Hyuga Asana looked Uchiha Yuan up and down for a good long while, then said in a stern tone, "Yuan, no matter whether you heard these words from somewhere else or thought of them yourself, never say them to a second person again from now on."
"Don't worry! I know what I'm doing."
"It seems the passing of your uncle and aunt really had a huge impact on you. You wouldn't have considered things like this before."
"People always have to learn to grow up on their own."
"That sentence of yours reminds me of what a certain adult told me: the price of growth is loneliness."
"What adult?" Uchiha Yuan asked with curiosity.
"I won't tell you. All right, let's not talk about this anymore. Uchiha Yuan, I was being very serious just now. You must work hard. War is extremely cruel, and if your strength is lacking, you could lose your life at any moment."
Uchiha Yuan nodded upon hearing this, knowing full well that Konoha's current situation was very bad.
Konoha during the Third Great Ninja War was unlike the previous two.
This time, Konoha was still fighting on multiple fronts, but compared to the first two, Konoha's combat power was a world apart.
The hero of the Second Shinobi World War, Konoha White Fang, was driven to suicide by interested parties using gossip and rumors.
Among the Konoha Sannin, Tsunade had left Konoha due to her hemophobia and did not participate in the war.
By this time, Jiraiya had already learned about the Child of Prophecy from the Great Toad Sage. After teaching the three of them in the Land of Rain, he wandered around the world for a long time; if not for Konoha's critical situation, he probably wouldn't have returned.
Orochimaru did participate in battles from start to finish, but by this time, he had gradually become perverted, indulging in Human Experimentation in search of a method for eternal life, and for this reason, he had already gotten into bed with Danzo.
What kind of future could someone entangled with Danzo possibly have?
As things stood, the only high-end combat power Konoha could actually field was the genius ninja Minato Namikaze.
It was fair to say that without Minato Namikaze in the Third Great Ninja War, Konoha would have lost long ago.
Minato Namikaze's rise was far too fast. Before the age of 20, he could face the Kumogakure AB combination head-on and wiped out an elite force of 50 Iwagakure Shinobi, earning the name Yellow Flash that shook the Shinobi World.
In his past life, Uchiha Yuan had read a theory: Minato Namikaze was simply too much of a genius. If he had been allowed to live for a few more years, master Senjutsu completely, and improve his Rasengan techniques a bit further, the Akatsuki Organization wouldn't even have been a factor.
Of course, besides Minato Namikaze, Konoha was not completely devoid of talent.
The new generation's Ino-Shika-Cho, Hyuga Twin Stars, and the Uchiha Clan were also standing firmly together against the outside world.
Then there was Konoha's unique super Genin.
A little while later, Might Duy, a Konoha Genin, would open the Gate of Death of the Eight Inner Gates when facing the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
Using this strongest Taijutsu in the Shinobi World, authenticated by Madara Uchiha, he directly kicked four of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen to death.
Thanks to these talents, Konoha barely managed to stabilize the war situation, but it was only a stabilization; wanting to expand the fruits of victory required continuously throwing in human lives.
Clearly, Konoha's manpower was severely insufficient at this moment.
To say nothing else, letting all students in grades 4, 5, and 6 graduate early last year was the best proof.
And this year, in a little over two months, it would be their batch's turn to go to the battlefield.
"Asana, are you and that Main House missus both going to the battlefield?" Uchiha Yuan asked.
"She doesn't need to. I'm her guard, and one of a guard's duties is to go to the battlefield in place of their master.
You don't need to worry. For me, this is actually a good thing. If I can survive the war, there's a high probability I can be promoted to Chunin.
A Chunin is already a core pillar of the village, and I can apply for all kinds of different jobs, at which point I won't have to stand guard by her side all day long."
"But how are you going to ensure you survive on the battlefield?" Uchiha Yuan asked.
"By this!" Asana Hyuga said as she spread her hands, and a gentle Chakra appeared in her palm.
"This is Medical Ninjutsu? Do you actually have a talent for Medical Ninjutsu?"
"You can't really call it talent. I spent nearly a year learning this Healing Technique, and this is just the most basic Medical Ninjutsu. My talent in this area shouldn't be very strong.
Fortunately, I have the Byakugan. With the Byakugan helping out, I have a unique advantage in surgery.
Mastering basic Medical Ninjutsu plus the Byakugan, relying on these two traits, becoming a Medical Ninja should not be a problem for me. In the vast majority of circumstances, Medical Ninjutsu practitioners don't go to the battlefield, but rather do support work in the rear.
Without participating directly in the war, the probability of me surviving will be much higher. It's a pity your Uchiha Clan has almost no talent for Medical Ninjutsu, so this path isn't suitable for you. Otherwise, if the two of us both became Medical Ninjas, we'd definitely be able to survive the great war until the very end."
"I have no interest in becoming a Medical Ninja. Even if I had the talent for it, I wouldn't become one," Uchiha Yuan said.
"I knew it. People from your Uchiha Clan are all like this. Just work hard on your own! You have to survive! Only by living is there a future!" After saying that, Hyuga Asana turned and left; as the guard of a Main House missus, she couldn't stay away for too long.
Watching Hyuga Asana's figure disappear, Uchiha Yuan raised his head and looked into the distance at the First on the Kage Rock.
"That's right! A child can only grow up and have a future if they stay alive! But right now, so many children have no future at all. Hashirama Senju, is this the Konoha you wanted?" Uchiha Yuan muttered to himself.
The meaning of a clan is to protect one's family.
A village is composed of individual clans, and the meaning of a village's existence is to protect every single person within it.
Yet if even children have to step onto the battlefield, what on earth are they protecting?
And what was Hashirama Senju aiming for when he founded Konoha?
Uchiha Yuan did not simply turn and walk home; instead, he began to train by the small river.
No matter what, he was someone with a Golden Finger. According to what Hyuga Asana said, they would graduate in a little over two months. Two months of time would allow for over 60 text game sessions, which should make him strong by a huge margin, right?
Over the following few weeks, Uchiha Yuan ran to the small river to train every day after school.
Exercising for three hours a day granted one chance to spin the roulette and enter the text game world.
Every 5 days of exercise also granted 1 additional point of Physique.
After nearly three weeks of training, Uchiha Yuan had entered the game a total of 19 times.
Among them, 18 times yielded only a reward of 1 Stat Point.
One time resulted in some extra rewards.
The game world Uchiha Yuan entered that time was Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, where he even turned into a part of Goat Village, idling away for a full half-year before passing away after eating pesticide-sprayed grass.
This time, aside from gaining 1 Stat Point, Uchiha Yuan also obtained two items.
The first was the explosive paper invented by Big Big Wolf; this thing had blown Uchiha Yuan up once in the game.
The second item was Licking Goat Afei's dumbbell.
Uchiha Yuan threw the dumbbell straight into the trash since it was useless. There were 10 pieces of the explosive paper in total, and after testing them, he found their power to be somewhat stronger than an Explosive Tag. He put these explosive papers away; they might come in handy for blindsiding someone unexpectedly in the future.
As for the 19 acquired stat points, they were directly allocated, and now Uchiha Yuan's panel looked like this:
Chakra: 25 Physique: 24 Pupil Power: 40 Vitality: 7 Nature Affinity: 3 Level: lv9 (9/10) Stat Point: 0
It was worth mentioning that 9 days ago, when Uchiha Yuan went from lv8 to lv9, he had been given another white box.
The contents of the box this time were slightly better than the last; the previous time had been a single Explosive Tag, while this time it was a small box of Soldier Pills, totaling 12 pieces.
"After entering the game this time, I'll be able to acquire stat points again and go from level 9 to level 10. According to the usual tropes, this kind of major level increase should yield something good, right?" Finished speaking, Uchiha Yuan closed his eyes and spun the roulette wheel in his mind.
The next second, the roulette vanished, and a line of text appeared before Uchiha Yuan's eyes.
"You have logged into the Arad Continent."
"An hour ago, in order to evade Calat's pursuit, you leaped down from the Heavenly Realm and arrived in the legendary Arad Continent."
"You were surprised that there actually was a continent beneath the Heavenly Realm, having previously thought it was a legend."
"Help!"
"A woman's cries for help came from the forest ahead of you."
"You thought about it and decided to go check it out."
"You defeated the monster in the forest and rescued the woman."
"The woman said her name was Seria, and she wrote you a letter of introduction, telling you to go find the blacksmith Linus. Before leaving, she told you that today is also a day full of seventy thousand."
"You didn't understand what 'full of seventy thousand' meant, but you didn't care about it and took the introduction letter to find Linus."
"After reading the letter of introduction, Linus arranged a quest for you."
"Your adventure has begun."
"You first entered the Dark Forest and defeated the small Goblin, then entered the depths of the Dark Forest to defeat the large Goblin. Next, you are going to challenge the Thunderous Ruins."
"Linus felt your strength might not yet be sufficient to deal with Thunderous Kairo, but you felt that Kairo was merely a Goblin; even if it could use the power of lightning, it was still just a Goblin and nothing to fear."
" You barged into the Thunderous Ruins alone."
"You killed Thunderous Kairo, obtained his precious pelt, and sold it for quite a bit of money."
"Feeling very happy, you returned to the Moonlight Tavern, ordered a drink you usually couldn't bear to afford, and even bought a cup for a decadent drunken uncle."
"Your generous action caught the attention of interested parties, but you were completely unaware."
"After coming out of the tavern, you were tracked."
"You were cornered in an alley, and you died!"
"Game over!"
"Obtained Stat Point x2, obtained Sword Saint Arganzo's attention."
After reading through this game session, the corners of Uchiha Yuan's mouth twitched. For a moment, he didn't know how to complain; there were simply too many points to mock.
The most absurd part was that he hadn't died in the Thunderous Ruins, but instead got targeted because he spent money too extravagantly, and then got killed—it was all too sudden.
However, Uchiha Yuan was still very satisfied with the harvest from this game; at the very least, he had 2 stat points. As for Sword Saint Arganzo's attention, who knew what use that thing had, so Uchiha Yuan didn't care much about it.
Subsequently, Uchiha Yuan added both of those stat points to his Chakra.
The level at the bottom of the panel upgraded from lv9 to lv10. With a thought in his mind, Uchiha Yuan claimed this level-up reward, and a golden box appeared in his hands.
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