Naruto: The Chosen Undead

[ScarletFlames]

I think Naruto and Beatrice have respect and admiration towards each other, Beatrice had more time (comparatively) to dwell on it so she may consider him as a childhood crush developed after she met him. In that case it makes sense she'd blurt out some things as she's travelling to some agreeable folks, and those obsessed with her would pick those up and try something ill thought out like pretending to be Naruto from what little tidbits they know.

The way I see she's not looking for him out love, but sees him as someone she cares about an wants to reconnect with. Whether it can become love depends on Naruto maturing a whole lot and being older before it can even happen so... Probably not happening.

 

[GundamChief]

The water.

It wasn't just water. It was a veil.

A second skin stretched over a wound so deep it hummed. And under that veil… something stirred. A darkness that had mass. Weight. Hunger. It wasn't sleeping. It was drowning. It was holding something back.

A god? A curse? Something worse?

He didn't want to know. And yet… he couldn't look away.

"Boy." Rickert's voice sliced through the silence. "You're viewing the world as a soul."

Naruto blinked, if blinking was still a thing, and turned toward his echo in the lattice.

"Don't try to understand it," Rickert warned. "Soul sorcery comes from within. Focus on yourself. On the catalyst. Not the world. The more you try to comprehend what isn't yours to grasp, the more you invite madness."

His voice dropped.

"Everything in Lordran has a cost. For magic? It's the mind. The soul starts to see, and seeing becomes yearning. And yearning becomes obsession. That's the beginning of Hollowing, boy. The mind tries to understand the gods' language… and breaks."

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And there it is. Insight. Bloodborne is calling from the future.

"I wonder, sweet vessel… should I show thee what becometh of such knights when their minds unravel? Wouldst he still remain gentle? Or would the spiral claim his soul entire?"

Anastacia's hands flew to her mouth. "Please… don't."

The crow's head snapped toward her. Its eyes burned with cruel light. "Then do it."

Her breath hitched.

"Take thy blade. Cleanse thy blasphemy. Restore thy silence. Let not the defiled tongue twist once more within thy flesh."

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Raven explodes

 

[Abbodon]

Alright, here is a fun one. Naruto has spent fifteen days in Lordran. Training hard. Experimenting with soul sorcery. Amplifying magic with chakra. Defeating an Undead Dragon. And learning from masters.

How strong do you think he is right now?

Let me know. A big fight is coming soon, and I would love to see what you expect of him now.

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This is an interesting question that doesn't have an easy answer, in terms of raw offence, Naruto is barely Jonin on his own, he hits super hard and probably is at high jonin in terms of strength with his cleaver matching a known, powerful, missing nin if not exceeding it, but hasn't the speed he needs to actually compete with a Jonin who isn't underestimating him.

This is all assuming that his spells don't interact weirdly with chakra, given how his soul arrow kept exploding it's not implausible that if he hits something with an active chakra network it'll just go boom and murder them, or that he could do a Hidden Palm rip-off and inject his magic into enemy chakra causing them to go boom if they try and force chakra through their system. He's shown no signs of considering this and it doesn't feel like something you'd do but the thought did occur to me when I saw how volatile the experimental mix was.

All the above being said, whilst Naruto alone isn't a threat directly, his real skill is endurance and numbers. He's not a lone Jonin he's literally an army of them, between his nearly endless clones, self healing spells, multiple estus uses and potentially free refills from his herbs/humanities/items if he really cut loose I don't think there are many sub S ranks that pose a legitimate threat to him. He can pretty much just win through endurance. Even a lot of S ranks that lack indiscriminate, mass, destruction abilities would likely fall just from being worn down.

Now he has the intelligence to go with his brute force he's a monster, there's not a lot that can single handedly withstand an almost literally endless army of low Jonin ninja and there's no reason the real Naruto has to even take to the field at all outside of his ideas of honour and that 'I killed them from 5 miles away by spamming clones whilst mainlining Estuts to refill chakra' makes for a shitty narrative.

So yeah my estimate would be something like;
Attack: Jonin
Defence: High Jonin
Speed: High Chunin
Stamina: Kage +

 

[Marethyu05]

Im a little confused with the Beatrice thing, how long have they been apart? Has it been longer for her? Did this whole city drowning thing happen after they met? Dark souls is like the only fromsoft game i haven't touched much of. So if this is lore related, i prolly dont know it.