[After erasing your original identity, you secretly found a family in the Land of Fire and used your Sharingan to mask your presence.
[Once you were fully hidden, you sent your True Clone to a separate location. Only then did you feel truly secure.]
[You resumed your quiet training regimen: your real body focused on nurturing your Sharingan, while your clone continuously refined chakra.]
[Over a year has passed. One day, you heard news of the Uchiha clan's massacre.]
[You felt nothing.]
[Three years later, at age twelve, an Anbu squad passed through the area where you lived. You were tense at first, but upon realizing they were simply passing by, you relaxed.]
[Several months later, the upcoming Chūnin Exams in Konoha stirred excitement across the Land of Fire.]
[But you remained indifferent, your focus was still solely on cultivation.]
Su Yang chuckled helplessly.
"Why does this feel more like a peaceful retirement life than a simulation?"
Still, when he thought about it, this was exactly what he'd intended. He wasn't trying to shake the world, he just wanted more chakra.
"Maybe this really is the 'correct' way to use the simulator?"
[The Chūnin Exams began. Just as you remembered, this was merely a setup for the "Konoha Crush" plan.]
[Sure enough, not long after, news broke: the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, had died.]
[It was Orochimaru who struck.]
[Again, you paid it no mind.]
[A few months later, you spotted Jiraiya and Naruto arriving in your town. Still, you felt no alarm.]
[You knew they were searching for Tsunade.]
[Besides, your town didn't have the infamous "Big-Spender Gambler." You knew they'd leave soon.]
[Just as expected, after Jiraiya visited a bathhouse, he and Naruto moved on.]
[You returned to your silent cultivation.]
[Nothing but training concerns you, until one day…]
[You were caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi.]
[The moment it activated, you instinctively tried to escape by swapping places with your clone.]
[But you failed, your clone had also fallen into the illusion.]
[You attempted to enter Kamui's dimension to evade the technique, but once inside, you realized it was useless.]
[You were still caught in Infinite Tsukuyomi.]
[Sensing your unusual chakra and Mangekyō Sharingan, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki marked you for special treatment.]
[She intensified the chakra drain on you.]
[Soon, your chakra was depleted. Next, she drained your life force.]
[You died after your life was completely absorbed.][Age at death: 16.]
"...Seriously?"
Su Yang was speechless.
So I played it safe, caused no waves, minded my own business, and I still died at 16?
No matter how he looked at it, this felt like a dead end.
Unless he found a way to resist Infinite Tsukuyomi, or reached a location it couldn't touch, he would always meet the same fate.
But if even Kamui's dimension isn't safe… what is?
"…Wait. What if I went to the moon?"
That thought briefly flickered through Su Yang's mind. But he quickly dismissed it.
"No point thinking that far ahead. Even if I knew where the moon base was, getting there would be a whole other problem."
For now, it was better to check the simulation rewards.
[Simulation Complete!]
[Final Evaluation: Grade A]
[You may now select one of the following rewards. As this is your first A-grade simulation, you may also receive one free reward valued at up to 10,000 points.]
Reward Options:
Talent: True Clone (Blue), Cost: 3,000 Simulation Points
Chakra (Level 20), Cost: 10,000 Simulation Points
All ninjutsu & their experience from this simulation, Cost: 15,000 Simulation Points
Sharingan (Mangekyō), Cost: 100,000 Simulation Points
"Nice, so A-grade runs do come with a free reward."
Without hesitation, Su Yang chose to claim the chakra level from this run.
[You've used your A-grade bonus to claim: Chakra Level 20.]
[Your chakra has greatly increased. Current Chakra Level: 20.]
Su Yang grinned as he felt the sudden surge of chakra in his body.
"This is insane… at least ten times stronger than before!"
Not only that, but he had finally understood how chakra levels scale:
Every level after LV10 equals another full LV10 in power.
That means LV20 is literally ten times stronger than LV10.
At this point, his chakra reserves officially reached the level known as Kage-tier chakra.
That alone explained a lot.
"So the term 'Kage-level' really refers to chakra ten times that of a Jōnin?"
That didn't surprise Su Yang.
But he also knew, chakra amount ≠ strength.
"Which raises the question: what level are Tailed Beasts at?"
He made a quick estimation:
"Must be LV30+, at least."
Then he recalled something Kakashi once said.
"Naruto's chakra was four times Kakashi's even while suppressing Kurama's power. If fully unleashed, it'd be a hundred times that."
Of course, Kakashi was famous for being "chakra-deficient," but that wasn't the whole picture.
His Mangekyō Sharingan was a massive drain.
Before this simulation, even Su Yang had less chakra than Kakashi.
Despite having Mangekyō Sharingan, his chakra only just reached elite Jōnin level.
That was because his chakra came solely from simulation, he hadn't trained his real body yet.
Still, none of that mattered now.
He now had chakra at the level of a Kage.
And this was just the beginning.
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