Transmigration, Starting with a Wolf

It hurt.

Every inch of her body hurt.

Ling Yue slowly opened her eyes.

Her vision remained blurry for a while before finally coming into focus.

Above her was a gloomy canopy of twisted branches and leaves. A few feeble rays of light filtered down, illuminating the tangled roots and scattered dead leaves around her.

"Where the hell am I?"

She struggled to sit up, only to discover that her body was terribly weak. She was dressed in a filthy, tattered dark-blue roughspun garment of a strange design, and her arms and legs were covered in small scratches.

Her mind was a tangled mess when a flood of unfamiliar memory fragments surged up, making her scalp tingle.

War, orphan, Hidden Leaf Village, ninja...

And... right in front of her, a giant wolf with its head lowered, teeth bared, drool dripping from its jaws, and a threatening growl rumbling in its throat!

The wolf was terrifyingly huge. Its green eyes were fixed on her as if she were a slab of meat about to reach its mouth.

"Fuck!"

Ling Yue was scared out of her wits. Her survival instincts drove her to scramble backward, but her back slammed into a large tree before she could react. There was nowhere left to retreat.

The giant wolf bent its hind legs slightly, clearly ready to pounce at any moment.

I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die!!!

She had transmigrated? Only to become wolf food the moment she arrived? What kind of hellish start was this?!

Overwhelming fear instantly swallowed her, nearly suffocating her. She did not want to die. She had only just come back to life—she absolutely did not want to die here so miserably!

Her fierce will to survive screamed madly in her mind. Move! Do something! Anything! Help!

Just as the giant wolf kicked off the ground and was about to pounce—

[Detected the host's strong will to survive. Binding conditions met. Myriad Worlds Skill Lottery System successfully activated... Beginning binding... 1%... 50%... 100%... Binding complete.]

A cold mechanical voice suddenly rang directly in her mind.

A translucent blue interface with a futuristic design instantly appeared before her eyes, blocking the vicious wolf's head.

At the center of the interface were several large words: [Myriad Worlds Skill Lottery System]. Below them, several options flashed: [Personal Attributes], [Lottery], [Quests], and [Inventory].

The giant wolf did not care what was in front of her. It leaped at her, its gaping maw carrying a foul wind as it rushed straight at her face!

"Binding my ass! Help!! Lottery! Right, the lottery!" Ling Yue's mind went blank as she frantically used her consciousness to tap the most prominent [Lottery] button.

[Insufficient dimensional points. The first draw requires Skill Card Voucher (R) x1 or Dimensional Points x100. An unclaimed Beginner's Gift Pack has been detected. Claim it?]

"Claim it, claim it, claim it! Hurry!" Ling Yue watched the wolf's jaws draw closer and closer, so desperate she nearly wet herself.

[Beginner's Gift Pack successfully issued: Dimensional Points x100, Skill Card Voucher (R) x1 acquired.]

"Use the voucher! Draw already!"

The interface instantly switched to a massive, gaudy roulette wheel divided into countless tiny sections whose contents she could not make out. The pointer spun at high speed.

[Using Skill Card Voucher (R) x1 for lottery draw...]

The wolf's fangs were almost touching the tip of her nose!

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the skill: [Zetsu] (from Hunter x Hunter). Load and use immediately?]

"Use it! Right now! Immediately!" Ling Yue screamed with her eyes shut.

A strange stream of information instantly poured into her mind. Techniques for concealing her aura and cutting off her sense of presence flowed through her body as naturally as if she had been born knowing them.

Almost at the same moment, her body unconsciously followed the method of using Zetsu.

Everything happened too fast.

The giant wolf lunged with absolute confidence and snapped its jaws shut, yet somehow bit down on nothing. Its upper and lower jaws crashed together with a teeth-grating clack.

It landed in confusion and shook its massive head, its green eyes filled with bewilderment.

Where had that two-legged creature gone? That big, delicious snack radiating such enticing fear?

How had it suddenly... vanished?

It had not disappeared from sight. Rather, its presence, scent, sound—everything about it—seemed to have evaporated into thin air.

The wolf paced restlessly in circles, sniffing hard and pawing through the fallen leaves, but it could no longer find any trace of its prey.

In the end, it could only let out two unwilling growls, shake its head in confusion, and slowly disappear into the dense woods nearby.

Only after she could no longer hear the wolf did Ling Yue dare to cautiously release Zetsu.

She slid down the tree trunk and sat on the ground, her chest heaving as she gasped for air. Only then did cold sweat soak through the tattered clothes on her back.

That had been way too close!

She looked at the system interface still floating before her, her feelings too complicated to describe.

This thing... was fucking useful!

The wild joy of surviving a disaster washed away her initial terror and confusion.

After calming down slightly, she began carefully studying the system that had saved her life.

The interface was simple.

[Personal Attributes] displayed:

Name: Ling Yue

Status: Lightly injured, weakened, hungry

Skill: [Zetsu] (Beginner)

Dimensional Points: 100

The [Lottery] interface was divided into several sections: [Single Draw (R Card Voucher/100 Points)], [Ten Draws (900 Points, guaranteed SR)].

The roulette wheel contained all kinds of skills, though most were blurred beyond recognition. Every now and then, she could catch glimpses of words like [Six Powers], [Kido], and [Breathing Technique].

The [Quests] list was completely empty.

The [Inventory] held those 100 points.

So this really was a system that made her stronger through lottery draws? And it involved skills from... myriad worlds?

Ling Yue licked her cracked lips, and her eyes slowly brightened.

She knew all too well how dangerous the Naruto world was. Without a bloodline limit or clan inheritance, it was hard enough for a war orphan to survive, let alone live well.

But now, things seemed different.

She looked at the 100 points and the [Single Draw] button, feeling like a cat was scratching at her heart.

Her first single draw had given her a life-saving skill like Zetsu. What if she drew again?

Her stomach suddenly growled at the worst possible moment. A powerful wave of hunger struck her, reminding her of reality's cruelty.

First, she had to survive. She had to leave this damned forest, find food, and figure out the exact situation.

She gritted her teeth, enduring the hunger and weakness as she used the tree trunk to pull herself to her feet. She tried to determine a direction, but there was no way to tell, so she could only stagger off in the opposite direction from where the giant wolf had gone.

Yet her mind never stopped calculating.

One hundred points per draw... The Beginner's Gift Pack had given her exactly one hundred points, just enough for a single draw.

Should she draw, or not?

Zetsu was mainly for concealment. It had almost no offensive or defensive power. If another wolf showed up, or if she encountered an enemy, she would still be finished.

Fuck it, go big or go home!

She stopped walking and sank her consciousness into the system once more.

"System, use 100 dimensional points for another single draw!"

[Consuming Dimensional Points x100 for a single draw...]

The lottery wheel began spinning wildly again.

Ling Yue's heart rose into her throat as she stared fixedly at the pointer, which was gradually slowing down.

Please, give me something that can fight and run! An offensive skill! A healing technique would work too!

The pointer crawled past one blurred section after another before finally stopping on a square at the edge that emitted a faint blue glow.

[Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the skill: ______]