Another new day began.
As usual, Umino Sasuke ate a hearty meal, then created nine Shadow Clones and began the day's training.
He mastered the C-Rank Water Release: Water Clone Technique the moment he started. There was no difficulty at all.
After spending some time on the C-Rank Water Release: Water Whip, he mastered it with ease as well.
The B-Rank Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique, however, was progressing quickly but still required considerable time to fully master because it involved the nature transformation of Water Release chakra.
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique."
Standing on the river's surface, Umino Sasuke rapidly formed hand seals. At a rate of five seals per second, it took him nearly nine seconds to complete all forty-four seals and unleash the full Water Dragon Bullet Technique.
"With seals that long, the battle would be over by the time I used it."
Umino Sasuke shook his head, deeply dissatisfied. This standard version of the Water Dragon Bullet Technique was clearly designed for large-scale troop battles, offering extremely limited improvement to an individual's strength.
Konoha was really shameless in the way it did things.
Monopolizing ninjutsu was one thing. Now that he had redeemed the ninjutsu, they had even given him an inferior version.
He was not asking for the Second Hokage Senju Tobirama's three-seal version of the Water Dragon Bullet Technique. At the very least, they could have given him a six-seal version.
Even at his current speed of five seals per second, it took him nine seconds. Other shinobi would only take longer to perform this ninjutsu. With such a lengthy casting time, kunai and shuriken could have stabbed him dozens of times over.
Though it was an inferior version of the Water Dragon Bullet Technique, he still had to train it.
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