Chapter 54: Exchange and Taking Stock of the Harvest
[The Host has five minutes of stay time remaining. Please be prepared to be withdrawn from this life experience game world!]
The System's notification sounded just as Deva Path Pain reached Naruto's side. For Naruto, who had repeatedly used high-consumption Ninjutsuand Dōjutsu, exhausting his Chakra, this was undoubtedly timely and welcome news.
"Is it too late for me to surrender now?"
Naruto intended to pry more information from this man with higher-level eyes; after all, the Ninja of this world had an almost instinctive habit of being talkative.
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"If it were before this battle, I would have been happy to accept your surrender and recruitment!" Deva Path Pain slowly raised his hands. "But now, it's too late!"
"You idiot, did you really think I wanted to surrender?!" Naruto shouted, communicating with the System just as Deva Path Pain was about to strike. "System, choose to return early!"
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"Phew! That was a close call!"
Upon arriving in the milky-white space, Narutowiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He had been worried that dying during the stay phase would lower his already achieved Excellent rating, but now that everything was fine, he felt relieved.
Besides, he had only fought four or five rounds with that man with the Rinnegan. If it came down to a life-and-death struggle, Naruto wouldn't fear him!
However, Naruto still had a headache; he hadn't expected another mastermind behind the Masked Man.
[Please select your mandatory task reward: choose one skill from the character you appeared as!]
Following the System's prompt, Naruto stopped his train of thought and fell into a dilemma once again.
What to choose? At this moment, Naruto fully experienced what it meant to have decision paralysis; he truly wanted it all!
Whether it was the Masked Man's space-type Dōjutsu, the broken Dōjutsu "Ten no Tokotachi" he awakened after possessing Uchiha Itachi and gaining the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, or the Rinnegan that appeared at the end, Naruto was salivating over all of them.
"I want them all!" Naruto scratched his head. "But... I seem to remember the Nine-Tailed saying that the Sharingan is the foundation for evolving into Sage Eyes. So, is the Rinnegan the Sage Eyes? Otherwise, it couldn't be above the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in Dōjutsu Rank!"
Naruto's mind raced as he weighed the pros and cons. "Powerful doesn't necessarily mean best; only what suits me is the strongest. For example, the Rasengan my father developed—even though it's just an A-Rank hand-seal-less Ninjutsu, it becomes completely different when paired with his Flying Thunder God!"
"So..." Naruto made his decision. "System, I choose Uchiha Itachi's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!"
[The character Uchiha Itachi was the Host's possessed character. His fate and strength have undergone significant changes. Does the Hostchoose the original Uchiha Itachi's Bloodline Limitor the Uchiha Itachi's Bloodline Limit after the Host's intervention?]
There was no need for the System to over-explain; Naruto would naturally choose the Uchiha ItachiBloodline Limit after his own intervention. After all, Naruto had lived through it step by step and was absolutely familiar with it.
As long as it was applied to Naruto's original body, assuming no Bloodline conflict, Naruto could definitely exert its original power at the fastest speed!
However, Naruto soon discovered a problem: after choosing those Eternal Mangekyo Sharinganproduced through his intervention, would they have an irreversible conflict with his own body?
In this life experience game, Naruto clearly knew that obtaining the Sharingan as an outsider could cause unnecessary trouble for the body.
For instance, Kakashi Hatake, who obtained Uchiha Obito's Sharingan, might hold the title of Konoha's Copy Ninja, but Naruto knew all too well the hardships involved.
While Naruto's own Chakra reserves were fully sufficient to support the consumption of having the Sharingan active 24/7, he hadn't forgotten his ambition to evolve his body into a Sage Body.
According to Orochimaru's records on Hashirama cells research, while the Sharingan can suppress the aggressiveness of Hashirama cells, it's precisely because of this trait that Naruto worried the Sharingan would hinder his body's progression toward becoming a Sage Body.
"After exchanging for the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan formed through my intervention, will it cause irreversible damage or negative effects to my body?"
Naruto, following the spirit of asking when in doubt, immediately posed his question to the System, hoping for an answer.
Clearly, the life experience game system was quite reliable; after Naruto raised his question, it immediately provided an explanation.
[The System can ensure the reward item bypasses all negative impacts on the Host's own body, but this requires the Host to pay a corresponding price: the exchanged reward will be manifested in the Host's body in its original form. While the upper limit and abilities remain unchanged, the Awakening process must start from zero.]
"What about the Rinnegan!" Naruto asked immediately after thinking for a moment.
[The interpretation is exactly the same as before; there are no special differences.]
"Sigh..." Naruto sighed and once again discarded the Rinnegan as an option.
He chose this way not because the Rinnegan was weak, but because Naruto had no clue how to awaken it. Since both would start from the same baseline once manifested in his body, choosing the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan he was more familiar with was undoubtedly the optimal choice.
After all, through this life experience, Naruto knew the trajectory of Konoha's next two or three years like the back of his hand. He was still thinking about rapidly increasing his strength to reap benefits during the inevitable night of the clan massacre!
Even if the plan to reap benefits failed, the Dōjutsuability of the Masked Man, the mastermind behind his parents' death, happened to be countered by these Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Furthermore, in a one-on-one fight at full strength, the Dōjutsu"Ten no Tokotachi" wasn't necessarily weaker than those Rinnegan!
"I choose to exchange for the Uchiha ItachiBloodline Limit after my intervention!"
[Exchange successful. Please check for yourself after the Host returns!]
After the System's prompt, Naruto felt very refreshed. He could almost see the scene of himself personally slaying the Masked Man in his own world. Moreover, his gains from this life experience game weren't limited to just this.
"Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu," "Edo Tensei," "Eight Gates," "Flying Thunder God Technique," "Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags," "Four Symbols Seal," and so on were all Ninjutsu Narutohad obtained by copying the scroll of seals.
Among them, what Naruto liked most and ultimately wanted to learn was the "Flying Thunder God Technique."
After all, as Minato Namikaze's signature Ninjutsu, putting aside whether Naruto, his orphan, had the talent to practice this technique, as a son, he had the heart to become like his father.
Although Naruto could no longer match his father in terms of Heart-Nature, he was still very willing to try his hand at the Ninjutsu.
"This way, I can be closer to you, Father..." A look of sadness appeared in Naruto's eyes. "I really want to meet you once in reality; I also have many things I want to say to you..."
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