Chapter 420: 398. Origin of Redaku: Part-1: The Adventures of Pepe Chad
"Lord Minato, Lady Tsunade, Princess Ayaka! We welcome you all to the Redaku branch of our corporation."
The branch manager welcomes them with a warm smile.
"I am Hoshi, an investor of Redaku and the co-partner of Trinity corporation." The manager introduces himself.
He points towards a rough-looking man who is tagging along with him.
"This is Kei, the security chief of Trinity corporation and a close friend of mine." Hoshi introduces the security chief to them.
"It's a pleasure to meet you all." Kei bows in respect.
"There is no need for such formalities. We aren't someone that great." Minato shakes his head.
"Lord Minato, you may not know it, but your legends are spread wide across the Land of Redaku. Multiple people worship you as their idol." Kei reveals the popularity of Minato.
"Hnn… Minato, you are quite popular even in a foreign land. You might have many suitors here." Tsunade teases him.
"The same goes for you too, Lady Tsunade. Your popularity is even higher than Lord Minato." Hoshi has a wry smile on his face.
"Looks like I am not the only popular one." Minato chuckles.
"All of you, please enjoy your stay at our resort." Hoshi gestures to the nearby servants.
"That might not be possible!" Minato shakes his head.
"We were on our way to the Land of Iron for the Kage Summit. But midway, we were stuck by a thunderstorm and lost our direction. Somehow, we ended up here. We separated from our group to enter Redaku to ask for directions since only someone with Sage Arts can cross the barrier. Our group is still waiting for us outside the barrier." Minato explains the circumstances to them.
"That won't be a problem, Lord Minato. There are still five days before the start of the Kage Summit. That's plenty of time. After three days, we will escort your group to the Land of Iron with our fastest ship. So, please give us the honor of hosting you." Hoshi requests with sincere eyes.
"Well…" Sensing the sincerity in Hoshi's eyes, Tsunade and Minato are unable to refuse him.
"But what about our group?" Ayaka asks him.
"That won't be a problem! Our ships are made of special materials which allow them to pass through the barrier." Kei assures them.
"Then please escort the rest of them to this place." Minato requests them.
"We both will leave with you." Naruto and Sasuke propose.
"Very well!"
Soon, the duo reaches the harbor with the military squad of the Trinity corporation and departs to fetch the rest of the Konoha group.
Back at the resort,
Hoshi, the manager, leads Tsunade, Minato, and Ayaka around the place.
"So, wonderful!" Ayaka's eyes shine in excitement. She takes out her camera and snaps a picture of her surroundings.
"We also have an underground sea aquarium. I am sure you will like that, little princess." Hoshi has a kind smile on his face.
Minato and Tsunade are also amazed by the level of advancement of this place.
'Konoha is truly a village compared to this luxurious city.' Such thoughts run across their mind.
"This place… how did you create it?" Tsunade couldn't hold back her curiosity.
"It's the hard work of the people of Redaku. Unlike the shinobi world, the people of Redaku are unable to use chakra. So, we have to rely on maximizing the efficiency of our workforce and limited resources. As such, through the efforts of many generations, we, the people of Redaku, advanced our technology to an extent to achieve something like this." Hoshi has a prideful expression on his face.
"It's the blood and sweat of multiple generations bearing fruit in such a way."
"Indeed!" Tsunade and Minato nod at his remarks.
Achieving something like this without the aid of chakra is truly a miraculous thing for them.
'Perhaps the shinobi world might have advanced even further if we as its residents weren't bound by our petty greed and raised unnecessary disputes over resources.' Minato shakes his head.
'But it's the inherent nature of humans. The people of Redaku were lucky in the aspect that they had no competitors in this land. Their only enemies lie the sea. Since it was a matter of survival; they could only put aside their petty differences to seek a solution.'
"Now I am curious to know, how did Izuna make a mark on these people's hearts? What's the story behind his visit?" Tsunade curiously turns to Hoshi and Kei.
Even Minato and Ayaka perk up their ears.
"Hmm… if I have to recall the day of our first meeting with Lord Izuna. Then, it was five years ago."
Hoshi begins to narrate the incident.
*****Flashback-no-Jutsu****
In the Polar Sea,
Swoosh…
A gigantic eagle is flying across the skies. A cloaked figure is sitting atop the eagle's back.
"Damn that useless Sage of Six Paths geezer! He didn't even tell me how he dealt with his chakra problem? After fumbling through multiple records on Mount Myoboku, I was finally able to uncover some clues."
Izuna takes out an old dusted book and a map from his storage.
"That old toad geezer will spout nonsense unnecessarily, but when I ask him for a solution to any problem; he will turn into a mute. My prophecies are like oracles, he says. Damn him, my life is on the line here." Izuna grits his teeth.
"Although I have an incomplete chakra fruit in my possession. It's nothing more than a globule of pure nature energy. It's still missing the intrinsic quality of a chakra fruit. Hence, it can only help me replenish my lost vitality." He shakes his head and stores the plump red fruit back in his storage.
Izuna focuses his attention on the old book. He wipes some dust from it and glances at its cover.
"According to the old geezer, he has no recollection of this book's contents. Apparently, this book was written by the first Toad Sage of the Mount Myoboku."
Izuna opens the book and starts reading its contents.
[This is an era of calamities and disasters. Gigantic monsters cover the sky and the earth. The ground would tremble from their footsteps and the sky will split apart from their breath. A swing of their mighty tail will sunder the oceans. They eat the mountains and drink the sea….]
The first few pages continue to describe the appearance and the habitats of the so-called powerful monsters.
"Aren't they just the dinosaurs?" After reading the first pew pages in detail, Izuna concludes.
"So, this world too was ruled by the dinosaurs. I wonder if they still exist in this world. Back in my previous world, their fate was sealed by a gigantic meteor from the sky."
Izuna continues to read the description of various types of monsters.
"Hmm… so there were Pterosaurs, Ornithopods, Pachycephalosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Titanosaurs. There might be other species of dinosaurs too, but they aren't recorded in this book. If dinosaurs still exist in this world, then I would like to have one as a pet."
Izuna chuckles slightly before flipping to another page.
[Then, the end of the world arrived. The sky was burning, and the lands were turning. After an unknown period, the burning ball of fire in the sky disappeared. Slowly, everything turned cold. There was no longer any food available to eat, and I too lost consciousness.]
Hmm…
"So, no matter the world, the dinosaurs will always suffer the wraith of the rock. Somehow, I feel bad about them."
Izuna flips to another page.
[After an unknown period, I slowly opened my eyes. The giant ball of flame was still burning in the sky. There were no longer any gigantic monsters on the land. Soon, many new animals appeared around me.
In this new and unknown world, I made new friends and roamed the world with them…]
"What's this? Excuse me? What's the average lifespan of a frog again? Even if I don't have a definitive answer, I don't think it's that long. This frog must be the Pepe Chad of this world. He fricking survived an apocalypse that wiped the dinosaurs, stayed frozen through the entire ice age, and woke up and walked away like nothing truly happened."
Izuna recalls the frail expression of Baa and Paa.
'Looks like it's the frogs that degraded the most over these years.'
Izuna flips to another page. He continues to flip more pages for a while.
"There is nothing noteworthy, except the daily life of an adventurer frog. This Pepe Chad ancestor is the protagonist and I am this book's sole reader."
[Then one day, another apocalypse arrived. A gigantic ball of flames similar to the one that wiped those monsters descended from the sky…]
"Now, that sounds interesting!" Izuna is immersed in the story.
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Chapter 421: Side Story Part 1: Origin of Redaku: Part-2
Izuna flips to another page to continue the tale.
[The ground was trembling, the seas were churning; the sky was burning as countless balls of flames descended from the sky. Anything closer to the ball of flames disappeared from existence.
The ground beneath our feet split apart, and the earth consumed us in a single bite. Everything was shrouded in darkness. Without the giant ball of fire, it was hard to move around. We crawled through the area and found buried food in the earth. After a while, we made it to the surface.
The sky was red, and the ground was blue. As far as our vision could see, a vast field of fluffy white snow filled the area. And in the center of that, lied…]
"Hmm… who could it be?"
Izuna flips to another page.
[… a furless and moistureless creature. The creature's skin was smooth and spotless. It was a species we had never seen before in our life. The creature was in awful shape; it was leaking red liquid from its body.
We were afraid… afraid to approach that new creature. However, there was a sense of comfort and warmth around that creature. It was the same feeling I had felt when I opened my eyes for the first time. Many plants and flowers slowly bloomed around that creature. A never felt before sensation of closeness to nature embraced us.
We slowly approached the creature. The roundball's saliva could ease the pain, so it licked the body of the unknown creature.]
"Hmm…" Izuna flips to the next few pages.
"Someone intentionally ruined the writing on these pages. I can't even trace it with my Mangekyo Sharingan. But from these few interactions, I can conclude that Pepe Chad met with other Sage animals. That roundball must be either the first Katsuyu or the first dog sage."
Izuna shakes his head and flips a few more pages.
[The strange creature taught us many things; it taught us how to feel the nature energy in the surroundings and absorb it in our body, the art of Senjutsu. By constantly absorbing the nature energy from the surroundings, we gained spirituality. Later, we learned how to read and write.]
"This person must be the traveller!"
Shoom…
A strange sensation of energy pulsates through Izuna's body.
"Huh!"
Izuna closes the book and stares at his surroundings. He notices the abnormality in the surrounding space with his Sharingan.
"There is a powerful barrier blocking the path forward. This strange power is a part of that barrier."
Izuna flies closer to the barrier in the Polar Sea and surveys it.
"Incredible! To think that such kind of Fuinjutsu inscriptions existed! This is a completely unique system of Fuinjutsu inscription. If what I mastered earlier was basics, then these inscriptions are actual advanced knowledge. Every rune, every hieroglyph, and every inscription contains much more knowledge than the basic runes I learned.
Fuinjutsu is like programming. If what I learned before was BASIC then this is C, C++ level of knowledge." He nods at his analogy.
"However, every knowledge has the same roots and logic. It's the pathway, that's different. I can derive the entirety of this unknown Fuinjutsu language by deriving and extrapolating its contents from the basic techniques."
Izuna immerses himself in the study of the barrier of the Polar Sea.
"Hmm… there are advanced isolation formations, hallucination formations, illusion formations, genjutsu formations, Senjutsu formations, auto-repair formation… well… that's new! I did make some auto-repair formations of my own, but it was only restoration, not repair. Restoration requires a lot of energy since it will rebuild the entire Fuinjutsu formation, but with this repair function, I can only repair the damaged portion of a barrier with minimal energy.
This… this formation seems new. Umm… it's a bit complex… no, calling it a bit complex is a stretch. It's borderline insane… an advanced space-time manipulation formation!" Izuna's eyes widen as he frantically absorbs the knowledge of the seals.
A few months later.
"Ugh… I have hit my limit. No matter what, I can't seem to decipher the contents of this advanced space-time formation any further. I am missing the crucial information to derive it further. The missing knowledge is the key to success. If I can get my hands on it, then I can bend the space to my will and can accelerate, pause and even rewind the time to past."
He throws another cursory glance at the barrier and sighs.
"I have learned a lot from this barrier. And this barrier revealed a few nasty secrets!"
Shiing…
The tomoes in Izuna's eyes rotate as his field of vision expands rapidly. He rapidly infuses chakra in his eyes and pushes his sense to their limit. Eventually, his senses cover the entire Shinobi world.
Huff… Huff…
The sudden influx of information overwhelms his mind. He quickly filters the unnecessary information. In his vision, the entire world is covered in purple-blue energy.
"No wonder… no wonder I felt like something was off with the shinobi world. Now I know the reason why."
Izuna weaves his hand through the spatial and temporal field of the shinobi world to grab a wisp of that purplish-blue energy.
"Someone has accelerated the flow of time in the shinobi world. Hmm… I can't figure out the exact ratio, though. This explains many things. No wonder Kaguya spent years preparing for Momoshiki and Kinshiki's arrival, and yet they made their appearance in the far future.
This is an incredible feat of power. I am sure even if I attain the Six Paths power and Rinnegan, I won't even come close to this level of power. Which amazing person did such a thing to this world? Since I am pretty sure whoever did it, did it with kind intentions towards this world."
Izuna releases the wisp or energy which disappears into the spatial and temporal field of the shinobi world.
"Such a feat not only requires an incredible amount of power, but also an extreme understanding of space and time. Currently, I don't know the existence of such a character. Perhaps that so-called Otsutsuki God possesses such power, but I bet he isn't someone with kind intentions." Izuna shakes his head.
"Anyway, I have lost track of my original goal. But it was still worth it to study such a barrier. My skills and understanding of space-time have improved even further."
Izuna steps through the barrier. Some restrictions bind his body, but he easily shrugs them off.
"Commoners and normal shinobis can't cross this barrier. Only a Sage can bypass the restrictions of this barrier."
Izuna summons a giant Garuda again and rides it to fly across the sea.
Scree…
A gigantic squid-like creature attacks him from the sea.
Swish…
Izuna waves his hand and releases a Shinra Bansho orb toward the creature.
Fwish…
The squid-like monster dissipates into ashes just from a slight touch of the Shinra Bansho orb.
Whoosh…
The orb returns to him and levitates behind his back.
Hmm…
"I can sense a few people in the distance and they seem to battle one of these sea creatures."
Izuna narrows his eyes and notices a merchant ship being attacked by a gigantic eel-like creature.
"Since I have to start from somewhere, I might as well save them to earn their gratitude. I lack the necessary information to traverse this land."
Whoosh…
Izuna signals Chief Garuda to fly towards the ship.
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In the Redaku Sea, on a merchant ship.
"Captain! You promise to safely escort us through the sea. So, why are these sea monsters attacking us all of a sudden?" The head of the merchants asks the captain of the ship.
"I am not sure, Hoshi-san! Recently, there has been unrest among the sea monsters. Especially the Eel monsters and the squid monsters. Most of them have entered a violent frenzy. Even the mind-breaking stones and the soul fracture stones are ineffective against them."
The captain helplessly shakes his head as he instructs his crew members to repel the attacks of the monsters.
"At this rate, we are left with no choice; but to vacate the ship and evacuate with motorboats."
The captain signals his subordinates to lower the escape boats.
"No, how could we do this? My cargo!" Hoshi clutches his forehead and falls to his knees.
"That's my entire life savings! How can I leave it like that? No… I won't leave it with you. Perhaps this monster will lose interest and leave on its own." Hoshi refuses to budge from the sea.
"Hoshi-san! Don't be stupid and act with such recklessness."
Rumble… rumble… crack…
Cracks appear on the ship as the sea eel coils around the ship. The captain signals his men.
Two burly men grab each of Hoshi's arms and forcefully drag him towards the motorboats to escape.
"Gentleman! I think you might need a little help here." Izuna makes his entrance on the ship.
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