Chapter 39 : Training (2)

Embra P.O.V

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Name : Sky Embra

Age : 13 years old

Power level : 1190

Gifts : Tsukuyomi Genjutsu Modified, Darkness, Photographic memory (Inferior), divine protection from the goddess of Dragon, Algadore.

Talent : Calculating ability, Sword

Learned Jutsu

-Clone Jutsu

-Replacement Jutsu

-Shuriken Jutsu

-Genjutsu (Advanced)

-Shadow clone shuriken Jutsu

-Flickering Light Jutsu

-Static Strings Jutsu

Learned Technique

-Flash Step (Advanced)

-Body Flickering technique (Advanced)

-Observation Haki (Basic)

-Armament Haki (Basic)

-Stealth technique(Advanced)

-Taijutsu (Basic)

-Swordsmanship(Basic)

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Well, I think this is about all the Jutsu and techniques I could learn in three years. Hm... I really don't have an affinity for other elements, huh? Currently, my strongest and only affinity is lightning and I had learned only two lightning Jutsu. It is not like I don't have like other Jutsu. It is just that I do not like the lightning jutsu that are available in the shop.

The shop unlocks the techniques that I can learn in my current strength. So, with my current strength, those are about all I could learn. But, I feel like those are just basic stuff. Well, anyway, my main point is that I haven't learned any kind of 'Breath' or whatsoever. Before Sethar's training finished, she told me that the swordsmanship she taught me is just a basic and that I should try to form my own swordsmanship through battles.

Well, I want to do that. So, I have been meditating twice a day for almost two years straight but, I still could not learn the way of the sword. To put it simply, my current swordsmanship is just a copy. I copied from the anime character's swordsmanship. Of course, they are just basic and simple ones. And, I have no problem with that because I am just an armature in swordsmanship.

So, till I can form my own own swordsmanship, I think I will continue using copy swordsmanships. Yosh. For now, let's start the combat training. During these three years, my chakra reserve increased and I can now dilute the time flow of the illusion world to 30:1 hours with the real world time. And, because of my imagination and my power of Tsukuyomi Genjutsu, I have an easy time learning Genjutsu.

Moreover, I found out that I can give a portion of my illusion world power to Eve, though it is temporary till the time runs out. But, because of this, I can now battle real opponents. Their attack pattern will be determined by Eve and it seems, there is no limit to the number of opponents she can control. Well, she is a system after all.

So, now, I am standing in the middle of a grass plain waiting for Eve - or rather opponents controlled by Eve. Soon, the first person that walked out of the forest is a ninja. Moreover, a ninja I immediately remembered after looking at the information. He is Zabuza, one of the seven swordsmen of the hidden mist village. The fight begins with him using small weapons like shuriken and only after I blocked all the shurikens, he brought out his big sword and we cross swords with each other.

Just from the first fight, I found a hidden feeling in my heart. A feeling of happiness when I am dancing at the jaws of death. I think I might be a huge battle junkie. Well, I will think about those things later. Right now, I want to focus on this fight.

Eve is doing a good job of controlling him. His attack pattern, his legs, hands, body, and hips movements are calculated by me and I think this might be the first time I am this excited fighting in a sword fight against someone. Well, it is my first time anyway. It did not take long for me to analyze all of his attack patterns. And so, just after a few minutes since the fight starts, I killed him by beheading him.

I have killed countless lives in my past lives too. So, killing someone is no longer an issue for me. And, right now, I am training the beheading skills. Demons in this world can only be killed by beheading them after all. So, I am practicing that.

"No, the Zab*za right now is not using his Justus at all. So, let's fight again. This time, I will change the place to a lake. He should have an advantage there." (Embra)

I continue the fight. It is not like I enjoy fighting. It is just to prepare for the future. That's all. Opponents controlled by Eve have a limited amount of movements and for a while, I analyzed them and killed them all in just a few minutes. Are the fights easy? No way. There was even a time I almost lose an arm. The only reason I won the fights is that Eve is only using a limited amount of movements and my ability to analyze them. If I don't have these two, I won't win the fights.

I fight for a long time after that because frustration took over me in not being able to win the fight using my own sword skills. I set a goal myself that I will have to gather sword fighting experience so that I can judge which swords skill to use in just a minute of the fight. More than that, I want to sharpen my sword in these fights. I am not learning how to fight or how to analyze. I am fighting to find my way of the sword. In the evening, after I come out of my illusion world, I complained about it to Eve.

"Eve. Why do they all have a limited set of movements? I am not training my analyzing ability. I am training my swords skills. So, next time, fight me using every combat algorithm you have. You are smart, Eve. And, You have all the combat data of anime characters from my favorite novels, right? Combine them all, Analyze them all, and create an algorithm and fight me yourself." (Embra)

I have to admit, that was the biggest mistake I have ever committed ever since I arrived in this world because next time when I enter the illusion world, as soon as my chakra is full, the opponent standing in front of me is none other than me. With the same weapon and strength as mine. And, that was the start of 'defeat'. I lose every single fu*king fight.

Well, she has intelligence that far surpass even the most intelligent AI of 2025. So, yep. That was my mistake to challenge her. But, I am not disheartened. I was kicked around, cut apart, thrashed around, and defeated in many different ways but, I am smiling. Yes. This is what I am talking about. If you can't even give me a challenge, you won't deserve to be called the guide system, right?

My calculation ability was put to the very limit because of the attack patterns that are almost unpredictable and ever-changing. And, my pain resistance was also trained to the limit because I was cut for hundreds, thousands of times in the illusion world. I feel all of them when I come out of the illusion world and I fear I might be unconsciously developing strange tastes. So, I have to stop going back to it as soon as my chakra is full.

I have to plan ahead and make strategies based on the previous fights before going back into the illusion world and face 'Eve'.Starting from that day, I found great joy in fighting and thinking of ways to defeat those stronger than me. Sometimes even after I was kicked out of the illusion world, my urge to battle has not died down yet, and only after meditating, I can calm down somewhat. But, I think, from here on, I will be busy thinking of ways to defeat Eve and her always evolving intelligence. I wonder when will be able to defeat her? I am looking forward to it.

In the middle of the forth years since I come to this world and six months after I challenged Eve, I found my way of the sword. I cannot count how many fights I and Eve had or how many times I had lost to her but, I am satisfied with this because I have achieved my objective of finding my way of the sword.

I don't have much use for the Chakra in the real world anyway. So, I usually go to the illusion world, Tsukuyomi Genjutsu, every four hours for the last six months. I spend six hours for sleep and eating, and two hours separately for meditation. For the remaining sixteen hours, I use all of those time to go to the illusion world, thinks about ways to defeat Eve, or practicing in the forest to get my body used to the battles in the illusion world.

So, basically, I go to the illusion world three times a day and spend time-fighting with Eve who always changes her battle algorithms after every fight. We move around terrain, landscapes and sometimes we even use the modern city as a base of our fights. We mainly use swords but, sometimes, we also use small and hidden weapon weapons, like shuriken, kunai, or needle. Though I am using a sword and hidden weapons, Eve is using all weapons like bows, spears and there was even a time she uses a scythe.

Also, there were times when she attacks me using two characters, and from there slowly but, steadily my opponents increase and now, I can fight with her who is controlling four opponents in any kind of terrain. I only use swords but, she uses all kinds of weapons as per my request and every fight gives me pleasure and insight about the way of the sword that after six months of training like that, I now found my way of the sword.

"That which I want to cut shall be cut and that not, shall not be cut. Those who I want to protect shall be protected." (Embra)

That is the essence of my swordsmanship. The sharp edge (Ha) shall cut everything I want to cut and the blade surface(Shinogi) shall protect those I want to protect. The backside (Mune) shall be for when I do not want to cut. That's my way of the sword, Santaiko.

From then on, I create my own swords skills and I decided to follow the way of sword till the end. No, let's aim more. Yes. I will aim for the pinnacle of swordsmanship. The height a swordsman can climb using a mortal body. Only after that, I will find my path to godhood.