Climate

During this time, Jiraiya was digging into Yota’s origins, while Obito Uchiha prepared to speed up his search for Akatsuki members. Yota himself had not been idle either, planning to search for some treasures he had seen in the movies.

The greatest treasure in the Naruto movies was naturally the Giant Tenseigan on the moon in the sky. Unfortunately, though Yota coveted it immensely, he had no way of getting into space.

This was not like the Pirate World, where one could simply find a hot-air balloon and fly straight to the moon. Although reaching the moon in the Naruto World was far less difficult than in the real world, it was still no simple matter.

As for that genjutsu passageway, Yota had yet to find any clues about it. For now, he could only set aside the matter of the Giant Tenseigan.

Other than that, there was Loulan’s Dragon Vein. Dragon Vein Chakra possessed space-time properties and could even travel to parallel worlds. Most importantly, it had a definite location. Yota therefore made it his first target.

This time, Yota was finally not alone. Besides himself, Nagato—who had fully recovered and whose appearance Yota had altered—was accompanying him.

Nagato had spent basically the entire first half of his life in the Land of Rain. This was his first time traveling far from home. Loulan, a small nation within the Land of Wind, was a typical desert country, completely different from the Land of Rain’s endlessly rainy climate.

After losing his Rinnegan, Nagato seemed to have cast off the burden of being a god. His mindset had instead returned to that of his youth, and he curiously observed the scenery throughout the desert.

"The Land of Rain floods, while the Land of Wind suffers drought. Aside from terrain, the climates of these places should also be related to the battle in which the Sage of Six Paths sealed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki."

Seeing Nagato’s curious expression, Yota began talking at length.

Although this world’s climate was not like that of the One Piece World, capable of producing every bizarre and exaggerated kind of weather imaginable, the climates of the Five Great Nations were clearly nothing like normal conditions either.

The weather in the Five Great Nations was completely different, and the boundaries between each region’s climate were extremely distinct. There were no transitional zones at all.

The Land of Lightning even had lightning rain, while the Land of Earth had rock rain. Those were phenomena that could never occur in normal weather.

Because the people of the Naruto World had long grown accustomed to the strange weather here, they had never given it much thought.

After all, the climate had been like this ever since they were born, so they had never considered that it might have been caused by supernatural power. Perhaps only those who had lived through Kaguya’s era over a thousand years ago knew the truth behind it all.

Just as people in the One Piece World would not find the Grand Line’s climate particularly unscientific, since they had no basis for comparison and thus no awareness of it.

But if people from the Naruto World came to the Pirate World, they would surely be stunned beyond belief. Places like Sky Island were probably things they had never even imagined.

"Could that battle affect the weather of the entire world? And it’s already been over a thousand years. Could its effects really be permanent?" Nagato asked, disbelief written across his face.

Yota pointed at the sky. "If they could create something like the moon, do you really think permanently affecting the climate of the entire world would be difficult?"

Nagato was immediately speechless. Compared with creating a moon, permanently altering the world’s climate really did not seem like much of a feat.

"Then why didn’t the Sage of Six Paths restore those harsh climates afterward?" Nagato asked unwillingly. The Land of Rain, where he had lived, was one of the victims of this terrible climate, making him feel all the more frustrated.

"Though I don’t know the actual reason, I’d guess it’s because creating is harder than destroying?" Yota said, tilting his head. "After all, creating harsh weather is easy. Making the climate favorable and seasonable is truly difficult."

"Besides, climate is interconnected as a whole. More than a thousand years ago, there probably wasn’t even meteorology. If they relied entirely on instinct, they might have fixed the heavy rains in the Land of Fire only for floods to break out in the Land of Water."

The two chatted as they walked through the desert of the Land of Wind. They appeared to be moving slowly, but every step carried them more than ten meters, even faster than the travel speed of ordinary jonin.

This was not some Devil Fruit ability, but Yota’s use of the Rinnegan’s gravitational power. Nagato could only use gravity manipulation in a straightforward fashion for attack and defense, but in Yota’s hands, it had been employed in countless ingenious ways. When used for travel, it produced an effect almost like shrinking the earth into inches.

The reason was that, after being modified by the Munch-Munch Fruit, the Rinnegan could be considered Yota’s own native version. Naturally, he could control it with perfect ease.

Nagato seemed quite interested in the matter of climate, perhaps because he wanted to change the flooding in the Land of Rain. However, the two clearly had no solution for it at present, so they soon stopped chatting and began traveling at full speed.

Both of them were among the strongest ninja in the Naruto World, and with gravity manipulation assisting them, they reached the small nation of Loulan in just one day.

"So this is Loulan? It doesn’t look quite like the information you gave us," they said as they looked at the somewhat dilapidated town before them.

"It’s supposed to be different." Yota rolled his eyes. "The information I know should be from around three years ago, when Loulan’s Dragon Vein had not yet been sealed."

"Now that Loulan’s Dragon Vein has been sealed, the town must have suffered wind and sand erosion over the past three years. Coupled with that battle back then, it would be perfectly normal for the town to have fallen into disrepair."

Not only was the town in disrepair, but Loulan’s population also seemed to have dwindled considerably. Quite a few people had likely moved away.

After all, this was a desert nation with scarce water sources. Things had been manageable when the Dragon Vein still existed, but now that it had been sealed, the people of Loulan naturally could no longer survive here.

Loulan still had some stored resources left. If Yota remembered correctly, in another decade or so, this place would become nothing but ruins.

Yota and Nagato swaggered into Loulan. When the residents saw them, expressions of awe appeared on their faces.

Judging by their attire, neither of them looked like someone to be trifled with. Nagato in particular wore a Rain Ninja forehead protector, and the residents of a small country like Loulan naturally held ninja in awe.

Unfortunately, neither of them knew where Queen Sara of Loulan was now. The tower where she had originally lived had already collapsed.