184 - Granny's Stick and Heaven's Piss
The space was filled with a dense energy of the Ryūmyaku.
"Phew…" Standing once again in front of the Ryūmyaku switch, Kei let out a long breath of turbid air. He hadn't even had time to say anything to Sēramu and Sāra.
Suddenly, a long-missed system notification sounded in his mind.
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[Massive distortion of the original worldline's development detected.]
[Original worldline completely collapsed.]
[Obtained:
- 1 trait duplication
- 1 trait conversion card (Red)
- 1 associated trait extraction (random)
- 3 trait extraction
- 3 gifting opportunity
- 1 trait downgrading
- 2 trait reset
- 1 trait removal]
[Original worldline's trajectory disintegrated and is being reconstructed. Difficulty of obtaining further rewards significantly increased before reconstruction completes.]
[Estimated reconstruction time: 364 days 23 hours 59 minutes.]
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Is it because I've cleared Kiri too? Kei was momentarily dazed but quickly understood.
Now even Kiri was secretly under his control, and the future of the shinobi world was entirely in his hands. When to fight, when to stop—it was all up to him!
If the worldline didn't completely collapse now, he'd have to admire how durable this worldline really was.
However...
"One year, huh?"
Looking at this duration, he wasn't particularly surprised.
Judging by how Tenten, Hinata, and Saya had appeared in Rōran before, his future self clearly hadn't stopped stirring things up. From time to time, he would alter people's fates, thereby interfering with the worldline's trajectory.
By that logic... The shinobi world was seriously durable!
Ruthlessly harvest once, rest for a year, and then harvest again—it was way tougher than your average patch of leeks.
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[Host: Yamanaka Kei]
[Career: Ninja]
[Active Traits:
{Gold: Multiversal Voyager, Yin-Yang Sage Master},
{Red: Zero-Frame Start, Wood Release Jinchūriki, Unlimited Arsenal, Dust Release Successor},
{Purple: Seeker of Origins, Borrowed Account Login, Guaranteed Decapitation Slash, Heavenly Divine Play, The Strong Don't Die by the Knife},
{Blue: Silent Walker, Fate Weaver}]
[Inactive Traits:
{Blue: One Pregnancy, Nine Babies},
{Green: Random Small Transformation},
{White: Stealthy Crawler, Fragile Yet Tenacious, Food Fetish, Beauty-Average Eye},
{Gray: Nothing to His Name, Complete Childhood, Hard Landing, Overtime Karen, Silky Entrance}]
[Trait Gifting: 16]
[Trait Extraction: 3]
[Trait Duplication: 3]
[Trait Downgrade: 4]
[Trait Removal: 3]
[Trait Reset: 6]
[Trait Conversion Card (Red): 1]
[Associated Trait Extraction (random): 1]
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"Copy, strip, convert…" Kei glanced at the system rewards just received and felt quite satisfied.
Given his current strength, normal trait extraction weren't particularly appealing to him, unless he got extremely lucky.
But the trait duplication, removal, red trait conversion, and associated trait extraction... Now those were real tools to boost his strength and increase his means in battle.
After carefully considering the order of using his rewards, he chose to use the associated trait extraction first.
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[Associated trait selected: Unlimited Arsenal]
[Obtained:
- Unlimited Blade Works (Purple)]
[Unlimited Blade Works (Purple):
A projection grand magic and reality marble grand magic forge an infinite boundary domain, capable of replicating and projecting all weapons seen, stored within the domain for use at will. Replicated Noble Phantasms decrease in power by one rank. EX-class Noble Phantasms cannot be replicated except under special conditions like assistance from the original owner. Greatly enhances mastery of swords and combat intuition.]
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As soon as Kei saw the drawn trait, he instantly knew where it was from.
System, activate [Unlimited Blade Works].
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[Compatibility detected:
- Unlimited Arsenal (Red)
- Unlimited Blade (Purple)]
- Guaranteed Decapitation Slash (Purple)]
[Fusion? Yes/No]
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…Yes.
Kei raised his eyebrows slightly.
The next moment, knowledge of countless weapon techniques surged into his mind, and the [Unlimited Arsenal] within him rapidly transformed into an arsenal space.
Power from Fairy Tail and the Fate universe merged rapidly.
The conceptual force from [Guaranteed Decapitation Slash] also fused seamlessly.
Buzz~
A reality marble tinged in darkness was unleashed externally. The underground space that had originally glimmered with a purple glow was quickly shrouded by a suffocating darkness.
Clang—Clang—
Countless gears, large and small, resembling parts of some unknown intricate machinery, formed the boundaries of the domain. Several different versions of the Kusanagi Sword, Samehada, Kabutowari, Nuibari, the Sword of the Thunder God, the Gunbai, sickles, Flying Thunder God kunai, regular kunai, shuriken...
Kei covered his face with one hand, looking somewhat embarrassed, as if he couldn't bear to witness it.
Compared to the Type-Moon world, where weapons vary greatly in type, function, and destructive power—capable of leveling cities, armies, humans, and gods, and even "splitting worlds" with ease—the weaponry of the Naruto world really didn't have much to boast about.
The Yata Mirror, the Sword of Totsuka... Alright, maybe the Six Paths ninja tools could barely make the list. But compared to Excalibur or Ea? They weren't even in the same league.
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[Obtained:
- Infinite Armory Domain (Gold)]
[Infinite Armory Domain (Gold):
A conceptual domain born from the fusion of space and conceptual power. It can shrink into an infinite inner world or expand into an infinite armory. Any object can be stored and retrieved from the infinite realm. Within the armory, all weapons seen can be replicated and projected; EX-class weapons lose one grade in quality when copied. The domain allows consumption of energy to execute Decapitation Concept Slashes. While wielding bladed weapons, control, combat awareness, strength, and speed are massively increased.]
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The system notification sounded again.
Visibly, the quality of the various weapons within Kei's Infinite Armory Domain leveled up, matching their originals perfectly.
Originally limited by the underground stone chamber's space, the domain now seemed to ascend to another dimension, becoming boundless and vast! A power difficult to describe with words, flowed within [Infinite Armory Domain].
Using his fingers as a sword, he activated the ability.
A massive amount of chakra rapidly drained from his fingertips, unleashing a concept-based slash invisible to the naked eye.
"The consumption isn't small, but I can roughly control the slash direction."
His lips curled into a satisfied smile.
Though he now needed to spend energy to control the direction of the Decapitation slashes, the consumption was manageable, and this level of control greatly amplified his lethality.
Imagine this—slashing repeatedly at the neck of an Ōtsutsuki clan member!
Even counting their reinforced bones, after a few slashes, their head would definitely part from their body. Moreover, within [Infinite Armory Domain], simply grabbing any weapon would massively enhance his strength and speed.
In terms of combat power and lethality, this might have surpassed even [Yin-Yang Sage Master].
Stacking both abilities together, even without using his Trait Removal, probably no Ōtsutsuki member could challenge him now!
Dismissing the suffocating, pitch-black domain, which resembled a hellish mountain of blades, he cast a reassuring glance toward Sēramu and Sāra, who were huddled together in fear by the stone chamber's door.
Sēramu and Sāra exchanged a trembling glance.
Were they worried about Kei?
No — they were clearly terrified for themselves, fearing they might suffer misfortune!
That oppressive dark domain, as if soaked in blood — they could barely breathe in it!
Even hell might not be this bad!
System, use the remaining three Trait Extraction.
Kei withdrew his gaze and gave the system another command.
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[Obtained:
- Special Species (White)
- Granny's Stick (Blue)
- Heaven's Drizzle (Purple)]
[Special Species (White):
You might be a unique kind, or just oddly swollen. Brashness significantly increased; courage, bravery, and willpower slightly increased; physical strength, defense, and recovery slightly increased.]
[Granny's Stick (Blue):
The more it hits, the shorter it gets. Granny flashes once per second. When using rod- or stick-type weapons, each hit makes the enemy mentally hear granny's death summons, slightly reducing their will to fight. Mastery, control, learning speed, and attack speed with stick-type weapons are all increased.]
[Heaven's Piss (Purple):
Why pray for rain when you can bring it yourself? Favored by rainy weather, you leave no drought behind. Greatly increased chance of rain when going out, and significantly boosted Water Release talent. Learning, refining, improving, or inventing Water Release jutsu is faster. Water Release jutsu gain increased casting speed, power, and effects. (Note: Prolonged stay in rainy regions may cause floods.)]
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Kei paused for a long time but couldn't bring himself to showcase his "personal flair" in front of Sēramu and Sāra, so he restrained himself and mentally cursed instead.
Technically, a white, a blue, and a purple trait was a solid result.
But these three trait... They made him want to spew profanities and interrogate the system on what part of its coding had gone off the rails.
[Special Species]—are we talking unique or just weirdly swollen?
[Granny's Stick]—lets enemies hallucinate granny calling them from the afterlife?
[Heaven's Piss]—the must-have jutsu for the Kazekage, bringing rain wherever you go?
Useful? Sure.
But could these names be a little more refined?
Forget it… Let's see which trait I should convert into a red-tier one... Kei closed his eyes, resigned, and focused on his last reward—the Trait Conversion Card (Red).