First Clear

"Back?" Just as Kyosuke's thoughts began to wander again, Fugaku finally looked up and greeted him.

Without waiting for a reply, Fugaku left him with a "Follow me" and turned toward another courtyard.

Kyosuke watched his back, shrugged helplessly, and followed.

Their current situation was like a repeat of yesterday. They still walked one in front of the other along the broad corridor.

After quite a while, they arrived at a massive open-air training ground.

"Come. Attack me." Fugaku stood in the center of the training ground and spoke to Kyosuke.

Then, a thoroughly one-sided sparring match unfolded within the training ground.

Before Fugaku, who was about to step into the ranks of Elite Jonin, Kyosuke was not much different from an ordinary person.

After five minutes of intense exercise, he had not even touched the edge of Fugaku's clothes, while he himself was left panting heavily.

Fugaku frowned as he looked at Kyosuke. This child's fundamentals are far too poor, and he doesn't have enough Chakra. Still, all of that can be made up through hard work.

Afterward, he began correcting some of Kyosuke's flaws, such as how his right hand always instinctively pulled back when blocking, and how his footwork became chaotic when charging forward.

Just like that, the day passed.

After parting with Fugaku, Kyosuke had wanted to sneak into the village to see whether he could trigger any more missions. Unfortunately, the moment he stepped out of the Military Police Force's gates, he saw an Uchiha clansman already waiting there.

Left with no choice, Kyosuke could only follow him back to the clan grounds.

That night, after washing up, Kyosuke lay bored on his bed, idly flipping through the System Menu when he unexpectedly discovered that his Chakra had increased by one point.

After thinking it over carefully for a long time, he finally turned his attention to the skill he had always somewhat neglected: "Chakra Refinement Technique."

To verify his thoughts, Kyosuke focused his mind and began the daily training essential to ordinary ninjas: extracting Chakra.

An hour later, Kyosuke opened his eyes again and immediately checked the results of his efforts.

Sure enough, not only had the Experience Points for "Chakra Refinement Technique" increased by one, but his total Chakra had increased again as well.

This made Kyosuke, who currently had no way to obtain Experience Points, feel overjoyed.

However, when he tried to extract Chakra again, he felt a bursting pain in his head. Helpless, he could only abandon the idea.

"Since the number of times I can extract Chakra each day is limited, I can only find a way to raise the level of the Refinement Technique. That way, the total amount extracted each time should increase."

As Kyosuke thought, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Doesn't this still require Experience Points?!"

Outside Kyosuke's room, the shadow ordered to monitor him heard the noise coming from inside and scratched his head in confusion.

"Why is this kid still shouting instead of sleeping so late at night?"

Just like that, a month passed.

During this time, through his unrelenting efforts, not only did Kyosuke's strength and physique attributes each increase by 0.1, but the crucial "Chakra Refinement Technique" finally reached Level 2.

Now, each day of Chakra extraction training increased his Chakra by 2 points.

Although it was still not much, Kyosuke was satisfied. After all, his freedom was restricted at the moment, and it was not yet time to truly begin improving his strength.

"Clang!" The sound of Kunai colliding echoed continuously through the forest.

Looking at the Missing-nin whom he had been almost unable to face head-on without activating his Sharingan a month ago, Kyosuke smiled faintly.

After Fugaku's guidance, although his attributes themselves had not increased greatly, his improved combat experience and taijutsu skills allowed him to barely maneuver between two Missing-nin attacking him together.

In particular, the increase in his total Chakra made him much more composed when fighting with his Sharingan activated.

At the very least, he no longer had to fight while counting the seconds like before.

The Kunai collided once more, but this time, that Missing-nin did not escape Kyosuke's attack so easily.

With his Sharingan activated, Kyosuke noticed the Missing-nin preparing to overwhelm him with his superior strength. He turned in advance, brushed past him in an instant using the force of momentum, and at the same time, the Kunai in his hand remained embedded in the man's chest.

When the other Missing-nin saw his companion die, he let out an angry roar and charged madly at Kyosuke.

"Come on, you already roared once last time. Do you really have to do this every time?" Kyosuke said with a faint smile.

Then, in less than three seconds, this Missing-nin also died beneath his Kunai.

Kyosuke stared silently at the two corpses. He realized that after killing two people last time, he had still felt somewhat panicked, yet this time, he did not feel even the slightest discomfort.

All he could do was laugh at himself. It seemed he was quite suited to surviving in this world after all.

As he laughed, Kyosuke suddenly turned and threw the Kunai in his hand toward a concealed patch of grass.

"Trying to sneak attack me a second time?" Kyosuke stared coldly at the third Missing-nin, whose throat had been pierced by a Kunai. "Then I'm sorry, but although you have little Chakra, in this dim forest, it shines as brightly as a lantern in the night."

The moment he finished speaking, he heard the system's notification.

"Notice: Instance Dungeon successfully cleared. Random rewards are being generated. Please wait."

A short while later, three virtual items appeared before Kyosuke.

"Chakra Refinement Technique"

"Kunai Throwing Technique"

"Shuriken Throwing Technique"

They were all the most basic skills. After all, those Missing-nin had been very weak, so expecting them to drop any Ninjutsu was unrealistic.

Still, the three skills were not useless. It was just that the Kunai and Shuriken throwing techniques were already close to leveling up, so using the skill scrolls directly now would be wasteful.

However, once a skill reached Level 2, it required two identical skill scrolls to level up directly. Therefore, he could only set these three skills aside for now.

Kyosuke shook his head helplessly, then exited the Instance Dungeon.

In the blink of an eye, another ten-odd days passed.

Kyosuke's two throwing techniques finally reached Level 2. Not only had their power increased somewhat, but their accuracy and throwing speed had improved greatly as well.

Because of this, Fugaku rarely offered him some praise.

Kyosuke's gains did not end there. Although Fugaku did not approve of him training his body due to his age, his physical attributes still increased slightly.

His Chakra in particular had reached 80 points. He was no longer far from the minimum threshold of 90 points required to use C-Ranked Ninjutsu.

Although the system still evaluated him as a Ninja Apprentice, he believed he could already fight some ordinary Ninja Academy graduates, and had a high chance of winning.

To be honest, Fugaku was already very satisfied with his performance. After all, he had not been seriously training for very long.

But someone was dissatisfied with the speed of his progress.

That person was the powerful and influential Great Elder.