Chapter 29

After subjecting the town and leaving it under Ryōshi's jurisdiction. Nero continued aimlessly through the smaller villages looking for potential recruits while also occasionally getting rid of the bandits that got in his way.

It seemed that after the fall of Soragakure, Konhoha completely retreated and went back to focusing on the ongoing war back in their homeland. From what Nero could gather, the war was still going on but much tamer. With the fighting mostly focused in Amegakure, fortunately for the small village Hanzo helped keep the fights to only a few skirmishes, but many lives were still lost and at the current rate many more would follow.

Nero didn't really care much as to what happens during this war since unless he jumps in then it wouldn't really affect him in anyway. The rise of the three sanin during this time also made him reluctant to join the fray no matter how interesting he thought it would be. The cons heavily outweighed the pros.

So with that in mind, he went back to hand selecting people he deemed to have potential. To him it didn't matter if said person had talent in chakra or not because chakra was not everything; not with the technology he had.

Rather he was looking for those whom he thought would be loyal or seemed easily manipulated either due to their naivity or ambition.

As he scoured the land, his name spread far and wide as the steel demon. Rumors claimed that anyone who had laid eyes on him would see his menecing figure, imposing blue eyes and dreadful voice that would drive those who heard it insane. With a touch he sapped away at your vitality and left an empty husk. He could bring down metal rain to his foes and no type of attack could put a dent on his metal armor. Others claimed he could also soar the skies and breath fire through his mouth and destroy an entire town in hours.

He couldn't help but chuckle when he heard this, some aspects were exaggerated but he wasn't one to complain, not when that helped him become a fearf figure within the chaotic village.

Right now Nero's destination was a concentration camp which once belonged to a certain noble from Ancor vantain. After his death, his only surviving son had fled there and ruled with an iron fist as he bided his time to reclaim what was once his.

Nero looked up ahead to see said camp, it had thick earth walls forming a circle that had a diameter of 20 kilometers. The walls stood imposingly at 50 meters as blood and corpses lined the outer parts clearly showing the brutality happening within.

Of course Nero hadn't come here to liberate the camp out of some saintly kindness or heroic ideal. His purpose for coming here was to add on to his man power. Afterall these people were already living their worst lives. He surmised that it wouldn't take much to convince them to join his side.

His secondary goal was to test the various effects of the runes and upgrades he added to his armor. During his free time which was most of the time, Nero added runes to his armor to create wind blades that coated his forearm and had a length of 30 cm. He also added lighting runes to increase his destructive capabilities and a few flame runes to create compressed balls of flame that could decimate an entire house. He also added a few other functions to the suit, like flight and energy absorption.

Instead of calling his suit the lurker model anymore, he felt it would me much more accurate to name it after something more destructive. After mulling it over for a bit, he decided to name his new suit the Asura model 0.1. It was named after the Hindu Gods of War who were rumored to have four arms and could change the landscape with the battles.

Nero also wanted to create a range of even more destructive weapons after this and all of them would likely be named after some God or divine weapon. His reason for doing this was intriguing and also no sensible, his long term goal was to become a God and he wanted to create weapons that could match God's in power and live up to their names, and he would have control over all of them so he would be the Supreme God a being above the Gods and nobody besides himself would don these armors. However he didn't want to become a copy of Iron man so he would also raise his own strength and create a perfect body using powerful genomes found within this world, from there chakra would simply be substituted with mana.

After getting close to the walls, Nero didn't bother to hide or find any alternated routes. He walked up the gates towards the tense guards who ran back in the base screaming that the steal demon had come.

Hundreds if not thousands of footsteps rang out from within the camp as he approached. Nero wasn't fazed however.

After Soragakure's fall he knew that not more than 30% of their shonobi survived and most of those were the weaklings stationed outside the village.

The camp was most likely guarded by normal humans, some mercenaries, hired ronin and a small number of Soragakure's shinobi.

But he wasn't going to let down his guard either, afterall he might come across some unexpected hidden expert like those Chinese novels he read. Letting out an amused cackle Nero blasted towards the gates and took out the brunt of a volley of arrows that aimed to impale and kill him.

He raised his arm and concentrated a ball of flames, he then shaped the ball into a javelin using his mana and shot it forward and blew open the gates. He jumped into the open maw of the forest without hesitation under the setting sun. The birds flew away in fear as the entire place quaked and screams dominated the entire fort.

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