6 Train Until You Die! (2/2)
Kind of random, but okay. I quickly converted half of my remaining pelts into leather sheets and the rare cat fur into leather as well. I walked out of the tanner smiling, the owner couldn't understand why because as far as he knew I just stood there for five minutes poking the air.
Now I needed to make this into a useable armour piece and for that I decided to go to a smith I knew was across the tanning factory and asked the man in charge whether he could make items with the leather I hade. Luckily, he could.
It costed me 10,000 Ryo but I think in the end it was worth it. I had the man make the rare cat fur into a large cowl with a removable face mask and hood. I had him make it size adjustable since I would eventually grow up and I intend to be using this thing for as long as possible.
The fire proof leather on the other hand I asked to be made into vambraces with a detachable metal plate covering my forearm. The leather strips holding together could be easily reforged and the metal plated replaced if needed.
Over all he promised to have it all ready in a month's time, which was just fine with me.
Funny thing being an eight year old kid, time just seemed to fly by you when you blink. I spent most days in school forced to listen to boring old lecture or playing outside with Naruto, who honestly became less and less like a character I admire and someone who seems like a good friend to me.
By the end of the first school year his REP score reached 83, the highest I ever saw on someone. We became close, like brothers. People used to say when the blonde goes the shadow is forced along...or something like that.
I honestly didn't mind, it was fun goofing off from time to time with the guy, helped me keep my mind off anything too serious.
I did manage to finally get my work published, people were skeptical at first but soon almost everyone in the village had at least heard about or had a copy of my book, 'The Batman', I wanted to call it Batman Begins, but my editor was an ass about that.
Either way now that I was published I gained a new title:
Author- +20 REP with people who admire your work and are aware you're the author
That last part was important as not many people knew I wa the writer. Based on Baroma's suggestion I decided to keep my name out of the books, putting it under a pen name: Stan Lee. Hehe, in this world Stan Lee created Batman, the irony is thick.
But now luckily I got a steady stream of cash incoming, a month deposit of 120 thousand ryo every month based on book sales. I had all of it in the bank, which I decided would be my white money, the money that I legally earned, with the money I gained via my gaming ability be my lack money, money no one knows of.
By the fifth month I had more than enough cash to buy my own place. I found a cheap three bedroom and two bathroom place near the Inuzuka clan compound, it was cheap since the dogs from the Inuzuka clan kept barking at all hours of the night.
I bought it for 500 thousand easy, and then spent another hundred grand furnishing the place. I had one room for myself and the other for Naruto. The third I had assigned as a workroom, but since Naruto never used it, unless he was pulling off a high profile prank that needed planning and preparation, I got to use it as my own study.
Naruto's face when I told him I had gotten my own place was priceless, he looked like he someone had gotten him a puppy, gave it to him long enough for him to fall in love with it, and then killed it.
Yeah, he was sad, figured I was going to leave him. Moron, when I told him I expected him to come with me he actually cried. Idiot, like I would ever leave him behind.
Naruto had talked to the Hokage and got it okayed. The man gave us his blessing and also reduced Naruto's pocket money by half since he no longer needed to pay rent. The man's REP score grew to 38, guess because I took Naruto in and treated him right the guy thought I was a good person. Which I am.
The day we moved in however I noticed a few people lurking about, mostly Inuzuka ninjas looking at us from their compound wall, which was the first thing you saw when you looked out of our second story window. But there were also people with the title 'ANBU' looking at us. Really creepy shit.
I'm guessing Naruto's change in location warranted the surveillance and because of this I needed to make sure any gamer related activity I did ws done without being seen. I had enough trouble to deal with, having to explain my gaming powers was not one of them.
For the first few weeks I had sneak around with the utmost care, by the third month I was used to it and by the fifth month I had their patrol patterns memorized, which is saying something when the only thing way one knew about their location was by observing the floating words and numbers over their heads.
But, on the bright side, by the end my sealth had gotten a major upgrade!
Stealth, Lv- 27 (8%)
Your ability to hide in plain sight is crucial for being a ninja.
Chances of not getting spotted- 56%
For stronger opponents, -2% for each level they surpass you
Not bad for over two years worth of sneaking around. It wasn't much higher simply because of the fact that I could only be sneaky during night time. I was building a profile for myself, quiet and smart, I don't want to give any observing ninja the idea there was more to me than meets the eye. Hence, only stealthy during the night.
And speaking of training, though my schedule was now almost always jam packed, I made a promise with myself to train in the natural dungeon every week at least once, and as time went one I found myself sticking to that promise like religion.
I always made sure to only use the first level for the first few month, so that I would be well prepared for whatever that be in the second dungeon. Because of this I killed an average of 40 pokemon, fighting them with mainly Growlithe as my main attack force while I provided long range support, though a few times I did get myself involved to improve my taijutsu.
This resulted in Growlithe leveling up scary fast. He grew to level 10 by the time we were done with the first level natural dungeons. He didn't gain any new attack or anything of the sort, but he did grow much faster, since I put a majority of his stats there.
By then I decided it was finally time to catch a second pokemon, and I decided to catch another Growlithe, this one I called Blaze. Blaze was a female and so Flamer soon came to look at her as someone to protect. With a second pokemon added I moved on to the next level natural dungeon because frankly, I was starting to get bored fighting just rats and cats.
In the end I got around 672 pelts, which I turned into leather. There were the same number of fangs which I turned into fang daggers, so that rounded up to around 200 daggers. I quickly began to use them as my main weapons to save up on kunai metal.
But a strange thing though, as I continued to train in that dungeon, the number of gold coins I came across came down drastically. I end up with only 25 coins at the end of the five month period.
Whatever, at least I got 10 pokeballs, 20 potions and one paralysis heal out of this;
Paralyze heal, E class item,
Removed the paralyzed status from the target.
The next level came as a surprise for me. It was still a forest setting, but this time it was filled with bug type pokemon.
Caterpie, Weedle, Metapod, Kakuna, Beedrill and Butterfree. The difficult was raised up a bit as the weasel pokemon there was only level 5 and the strongest was level 10. Each level 5 gave 100 EXP and the level 10's gave 400 EXP.
The boss of this level was a Scyther, obviously I tried my best to catch it. But because of how...effective Flamer and Blaze was I didn't have anything to catch, stupid fire type affinity. Although I did gain 800 EXP from it, so that's nice.
The next time however we did manage to catch the damn bug type! I naed it Cuter, duh, and began to train it as well.
Every round in the second dungeon level lead to me getting an average of 8,000 EXP. Which gave everyone some decent EXP, but the real highlight was all the juicy loot items I gained. I got around a hundred vials of poison from weedle;
Weedle Poison, D class item
Poison obtained from Needle, the needle pokemon. Poison will cause -5 HP every second until opponent faints.
Lasts for 3 hours.
And then I got a lot of silk from capterpie, like several yards of it;
Silk string, D class item
String made by caterpie. Can be substituted for ninja wire.
Beedrill of course gave me special honey along with his lancing pincers;
Beedrill honey, C class item
Honey that grants +50 HP
Beedrill lances, E class item
The lance Beedrill has attached to it's arms.
DMG- 2
The last one was useless, I never even picked up a single lance. Butterfree gave me two types of powder, sleep powder and paralyzing powder;
Sleep powder, E class item
Powder obtained from Butterfree that will cause an opponent to fall asleep for 5 minutes.
Paralyzing powder, E class item
Powder obtained from Butterfree that will paralyze an opponent for 5 minutes.
And the few Scyther drops I did manage to get gave me a lot of green exoskeleton plates for armour plating.
Scyther plates, C class item
Hardened exoskeleton of a Scyther that can withstand a significant amount of cutting damage.
Durability- 300/300 (+400 for cutting damage.)
Plus I got around 300 thousand Ryo, not that I cared for money at this point. And in the start of my second year at the Academy I found myself leading the class room in academics as well as ninja stuff. Sasuke didn't like that I was at the top of the class, because of this he and I constantly used to butt heads.
But as I mentioned, time began to fly past be without me realizing it. The second year went by even faster as now I actually did have something to look forward too in school, mainly ninjutsu training!
Finjutus, Lv- 38 (83%)
The art of making seals using paper and ink.
Success rate- 76%
Maximum difficulty range- B class seals
We had a special class in the Academy for fuinjutsu, mainly teaching students how to make sealing scrolls or explosion tags. Nothing too dangerous as we were never allowed to actually make the seals, just learn about them. Obviously, I went a few steps further.
I worked on sealing for over two years and got pretty good at it. Any seal I created automatically went under the crafting menu and it's various recipes, so the skill mainly focused on how good I was. And believe me, I was very, very good.
I hide most of my talent in it, for obvious reasons I didn't want people to know how good I really ws, or else people would start to take noticed and I wasn't ready for that...yet.
And the beginning of the third year also meant the beginning of ninja survival training, not a bad thing to do. We spent so much time outside in the forest camping out, I managed to get Naruto interested in trap making, allowing him to use it along with his other arsenal of pranks.
The blonde was...difficult at times. He kept falling asleep, didn't listen and even once tried to freaking start a food fight! ARGH!
In the beginning of the second year I found out his marks were so bad he barely passed, technically he failed the written portion, but the physical side got him passed the limit. But technically speaking, he still failed.
So I took it upon myself to make sure that never happened again. I began to tutor him. Yes, it bite into my training time, but couldn't help it, no friend of mine was going to be a moron!
This did earn me a skill;
Teaching, Lv- 22 (89%)
Your ability to teach a concept to another individual or group.
Understanding a subject- 44%
+20% bonus if INT is greater than student
Meh, it was okay I guess. Two years of teaching and I only got this much, not worth it, trust me. But on the plus side I finally got Naruto interested in fuinjutsu I had to bribe him with ramen, but it was worth it. The kind took to it like fish to water.
He wasn't a great seal master, so such thing, I still had to teach him a thing or two, but man if he wasn't being quick about it. Soon he could just surpass me in every way!
Either way, two years went by and with that the time I spent training also reduced significantly, since I had to split my time between school, Naruto and writing my novels.
Oh! On a side note, Stan Lee is now the number one fantasy writer in the Elemental nations and his last book, 'The Man of Steel' was apparently so popular in Kumo, the land of lightning, their Raikage took to calling himself by the same name.
Little narcissistic if you ask me, but whatever. For the third year in the academy I announced a third book to my 'Justice' collection. It was called 'Wonder Woman' and Baroma has been teasing it like fucking crazy!
Women had been pre-ordering it like crazy, a female lead character was apparently really rare here, guess some things never change. I made a shit ton of money already and the book is set to release when I begin my third year at the academy.
And all around the countries people have been asking, 'just is Stan Lee? He's a genius!' Hehe, now I'm beginning to wish I used my own name instead.
Either way, back to training, rare, but intense. In the beginning of my second year I started the third level natural dungeon, which I unlocked after completing the seconds level the first time around.
This time the setting wasn't a forest, but instead it was a valley between two mountains. The valley was covered with tall grass and water streams, and the pokemon I found there were...amazing to say the least.
I found Geodudes and Nidorans, both the male and female variety. It was a….different dungeon.
The rock type pokemon were difficult to handle, since most of my jutsus at the time were fire based and I had two fire type pokemon. Obviously it took me a lot of broken daggers and bloody fists to defeat a single geodude who was at level 15.
So I decided to be a little smart about it. I first caught a male Nidoran, since it was a fighting type and they would be strong against rock and ground types. I named it 'King', accurate, I know. I then took King and began to train him in the second level dungeon, grinding to raise his level.
And then I took him back into the third level dungeon and kicked some freaking ass!
King was amazing! The way he moved was like watching a bullet, double kick all around. Every time we encountered a geodude King and I would double team the pokemon, me gained sweet EXP points while he did all the work.
I used Cuter, Flamer and Blaze to fight off the wild Nidorans there, so they too managed to gain some EXP. And finally, when we cleared enough of them, the boss arrived. An Onix.
Oh I so had to catch that. It was a deadly battle, I nearly got crushed to death! But...but...we won. Flamer managed to place an exploding tag underneath Onix's head causing a big enough explosion for it to get knocked back and had it's HP reduced to 5. I was so close to killing that thing.
But, two pokeballs later and it was mine. I began to call him Basher, kind of accurate since he liked headbutting things a lot.
All throughout second year I grinded in the third level dungeon. I trained my pokemon hard. And in return we got a shit ton of loot!
From Geodude we go precious stones, like rubies, sapphires and other such gems. I sold almost all of them, getting me a nice amount of cash on hand, around 3 million easy. But, among those precious stones was one very very important one;
Moonstone, A class item
A stone that harness the power of the moon to level up certain pokemon.
During training, King leveled up to level 16, causing him to evolve for the very first time! This gave me a Nidorino in it's place. And immediately after that, I used the moonstone after that, causing it to evolve into it's last form, Nidoking!
Fuck yeah! King was quickly becoming my favorite pokemon!
Apparently evolving a pokemon allowed it to level up five time, giving it not just 5 points, but 25! I so had a field day with that.
But back to the loot items. I got a few poison jars from the Nidorans in wild along with some material to create daggers. But I never really bothered with them as the poison powder I had from before was much more powerful.
And then came Onix, which gave me all kinds of metals, like iron and steel. But it also gave me a rare kind of metal;
Chakra metal ore,
Metal that is sensitive to chakra channeled through it.
That was fuckign cool and you best belive I had a chakra trench knife made similar to the ones Asuma uses. It wasn't easy though, I had to first learn how to make an ore usable and then metallurgy. But luckily for me Chakra metal was such a popular subject there were plenty of materials to look through.
Chakra metal trench knives, A class items
Trench knives made out of Chakra metal.
DMG: 30 (Damage bonus is based on chakra infused)
Yay! These quickly became my go to weapons, since they were actually good. I had a lot more ore left over, so I decided to make more, creating five knives in total. They were...beautiful. I had some chakra metal left over, I decided to keep it for a rainy day.
So with these knies and my pokemon, I became a force to be reckoned with in combat. I cleared the third level many times over, but unfortunately since my time being demanded so much, I could barely keep up.
The EXP I gained form the third level dungeon was good, 250 from the level 15's and 600 from the Onix boss. I gained over three hundred thousand for my troubles which resulted in my pokemon leveling up major time;
1. Flamer, Growlithe
Lv- 22
REP- 62
HP- 2,850/2,850
SP- 3,630/3,630
CP-0/0
CONTROL-0%
EXP: 8,105/11,400
Allegiance- Yami
STR- 30
VIT- 54
DEX- 30
INT- 21
CHA- 0
CC- 0
LUC- 21
Points- 0
Growlithe has a superb sense of smell. Once it smells anything, this Pokémon won't forget the scent, no matter what. It uses its advanced olfactory sense to determine the emotions of other living things.
Attacks:
Ember- 50 DMG
Tackle- 40 DMG
Scratch- 25 DMG
Roar- Causes a boost of 10% attack power for all allies
Odor Sleuth- Finds target within 50 feet range
Flame Wheel- 80 DMG
2. Blaze, Growlithe,
Lv- 21
REP- 46
HP- 3,050/3,050
SP- 3,150/3,150
CP-0/0
CONTROL-0%
EXP: 1,900/11,400
Allegiance- Yami
STR- 20
VIT- 55
DEX- 20
INT- 18
CHA- 0
CC- 0
LUC- 13
Points- 0
Growlithe has a superb sense of smell. Once it smells anything, this Pokémon won't forget the scent, no matter what. It uses its advanced olfactory sense to determine the emotions of other living things.
Attacks:
Ember- 50 DMG
Tackle- 40 DMG
Scratch- 25 DMG
Roar- Causes a boost of 10% attack power for all allies
Odor Sleuth- Finds target within 50 feet range
Flame Wheel- 80 DMG
3. Cuter, Scyther
Lv- 23
REP- 40
HP- 3,500/3,500
SP- 4,050/4,050
CP-0/0
CONTROL-0%
EXP: 5,250/11,800
Allegiance- Yami
STR- 34
VIT- 60
DEX- 34
INT- 22
CHA- 0
CC- 0
LUC- 16
Points- 0
Scyther is blindingly fast. Its blazing speed enhances the effectiveness of the twin scythes on its forearms. This pokemon's scythes are so effective, they can slice through thick logs in one wicked stroke.
Attacks:
Quick Attack- 40 DMG
Leer- - 20 % defence
Pursuit- 60 DMG
Agility- +20% faster
Wing Attack- 65 DAMAGE
4. King, Nidoking
Lv- 29
REP- 60
HP- 4,850/4,850
SP- 3,700/3,700
CP-0/0
CONTROL-0%
EXP: 5,950/13,400
Allegiance- Yami
STR- 64
VIT- 36
DEX- 36
INT- 19
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CHA- 0
CC- 0
LUC- 8
Points- 0
Nidoking's thick tail packs enormously destructive power. With one swing, it can topple a metal transmission tower. Once this Pokémon goes on a rampage, there is no stopping it.
Attacks:
Double kick- 30 DMG (per kick)
Poison sting- 20 DMG (+poison effect)
Fury Attack- 20 DAMAGE (per swipe)
Chip Away- 70 DMG
Horn Attack- 65 DAMAGE
5. Basher, Onix
Lv- 25
REP- 45
HP- 2,900/2,900
SP- 2,500/2,500
CP-0/0
CONTROL-0%
EXP: 9,500/10,400
Allegiance- Yami
STR- 44
VIT- 20
DEX- 22
INT- 15
CHA- 0
CC- 0
LUC- 5
Points- 0
Onix has a magnet in its brain. It acts as a compass so that this Pokémon does not lose direction while it is tunneling. As it grows older, its body becomes increasingly rounder and smoother.
Attack:
Tackle- 25 DMG
Rock Throw- 40 DMG
Rock Tomb- 45 DMG
Smack Down- 60 DMG
Sand Storm- Creates a storm in the effected battle area
For the pokemon I focused on LUC, INT and and speed. I needed them to be clever enough to understand me or fight on their own and because they were facing opponents the loot items they cored would be better with a higher LUC stat. And since they were all fast pokemon I thought that VIT would be the most important place to level up.
Only thing was their attacks were not all that amazing, the only thing I can say is good about their attacks is that they can do it a lot. I really hope they get some better attacks, because as they are right now they could barely take on a genin by themselves!
I did want to teach them chakara by investing points in it, but I came to know that they couldn't use it, at all. The game system didn't accept any points I allocated to them. Sigh, you can't win it all.
I did spend a lot of time exploring the village as well. And while I explored the village and the people, I ended up stumbling upon a lot of Golden leaves in the process.
I found a total of 10 additional golden leaves in the two years time. They were;
Konoha Archive Library, +10 points
Konoha Aviary, Skill book: Animal tracking
Konoha Bank, Skill book: Copy book jutsu
Konoha Cemetery, Konoha Battle fan
Konohagakure Central Post Office, Mental mini map of Konoha
Konoha Hospital, +5 points
Konoha Hot Springs, +5 skill scroll
Dango Shop, +10 skill scroll
Yakiniku Q, 3 Soldier pills
Yamanaka Flowers, Skill book: Basic poison making
Not bad for two years. Honestly by the fifth one I was grasping at straws here. The hokage mountain was too big and the hokage tower was under watch 24/7, I can't even go near there unless I want an ANBU member following me around for the next ten minutes!
And of course, I also leveled up quite a bit over the past two years;
Yami, Little Professor
Level- 23 (4,500/11,500)
HP- 2,600/2,600 (+20)
SP- 1,275/1,275
CP- 1,400/1,400
CONTROL- 96%
Allegiance- Konoha Civilian
STR- 30
VIT- 33
DEX- 36
INT- 34 (+2)
CHA- 40
CC- 79
LUC- 25 (+5)
Points- 0
Black Money- 4,278,500R
Needless to say the one thing I never regretted working on was my control, only level 23 and already it was near perfect! Argh! This is just too good to be true! God bless the broken system!
And also, the moment my CC stat crossed 50, I gained my very first perk!
Chakra regenerator- Chakra regeneration time is reduced by half.
My regeneration rate was around 32% per minute, pretty decent if I do say so myself. But with this perk that reduced the time my regeneration time by half, meaning 32% every thirty seconds! Fuck yeah!
Now however I focused on my chakra reserves as well, very very important that. But other than just pure EXP, my skills also improved;
Chakara thread, Lv- 27 (39%)
A concentrated thread of chakra that can be attached to manipulate certain objects.
CP cost- 3 CP per minute per 1 feet
Max length- 250 feet
With enough training I managed to actually used chakra threads accurately enough that I can now direct kunai and shuriken with them.
Cooking, Lv- 32 (55%)
You can cook and make something to eat. It may not be edible.
Bonus- 64% to all food items you make
Since Naruto and I lived together for so long, and the moron basically has no idea how to cook, I ended up leaving this on up a lot.
Disturbance style, Lv- 32 (74%)
Akin to a warrior's dance performance, a user of this style is able to rapidly and relentlessly bombard their target with precision, at various angles and locations. This style, comprised of sheer unpredictable movements, can easily catch his opponents off-guard.
DMG- +50 + STR + DEX
Speed- 47% faster
Since I always ended up fighting with Sasuke, or took on a few pokemon bare handed I used this a lot. And believe me it was so worth it. It becomes twice as deadly when I use my daggers, which I did whenever I could.
Easdropping, Lv- 23 (3%)
Your ability to listen in someone else's conversation without them being aware of it. This is a very important skill for a ninja to possess for information gathering.
Range: 35 feet (100% accuracy)
-10% accuracy for every additional feet
Constant grinding of this skill let me level it up.
Flirting, Lv- 9 (30%)
Your ability to charm your target to drop their gaurd, confuse them or getting them to like you.
18% chance of it working
+5 REP bonus if works
DOn't ask...just...don't.
Kunai techniques, Lv- 28 (39%)
Your ability to handle a kunai accurately.
Aquaracy- 100%
Bonus- 50% to DMG
Honestly I don't even bother with grinding this anymore, I'm already a perfect shot.
Leaf concentration exercise, Lv- 20 (MAX)
By keeping a leaf stuck on your forehead thanks to chakara you now only help with your chakra control exercise but also improve your concentration.
Uses: 10 CP per minute
Leaves to hold up- 5
+1 INT while active
When I hit this chakra control skills limit I had already reached over a 56% control rate, so the limit didn't really bother me. But it did allow me to learn a new chakra control skill, tree walking!
Tree walking, Lv- 20 (MAX)
By channeling chakra into any part of your body you can stick to surfaces.
Uses: 10 CP per minute
The tree walking exercise did offer me a bonus of 2 CC stats for every level I mastered. And after I mastered that I moved to the next logical step;
Water walking, Lv- 10 (30%)
By channeling chakra into the soles of your feet you can walk on water.
Uses: 15 CP per minute
For the water walking skill I got 5 CC per level, but it was hard as nails to level it up to what it is right now. But I had more than enough stat points right now to eventually get me to the high amount of control I had right now. So that was nice!
Other than that I leveled up my lying skills, maintenance, shuriken handling and running.
Lying, Lv- 20 (43%)
You ability to lie to people without getting caught.
44% chance of success
-20% if the lie is too unbelievable
Maintenance, Lv- 24 (60%)
Maintaining something is just as important as owning it.
+35% bonus to all items you maintain (clean, polish oil) for whatever their use is
Bonus lasts for 40 minutes
Shuriken techniques, Lv- 21 (9%)
Your ability to handle a kunai accurately.
Aquaracy- 75%
Bonus- 30% to DMG
Running, Lv- 28 (40%)
Your skill to run at amazingly fast speeds.
Max speed- 12 Km per hour
Cost- 10 SP per minute
That last one was so high because I constantly needed to run away or too something in dungeons or in real life. Pretty cool huh?
Either way, at the end of the two years living in this village, I'm finally growing more and more self assured off myself, there's nothing that can throw me off! I' totally ready for anything!
”Yami,” Iruka-sensei called me over on the first day of my third year. I had just entered the Academy with Naruto who went on without me.
”What is it Iruka sensei?” I asked curiously, approaching the man, ”is there something wrong?”
The man smiled, ”oh nothing like that Yami. In fact, it's quite the opposite. You see, after your last test results I spoke to the Hokage and he has agreed to let you skip ahead a year.”
My eyes went wide, ”what?!”
Iruka chuckled, ”that's right! You're going to be in the fourth year! That means you're one step closer to graduating! Isn't that great?!”
I have no idea how I'm supposed to feel about this. Panic? Panic. Oh wait, Gamer's mind refuses to let me freak out. ARGH! I fucking hate this game!