In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 3 New Changes to the Panel
The reason is simple. The knowledge of high-level puppeteers is only available in the Sand Village.

The puppeteer is a new ninja profession created by the Second Kazekage and promoted by Monzaemon. It has been no more than 30 years since its birth. Other ninja villages have at most acquired some basic knowledge of the puppeteer system. Only the Sand Village has a truly powerful puppeteer.

"He graduated from the elite class of the Ninja School. The leader is Momi, a typical wind-style ninja. He probably can't be taught these things. In fact, even if someone teaches him, he can achieve this at this age. His future prospects are limitless."

Ishido continued talking to Ebizo.

"Well, sure. Do you want to transfer him to your Sixth Squad?"

"Yes, Master Ebizo, two years ago, White Fang killed more than 70% of the puppeteers in our Sixth Division, and the reconstruction has not been completed yet. So when I saw a good seedling, I couldn't help but..."

"Okay, I see."

Ebizo removed his hand from the gray beard and looked at it again.

Such a genius is worth cultivating.

Moreover, he is only two years older than Scorpion, so they are of the same age.

You can try to bring him into contact with a scorpion.

After all, Scorpio has become more and more withdrawn since his parents died.

"It is impossible to transfer them directly to your team. From this batch of new generation puppeteers, I will select 80 of them for training. Who will join the puppet army and which team will join will all be decided by the leaders of each team."

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"Puppet troop training program?"

A week after Qingshui submitted the puppet maintenance task, he received such a notice at home.

"Yes, you must seize this opportunity. The puppet troop is the village's elite troop. In the past ten years or so, almost all puppeteers who have become jonin have come from here."

A ninja who looked to be in his fifties with a bandaged shoulder placed a form on the table.

This is Shimizu's previous team leader, Momi, a veteran jonin of the Sand Village. He is quite old, but due to injuries, he retired from the front line of the Rain Land at the same time as Shimizu.

Of course, Shimizu was not led by Momi on the battlefield. As a senior ninja, the mission he performed was not something that Shimizu, a junior ninja who had just graduated a year ago, could handle.

"I'm not a puppeteer. I became a jonin because of my wind-style ninjutsu and swordsmanship. I can only help you with puppetry to a limited extent. So, if you want to move up in the future, you must seize this opportunity."

Momi said as he looked at the young man in front of him.

He was well aware of the potential of his student.

His talent in ninjutsu can only be considered above average, but his swordsmanship is okay. If he follows the steps, he will definitely have no problem becoming a Chunin. If he doesn't die young, and endures for a few more years, he may be able to reach the level of a Jonin in some aspects, and become a Special Jonin when he reaches adulthood.

There is a chance of becoming a jonin, but it is not high.

However, Shimizu's talent in puppeteering was so high that Momi was amazed. He believed that if Shimizu could inherit a puppeteer of a high enough level, becoming a jonin would be a certainty.

There might be a slight possibility that he could become a big figure like Elder Chiyo in the future.

"Thank you, Mr. Momi."

Shimizu took the form from Momiji and thanked him.

"There's nothing to thank me for. When you graduated and were divided into different classes, the fighting on the battlefield was at its most intense. At that time, the most powerful puppeteer in the village..."

Momi shook his head.

"What happened to those puppeteers?"

Qingshui asked curiously.

"At that time, Elder Chiyo handed over the puppet troops to her son and daughter-in-law. They were also very powerful puppeteers and were considered to be the two candidates to take over the banner of the Fourth Kazekage in the future. Unfortunately, in a battle, the puppet troops they led encountered the team of Konoha White Fang, and suffered heavy casualties. Even the two were killed in the battle."

"The jonin originally assigned to lead you was temporarily added to the puppet army and rushed to the front line after the war, so you can only be led by a jonin like me who is neither high nor low." Momi patted Shimizu's shoulder and said.

The number of active ninjas in each of the five major ninja villages has reached five digits. Of course, each graduating class of Genin will not be like in the anime, with only twenty-seven people, and some will have to be eliminated.

In reality, these twenty-seven people have higher potentials in talent or strong enough backgrounds, and only they will be led by senior ninjas after graduation.

Qingshui is one of them.

His talent is not as good as that of the top talents, but it is above average, and he was able to squeeze in because of his early first-mover advantage.

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That night, in front of the desk, Qingshui was absent-mindedly fiddling with the puppet accessories, watching the progress bar slowly advancing at the bottom of the panel.

"It looks like the application form for puppeteer training has been approved."

Ninety-seven percent, ninety-eight percent, ninety-nine percent…

The progress bar slowly but steadily reached 100%, and then emptied in an instant.

[System is being updated...]

【New functions are being released...】

【System update completed! 】

The panel changed at this moment.

On the left side of the original fat puppet's panel, a new sub-panel appeared, showing a three-dimensional image of Qingshui himself.

"This is... my own data chart?"

Qingshui looked at the changes on the panel in amazement and immediately looked at his own attributes.

[Name: Shimizu]

Age: 11

[Occupation: Ninja (Master), Puppet Master]

【职业属性：忍：4体：3幻：3贤：5力：3速：4精：4印：5】

"Is this... the Eight Items of Ninja?"

The Eight Ninja Items is a way to use numerical values to evaluate a ninja's overall ability. Ninja schools also use this method to score the ninja's various abilities.

These values can roughly reflect the level of a ninja, but they cannot represent everything. For example, a ninja is not good at illusions, but has a strong ability to remove illusions. In that case, his illusion index will not be very high, but it can be around six or seven points. It is generally difficult for someone with an illusion attribute of ten to be affected by an illusion.

Typical representatives of this are Might Guy and Jiraiya. They are not good at illusions, but that does not mean they are not good at resisting illusions.

Having said that, the values of the eight ninja items are still very meaningful for reference.

With a bit of curiosity, Qingshui lightly tapped the word "忍" with his mind.

I can’t add points, but a sub-window popped up, showing the branch attributes of the value of Shinobi.

[Wind Style Ninjutsu: LV1 Puppetry: LV2]

"If that's all, it seems to be of limited help to me."

Qingshui reluctantly touched every corner of the panel.

After clicking on the Wind Style Ninjutsu, the two C-level Wind Style Ninjutsu he currently mastered appeared, Wind Style: Fierce Wind Palm, and Wind Style: Major Breakthrough.

(End of this chapter)