[Ding! New ingredient discovered…]
Evan ignored the notification ringing through his mind, his eyes fixed firmly on the creature in the lake.
It was enormous, almost the size of a small island.
Its body resembled a gigantic turtle covered from head to toe in jagged spikes.
Its forelimbs were thick and powerful, each ending in five digits, while three long, barbed tails whipped through the air behind it, stirring up violent winds and waves.
Its head was encased in bone like armor.
And as for its looks…
Well, beauty clearly wasn’t one of its strong points.
The Three-Tails.
Isobu!
The moment Evan saw it, he recognized the creature immediately.
And with that recognition came the answer to another question.
He knew exactly what world he’d entered.
The world of Naruto.
A bizarre world where one family’s internal drama had somehow escalated into wars that dragged the entire planet into the mess.
“Come to think of it, what exactly can I use as ingredients in the Naruto world…?”
Evan rubbed his smooth chin as he searched his memories for the various creatures that appeared throughout the series.
Setting ordinary plants and animals aside, what remained were chakra bearing plants, summon creatures, and the Tailed Beasts.
Maybe it was because the world had been locked in warfare for so many years, or maybe there was some other reason, but almost every chakra bearing life form seemed to have evolved primarily toward combat.
Whether any of them tasted good was one thing.
Whether they were even edible was another.
Poisonous giant salamanders.
Talking toads.
Giant snakes.
Slugs.
Massive creatures produced through biological modification…
None of those exactly screamed dinner.
Then Evan remembered something.
The System had notified him that it had discovered a new ingredient the moment he’d seen Isobu.
Which meant Isobu was definitely edible.
Something that couldn’t be used as an ingredient wouldn’t have triggered the System in the first place.
By that logic…
All nine Tailed Beasts should probably count as ingredients.
But the Tailed Beasts alone weren’t enough.
Even if all nine counted as nine separate ingredients, that still wouldn’t produce much of a mission reward.
There simply weren’t enough of them.
“What I need is a walking encyclopedia of the shinobi world.”
The instant those words left his mouth, one extremely devoted son automatically surfaced in Evan’s mind.
Black Zetsu.
A manifestation of Otsutsuki Kaguya’s will and effectively her third son, created shortly before she was sealed away by her first and second sons.
He had survived in the shinobi world for at least a thousand years.
There was practically nothing about its history he didn’t know.
Better yet, he also had control over Kaguya’s White Zetsu army and could send White Zetsu throughout the shinobi world to act on his behalf.
Intelligence.
Manpower.
He had both.
“White Zetsu’s specialty is Wood Release, right?”
Evan pinched his chin and narrowed his eyes as he watched Isobu swimming through the lake.
“Taking care of flowers and trees shouldn’t be a problem for them… right?”
He nodded to himself.
“Yeah. Definitely shouldn’t be a problem.”
White Zetsu could merge into trees and earth, even extracting information through the surrounding plant life.
How could something like that possibly be incapable of taking care of a few plants?
“I’ll hire White Zetsu as gardeners for my Ranch Space.”
He glanced around.
“And I’ve finished analyzing the spatial coordinates. Time to move.”
Evan raised his right hand and snapped his fingers.
The spell concealing his presence vanished.
At the same time, a gigantic Dimensional Door appeared directly beneath Isobu’s massive body.
Boom!
With a deafening crash, the island sized Three-Tails abruptly vanished.
Only a towering splash remained behind, rising more than ten meters above the lake.
Water droplets came pouring back down like torrential rain.
After stuffing Isobu into the Farm Space, Evan turned his head toward the left.
He closed his eyes and muttered under his breath.
“Let’s see… let’s see… Amegakure, Amegakure…”
LHis expression suddenly brightened.
“Ah! Found it!”
Without another word, Evan opened a Portal straight to Amegakure.
The very first second he arrived…
He was drenched from head to toe.
At almost the exact same instant Evan appeared, Nagato opened his eyes atop the distant black tower.
“There is an intruder.” His voice was hoarse.
Every drop of rain falling across Amegakure contained the chakra of the Deva Path.
Whenever someone who didn’t belong to the village entered the rain, Nagato could immediately sense their presence.
Of course, Evan already knew Nagato possessed such a sensory technique.
He even remembered its name.
Rain Tiger at Will Technique.
That was precisely why Evan had deliberately made no attempt to hide himself from the rain.
He wanted Nagato to come find him.
Otherwise, why would he have any interest in standing around on a rooftop getting soaked?
“Should I have the shinobi surround and eliminate him?” Konan asked, looking toward Nagato.
“No.” Nagato shook his head.
“I’ll send Pain.”
Konan’s elegant brows drew together.
“This intruder is that dangerous?” Concern flickered faintly in her eyes.
“The other members of the organization can’t handle him?”
“He can use space-time ninjutsu,” Nagato replied.
“If he decides to flee, the others won’t be able to stop him.”
As he spoke, two figures stepped out from the shadows.
They leapt from the balcony.
One soared into the sky.
The other raced across the rooftops, rapidly closing in on Evan’s position.
Less than a minute later, the two figures landed on a rooftop less than fifty meters in front of him.
“The Deva Path… and…” Evan stared at the second figure for quite a while.
“Yeah, no idea who that is.”
He couldn’t remember which Path the other body belonged to.
Probably one of the less memorable ones.
Otherwise, he was sure he would’ve recognized him.
“You seem to know quite a lot about us.” The concentric rings of the Deva Path’s Rinnegan stared coldly at Evan.
His face remained completely expressionless.
“Well, yeah. I know a fair bit about you guys.” Evan sounded rather pleased with himself.
He hadn’t watched Naruto seven or eight times for nothing.
He might not remember every tiny plot detail anymore, but he still remembered most of the characters who’d appeared.
“I see.” Pain’s voice remained utterly flat.
The other Path standing to his left immediately began forming hand seals.
Four clouds of white smoke suddenly erupted around Evan.
The remaining four Paths of Pain stepped out from within them, completely surrounding him.
“Well, look at that.” The corner of Evan’s mouth curled upward.
“You brought the whole squad. Somebody’s feeling murderous.”
“Kill him.” At the Deva Path’s command, all Six Paths of Pain moved simultaneously.
They rushed Evan from every direction.
Evan stomped down with his right foot.
Boom!
The sheer force of the impact caused the building beneath him to collapse, while the recoil launched him straight toward the Deva Path.
“Almighty Push.” The Deva Path remained perfectly calm as Evan came hurtling toward him.
An invisible repulsive force erupted outward.
Boom!
Evan was blasted backward, smashing straight through three buildings before finally stopping.
“Flaming Arrow of Amazing Ability.”
“Summoning Jutsu.”
The Asura Path and Animal Path immediately seized the opportunity to attack while he was down.
A mechanical fist shot toward Evan like a missile.
At the same time, the Animal Path summoned a gigantic strange bird with an enormous beak.
The creature swooped down and stabbed its beak straight toward the ruined building where Evan had landed.
“Not bad!” Evan sprang out of the half collapsed building.
With a casual slap, he knocked the high speed mechanical missile fist aside.
Then he took a single step.
His body shifted five meters sideways, neatly avoiding the massive beak crashing down from above.
Evan twisted around and stomped against the ground.
Bang!
He shot forward like a cannonball.
His foot slammed directly into the giant bird’s belly.
An overwhelming burst of force exploded through the creature.
Its abdomen rippled like the surface of a pond.
Then—
BOOM!
The sound cracked through the air like thunder on a clear day.
The enormous bird exploded into a vast cloud of white smoke.
“Summoning Jutsu.”
Before Evan could make his next move, several more summoned creatures charged out from the smoke.
Fangs bared and claws extended, they swarmed him from every direction.
“Boring.”
Evan landed— then immediately leapt back into the air.
The charging summons crashed violently into one another beneath him.
Evan kicked downward.
His foot struck nothing but air.
Yet the air itself exploded.
BOOM!
The resulting shockwave blasted a wall of dirt and dust more than ten meters into the air.
Every drop of rain in the surrounding area was blown away in an instant.
And every summoned creature vanished along with it.
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