"Secret Technique: Earth Grudge Fear… and Hero Water without side effects?"
Listening to the system prompt in his mind, Uchiha Ren shook his head helplessly.
What was there to say?
Now that he had already reached the Six Paths level, something like Earth Grudge Fear or side-effect-free Hero Water was basically useless to him.
Neither of them offered any real benefit to his strength anymore.
Still—
this check-in wasn't a complete waste.
At the very least, the side-effect-free Hero Water could still be used to raise the strength of Konoha's shinobi.
The next moment, Uchiha Ren slowly stood up and muttered,
"System. Show me my status panel."
Ding. Generating Host's latest status panel…
Ding. Status panel generated successfully.
Host: Uchiha Ren
Age: 22
Permanent Check-In Region: the shinobi world
High-Value Rewards Obtained Through Check-Ins:
Whitebeard Template (One of the Four Emperors) [100% Unlocked]
Rokushiki (Mastered)
Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation
Multi Shadow Clone Jutsu
Observation Haki [Top-tier]
Armament Haki [Top-tier]
Conqueror's Haki [Top-tier]
Hashirama Senju's Sage Body (Fused)
Supreme Grade Blade (one of the Twelve): Murakumogiri
Eight Trigrams Palm: Rotation
Lightning Chakra Mode
Chidori
Rasengan
Hand Seal-Free Healing
Sealing Technique: Reaper Death Seal
Five Release: Great Barrage Jutsu
Moon Breathing
Sun Breathing
The five basic Breathing Style branches: Water, Lightning, Flame, Stone, and Wind
Yin–Yang Release
Perfect Sage Mode
Secret Technique: Earth Grudge Fear
Hero Water (No Side Effects)
Next Check-In Location: Kirigakure (Unactivated)
Check-In Time: 1 minute
Note: Checking in at refreshed system locations grants abundant rewards.
"Hah… before I knew it, I'm already twenty-two."
After glancing at his status panel, Uchiha Ren let out an involuntary sigh, his expression turning faintly wistful.
Back when he had first awakened the God-tier Sign-In System, all he had wanted was simple—
lie low, grow quietly, and keep getting stronger through check-ins.
But what happened in the end?
The so-called Konoha F4 led by the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, had insisted on testing his limits.
In the end, Ren had been forced to act.
And once he did—
everything had spiraled all the way to this point.
"The timing's about right. Time to go properly suppress the Seven-Tails jinchūriki."
Ren stretched lazily. A cold glint appeared in his eyes as he muttered,
"Hopefully you can last a minute."
"Otherwise… this is going to be very boring."
—
At the same time, in Takigakure—
At the central plaza of the village—
BOOM!!
A deafening blast erupted, sending out violent shockwaves from the collision. The force was so great that all of Takigakure seemed to tremble several times.
"Damn it! Suien… Suien, you actually colluded with Kumogakure's shinobi?!"
"Why?! Why did you betray Takigakure?! You're a jōnin of Takigakure!"
"Kumogakure! You want to swallow our village? Keep dreaming!"
Amid furious roars, one Takigakure shinobi after another glared at the Kumo forces surrounding the plaza.
Their faces were twisted with rage, some of them so angry they looked almost feral.
Among them, the young leader of Takigakure—Shibuki—was being protected in the center by the village's shinobi.
He looked completely stunned.
His expression was blank, and his eyes were filled with disbelief.
After all—
Suien was his master.
And now, the teacher he had always believed cared for him the most had joined forces with Kumogakure to attack Takigakure.
Shibuki felt like his entire heart was collapsing.
He simply could not accept it.
That was right.
He had never imagined he would be forced to face such a shattering scene.
"Takigakure shinobi, you'd better surrender."
One of the Kumo elite jōnin sneered coldly.
"As long as you lay down your arms, we won't kill you."
"Otherwise… deal with the consequences yourselves."
"These past few days, we've already laid an inescapable net in secret. No one is saving you now. Kumogakure has already decided to devour Takigakure."
"Surrender and you might live. Resist and you will die."
"Hahaha! Once you submit, we'll take the Hero Water and the Seven-Tails jinchūriki as well."
As soon as one Kumo shinobi started talking, it was like a fuse had been lit.
The squads that had infiltrated Takigakure all began laughing smugly.
After scheming for so long—
the harvest was finally here.
They could barely wait.
If the Seven-Tails jinchūriki hadn't still failed to appear, they would've already slaughtered the Takigakure shinobi in front of them.
"Takigakure is nothing special."
"Seven-Tails jinchūriki… still not coming out?"
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A sound of air splitting rang out.
The Two-Tails jinchūriki, Yugito Nii, and Mabui appeared in a blur above the plaza.
And that last line—
had been spoken by Yugito.
"Come out already."
Killing intent appeared on Mabui's cold, beautiful face as she said in a flat voice,
"If you still don't appear after one minute…"
"I'll kill every last one of them."
Once she finished speaking, Mabui cast a look of utter contempt toward the Takigakure shinobi clustered in the center of the plaza.
To her, Takigakure had never been worth taking seriously.
That was exactly why, after receiving the Fourth Raikage's orders, she had personally come here.
And after laying the groundwork in secret—
the result had not disappointed her.
With a few simple schemes, she had forced the entire core of Takigakure into the plaza.
Now they were all trapped.
"That's right."
Yugito's expression turned cold as well.
"You should all understand the meaning of carrying a treasure you're too weak to protect."
BOOM!!
The moment those words fell—
a terrifying wave of tailed beast chakra erupted from Yugito's body and swept across the entire plaza at astonishing speed.
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