Arriving in the Naruto world by filling out a form-Chapter 334: You Ever Upgrade So Hard Your Mattress Files For Retirement?

Chapter 334: You Ever Upgrade So Hard Your Mattress Files For Retirement?

Ren leaned back against the headboard and stared at the floating stat panel for a long moment.

Thirty-three S-rank points, Thirty-three Master-level mastery points and Seven Kage-level points.

It was... excessive.

But before dumping anything into raw stats, he paused.

He had learned not to rush thresholds. There were invisible ceilings in this world, breaking them incorrectly could waste potential.

So he asked calmly in his mind, ’System, can I now use points to upgrade my stats from the 80s into the 90s, or is there some special requirement?’

The reply came almost instantly.

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[SINCE ONE OF HOST’S STATS IS ALREADY IN THE 90s, THE HOST MAY USE 2 KAGE-LEVEL POINTS (OR 4 S-RANK POINTS) TO UPGRADE A STAT FROM 89 TO 90.]

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Ren nodded slowly.

That confirmed it, breaking into the 90s wasn’t casual, it required Kage-tier investment which made sense too, the 80s were S-Rank ceiling but the 90s were Kage domain.

You didn’t cross that line cheaply.

He leaned forward slightly, reviewing his current stats mentally.

Strength: low 80s.

Agility: low-to-mid 80s.

Intelligence: high 80s.

Vitality: high 80s.

Chakra: already in the 90s.

And then he paused.

Chakra.

Right. The moment one stat crosses into Kage-tier, there should be a milestone reward.

He scrolled slightly and there it was.

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[CONGRATULATIONS FOR ACQUIRING YOUR FIRST KAGE-LEVEL STAT.]

[REWARD: CHAKRA +1, 2 KAGE-LEVEL POINTS]

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Ren’s grin widened slowly.

’Good.’

The Chakra +1 applied immediately and his chakra stat rose to 94.

He exhaled softly as he felt the subtle internal shift.

At 94 chakra, he was already sitting at the absolute ceiling of what most Kage-level shinobi could naturally possess. Breaking beyond that would push him into abnormal territory.

He thought of Tsunade, Tobirama and Madara.

Those were the benchmarks.

Other than Jinchuriki, who were entirely different beasts because they carried external chakra entities, very few individuals naturally crossed that boundary.

Ren flexed his fingers slightly, feeling the way his chakra circulated.

With Grandmaster control and 94 chakra capacity, his efficiency was borderline absurd.

Now he looked at the Kage-level pool again.

Seven earlier, plus two just gained so, Nine Kage-level points.

Nine.

That was no longer just an upgrade pool, that was structural dominance. But still Ren didn’t rush the allocation.

For once, he didn’t act like a kid with a treasure chest.

He leaned back against the headboard, eyes half-lidded, and thought through every stat carefully.

Strength.

Agility.

Intelligence.

Vitality.

Chakra.

Chakra was already sitting at 94. That line had been crossed. Breaking further could wait. For now, the structural framework mattered more.

He began allocating deliberately.

First was Strength.

He pushed it hard and even made the Kage-level investment plus S-rank supplementation. He didn’t trickle points in, he directly broke the ceiling.

Strength: 80 → 94

The jump wasn’t just numerical.

It felt like weight distribution inside his muscles changed. Like density compacted. Like every fiber had been reinforced without adding bulk.

Then Agility.

This one mattered more than raw Strength in his fighting style. Ren had always relied on speed, precision, positioning. With Hyperfocus and Flow perception, Agility amplified everything.

He invested heavily.

Agility: 83 → 94

The shift was sharper this time.

His senses felt slightly ahead of his body, like the floor beneath him moved slower than it should.

Then Intelligence.

He didn’t need to overcommit here as he was already high. But synergy with Foresight (EX) mattered.

So he nudged it past 90.

Intelligence: 88 → 91

Just enough to cross into Kage-tier cognition.

Then Vitality.

This one was important for Senju physiology and upcoming Senjutsu training and thus he invested steadily.

Vitality: 89 → 94

The change here was subtle but deep.

His heartbeat steadied, his breathing deepened, there was a rooted feeling in his spine now. Stability.

When he finished, the panel read:

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Strength: 94

Agility: 94

Intelligence: 91

Vitality: 94

Chakra: 94

[Available Stat Points: 1 S-Rank Point]

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For the first time since gaining the system, Ren had fully peaked his physical stats.

There were no contingency reserves, no emergency buffer, nothing tucked away "just in case."

Every previous time, he had saved something, a safety net but not this time.

There was no point, Stat points didn’t accrue interest. They didn’t multiply by waiting, they just sat there and he was entering a period of relative stability.

There will be no immediate world-ending threat, no invasion on the horizon.

Growth in the next few years would likely slow dramatically and he would need time to consolidate this.

So he had dumped it all and he didn’t regret it, not even slightly.

But the immediate aftermath... was uncomfortable.

He flexed his fingers slowly and the bed creaked beneath him. The wood frame made a faint cracking noise.

He froze.

He swung his legs off the side carefully but even that small motion made the mattress compress far more than it should.

His body felt heavier.

If he stood up casually and walked normally, he was fairly certain he’d leave footprints in the wooden floor.

His perception also felt misaligned.

His reflexes were overshooting his intent slightly. Like his nervous system had been upgraded faster than his subconscious calibration.

He inhaled slowly and wrapped a thin layer of chakra around himself instinctively.

That stabilized the pressure distribution.

It was better but still awkward.

He stood up slowly.

The floor beneath his foot gave a faint groan.

"...Yeah."

This wasn’t something he could casually walk around with, he would need time. At least two days just to reorient baseline movement. More than that to fully integrate it into combat flow.

He leaned back against the wall again and exhaled.

There was another problem.

Hiruzen.

He was supposed to begin structured leadership training soon. But there was no way he could walk into that office tomorrow like this. A man like Hiruzen, especially at close range, would sense the change instantly.

The difference between high S-Ranker and near-peak Kage density wasn’t subtle.

He would notice the chakra weight, the presence spike, the movement shift and Ren wasn’t interested in explaining, "Oh yeah, I min-maxed overnight."

He sighed.

’That’s going to have to wait.’

He would delay the training slightly to recover first.

He rolled his shoulders once and winced slightly.

Even that felt different.

Like the air around him reacted more than it should. This was the first time since receiving the system that he truly felt overwhelmed by his own upgrades. Not mentally, physically.

He lay back down again carefully and the bed frame protested faintly.

’I guess I’m grounded for two days.’

He closed his eyes and focused inward as he ran his chakra in a perfect loop. Grandmaster control kept everything from leaking or flaring uncontrollably.

Now came the harder part, Stats were foundation, but mastery points?

Those would determine how efficiently he used this monstrous new baseline.

He opened his eyes again slowly.

"Alright," he muttered. "Let’s tune the engine."

And this time, he shifted his focus toward the thirty-three Master-level mastery points waiting to be shaped.

However before touching the mastery pool, Ren stopped himself. There was one more thing to do first.

Affinity boosts.

It would be inefficient to allocate mastery points before stabilizing elemental affinity shifts. Whenever affinity increased, mastery percentage dropped temporarily, not because he had regressed, but because the scale expanded. The ceiling rose, so his relative percentage adjusted downward.

Better to let that happen first.

He closed his eyes briefly and claimed the Fire affinity boost.

The change was immediate.

It wasn’t explosive, it wasn’t dramatic like lightning snapping in his veins.

It was warmer.

His connection to Fire Release deepened in a way that felt instinctual rather than learned. Previously, Fire had been something he wielded efficiently. Now, it felt more... responsive.

Like the element recognized him.

Images flickered through his mind without conscious effort, flame compression ratios, combustion timing, heat layering, pressure-fed ignition. Concepts he previously had to calculate now surfaced naturally.

His breathing warmed slightly.

His internal chakra flow adjusted to accommodate the refined compatibility.

After a few seconds, the system panel updated.

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[Fire Release Mastery – 78% (88% → 78%) (Advanced)]

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A ten percent drop. It was expected and relatively minor.

He nodded slightly.

His previous mastery had already been high. The affinity boost expanded his potential ceiling, so his relative standing recalibrated. But the drop wasn’t concerning. With his clone training regimen, Fire would climb back quickly.

He flexed his fingers once, imagining a fireball.

The density felt tighter, more controllable, more obedient.

Then he moved on to Yin.

This one felt different from the moment he claimed it.

The shift wasn’t physical, it was Spiritual.

His perception deepened instantly.

His ’divine sense’ the mental-spiritual sensory field he had refined over time, expanded without effort. He didn’t even push it at first, yet the radius extended naturally.

He focused.

Letting go of stealth constraints.

The wave of awareness rolled outward covering buildings, Chakra signatures and even the subtle fluctuations. If he pushed fully and didn’t care about being subtle, he estimated he could cover nearly seventy percent of Konoha’s footprint.

That was... absurd.

He slowly pulled it back, stabilizing.

The panel updated again.

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[Yin Release Mastery – 41% (57% → 41%) (Basic)]

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This drop was sharper.

Sixteen percent.

And it even regressed from Intermediate back to Basic tier.

However he didn’t mind it much, Affinity boosts always expanded scale more dramatically for lower-tier elements. Yin had previously been mid-tier. With the boost, the conceptual depth of Yin Release widened significantly, meaning his relative proficiency shrank proportionally.

It wasn’t weakness, it was expanded horizon and clones would handle the rebuild.

Yin was tied to perception, illusion resistance, mental stability, conceptual shaping. With Grandmaster Chakra Control and Foresight (EX), rebuilding Yin mastery would likely be faster than before.

He exhaled slowly.

Now that both affinities had recalibrated, he could allocate mastery points without wasting potential.

But first, he needed clarification.

’System,’ he asked calmly, ’Can I exchange Master-level mastery points for Advanced or Intermediate-level mastery points? And can I use Master-level points to push an Advanced mastery from 89% to Master-tier at 90%?’

The response came in two clean lines.

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[ONLY 2 MASTER-LEVEL MASTERY POINTS MAY BE EXCHANGED FOR LOWER-LEVEL MASTERY POINTS.]

[10 MASTER-LEVEL MASTERY POINTS REQUIRED TO PUSH AN ADVANCED MASTERY FROM 89% TO MASTER 90%.]

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Ren nodded slowly.

So the conversion ratio was, 2 Master-level points = 4 Advanced-level points = 8 Intermediate-level points

That was efficient enough for targeted scaling and Ten Master-level points to breach from Advanced 89% to Master 90%, although very high, made sense. That threshold was significant. Crossing into Master-tier changed application quality, not just output quantity and it would even grant him a trait.

He leaned back slightly and began mentally mapping priorities.

What needed immediate elevation?

Yin, now reset to 41% Basic, required steady rebuilding.

Fire, 78% Advanced, could be pushed toward 89% and then broken into Master-tier if desired. Lightning and Water needed to approach Master-tier for Storm Release.

Yang needed to be pushed toward Grandmaster for Yin–Yang unlock path.

He tapped his knee lightly.

He wouldn’t brute-force everything upward, he would allocate in phases, however as Ren began planning the mastery allocation properly, the excitement from earlier slowly gave way to something more grounded.

Stats were simple.

You dump points in, number goes up.

Masteries were not like that, masteries were ecosystems. If you forced them too early, the structure became unstable. Especially something like Yin.

Right now, Yin Release sat at 41% (Basic) after the affinity expansion. If he brute-forced it upward with Master-level points immediately, he would be artificially stacking depth over an unstable foundation. It would work, technically, but it wouldn’t be efficient. He needed Yin to naturally re-stabilize into Intermediate first, then Advanced, and only then push it to Master.

Otherwise, he’d just be burning points and that logic applied elsewhere too.

Storm Release required both Lightning and Water at Master-tier. Yin-Yang required both Yin and Yang at Grandmaster. Senjutsu integration would require internal balance first.

He exhaled slowly.

’No dumping this time’; he thought.

So instead of trying to raise everything, he narrowed the field.

If he had to pick only two masteries to immediately push to the threshold, they had to be the ones that would give the biggest structural advantage right now.

Yang Release and Space Release.

Yang was sitting at 89%.

One percent away from Master-tier.

Space was at 83% Advanced, not as close, but Space was one of his most dangerous foundations. If he pushed it to Master now, it would likely synergize with everything else, including his Flying Thunder God.

He didn’t hesitate.

First: Yang.

He invested the required Master-level mastery points and the threshold broke cleanly.

[Yang Release Affinity - 90% (Master-tier)]

The shift wasn’t explosive.

It was... grounding.

His body didn’t surge with power, instead, something aligned. Like an internal hum smoothing into resonance.

Then the trait appeared.

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[Trait Acquired: Living Vessel]

Living Vessel: Host’s body becomes a perfected Yang conduit.

Effects:

No internal backlash from high-output chakra bursts

Regeneration integrates seamlessly

Stamina decay significantly slows

Physical + chakra synergy becomes fluid

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Ren blinked once.

Then twice.

That... was enormous.

He slowly rolled his shoulders.

Before, when he pushed high-output chakra through his system, especially when combining Earth-Yang hardening, Eight Gates modulation, and chakra-enhanced strength, there was always micro-friction. Tiny stress points. Nothing dangerous, but noticeable.

Now?

Gone.

His chakra flowed through muscle, bone, and meridians as if they had been designed for it.

Because now, they were.

Regeneration no longer felt like something that activated after damage, it was integrated, natural. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

Stamina decay slowing was also insane. That meant prolonged engagements would become even more skewed in his favor.

He flexed his fingers slowly.

There was no internal resistance, no strain.

If anything, he felt... lighter.

Then he moved to the second target.

Space Release.

This one required more work as Space was at 83% Advanced. He first put in 3 Advanced level mastery points to take it to 89% then dumped in the 10 Master level points to take it up to 90%.

The jump wasn’t subtle.

The moment Space Release crossed into Master-tier, his perception warped slightly. Not visually but Spatially.

It felt like the air around him "clicked" into place.

Distances clarified, angles sharpened and orientation stabilized.

He didn’t feel like he was inside space anymore, he felt synchronized with it.

Then the trait appeared.

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[Trait Acquired: Spatial Cohesion]

Spatial Cohesion: Host’s chakra and local space harmonize.

Effects:

Reduced lag between movement and position

Near-perfect orientation awareness

Seamless integration of teleport markers

Spatial techniques become fluid extensions of movement

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Ren sat still for several seconds.

Then he slowly vanished, just a short-range displacement inside the room.

There was no "snap", no micro-delay, no recalibration moment after reappearing.

He simply was there.

He tried again.

There was another shift, it felt... continuous. Like walking through folded space instead of jumping across it. He placed a temporary teleport marker on the wall and tested the recall.

It was instant, there was no disorientation, no spatial reorientation delay. His mind didn’t need to "re-map" surroundings after teleporting. He already knew where everything was.

He leaned back against the wall slowly.

If his guess was correct, and it probably was, this trait would refine Flying Thunder God to a level beyond even standard mastery. Tobirama had invented it, Minato had perfected it.

But they had done so without something like Spatial Cohesion.

With enough testing, he might eliminate even the microscopic vulnerability window between arrival and action.

That would be terrifying and he hadn’t even tested long-range anchor chaining yet.

He exhaled slowly and returned to his bed as he opened his full stat sheet.

[...]

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{Phew, you probably didn’t expect that I would do something like that right? Dumping all the stats at once, after all I have never done something like this before, however this time I went wild.

However I am saying this now, from now, there would be no upgrades in his stat for a few years, atleast until he becomes the Hokage, and even after that there wouldn’t be many changes in his STATS.

I highlight stats only because there will be changes in other aspects like masteries and other things he has, because this is the perfect time to push through things like that, so be warned right now.}

{Also, I didn’t show the stat sheet in this Chapter because it was already too long, definitely not because I wanted to make you wait more, definitely.}