I just don't know how much help this guaranteed character card can bring me this time.
The setting for blue character cards is generally Jonin level below Kage level. If not quite Jonin, then it must at least have a unique aspect in a non-combat field, allowing it to exist as an auxiliary card.
If I pull another average Jonin, and it happens to be someone proficient in a Ninjutsu like Water Release that I'm not good at, but what if the abilities overlap significantly with my current self? That would be too unlucky.
After all, Uchiha Gen is now proficient in three Chakra nature transformations and has reached a certain level of skill in all aspects. Pulling a blue character card really could lead to that situation.
"I hope that doesn't happen."
Feeling the warmth of the hot spring water, Uchiha Gen returned his attention to the system's card-drawing panel.
[Current card draws: 6]
[Start drawing cards?]
[Yes.]
[System drawing — — — —]
[Congratulations on obtaining the following items:]
[Item Card: exploding tag × 3 (White), Training Acceleration Card (White), Training Acceleration Card (Green), Quality Enhancement Card (Green), weapon enhancement card (Blue)]
[Character Card: Uzumaki Karin (Ninja World War) Quality (Blue)]
Uchiha Gen immediately felt relieved.
Thankfully, the worst-case scenario did not happen.
Karin's raw strength in direct combat isn't particularly outstanding, but just relying on the Adamantine Sealing Chains, she can't be considered bad either. But more importantly, the various enhancements brought by her bloodline are actually more useful to him and provide a greater boost to his comprehensive abilities.
The immense Chakra volume of the Uzumaki Clan is just the basic configuration. There is also the recovery ability possessed by the vigorous Yang Release in her body; just taking a bite can directly restore half a life. Plus, there is the Mind's Eye of the Kagura, which has a huge range and can sense malice and lies.
Sensing isn't Uchiha Gen's weakness, but compared to other abilities, it's not a strength either. As for Sealing Technique, he's just a half-baked amateur. Karin's Mind's Eye of the Kagura and Adamantine Sealing Chains are exactly what he needs.
This character card, whose combat ability isn't considered excellent, is actually more suitable for him than most ordinary blue character cards.
Even if just used as a battery to increase Chakra volume, Karin, hailing from the Uzumaki Clan, is definitely stronger than the vast majority of other character cards.
As thoughts flashed through his mind, the familiar cutscene sequence arrived again.
Amidst the sound of sobbing, a female body covered in tooth marks and with her face covered by a cloth lay on the bed.
Young Karin looked at the Kusagakure Ninja walking towards her step by step, her tender face full of despair.
Days of darkness continued until the Konoha Chunin Exams, when things finally changed.
"See ya."
Uchiha Sasuke stepped on a brown bear, glanced at Karin, who picked up her glasses and looked at him, and turned to leave in a cool manner.
For Karin, who had been abandoned by her teammates, the handsome boy in blue who suddenly appeared and saved her felt like a beam of light piercing through endless darkness.
And later, when she returned to Kusagakure and was captured by human traffickers again, Orochimaru, who saved her, became the second light in her life.
Therefore, when she saw Sasuke in Orochimaru's base, the trajectory of her life was completely rewritten.
Orochimaru's death, the formation of Team Taka, the brotherly revenge battle between Sasuke and Itachi, the capture of the Eight-Tails, the interception of Danzo, the chaos at the Five Kage Summit, and then following Sasuke and Orochimaru again, stepping onto the battlefield with teammates Jugo and Suigetsu — — — —
The scene finally froze at the moment when Karin used the Adamantine Sealing Chains, forcibly erupting to repel the White Zetsu Tobi who had possessed Yamato.
The red-haired girl in a striped prison uniform had a determined face, with four thick golden chains behind her, intertwining and stabbing forward.
[Unequipped Character Card: Kakashi Hatake (Youth)]
[Equipped Character Card: Uzumaki Karin (Ninja World War)]
Uchiha Gen, sitting in the bath, suddenly straightened up, his face flushed and his skin turning red.
An extremely surging vitality emerged within Uchiha Gen's body at this moment, far stronger than the incomplete Sage Body of the young Tsunade, almost to the point of overflowing from his body.
The Uzumaki and Senju Clans are both descendants of Ashura, and their bloodlines inherit the Sage Body from Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo. However, there are still some differences between the two in terms of the Sage Body.
The vitality of the Senju Clan is more overbearing. The most direct manifestation is the cells of Senju Hashirama, which, even after death, still possess an extremely overbearing erosive power that can directly turn people into wood.
The vitality of the Uzumaki Clan is much gentler. Even if the vitality is strong, it's just like Karin's—taking a bite can restore health.
"In the future, if I get injured and don't have time to use Medical Ninjutsu, I can also bite my arm to restore health just like Karin."
Uchiha Gen stood up from the bathtub, revealing a young and strong body, exhaled a long breath, and felt the vitality and immense Chakra surging within his body.
With the incomplete Sage Body of young Tsunade, plus Karin's Uzumaki Clan Sage Body, his current Chakra volume was terrifying.
"My current Chakra volume is not inferior to the Ichibi Shukaku I encountered on the battlefield back then."
Uchiha Gen couldn't help but clench his fist.
Chakra volume cannot be directly equated to strength, but at least it is positively correlated.
He now has the massive Chakra volume of a Tailed Beast. Under normal circumstances, there is basically no possibility of being exhausted when using conventional Ninjutsu.
Coupled with Medical Ninjutsu and Karin's healing body, his endurance is definitely top-tier in the Ninja World.
"I just don't know if Karin's ability, which requires being bitten to actively trigger, can become a permanent passive ability like Senju Hashirama's."
Uchiha Gen walked out of the bathtub, took a bath towel from the shelf next to him to wrap around his body, and his thoughts began to wander uncontrollably again.
He could learn the Phantom Body Flicker Technique through the Three-Tomoe Sharingan of Ninja Path Sasuke, so naturally, he could try to develop the abilities within Karin's body.
Whether it is Senju Hashirama's signless self-healing or Karin's healing ability, although there are differences due to the two clans' Sage Bodies, the essence is actually the manifestation of the power of Yang Release.
If he can control the Yang Release power in his body, can he also self-heal without biting himself like Senju Hashirama?
If he can draw out this massive Yang Release power, can he further strengthen the healing ability of Medical Ninjutsu?
The names of several related Medical Ninjutsu quickly surfaced in Uchiha Gen's mind.
Yin Healing Wound Destruction, Healing Resuscitation Regeneration, Creation Rebirth.
When he contracted Rashomon, Uchiha Gen had used a watered-down version of Yin Healing Wound Destruction to activate the Yang Release in his body to balance the Yin Release Chakra escaping from the Pure Land.