Only Cheats Can Turn the Tables

Even so, Ryusuke did not immediately fuse with Asura's chakra.

After taking several deep breaths, Ryusuke closed the Virtual Panel and turned his gaze back to the training ground.

Once round after round of taijutsu sparring had ended, the first assessment for the first-year students finally came to a close.

After smilingly bidding farewell to his enthusiastic classmates, Ryusuke returned home and finally dropped his mask-like smile.

As he changed his shoes by the entrance, Ryusuke summoned the Virtual Panel and tapped the golden orb with a finger.

Just like in a game, a confirmation box asking whether to use it immediately appeared before Ryusuke.

Taking another deep breath, Ryusuke selected yes.

Whoosh—

In an instant, the golden orb in the Space Backpack turned into a golden beam like a shooting star, flying out and seeping into Ryusuke's body.

Then, Ryusuke's body flashed with golden light, like an upgrade effect in a game.

Then... that was it.

"This effect gets three cents from me at most."

Ryusuke grumbled softly, then felt himself all over as though checking whether his body had changed in any way.

Naturally, there was no outward change at all.

Ryusuke knew that even if there had been a change, it would not be external, but internal.

So, Ryusuke went to the living room, sat cross-legged on the tatami, closed his eyes, and began extracting chakra.

Though he was merely a civilian without a bloodline limit, Ryusuke was now a genius.

At the very least, until graduation, he would remain an exceptionally dazzling civilian genius.

His soul was that of an adult from another world, giving him advanced thinking like those precocious geniuses.

For the same reason, Ryusuke's spiritual energy was far beyond that of ordinary people.

And chakra was the product of combining physical energy and spiritual energy.

Originally, Ryusuke's spiritual energy was excessively high for his age, but because his physical energy was utterly ordinary, his chakra reserves were no different from anyone else's.

When the two were mixed together, the amount of chakra produced was also completely ordinary.

But now, as Ryusuke extracted chakra as usual, the physical and spiritual energy bursting from his 130 trillion cells went from being like a child urinating to being like an opened faucet.

After combining them, the chakra vortex inside Ryusuke's body instantly began expanding at a visible rate.

If someone used Byakugan or Sharingan X-ray Vision on Ryusuke, they would discover that the blue vortex within him was slowly growing larger, its color becoming deeper as well.

Who knew how long passed before Ryusuke finally stopped extracting chakra. He slowly opened his red eyes, filled with shock, and muttered, "So this is what being a cheater feels like? How is anyone supposed to beat this?!"

Civilian players and big spenders had entirely different experiences, and big spenders and cheaters were just as different.

Civilian players could only grind, big spenders could only enjoy themselves, while cheaters enjoyed themselves even more.

After extracting chakra for only a short while, his reserves had surged to several times their previous amount. Ryusuke finally understood just how cruel the words bloodline supremacy truly were.

Only cheats could turn the tables!

After the shock faded, Ryusuke suddenly laughed. "Heh heh... Suddenly, life feels meaningful, and the world seems so much more wonderful."

Like dawn breaking through the darkness, the rugged road ahead had suddenly become incomparably smooth.

Once he came back to his senses, Ryusuke became nervous again.

What came next was the greatest test, and the moment that would prove the level of his cheat system.

Over the next few days, Ryusuke lived as usual, playing the part of a six-year-old child. He endured the discomfort of playing with those children and, like in those Japanese anime, integrated himself into a small clique.

During that time, Ryusuke did not enter some mysterious space in his sleep, nor did he see that white-haired old man floating in the air.

Ryusuke did not know whether the Six Paths Sage was watching him from the shadows.

But over the next few years, he had to keep playing the role of a child and could no longer keep talking to himself.

If nothing had happened to him these past few days because his cheat system stood above everything else, then that would naturally be even better.

But Ryusuke did not dare gamble on that.

Only by remaining vigilant could he survive safely until he stood at the very summit.

Time moved into the latter half of Year 54 of Konoha.

Winter had arrived, with heavy snow falling.

Before he knew it, five months had passed since Ryusuke fused with Asura's chakra.

During this time, Ryusuke's growth had been extremely obvious.

In terms of chakra reserves, aside from Naruto, no one in the first year—and not even in the sixth year—had more chakra than him.

Such an astonishing change had occurred in less than half a year.

Ryusuke did not dare imagine what level his chakra reserves would soar to after graduation.

One thing was certain: by then, they would definitely be measured in "Ka" units.

Although chakra reserves did not represent strength, vast chakra reserves gave one the capital to be reckless.

Those with little chakra had to carefully calculate every move in battle.

Naruto, on the other hand, could not only use the forbidden Multiple Shadow Clone Technique as though it were an ordinary ninjutsu, but each of those Shadow Clones could also wield a Rank A Rasengan.

Such human-wave tactics could completely make up for a lack of combat experience.

If a "physical monster" like that was also exceptionally hardworking, Kisame Hoshigaki was the best example.

Ryusuke would not squander his talent like Naruto.

Before he had even entered the Ninja Academy and successfully extracted chakra, Ryusuke, as a transmigrator, had already practiced climbing walls with his feet at home, laying a solid foundation for Chakra Control.

Now that his chakra reserves had increased, Ryusuke immediately began learning the godly cheating technique: the Shadow Clone Technique.

Though Ryusuke was now an orphan, he had been born into a ninja family.

His home was a standalone two-story house, one of the inheritances left behind by his parents in this life. Fortunately, it had not been destroyed by the Nine-Tails back then.

When Ryusuke turned three, he was sent back from the orphanage to his own home and began learning to live independently.

During that time, the village had not confiscated Ryusuke's house.

While cleaning the house, Ryusuke had found several scrolls.

These scrolls were also part of the inheritance left by his parents in this life. They included a chakra extraction method, the basic Three Body Technique and Leaf Body Flicker Technique, several low-level nature transformation scrolls, and the Shadow Clone Technique.

In Ryusuke's eyes, the Shadow Clone Technique was naturally the most precious thing among those scrolls.

To others, Shadow Clones were not some godly cheating technique at all, because when they were dispelled, their fatigue would be returned to the original body.

If that fatigue exceeded one's limit, a person could literally be exhausted to death.

Ordinary ninja could use at most one or two Shadow Clones to assist in training.

Ryusuke and Naruto, who possessed Sage Bodies, were exceptions. They could withstand fatigue on a massive scale.

Naruto was even an exception among exceptions. Besides possessing a Sage Body, he was also the Jinchuriki of half of the strongest tailed beast.

Even if he wanted to die, the Nine-Tails would not let him.