Freedom at Last!

After returning home, Naruto lay on his bed, digesting the several bowls of ramen he had just eaten.

He increasingly felt that Hiruzen Sarutobi might actually be a good person, paying for his ramen and providing him with a steady stream of rewards.

Hiruzen Sarutobi might be a good person, but the good person was Hiruzen Sarutobi, which somehow seemed unlikely!

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, for completing the task of making Hiruzen Sarutobi pay for your ramen."

"Congratulations, Host! You have obtained the Perfect Transformation Jutsu!"

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, for completing the task of becoming Hokage in the Ninja Game."

"Congratulations, Host! You have obtained an A-rank ninjutsu: Improved Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

"Oh my god, do I really get whatever I want? System, you actually monitored my thoughts. Is this big data? Please give me more!"

Naruto opened the system reward: Perfect Transformation Jutsu.

As the name suggested, using this Transformation Jutsu would prevent others from seeing through any flaws. It eliminated the original Transformation Jutsu's weaknesses and truly lived up to the word "perfect"!

The Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu was an A-rank ninjutsu invented by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju. It used a massive amount of Chakra to increase the number of Shadow Clones, allowing the user to create thousands of Shadow Clones at once.

Because this technique consumed Chakra too intensely, Tobirama Senju considered that anyone without a massive Chakra reserve might harm themselves or even endanger their life by using it. Thus, he classified it as a forbidden technique and recorded it in the Scroll of Seals.

The Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu evenly distributed Chakra among every Shadow Clone, so it required an enormous amount of Chakra. One careless mistake could put one's life in danger.

The system's Improved Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu retained the ability to create thousands of Shadow Clones, but improved the even Chakra distribution. It allowed the user to assign only a small amount of Chakra to the Shadow Clones according to their wishes, thereby reducing the impact on the body after the clones dispersed.

"This ninjutsu is incredibly powerful. If I had a thousand units of Chakra and used the original Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to create a thousand Shadow Clones, then each clone would only have one unit of Chakra. There would be numbers, but their strength would be weakened."

"The improved Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu doesn't have that problem. As long as I distribute it properly, I can create a thousand Shadow Clones and give each one half a unit, or even less—just enough to maintain its existence. That can confuse the enemy while preserving my own strength to the greatest extent possible."

"It can scare people, too! It's killing several birds with one stone!"

It was already nighttime. Under normal circumstances, Naruto would have gone to bed early.

But now that Naruto had obtained the Perfect Transformation Jutsu, escaping the Anbu's surveillance and gaining the freedom he wanted was within easy reach. How could he possibly hold himself back?

Naruto first pretended to go to bed and turned off the lights.

While under the covers, he quietly used the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu and created two Shadow Clones.

One lay on the bed, while the other hid beneath it. If anything went wrong, there would still be another layer of insurance.

Naruto himself used the Perfect Transformation Jutsu, turning into a small fly and slipping out through the gap beneath the door.

As he flew farther and farther away from his house, the emotions in Naruto's heart became harder and harder to suppress.

After arriving at Konoha's Small Forest and using the Mind's Eye of the Kagura to sense that no one was nearby,

Naruto changed back to normal.

"Finally, I'm free!"

For so many days, he had lived under Anbu surveillance. He had not even had time to train properly, but now he was free.

He could finally spend time training!

In this ninja world, only strength was the hard truth.

If he could directly become a perfect Jinchuriki and activate Kurama Mode, even Hiruzen Sarutobi would have to treat him politely. In the end, he was still not strong enough.

Rules existed to restrain the weak. The strong created rules!

And he would become strong and truly take control of his own destiny!

He created one Shadow Clone to maintain the Mind's Eye of the Kagura and monitor the people nearby.

Naruto's original body then created a large number of Shadow Clones for training.

"Now, let's start with tree climbing!" Since Naruto had not learned many ninjutsu yet, he could only practice the Chakra control methods that had appeared in the original story.

True experts could often distribute their Chakra with precision. In battle, through the combination of taijutsu and ninjutsu, they could fight an enemy for three hundred rounds!

Even though Naruto had a tremendous amount of Chakra, if he could avoid wasting it and control it properly, he would become even more terrifying!

A large number of Narutos began practicing tree climbing.

Naruto was surprised to discover that the Chakra flow within his body was completely normal. The Nine-Tails was no longer causing trouble inside him?

Naruto in the original story had also been a genius. It was only because the Nine-Tails kept interfering within him and disrupting his Chakra flow that he could never properly control the power of his ninjutsu.

As the child of Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina, how could Naruto's talent possibly make him the Dead Last?

In the world of Naruto, bloodlines were the most noble thing.

As long as you were the child of a powerful person, you would definitely become powerful in the future!

Naruto was amazing, wasn't it?

Without the Nine-Tails interfering, Naruto did not need much time to master tree climbing.

"I didn't expect tree climbing to be so easy to learn. I really am a genius. Next, I'll practice water walking!"

Naruto was so excited about regaining his freedom that he was not sleepy in the slightest.

After successfully mastering tree climbing, he intended to strike while the iron was hot and practice water walking.

But water walking was clearly much harder than tree climbing.

Trees did not move. Naruto only needed to control the direction of the Chakra flow beneath his feet.

Water was different. Water flowed.

The Chakra beneath Naruto's feet also had to adapt to the flowing water, which greatly tested his Chakra control.

But no challenge could stump Naruto. Before him, it was only a matter of time, and he possessed the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu. When used for training, this technique could speed up the results by thousands of times.

Of course, once the Shadow Clones were released, the original body would not only receive their training memories, but also inherit their fatigue.

But Naruto's vitality ranked among the best in Konoha. The dispersal of a few thousand Shadow Clones was nothing worth mentioning.

Furthermore, perhaps because he had been reborn, or perhaps because of the Uchiha Clan bloodline, Naruto's mental strength was now incredibly formidable, and his tolerance had greatly improved as well.

Thus, Naruto worked hard all night, continuing through failure after failure after failure.

Just before dawn, Naruto finally succeeded!

Even Naruto's Chakra was nearly exhausted.

He had been using his own Chakra. Fortunately, he had the Improved Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu, which allowed him to distribute the Chakra in his body properly.

If it had been the normal Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu, Naruto definitely would not have been able to last this long.

He left behind two Shadow Clones to scout the surrounding environment and stand guard.

After Naruto's original body released the other Shadow Clones, a vast amount of training memories flooded into his mind.

It inevitably dealt a blow to Naruto's mental state.

"I'm so tired. I'll leave it to you, my clones. Make sure you protect me!" Naruto instructed his clones.

"Rest easy, original body. If anything happens, we'll definitely beat you awake!" the clones promised, thumping their chests.

Naruto found a comfortable patch of grass and drifted off into a groggy sleep.

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