Chapter 149:
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for clearing Training System Stage 1. Gained system points: 100."
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for completing hidden task. Achieved achievement: Kind Heart."
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for obtaining achievement: Kind Heart. Achievement reward: 500 system points."
Naruto: "Holy fucking shit!!"
"There's actually this kind of mechanic???"
Originally, Naruto had just felt sorry for the pitiful Sasuke and acted like a saint for a moment, only to get his 10 system points multiplied by 50 for free?
Naruto clicked the small question mark button in the bottom left corner of the Training System. Among the huge amount of introduction content, he found one message:
[In the Training System, every 20 stages a hidden task will appear. Completing hidden tasks can activate corresponding achievements.]
After carefully reading the guide again and confirming he hadn't missed anything, Naruto continued entering the Training Road.
Stage 2: Defeat two Ninja Academy students…
This time, Naruto's enemies looked much duller—they attacked him right away.
No need to think—they were obviously NPCs fabricated by the system. Naruto dealt with them without any pressure.
One minute later.
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for clearing Training System Stage 2. Gained system points: 100."
"Keep going, keep going!"
Late at night, Naruto crazily challenged the Training Road alone in his house.
No one knew—this was the real reason Naruto's strength improved so fast.
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for clearing Training System Stage 3. Gained system points: 100."
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for clearing Training System Stage 4. Gained system points: 100."
"Ding~ Congratulations to the host for clearing Training System Stage 5. Gained system points: 100."
…
When the first ray of morning light shone into Naruto's house, it was exactly time for Naruto to sleep.
In one night, Naruto cleared a full 81 stages, gaining a total of 13,100 system points. Subtracting the 10 system points spent on the second attempt at Stage 1, that left 13,090 system points.
Among them, 8,100 system points were from clear rewards. He completed four hidden tasks, unlocking four achievements, with rewards of 500 / 1,000 / 1,500 / 2,000 system points respectively.
This could truly be called a massive harvest.
Now during summer vacation, Naruto slept until he naturally woke up. By the time he got up, the sky was already darkening.
"Ah~"
Naruto yawned, stretched lazily, and groggily got up to wash.
It was already late—too late to go find Sakyo for fun.
And Naruto still had his own things to do.
Not long after, wearing big shorts and flip-flops, with messy hair and a lazy gaze, Naruto stepped out the door.
Whoosh~
A kunai flew over Naruto's head. Following the kunai's direction, he watched helplessly as his own window glass shattered with a crashing sound.
"Holy crap! Who the hell has no public morals?!"
Naruto instantly cursed, looking around but finding no one.
"Damn it! Don't let me find out who you are!"
Passersby on the road looked at Naruto strangely.
Naruto didn't care. With one leap he returned inside and found the kunai.
Only then did Naruto notice a note stuck on the kunai.
Because of the broken glass, the note was already badly damaged.
Naruto instinctively felt something big was wrong. He hurriedly picked up the note and pieced it together.
After a while, a complete sentence appeared before Naruto's eyes.
[July 25th, 12:00 midnight. Root plans to kidnap Uchiha Sakyo.]
Whoosh~
Fire-attribute chakra slowly flowed out from Naruto's palm, forming a hot little flame that instantly burned the note to ashes.
"Root…"
Naruto clenched his fist. Almost instantly, he made up his mind—he was going to start taking action against Root.
Some people can tolerate offenses not because they have no temper, but simply because the offense hasn't crossed their bottom line.
"But… how could someone send me a message? Could it be a trap?"
"No, this is Konoha. Even in remote areas of the Land of Fire it would be one thing, but in Konoha itself that old dog Danzō dares to act?"
"But… who would send me this message?"
Naruto frowned and thought for a while. A lonely figure appeared in his mind.
"Could it be Toritsume Koyun?"
Just as Naruto was guessing, an ANBU suddenly appeared beside him and asked: "Uzumaki Naruto, who was just transmitting intelligence to you?"
Naruto could clearly feel the abnormality in the other party's tone—like some kind of rejection or disgust.
This made Naruto even more unhappy. He had no intention of speaking politely to the ANBU and directly ordered: "Go tell the Third Hokage—tonight at 12:00, have him bring people to the Uchiha compound. There's a good show to watch."
As soon as these words came out, the air suddenly turned cold. Clearly, the ANBU was very dissatisfied with Naruto's commanding tone.
Naruto frowned and coldly shouted: "Hurry up!"
In his serious state, due to the huge gap in strength with the ANBU, the natural aura emanating from Naruto made the ANBU show a horrified expression under the mask.
Realizing something was wrong, the ANBU didn't say much and turned to leave.
Naruto walked to the window. The sunset shone into the room but couldn't illuminate the gloom in Naruto's heart.
Root, ANBU, Hokage faction, ninja clans…
Konoha, which seemed indestructible to outsiders, was actually divided into several factions.
The complex relationships between these factions gave Naruto quite a headache.
If he wanted to live peacefully in Konoha, he needed to change some things in Konoha.
"Root, huh? Tsk…"
Naruto's eyes showed disdain, as if he didn't take Root seriously at all.
This wasn't strange—after all, last night Naruto had defeated so many Kage-level experts. His actual combat experience had risen to a certain level, so naturally he wouldn't be hesitant anymore.
It was just that his peaceful life was disturbed, making Naruto annoyed and wishing he could kill all the troublemakers right now.
But the result of that would be obvious—Naruto wouldn't lose his life, but he would lose his comfortable life in Konoha.
"Looks like some protective measures are needed."
Naruto thought about this issue more and more and felt it was very necessary.
Although Sakyo's strength was powerful, she and Little Black both had one flaw—they trusted the Sharingan too much and were too arrogant.
Simply put—they needed to be beaten badly.
Naruto didn't want them to be beaten badly by others, so he asked the system: "System, is there any technique that can solve this problem?"
"Ding~ Searching… Search successful."
"Ding~ [Secret Technique—Summoning Body Flicker]: Requires both casters to leave chakra on each other. This way, both parties can use summoning technique to summon the other person."
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