A siandard unit of chakra for the Earth Release: Hiding like a Mole Teique could sustain the summoned Mountain Drake for five times the usual duration, adding ara 150 seds to its existehis signifitly enhahe value of the jutsu.
When doubling the chakra input, the Mountain Drake’s size increased, its spit projectiles hardened, and its flying speed improved, but its duration remained unged.
When the dragon activated its invisibility, it became pletely transparent. Even during flight, it made no sound or disturbance. However, the moment it unched an attack, chakra usage caused ripples to appear on its body, revealing its location. This meant it couldn’t attack while staying pletely hidden.
The ability to spit stones had siderable potential. Although the projectiles weren’t particurly fast, they could track targets. Moreover, the stones weren’t just simple rocks—they could be shaped into forms like spikes, making them highly lethal.
Multiple Mountain Drakes could be summoned simultaneously, with their sciousness seemingly shared.
Iingly, the chakra ed for invisibility and stoacks wasn’t drawn directly from Link’s body, as was the case with substitution teiques. Instead, the dragon ed its stored chakra, which directly shortes existence. During attacks, there was no upper limit to the chakra usage—the more chakra the dragohe rger, faster, and more destructive its projectiles became.
This hi a subtle yet signifit differeweeionship Link had with his substitution teiques and his Mountain Drake summon.
On a side note, while the dragon looked fierd rugged with its scaly armor…
“Turns out it’s just a le magic type and doesn’t know how to fight up close.”
Link sat in the barbecue restaurant, stuffing freshly grilled meat into his mouth. The m’s ninjutsu training had drained his stamina, leaving him utterly exhausted. By the time he’d staggered into Yakiniku Q, he felt like he could devour aire cow.
And it wasn’t just physical exhaustion—his wallet was suffering too. He’d just spent a fortune on a k ninjutsu scroll, clearing out most of his savings. Routine expenses like food, smoke bombs, ration pills, and kunai were already a financial burden.
“But I’m a in now—I deserve to celebrate! Even if I have to eat dirt tomorrow!”
Watg Link wolf down his food, Iris stared in amazement. “As expected of the boss—strong in battle and even stro eating!” Motivated, Iris joihe feast with equal enthusiasm.
Ami rolled her eyes silently but didn’t ent.
Meanwhile, Nara Ensui, ever the refined oe politely. Seeing how much his students had matured in just half a year, he felt a rare sense of satisfa. Despite his dislike for pying babysitter, guiding these kids had turned out to be oddly rewarding.
"Hmm, I’m definitely not taking on another squad after this one."
After their meal, the four left Yakiniku Q. Nara Ensui handed Link a scroll and said, “A gift to celebrate your promotion to in.”
He paused, then turo the other two students. “You two better work hard too. When you make in, you’ll get gifts as well.”
“Thank you, Ensui-sensei.” Link accepted the scroll graciously. Gng at it, he noticed the kanji 忍 ("Nin") inscribed on its surface—clearly, it was a jutsu scroll.
Nara Ensui chuckled. “From now on, you’ll be taking on missions and leading the team yourselves.”
Their lunch versation had revealed Link’s reluediately dive into high-difficulty missions with his team. As such, their previous arra of a jonin, in, and genin squad operating together was no longer feasible for missions ranked B her.
“Well then—” He waved. “See you all ter.”
"Shwoop!" With that, he vanished.
Lihe scroll in his hand, turo his two teammates, and fshed a fident smile. “Sihat’s the case—your special training starts now.”
“I’m totally ready!” Iris shouted, raising both arms enthusiastically.
Ami sighed at his boisterous outburst but smiled heless. “I’m ready too.”
“Boss!” x2
…
At the Seventh Training Ground
Standing atop a rock, Link looked down at his teammates with a serious expression.
“What is chakra? aell me?”
Iris immediately answered, “Chakra is the energy created by mixial and physical energy!”
“Good. Now, anyone expin how to use chakra to perform a jutsu?” Link tinued.
“Hand signs?” Ami ventured cautiously.
“Training!” Iris decred fidently.
“Idiot! You extract it from your body and guide it with hand seals!”
“…”
Watg the twue, Link finally spoke. “You’re both correct, but her of you is entirely right.”
“The foundation of jutsu lies in chakra. To transform chakra into a usable ninjutsu, there are trocesses—”
“Shape transformation and nature transformation.”
“I know about nature transformation!” Iris chimed ihusiastically. “My chakra has a wind nature!”
“Wind, like the protagonist, huh?” Link thought. Chakra nature wasn’t a secret—far from it. In fact, chakra testing paper was widely avaible, and uanding one’s chakra nature was essential for learning elemental jutsu.
“I have a fire nature,” Ami added.
Link nodded. “Shape transformatioermihe ‘form’ of the chakra in your jutsu. Adding wind, fire, or other natures enhas effects, which we call nature transformation.”
“Almost every jutsu bihese two processes,” he expihough there were exceptions, such as the Tailed Beast Bomb, which Eight-Tails once described as being "like vomiting."
“Take the Three Basic Teiques, for example.”
Transformation Jutsu ys the groundwork for shape transformation.
e Jutsu emphasizes chakra position, the essence of nature transformation.
Substitution Jutsu involves using chakra to stimute cellur activity for speed bursts, serving as a foundation for taijutsu.
This is why the Three Basic Teiques, despite being E-rank, were mandatory at the Academy. Mastery of these teiques signifitly eased the learning curve for other jutsu.
Though Link’s jutsu teo ma… uniquely, his uanding of ninjutsu was well-rounded.
This insight stemmed from his stifidset—knowledge rooted in logic, observation, and systematialysis.
To him, chakra and ninjutsu were nothing short of a sce—a system of knowledge he meticulously observed, tested, and refined.
Bleam
