The Third Hokage Loses Control of the Finances-and the Azure Beast of the Leaf's Challenge

"This trait looks kind of like... a weaker version of Weak Presence?"

Jin narrowed his eyes as he watched the Anbu member get sent flying. Without a second thought, he said,

"Stack it... No, stacking one Blue Trait won't do much. I'll save it for now."

He'd been about to stack it with the Weak Presence trait.

But looking back at his previous attempts to stack traits, things had already started going wrong with the Epic-tier purple traits.

Stacking traits was like feeding a dog meat buns: once they were gone, they didn't come back.

They didn't even make a ripple.

And over time, he'd come to realize one thing—

If Blue Traits and anything below them were still within reach of ordinary people, then...

Purple Traits and anything above them could only be possessed by those with bloodline limits or Kage Level strength.

It was like the bloodline hierarchy among shinobi.

Blue was already the limit for ordinary people.

The same went for traits. Stacking them up to Blue might already be the limit.

And stacking them up to Epic-tier purple would take a massive investment.

After a moment's thought, Jin put the matter aside and continued sweeping his hand, sending elite Anbu flying.

Ten.

Twenty.

One hundred and eighty-eight...

After a while, Jin got so used to sending them flying that he started smacking away the Root shinobi standing beside him, too.

One extra wouldn't hurt, and no one was going to thank him for leaving one behind.

His traits were piling up.

There had to be about fifty of them!

And among this group of elite shinobi, most traits were green, with a few blue and white ones!

Now these were elites!

The smile in Jin's eyes grew more and more obvious.

Then he swept his