"Pick one. Once you've chosen the forbidden techniques you want, I'll take you to the Second Teacher's secret lab. As we agreed, we'll go see the most important specimen he left behind."
Hiroki's gaze fell on the enormous scroll spread out before him.
This was Konoha's greatest treasure: the Scroll of Seals, which recorded countless forbidden techniques.
The place where Naruto Uzumaki's dream began!
It was through this very scroll that Naruto Uzumaki learned the Multi Shadow Clone Technique!
But when Hiroki opened the scroll himself, he found that he didn't feel much of anything.
If anything, he was a little annoyed.
Honestly, if the Third Hokage had just held out his hand and let me copy the old geezer's techniques, that would've been great.
Now he had to learn them himself by reading the Scroll of Seals.
Sigh...
If only the system came with a level-up feature. Then all I'd have to do was shout, "Deep Blue, power me up!"
And I'd get to enjoy brand-new ninjutsu, earned through nothing but effort and sweat.
Hiroki silently studied the techniques.
Then, after a moment's thought, he quietly created a new [tt]-format save file and typed a few lines.
[Deep Blue System at your service: Ninjutsu Flying Thunder God Technique detected. Learn instantly by consuming 0.0001% battery power?]
After amusing himself for a moment, Hiroki began seriously examining the Scroll of Seals in front of him.
It seemed to be just a list of forbidden techniques, and many of them had even been blacked out.
Some of the ink had yet to dry, and faint traces of the text beneath could still be made out.
For example—
Impure World Reincarnation—this was one of the techniques whose name had been crossed out.
Hiroki took a deep breath and began carefully reading the