After school that evening, Uchiha Yuan returned home, took out the Magic Conch, and glanced at its properties.
Item Name: Mysterious Magic Conch
Item Type: Divination Tool
Item Effect: You have one chance to ask the Magic Conch a question, and it will give you the answer you seek.
Friendly Tip: You must loudly shout "Long live the Magic Conch!" when using it. Otherwise, it won't respond. After use, the conch will automatically disappear. Use it wisely.
"Damn! So this thing actually is useful? Good thing I didn't throw it out," Uchiha Yuan muttered to himself.
However, he didn't have any pressing questions for now, so he put the Magic Conch away and turned his attention to his stats panel.
Over the past seven days, Yuan had gained a total of 12 attribute points.
After some time exploring, he had come to understand the meaning behind the values shown on the panel.
First, Chakra Capacity: a typical student graduating from the Academy has around 10 to 15 points—enough to release two C-rank jutsu.
Children from bloodline or secret technique clans usually have between 20 and 30, allowing them to perform 3 to 4 C-rank jutsu consecutively.
Of course, just having the chakra to perform jutsu doesn't mean you can perform them. Even among clan children, those who graduate already knowing 2–3 C-rank jutsu are considered top-tier geniuses.
So, according to Yuan's own assessment, 30 points of chakra roughly aligns with an average genin (lower ninja), since most Academy students graduate early without truly reaching genin-level combat power.
Constitution, however, varies significantly between individuals. For example, Might Guy's constitution would definitely surpass someone like Sarutobi Asuma's, and was even far beyond Yuan's.
Right now, Yuan had 35 points in Constitution. Judging from Guy's performance yesterday, he estimated Guy's Constitution to be around 45 to 50.
Just on Constitution alone, Yuan figured most chūnin wouldn't even match Guy.
In the original story, when Sasuke first met Lee, he got completely beaten—even though the Sharingan could track Lee's moves, Sasuke's body couldn't react fast enough. That was the power of physical stats.
So overall, a genin-level Constitution is around 20, about half of what Guy currently has.
As for Vitality and Nature Affinity, those are probably present in everyone—just in varying amounts.
Vitality likely correlates to descendants of the Senju or Uzumaki clans—descendants of Asura. In a way, vitality reflects one's Yang Release potential.
Nature Affinity clearly relates to Sage Arts.
At the moment, neither of those needed investment. He'd consider leveling them up later if needed.
Finally, Eye Power (Dōjutsu Force): This correlates with Vitality as its opposite and seems to be a manifestation of Yin Release.
Yuan recalled that his initial Eye Power stat was 30, which corresponded to a single-tomoe Sharingan. Now, he had a double-tomoe in his left eye and a single-tomoe in his right.
When his left eye evolved, his Eye Power increased by 30 points.
Based on that, he speculated that once Eye Power reached 90–100, his right eye would likely evolve to double-tomoe as well.
The number of tomoe in a Sharingan roughly corresponds to shinobi ranks: one tomoe = genin, two tomoe = chūnin, three tomoe = jōnin-level power—assuming proper usage.
So overall, Yuan figured his current strength was somewhere between genin and chūnin.
Which also meant that Levels 1–10 on his panel probably corresponded to Academy students, 11–20 to genin, and 20–30 to chūnin.
However, Yuan felt that this kind of level division didn't fully apply in the Naruto world.
After all, ninja strength isn't purely defined by rank.
Genin, chūnin, and jōnin are official positions—and typically require corresponding strength—but some people don't fit those molds.
Like Konoha's unique "super genin," such as Naruto, Sasuke, and Might Duy. Their strength couldn't be limited to the genin bracket.
Also, among the students graduating tomorrow, many didn't even have true genin-level strength.
So, the rank-based divisions weren't universally applicable.
Still, that was just a technicality—overall, the genin/chūnin/jōnin classification was still useful.
After confirming how his panel matched up to real-world strength, Yuan distributed his 12 attribute points between Eye Power and Chakra.
His updated panel now looked like this:
Chakra Capacity: 84
Constitution: 35
Eye Power: 84
Vitality: 7
Nature Affinity: 4
Level: lv15 (14/20)
Attribute Points: 0
Yuan had considered putting all 12 points into Eye Power to gamble on getting a double-tomoe in his right eye—but decided against it.
After all, tomorrow was graduation, and right after that would come team assignments and a supervising jōnin. The Third Hokage would surely be watching.
It had only been two and a half months since he awakened the one-tomoe Sharingan. Evolving to double-tomoe in that short a time would draw too much attention.
Better to wait until he was on the battlefield.
With that, Yuan stopped messing with his panel, quickly washed up, and went to bed.
The next morning, after eating breakfast, Yuan headed for the Academy.
Just as he was leaving the Uchiha compound, he bumped into Shisui.
"Yuan-senpai!" Shisui called out and ran over.
"Yuan-senpai, I've been waiting for you for days! I finally caught you!"
"Waiting for me? You've been waiting these past few days?"
"Yup! Senpai, I learned the Body Flicker Technique!" With that, Shisui demonstrated it for Yuan.
After watching, Yuan smiled. "You mastered the Body Flicker Technique this fast, and even use it so well—you're way more talented than I am in this jutsu."
"No way! It's all thanks to your great teaching, senpai! Oh right, today's your graduation exam, right?"
"That's right."
"After you graduate… will you be heading to the front lines?"
"Yes."
"Then, senpai—you must come back alive!" Shisui looked up with a serious expression.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to die so easily on the battlefield."
"I believe in you! Here, senpai—this is a graduation gift I bought using all my savings. Please, you have to accept it."
As he spoke, Shisui pulled out a kunai.
Yuan immediately recognized it: this kunai was forged from a special chakra-conducting metal. One of these would easily cost 100,000 ryo.
Looks like Shisui really did spend everything he had on this gift.
(To Be Continued...)