Edward walked to the dining room, where everybody waited, "Where is my daughter?"
"Charmy went to hang out with the Black Bull Members."
"She abandoned me. How sad," he said, pouting before sitting down. Then, he looked at Hermione. "How was your voyage?"
"Now you remember me?"
"Don't be jealous of a kid."
"You mean don't eat the vinegar of a kid," said Susan while giggling.
"I should have said that," responded Edward with regret.
"You two, stop playing around," chimed Amelia before looking at Luna. "How are you feeling? Is everything alright?"
"Yes, don't worry. I'll tell you what happens later. Let's focus on Hermione's trip. Tell us what happened."
Hermione then explained everything that had occurred since her arrival. She told them how the group voted to become the Empire's subordinate, so she built a Planar Gate connecting to the Eques Plane. She explained the knight power systems and the resources available on the plane.
"The knight system must be hidden due to the possible political ramification," said Olivier. "Until we can remove the Soul Limit and create ways for Magical Arcanist to reach Tier 9, this thing must never see the light of day."
"I had the same idea," commented Hermione. "However, someone should study this system and update the Aura Master Profession, creating a perfect system from Tier 1 to 9."
"This research is perfect for me, but I'm busy. So, it has to wait," added Olivier. She has long decided to focus more on Aura Master as a primary class, while magic would be a subclass since she has a natural talent for it. However, before, Aura Master was not a perfect or complete class.
"Do you think a plane actively controls the resources it evolves?" asked Wiz.
"What do you mean?"
"I glance at the resources in this new plane and realize most served to help train the body and the knight system in general. So, is it possible the Planar Will would evolve the resources of a plane based on its power system?"
"That's an interesting conjecture. It would not make sense for a plane only to have magical resources when its main power system is Psychic Energy based. So, you're probably correct," commented Rowena.
"You should study this subject," suggested Fleur.
"I will, but I'm also busy." Wiz had to ensure the successful integration of undead into the Empire. The mere fact that one of the Empress is also an undead did help the situation, but many citizens are having a hard time accepting living with skeletons, ghouls, zombies, and a bunch of other dark creatures. Nevertheless, things are heading in a positive way since most of the undead were turned against their will, and they contributed significantly to the current war.
"Ollie, do you want to hire some knights to participate in the war?" asked Hermione.
"No need. It's best to hide the existence of planes from the public until after the war. And we don't need the military aid."
"How about other planar exposition? Do we need to prepare for another one?"
"We have the coordinate of the Abyss and Dream Plane. However, these are Tier 10 Planes, so we are not touching them," commented Rowena. "The only other choice is the Starkin race's plane."
"To conquer a Tier 9 plane would require Edward's Floating City, but it cannot leave for now," stated Olivier.
"Speaking of which, why are you so quiet?" asked Susan, who always finds these family dinners fascinating since she always learned the oddest secrets.
"He's only this quiet once his mind concocts some crazy idea," said his mother.
"You're right, as always, mother," he replied before feeding her some of his food, and she accepted joyfully.
"Do you guys remember the Otsutsuki's Divine Tree?"
"From the Naruto World you told us about?"
"Yes. I've been thinking if it's possible to modify the tree to condense Mana Fruit instead of Chakra Fruit."
"You want to plant this tree into other planes to condense Mana Fruit to gather mana rapidly?" said Rowena.
"Exactly. And it does not only need to be mana. We could modify the tree to contain time power, and they can gather the knowledge of a plane and condense it in the shape of a fruit."
"A fruit of knowledge that grants its owner all the knowledge of the past of that plane," summarized Fleur, making everyone's eyes light up.
"There are many other possibilities with this fruit," added Olivier. "We could feed it blood and energy to condense a Fruit of Lifespan. Or better yet, feed the tree souls for a Soul Fruit and effectively deal with the Soul Limitation issue. However, creating a natural way to remove the limitation would be best."
"These plans are good and all. But planting the God Tree on a planet and planting it on an entire plane is not the same thing," said the quiet Bellatrix. "It won't be as easy as you guys said."
"That's not an issue. Vengeance from the Golden Dawn used World Tree Magic with space attribute and is perfectly suitable to take root in a place's source. I can fuse them to achieve my purpose. The biggest issue is how to make the tree condense Knowledge Fruit."
Edward was confident in modifying the tree to condense Mana, Blood, Soul, or other types of fruits. However, he was not optimistic about quickly overcoming the technical difficulty of condensing the Knowledge Fruit. He has to be precise and have the tree scan the plane's past, gather all the knowledge ever written, and condense it into a fruit.
"Are you already planning on traveling again?" asked his mother, Joanna.
"Yes. I was thinking of a short voyage: I go in and get what I want before quickly returning."
: Is it wise to leave in a situation like this?" asked Olivier.
"I won't take long," replied Edward. "Plus, I would leave my floating city with you."
"You must attend the Starskin Race's surrender ceremony before you leave," said Amelia. They delayed the announcement because of Luna's situation. But she was okay now.
"Plus, you have to be quick," added Olivier. "Guzznad will not stay still and watch us become more powerful. We are now in the war's end game, and we need you to act as a hero before we can unite the Milky Way."
"Fine," replied Edward. "Does anyone want to go with me?"
Unfortunately, no one wanted to go with him since they were all busy with their own things. Even Susan was working on this secret project, making the family happy that the little girl finally decided to place her talent to use. Although there is nothing wrong with being a painter, many people felt she was wasting her talent.
"Whatever, I'll go alone."
The next few days, Edward focused on dealing with the things he needed to do. And as expected, the news of the Starskin race did cause turbulence in the galaxy, bringing pressure to the surviving factions–especially the elves.
"We need to begin naming these floating cities," muttered Edward before using one of the two created during his absence. He had Morgana get everything prepared before entering the void.
"Activating Void Traveling," said the little elf. Edward saw he entered a world of gray, feeling as if he was traveling at an incalculable distance. Suddenly, everything began to shake.
"What's going on?"
"An anomaly has been detected," said Morgana with a worried face. Her eyes seemed to glow with wisdom. "Master, we have to use the emergency procedure."
"What?"
"No time to explain."
A grey shield suddenly manifested around Edward. Then, he felt an explosion before everything went dark. Despite not seeing anything, he felt he was traveling a long distance, and there were many disturbances in the process. Unfortunately, his consciousness was coming in and out, so he could not observe what had occurred.
"Where…Where am I?" Edward asked softly as he looked at his surrounding. He saw two people, making him on guard. However, his vision was still blurred.
"You really survived such injuries," asked a voice with great surprise. "Are you even human?"
Edward took a moment to clear his mind, blurry vision, and the ringing sound in his ear. He first dealt with his auditory issue and recognized the person who spoke was a woman.
"Give me a moment," he said in a rasping voice.
"You can even speak? I thought your vocal chord was destroyed," replied the voice. Edward grunted as he closed his eyes to recuperate. When he opened his eyes, he finally saw his surrounding.
"What a beautiful woman," he declared. "And well-endowed too."
"Brat, what did you say?" said the woman.
"Sorry, I'm a little groggy, making me lose my filter," Edward said with difficulty. "But Lady Tsunade, don't call me a brat."
"I'll call you brat since you're a brat."
"With my age, I can be your great-great-great-great-great grandfather, if not more."
Tsunade wanted to sneer at these words, but she remembered this person's inhumane healing ability, indicating he might not be normal or even human.
"Wait, how do you know my name? Are you a spy from another village?"
[AN: The naruto arc will not be long. Edward is only here to get a few things.]
"You're one of the Sannin, so it's not odd for me to know who you are," replied Edward, who began to analyze his injury.
"No, the way you said my name was as if you knew me clearly," continued Tsunade. "Is this some ploy by another village to get to me? Pretend to be injured to get close."
"You have quite the imagination."
"I guess it does not matter. I'll take you down first. I can get the extracted information later."
[Chakra Enhanced Strength]
She rushed toward him before punching him. Boom! The force generated by her attack made Shizune's clothes flap, destroyed the surrounding pieces of furniture, and left cracks in the walls.
"How is that possible?" said Tsunade as he saw her attack was useless. The man, who was missing two arms and one leg and appeared defenseless, just took one of her attack point blanks with no reaction.
Boom! Boom! Boom! She continued punching to no avail.
"Have you had enough?" asked Edward. "Even in my sorry state, I can still annihilate this little planet with a wink. And if I did not control my power, it would have automatically counter-attacked and instantly killed you."
He was not lying. When he is unconscious and in a vulnerable situation, his Aura and Mana will act on their own and protect him.
"Who are you? No, better yet, what are you?" asked Tsunade with a severe look.
"You can think of me as an alien from another planet."
"Alien Lifeforms exist?"
"You don't know about Alien? That can only mean this is the time period before the Fourth Great Shinobi War and the appearance of the Otsutsuki Clan." He also realized the current Tsunade was not the one who gave up her Hokage Position after the war and traveled the world. It is the one who has not become the fifth Hokage.
"Fourth Great Shinobi War? What nonsense are you talking about? There is no such thing."
"Not yet."
"You can see in the future?"
'Of course," replied Edward while looking at his body. He lost three limbs, but he did not care about that. The issue with his body was void of energy and some weird power that prevented his healing; he needed to remove these powers before he could regenerate his body.
As for his strength, it was not affected. However, every time he used it, these two powers embedded themselves deep into his body and prolonged his recovery.
Edward closed his eyes for a moment. 'Morgana seemed fine despite the injury.' He still did not know what happened, but he could guess; he probably encountered some scary life form in the void, and Morgana acted swiftly and used the emergency protocol to send him to safety.
'I cannot survive the in the Void, so I need to send news back home so someone can come to pick me up.' He did not think of creating a Floating City in this universe since it would take too long.
'I need to heal, but also a way to gather the thing I want in this world. If I wait until I'm healed, I might waste too much time. Plus, I might have to wait until I return home before I heal completely. So, I need another body.'
He raised his eyes to look at Tsunade, making her somewhere uneasy.
"Do you mind giving me some information about chakra and Jutsus?"
"Why?"
"To learn, of course."
"I"m sorry, but I can't."
"Why?" asked Edward.
"I cannot indulge the secret of the Hidden Leaf. So, even if I die, I won't say a word." She had a look of determination to die, But facing this person that may be more powerful than her grandfather, she had no hesitation.
"Hmm, I forgot you Ninjas were people trained as child soldiers and brainwashed to be loyal to your village," commented Edward before frowning. Then, he became dazed while thinking.
"I could effortlessly read her mind to get the information I want," he said. "However, her brain has a seal, and without knowing anything about the Chakra System, there is a chance of killing her. And that would be a waste."
Tsunade's heart skipped a beat, but she remained determined. Meanwhile, Edward closed his eyes again and cast a spell to detect the surrounding hundred kilometers. Then, he found what he wanted: a rogue ninja without any seals in his brain.
A portal appeared before him, and the rogue ninja appeared in the room. Before the latter could understand what was happening, she passed out, and Edward read her memory.
"Interesting power system," he commented.
"Space-Time Ninjutsu," said Shizune in shock.
"There was no seal," added Tsunade. "No, I didn't even sense any chakra."
Edward looked at the two, "Do you mind helping me with something? In exchange, I can grant you any wish."
"If I help you, will it affect the Hidden Leaf Village?"
"Considering I will be stealing all the Jutsus of this planet, study the blood of all the clans with Kekkei Genkai, probably. But I can promise not to do too much damage to the Hidden Leaf."
"In that case, I refuse."
"Are you sure? My powers are godlike, meaning I can give you many unimaginable things. For example, I can help you awaken your grandfather's Wood Style. I can grant you immortality, or better yet, I can revive your brother."
Tsunade frowned but did not say anything, showing her attitude.
"When I say revive, I don't mean Edo Tensei. I mean a perfect revival. Or if you want, I can summon your brother from the past, from the moment before he dies, and you can use your current medical skill to save him, to have a chance to redeem your younger self's failure."
Tsunade's heart beat faster, and she clenched her hand," If you are so powerful, why do you need my help?"
"I won't lie, but the more I use my power, the longer it will take me to heal."
"So, what do you need me to do?"
"I need you to create a clone for me to use."
"Cloning? That's beyond my capabilities."
"I know this, but I will give you the knowledge. And with your Medical expertise, you can master this knowledge rapidly."
Edward could have used the Mirror Clone Spell he learned from Gauche, the sistercon from the Black Bull Squad. However, the spell requires mana to maintain the clone, and he could not use his mana in this way.
"It doesn't matter since I refuse your offer."
"A woman with a strong will, my type," commented Edward with a smile.
"You're weird," retorted Tsunade.
"It's the price for being so powerful and living for so long," shrugged Edward. "How about I try another tactic? If you don't help, I'll have to ask Orochimaru for help. You can imagine the consequences of him acquiring my knowledge and power."
"Lady Tsunade!' said Shizune, who knew the terrible consequences of that happening.
"Do you have to do this?"
"Yes," nodded Edward. "Plus, it's not like the Hidden Leaf will truly be affected."
"How is it stealing all our S-Rank Jutsus not affect us?"
"Well, all the other village will lose their Jutsus. And it's not like I will spread them or something."
Tsunade took a moment to analyze the situation. She could not stop this person based on the power he had previously displayed. And if this man allied with Orochimaru, it would be a recipe for disaster.
"You said you would grant me any wish?"
"Correct."
"In that case, I accept your offer. However, there are two issues: the first is money. We would need a lot of money to establish a lab for cloning. Secondly, I…I have hemophobia."
"No problem," replied Edward. He used a spell to access his interdimensional space and took out a potion and stacks of gold.
"G-Gold. So much gold," muttered Shizune.
"This potion is for your hemophobia." Before coming to the Naruto World, Edward prepared a way to deal with Tsunade's issue. In the Empire, many anxiety disorders like hemophobia can be cured with potions, psychologists, or the help of Spiritual Arcanists.
"There is more than enough gold. You can use some of it for your gambling addiction."
"It's not an addiction," countered Tsunade. "Plus, how do you know so much about me?"
"I know everything."
Tsunade ignored him as she looked at the potion. She took a moment before grabbing it; there was no turning back. Without hesitation, she chugged it down and closed her eyes.
A few minutes later, she opened her eyes and created a Chakra Blade with the tip of her finger. Then, she gently cut her wrist before watching the blood slowly trickle down on the floor.
"Lady Tsunade."
"I'm fine. No, I'm better than before." She always blamed herself for not being able to save Dan. But now, she understood and accepted that it was not her fault, that she had done her best.
"You guys can go set up everything." Edward gave them an interdimensional bag, making his complexion a little paler after using so many spells.
After the group left, he looked in one direction: "Old Geezer, don't you know it's impolite to stare?"
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