Chapter 10: Shadow clone

Jumping towards the ninja, it seemed ready to attack.

Naruto, on the other hand, remained calm and confident. The Rasengan was already in his hands and the shadow clone was ready to advance.

As the rabbit advanced with its sharp claws, the shadow clone became a distraction, allowing Naruto to get close and attack the rabbit on the side, near the neck.

"Rasengan!!" Naruto yelled fervently.

The giant rabbit couldn't dodge and was hit head-on. The impact threw it several meters back, where it writhed in agony.

Naruto approached to examine the prey. When he looked down, the rabbit disintegrated into dust and dropped five weak red orbs and a purple sphere the size of a passion fruit. Although there were only five red orbs present, they were much larger than the previous ones.

"Hahaha, this is amazing, dattebayo!" shouted Naruto in joy, knowing that the purple sphere was of extreme importance.

'With this, maybe I can learn Sage Mode even faster...' Naruto thought with great expectation.

But there was still something he wasn't sure of. Would gathering natural energy in this location lead him to Sage Mode?

Determined to find out the answer, Naruto took the orbs and headed to a more isolated place near a large tree. There, he began his Zen meditation.

"Ahhh!" Suddenly, he screamed in pain as he realized he was gathering natural energy much faster than when he used the Oil-Gama. In a panic, Naruto lost control and ended up transforming into a stone statue.

The weirdest thing was that he didn't die, but was stuck in his statue form, unable to return to normal and unable to return to reality.

With time passing, Naruto began to get desperate, imagining that he could be stuck forever. Even when monsters passed by, they ignored him, after all, a stone statue posed no threat or benefit to them.

And so, minutes turned into hours...

Tears flooded Naruto's eyes as he bitterly regretted trying to enter Sage Mode in that dimension. He felt crushed by the possibility of being trapped as a statue forever.

But when he thought he would be condemned to that form forever, darkness swallowed him and when he opened his eyes, he was back in the room he shared with the Grandpa Toad.

Naruto was sweating profusely, feeling a mixture of emotions. He couldn't help but think: 'Phew, thank goodness I'm back, thank goodness, dattebayo!' After all, it would have been terrible to be trapped forever in the form of a statue and still be aware of everything that was happening around him.

But then an idea arose in his mind: 'I didn't feel any pain when I came back...'

Although being transformed into a statue was a terrifying experience, it didn't actually cause him any physical pain. Perhaps, when he fully mastered the Sage Mode,

it would be a good idea to transform into a statue when the situation in the hunting dimension became too dangerous. Naruto reflected on this in his heart, while his breathing finally calmed down.

Naruto went out and headed to the lake again. Although the experience of being turned into a statue was a scary one, he still wished to become stronger.

When he arrived, he released his power, his eyes focused, and his power emanated. A faint white glow appeared on the surface of his body. He was in the Martial Warrior State battle mode.

Emitting white light. This is only achieved by achieving perfect refinement for a small level. He knew this because of the original plot knowledge from Pocket Hunting Dimension.

However, this battle mode was inferior to his power, as it had a maximum power of a Level 8 Martial Warrior.

If he were to calculate, Naruto predicted that his current power should be around the Central Martial State or even the Opening of Opening State.

These are the first 7 ranks:

Martial Warrior State (10 levels of body refinement)

Spiritual Martial State

Abstruse Martial State

Central Martial State

Opening of Opening State

Mortal Evolution State

Planetary State

Naruto calculated that the maximum someone has reached in this world is the Planetary State in terms of strength. Of course, this was only a rough way for him to calculate, as the reality was that he himself did not know for sure.

His knowledge did not extend beyond this, and although he knew the plots, the concepts behind the laws and powers were different. It wasn't so simple to calculate the powers, and he couldn't determine them precisely.

However, he thought that perhaps at the peak, Kaguya Otsutsuki might have the strength of being in the Stellar State, which is ranked 8. In this rank, the user is capable of simple control of space.

They can use their bodies alone to jump into space within a planet. They can establish an extendable space of 1 to 10 Km in radius. Star-like nucleus cell with a bright light wheel (Star Wheel) around it.

But again, it was difficult to measure strength through this, and only when he is able to reach that level will he know for sure.

Putting these thoughts aside, Naruto sat down and began Zen Meditation after swallowing a red orb.

A few hours later...

His body was in perfect harmony, and every aspect of his being seemed to have been enhanced to the fullest.

The muscle refinement was evident, with every muscle vibrating with life and emitting a distinctive glow. The tendons had also been perfected, and the major tendons now shone in a soft gold.

And finally, the bone refinement had reached perfection, with each bone smooth like a jade artifact, shining with incomparable quality. It was as if Naruto was in tune with every part of himself, his body a sharp and precise machine.

Naruto stepped out of the water and looked at himself in the reflection. Although he saw himself in the water reflection, it somehow looked different.

"Did I become even more handsome?" Naruto was stunned.

His blue eyes shone with intensity, and his blond hair was a bit more tousled than usual as if he had just woken up. His blue eyes seemed deeper and more expressive, with a certain enigmatic sparkle that he had never noticed before.