Introduction: "A spider weaves its web not for destruction, but for survival. Yet in the shinobi world, survival itself is the deadliest game." Renkai was never meant to exist in this world. Once a powerful mage, betrayed and slain by those who feared his strength, he cast an incomplete reincarnation spell in his dying moments—a desperate gamble to escape death itself. Now, he awakens as an orphaned child in the Hidden Leaf Village (Konoha) on the night of the Nine-Tails’ attack, his past erased, his power replaced with something unfamiliar yet brimming with potential—chakra. With no knowledge of this world’s history, politics, or legends, Renkai does what he has always done best: observe, learn, adapt and survive....