"The revolution's not done yet. Guess I've still got to grind."
Amamiya Raizen muttered to himself, a crooked grin tugging at his lips. From the day he arrived in this world empty-handed to now — armed with a secret technique and a newly awakened bloodline — he'd clawed his way up from nothing.
A nobody reborn in a killing age… and now even a Jōnin would be lucky to crawl away breathing.Only elite Jōnin — maybe the monsters on the "shadow" tier — could still make him sweat.
As Raizen drifted back toward the Land of Fire, his eyes caught the chaos below — shinobi massacring shinobi, thugs robbing villagers, and corpses strewn across fields. The Warring States era was a meat grinder dressed like a religion of blood.
"This world's so damn broken… when does it stop?"
The words slipped out before he realized.Even after years here, part of his Earth-born heart still rebelled against the slaughter. Adapting wasn't the same as going numb.Anger. Grief. A flicker of guilt — they all mixed like bad sake in his chest.
But the thought passed.
"Can't stop war when I can't even stop bleeding. One step at a time — power first, peace later."
He shoved away the melancholy and mentally called out to his System. He hadn't checked it in ages, too buried in missions and blood.
The familiar mechanical tone echoed inside his head.The interface lit up. Several achievements blinked golden.
Raizen's pulse spiked.[New Achievements Unlocked]
Love's First Oath — Mutual affection recognized. Reward: Silver Chest.
Renowned Name — Known by over a hundred shinobi. Reward: Silver Chest.
Hated by the Hundred — Earned the grudges of a hundred people. Reward: Silver Chest.
First Tailed Beast Kill — Sealed or killed a Tailed Beast–level entity. Reward: Gold Chest.
"A Gold one, huh? Oh, hell yes."
The last time he opened one, he'd pulled Deidara's explosive clay technique. A total game-changer.Now… who knew? Kekkei Genkai? A forbidden jutsu? Maybe even Flying Thunder God 2.0?
[Would you like to claim rewards?]
"Damn right I would."
[Claiming: Silver x3, Gold x1. Open now?]
"Open."
Four chests shimmered before him — wind from one, lightning from another, a dense heaviness from the third… and a frost-edged spear from the golden one.
[Congratulations, Host!]
Wind Release: Great Breakthrough
Lightning Release: Chidori Current
Taijutsu: Eight Inner Gates
Bloodline Limit: Ice Release
"Ice Release!?"
Raizen's eyes widened.That was the bloodline of the Yuki Clan from the Land of Water — the same one that vanished long before Haku revived its name.
"Fusion of Wind and Water chakra… if I train this right, I could rival Hashirama's damn trees."
His grin turned wolfish. The idea of freezing battlefields instead of sprouting forests felt poetic — colder, crueler, his kind of poetry.
He didn't hesitate.
"Accept."
Chakra roared through his coils like a blizzard of needles. Pain lanced through every joint, every cell. For a second, he thought his veins would burst — then it stabilized, a calm, clean chill inside his body.
Raizen exhaled, frost escaping his lips.
"Now we're talking."
Eight Gates for raw speed and strength, Ice Release for control, Rasengan and Chidori for offense, Detonation Clay and Flying Thunder God for tricks.All he lacked was illusion. Once he got a genjutsu toolkit, he'd be the perfect ninja — the kind they'd make legends about.
And this time, he wouldn't die just to be remembered.