'Starting already?'
Takumi raised an eyebrow. He felt it was a bit soon.
But things seemed to be inevitably heading towards this situation.
Now that little Takumi couldn't increase the number of puppets further, as his young body might not be able to handle it,
It seemed only natural to consider other aspects to increase his strength.
'Starting? Building a Gundam?'
A rare hint of excitement appeared in Takumi's eyes.
[You plan to build a puppet about ten meters tall. The process of controlling the puppet's construction is not complex, just time-consuming.]
["So big!" Sasori watches with great interest from the side, opening his arms wide while sitting on a chair.]
["When you grow up, you can make an even bigger one." You say to him with a smile, then control a puppet to lift him into the cockpit of the giant puppet.]
[After playing with Sasori until he gets tired and falls asleep, you start adding weapons to the giant puppet.]
[A huge puppet can store many more weapons.]
[Just senbon alone, you store thousands, along with hundreds of kunai, and kunai wrapped with exploding tags.]
'Machine guns and missiles, right?'
Takumi felt a sense of déjà vu. 'Gundams indeed feel incomplete without these, but what about the lack of a beam saber?'
'After all, the Shinobi World doesn't have such advanced weapons.'
'Would physical weapons have to be used?'
Takumi guessed, and looking down, he found his guess was very accurate.
[On the puppet's back, there is also a several-meter-long giant blade, with a sharp edge, full of power when swung.]
[After finishing this puppet, you immediately happily run around the village controlling it, like a true child.]
[At first, it causes some commotion, but when people discover it's you, they find it only natural.]
[In just a year or two, you have already brought too many changes to Sunagakure.]
[On the front lines, thanks to your invention of using puppets to protect the puppeteer, casualties among puppeteers on the battlefield have sharply decreased.]
[Moreover, puppeteers hidden inside puppets can immediately counterattack when others approach.]
[Sunagakure no longer need to dispatch additional Shinobi to secretly protect the puppeteers' safety.]
[More people can be freed up to do more things.]
[In the early stages of the war, the other villages suffer heavy losses against the brand-new Sunagakure's puppetry tactics.]
[This is a rare victory for Sunagakure.]
[And you, as the key figure in this victory, naturally become even more loved by the people of the village.]
[Although because of this, you suffer several assassination attempts by spies from other villages lurking in Sunagakure,]
[Thanks to the ten puppets protecting you closely, and the covert protection dispatched by the Third Kazekage, each time you escape unscathed.]
'The Third Kazekage seems to have much more brains than Hiruzen. He even knows to dispatch Anbu to protect key figures.'
Takumi couldn't help complaining. 'Unlike Hiruzen, whose Anbu seem non-existent, unable to play any role at all.'
'Clearly they are Shinobi meant to protect Konoha from the shadows, yet they become tools for covert struggles among those big shots. How pathetic.'
As he thinks about it, Takumi couldn't help but shake his head.
The more he thought about it, the more troublesome Konoha's situation seemed.
If Konoha's foundation weren't so strong, and if it didn't have so many clans,
Konoha would probably have ceased to exist by now.
[Seeing you control the giant puppet, moving agilely without any delay, the Third Kazekage's eyes immediately light up.]
["Is this thing difficult to operate?" He immediately can't wait to ask.]
["Not difficult. Just needs some practice to get used to it, but it will definitely be slower than smaller puppets." You truthfully explain the drawbacks of the giant puppet.]
[Even with the materials you specially selected for lightness and strength, after building such a large puppet, its speed in all aspects is considerably slower.]
[Whether it's wind resistance or transmission, it causes delays in movement.]
[But on the battlefield, this kind of behemoth is the best tool against Shinobi who lack powerful Ninjutsu.]
[While having astonishing defensive power, its attack power is also extremely strong.]
[The Third Kazekage immediately orders people to mass-produce this type of large puppet. Even if they don't have enough materials to make them as sturdy as yours, he doesn't care.]
[What he values is the efficiency of large puppets against weaker Chunin and Genin.]
[As for the fact that large puppets are easier targets, you don't mention it. You believe the Third Kazekage is also very clear about this risk.]
[You don't bother with exactly how the Third Kazekage implements it.]
[After experiencing the ten-meter puppet, your inner desire to pilot a Gundam is not only unsatisfied but becomes even more intense.]
[So, without hesitation, you bring your plan forward and directly start building a super-large puppet to fulfill your wish of piloting a Gundam.]
[You find a secret location and secretly start building the super-large puppet.]
[Only the Third Kazekage and Chiyo know about this place.]
[With no one to disturb you, you focus intently, while also simultaneously taking care of looking after Sasori.]
[Occasionally, when your parents return from the front lines, you hand Sasori over to them.]
[This busy work lasts for a year.]
[After a year of production, you finally complete the over-sixty-meter huge puppet.]
[Not only that, but you also make thirty-meter, ten-meter, and five-meter puppets.]
[From small to large, each one is nested inside the larger one, like Russian nesting dolls.]
[This multi-layered protection not only better ensures your safety but also brings more surprises to the enemy.]
[When the enemy finally breaks through the largest puppet, only to find an even sturdier one inside, they will surely feel despair.]
[And you can take that opportunity to ambush them.]
'Infinite nesting dolls.'
Takumi couldn't help but marvel. This was also a kind of quirky taste.
But doing this would probably make the largest puppet very difficult to move.
[The super-large puppet is completed, but you soon encounter another problem.]
[That is, the largest puppet moves too slowly.]
[You think for a long time, and in the end, the only thing you can do is install tracks on the puppet's feet.]
[This allows the puppet to move faster.]
[And based on this, you also make some tracked vehicles, controlled by puppeteers, capable of transporting supplies faster.]
[This earns you praise from the Third Kazekage again.]
[Small amounts of supplies can be stored and carried in scrolls, but large amounts still require manpower to transport.]
[The food and medical supplies consumed in war are countless. Having tracked puppet vehicles with good defense and high speed to carry them will undoubtedly greatly shorten transportation time.]
'Transportation is the lifeline of war. Only unobstructed transportation allows frontline soldiers to fight without worries about the rear.'
Takumi nodded silently.
This was also a very critical and fundamental aspect of warfare.
The supply line is the lifeline.
That's why there are so many classic battles where the enemy is defeated by ambushing their supply lines.