My ninjutsu is not right

Chapter 42 Shadow
"Chi~"

Steam rose up, and Xia moved her hand that was pressed on her vest slightly. She glanced at Iris who was cutting leaves happily, and Link who was doing something with his caught two rabbits.

He took a breath and continued to release chakra to roast the boss's clothes.

It feels a bit strange to say this. Obviously, the ninja in my imagination should not be like this. A ninja that is like a dryer...

Can it be considered a kind of practice? Never mind. It’s the boss’s request anyway. It must be for my own good.

She gave up thinking and began to dry the moisture inside the vest seriously.

【Great work, keeps my vest dry! 】

Link glanced at Xia who was working hard, nodded with satisfaction, and looked down at the two rabbits, "It's you." He picked out the slightly stronger rabbit and stepped on it with his foot, and tied up the other one with a rope and put it aside for use.

Refining chakra, forming seals, releasing——

Shadow clone technique, success!

The shadow in his sight began to fluctuate again. He loosened his foot and let the rabbit get up and run away. Then with a thought, the rabbit shadow separated from its body.

"Huh?" When his target changed from plants to animals, he found something interesting. The lively rabbit that was originally running away, fell headfirst to the ground after its shadow separated. Its legs stretched out weakly, and it opened its mouth, and its breathing became noticeably faster.

Then the rabbit got up again and tried to escape, but then a big, uh, small hand quickly caught it and looked at it carefully from top to bottom again.

"After the shadows separate, the main body will feel tired. Could it be that..."

Link had a vague guess in his mind. The rabbit's struggling strength had now become much weaker, and it looked as if it had exhausted too much physical strength.

He tied up the rabbit without a shadow and threw it next to his fellow sufferers, focusing on the rabbit's shadow.

As he thought about it, the two-dimensional flat rabbit shadow ran over on the ground at a speed almost as fast as a fleeing rabbit.

It looks quite weird.

I don't know if you have ever seen those picture books where you press your fingers to quickly turn the pages and see the characters inside moving slowly. The running of the rabbit shadow in the two-dimensional screen is a bit like the movements in those picture books, moving frame by frame, very fast, but it feels like the frames are being dropped.

It makes people feel very uncomfortable.

Link directed the rabbit shadow to run around for a while. The more he looked, the weirder it seemed. There was a black shadow moving quickly and dropping frames desperately in the open space under the scorching sun.

It feels like it should be on the set of Cthulhu.

As soon as he thought of it, the rabbit shadow standing not far away quickly stood up and turned into a pitch-black rabbit lying on the ground. Its posture and habits were very similar to its original body without the shadow.

"Try your attack power..." Under his command, Rabbit Shadow ran madly towards the big tree (the big tree whose shadow was separated yesterday) and slammed into it head-on.

"Boom!"

The tree trunk made a dull sound, which felt no different from a normal rabbit hitting a tree.

The only good thing is that Rabbit Shadow was not stunned and was still trying to continue charging at the Barbarian King.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Such strange and frequent sounds quickly attracted the attention of the two teammates. When they saw the strange rabbit shadow, they were both a little startled.

There was no need to hide it, as the technique would be used in front of his companions sooner or later, so Link did not go to a deserted place to experiment.

After about a dozen collisions, the rabbit's shadow suddenly froze in the middle of its run, and the whole rabbit collapsed and turned back into a shadow stuck to the ground, then spread out into black dots and disappeared. The shadow reappeared in front of the rabbit that had lost its shadow.

"interesting."

Link's eyes brightened, and he seemed to vaguely realize one of the effects of this technique.

Refine the chakra again, divide it equally, seal it, and release it——

This time the target is his own shadow.

So, after a brief one-second delay, the shadow under his feet walked to the opposite side and stood up.

A dark shadow exactly like him was facing him head on, as if he was looking into a dull and colorless mirror.

[My own shadow is much more connected to me, as if another limb had appeared...]

"Oh!" Iris exclaimed.

Xia quickly made a shushing gesture.

Link ignored his two companions and controlled the shadow to take a step forward. Then he ran and jumped onto a tree. He did a series of moves including backflips, frontflips, ninja run, etc., and an expression of understanding appeared on his face.

His energy is depleting!
It is similar to the physical energy consumed by himself when he takes action. Whether he exists, stands, runs, or makes any action, it is consuming his physical energy. In other words, the shadow is consuming the physical energy of the original body and can imitate the original body's actions in reality. Therefore, it is reasonable for the shadow to change back to the shadow state that cannot interact with reality after the physical energy is consumed.

"No, that's not right."

Link quickly realized that his shadow seemed to be subtly different from the rabbit's shadow.

He turned his head to look at the rabbit next to him, who was tied up with ropes but definitely not exhausted, and even had recovered a little...

[After the rabbit shadows were separated, the rabbit felt tired and its physical strength was greatly depleted, which means...]

"When I separate other people's shadows, I will also separate their physical strength."

Link made a preliminary judgment. As for how much physical strength was taken away, he remembered that the shadow clone would divide the chakra equally, so it was reasonable to guess that it would most likely be half of the physical strength.

The reason why he didn't feel any consumption was most likely because what was consumed was not his physical strength and chakra at all, but the physical strength taken away from others. Once the physical strength was exhausted, the technique would be automatically canceled.

"Try again." He canceled the spell. After all, his shadow self's mere existence would continue to consume his physical strength. Although it wasn't much, every bit saved counted.

However, there is still no chakra return. It seems that the mutated Shadow Clone Technique has no chakra return process at all.

A single example is not enough to prove anything. I need to try more to verify my results. I'll use a rabbit first. At least I have to prove that this technique is harmless to life. Then it would be best to find two people who are willing to help. They don't need to be very old or have a lot of chakra...

Refining chakra, dividing it equally, forming seals, and releasing it——

"Bang!" The shadow clone technique failed.

Well, I thought too much, consumed too much physical energy, and didn't manage to distribute chakra well, which resulted in an equal distribution and ultimate failure.

[It’s definitely not just about taking away physical strength. There must be some special places that I haven’t tested yet…]

[Will destroying the main body affect the shadow? What can the shadow do? Is there any interaction between the shadows...]

Link thought about it and sat down on the rock next to him to rest.

The development of the Shadow Clone Technique should be much more interesting than the Earth Dragon Hidden Technique.

(End of this chapter)