Chapter 54: Injection of Serum and Body Transformation
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After Cain left the Uchiha territory, he found Tsunade waiting for him nearby, so he hurried over.
When Cain approached, Tsunade asked, “Is it over?”
“If it’s just a visit, they treated us with respect. As for other matters, it’s neither a success nor a failure,” Cain replied, shaking his head. He had met Hitoshi Uchiha, but that was about it. They didn’t really discuss anything beyond exchanging pleasantries, so Cain decided to leave.
Hitoshi Uchiha was experienced and had gone through the rule of the first and second-generation Hokage. Currently, Konoha’s ideas on the Uchiha were limited to the high-ranking officials, and there were no signs of any other developments. Cain felt it would be difficult to convince Hitoshi, so he didn’t bother trying.
It might be easier to persuade the next clan head, and fortunately, Hitoshi Uchiha was getting on in years. His age was close to that of Fugaku Uchiha, who would soon inherit the position of clan head.
Cain spent his free time in the Senju territory. If he wanted to leave, he would call for Tsunade. Meanwhile, Tsunade was busy dealing with village affairs and helping Orochimaru with missions using her Shadow Clone and Transformation techniques.
This was the condition for keeping Orochimaru in the research laboratory. He couldn’t afford to be too idle as a disciple of the Hokage and a Jonin of Konoha.
Moreover, after the war, there was an explosion of missions. Almost every Jonin was assigned numerous tasks. Tsunade was able to avoid missions outside the village under the guise of medical system reform, but she still had to help Orochimaru complete missions.
One day, Tsunade suddenly returned from the hospital in the morning and brought good news to Nawaki.
“Nawaki, come with me. Orochimaru has succeeded.”
Nawaki knew what Tsunade’s words meant and immediately got up excitedly to follow her.
Then, Tsunade handed the message Orochimaru had given her to Cain for him to read. All remaining dozens of test subjects had been successfully transformed without any failures.
As for the successful test subjects, Orochimaru had undoubtedly already dealt with them. These few words represented that Orochimaru had already taken the lives of dozens of people, but both Tsunade and Cain ignored this fact.
After a brief cleanup by the three of them, they set off directly. Originally, Tsunade wanted to bring the serum back to inject into Nawaki. Still, Orochimaru felt that there were many devices in the research base that could monitor Nawaki’s physical reactions. With just this point, Orochimaru convinced Tsunade.
At the entrance of Konoha, the gatekeepers checked Tsunade, but she scared them off with a stomp of her foot. While ninjas needed certificates to leave the village, it also depended on their identity.
After the Second Shinobi War, the title of the Three Sannin became widely known. Moreover, Tsunade was the granddaughter of the First and Second Hokage and the disciple of the Third Hokage. Even without a certificate, the gatekeepers couldn’t stop her.
After leaving the village, two of the three people were ordinary people. Cain’s physical fitness was even worse than Nawaki’s, so his speed was relatively slow. However, Tsunade split a shadow clone and carried them on their backs, heading directly to the experimental base. It took less than a day to arrive here.
After the three arrived at the experimental base, Orochimaru had already ordered everything.
“Orochimaru-sensei!”
Cain walked up to Orochimaru happily and greeted him.
Orochimaru smiled and said to Nawaki, “Nawaki, come with me. After today, you will be back to normal.”
Then, Tsunade and Cain followed. However, Cain went to check the monitoring first. He was afraid that Orochimaru would falsely report the success rate of saving on the Extremis Virus Serum. After accelerating to watch the surveillance video, Cainn was relieved.
All the test subjects adapted to the new version of the Extremis Virus Serum, and more than 90% of them awakened Wood Release. The remaining test subjects who used ninjutsu had poor talent, and Orochimaru couldn’t bear to keep them alive, so he killed them.
The Extremis Virus Serum he left for Orochimaru had already been used up, adding another point to Cain’s evaluation of Orochimaru.
After arriving at the laboratory, Orochimaru asked, “Cain, do you want to equip yourself with a new Extremis Virus Serum?”
“Yes, please. That’s my purpose.”
Cain pointed to his head and said to Orochimaru, “A serum that can quickly repair severed limbs, enhance physical fitness, and prevent illusions from invading. Anyone would want to inject it. And when I go back, maybe there won’t be any left for me.”
Creating a fictionally organized background was already a daily behavior for Cain. After injecting the Extremis Virus Serum, as long as he didn’t lose consciousness in the ninja world for the first time, no one could deal with him with the help of his “system.”
“Well, cultivating one or two doesn’t make a difference to me. Then, I need to take some cells from you to cultivate it.”
After Orochimaru finished speaking, he went to cultivate the new serum.
Cain also copied all the information about the new Extremis Virus and Hashirama’s cell that he had already agreed with Tsunade in advance. He should be able to make twenty new Extremis Virus Serums with the Hashirama cell he got.
“After the serum is successfully cultivated, you should be one of the only two people in the ninja world who can use Wood Release. Do you want to choose to join Konoha? I will help you deal with the high-level officials so they won’t trouble you anymore, and there is also Wood Release ninjutsu.”
Tsunade still wanted to help repair the relationship between Konoha and Cain. Wood Release ninjutsu was a good lure, but Cain didn’t care much about Wood Release ninjutsu.
The First Hokage was strong because of himself, and Wood Release was not essential. Even with Extremis Virus Serum and Hashirama’s cells, it would take a massive amount of chakra and senjutsu to achieve the scale of the First Hokage.
“Forget it, Tsunade. There will always be a second time if there is a first time. Unless they come down and you go up.”
Cain shook his head and said to Tsunade, “There aren’t many people in Konoha I can trust. You and Kushina are the only ones. Let’s not mention that again unless one of you two becomes Hokage. I don’t value Wood Release that much, and I also need to discuss with others before giving you a definite answer.”
Seeing Cain’s firm attitude, Tsunade couldn’t help but sigh in her heart. Those old guys are really brainless, always offending others.
Cultivating the serum takes about two days. When Orochimaru took out the successful serum, Nawaki was suddenly very excited.
Seeing Nawaki’s appearance, Tsunade immediately scolded, “Calm down. I remember telling you injecting this serum is most taboo when you’re emotionally excited.”
“I know, sister.”
After hearing Tsunade’s scolding, Nawaki slowly calmed down his excited emotions. Cain was much better. There was almost a 100% success rate, so he had nothing to worry about. He was just a little afraid of pain.
Afterward, the two of them lay on separate beds with their bodies restrained, and Tsunade injected them with the new Extremis Virus Serum.
In an instant, Cain seemed to have fallen into magma. He felt nothing but pain all over his body. Nawaki was the same. After injecting the new Extremis Virus, the serum started to work slowly, gradually repairing his injured body.
After thirty minutes, both almost ended the body mutation, sweating profusely. Except for the red light in their eyes, Cain suddenly felt his body in exceptionally good shape.
Dang!
The metal restraints on his body were directly broken by him. The metal straps that were very hard for him before were now like dried mud.
Cain felt that he was much stronger than before regarding strength, speed, and perception.
