Chapter 6: Training pt2

Chapter 6: Training pt2

Sam's POV

I watched the boy who sat down on the grass, his eyes were closed and he followed the breathing technique I showed him perfectly. His training had begun a month ago and consisted of basic exercises then we finished off with meditation.

The breathing technique I gave him was a rare script I had bought; it was known as the Saint's breath technique, it would allow the boy to absorb Qi through his nose and skin pores into his blood-stream and activate his meridians. Impurities would be cleaned from his tissues. All these conditions had to be met for the boy to break-through body refinement realm.

The stage only involved the body and did not need one to control the Qi within themselves, the only requirement was to train and temper one's body and allow Qi to repair and upgrade it. The technique required him to train even harder than normally needed to break-through and he did so without complaint and his progress was clear—his arms had become more compact due to muscle growth. He was now taller and stood at 175 cm due to the special fruits I had fed him to boost his muscle recovery.

This earned an approval from me, the only problem that is worrying is why he hasn't entered the first stage even though he should've done so a month ago; the least talented person needed at most three weeks to enter this stage. I had thought his meridians were damaged but my scans of his body and meridians showed no sign of that.

The boy also knew this and I'm sure it was frustrating him, he doubled his already grueling training this past week in hopes of breaking through but he was met with only failure, I felt powerless at how I couldn't help him his condition was unheard of in this land of equal opportunity, a peasent could rise to become a king.His body was healthy and his pathways only needed qi in order to activate but the Qi just dissolved out of his body immediately after entering like when water touched upon an expremely hot surface.

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[3rd Person POV]

Sam called the boy after a few more hours of meditation and informed him it was time to eat, although the boy wanted to refuse and continue training but he knew Sam was not one to accept that; he will drag him inside kicking and screaming if need be.

The boy grunted and stood up, his muscles were still painful and although he didn't show it outside but he was exhausted and in pain due to training. The dinner was silent and awkward. Sam did not know how to comfort the boy and the boy never liked talking in the first place.

After eating the boy went outside towards his favorite outdoor bed made of grass covered with a cloth, he tried to sleep but he was restless, the thought of having a chance at power slip through his fingers because he couldn't try hard enough; to him his efforts weren't enough.

His eyes shot open and the boy sat up and meditated, his breathing slowed down and became deeper and more constant (as if he was asleep). He expected failure again after an hour of meditation with no sign of change and was about to give up but suddenly a blue screen appeared within his mindscape and along came a strange robotic voice.

''System activation recommencing.'' The voice said apathetically.

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Mc's POV

I was shocked out of my meditation by the suddenness of the event—hastily I stood up and looked around ready to defend myself, although the old man always assured me this place was safe, it didn't ease me fully since demonic beasts were normally found in forest regions.

After a few seconds of looking around and finding nothing which could've made the noise, I noticed a small blue circle at the corner of my eye, it was blinking in and out of existence, I closed my eyes but the dot stayed within my vision even spinning around as fast as I could didn't change its position.

''System activation complete. Welcome to the Naruto system. Host is advised to go through the briefing. ''

After trying everything I could to move the dot or see if it would disappear—the strange voice spoke again and this time the dot expanded a created a hologram within my vision. I just stood there; frozen by the event taking place right now but I regained myself and raised my right hand to poke the red text written 'Briefing.'

I was suddenly assaulted by an immense rush of information and an awful headache—my legs gave out and I fell to the ground with a thud every muscle in my body ached painfully and something deep inside me felt like it was being torn up and destroyed.

My vision was blurry and my head felt painfully hot, I could only whimper as I tried to withstand the pain but I was slowly reaching my limit.

After what felt like an eternity the headache and information rush receded but my body started heating up, I stood back up on my feet and walked unsteadily towards the stream and submerged myself in the cold water—the feeling of relief caused me to let out a content sigh.

'What just happened?' I could only ask myself since everything happened too quickly to recall easily.

[The events that took place was due to the fusion process between the system and host.] The cold feminine voice resounded in my head.

''The system?'' I asked confusedly and that seemed to trigger some memory in my head as information about what the system was appeared inside my head as if I had already knew all this information.

Its name was 'The Naruto system' and apparently it had everything within the Narutoverse and all I needed was a currency known as 'Naruto Points' or NP which can be obtained by killing beasts and taking their cores or other valuable objects; which are determined by the system. It offers abilities based on an energy called chakra and weapons along with armor, clothes and 9 beasts known by the name Tailed-beasts.

The system also had an inventory function and a ranking function. My heart beat accelerated rapidly; this information was great news to me because it means I have a chance to grow stronger too but I also couldn't help but feel like I had already known about all this information already.

But besides this feeling nothing else came to mind where I knew about all this, the only logical conclusion was that this system was somehow related to my lost memories.

I guess I had to wait for more of my memories to come back to know for sure, I just hope they come back sooner.

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