[Ding, the cooldown for this mental and physical safety guarantee has ended. Would the Host like to begin a new life experience?]
Late at night, just past midnight, Naruto was awakened by the sudden system prompt in his mind, and he immediately replied in his heart: "Yes!"
Unconsciously, seven days had passed since his return from Yamato's world, and he could now begin a new life experience.
Naruto was a little excited. What kind of life would he experience this time?
[System activated. Detecting that the Host currently does not have qualification for 'Real Life' mode experience, activating 'Virtual Experience' mode for you. Activation successful. Connecting to virtual dimensional world… Connection successful. This time, 1,185 virtual dimensional worlds were successfully connected. Filtering for risk-free worlds.]
[Filtering complete. Detecting that the Host does not have permission to choose a 'Virtual Experience' world. Randomly selecting this experience world for you… Selection complete.]
[Detecting that the Host has permission to choose a life identity in 'Virtual Experience' mode. You can choose one of the following identities for your life experience in this world:
Emperor of the Empire: The supreme ruler of an ancient nation with a thousand years of civilization, the most powerful country in the world, possessing ultimate authority.
Northern Hero: The prince of a northern foreign tribe, a hero deeply trusted by the people.
Son of the Revolutionary Army: The son of the Revolutionary Army leader, the direct leader of the Revolutionary Army's secret assassination unit, Night Raid.]
"Identity selection, huh?"
Naruto looked at the three identity options before him and began to ponder carefully.
First, he ruled out the third option. Naruto didn't understand what the Revolutionary Army was, but the subsequent identity as "direct leader of a secret assassination unit" didn't sound like a good person. Ruled out!
If he were to follow his deepest desire, Naruto would definitely want to choose the second identity, because this option was not only named "Hero" but also described as "Hero." Both titles completely resonated with him!
But Naruto felt that he had grown now and could no longer make choices based solely on his inner desires. Instead, he had to learn to think and then make the choice he believed was correct. Therefore, Naruto ultimately decided to choose the first identity.
This time, he wanted to be Emperor!
[Host has made a choice for this life experience identity. Inserting identity into this world for you— insertion successful.]
[Detecting that the Host has permission to choose a life stage in 'Virtual Experience' mode. The Host can choose to start this life experience at any of the following stages for the selected life identity: four years old, eight years old, or twelve years old.]
There was nothing to hesitate about here; he would definitely choose the oldest age group—twelve years old!
[This 'Virtual Experience' mode identity and life stage selection is complete. Consciousness transfer is now beginning. Please prepare, Host.]
Upon hearing the system's prompt, Naruto immediately focused his mind, then felt his consciousness being drawn from his body. Immediately after, in a state of drifting consciousness, he heard the system's voice again.
[Consciousness transfer complete. Since the Host chose to begin this life experience at twelve years old, the life time before that age will be accelerated for you.]
Along with the system's prompt, Naruto's consciousness entered a warm place. Immediately after, images began to appear before his eyes. In these images, a child's journey from birth to growth was shown, stopping only when he reached twelve years old.
When the images in his consciousness stopped, Naruto finally felt the sensation of solid ground.
[World Synopsis: Just as humans decay, nations too will one day face destruction. Even the Imperial Capital, prosperous for a thousand years, is nothing more than a corrupt living hell, with demons in human skin running rampant!
If heaven cannot punish evil, we shall deliver oblivion from the darkness!
We are all the Professional Assassin Group!]
[Hint: 'Virtual Experience' mode is consciousness transfer. The Host can exit the experience at any time. The richer the Host's experiences during the life experience, and the more complete the life experience, the richer the rewards will be.]
[Warning: During the life experience, the Host must not end their own life by any means. Otherwise, not only will no score be awarded, but the system will also impose corresponding penalties.]
"This—"
Because of his previous experience, Naruto read this "World Synopsis" very carefully this time, but after reading it, he felt that something was amiss.
Words like "Empire," "decay," "corruption," and "living hell" seemed to have some connection with the life identity he had chosen this time, giving Naruto a very bad premonition.
Especially at the end of the "World Synopsis," the strong sense that the "Professional Assassin Group" seemed to be the good guys made Naruto's bad premonition even stronger.
"My chosen identity is Emperor. The Emperor's existence is equivalent to a Daimyo, so my identity must be a good person, right?" Naruto comforted himself this way, then began to review the images that had appeared in his consciousness earlier, which were the twelve years of life experience skipped for this identity.
He didn't know until he looked, and when he did, Naruto was startled.
Naruto watched the past life experiences of his chosen identity from a third-person perspective and found that "his" past twelve years had been a tragedy.
Although he was the Emperor and had the ideal of becoming a great and wise ruler like his father, by following the advice of Minister Honest, he made one cruel and tyrannical decision after another, turning the prosperous thousand-year-old Empire into a corrupt living hell.
"Damn it!"
After watching "his" past life experiences, Naruto was so enraged that his body trembled, and he almost couldn't breathe.
Rising from his deathbed, he found that the villain was himself!
It was truly infuriating!
This identity was less of an Emperor and more of Minister Honest's puppet. Crucially, "he" was not only completely unaware of this but even relished it.
"It's just… utterly idiotic."
This was six-year-old Naruto's evaluation after watching, from a third-person perspective, the past twelve years of life experience of the Emperor identity he had chosen.
He was already regretting it and wanted to quit immediately, to stop playing.
"System, I regret it. Can I change my identity?" Naruto asked the system in his mind.
[Sorry, Host, once a life choice is made, it cannot be revoked. Please be sure to earnestly experience each life.]
Naruto was disappointed by the system's reply and regretted his initial choice even more.
Why be an Emperor?
He should have followed his heart from the beginning and chosen the identity of a brave hero!
Even choosing to be the Son of the Revolutionary Army and leading a "secret assassination unit" would be far better than being this puppet Emperor.
But since things had come to this, he could only continue.
Moreover, upon closer thought, Naruto felt that "he" was just foolish, not bad. The truly bad one was that Minister Honest, and "he" still had a chance to be saved.
Most importantly, if he quit now, he wouldn't be able to regain the qualification to go to Yamato's world.
"What am I complaining about, anyway!"
Naruto thought of Yamato and suddenly felt re-energized. He then clenched his fist and loudly declared, "Since I can't change my choice, then I'll work hard to salvage this life!"
"I am Uzumaki Naruto, and I'm going to become the Ho—"
Naruto's passionate speech stopped halfway. He then closed his mouth and said, "Never mind. If being an Emperor is like this, being a Hokage probably won't be a good experience either."
"I'll just wait until I return to Yamato's world and become a pirate with her!"
"Yamato said that being a pirate allows you to do anything you want."
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