After reviewing my account today, I discovered why many of my friends are dissatisfied with the protagonist's current combat power.
Let me say it first. I don't mean to say who is right or wrong. I just found out where the main misunderstanding is during the reconciliation, so I will point it out...
It seems that many friends have the impression that Jiraiya can't "Sage Mode" now, and even Third Shinobi World War can't do it. You have to be very old to do it (I didn't say this is wrong).
However, when I was watching the animation of Jiraiya's memories, I remembered that the narrator said "Jiraiya's boyhood was spent learning Senjutsu", so I always assumed that he knew Senjutsu (note that I didn't say it, so I must have understood it correctly).
When the book mentioned Orochimaru before, it was also said that his knowledge of Sage Mode came from Jiraiya, and it was also implied that Orochimaru coveted Sage Mode because of Jiraiya. No one refuted this at the time, so I never paid attention to it. I am different from many readers and friends in this understanding...
In other words, many readers' understanding of "Sage Mode" comes from the line Naruto, which means that as soon as you learn it, you will immediately explode into Pain...
But what I always thought about was Jiraiya (after all, Naruto is the protagonist, I subconsciously did not consider his growth curve), that is to say, Jiraiya learned Sage Mode (in the early stage), and just caught up with the genius Orochimaru.
Therefore, I still think that Jiraiya already knew Sage Mode when he was young, so his record under Sage Mode is just "Sannin", so I take it for granted that Sage Mode has levels and advancement...
The main deviation should be here.
Of course, Kishimoto himself probably hasn't thought that much about this kind of thing. Sage Mode can't say exactly what it is. It can even be said that Jiraiya has just been learning, but has not learned it at all...
And I just confirmed it again. It is true that the narration in the animation is not in the comic, so I think it is correct no matter how you interpret it, but it seems that I did not express my meaning clearly before.
Because by default everyone thinks that Jiraiya will now be Senjutsu, which is just relatively superficial, so I didn't put too much emphasis on the grading issue on the protagonist's Sage Mode. This should be where the current dispute lies.
According to the trend of the outline, my positioning of the protagonist's strength is only stronger than Sannin - that is, he has more tricks than his contemporary Jiraiya.
I have felt everyone's dissatisfaction in the past few days, and I will also make adjustments to the protagonist's strength (but it really can't be improved to the level of strong shadow).
Again, regarding the issue of "Sage Mode", I don't mean to say who is right or wrong...
Just when I was reorganizing it, I suddenly discovered this. I was still thinking that if Sage Mode was so strong, then Hanzō was too strong. Then I did some research with the readers in the group and found that most readers did not actually think that Jiraiya at this time would be Sage Mode.
Then let's use the "Sage Mode classification" as the second setting of this book...