Chapter 21 – One Year Training 02

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Daichi thought about his fight with his grandfather. He noticed that throughout the fight Kensei maintained a cool expression and even when Daichi landed the kick on him at the end, he wasn't all that surprised. Daichi reflected back to that moment and he went through every action he took during the fight.

'I still can't read his level. So he's obviously strong. After all that, he wasn't even sweating or even slightly out of breath. Looking back now he definitely could see my attacks coming. And if he wanted to, he could have easily countered them. The old man was holding back a lot.’ 

‘And his movements… It was as if he knew to use the most energy and stamina conserving movements and still be able to deal the most damage. I have no doubt in my mind now… That guy was definitely a Jonin. Maybe even Anbu. I'll have to be careful.'

Daichi pondered on the best way to increase his strength in secret. That's when he remembered the dungeon key in his inventory. 

'That dungeon key was black so the opponents in the Kikyo castle dungeon are at least 30 levels above mine. But does it stay like that or do the mobs in the dungeon get stronger?? If they don't then with time and enough level up that dungeon key could change from Black to red to yellow.'

'At least that's what I think… If that's the case then I need to find other easier dungeons first. But that's not important right now. I'll save the exploration to find dungeons for later. Right now I need to get back to training.'

Daichi spent the days training his body and improving his skills. But he also took his grandfather's advice and took a day off every week to simply rest and relax. He took cooking as a hobby and tried it out. He learned the various ways to prepare the ingredients and learned several simple dishes.

'Mmm… That smells delicious.' Daichi was currently making a beef dish and after some time it was done. Daichi turned off the flame and started plating the dish.

Skill Cooking's level has risen by one.

After making a couple of dishes a few days ago, he acquired the cooking skill. 

Cooking - Passive(LV.4(2%)): A skill that improves the taste and quality of your dish. The created dishes will restore your HP, CP, SP but it will vary depending on the dish created and the ingredients used. At a higher level you can create dishes that will greatly restore your HP, CP, SP and even improve your physical stats.   

Effects: +12% Increase in taste and aroma of dish.

+7% Increase in plating technique.

Due to cooking, his 'sense' stat had improved by 2 points. He learned that by creating dishes with more difficulty than the last and learning to control the flame and time of cooking his 'sense' stat would increase.

Daichi also took the time to paint. Creating easy artworks from his previous life. As he created more artwork with various complexities his dexterity stat improved. In one month his painting alone increased that particular stat by 3. He also got the skill 'painting' after he successfully completed 2 works.

Painting - Passive(LV.3(44%): A skill that improves the aesthetic qualities and visual appeal of the artwork. At a higher level the user can create artwork painted or drawn in such a way that it creates an optical illusion that tricks the mind into believing that the 2d artwork they are viewing is in fact 3 dimensional.  

Effects: +13% Increase in visual appeal.

+10% Increase of accuracy in painting. 

Daichi realized that most tasks even if it was non shinobi related would increase his stat points depending on the tasks he was completing. 3 weeks had passed by since Daichi's first spar with Kensei. He improved his skills, had another level up and he had a second spar with Kensei a week ago. He was getting used to fighting and using the taijutsu techniques. 

It was the last day of May. The end of Daichi's second month in this world. Currently he was in his backyard training. Daichi was running with a leaf stuck to his forehead. His leaf concentration technique has passed level 10. Now he was trying to combine physical training and chakra control exercises to increase efficiency. 

'If I can keep my focus and keep the leaf on my forehead even during the workouts then I'll be able to improve my chakra skill quicker. I need to strengthen and increase my chakra reserves. That should be my priority.'

Right now Daichi could only hold the leaf on his forehead while running for about 6 minutes. Daichi's goal was to increase his concentration while performing several tasks. Once his chakra was completely exhausted he started working on different exercises. After about 4 hours of alternating between these tasks his strength, agility and chakra stat increased by 1.

Daichi sat down under the tree and thought about his training. He wanted to improve his chakra capacity some more quickly and start learning and creating jutsus. Once his chakra was restored he took 5 leaves with his right hand and placed them on the fingertips of his left hand. 

Daichi wanted to create the chakra threads that the sand village's puppeteers use. Or something similar to it. 

'This is an underrated skill but it has its uses. Using chakra strings to use puppets is great and all but I feel like we could take it to a whole new level.' Daichi mused thinking about the various ways he could use it.

It is a simple jutsu but it could have wide applications if used in the correct manner. He concentrated the chakra to his fingertips and then coated the leaves with it. 

He turned his left hand upside down and saw that the leaves were stuck to his fingers. Daichi held like that for a few moments to get the feel of it. He could feel the slow but steady decrease in his reserves. He stopped sending chakra to every finger except his index. The 4 leaves floated down as no more chakra was holding them up. 

'Alright. I'll take it slow. One at a time.'

Daichi concentrated and slowly pushed the leaf on his index finger down with his chakra still coated and connected to it. He saw the leaf detach from his fingertip and float a few centimeters below. Gently waving in the air. He slowly recalled his chakra back and watched the leaf float back to his finger. He tried the process again but this time he increased the distance by double. 

Suddenly, as expected, several notifications popped up. 

[A new skill is created with a specific action.]

[Through continuously focusing chakra to an object on your fingertips and manipulating them with your chakra, the skill 'Chakra Threads' has been created.]

Chakra Threads - Active(LV.1): A support skill that is mainly used by puppet users allowing them to control several puppets in battle. This technique can also be used to push or pull objects towards the user. They act as strings and can be attached to moving objects allowing the user control of their motion. But this requires proficiency in the technique. At higher levels chakra can be transferred or absorbed via the threads and even the chakra nature of the threads can be changed.

Note: Chakra coated weapons can cut the strings. 

Effects:  +5% Increase in thread control.

+5% Increase in thread speed

CP cost : 8/sec for single thread.

'Yes. A great skill with a variety of uses. I can use this to trip enemies or even deflect small projectile weapons coming my way. Or maybe even control the motion and path of my shuriken weapons. And according to this at a higher level I can change the nature of the Chakra of the string. I can already imagine a fire and lightning string raining hell on my enemies.'

'I need to figure out what kind of a fighter I'm going to be. Am I someone who's going to be like a Jack of all trades and master of none?... No thinking like that is limiting myself. Just because I will become proficient in many fields of ninja art one day doesn't mean I can't master several. But still… What should be my strongest field?'

Daichi pondered on this question for some time. He already decided he would learn and become capable of creating and dispelling Genjutsu. But he had no desire to become a master in the art. 

'Genjutsu has wide applications and with my perfect chakra control, it would be easy to create various illusion techniques… But fighting with Genjutsu just isn't appealing to me…Ok what else?'

The same went for sealing arts. He would one day learn sealing arts and would learn to create barriers and other such seals but dedicating his life and becoming a master in such an art was of no interest to him. Daichi didn't want to go with the medic route as well based on the same excuse. 

'The sealing art and medical field doesn't interest me. At least not enough to dedicate my entire time to it. But there are two techniques in those two fields that I definitely want to learn. The fourth Hokage's teleportation jutsu - The Flying Thunder God and I need to know if I can recreate Tsunade's Creation Rebirth technique. But that jutsu doesn't heal. Only speed up the creation of new cells… At least that's what I remember… I need to create a super healing medical jutsu with the least negative side effects.'

He would certainly learn these different important fields but it would still only be till the point he was better than most. As Daichi thought it through he realized that his interests lay in Ninjutsu and then Taijutsu. But for him to fully go down this path he would have to increase his chakra reserves massively. 

'I suppose it's only natural. What kind of a person gets reincarnated into a world with superpowers and wouldn't want to learn to shoot fireballs or create giant waves of water. Since I'm going to go down the Ninjutsu way, I might as well go all out. I need to master all five elements and then maybe learn to use yin and Yang chakra attacks. But for all that I need to increase my chakra volume.' Daichi sighed thinking about the training ahead but he was happy. 

He was going to use every bit of his chakra everyday and stretch and strengthen his chakra coils. Daichi decided that when the time came to use his free stat points, a vast majority of it would go to his chakra and strength. He would save some for agility and dexterity. They would be the secondary stats he would prioritize after chakra and strength. 

'The moment people figure out that my strength lies in Ninjutsu, they'll try to counter me by using Taijutsu or Genjutsu. Since I have the Gamer's Mind I'm not all that worried about Genjutsu. But I'll have to train Taijutsu as well. They'll be my secondary focus.'

When he trained his body Daichi would try to keep the gap difference between strength, agility and dexterity to a minimum. He wanted to maintain a perfect ratio between power, speed and flexibility of his body. It would help his taijutsu skill tremendously. Switching between offense, defense and evasion. 

Daichi let go of the chakra thread that was holding the leaf. He meditated and restored his reserves. He stood up and lightly stretched. He started running around the compound and once he reached his top speed he kept at it and tried to push more energy to go faster. He sprinted the whole time till his stamina was in the low single digits. He got a new skill by the time he was done. 

[A new skill is created with a specific action.]

[Through continuously running at top speed, the skill 'Sprint' has been created.]

Sprint - Active(LV.1): A skill that gives the user a boost in speed, increasing the agility of the user. This boost in speed will run out when SP reaches less than 10.

Effects: +5% Increase in running speed.

SP cost : 120 SP per minute. 

Daichi cooled down after a few minutes and under the shade of the tree he opened his status page. Daichi looked at the stat and level increase. 

'Just as I thought. The first two weeks, it was easy to increase my stat points through training but now it took almost 3 weeks to improve them. And not by much. Training for almost 3 weeks only made a difference of 2 or 3 points in each stat. Right now the lowest are vitality and wisdom. Wisdom would increase with games like shogi and go. But I'm not going to focus on that stat for the moment.'

'Right now my concern is SP. Stamina points haven't even crossed the 750 mark. Need to increase the vitality stat…. Should I use the free stat points?... No. Now is not the time. It's getting difficult to increase them with training alone and if I add any more now it'll be even more difficult. Need to think in terms of the long run.'

'Time to see my skills'

Daichi opened the skill page and looked at the skills. Noting the rise in level and effects of the skills. It made him satisfied. 'Lets see… What else remains to complete in my current quest?'

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Daichi’s Status and Skills.

‘Status’

Name : Daichi Hekima (The Gamer)

Class : Civilian

Age    : 5

Title    : Capable Child, Explorer

Level  : 9 (543/3500)

HP : 915

CP : 896.7

SP : 720

Primary Stats

Strength - 21

Vitality - 18

Dexterity - 19

Agility - 19

Intelligence - 28

Chakra - 20

Wisdom - 17

Special Stats

Sense - 11

Stamina - 21

Indomitable (LOCKED)

Charisma - 5

Persistence (LOCKED)

Dignity (LOCKED)

Luck (LOCKED)

Stat Points - 60

Ryo - 1500

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'Skill list'

1.Gamer's Mind - Passive (LV.MAX)

Effects: +25% increase in speed

Effects : +23.5% to base HP regeneration per minute.

+23.5% to base CP regeneration per minute.

+23.5% to base SP regeneration per minute.

Effects: +22.8% Increase in Damage inflicted.

+22% Increase in Movement speed.

+13% Increase in Physical stat growth.

-25% Decrease in Damage taken.

Effects:    +11.3% Growth rate of Chakra stat. 

+15.4% Strength increase to all chakra-based skills.

+15% Defense increase against chakra-based attacks.

+22% Increase to maximum CP. 

-8.1% CP cost to all chakra based skills. 

Effects: Regeneration Increased by 18% of base CP per minute. 

+14% growth rate of Chakra stat.

Note: Meditation increases CP regeneration to 25%.

Effects:    +3% Success rate to create new Ninjutsu.

+3% Success rate to create new Genjutsu.

-3% Less CP requirements for new Jutsu created.

Effects:   +35% Increase in chakra control. 

CP cost : 3/sec.

-20% CP cost to chakra techniques.

Effects:  +25% Increase in taste

CP cost : 3/sec.  

Effects:  +25% Increase in hearing

CP cost : 6/sec.  

Effects:  +21% Increase in smell.

CP cost : 3/sec.  

Effects:  +23% Increase in sight.

CP cost : 6.5/sec.  

Effects:   +31.8% Increase in attack power.

+30.6% Increase in defense. 

+26% Increase in speed

-19.7% Decrease in damage taken.

Effects:   +30% Increase in accuracy.

+30% Increase in damage dealt.

Effects: -12.5% Decrease in damage taken. 

Effects: +15% Increase in critical rate.

+17% Increase in damage inflicted to the enemy.

+8%  Increase in attack speed.

SP Cost: 21.5 per hit.

Effects: +16% Increase in taste and aroma of dish.

+10% Increase in plating technique.

Effects: +15% Increase in visual appeal.

+12% Increase of accuracy in painting. 

Effects:  +5% Increase in thread control.

+5% Increase in thread speed

CP cost : 8/sec for single thread.  

Effects: +5% Increase in running speed.

SP cost : 120 SP per minute. 

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