Chapter 118: New Abilities
A full 100 draws!
This was Uzumaki Naruto's wealthiest moment since obtaining the system!
The last time he'd experienced this thrilling sensation of accumulating massive resources for drawing was in the Naruto mobile game, saving coins to recruit high-tier S-rank ninja.
Well then... after enduring and accumulating for so long, it was finally time to taste the sweet fruits of his harvest!
On a quiet night, after walking a still-reluctant Satsuki home, Naruto returned to his small apartment, took a deep breath, calmed his slightly excited mood, and prepared to activate the system's lottery function that he hadn't used in ages.
He even silently prayed in his heart, though he wasn't sure if it would help. Sage of Six Paths, old man, please bless me with something good!
After completing this slightly ridiculous ritual, Naruto focused his mind and decisively poured his accumulated points into that ethereal lottery vortex!
[Points: 10,050 → 9,050]
The points for a ten-pull were instantly deducted, and the next moment, ten cards floated neatly before Naruto's eyes.
Naruto had mentally prepared himself for the first few ten-pulls to likely be common "blue skies and white clouds."
With some nervousness, he tapped the cards before him, and the first few lit up with familiar glows.
[Congratulations! Received: Chakra +5!]
[Congratulations! Received: Basic Taijutsu Enhancement!]
[Congratulations! Received: Soldier Pills x10!]
[Congratulations! Received: Quality Kunai x5!]
All fairly practical but unremarkable standard rewards. Naruto didn't feel discouraged—this was only the first ten-pull, and he kept his expectations realistic.
However, when he tapped the remaining cards, something completely different and unfamiliar caught his eye.
"Rare!"
[Congratulations! Received: Basic Natural Energy Affinity (+5%)!]
[Item Description: Passive enhancement state. Upon acquisition, your body will continuously and slowly absorb natural energy floating in the air. This state will greatly improve your perception and adaptability to natural energy. If you successfully learn Sage Mode in the future, you will not need long periods of meditation to gather power. You can rely on your body's automatically accumulated natural energy to enter Sage Mode more quickly and extend Sage Mode's duration to a certain degree.]
This... what is this?!
Seeing this reward's description, a figure immediately flashed through Naruto's mind—Jugo.
In the original story, that honest and gentle boy naturally possessed similar abilities. His body could spontaneously absorb natural energy, but once he absorbed too much, he would enter a berserk "Sage Transformation" state, becoming a terrifying monster that lost all reason and knew only slaughter.
It was precisely because he couldn't control this "gifted" curse that Jugo exiled himself to deep mountains, living a life isolated from the world in unbearable solitude, until he met Kimimaro.
Would he also lose control and go berserk like Jugo because of this ability?
Naruto definitely didn't want to become a ticking time bomb that could explode at any moment, especially now that he had important people he wanted to protect.
However, just as this concern arose, the system's notification sound timely responded with a detailed and reassuring explanation.
[Reminder: Host need not worry about natural energy running amok at all.]
[The 'Natural Energy Affinity' provided by this system is a completely controllable passive enhancement state. The upper limit of natural energy that can be safely stored within Host's body strictly corresponds to your total chakra amount.]
[Based on your current chakra capacity and 5% affinity rate, relying solely on passive absorption, the time needed to reach natural energy saturation and overflow (the so-called 'rampage' critical point) would require decades of uninterrupted accumulation.]
Hearing this, Naruto's eyes immediately brightened, and the heavy weight in his heart instantly lifted.
So that's how it works... my body is like a huge container that can safely hold considerable amounts of natural energy.
And Jugo's situation... perhaps it's because his body's "container" was too small, or his absorption rate was too fast, causing natural energy to quickly "fill up" and even "overflow," leading to his loss of control?
The system seemed to sense his understanding and continued with a more vivid analogy.
[Your understanding is essentially correct. This can be compared to pouring water into a container.]
[Jugo's situation: His body is like a fixed "small bucket," but the "faucet" (natural energy absorption rate) might be turned on very high, causing water to quickly overflow (rampage).]
[Host's situation: Your body itself is a massive "lake," and the "faucet" (5% affinity) has a relatively slow and completely controlled flow rate. Even with months and years of continuous input, filling the entire "lake" would be nowhere near achievable. Moreover, as your chakra capacity grows (through training, growth, Nine-Tails chakra fusion, etc.), this "lake's" capacity will continue expanding, and the upper limit of natural energy it can safely contain will correspondingly increase.]
[Therefore, you need have no concerns whatsoever.]
Now Naruto completely understood! This wasn't just a powerful enhancement—it was an extremely safe foundation ability with unlimited potential! It wouldn't bring any side effects and would only become stronger as he grew stronger!
Joy surged through his heart again. This was absolutely a tremendously valuable rare reward. He looked forward to the remaining draws even more.
When he met Jiraiya later, learning Sage Mode would have to be put on the agenda immediately.
Naruto secretly made this resolution. This [Natural Energy Affinity] passive was practically tailor-made for Sage Mode—it would be such a waste not to fully utilize it.
Carrying this anticipation, he continued with the subsequent draws.
However, Lady Luck didn't seem to favor him consistently. The following second and third ten-pulls mostly flickered with familiar blue and white lights. Though he did receive some basic rewards like chakra increases, taijutsu improvements, and ninja tool supplements, and even luckily got another [Basic Natural Energy Affinity (+5%)], bringing his total affinity to 10%, there were no more eye-catching rewards.
[Points: 9,050 → 8,050 → 7,050 → 6,050]
When the ten cards of the fourth ten-pull appeared, Naruto had already prepared himself for another "blue sky and white clouds" outcome. He calmly tapped them one by one...
Chakra increase... shuriken mastery... soldier pills...
Just as he tapped the seventh card, thinking this ten-pull would end so plainly—
"Epic!"
A magnificent purple light suddenly burst forth!
Purple! Naruto was immediately overjoyed, his gaze locked tightly on that card radiating purple light!
[Congratulations! Received: Stand Ability—Pearl Jam!]