097, Multi Shadow Clone Technique (Please Subscribe!)

Questions that could not be understood need not be dwelled upon, for before long, they will be forgotten anyway.

To perform ninjutsu, chakra is required. And after that feverish night, a new power had also arisen within Su Ye’s body, somewhat akin to a martial artist’s qi, yet not quite the same.

That power was chakra.

The amount of chakra in Su Ye’s body was astonishingly vast, and it had everything to do with the seal on his navel. During last night’s fever, something must have been sealed inside him, just as Naruto had half of a tailed beast sealed within him—Kurama.

A tailed beast was, by nature, the materialized form of immense chakra, so it was easy to understand why Su Ye possessed such overwhelming reserves.

Su Ye had once wondered whether, if he acquired abilities from different power systems—qi, chakra, magic, cosmos, and the like—his body would simply explode from the conflict of incompatible forces.

As it turned out, that worry had been unnecessary.

If the system could distribute so many girlfriends, if it could turn even the Su couple into billionaires and Kage-level ninja, how could it possibly fail at something this minor?

No need to ask. The answer was that the system had altered Su Ye’s constitution, allowing him to harmonize with any energy system without limit.

Overbearing beyond belief.

With such vast chakra in his body, and coupled with a frighteningly high level of comprehension—whether enhanced by the system or inherited from Old Su—Su Ye possessed remarkable talent for learning ninjutsu.

The E-rank Substitution Technique was mastered in no time at all, and it did not take Su Ye long.

Likewise, the E-rank Transformation Technique was also learned very quickly.

The Transformation Technique was another low-ranked ninjutsu with tremendous practical value: not only could one turn into another person, but one could even become an animal, a plant, or a weapon.

It was practically a super skill on par with Sun Wukong’s seventy-two transformations.

And yet this was still merely an entry-level E-rank technique. So did that mean every ninja started out with seventy-two transformations and teleportation?

While learning the Transformation Technique, Su Ye suddenly recalled a post he had once seen on a forum.

“If you learned the Transformation Technique, what would you use it for?”

The most upvoted reply seemed to be: “Turn into a goddess and let my roommate have some fun!”

Su Ye had even upvoted it himself back then, and had shown that reply to the beasts in his dormitory, saying, “Look at this sense of purpose. Why aren’t you all rushing to learn the Shadow Clone Technique?”

Unfortunately, in the world before his transmigration, there was no Transformation Technique. And now, in this world, the one who had learned it was himself, not his roommates.

As for the two E-rank ninjutsu, there was also the Rasengan. That one involved quite a few steps—forming the sphere, spinning the sphere, and so on. Su Ye tried it once and discovered that it would take a process of practice, then proficiency, and finally mastery, so he set it aside for the moment.

The final technique, the Multi Shadow Clone Technique, was what interested Su Ye most right now.

And not only Su Ye—who among men with busy lives, who had to work, study, care for a family, support their parents, and raise their children, would not want the skill of a clone technique? Not a scoundrel, of course. Certainly not. Just a man with responsibilities.

Su Ye did not have that much pressure from life or society at present, but better safe than sorry.

Exactly.

The Multi Shadow Clone Technique was an A-rank ninjutsu. Its principle was to expend an enormous amount of chakra to divide oneself into countless clones all at once.

The difficulty of this technique lay in the fact that most ninja simply did not have enough chakra to support such a vast number of clones. For Su Ye, however, now that he had Kurama, any problem that could be solved with chakra was no problem at all.

Half an hour later, Su Ye drove to a wooded area in the suburbs. It was his first attempt at the Multi Shadow Clone Technique, and he did not know whether he could control the number properly. If he accidentally split into a thousand versions of himself and jammed up the nearby roads, that would still be manageable.

But if he suddenly appeared inside someone else’s home and disrupted a couple’s private time, it would be inappropriate whether he joined in or merely watched.

In the forest, Su Ye first took a walk around the area to confirm that no one else was present, and only then did he stop in a clearing.

The seals used by ninja are named after the twelve earthly branches—rat, ox, tiger, hare, and so on—with each branch corresponding to a hand sign.

Standing in the middle of the clearing, Su Ye swiftly completed the seals, then roared out loud.

“Multi Shadow Clone Technique!”

Bang!

Clusters of mist exploded around him. In almost an instant, an endless sea of densely packed Su Yes filled a small stretch of forest. By sight alone, there were no fewer than a thousand of them.

The exact number was three thousand. At that moment, all three thousand Su Yes stared at one another, each pair of eyes bright with novelty and wonder.

“I’ve actually turned into three thousand of me. Doesn’t that mean I can date three thousand girlfriends at the same time?”

“People used to say, ‘I can take ten of them,’ and I always thought that sounded badass. But compared to me now, they’re all trash.”

“Three thousand beauties in a harem was just an exaggeration in ancient times. At my place, could it become reality?”

“But right now I only have two official girlfriends, two reserve candidates, and one child bride... cough. Still a long way from three thousand. Should I open the white card and the gray card too, and experience a little multi-person...”

“Damn! How did I end up with such filthy thoughts? Look at this vile system—just how badly has it corrupted me!”

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The sounds rang out one after another, and the number of Su Yes in the woods began to drop at a furious pace. Soon it had fallen into single digits, leaving only the original body and three clones: one corresponding to Spider-Man, one to Batman, and one to the Martial Saint.

The Multi Shadow Clone Technique had one flaw: because the clones split the chakra evenly, the more clones one made, the less chakra each clone contained. That made them fragile. One hard blow and they would disperse immediately.

There was a simple way to compensate for that flaw: either figure out how not to get beaten in the first place, or reduce the number of clones so that each one had more chakra. Naturally, with more chakra in each clone, they became tougher to beat down.

Tough, durable, and able to withstand punishment—naturally, also capable of beating others down, capable of...

And when the Multi Shadow Clone Technique was combined with the Transformation Technique, Su Ye could instantly possess multiple identities at once. It was absolutely a lethal tool for murder, arson, and every kind of misconduct.

The use was wrong, but the effect was the same.

Soon, Su Ye left the forest, and each clone received its own assignment.

The Batman clone went to the Batcave to study with Dr. Fox and develop new equipment. The Spider-Man clone had nothing to do for the moment, so he found a deserted place to practice forming the Rasengan. The Martial Saint clone changed into another equally handsome face and went to the school to pick up Hinata and Neji for dinner.

The clones were only temporarily named that way; their identities could change at any time.

As for the original, he received a call from Sharon Carter and hurried to the Shiranui Dojo.

At the dojo, some uninvited guests had arrived and fought the agents led by Phil Coulson.

Although there were only four of them, every one of them was a monster who could block bullets with their bare bodies. At first contact, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were knocked flat in droves.

Phil Coulson had someone call for reinforcements, and Sharon Carter immediately thought of Su Ye.

There was nothing to be done. Su Ye’s performance in the battle against the Abomination had been too dazzling. In Sharon Carter’s heart, he had already surpassed the Captain America her aunt had talked about all her life, becoming the most complete and trustworthy superhero in her mind at that moment.

Much more reliable than any S.H.I.E.L.D. backup.

What could S.H.I.E.L.D. agents do when they arrived anyway—get beaten to the ground like the ones outside?

By the time Su Ye reached the Shiranui Dojo, the entire place had already fallen. Four thugs had broken in, taken hostage the prisoner being held by S.H.I.E.L.D., and were now in a standoff with the agents rushing in as reinforcements.

“Ye Su, you’re finally here!”

The moment they saw Su Ye, not only Sharon Carter, but even Phil Coulson let out a breath of relief.

That unreliable S.H.I.E.L.D. consultant was always holed up in Los Angeles and never came to New York unless absolutely necessary. The Abomination they had just managed to take back was still entangled in disputes with the military, and it would take time before he could be turned into real combat power.

At present, the only people Coulson had available were Hawkeye and Black Widow.

The problem was that neither of them specialized in direct assault, and their abilities were relatively average. Relying on them to take this place was plainly impossible.

“What’s going on inside?” Su Ye asked, even though he already had a guess.

After seeing Su Ye, Sharon Carter naturally stayed close to him like an eager little follower. She glanced aside, and one of the agents instantly pulled out a tablet. It displayed footage captured by surveillance during the earlier fight.

“A princess, a Viking, Robin Hood, and... Bruce Lee!”

Su Ye turned to look at the agent. “Do you honestly think the last one looks like Bruce Lee?”

“I was just joking...” the man said with a low, awkward laugh.

Su Ye snorted. “At a time like this, when S.H.I.E.L.D. is being beaten like a son, and you still have the mood to joke?”

The man’s smile froze on his face.

Then Su Ye went on, “Lazy, unambitious, and not even doing proper work. Good thing you’re not in our Red Shield branch, or I would have fired you!”

What was the Red Shield branch?

The surrounding agents were instantly dumbfounded. They had already heard Phil Coulson mention Red Shield in passing before, and now that Su Ye had said it too, this Red Shield branch must be real, right?

When had S.H.I.E.L.D. ever had such a department? And what kind of待遇 did it have? Could they transfer over...

Once the seed of rebellion was planted, it might take root and sprout at any time.

Inside the Shiranui Dojo, Su Ye saw the four troublemakers. They neither hid nor fled, but stood brazenly in the middle of the courtyard, forming a ring around Thor’s Hammer.

In the center of the ring, besides Thor’s Hammer, stood a man with a simple, foolish smile on his face.

“Thor, pick up the hammer! Asgard is waiting for you to save it!”

“If you don’t go back now, Loki is going to become king of Asgard. Are you really willing to let him deceive you like this and seize everything that was supposed to be yours?”

“Asgard needs you. We need you!”

The others kept urging Thor, but Thor looked as though he had seen through all the world’s delusions.

“Guys, Loki likes the throne, so let him have it. I’ve got you, and that’s enough, isn’t it?”