Leaving the Village, Fusion Materials

Minamoto Takuya slept for an entire day and two nights.

When he opened his eyes again, he only felt that his stomach was empty once more, while his mental energy had finally recovered.

Then, when he looked at his extremely disheveled reflection in the mirror, he did not even recognize himself for a moment.

Although Minamoto Takuya was not a neat freak, he could not accept being in such a state. After spending quite some time cleaning himself up, he looked at his still-pale reflection in the mirror and smiled.

This pallor was probably here to stay. For the sake of his research and ninjutsu practice, he had consumed plenty of Ration Pills and pushed his chakra to its limits.

As everyone knew, chakra was a combination of physical energy and spiritual energy. He had depleted too much physical energy, and his recovery speed could no longer keep up, resulting in this pale complexion.

It was foreseeable that if this continued, he would definitely die young.

But ever since obtaining the Chimera Technique, his path had already changed!

Minamoto Takuya pushed open the door and took a firm step toward a brand-new future.

After filling his stomach, he began making his next arrangements.

First, he did not know when Obito Uchiha's beloved, Rin Nohara, would be captured by the Mist Shinobi, so he needed to begin monitoring her now. Crows would be enough for that.

As for everything else, it would take a little more time.

The next day, Minamoto Takuya went to the Hokage's office to accept a relatively complicated solo mission.

After leaving Konoha's barrier with the mission scroll, Minamoto Takuya looked at the mission written on it and had no intention of carrying it out at all.

Because he himself was the true issuer of this mission. He was merely using it as a legitimate excuse to leave Konoha.

After confirming that no one was following him, Minamoto Takuya bit his finger, formed hand seals, and finally pressed his hand against the ground.

"Summoning Technique!"

However, this Summoning Technique seemed to have been cast incorrectly, and it did not summon a Summoned Beast.

Of course, Minamoto Takuya had done so deliberately. By using far less chakra than was needed to summon a Summoned Beast, the attempt was almost certain to fail. But at the same time, the one being summoned would sense it.

Just like how Madara Uchiha had forcibly tried to summon the Nine-Tails within Naruto Uzumaki—even if it failed, there would still be a sensation.

After Minamoto Takuya completed the Summoning Technique, inside a somewhat dim Experiment Base, a crow blinked its eyes. It was the Summoned Beast Minamoto Takuya had called. Then it flapped its wings and flew up, opening a massive scroll according to his instructions.

The markings engraved upon it were also the formula of the Summoning Technique.

The next moment, Minamoto Takuya outside Konoha transformed into a puff of white smoke and vanished from the spot, replaced by Minamoto Takuya appearing inside the Experiment Base!

Inside the Experiment Base, Minamoto Takuya looked at the various corpses stored in cultivation tanks before turning his gaze to the bodies in the final row.

These corpses shared one feature: all of them had red hair.

That was right. They were all corpses of the Uzumaki Clan.

He had not killed them, of course. He had merely had the crows keep watch over the Land of Whirlpools.

Then, when the Uzumaki Clan was exterminated, he had taken advantage of the chaos to steal some of the corpses of the slain Uzumaki clansmen.

As for the true culprits behind the Uzumaki Clan's extermination, it could only be said that several major ninja villages had not kept their hands clean...

Why had he chosen the Uzumaki Clan?

Because if he wanted to overcome his weakness of having too little chakra, the first thing that came to mind was the most famous long-lived clan: the Uzumaki Clan.

Anyone who had read the Original Work had been amazed by the protagonist Naruto Uzumaki's chakra, and he had even earned the nickname "Chakra Ton."

However, Minamoto Takuya also knew that ordinary Uzumaki clansmen would find it difficult to possess Naruto Uzumaki's level of chakra. After all, Naruto Uzumaki did not merely have an Uzumaki physique; he also possessed Nine-Tails Chakra and the chakra of Asura's reincarnation. Only the combination of all those factors had created such an absurd amount of chakra.

But even if they could not compare to Naruto Uzumaki, the Uzumaki Clan's chakra was absolutely not to be underestimated. He had even come up with a rough formula for chakra quantity...

y = x * i

y represented chakra quantity, x represented physical strength that could be developed through training, and i represented the chakra coefficient.

Every person's physical strength could grow stronger through hard training, but the chakra coefficient was innate and basically could not be changed after birth.

Naturally, there were geniuses with exceptional chakra coefficients, such as Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze. Their coefficients could not have been low, and they represented the pinnacle among ordinary people.

As for Uzumaki clansmen, even the weakest among them definitely had a high chakra coefficient.

As a result, they only needed to train their physical strength a little for their chakra quantity to reach a level that people with low coefficients could never attain, no matter how desperately they trained.

After all, not everyone was Might Guy. His abundant chakra came from his nearly insane physical training, but that... was also dependent on physical talent!

In the end, Minamoto Takuya stopped before one particular corpse. He could not measure its chakra coefficient, but it certainly would not be low.

He had measured the corpse's chakra attributes: Wind Release and Lightning Release.

They happened to be two of the three attributes he lacked, and they were both relatively rare attributes.

It was not that Minamoto Takuya did not want to find a corpse with Wind Release, Lightning Release, and Fire Release. There simply was not one.

There were corpses with three attributes, but they were not the three he needed.

Wind Release was already rare, and Lightning Release was the next rarest. There were exceedingly few people with both attributes, let alone three attributes.

Even though Fire Release was not rare, that remained the case.

Therefore, the corpse before Minamoto Takuya was his best fusion material.

Minamoto Takuya's gaze as he looked at it was somewhat fervent. As long as he fused with it, the problem of his chakra quantity would most likely be resolved, but...

He also knew that now was not the time.

Although he had finished reading the Chimera Technique's experimental records, he had never personally conducted an experiment. He was not completely confident that he could succeed on the first attempt.

This concerned his own body, after all, so he naturally needed to be cautious—extremely cautious.

Therefore, he had to suppress his excitement and first conduct experiments using animal corpses. Not only animals—he also had some useless materials here that could be used for further experiments. Only after he had absolute confidence would he take the final step.

"I hope there is enough time."

Through the Clairvoyance Technique, Minamoto Takuya glanced at Rin Nohara, who was still grieving over Obito Uchiha's "death" as she visited Kakashi Hatake, and narrowed his eyes.

He did not care whether she lived or died. The key was that the Mist Shinobi would place the Three-Tails inside Rin Nohara.

He had no designs on a complete Tailed Beast. Such a massive target would likely attract the attention of Madara Uchiha, Black Zetsu, and others behind the scenes. But he still wanted a portion of a Tailed Beast's chakra!