Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 393 It really is you, Naruto Uzumaki!

Outside Daming Prefecture, there is a forbidden area unknown to the vast majority of powerful and wealthy people.

White light streamed down from the ceiling, illuminating the vast underground space and casting a cold, eerie glow over everything.

In the center of the laboratory, a cylindrical transparent culture tank, about three people tall, stands, filled with a viscous nutrient solution.

Immersed in the center of the liquid was a boy of similar age to Naruto, with his eyes closed, face pale, and naked body covered with various tubes.

Dark red chakra surged from his body through the tubes and was guided into the complex technique at the bottom of the culture tank.

This boy is none other than Kazuma's biological son, Sora!

Kazuma transplanted all the Nine-Tails chakra he had collected during the Nine-Tails' rampage into his own son's body.

After that, he sent Sora to the Fire Temple. When Sora was 5 years old, he went berserk due to the power of the Nine-Tails within him and destroyed the Fire Temple's sealing barrier.

Because he nearly destroyed the Fire Temple and the surrounding villages, Sora was constantly scorned by the monks, but his father, Kazuma, never cared.

It wasn't until the appearance of the 'Hollow' that Kazuma brought Sora back, using her as the "living core" of this laboratory.

"The 1,327th experiment."

Kazuma stood in front of the empty culture tank, looking at his son who was immersed in it, his voice calm and without a trace of emotion.

On the left side of the laboratory, there are several reinforced transparent containers. Inside the containers are distorted 'voids' that are dormant due to the seal.

These were the experimental subjects that Kazuma artificially catalyzed using the Nine-Tails' chakra.

On the right side, there are dozens of smaller transparent containers, each containing a displaced person in various shapes and sizes, either incomplete or modified.

Some people had limbs that didn't belong to them sewn on, while others had 'virtual' keratinous structures implanted in them.

Some even exhibit characteristics similar to the "illusion," such as pale mask fragments and twisted bone spurs...

They are still alive, but most of them look blank or filled with fear and pain.

"Begin injection," Kazuma said calmly, as the operator beside him pushed the control lever.

hum!
He raised his hand and manipulated the instrument in front of him. Dark red chakra was extracted from Sora's body, and the sleeping Sora immediately grimaced in pain, his body twitching unconsciously.

But Kazuma ignored this, watching as he extracted the Nine-Tails' chakra and the Hollow's spiritual energy, which he then injected into one of the refugees' bodies.

"Ugh!"

The refugees let out piercing screams, their bodies convulsing violently, as if something alive was writhing beneath their skin.

Negative emotions such as pain, fear, despair, and resentment are amplified infinitely by the Nine-Tails' chakra.

The bone mask on his face began to grow rapidly, and sharp bones pierced through his body surface. A violent surge of spiritual energy emanated from his body.

Minutes later, the refugee was transformed into a newly formed 'Void', which let out an unconscious roar and kept crashing against the seal.

"The catalytic success rate has increased to 37 percent." Kazuma, expressionless, kept his head down taking notes. "Next group, try dilution..."

Bang!
Before he could finish speaking, a dull thud suddenly came from above the laboratory, shaking the entire underground space and causing dust to fall from the ceiling!
Buzz! Buzz!
The piercing alarm instantly shattered the laboratory's tranquility, and the red warning lights flashed wildly, turning the entire space blood red!
"What's going on?!" The researchers present paled and looked around in panic. "The barrier has been triggered. Is it an earthquake? Or..." Kazuma's brows furrowed sharply, but he remained calm.

He had great confidence in the laboratory's defenses; the barrier was centered on the massive Nine-Tails chakra within his body, making it impossible to break through by ordinary means.

"What's the panic?" he said coldly. "Immediately check the situation in each area and send a team of guards up there..."

boom! !

A deafening roar, ten times more powerful than before, exploded directly above the laboratory.

The sturdy ceiling, reinforced with multiple layers of protection, was as fragile as paper at this moment, pierced through by an unimaginable and terrifying force!
A huge hole appeared at the top of the laboratory, and countless broken rocks and dust poured down like a waterfall!

"How is that possible?" Kazuma's expression changed.

The barrier that enveloped the entire laboratory was shattered and dissipated by this attack.
He stared intently at the billowing smoke and dust. Under the blood-red alarm lights of the laboratory, a figure appeared and disappeared in the smoke and dust, exuding a chilling sense of oppression.

In the center of the laboratory, Sora, who had been sleeping, seemed to sense something. The chakra within him began to stir restlessly, and his eyelids trembled as he was about to open them.

"Wind Release: Gale Wind Palm!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Kazuma clapped his hands, and a highly compressed gust of wind blasted into the dust cloud ahead.

Whoosh!

The powerful shockwave spread outwards, blowing nearby instruments to their sides and sending several researchers who couldn't dodge in time flying with screams.

However, the fierce wind, powerful enough to tear flesh apart, rushed into the smoke and dust, but instead of the expected cutting sound, it emitted a tooth-grinding noise.

It's like countless sharp blades slashing at incredibly hard bone.

The smoke and dust were instantly dispersed by the strong wind.

But before Kazuma could even see who it was, a soft, sharp whistle rang out.

呲!
The figure vanished from its spot in an instant amidst the dust, and a fist enveloped in chakra slammed into Kazuma's face at incredible speed!
Kazuma only had time to instinctively cross his arms in front of him...

Bang! Click!

With a dull thud, an irresistible and terrifying force surged from that fist.

Kazuma felt as if he had been hit head-on by a boulder hurtling at high speed, and his crossed arms made a sickening sound of bones breaking as he tried to block!
Completely out of control, he was blasted off the ground by the immense force and flew backward like a cannonball, crashing violently through the partition wall behind him.

Amidst the sparks of exploding instruments and the sound of shattering glass, it crashed heavily into another experimental area, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Pfft!" Kazuma struggled to his feet from the pile of wrecked equipment and coughed up a mouthful of bright red blood.

He clutched his chest, wracked with pain, and looked up, his gaze piercing through the hole he had created, fixed on the figure slowly emerging from the dust and smoke.

"It really was you!" He narrowed his eyes subconsciously, his sinister tone filled with barely concealed shock.

"Uzumaki Naruto!"

(End of this chapter)