Under Uchiha Setsuna's guidance, you successfully mastered the Transcription Seal.
You spent an entire afternoon learning how to use your Sharingan to inscribe the detonation seal's pattern with your Ocular Power, then simply tap your finger to the tag paper to instantly complete an explosive tag.
Thanks to this new method, you could use both eyes simultaneously, more than doubling your production speed. At the same time, it served as training for both your Spirit and Ocular Power—truly killing three birds with one stone!
After burning the midnight oil to mass-produce tags using your new method, you had stockpiled over a thousand explosive tags.
You decided to open for business and put out 300 explosive tags as free samples. A few Iwagakure shinobi volunteered to test them out at the training grounds—and they were shocked to find that your explosive tags far outclassed those sold by other shops in the village.
In fact, it would take five or six tags from other vendors to achieve the same effect as just one of yours!
Once this news got out, you priced your tags at triple the usual market rate and began selling them.
Even so, your stockpile of over a thousand tags sold out entirely within just two hours.
Since it was impossible for you to do nothing but draw tags all day, you set a daily sales limit of 1,000 tags and restricted sales to lunchtime only.
This way, you only needed to spend at most four hours a day crafting tags. The rest of your time could be used to study sealing arts or go out and mooch Earth Release jutsu.
Through intense production, your mastery of both Ocular Power and Spirit improved drastically. Your technique also became much more refined—eventually, you only needed two and a half hours to finish the next day's batch of explosive tags.
However, you also noticed that Iwagakure's shortage of explosive tags wasn't just due to a lack of Fire Release or sealing experts—it was also environmental.
The Land of Earth might be vast, but most of it is bare plateau terrain—basically just rocks everywhere. Almost all usable farmland is devoted to food production. Only around the village do they grow the special plants used to make tag paper.
The rest has to be imported. At your current production rate, you're clearly outpacing the supply—and this could lead to price hikes from suppliers...
To avoid getting strangled by resource shortages, you summoned Boss Black-Cat and negotiated with him about having the ninja cats handle supply logistics for your raw materials.
Since you had already prepped a massive batch of tags and secured extra tag paper from Boss Black-Cat, you no longer needed to stay home drawing seals.
You spent your days wandering the village—or more accurately, practicing copied Earth Release jutsu at the training grounds while casually discussing Earth Release theory with nearby Iwa-nin.
After all, Ōnoki hadn't yet decided how to train you. While it looked like neglect, it was actually an opportunity. Your current talent wasn't suited to rigid, uniform instruction. That might guarantee a solid lower limit for a shinobi, but it would severely cap your upper potential.
And what you wanted from Iwagakure were top-tier techniques—Dust Release, the Fragmentation Technique, Light-Weight Rock Technique, Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique, and so on.
If trained like a regular shinobi, you might at most gain access to Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique over a lifetime. The others? Practically Tsuchikage-only level!
"Wait a second—Tsuchikage-only?!"
You did a quick mental calculation. Around this time... Deidara should still be in Iwagakure. If you wait a few more months, he might already get recruited by Uchiha Itachi!
And since you're still selling explosive tags, maybe... you'll run into him?
You rushed home and asked Granny Yukina, who was handling tag sales for you, if she'd seen a blond, blue-eyed young man.
Granny Yukina shook her head, but mentioned that not long after the tags sold out at noon, a cloaked and mysterious person stopped by to ask about their effects. Judging by the voice, they were quite young—and her gut told her the guy was strong.
Delighted by the lead, you asked for his general direction and casually followed the trail.
Eventually, you arrived at a canyon behind the village—only to be told it was a restricted area. No entry without the Tsuchikage's permission.
You had no choice but to head back home and wait.
After all, even though you could use the Flame of the Infested to suppress your presence and hide using Root-style stealth, Iwagakure is mountainous, not a desert—so your titles weren't boosting your abilities. At best, your current strength was just brushing up against Kage-level.
Plus, being new to the village, if you got caught snooping around off-limits areas, it wouldn't just ruin your stay—it might get you killed...
Rather than take the risk, it was better to let the prey bite the bait. Thanks to your advanced understanding of Fire Release, your explosive tags were unmatched across the entire shinobi world. Deidara had to notice them!
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Since you'd decided to settle in Iwagakure, you had Boss Black-Cat deliver all the ninjutsu scrolls, manuscripts, and other resources you'd stored with him.
While studying the Uchiha Clan's ancestral ocular jutsu, you came across a page clearly pasted into a scroll as an afterthought—it contained the Shadow Clone Jutsu. Shadow clone? As an ocular jutsu? Who are you trying to fool?
Still, you learned it.
Having an extra clone to grind for you? What's not to love—especially since it could train and increase your proficiency.
But it didn't take long to realize that clone-grinding was practically exclusive to Uzumaki Naruto!
You merely had two shadow clones work overtime to draw explosive tags for two days. But when you dispelled them, your mind was filled with tag blueprints. You were exhausted and dazed—completely unable to focus on anything else.
Any longer, and you might've literally dropped dead from the strain—and that's with your already high Spirit stat.
You had to rest for two whole days just to shake off the aftereffects of the shadow clones.
Still no sign of Deidara during that time.
To lure him out, you created a batch of explosive tags imbued with a trace of Flame of the Infested. These had a different explosion color and could suppress enemy ninjutsu—marketed as special effects.
Sure enough, they were a hit. You even picked up the occasional chakra feedback—proof that someone had used your tag to counter an enemy jutsu, or maybe even hit someone directly.
Of course, this also risked exposing the nature of your Flame of the Infested.
Thankfully, this wasn't a long-term sales strategy—just a bait tactic to draw out Deidara.
And just as expected—one afternoon, a shady figure in a black cloak darted out from an alleyway and strode straight to your stall, just as you were about to pack up.
"Do you still have any of those special explosive tags left? The ones that explode in green fire?"
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