Kazan

Konoha, Ninja Academy.

This was the most important construction project during the tenure of Second Hokage Tobirama Senju, and it had delivered a massive number of talents to Konoha in just a few decades.

Today's Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, First Pot Kage Shimura Danzō, as well as the two advisors, including the Third Hokage's three disciples Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Tsunade, and so on...

These current pillars of Konoha stepped out from this very school.

It could be said that the Ninja Academy had already become the most vital part of Konoha.

Meanwhile, inside a classroom at the academy, a Chunin teacher stood at the podium holding a clipboard, and the little brats whose names were called stepped up one by one to demonstrate their Three Techniques.

"Next, Kazan."

After the teacher spoke, a sharp-looking little brat left his seat and walked up to the podium.

The content of today's exam was the Clone Technique, one of the Three Techniques.

Although this was the Ninja Academy, it generally only taught students a few non-lethal basics like the Three Techniques and chakra refinement methods.

The founding of Konoha was formed by the First Hokage combining multiple shinobi clans.

To realize his childhood dream of preventing children from going to the battlefield, Hashirama Senju created the first shinobi village in history.

The current Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi constantly proclaimed that "we are all one big family."

Yet when all was said and done, high-end commodities like ninjutsu were the bargaining chips upon which major shinobi clans established themselves, especially certain special secret techniques, which were never passed on to outsiders.

Commoner ninja who wanted to study them had only three methods.

The first and easiest was taking a master.

Like Jiraiya of the Sannin, who was born a commoner yet became a disciple under the Third Hokage, and upon first learning the Summoning Technique immediately reverse-summoned himself to Mount Myōboku.

These opportunities forged the renowned Konoha hero of the Shinobi World today.

The second way was a bit more troublesome: accumulating contributions by completing missions, and then exchanging for them in the village.

The third relied on talent—creating them yourself.

If you possessed the ninjutsu talent of Tobirama Senju or Orochimaru, then all of the above problems ceased to be problems at all.

As for Kazan.

Despite bearing such an awesome name, his ninjutsu talent was utterly mediocre, and he had no shinobi family backing him up.

"Poof!"

Amidst a swirl of smoke, Kazan quickly formed hand seals and produced a clone identical in appearance to himself.

"Sixty points, passing."

The teacher nodded at Kazan, using a pen to record his name and score.

There was no excessive expression on Kazan's face as he dispelled the clone and walked back to his seat.

He felt no emotional fluctuations regarding his score; as a transmigrator, he was a cheater equipped with a golden finger.

Ever since his birth in this world, a Garp Template had accompanied him here.

It was that legendary duo-partner who ran amok on Hachinosu only to get wrecked, then became the laughingstock of his fan base.

He duo-partnered with Golden Lion against Sengoku, duo-partnered with Rocks against Roger, and then in the manga later at God Valley even threw down with Imu, transforming overnight into that Hero of the Navy, Garp!

So, with even a Garp Template at hand, did ninjutsu even matter anymore?

While he was having these thoughts, an exclamation burst out from the classroom.

Kazan looked up to see that it was an Uchiha brat's turn to perform on stage.

Compared to Kazan, who found conjuring even a single clone a struggle, the Uchiha brat had produced a staggering total of seven clones.

"As expected of an Uchiha!" The teacher first let out an exclamation of praise, then recorded it down: "Full marks!"

Hearing this, Jing Uchiha walked off the stage with a blank expression.

Greeting him were the screams and adoration of the girls in the classroom.

"Jing-kun, you're so amazing!"

"As expected of a genius, you're first place on the exam again!"

"That's right, ever since Kakashi graduated early, Jing-kun has always been number one!"

Countless girls' eyes sparkled, but there were also some untimely voices.

For instance, Obito Uchiha, who wore wind goggles even during class.

"Tch, what's so great about it? If I hadn't eaten something bad today and had a stomach ache, I could've gotten a perfect score too."

Yep.

The inherently evil Uchiha brat was even worse off than Kazan, serving as the super dead last of the class.

His score was barely better than Might Guy, who produced only a set of clothes with his Clone Technique.

Meanwhile, not far from Obito, a goofball wearing a red scarf and striking, thick eyebrows was staring intently at Jing Uchiha with burning eyes.

That gaze was several degrees more passionate than those of the female students.

"So amazing! Father was right, the academy is a place where hidden dragons and crouching tigers lie! I've decided, after school I'll finish 500 laps around the playground and then challenge Kakashi!"

"Hey, Kazan, let's go burn our youth together!"

Ding!

As he spoke, he even shot a wink at Kazan, flashing teeth so blindingly white they seemed to reflect light.

"My youth is too precious, and it's not extravagant enough to be burned. Burn yours by yourself," Kazan said, resting his chin in his hand.

It was already Year 42 of Konoha, and only a few years had barely passed since the end of the Second Shinobi World War.

However, come Year 43 of Konoha, the Third Shinobi World War was about to break out.

When Kazan strolled around the village recently, he could detect a trace of solemnity on the faces of the ninjas returning to the village.

Without a doubt, that unlucky Kazekage from Sunagakure who had been made into a puppet had already been missing for some time, and the border atmosphere was extremely tense now—a full-scale war was only a matter of time.

During the Warring States Era, the Shinobi World was extremely chaotic.

Ninja groups at that time were merely mercenaries for various major countries, and battles occurred at every moment, basically following a rhythm of minor skirmishes every three days and major battles every five.

Then, Hashirama Senju gathered the independently fighting ninja groups together and ended that chaotic era.

Yet disputes did not cease; instead, they developed in a direction Hashirama Senju had never anticipated.

The Shinobi Village era emerged, and while the number of battles decreased, their scale multiplied exponentially.

Following Konoha's establishment, other large and small ninja groups in the Shinobi World, to avoid being devoured or for other reasons, also followed Konoha's example and began to huddle together, forming the super three giants...

They cooperated with countries, establishing shinobi villages through the financial power of major powers, and the shinobi villages became swords in the hands of the major powers.

Now there were no frequent battles, but once fighting broke out, every coffin seller in the entire Shinobi World would make a fortune.

Kazan didn't need to have a good memory to know that every time a Shinobi World War reached its end, the shinobi villages would send newly graduated kids onto the battlefield due to insufficient manpower.

At such a moment of life and death, no one would care whether you had just graduated or not.

"To save my dog life on the battlefield, I need to have at least the combat power of a Jonin."

Kazan did not know what his current combat power was.

Although he had a system, Brother System gave him a Garp Template and some cultivation methods before embarking on a long-term diving career.

He currently had no idea how hard his pair of iron fists actually were, but he practiced extremely hard every day.

Thinking of this, Kazan glanced at Jing Uchiha, who was sitting in his seat without speaking and putting on a cool act after scoring a hundred on the test, and wondered whether he should go blast him.