Chimera Technique Fusion Successful!

"Hah, I haven't slept this comfortably in a long time."

Inside the Experiment Base, Minamoto Takuya stretched lazily. Over the past many years, he had either been training in ninjutsu or experimenting with it. He only forced himself to rest when his body could no longer endure it. The results had not been bad, but he had never had enough time.

Humming a little tune, Minamoto Takuya slowly walked over to the corpse with the Uzumaki Bloodline that he had selected. His eyes burned with fervor as he looked at it.

At last, the corpse that had been soaked in a cultivation tank for so many years was taken out, dried off, and placed atop a massive scroll covered in Seals.

This scroll was also an auxiliary technique, capable of preventing most accidents.

Standing before the scroll, Minamoto Takuya took a deep breath and formed hand seals. This time, he was performing it himself.

"Ninja Art—Chimera Technique!"

At last, Minamoto Takuya pressed his hands against the scroll. In an instant, the corpse atop it transformed into black liquid and surged toward him. He sat cross-legged on the scroll, his eyes filled with resolve as he watched the black liquid pounce.

The Seals on the scroll beneath him seemed to come alive as well, crawling up his body.

Finally, when the Seals on the scroll had completely vanished, Minamoto Takuya opened his eyes. He looked at the black marks on his already naked body, as well as the sealing Seals surrounding them. These marks were not an accident.

After washing himself again, he took the white bandages he had prepared beforehand and slowly wrapped them around the marks, layer by layer.

Perhaps Hiruko had not intended to wrap his entire body in bandages. Rather, without them, those marks would have been far too conspicuous. And this was only the result of fusing one bloodline. If it were Hiruko, who had already fused four, no one knew what his body had become.

Once the bandaging was complete, Minamoto Takuya looked at himself in the mirror. Since he had fused only one bloodline, there were not many black marks on his body, so he still looked fairly normal.

Still, with this appearance, he probably would not be able to find a suitable wife in Konoha. From now on, his body bore a secret, and it was clearly one he could not reveal even to a wife.

Fortunately, though he was not entirely uninterested in such matters, his desire to grow stronger far outweighed that interest.

Beauty would only slow down the path to strength!

That applied equally to both men and women!

After getting dressed, Minamoto Takuya's eyes gleamed with excitement. The fusion was complete, so it was time to test the changes.

In truth, he did not need to test them deliberately. He could already feel it. Though he had not consciously extracted chakra, the amount his body instinctively extracted was already beyond anything he had ever dared imagine!

Minamoto Takuya quickly arrived at a training room, sat down cross-legged, and began carefully sensing everything within his body.

Chakra = physical energy + spiritual energy

What he had always lacked was never spiritual energy, but purely physical energy.

In the past, whenever he extracted chakra, he could feel that his spiritual energy was like a great river, while his physical energy was merely a shallow ditch. With the slightest carelessness, he could drain his physical energy dry.

Now, Minamoto Takuya sensed physical energy that, while not exceeding the river of his spiritual energy, could stand shoulder to shoulder with it. Compared to before, it had increased by an unknown number of times. He abruptly opened his eyes.

Unable to contain his joy any longer, he threw back his head and laughed aloud.

Finally, the flaw that had hindered him ever since he began training after entering the academy had been resolved!

Only after laughing for who knew how long did Minamoto Takuya calm down and reflect on what he had just felt.

The Uzumaki Clan's bloodline was naturally powerful enough, but what surprised him was that his spiritual energy could actually keep up. He had always known that his spiritual energy was not weak, but he had never expected it to compare to an Uzumaki's physique.

This was probably the peculiarity of having lived two lives.

Now that the problem of his chakra reserves had been resolved, it was time to consider the next issue.

Though chakra reserves were the most important thing to him, the Uzumaki Clan's bloodline possessed far more than just abundant chakra!

It had at least three special abilities.

First, the bloodline's unique Sealing Jutsu: Adamantine Sealing Chains.

Second, sensory abilities surpassing the Byakugan: Mind's Eye of the Kagura.

Third, a restorative physique that could heal injuries and replenish chakra by having others consume its blood.

There was no need to think about the third. Not every Uzumaki possessed that physique, and Minamoto Takuya had already tested it. The person he fused with did not have it.

Minamoto Takuya did not want that physique, either. He knew Medical Ninjutsu himself. Though that physique could heal his injuries, it was like robbing Peter to pay Paul. Using it too much would inevitably hasten death, and he did not want others setting their sights on that physique.

Mind's Eye of the Kagura not only had an enormous sensing range, but could also roughly discern whether someone was good or evil and whether they were lying by sensing their chakra. This sensory ability was even stronger than the Byakugan. The Byakugan only surpassed Mind's Eye of the Kagura in its ability to see the specific flow of chakra within another person's body.

Likewise, not every Uzumaki possessed Mind's Eye of the Kagura. One needed a talent for sensing.

Minamoto Takuya felt that he needed to further develop his sensory abilities in the future. If he could awaken Mind's Eye of the Kagura, there would basically be no need to learn any other sensory ninjutsu.

As for the final Adamantine Sealing Chains, those were... not difficult.

Minamoto Takuya had become a Special Jonin in Konoha through Sealing Jutsu. The Seals carved onto the scroll had all been inscribed by his own hand, so he quickly sensed the sealing power contained within this bloodline's Sealing Jutsu.

Minamoto Takuya tried to mobilize that power. Before long, it transformed into golden chains that emerged from his back and danced throughout the training room.

This... was Adamantine Sealing Chains, the sealing ability unique to the Uzumaki Bloodline!

It was also an ability that could be mastered without Seals, just as Karin, despite lacking the Uzumaki Clan's inheritance, could still unleash the power of Adamantine Sealing Chains when facing danger.

It was just that, although he could use Adamantine Sealing Chains...

Adamantine Sealing Chains were far too conspicuous. The moment he used them, people would know he possessed the Uzumaki Bloodline. Unless necessary, it was better not to use them.

As Minamoto Takuya considered it, even if it were exposed, he could still explain it away. After all, he was a member of Konoha, and Konoha and the Uzumaki had once been close enough to intermarry. Even if Konoha had records on him, they could not possibly be as detailed in this era as those of his previous life.

Therefore, it would not be too strange for him to possess the Uzumaki Clan's bloodline.

It could even explain his suddenly soaring chakra reserves: his Uzumaki Bloodline had simply awakened by chance after all these years.

As he thought, Minamoto Takuya smiled and stretched lazily. He would deal with exposure if and when it came!