Cash Shop Cheat Bug?

The Multiple Shadow Clone Technique was not difficult to learn, and it was not much harder than the ordinary Shadow Clone Technique.

In the original story, Naruto had not even become a Genin yet. He had carried the Book of Seals around the forest for one night, learned the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, and then gave Mizuki a thorough beating.

That showed just how low the difficulty of learning it was!

The reason it was classified as a forbidden technique was that creating a large number of Shadow Clones at once would rapidly drain a ninja's chakra, eventually sucking them dry into a human husk.

One Shadow Clone took away half of the original body's chakra. With two clones, the original body only had a quarter left. The chakra consumption of the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique was truly terrifying!

Chakra was refined from physical and spiritual energy. Only someone like Naruto, with the Uzumaki Physique cheat and the Nine-Tails cheat, could keep throwing out big moves and clones nonstop. If it were Kakashi, he would be completely drained after barely a few moves.

"Unfortunately, I'm a cheater too," Hyuga Satoru said with a smile.

He might not have the Uzumaki Physique, but he had a Life Magnetic Field!

Because of the Life Magnetic Field, his physical condition would naturally adjust itself to the optimum state. Once too much was drained at once, the Life Magnetic Field would desperately work to make up for the loss.

Moreover, thanks to the vigorous feedback from the Life Magnetic Field, his chakra reserves had always far surpassed those of ninjas at the same level, roughly approaching Jonin standards.

With the boost from this buff, the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique still had a long way to go before it could drain him dry.

Thinking of this, Hyuga Satoru took a deep breath and began practicing the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.

The way chakra flowed was similar to the Shadow Clone Technique, except that several complex steps were added during activation, multiplying the release pathways and greatly increasing the number of Shadow Clones.

"The Second Hokage really was a genius. How did he come up with such an ingenious way to circulate chakra?"

Hyuga Satoru could not help but marvel.

When the chakra circulation reached its peak, he formed hand seals and shouted that classic line.

"Multiple Shadow Clone Technique!"

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As clouds of white smoke rose, a whole group of identical Hyuga Satorus appeared around him, staring wide-eyed at one another.

It felt as if his body had been hollowed out. Hyuga Satoru felt an empty void in his abdomen, but before he could do anything, the area around him suddenly erupted into noise.

"Hey, why did I see so many ugly bastards the moment I opened my eyes?"

"Bastard, who are you calling ugly?! Take a look at yourself! Your eyes are as round as marbles!" x10

"You looking for a beating?!" x10

"Bring it on! Who's afraid of who?!" x20

Listening to dozens of himself curse each other in unison, Hyuga Satoru felt his head grow large.

He had not expected the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to have such a drawback. But thinking back carefully, Naruto seemed to have argued with his clones quite a few times.

Especially when he had been training the Rasenshuriken, a group of Shadow Clones had started competing with each other, openly mocking the clones with slower progress and nearly coming to blows.

Back then, Hyuga Satoru had nearly laughed himself unconscious in front of the television. He had never expected that scene to happen to him now.

"Stop arguing! I summoned you all! I'm the original body, so you have to listen to me!"

Unable to endure it any longer, Hyuga Satoru shouted them down, finally calming the commotion around him.

"The original body? Fine, if you're the original body, then judge this. Isn't he uglier?"

"Nonsense, he's obviously uglier! His nose is practically pointing at the sky!"

Seeing the clones' argument grow more and more intense, Hyuga Satoru took out a scroll and tossed it into the air. As white smoke dispersed, countless metal ninja tools—shuriken, kunai, ninja blades, and more—suddenly rained down from above like a storm of metal, embedding themselves neatly in front of the clones.

The sight shocked every clone into silence.

"That was amazing!"

Hyuga Satoru let out a long breath and spoke.

"Try communicating with the metal ninja tools in front of you using your consciousness. See if you can control them."

"Like this...?"

A clever clone tried a few times and gradually found the method. Amid the envious gazes of the others, the shuriken in front of him wobbled into the air.

Hyuga Satoru breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as he had expected, the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique could also use the power of Electromagnetic Force. He had previously used Shadow Clones to train Electromagnetic Force, so he had guessed that Multiple Shadow Clones could do the same.

Seeing that someone had already learned it, the other clones refused to be outdone and began competing with each other as well.

"Damn it! I won't fall behind either."

"It's time to let you see what real skill looks like..."

"Move, move, move... Move already..."

Seeing the clones voluntarily throw themselves into competition, Hyuga Satoru smiled with satisfaction. He used metal ninja tools to build a chair, then crossed one leg over the other and leaned back.

[Experience +56]

[Experience +59]

[Experience +61]

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Watching his experience points rapidly rise, Hyuga Satoru felt utterly refreshed.

Just as he had imagined, the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique could share the experience gained through training with the original body.

And perhaps because of the way his cheat system leveled up, he could gain that experience even without the clones disappearing.

Electromagnetic Force at LV2 required 6,000 experience points to level up. He currently had 5,021 experience points, only about 1,000 short of leveling up.

If nothing unexpected happened, he should have enough time to reach LV3 before the next mission.

He remembered that when Naruto trained the Rasenshuriken in the original story, he had summoned several thousand clones. With the experience-sharing buff, his training progress had skyrocketed like a rocket.

Hyuga Satoru had chosen the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique precisely because he knew this.

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and a strange expression appeared on his face.

"Does this count as exploiting a cash shop cheat bug???"

Whatever!

Hyuga Satoru looked relieved as he lay comfortably in his chair. If there was a bug and he did not exploit it, there had to be something wrong with his head!

Around him, dozens of clones were like rows of lush green leeks, constantly glowing and generating heat as this capitalist sucked them dry of blood and flesh.

One clone's hand suddenly trembled, and the shuriken in his hand flew off course, stabbing right into the clone who had been arguing with him earlier.

"Damn it! You're playing dirty, huh?!"

That clone pointed at the other and cursed angrily, but before his words even finished, he turned into white smoke with a bang and vanished.

"They're still Shadow Clones, after all. The trait of popping from one stab can't be changed."

Hyuga Satoru frowned slightly, suppressing the flood of memories that had just returned. He formed hand seals and mobilized the chakra that had just recovered.

As the white smoke dispersed, another crop of lush green leeks sprang up.