Chapter 212: Sword Master

Chapter 204: Swordsmanship Master

Every character card of purple quality benchmarked powerhouses whose strength had reached the level of Kage. In their planned settings, they would become a common mainstream in mid-to-high-end matches.

And by then, in addition to opening purple character cards in the prize pool, white cards would also be removed from the card pool, at which point the guaranteed minimum would also be green quality cards. At the same time, the drop rate of blue quality cards would be increased. Overall, although the difficulty of leveling up increased, they would not let the positive feedback obtained by players from the game decrease.

Only by allowing these high-end players to continuously obtain positive feedback would they be willing to continue spending money.

“It is a pity that this game is still just a semi-finished product. The further along it goes, the less complete it is. Even now, during the wartime period when high-level missions are most frequent, it takes a month to level up once. Unless an unpredictable campaign mission is triggered, I am afraid it will be very difficult to level up quickly in a short period of time. [Writing this, I hope readers remember our domain name] I wonder if this system will automatically improve in the future like before.”

Uchiha Gen could not help but think of the situation when he drew the ability transplant card last time.

This was a real world. Some things in the game could not be completely transplanted into reality, and corresponding changes would definitely be made.

He hoped there would be corresponding updates by then.

Uchiha Gen withdrew his thoughts and looked at the stats panel.

Over the past few months, apart from frantically executing missions to farm experience points, most of his remaining energy had been put into the cultivation of Ninjutsu.

One was the Chidori-series Ninjutsu mastered by Sasuke of Team Taka, and the other was the Wind Style Nature Transformation he cultivated himself.

In fact, his talent in Wind Style was quite good, but because the abilities mastered by the multiple character cards he had drawn previously were more important, and having character cards made the learning speed faster, it had been delayed until now.

Fortunately, among the previous three draws, except for the last two which were a bit unlucky and only drew two white cards, the first one was a Training Acceleration Card of green quality.

Coupled with the few white-quality Training Acceleration Cards he had accumulated previously, it allowed him to smoothly master the “cutting” Nature Transformation of Wind Style.

Nowadays, besides the Water Style Nature Transformation, he had already mastered the basic Nature Transformations of the other four Chakra attributes, absolutely belonging to a top-tier Ninjutsu expert in the Shinobi World.

With such basic stats, coupled with a pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan and Phantom Body Flicker Technique, combined with four-attribute Ninjutsu, swordsmanship, Rasengan, snake-series Ninjutsu, and so on, his current combat power purely in his base body had actually reached a level close to the Kage level, no less than his cousin back then, Uchiha Kagami.

“There is one more chance to draw.”

Uchiha Gen casually took a draw and found that his luck was not bad, actually pulling a blue card.

[Prop Card: weapon enhancement card (Blue)]

Casually using this blue card on the Sengoku Ninja Sword, brilliant lights instantly flowed across the blade.

[Weapon Name: Sengoku Ninja Sword]

[Quality: Blue (+1)]

[Affix: Sharpness Enhancement (+1)]

“The sharpness has increased, the feel hasn’t changed much, but the Chakra conductivity has increased quite a bit.”

Uchiha Gen casually drew the Sengoku Ninja Sword, waved it gently in the air, injected some more Chakra into it, and put it back into the scabbard with considerable satisfaction.

The enhancement of the Sengoku Ninja Sword fed back to himself, meaning his strength had increased by another fraction.

He just didn’t know what kind of effect it would have when it was enhanced to purple in the future. In his past life, regarding ninja tool equipment in the game, the planner in charge was not him, so he only had a rough understanding of these things and had not gone deep into them.

It’s just that if he wanted to better unleash the power of this blade in the future, he still had to integrate his own swordsmanship.

Whether it was the Uchiha Style Swordsmanship he was best at, the Hatake Style Swordsmanship learned from the Young Kakashi character card, or the set of swordsmanship learned by Sasuke of Team Taka by combining his own Lightning Style advantages with the Sharingan, although the three shared many similarities, they were not swordsmanship of the same school.

He needed to integrate these swordsmanship styles, blending the characteristics of both Fire Style and Lightning Style into them.

However, although he could be considered a swordsmanship expert now, his skill was still a bit shallow. Orochimaru also had good attainments in swordsmanship, but he was actually still very young. Although he was talented, there was a gap between him and those self-contained swordsmanship masters. The help he could provide in this regard existed, but it was relatively limited.

If there could be an experienced top-tier swordsmanship master to help, there would be some chance.

As for who in the Shinobi World now had swordsmanship attainments that reached the master level——

It seemed they could be counted on one’s fingers.

To talk about swordsmanship, one could not avoid samurai; to talk about samurai, one could not leave the Land of Iron.

The place with the most swordsmanship experts was the Land of Iron. The successive General Commanders of the Land of Iron were powerful samurai whose strength was at least close to the Kage level. In history, many General Commanders of the Land of Iron could be called generations of swordsmanship masters.

The General Commander of the Land of Iron of this generation might also count, but in the early stage of the Second Shinobi World War, he was knocked down by Hanzou, which also created the good story of Mifune challenging Hanzou.

Nowadays, judging by age, Mifune had mostly reached his peak period.

However, compared to Mifune, inside Konoha, there was actually a contemporary top-tier swordsmanship master who shook the Shinobi World.

The White Fang of Konoha, Hatake Sakumo!

It’s just that in the past two years, this powerhouse had been fighting on the front lines of the Land of Wind, exactly missing Uchiha Gen who had moved between the fronts of the Land of Rain and Kumogakure. Therefore, up until now, he still hadn’t been able to meet this swordsmanship master face-to-face.

“Forget it. There are no rumors about the White Fang in the village yet. With me here, even if something really happens, there is still time to change it. There will always be opportunities to get in touch with Hatake Sakumo in the future. What should be considered now is how to win the next battle and how to fish for more experience points in this war.”

Gazing at the already risen night curtain, Uchiha Gen put away his thoughts, closed the curtains, changed into a new set of clothes, and pushed the door open to go out.

Today’s mission was executed very successfully, but this was just an appetizer. According to Orochimaru’s plan, there was still a hard battle to fight tomorrow.

The next day, at dawn’s first light.

Thousands of Konoha Shinobi had long gathered within the camp.

The murderous aura at this moment had almost condensed into substance.

Fully armed, Uchiha Gen followed by Orochimaru’s side, alongside Konoha powerhouses such as Shimura Danzo, Akimichi Torifu, and the older generation of Ino–Shika–Chō.

Further back, one Konoha Shinobi after another looked at the crowd at the very front with expressions of steadfastness or fanaticism.

The person on whom the most gazes focused was none other than Orochimaru.