzo either doesn’t have enough qualification to perform these seals, or he will not choose to perform these seals, or these seals require more than one user to perform.
At this time, Danzo said, “Both of you can also see that the effects of these seals are not satisfactory, it is unable to show a proper restraining effect on the Chimera Buds, as a result, all the test subjects have died…”
Orochimaru thought a little, then said, “Perhaps we can try to improve the Adamantine Sealing Chains of the Uzumaki Clan to make it suitable for non-Uzumaki Clan members to be able to use it too.”
After a while of thinking, Fujin nodded with Orochimaru’s suggestion, “We can try it… even if a part of the power of the Adamantine Sealing Chains is sacrificed it would be worth it, after all, what we have to restrain is not the huge Chakra of a Bijuu… but the ‘Chimera Buds’ so it should be possible.”
Improving and changing a high-rank seal while maintaining its sealing power is a bit difficult task because it requires extremely complicated calculations and a lot of experimentation… after all, the seal is improved over several generations to suit the needs of the creator, so it contains generations of research, tests, and analysis to where it stands, how can be improved so easily?
But if part of the sealing power is sacrificed then improving and changing it is not that difficult, so Fujin thinks that it should be possible.
Fujin said again, “And if this still doesn’t work, then we can create an all-new Fuinjutsu to suit our requirement… of course, it will consume time, resources, and a few lives to test the suitability of the seal in conjunction with the Chimera Buds during the implant… but once the seal is successfully created, and perfected… one of the major issues will be solved.”
Creating a high-rank seal is of course a very difficult task. It generally takes years and several generations to be able to create a perfect seal, but who makes Fujin a Fuinjutsu genius? Although he has never tried creating a new type of seal before, the only reason he didn’t try is that it would not consume a lot of time and resources, but also a lot of human lives in the testing process.
The worry is not that humans would die… the worry is that humans who meet the needs have to be searched and then kidnapped… this is a very hassling task, not something Fujin can do alone, so a lot of subordinates are required for this purpose, and that’s where Root comes in.
Orochimaru nodded with Fujin’s suggestion, then he turned around to face a Large Incubation Capsule in which a Chimera Bud was growing, and said, “The main material of these Chimera Buds is also not good enough. The glue chosen by Hiruko is not stable enough, as a result, the activity of the Chimera Buds increases severely… maybe we can try to search for more stable material to improve the stability of the Chimera Buds.”
Fujin thought about Orochimaru’s suggestion while walking towards one of the Large Incubation Capsules in which a dead test subject was floating, and said, “In fact, there is a room for improvement in the Process of Cultivation of Chimera Buds.
Before the Chimera Buds began to grow, we can fuse the target subject’s cells in it to increase the adaptability and decrease the rejection probability. With this controlling the Chimera Buds that was created to match your own body will become easier.”
The process followed by Hiruko is to first cultivate the Chimera Buds to a certain degree, then implant those Chimera Buds in your body and form thereon let the buds develop into full-fledged Chimera that can swallow flesh and blood.
He does not focus on the fusion of cells with the Chimera Buds. Although, this increases the success rate of survival, however, it also leaves behind a hidden danger. Because the Chimera Buds are not fused with the hosts’ cells prior, therefore, they become an independent existence that is wild and difficult to tame and can easily take over the body of the lost, much like a Bijuu when a Jinchuriki loses control over his emotions which is incredibly dangerous.
However, if the approach suggested by Fujin is used and cell fusion is done prior, then although the success rate of implant would decrease and the expense of creating a Chimera Bud would increase, however, the hosts will be able to control the Chimera Buds much easily compared to before.
Orochimaru was indeed impressed by Fujin’s idea, and further began to discuss other problems and methods that be used to solve those problems, Fujin wasn’t left behind and he was similar to Orochimaru, he too suggested many ideas and possibilities of their success to further improve the Chimera Buds.
Listening to their discussion of one suggesting, the other analyzing its possibility and then further expressing his doubts and helping out clear up the mistakes, then the process would reverse and the discussion continued, while Shimura Danzo and his researchers on the sidelines looked at the two great minds working together with saucer-like eyes, they, who were completely stuck and felt that the experiment has fallen on a dead-end suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment after listening to Fujin and Orochimaru’s discussion.
Danzo looked at Fujin and Orochimaru who were still discussing the improvement plan of Chimera Buds, and thought to himself, ‘It was right to let them participate in this experiment.’
Shimura Danzo of course did not know that these ideas of improving the Chimera Buds were not brought out on the spot by Fujin and Orochimaru, but have been conceived in their minds for quite a while now.
It’s just that both Master and disciple suffer from the lack of personnel and financial resources, therefore, they have not been able to implement these plans.
For example, the choice of glue material to be used for creating the Chimera Buds. Both know that Hiruko is not a fool, since he chose this glue so obviously, he must have his own consideration, but if you want to improve the material, there are various requirements, first, there must exist a better and more stable material in the Shinobi World, perhaps it exists and perhaps it does not exist… but assuming that it exists, then comes the second problem of being able to find it.
And finding is not about just going to a shop and buying all types of possible materials… NO! It’s far from it.
Finding is related to searching the material, bringing it back, examining it, creating the Chimera Bud out of it, implanting it inside a test subject (living breathing shinobi), then seeing the result, and finally determining whether it is better or not…
Even if all the experiments in the middle are ignored, the finding, transporting, researching, cultivating, capturing shinobi, and implanting again consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, and even then, there is no guarantee that it will be a success, so the complete cycle will repeat until a better and more stable material is found.
As for improving the process of cultivation? It is not as easy as one thinks, because it will directly decrease the success rate of survival after the implantation, but the success rate must be determined and improved.
It must not be forgotten that ‘probability’ is a very magical thing, once it decreases, then the methods of increasing this probability is a very difficult task as it requires in-depth experimentations and sacrifice of the human life.
The consumption of materialistic resources and human lives could increase up to ten times, a hundred times, or even a thousand times, and ten thousand times.
So, all these suggestions of Orochimaru and Fujin belong to the category that either they should not be tried, but if tried then they are simply bottomless pits that would keep consuming funds and human lives until a suitable result appears.
Fujin and Orochimaru just want to use Danzo’s financial and personnel resources to try their previous ideas that they couldn’t put into practice, because both understand that these ideas would consume at least a few billion Ryo as well as hundreds if not thousands of human lives.
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While Fujin and Orochimaru are busy exploiting Shimura Danzo’s power, the scene changes to somewhere outside Konohagakure.
Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh
With the sound of breaking through the wind, one after another several figures landed in a forest zone.
These figures are all dressed as Konoha Anbu. If Fujin was here, he will definitely recognize that the leader of these Anbu is none other than the Captain of Sandaime Hokage’s Guards.
After looking around for a while, and receiving reports from his subordinates that everything was in order, the Captain of the Hokage Guards released a particular smoke and said to seemingly no one, “He’s here.”
Following his words, a stream of light appeared across the forest and one by one many figures emerged out of the state of invisibility. The forest that seemed completely empty only a while ago was filled with a dozen figures in the blink of an eye. These figures, without exception, were all dressed in the Shinobi Gear of Iwagakure.
The leader of this group of Iwagakure Shinobi was a short and bald old man with few white hairs, a white mustache white beard, and a big red nose. The identity of this short old is none other than the Sandaime Tsuchikage of Iwagakure, Onoki of Both Scales.
Onoki, who was floating in mid-air with both hands behind his back, along with three elite Jonin of Iwagakure slowly landed to the ground.
The captain of the Hokage Guard came forward and bowed to Onoki, and said, “Tsuchikage-dono, I am the captain of Hokage-sama’s guard, we of Konoha are here to escort Tsuchikage-dono’s entourage to Konoha.”
Onoki nodded lightly, then questioned, “Have the other Kage arrived?”
The captain of the Hokage Guard nodded respectfully, “Yes Tsuchikage-dono, the other three Kage, including the Godaime Kazekage Pakura-sama, Yondaime Raikage Ay-sama, and Yondaime Mizukage Yagura-sama have all arrived safely.”
Onoki nodded, then slapped the back of his head and said with a depressed expression, “Sigh, who would have thought that a time would come when the Gokage would meet in such secrecy… it’s really inconceivable.”
Hokage Guards and the others also sighed, then under the leadership of the captain of the Hokage Guard, Sandaime Tsuchikage and his entourage bypassed the Konoha’s Patrol and using a newly created secret route they secretly entered the same secret base in Konoha that the Kazekage, Raikage, and Mizukage have been using for the past few days.
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