Chapter 33 – Signing In Again: Chakra Body Refinement Technique!
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Seeing Naruto's stunned expression, Kakashi remained perfectly calm.
"The squad leader takes a portion of the reward. It's standard procedure."
Smiling as he spoke, Kakashi casually took the largest cut of the mission pay.
Looks like the latest volume of Make-Out Paradise was as good as bought.
"Hmph!!"
Naruto hadn't expected his own teacher to do something like this.
But honestly, Kakashi was already being pretty generous.
Most squad leaders would take nearly everything, leaving only a token share for their students.
The fact that Kakashi only took enough for a single book of Make-Out Paradise meant he was actually being considerate.
"Well… this amount of money isn't that bad, I guess,"
Naruto muttered to himself. He was already fantasizing about ordering two bowls of Ichiraku Ramen tonight.
The next second, Sasuke took his part of the reward.
The remaining got split between Naruto and Sakura.
Naruto: "???"
Right—he forgot about the whole team thing.
And then Naruto couldn't help but envy Nagi again.
"When will I be like Nagi…"
He gazed longingly at him. Nagi had just done a casual mission and earned a million ryō.
That was more than enough to let Naruto live the high life for months.
If he knew what Nagi's full net worth actually was, he'd probably break down on the spot.
After leaving the mission center, Nagi headed home.
He also took out the treasure he'd received from the village chief.
"This thing most likely serves to generate chakra."
Saying that, Nagi began absorbing all the chakra stored in the armor-like object.
Thanks to his complete confidence in his body, he wasn't even slightly worried about any danger.
As expected, once the chakra was fully absorbed, the armor crumbled to dust.
"Ding. Host has awakened Three-Tails Chakra."
The system's voice echoed.
Just as Nagi had suspected.
The armor-like item he'd received was actually a scale from Isobu, the Three-Tails.
"The only thing I don't get is—why would a Three-Tails scale show up in the Land of Waves?"
Well, that wasn't important now.
"System, show me my panel."
"Ding. Acknowledged."
Name: Nagi
Affiliation: Konoha's number one prodigy, Special Jonin
Abilities:
One-Click Max Level (Gold)
God-Tier Comprehension (Gold)
External Avatar (Gold)
Tenfold Burst (Purple)
Piercing Sight (Purple)
Incomplete Three-Tails Chakra (One-Click Max Level available)...
"Huh? What does 'One-Click Max Level available' mean?"
Nagi noticed a new option next to the Three-Tails chakra.
"Ding. Host can use the One-Click Max Level tag to upgrade the incomplete Three-Tails chakra into the complete version."
Nagi was taken aback.
He hadn't expected the gold tag to be this broken.
He'd already thought God-Tier Comprehension was busted—it let him instantly learn any jutsu just by watching once.
But One-Click Max Level wasn't any weaker.
Any ability he possessed could be instantly maxed out.
"So I basically got the Three-Tails chakra for free?"
"Ding. That's correct, Host."
Nagi didn't hesitate—he instantly upgraded the incomplete chakra to full power.
In that moment, a massive surge of water-natured chakra flowed into his body.
The sheer scale of it was unbelievable.
If before, people saying Nagi had more chakra than a Tailed Beast was just exaggeration…
Now, it was a literal fact.
Things settled down after that.
Having wrapped up the Land of Waves arc, there wasn't much for Nagi to do until the Chunin Exams began.
So his daily routine became: train new jutsu, sign in, and synthesize tags.
Only, his luck during this period wasn't as great as before.
For several days, he hadn't drawn anything useful.
It might've been because his growth had gotten too fast—only purple or gold tags had meaningful impact at this point.
Other jutsu or abilities didn't really do much for him anymore.
"The Chunin Exams should be coming soon. Hopefully I pull something I can actually use."
Nagi wasn't satisfied with where he was.
He still needed to get stronger.
The shinobi world might seem peaceful on the surface, but under the hood, it was full of chaos.
Uchiha Obito and Nagato's Akatsuki were ambitious and dangerous.
Orochimaru clearly hadn't forgotten about Konoha either.
Then there were monsters like Madara Uchiha and the Ōtsutsuki Clan still out there.
The only way to face them head-on… was to keep getting stronger.
"System, initiate today's sign-in."
"Ding. Congratulations, Host has obtained the gold tag: Chakra Body Refinement Technique – Allows chakra to be compressed into cells. As long as chakra remains, the body will take no damage."
"A gold?!"
Nagi was thrilled—finally, he'd gotten another gold.
He immediately checked the effect.
"As long as chakra isn't depleted… the body won't suffer damage!"
He took a deep breath.
This Chakra Body Refinement Technique felt like it was made specifically for him.
He already had an absurd amount of chakra—from his Wood Release boost, and now the Three-Tails as well.
With this technique, Nagi was basically untouchable.
"Interesting. If I combine this with the Eight Inner Gates… would I be able to open them without taking damage?"
He remembered that he'd already unlocked the Eight Gates Technique.
But he hadn't really used it much.
The technique was notoriously damaging to the body—the later gates could even cause irreversible harm.
While Wood Release granted him some healing, he'd always had so many other options that the Eight Gates just didn't seem worth it.
But now, with the Chakra Body Refinement Technique?
It might finally be time to give it a try.
[End of Chapter]