Konoha's Hextech Ninja

[Ding, your class has been upgraded to Jonin. Please select your Hextech Enhancement.]

[This Hextech tier is: Prism.]

Pandora's Box: Transforms all your enhancement runes into random prismatic tier enhancement runes.

Void Rift: When you damage an enemy with a skill, a Void Rift is created. If there is another Void Rift nearby, both are consumed to create a rift between them, dealing magic damage and slowing enemies within.

[Flying Kick: Your attack executes low-health enemy heroes, knocking them back and triggering an explosion while healing yourself.]

Yoruichi Yagami was stunned for a moment by having two consecutive opportunities to choose Hextech Enhancement.

If the occasion weren't so inappropriate, Yagami Yoruichi would have loved to shout out excitedly.

This time, the Hextech option really surprised Yoruichi Yagami.

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Chapter 188 [Golden Coin Rain] and Slaying Hextech!

One special Jonin, one Jonin.

Choose two out of six Hextech tokens.

Yoruichi Yagami first looked at the 'Gold' Hextech option triggered by the special Jonin rank.

There is absolutely no need for hesitation among these three Hextech certifications.

"Hey, my coins!" is the best Hextech option.

A kill or assist can earn you an extra 100 to 200 gold coins, which can be a significant boost to your economy.

Yagami Yoruichi checked and found that with her current 'Jonin' rank, she could get an extra 180 gold coins for a kill or assist, which was almost double the kill reward.

As Yoruichi Yagami made her choice, a system notification popped up.

[The "Red Envelope" and "Oh my, my coins!" events have triggered the "Gold Coin Rain" set.]

[Gold Coin Rain (2): Gain an additional 90 gold coins for each kill or assist.]

Upon seeing this notification, Yagami Yoruichi immediately showed a look of surprise.

The "Golden Coin Rain" set grants an additional 90 gold coins on top of the original kill rewards.

This means that Yoruichi Yagami can directly obtain a high reward of 470 gold coins for a single kill!

Even an assist earns you 370 gold coins, which is higher than the previous kill reward!

If another war breaks out with other major ninja villages, Yagami Yoruichi could easily kill a few hundred ninjas and earn tens or even hundreds of thousands of gold coins.

At that time, whether it's purchasing the [Attribute Forging Tool] to speed up attribute stacking, buying new hero templates, or activating [Minions], there will be more options available.

Money is never enough.

After calming herself down a bit, Yagami Yoruichi continued to look at the second set of options.

Three 'Prism' level Hextech options.

【Pandora's Box】is ruled out first. This kind of Hextech is gambling-like. In the game, Yoruichi Yagami would definitely not hesitate to get it.

But in reality...

The two Silver-level Hextech skills, 【Physical to Magic】 and 【Mind to Object】, are the foundation of Yoruichi Yagami's strength.

If it's converted into a Prismatic Hextech, it's a huge loss no matter what you get from the conversion.

Yagami Yoruichi would never even consider such a loss-making deal.

The other two Hextech are quite good.

【Void Rift】is arguably the strongest Hextech ability for the Wizard, especially given that Yoruichi Yagami has a large number of wide-range ninjutsu that can trigger this Hextech ability frequently. 【Void Rift】becomes an extremely terrifying AOE skill.

However, Yagami Yoruichi is not lacking in the ability to instantly kill low-ranking ninjas.

However, for those ninjas who are exceptionally strong, strong enough to rival Yagami Yoruichi, the damage from the [Void Rift] seems rather insignificant.

Yoruichi Yagami himself has a 'Constitution' attribute of hundreds of thousands. The [Void Rift] only deals a few hundred points of damage per trigger. Moreover, you have to calculate the magic resistance reduction. How many times do you have to trigger it to take away even a sliver of health?

A ninja who can rival Yoruichi Yagami must at least have similar stats. The damage from [Void Rift] is negligible to them, barely affecting their movement speed.

From this perspective, the Void Rift is not a very ideal choice.

Instead, the Hextech Strike ability, which has a finishing effect, is a better choice.

With that in mind, Yoruichi Yagami immediately made a decision and chose the Flying Kick.

This Hextech item is jokingly called the 'Flying Kick' by many players, meaning that once you get it, you can instantly fly and dominate the entire field.

The high kill potential is not only outrageous in the game, but even more incredible in real life.

Moreover, it becomes stronger when facing stronger opponents. No matter how powerful the enemy is, it is difficult to resist the rule-based killing technique.

Only a few extremely special life-saving abilities, which also have a 'rule-like' nature, might be able to survive a flying kick.

But it's only a possibility.

As Yoruichi Yagami made her choice, the detailed data for the Flying Kick was revealed.

[Flying Kick: Your attack executes enemy heroes with less than (5% + 0.0002% Constitution + 0.0003% Attack Damage) of their maximum health, restores 25% of your maximum health, and knocks back the enemy. If the target collides with an enemy or terrain, the knocked-back enemy explodes, dealing 1 magic damage to nearby enemies.]

As Yagami Yoruichi looked at the description, something felt off.

"These values ​​seem different from those in the game, don't they?"

Yoruichi Yagami opened the Hextech Stats interface and took a look. The kill threshold of her Flying Kick was less than 7% as displayed on the Hextech Stats panel.

"If this were a game, with hundreds of thousands of HP and hundreds of thousands of attack power, the kill threshold would have been over 100% long ago, right?" Yagami Yoruichi wondered.

After looking for a while, I realized that the attack power bonus in the kill line calculation formula is only 0.0003%!

Yoruichi Yagami doesn't remember the exact value in the game, but it was definitely not this low.

It's at least two decimal places off.

"Never mind, it's better than nothing." Yagami Yoruichi shook his head, too lazy to think about it anymore.

The coefficient may be low, but it will eventually rise as your panel values ​​increase.

Yagami Yoruichi did some mental calculations.

Once your constitution and attack power attributes both reach over ten million, your kill threshold will reach 100%.

Compared to the upper limit of '2.1 billion Rui Tiandi', it's still far from enough.

Earn more system rewards and buy more [Attribute Forging Items] to improve your panel attributes as soon as possible. Eventually, you'll be able to achieve the 'full-health kill' effect.

At that time, unless Yagami Yoruichi's attack fails to break through the enemy's defense.

As long as you can break through their defenses, even a minor injury like knocking off a single hair can instantly kill an enemy under the rules of the Flying Kick.

By then, forget about Madara Uchiha or Kaguya Otsutsuki.

The legendary 'Otsutsuki God' has arrived, and even Yagami Yoruichi is not afraid of him.

Close the system interface.

Yagami Yoruichi realized that while she was daydreaming, she had already quickly skipped over several topics.

However, this meeting was mainly just a meeting between the 'new generation of Konoha leaders' to get to know each other, and there weren't many major decisions to be made.

Most of them are minor matters such as personnel changes and power distribution.

Yagami Yoruichi continued listening to Hatake Sakumo's nonsense.

After a while, we finally arrived at the last item, which was also the most important issue of the day.

"The village currently has 3.6 billion taels in cash. In addition, the assets that were successfully recovered from Shimura Danzo's embezzlement under various pretexts, including cash and assets that can be quickly converted into cash, are valued at 116 billion taels. The remaining fixed assets that are not easy to convert into cash in the short term are also valued at 98 billion taels."

Sakumo Hatake briefly explained the situation and continued, "Those fixed assets, in order to preserve the value of the village's funds, must be sold off slowly, and it will probably take several years to fully realize them. The remaining cash assets total 152 billion ryo, which is all the remaining funds of Konoha this year."

The Daimyo's funding for Konoha is allocated annually, and the amount varies each year.

There will be less funding during peacetime, but more during wartime or if Konoha suffers any major losses.

However, in general, the annual allocation was around several billion taels, and during wartime it could rise to the level of tens of billions of taels.

The funds allocated this year have already been deposited into the accounts, and the village has also allocated the budgets for each of its core departments.

However, due to this turmoil, many departments will need to be reorganized or undergo significant adjustments, which will also put pressure on finances.

Not to mention, a new 'Ministry of Science' was also established, which is also a money-burning place.

152 billion taels of silver seems like a lot.

However, considering the enormous expenses of war, this money is really not something that can be easily spent.

Orochimaru said somewhat impatiently, "As mentioned before, the first allocation for the Science Department is six billion ryo..."

The two things that researchers lack most are talent and funding.

Since Orochimaru couldn't conjure up any talent in a short time, he could only try to extort more funds.

Upon hearing Orochimaru's words, the others couldn't sit still any longer and started asking for money.

"The security force is recruiting new members, and the original budget is not enough, so an allocation is needed."

"The ninja army at the front has very high daily expenses, and this money must not be touched carelessly."

“Some damaged areas of the village need to be rebuilt, which will require a large sum of money.”

Even Kushina Uzumaki chimed in, saying, "I plan to redesign the village's barrier, and I'll need some money to do that. Not too much, five billion ryo will be enough!"

When it comes to matters involving huge sums of money, everyone fights tooth and nail for it.

It doesn't necessarily mean they want to be corrupt or greedy.

But having money in hand is essential to better fulfilling the tasks assigned by the village and developing one's department.

Unless one reaches a level of 'inhuman' like Yoruichi Yagami.

Otherwise, in most cases, a ninja's combat power is directly proportional to money.

In the transition from genin to ordinary jonin, having more shuriken and explosive tags might just change the outcome of the battle.

Even departments not involved in combat hope to secure more funding.

For example, Konoha Hospital wants to purchase the latest treatment equipment and more effective medicinal materials, and the Barrier Team wants to upgrade and renovate Konoha's barrier on a large scale, and so on.

These all cost money, and a lot of money at that.

"Quiet down!"

Sakumo Hatake slammed his hand on the table and shouted several times before finally getting the shino to stop.

"Of these 152 billion taels, a portion has already been determined."

Sakumo Hatake said, "After calculation, the repairs inside the village will require about one billion taels. To sustain the war on the front lines until next year's funding arrives, at least three billion taels must be reserved. Considering that the scale of the war may expand in the future, at least another three billion taels must be reserved as reserve funds. All of these together, the seven billion taels absolutely cannot be used."

War is the biggest expense.

Excluding ninja tools, food, and other supplies that the village had to reimburse during the war, the village paid for all the rewards for war missions.

These tasks are not like ordinary task assignments, where there is a commissioner to pay the remuneration; they can only be paid from the village's finances.

There are also compensation payments for fallen ninjas, and so on.

It's perfectly normal for a war to cost billions of taels of silver just for these two items.

These were all figures calculated by the finance department, and the Konoha executives, who were slightly more sensitive to money, quickly accepted this calculation method.

“Seven billion taels cannot be touched, which means that 82 billion taels can be used.” Nara Shikawon said, “Given that after the change of Hokage, it is impossible to determine the amount of funds the Daimyo will allocate to Konoha next year, I suggest that we reduce expenditures as much as possible and keep more funds as reserves for the village in case the Daimyo’s allocation is insufficient next year.”

“For example…” Nara Shika was reluctant to say something offensive, but for the sake of the village, he gritted his teeth and said, “The Science Department’s budget of six billion ryo is, in my opinion, too much. The village has too many places where it needs money…”

"Wait a minute." Yagami Yoruichi interrupted Nara Shikato, saying, "The six billion ryo for the Science Department does not refer to six billion ryo in cash. It includes a lot of illegal experimental equipment that was found during the investigation at the root. Many of these pieces of equipment are quite valuable, so transferring them to the Science Department is not a waste."

When Yagami Yoruichi promised Orochimaru 6 billion ryo for experimental expenses, she never said it would all be in cash.

Many of the experimental equipment at the base are readily available, so there is no need to purchase new ones. This can be converted into an investment in the science department.

Yagami Yoruichi glanced at Orochimaru and said, "The total value of these experimental devices is 42 billion ryo. We can also invest an additional 18 billion ryo as start-up capital for the Science Department."

Orochimaru seemed to have anticipated these things. He shrugged, said nothing, and tacitly approved of Yoruichi Yagami's 'funding plan'.

The experimental equipment at the root was mainly for Orochimaru's use, and he's gotten used to it, so there's no need to replace it, which is actually a good thing.

"Eighteen billion taels?"