Inside the Kamui Dimension, supplies have piled up into several continuous mountain ranges.

Food, ores, weapons, medicinal herbs... That list for nation-building, which once seemed unreachable, has now been completed by more than 90%.

Uchiha Kei stood atop a small mountain made of iron ore, overlooking this vast reserve that belonged only to him, enough to create a new world.

Fugaku stood beside him, his face filled with unconcealable excitement and shock.

"Kei, we've succeeded."

Fugaku's voice trembled with excitement, "With these, even if we are blockaded by the entire Shinobi World, we can be self-sufficient and hold out for over ten years!"

"No, it's not enough."

Uchiha Kei shook his head, his gaze sweeping calmly over this ocean of supplies.

He looked at Fugaku and said something that surprised him.

"We have the skeleton and the flesh, but for a country to function, it also needs meridians and a brain."

"Meridians and a brain?" Fugaku was puzzled.

"We need Medical Ninjas, teachers, craftsmen, and scholars."

Uchiha Kei's voice was clear and firm, "We need those who can create value and drive the progress of civilization. A country with only soldiers is not a country; it's just a larger military base. It might win wars, but it will never win the future."

Fugaku fell silent.

He was once again shocked by Uchiha Kei's mindset, which transcended the scope of a Ninja and truly belonged to a "nation-builder."

Fugaku thought about how to survive, while Uchiha Kei thought about how to prosper.

The perspective was different from the start.

"I understand."

Fugaku nodded heavily, flames of thirst for knowledge burning in his eyes, "What do you need me to do?"

"I need a list." Uchiha Kei said, "A list of all the talented but unrecognized technical personnel in Konoha who have been marginalized for various reasons."

The final piece of the puzzle for nation-building, and the most important one—the reserve of talent—officially began.

Based on his own daily observations and information retrieved from the Military Police Force intelligence system, Uchiha Kei quickly locked onto a batch of targets.

The people on this list were diverse, but they all had one thing in common: their talents had been severely buried in Konoha's rigid, seniority-based system.

Among them were:

A Medical Ninja named "Senju Fujima." He was a distant relative of Tsunade and had amazing talent in Medical Ninjutsu. However, because his treatment plans were too radical and he repeatedly challenged Tsunade's authority, he was marginalized by the Medical Department. His philosophy was that Medical Ninjas shouldn't just be passive healers, but should actively strengthen a Ninja's body through cell research.

A barrier user named "Nohara Kaede." She came from a civilian background but had an almost obsessive study of the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Technique and had independently developed several improved versions of the Four Symbols Seal. However, because of her civilian status, no matter how hard she worked, she could never enter the core of the Konoha Barrier Team, which was controlled by the Hyuga and Sarutobi clans.

A young blacksmith named "Kamizuki Tessai." He was a forward-thinking "madman" who spent his days obsessed with combining Ninja tools with explosive tags and even Chakra of different attributes, attempting to create brand-new "Explosion Release Ninja tools" and "Magnet Release Ninja tools." These ideas of his were dismissed by the Konoha Ninja Tool Development Department as "whimsical" and a waste of resources.

Looking at this list, light like that of discovering treasure flashed in Uchiha Kei's eyes.

To Konoha, these people were "trash," "heretics," and "weirdos."

But in the new country about to be established, they would be the "cornerstones" supporting development in various fields.

Uchiha Kei did not choose to use genjutsu to forcibly control them. He didn't want a group of mindless puppets; he wanted a group of creative partners willing to strive together for the same dream.

He needed their hearts.

In the following deep nights, Uchiha Kei personally took action, or dispatched his most trusted confidants, to begin secretly contacting everyone on the list.

In a dilapidated workshop, Uchiha Kei met that young blacksmith, Kamizuki Tessai.

The workshop was piled with various failed Ninja tool wrecks, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of gunpowder.

Kamizuki Tessai himself was covered in black ash, his hair messy like a bird's nest, and he was staring blankly at a pile of parts.

"You're Uchiha Kei?" Seeing Uchiha Kei appear, Kamizuki Tessai looked somewhat vigilant.

"I've seen your design blueprints." Uchiha Kei didn't beat around the bush and spoke directly, "Injecting wind-attribute Chakra into a specially made hollow Shuriken, and after throwing it, using the air pressure difference generated by the rotation to detonate the ultra-small explosive tag inside, thereby producing secondary acceleration and range-based cutting wind blades. This idea is genius."

Kamizuki Tessai was stunned.

This was the first time someone had used the word "genius" to describe his "scrap."

"So what if it's genius?" Kamizuki Tessai laughed at himself, "In the eyes of those big shots, I'm just an impractical madman."

"That's because their thinking is still stuck in the previous era." Uchiha Kei looked at Kamizuki Tessai calmly, "They only know how to use Ninja tools, but they don't know how to create them."

Uchiha Kei stepped forward slowly and picked up a semi-finished Shuriken on the table.

"In Konoha, your thinking is 'heresy'."

"But in my country, your thinking will be the'standard'."

Kamizuki Tessai raised his head abruptly, an unbelievable light bursting out in his eyes.

Uchiha Kei didn't say anything more, just left a way to contact him, and turned to leave.

Similar stories happened in the laboratory of the Medical Ninja Senju Fujima, and in the home of the civilian barrier user Nohara Kaede.

Uchiha Kei didn't use any flowery language, nor did he make empty promises that couldn't be fulfilled. He just sincerely communicated with each of them, listened to their frustrations, accurately pointed out the value of their research results, and depicted a future for them where "in the new world, your talents will be maximally respected and utilized."

For these people who had long been in a state of suppression and unrecognized talent, this "recognition" from the actual power holder of the Uchiha was far more lethal than any temptation of money.

The flames in their hearts were re-ignited.

Everyone contacted agreed without hesitation.

They all agreed that on the day Uchiha Kei gave the final signal, they would bring their families, disciples, and all their research results, and join this gamble called "Kamui" without hesitation.

Uchiha Kei's influence truly extended from within the Uchiha to other strata of Konoha.

Hardware, software, funds, talent...

Everything is ready; we are just waiting for the final signal.