Traveling through Naruto with Heroes of Might and Magic.

[Stone Ore: 0]

[Warning: Natural energy depleted, the lord is extremely weak!]

Lord...resources...

It really is a cheat code for the game "Heroes of Might and Magic".

However, why does the resource list only show gold coins, wood, and stone? What about other resources like gems, sulfur, mercury, and crystal?

Could it be a merged and simplified system?

Before falling into a complete coma, Qingwu used her last shred of consciousness to transmit her final command to the withered tree guardian:

...protect...the...team...

Then, darkness completely engulfed him.

……

the other side.

The masked Cloud Hidden was fleeing at top speed.

He kept glancing behind him, as if some great terror was chasing him.

"what is that?"

Yunyin simply couldn't understand it.

"A psychic creature?"

"Can……"

"There was no chakra fluctuation, and that Konoha brat didn't form any hand seals to use a summoning jutsu."

He saw it clearly from the shadows and was convinced he hadn't misread it.

"Wood Release?"

"Impossible! Since that 'God of Shinobi,' there hasn't been a single Wood Release ninjutsu in the ninja world!"

"But... hiss—"

He couldn't help but cover his left arm.

The left arm... disappeared completely below the elbow.

It was severed by those strange roots.

so horrible.

He was a special Jonin, yet his ninjutsu was interrupted in a single exchange.

If I hadn't used my skillful lightning clone technique at the crucial moment to deceive the monster, I probably wouldn't have been able to escape.

"Whoosh—hiss—"

Suppressing the pain, he took out a soldier's ration pill from his ninja tool pouch at his waist and swallowed it. Kumogakure then determined its direction and fled towards the rocky mountain deep within the Death Forest.

This mission is shrouded in mystery.

They were told there was important intelligence, but when they arrived at the location, they only found three kids and encountered a ninjutsu that appeared to be Wood Release.

that……

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Three figures appeared instantly, forming a triangular shape to block the masked Yunyin.

"Konoha's Anbu... no, it's Root!"

Yunyin recognized the difference in the newcomer's mask, and his heart sank to the bottom.

If they encounter the Anbu, given the current tense relationship between the village and Konoha, there might still be room for maneuver. But what about Konoha's Roots...?

"He's no longer of any use, kill him!" The leading Root ninja waved his hand and gave the order.

"what--"

A moment later, a scream startled many owls in the forest...

……

Qingwu was awakened by the system notification sound.

[Natural Energy Recovery: 0.1]

[Natural Energy Recovery: 0.1]

Slow, but persistent.

Like a gentle stream, it continuously flowed into his parched body.

When Qingwu opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the gray-white sky overhead, which was fragmented by the tree canopy.

Dawn is breaking...

Chapter 3 Mission Rewards

My body still feels very empty.

Qingwu turned his head slightly and saw the enormous object standing in the dim light of dawn.

The withered tree guardian still stands there like a silent mountain.

Its eerie green gaze steadily swept across its surroundings.

At its feet, two Cloud Village prisoners were once again enveloped by roots, with only their unconscious heads showing.

Qingwu struggled to sit up and found a dark coat covering her.

The coat exuded a delicate, youthful fragrance—it was Uzuki Yugao's.

Yugao, clutching her ninja sword, leaned against a tree not far away, her eyes closed, it was unclear whether she was asleep or not.

Umino Iruka leaned against a rock, his chest bandaged, his face pale, but his eyes clear.

Seeing Qingwu wake up, Iruka's eyes lit up: "Qingwu, you're awake! How are you feeling?"

Qingwu shook his head: "I'm fine, just a little overworked."

Iruka assumed it was a chakra depletion caused by a summoning jutsu. He glanced timidly at the withered tree's back and swallowed hard.

"Qingwu, you are truly amazing! I never imagined your chakra was so powerful that you could summon such a strange... cough, creature!"

In fact, Iruka was terrified; the enormous size of the Deadwood Guardian always reminded him of nightmares.

If it weren't for his own physical weakness, Iruka would have preferred to stay far away from this monster.

The girl had opened her eyes at some point, her purple eyes fixed on him. "Qingwu, it's not a sentient being, is it?"

Iruka was unconscious at the time, but she wasn't.

Although they hadn't been a team together for very long.

However, according to Uzuki Yugao, Qingwu was just an ordinary ninja with mediocre grades when he was in the ninja academy.

How could someone possess such a vast amount of chakra to summon the enormous object before them?

"Who exactly are you?" Xi Yan's eyes held a hint of inquiry.

At 12 years old, she is a year younger than Qingwu, but because of her outstanding mission record, she has already attracted the attention of Konoha's Anbu.

At this moment, Xiyan unconsciously adopted an interrogative tone.

Iruka was so nervous he didn't know what to do.

"..." Qingwu was silent for a few seconds. He knew that some things could no longer be kept secret.

Moreover, he didn't intend to keep it a secret forever.

In his past life, he was a corporate slave, used to living a life of compromise within the rules.

But having transmigrated once and gained such a cheat code—if he were to still be as cautious as the original owner, he would be doing a disservice to this second life.

“My name is Senju Seigo!” he said calmly. “I am Senju, the descendant of the branch family of Senju Hashirama, and I have lived in Konoha as a commoner for thirteen years.”

"Thousand Hands?!" Iruka exclaimed, his eyes wide with shock.

Xi Yan's pupils contracted slightly, but she quickly regained her cool composure: "Where's the evidence?"

Not long after the end of the Third Shinobi World War, given the difference in Qingwu's behavior before and after, Xiyan had reason to suspect that he was a spy trained from childhood by another ninja village.

As for the Senju... very few people knew about their breakup and integration into Konoha!

Qingwu pointed at the withered wood guardian: "Aside from the First Hokage, have you ever seen such a powerful Wood Release artifact?"

"Wood Release...product?" Yugao turned her head to look at the giant object in front of her. She had never seen it before, nor had she ever heard of it. "It is definitely not a summoned creature."

“No!” Qingwu said with certainty, “This is a bloodline ability that I awakened in a time of crisis. Hmm, it’s a little different from the First Generation Lord’s.”

Remembering the wriggling branches growing in the palm of the withered tree guardian, Yugao temporarily put aside her suspicions: "It was actually Wood Release!!"

Iruka swallowed hard and asked, "Qingwu, can you... control it?"

Qingwu nodded and looked at the withered tree guard to issue the command.

Pat, pat!

The two Cloud Village prisoners, wrapped up like 'zongzi' (rice dumplings), were thrown to the ground again.

"So, the next question."

Xi Yan stood up, dusted herself off, and asked swiftly, "What should we do with these two Cloud Village prisoners? Kill them, or take them back?"

【Ding! 】

[Mission Triggered: First Blood!]

[Mission Description: Kill one enemy!]

[Task Rewards: Natural Energy +20, Gold Coins +50]

Qingwu: ? ? ?

He was just about to say that the living Cloud Village was more valuable, but then...