105 Naruto Mobile Game

After the information conference ended, people once again entered the rank matches and began the tense climb of points in the new season.

But many people discovered that this season was much easier to climb than the previous one, and they couldn't help but wonder whether this was an illusion, or whether they themselves had become stronger.

Until...

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[Senju Hashirama: Wait, something's wrong. How is this duel arena supposed to be played? Why can't I win? Who exactly is winning here?]

[White Lotus: Even you, Lord Hashirama? I also feel like the opponents are absurdly strong.]

[Reto: No ninjas to use, nowhere to practice technique. I wanted to play matchmaking, but I didn't expect the matched opponents to be stronger than those in ranked.]

[Ishikawa: Has the Ninja World changed this much compared to our era? Truly, one generation replaces another.]

Several old fellows who had been buried in the ground for decades suddenly popped up to sigh with emotion. As beings who founded ninja villages, they were all highly respected figures.

When the living people in reality saw this and thought about it for a moment, they immediately understood.

No wonder the duel arena felt so easy to play — it turned out that a massive batch of dead people had flooded into the new season.

Speaking of which, the number of dead people seemed even greater than that of the living. Before the army of the dead became familiar with the Ninja Mobile Game, the living could ruthlessly harvest a wave of points.

[Uchiha Madara: Useless trash. You can still get beaten down by a bunch of juniors?]

[Senju Tobirama: What rank are you?]

[Uchiha Madara: Chunin.]

[The Dead: ???]

[Senju Hashirama: Madara, where did you even get ninjas to use? Gold Coin isn't nearly enough to pull High-Class Recruitment.]

[Uchiha Madara: I just spend Gold Coin to buy a few ninjas to use. If I can't get High-Class Recruitment, so be it.]

Seeing this, the dead instantly understood.

Almost every junior had told them not to spend Gold Coin recklessly, but to save it for High-Class Recruitment.

With so many people saying the same thing, what reason did they have not to believe it?

So this group of people all hoarded their Gold Coin, planning to draw High-Class Recruitment in one go after accumulating enough.

But if you don't spend Gold Coin, then the only ones you can use are the ten starter ninjas.

That is, the ten genin among the Konoha Twelve except Rock Lee and Neji.

Let's be honest — taking these to fight those ten-odd High-Class Recruitment A and S ninjas, wouldn't you just get beaten until shit comes out?

So Uchiha Madara's words woke everyone up.

If you don't have ninjas, then buy a few to use first. Otherwise, are you just not going to play ranked?

Oh, you say that buying a few Gold Coin B-rank or C-rank ninjas makes playing the duel arena less painful?

What are you thinking, kid? Painful is still painful!

"I have something… that I must protect, even if it costs my life!!"

So you just beat me up like that?

Madara looked at the Ultimate Scene family portrait of Minato Namikaze that popped up on the phone screen, and for a moment didn't know what to say.

He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the inexplicable anger surging up from the bottom of his heart.

Ever since learning the latest storyline, he no longer placed any hope in Nagato and could only rely on himself.

But showing off in front of others was one thing; behind the scenes was another. Others got abused by living players — he got abused too.

That Flying Thunder God… what kind of distance even is that?

And that damn god-speed, it even has invincibility. It can dodge all skills and counterattack.

Madara simply couldn't imagine how this thing was supposed to be fought. The opponent just stood there, not moving, watching you.

So do you hit or not?

If you hit, the god-speed of [Minato Namikaze] kicks you. If you don't hit, the Flying Thunder God of [Minato Namikaze] flies over.

And then there's that ultimate that can be connected after literally anything.

Madara knew some ninjas had been adjusted. Although he didn't know how those adjusted ones were in the previous version, there were clearly still heaven-defying ninjas sweeping through the duel arena.

Why didn't they just adjust all this crap together?

...

"Hehe!"

After winning another match, Chōjūrō felt great.

Unlike other players who liked to use Akatsuki ninjas, he especially loved ninjas with invincible blink skills.

For example, [Minato Namikaze], and [Mysterious Masked Man]. These two ninjas have extremely high operational ceilings.

The core lies in those two invincible skills.

Although the invincibility duration is extremely short, for ninjas with outstanding reaction speed, it's simply like reaching out to grab a chicken — easy as pie!

It's just that in the previous version, everyone was immersed in those Akatsuki ninjas.

In the late stage of the previous version, once you started a ranked match, it meant you had to make two choices.

First, ban Itachi, Deidara, and Nagato.

Second, don't ban them and fight a mirror match.

Precisely because those ninjas had such oppressive tempo and everyone knew they were ridiculously strong, they were directly nerfed, and their pick rates fell off a cliff.

[Minato Namikaze] and [Mysterious Masked Man], on the contrary, hadn't drawn much attention before.

Now the old king had fallen, and the new king ascended the throne!

Strategy might be important, but these two ninjas, whose strength scales directly with player reaction speed, quickly became popular.

Simple, brutal, and still able to win — who wouldn't love that?

And because of this, Chōjūrō, who had secretly used these two ninjas to climb ranks in the previous version, quickly became miserable.

Damn it!

Now it wasn't just him who knew how strong [Minato Namikaze] and [Mysterious Masked Man] were!

However, the so-called king of the duel arena wasn't either of these two.

...

"Strengthened, but not by much."

Orochimaru was playing himself in the training ground. He had been very happy when the announcement said he was being strengthened, but he hadn't expected the changes to be so minor.

His normal attacks were just a bit more stable, and the cooldown of his first skill was reduced by two seconds.

Orochimaru started a ranked match.

After the ranked mode revamp, he decided to practice technique and ordered the Sound Village players to take ranked seriously.

Which ninja was he playing? Of course, his main.

"Battle start!"

In the match, Orochimaru controlled himself to the edge of the stage. Only then did he suddenly realize something.

How the hell does this ninja even start an engagement? Activate first skill and walk up to the opponent's face? Or use the snake spit to grab them over?

Unfortunately, his opponent didn't have this problem.

"Rasengan!"

An ultra-accelerated Rasengan instantly slammed into Orochimaru's face, blasting him straight away.

Orochimaru froze for a moment and hurriedly substituted.

When entering the match, he knew the opponent had Chakra equipped. After substituting, he immediately activated his first skill to tank with Super armor.

He had already thought through how the rest would go.

Use the first skill's snake swarm to chase and pressure until forcing out the opponent's substitution, then immediately counter with Super armor. If needed, he would even throw out his summon as well.

He refused to believe that with Super armor plus summon, he still couldn't get a counterattack.

The script did indeed progress just as Orochimaru had imagined — only the small details were a bit different.

Super armor?

Sorry, Frog Kata!

Sage Naruto came down from substitution and used a second skill to break Orochimaru's Super armor. Without time to think, Orochimaru hastily used a sustained summon to save himself.

But this directly triggered Sage Naruto's super combo: Secret Scrolls Chakra into one segment of ultimate to explode chakra, then into the second segment, Wind Style: Rasenshuriken!

"Aaah——"

Watching himself let out a final scream and die in Naruto's hands, Orochimaru fell silent for a long time.

So this is the hero of Konoha? 

Why wasn't this thing seen in the previous version?

Orochimaru forgot — in the previous version, no matter who he fought, he felt no pressure.

And in this version, Sage Naruto had been strengthened — the true peak Uzumaki Naruto: Sage Mode!

After exiting the match, Orochimaru glanced to the side and silently memorized his opponent's game name.

Then, he started another match.