"Where is this?", Before his eyes stretched endless mountains and giant craters everywhere, as if bombarded by meteors or nuclear bombs, with only a towering tree standing in the center of the world, like a pillar holding up the sky.
Besides that, there were three people floating in mid-air, wearing white robes and looking strange.
One held a staff, another had six black orbs floating behind him, and the third was a woman with rabbit ears, three eyes, and snow-white hair longer than her body.
'Where is this?'
'And who are they?'
Uchiha Kage only remembers just getting home from the Konoha Ninja School and taking a short nap.
Then he inexplicably ended up here.
'Am I dreaming?'
[Do you wish to enter this dungeon?]
'Dungeon?', Facing the sudden text prompt in his mind, Uchiha Kage steadied himself.
Only then did he notice that the bizarre scene and the three strange people were frozen in a still frame.
'As if time had been frozen.'
"Wait, these three people look exactly like the legendary Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo, his mother Kaguya, and his brother Hamura."
'Could this dungeon be—transporting me to the time of their great battle?'
'But my current strength is only that of a genin, how am I supposed to tackle a dungeon of this scale?'
'And I don't even know what the rewards are, what if dying in the dungeon means dying in reality too?'
'I finally made it to Konoha, barely kept my life, and haven't even started enjoying it yet, I can't just die like this.'
[No penalties for dying in the dungeon]
Just as Uchiha Kage was thinking this, another text prompt appeared in his mind.
'No penalties? I Won't really die?'
'Then maybe I can give it a try.'
[You have chosen to enter the dungeon, this is a multiplayer dungeon, you can choose two companions, do you wish to select companions to enter with?]
'Companions?'
Uchiha Kage checked the screen that suddenly appeared before his eyes and found only two familiar figures to choose from: Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke.
"This feels so much like a game."
Whether it's a dream or really transported into a game, Uchiha Kage decided to give it a try.
[Companions confirmed, entering dungeon in three seconds]
Three, two, one...
After a moment of dizziness, the ground began to tremble, and the three people in the sky, including the towering tree, started to move.
"Where is this?"
"Sasuke? Kage? Why are you two show-offs here? Am I dreaming?"
Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto, who had also been transported here with Uchiha Kage, were now looking at everything before them in shock and confusion.
"I don't know either, maybe it really is a dream."
'Are the chosen companions real people?', Looking at Naruto and Sasuke, who were no different from their usual selves at the ninja school, Uchiha Kage muttered to himself while pretending to know nothing about what was happening.
[Quest: Help Kaguya escape her fate of being sealed by Hagoromo and Hamura]
'This quest?'
'I have to fight the Sage of Six Paths? Really?'
Uchiha Kage looked at Naruto and Sasuke beside him, one hadn't even learned the Shadow Clone Technique yet, and the other hadn't mastered the Chidori.
'With this setup, if we can take on the Sage of Six Paths, I'll eat my hat.'
"There's a quest? Kaguya? Is that the strange but beautiful lady over there? Hmph, two men bullying a woman, what kind of skill is that? Lady, I'll save you!", Naruto seemed to have seen the quest too, and after a quick assessment of the situation, he rushed over eagerly.
"Hey...", Uchiha Kage was still thinking whether the quest could be completed through strategy and what the rewards might be when he saw the young Yellow Flash beside him charge forward.
"This idiot.", Sasuke, on the other hand, was calmly analyzing the current situation, but unfortunately, no amount of analysis could make sense of such an absurd scenario.
He could only curse Naruto for rushing in without thinking.
BOOM!
The towering tree uprooted itself and transformed into a giant Ten-Tails monster.
The monster casually spat out light orbs that caused catastrophic explosions upon hitting the ground.
The three figures in the sky also activated their high-powered modes, one donning a Susanoo, another with hair so long it almost blotted out the sky.
Boom!
The attacks casually launched by the three and the beast left one crater after another on the ground, like nuclear bombs.
"H-how can there be people this powerful, like monsters... this must be a dream," Naruto, who had only just charged halfway, saw this terrifying scene and immediately fell to the ground, his legs weak and heart trembling with fear.
"Stop running around, let's find a place to hide first," Uchiha Kage wanted to say 'you'll be able to do this too someday,' but held back.
"W-what is that?", Before Naruto could scramble back to the two young Uchihas, a huge shadow suddenly appeared above them.
Planetary Devastation!
This is the Sage of Six Paths' technique...
Just as Uchiha Kage realized this, he heard several sharp whistling sounds fly past his ears.
The Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bombs!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Amidst the intense explosion, Uchiha Kage didn't even have time to utter any last words before everything went black, and he, along with Naruto and Sasuke, turned into dust scattered across the world.
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[Quest Failed]
[Dungeon Settlement: Ninja Fragments X2]
[Do you wish to re-enter the dungeon?]
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When he opened his eyes again, Uchiha Kage found himself on a street resembling Konoha Village.
But there was no one on the street, not even a single sound of a person.
"Is this Konoha or somewhere else?"
'Am I still dreaming?'
Uchiha Kage walked curiously down the street for a while, carefully examining the ninja fragments that had appeared in his hand.
'This is getting more and more like a game.'
[Do you wish to fuse?]
Looking at the two ninja fragments representing Naruto and Sasuke, another line of information appeared in Uchiha Kage's mind.
'Did Naruto and Sasuke really die in that dungeon? Is that why there are fragments...'
'No, no, that can't be.'
'I didn't die, so they should be fine too.'
Uchiha Kage reassured himself, then chose to absorb the fragments.
"Hmm... I feel like my chakra has increased a lot, and my eyes..."
The Sharingan, which he couldn't activate again due to various reasons, seemed to be recovering.
"If this isn't a dream..."
'Cheat codes?', Uchiha Kage excitedly looked at his hands.
'What's this?'
Coming back to his senses, Uchiha Kage found himself standing in front of the Hokage Building.
"Could this really be Konoha?"
[Action Points: 1/2, do you wish to spend one action point to enter the scene?]
Uchiha Kage curiously pushed open the door of the Hokage Building and saw this prompt.
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