First Charge Gift Pack?
Seeing the glittering golden gift pack, Naruto instinctively checked the price.
Only 10 taels?
Converted, that was just 1 yuan. Was this a benefit?
He had thought this thing would cost about the same as the other items—at least 100 taels.
Just 10 taels. He bought it.
[You have purchased the First Charge Gift Pack. Please check your inventory.]
Opening his inventory, he found a gift pack lying inside. It looked highly similar to the Novice Gift Pack, clearly cast from the same mold.
Naruto directly selected the gift pack and opened it.
[You have obtained: Three Basic Ninjutsu Techniques, Fine Kunai x10, Fine Shuriken x100]
This...
"The drop rate seems to have gone back to normal."
Maybe the game had recovered, and the initial bug had disappeared?
What a waste of an expression.
Naruto had thought he would get another Novice Gift Pack situation—one unique item and two limited items.
He had even been ready to celebrate.
And this was it?
Naruto looked at his inventory again.
This inventory was not particularly large: a 9x9 grid that could hold a total of 81 items.
However, it seemed that items could be stacked.
The kunai and shuriken he had just received occupied only two slots, each with a small number showing the stack count.
These are weapons from the ninja world?
Looking at the two weapons lying in his inventory, Naruto guessed.
The kunai had a rather strange shape, looking like a spearhead with a handle attached. The other one was shaped like the four-pointed throwing stars Naruto knew.
Naruto took out a kunai and held it in his hand.
The blade was very sharp, while the handle was a little too large for his small hand.
Still, weren't these names reversed?
At this moment, Naruto was full of question marks.
Didn't this kunai look more like a shuriken?
Could it be a translation issue?
Naruto put away the shuriken... no, the kunai. It did not really matter. He just needed to know what it was called.
His gaze fell on the three scrolls in his inventory.
These had appeared in his inventory alongside the kunai and shuriken. They were probably the basic ninja techniques called the Three Basic Ninjutsu Techniques that the old man had mentioned before. Naruto had originally thought they were some kind of "Divine Abilities," so he had traded three grilled fish for detailed hand-sign instructions.
Naruto took out one of the scrolls, intending to see whether it was the same as what the old man had described.
The moment he took it out, a prompt appeared.
[Do you wish to learn: Clone Technique?]
This was a skill scroll?
Naruto decisively chose yes.
[You have acquired skill: Clone Technique 1/100 (Beginner)] [Your Clone Technique proficiency has increased by 3600.]
As his proficiency increased, a huge amount of knowledge and technique flooded into Naruto's mind in an instant. It was as though he had practiced this skill thousands, tens of thousands of times, until he knew it inside and out.
+3600?
Oh, the SSSSSS Talent was at work.
He checked the skill.
Clone Technique: 3601/5000 (Master)
"Just as I thought."
Seeing this, Naruto immediately chose to learn the other two skills.
The SSSSSS Talent continued to work reliably.
Substitution Technique: 3601/5000 (Master)
Transformation Jutsu: 3601/5000 (Master)
Looking at the three ninja techniques he had just learned, Naruto was full of confidence.
Ninjutsu? Easy as pie!
But these three skills seemed rather useless.
Clone Technique: It created only an illusion that could deceive others. It had no physical form and could not attack.
Substitution Technique: This could only be used to take a hit.
Transformation Jutsu: Although he could transform into someone else, even if he transformed into the Hokage, he would still possess only his own level of strength.
He took a throwing star from his inventory... no, a shuriken.
Naruto played with it in his hand, and then... he could not hold it together anymore.
The Novice Gift Pack had given him a unique-rarity talent, so he had assumed that was the game's normal standard. He had opened the game full of anticipation, only to get this?
No, dude.
Never mind that all three ninja techniques were useless. He had no idea how to use this little thing either—and even if he did, so what?
Could this tiny throwing star even kill someone?
"Should've picked C. The Nine-Tails wasn't bad either," Naruto muttered, then suddenly remembered something.
He quickly opened the Status Panel.
Status: Yang Nine-Tails (Sealed) (Recyclable).
The green word "Recyclable" in that row gleamed brightly.
Naruto did not know where this recyclable Nine-Tails had come from.
But since it was inside his body, it was his.
He had seen it in the shop.
That crimson fox with nine tails, whose gender he did not know, was called the Nine-Tails.
Its price was 200,000 yuan, or 2 million taels.
Just now, he had been astonished by how much money this game demanded and by the wealth of rich players. Now, he was no longer jealous.
Because that money would soon be his!
200,000 yuan, 2 million taels—even if recycling only gave him half the price, that would still be 1 million taels, right?
With that money, would he not be able to buy every skill in the Skill House?
But...
Naruto gritted his teeth, made an enormous decision, and still managed to resist the temptation.
It came from his personal creed.
[When the situation is unclear, maintaining the status quo is the best choice.]
Naruto did not know how this Nine-Tails had appeared, but since it was inside him, there had to be a reason.
Naruto decided that until he figured out the reason, he would not touch this thing.
"But where exactly is this guy?"
Naruto searched himself from top to bottom, but could not find a trace of it.
Finally, his gaze fell on his stomach.
There was a cluster of symbols there, their meaning unclear.
Naruto had previously thought it was some kind of unknown tattoo. After learning that fuinjutsu existed, he felt that it was some kind of seal.
"A seal? Was that necessary?"
Thinking of the animal in the demonstration video, which had barely been taller than the weeds and looked no bigger than a large dog, Naruto could not understand.
Was that little thing really so destructive?
"Forget it." Naruto sighed inwardly.
He still knew far too little about this world.
Putting the shuriken back into his inventory, Naruto opened the Skill House again.
If he remembered correctly, today was April 30.
Tomorrow, he would receive a living allowance of 30,000 taels. That would be enough to buy Revival Coins and several powerful ninja techniques.
By then, his safety should be guaranteed.
Naruto closed the Skill House and looked at the four functions, feeling rather bored.
Without money, the shop and Skill House could only make him drool.
The Duel Arena could not be opened. According to the description, the minimum requirement for entry was Genin.
That seemed to leave only the Training Ground.
So, Naruto decided to take a look around the Training Ground.
He tapped to enter.
A loading screen appeared, displaying a number of options.
Map sizes included 1x1, 10x10, and 100x100, as well as the paid 1000x1000. The unit was kilometers.
Naruto decisively chose the largest free option, 100x100.
There were quite a few terrain options, so Naruto casually checked seven: plains, islands, hills, mountains, forests, lakes, and ocean.
For the specific map, he directly chose random generation.
The next moment, everything went dark before his eyes.
Then, he felt solid ground beneath his feet, and his nose once again breathed in fresh air.
Naruto opened his eyes. Before him stretched a plain, with a forest farther in the distance.
He turned his head. Not far behind him was a vast lake, and beyond the lake, a large river connected to the sea.
"This sunlight, this air, this breeze, and even this sense of touch. How is this any different from reality?"
Naruto sensed everything in the Training Ground and felt somewhat dazed.
If his surroundings had not changed, he would have thought he was still in reality.
Just as he was about to experience the place further—
Awoooo~~~
An indescribably enormous roar rang out.
The sound was so terrifying that it made Naruto jump.
He had never heard such a massive and frightening cry.
That huge sound seemed to send Naruto back to his previous life.
It was the first time he had watched the launch of Long March 5. The sound of that massive rocket launching had remained unforgettable to him.
The resonance between the sound waves and the air had struck against his chest in wave after wave even from several kilometers away. That was the first time he had deeply understood that sound was a wave.
That single experience had triggered Naruto's fear of giant objects. If the rocket had not been an inanimate object, he would have wanted to turn around and run.
Now, the equally enormous sound seemed ready to tear apart the air. The monstrous roar made him tremble.
Thump, thump—
The earth seemed to be shaking. Naruto knew full well that the monster was walking.
Then, beyond the forest, a gigantic figure finally appeared, nine tails swaying behind it.
Was that... the Nine-Tails?
Naruto found it hard to believe.
The Nine-Tails was this huge?
It was kind of cool.
Why had this combat pet not looked so big in the shop just now?
He opened it and checked again.
Damn!
He had thought the green things beneath the Nine-Tails in the demonstration video were grass. Looking again now, they were actually trees.
He had been careless.
And at that moment, the monster noticed Naruto and slowly walked toward him.
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