Freedom at Last!

After returning home, Naruto lay on his bed, digesting the several bowls of ramen he had just eaten.

He increasingly felt that Hiruzen Sarutobi might actually be a good person, willing to pay for his ramen and providing him with a steady stream of rewards.

Hiruzen Sarutobi might be a good person, but Hiruzen Sarutobi being a good person also seemed a little impossible!

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, for completing the task of making Hiruzen Sarutobi pay for your ramen."

"Congratulations, Host! You have obtained the Perfect Transformation Technique!"

"Ding! Congratulations, Host, for completing the task of becoming Hokage in the ninja game."

"Congratulations, Host! You have obtained the A-rank ninjutsu, Improved Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"

"Oh my god, do I really get whatever I want? System, you're actually monitoring my thoughts? Is this big data? Please give me more!"

Naruto opened the system reward: the Perfect Transformation Technique.

As its name implied, no one could see through this Transformation Technique when it was used. It eliminated the Transformation Technique's original flaws and truly deserved the word "perfect"!

The Multi Shadow Clone Technique was an A-rank ninjutsu invented by the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju. It used an enormous amount of chakra to increase the number of shadow clones, allowing the user to create thousands of shadow clones at once.

Because this technique consumed chakra far too intensely, Tobirama Senju considered that those without immense chakra reserves could injure themselves or even endanger their lives by using it. Thus, he classified it as a forbidden technique and recorded it in the Book of Seals.

The Multi Shadow Clone Technique distributed chakra evenly among every shadow clone, so it required an enormous amount of chakra. One careless mistake could put one's life at risk.

The system's Improved Multiple Shadow Clone Technique retained the ability to create thousands of shadow clones, yet improved the trait of evenly distributing chakra. According to the caster's wishes, it could allocate only a small amount of chakra to each shadow clone, thereby reducing the impact on the body after the clones dispersed.

"This ninjutsu is just too amazing. If I had a thousand units of chakra and used the original Multi Shadow Clone Technique to create a thousand shadow clones, then every clone would only have one unit of chakra. There may be numbers, but their strength would be weakened."

"The improved Multi Shadow Clone Technique doesn't have that problem. As long as I distribute it properly, I can create a thousand shadow clones and give each clone half a unit or even less, only enough to maintain its existence. That can confuse the enemy while preserving my own strength to the greatest extent possible."

"It can even scare people at the same time! It's killing several birds with one stone!"

It was already nighttime. Normally, Naruto would have gone to bed early.

But now that he had obtained the Perfect Transformation Technique, escaping ANBU surveillance and gaining the corresponding freedom was within his grasp. How could Naruto possibly hold himself back?

Naruto first pretended to get into bed, turning off the lights to sleep.

While under the covers, he quietly used the Multi Shadow Clone Technique and created two shadow clones.

One lay on the bed, while the other hid beneath it. If anything went wrong, there would still be another layer of insurance.

He then used the Perfect Transformation Technique, turning into a tiny fly and flying out through the gap in the door.

As he got farther and farther away from his house, the emotions in Naruto's heart became harder and harder to suppress.

After arriving in a small forest in Konoha Village and using Kagura's Mind's Eye to sense that no one was nearby,

Naruto returned to his original form.

"Finally, I'm free!"

For so many days, he had lived under ANBU surveillance. He had not even had time to train properly, but now he was free.

He could finally have time to train!

In this ninja world, only strength was what truly mattered.

If he could directly become a perfect jinchuriki and enter Kurama Mode, even Hiruzen Sarutobi would have to treat him politely. In the end, he simply was not strong enough yet.

Rules were meant to restrain the weak. The strong were the ones who created rules!

And he would become strong and truly take control of his own fate!

He created one shadow clone to maintain Kagura's Mind's Eye and monitor the people nearby.

Naruto himself then chose to create a large number of shadow clones for training.

"First, let's practice tree climbing!" Since Naruto had not learned many ninjutsu yet, he could only practice the chakra control methods that had appeared in the original story.

True powerhouses could often distribute their chakra with precision. In battle, through the combination of taijutsu and ninjutsu, they could fight an enemy for three hundred rounds!

Even though Naruto had a great deal of chakra, if he could avoid wasting it and control it properly, he would become even more terrifying!

A large number of Narutos began practicing tree climbing.

Naruto was surprised to discover that the chakra flow within his body was perfectly normal. The Nine-Tails was no longer causing trouble inside him?

Naruto in the original story had also been a genius. It was only because the Nine-Tails had constantly interfered within him and disrupted the flow of his chakra that he had never been able to properly control the power of his ninjutsu.

As the child of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, how could Naruto's talent possibly make him a dead last?

In the world of Naruto, bloodlines were the most noble thing.

As long as you were the child of a powerhouse, you would surely become a powerhouse in the future!

Naruto was pretty amazing, wasn't it?

Without the Nine-Tails causing trouble, Naruto did not need much time to master tree climbing.

"I didn't expect tree climbing to be so easy to learn. I really am a genius. Next, I'll practice water walking!"

Naruto was so excited about regaining his freedom that he was not sleepy at all.

After successfully mastering tree climbing, he decided to strike while the iron was hot and practice water walking.

But water walking was clearly much more difficult than tree climbing.

Trees did not move. Naruto only needed to control the direction of the chakra flow beneath his feet.

Water was different. Water flowed.

The chakra beneath Naruto's feet also had to change in accordance with the flowing water, which greatly tested his chakra control.

But no challenge could stop Naruto. Before him, it was only a matter of time, and with the Multi Shadow Clone Technique, training with this move would speed up the results by thousands of times.

Of course, when the shadow clones were dispelled, the original body would not only receive their learning memories, but also inherit their fatigue.

But Naruto's vitality was among the best in Konoha Village. The dispersal of a few thousand shadow clones was nothing worth mentioning.

Furthermore, perhaps because he had been reborn, or perhaps because of the Uchiha Clan bloodline, Naruto's mental strength was also exceptionally powerful, and his endurance had greatly improved.

And so, Naruto worked hard throughout the night, continuing through failure after failure after failure.

Just before dawn, Naruto finally succeeded!

Even Naruto's chakra was nearly depleted.

He had been using his own chakra. Fortunately, he had the Improved Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, which allowed him to distribute the chakra within his body properly.

If it had been the normal Multi Shadow Clone Technique, Naruto definitely could not have lasted this long.

He left behind two shadow clones to inspect the surrounding environment and serve as sentries.

After Naruto's original body dispelled the other shadow clones, a vast amount of training memories flooded into his mind.

It inevitably caused a shock to Naruto's mental state.

"I'm so tired. I'll leave it to you, my clones. Make sure you protect me!" Naruto instructed his clones.

"Rest easy, original body. If anything happens, we'll definitely beat you awake!" the clones promised Naruto, thumping their chests.

Naruto found a comfortable patch of grass and drifted off into a dazed sleep.

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