32 - Your Hydrogen Style Is Ready
"Lord Orochimaru, the reinforcement troops are fully prepared. Please give your orders!"
At Konoha's main gate.
A group of ninja knelt on one knee, their gazes stern.
They were the reinforcement troops heading to the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind—strong in skill and well-equipped.
And their commander was none other than Konoha's Cold Lord, Orochimaru.
Of the current three legendary Sannin, only this one remained in Konoha.
And in this escalating Third Great Ninja War, he naturally took charge of one of the battlefronts.
Orochimaru didn't respond to his subordinate's report.
His gaze lingered on the village, as if, before setting out, he wanted to take one last look at the hometown he cherished...
But... his gaze was naturally not like that of an ordinary person.
Nor was his attachment to his homeland particularly deep.
Through his snake clone, Orochimaru was observing every move of a certain boy...
The boy's furrowed brow as he scribbled furiously was so familiar... Orochimaru watched, and the longing in his heart grew stronger.
The boy seemed to be in some kind of trouble.
But now, it looked like he had found a solution.
Was it the Uchiha?
Or... perhaps pressure from the Hyuga clan, driving him to grow stronger as quickly as possible?
Orochimaru analyzed with keen interest...
"Souta-kun, what... are you planning to do this time?"
With a silent murmur, Orochimaru withdrew his gaze, turning to the group of ninja before him whose faces were filled with admiration. His expression returned to its usual unapproachable coldness.
Cold Lord Orochimaru was back online.
These ninja would follow him to the front lines against Sunagakure.
Some might pay with their lives; others might have ulterior motives...
The two old men in the village had never fully trusted him.
But he didn't care...
They wanted to see if there were flaws in his Will of Fire?
Ridiculous.
He had never possessed such a trivial thing.
How could there be talk of flaws?
Still, it was time to move out.
Orochimaru raised a hand, preparing to issue the order to advance.
But just as his hand went up—
His snake clone, hidden outside Yuto Souta's room, transmitted the boy's excited shout!
The boy seemed to have made some progress.
Orochimaru lowered his hand again, deciding to take another look...
"One last check of the supplies."
His hoarse voice gave the command, and Orochimaru's gaze returned to that small wooden house in the Uchiha compound...
...
Yuto Souta was feeling a bit excited right now.
No.
He was very excited!
The simplest chemical formula had completed a ninjutsu with unpredictable power!
Hydrogen Style.
This time, the number of proposals he submitted to the system hit a historic low.
Both in terms of time and content...
The only challenge was the chakra ratio between Water Style and Lightning Style.
Electrolyzing water required an electric current of sufficient power to match it.
This process couldn't be resolved during the chakra channeling phase... Only after the ninjutsu was released, when the lightning from Lightning Style conducted into the Water Style, could hydrogen and oxygen be produced.
At first glance, it seemed simple, but it involved the spatial area of the Water Style and the voltage between the two poles of the lightning produced by the Lightning Style ninjutsu.
Science was never just talk on paper, but theory always preceded practice.
Yuto Souta didn't have time for extensive experiments... His time was tight. They had to return from the C-rank mission in three days, and factoring in travel and the time to blow up the Kannabi Bridge, he only had tonight and all of tomorrow.
Less than 36 hours.
He planned to use those 36 hours to figure out how to infiltrate the enemy camp and how to escape after the explosion...
So, with Hydrogen Style as the premise, he could only choose a rather crude method to complete the theoretical foundation of the ninjutsu.
Get it approved by the system first!
Directly increase the chakra ratio of Lightning Style compared to Water Style and Fire Style!
One cubic meter of water, fully electrolyzed, could produce 55,556 moles of hydrogen and 27,778 moles of oxygen.
Ignoring experimental errors and the law of energy conservation, it could release 15,879 megajoules, equivalent to about 4,400 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy.
The power output of Lightning Style chakra was a tricky issue, but Yuto Souta found a reference point.
It was from Shippuden, around the time of the Chunin Exams, before Sasuke's defection, when he first clashed with Naruto's Rasengan using Chidori.
Both had pierced a large water tank.
The key wasn't the scale of destruction caused by the ninjutsu on the tank. What Yuto Souta focused on was Chidori's power output.
Yes.
It was a rooftop water storage tank.
The water inside couldn't have been pure, so the lightning from Chidori's chakra would inevitably conduct due to impurities in the water!
Yet Sasuke's arm showed no signs of being scorched by electrified water!
That meant that when Chidori pierced the tank, the water around Sasuke's arm had already undergone an electrolysis reaction. Combined with Kakashi interrupting the technique, it prevented him from being electrocuted.
That tank was roughly one cubic meter as well.
Yuto Souta began roughly calculating Sasuke's chakra volume, crudely estimating the ratio between Lightning Style and Water Style...
Finally, when he tentatively adjusted the key data to a ratio of Fire Style : Water Style : Lightning Style = 0.01 : 2.99 : 7—
The system, after some dawdling, finally responded!
[Theory of electrolyzing Water Style with Lightning Style to create Hydrogen Style has been approved. Please name the new ninjutsu.]
Success.
Even the usually calm Yuto Souta nearly couldn't resist raising his arms in triumph!
However.
The system's prompts weren't over yet...
[Main Quest: Master Chakra Attributes completed. Ninjutsu Master level upgraded to LV2. 500 research points awarded.]
[Ninjutsu Master LV2: Chakra capacity increased to 250%, offensive ninjutsu power increased by 150%, all ninjutsu chakra consumption reduced by 60%.]
[Main Quest updated: Sakumo Hatake's Redemption. Objective: Destroy the Kannabi Bridge (within three days).]
[Quest Reward: One Bloodline Limit lottery chance.]
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