Chapter 6: Constrained By The System
[Yasushi Konda
Lv. 7 (485/640)
Class: N/A
Familiar: N/A
Equipment: N/A
Health: 15/15
Chakra: 20/20
Stat Points: 15]
[Skills
•Sickle Weasel Technique (Advanced)
•Burning Wood (Novice)
•Summoning Jutsu]
If there's something I've made sure to do in this past month its keep track of every ounce of chakra I've used. While experimenting with the system I've found something very peculiar with the way it separates skills into levels of mastery.
Every time I use a jutsu, no matter how I use it, counts towards my mastery of the jutsu. It doesn't matter how little chakra I put into it or how small the scale of the jutsu is.
There is a minimum to how much chakra I can use in a jutsu but the effect of a large scale jutsu and a small scale jutsu is the same when considering my progress in mastery.
At the top of every skill I can see a little bar of blue which represents experience towards that skill. Although my experience increases, my control over the jutsu and the chakra within the jutsu does not increase along with it.
I only can tell significant improvement when the experience bar is filled and I increase my mastery of a skill. This means that the system can specifically halt my progress and comprehension of a jutsu until I increase my proficiency of a skill.
I cannot improve my control over a jutsu if I do not get that jutsu to a higher level of proficiency. The system has complete control over whether I improve or not.
This is the most frightening thing I've found about the system so far. The system has total control over me and I cannot affect this in the slightest.
It can decide my level of skill in every jutsu, my level of comprehension, and probably the most concerning thing, my health and chakra pool.
The system, through some unknown means, can forcibly increase my health and chakra pool. The problem about this is that my chakra hasn't increased at all naturally. After all this training shouldn't it at least increase by a single point?
My chakra can easily be increased right now as I have 15 free stat points and that should be enough to push me to jonin level. But that experience was only gained after raising the proficiency of Sickle Weasel to "Advanced".
How often can I raise a technique to that level? It took me about two months to make Weasel Sickle reach Advanced. The only reason I was able to do that so fast was because I had no other jutsu and I could focus solely on raising the proficiency of one jutsu.
Going by the same time length if I wanted to increase the proficiency of 3 jutsu to Advanced, it would take at least 6 months, that's half a year. Can I really afford to waste my time like that?
The experience requirement to level up doubles every single time. At first it was 10 exp, then 20, then 40, then 80, then 160, then 320, and now 640. If this continues to increase, which it no doubt will, then I can't be satisfied by just getting to Novice or Intermediate proficiency as both of these don't give enough experience. Novice only gives 10 experience, Intermediate gives 100 and Advanced gives 1,000.
I'll then be forced to divert my attention to only a few select skills in order to raise their proficiency to Advanced.
There are two ways to solve this problem, either figure out a way to gain experience without having to increase my proficiency of jutsu or learn the shadow clone jutsu and put all my current stat points into chakra to support my use and exploitation of that jutsu.
Although this is a really large problem it currently isn't an issue, I don't necessarily need too much chakra at the moment. Minato and Jirayia have both met me and have taken notice of my potential.
If I suddenly increase my chakra pool to the level of a jonin I'll definitely be suspected of something. If Hiruzen or Danzo ever find out I'll be sent straight to root or be interrogated by a Yamanaka clan member.
The experience requirement is only a problem for the future when my growth comes to a halt. I'll try to think of a way to solve it but for now the only remedy is to compile a reliable set of jutsu and maybe learn the basic elemental clone techniques as a preparation for the shadow clone.
The shadow clone jutsu is something I don't think I can learn without deliberately stealing it from someone. There are some really useful techniques that I can get without getting into any danger.
Body Flicker.
Substitution Jutsu.
Transformation Jutsu.
Clone Jutsu.
These techniques have been specifically chosen by Tobirama to give to the shinobi of Konohagakure because they are a solid foundation for any type of shinobi.
Regardless of what type of shinobi I become in the future these three techniques are essential. The reason I haven't learned any of them yet is because I want to see if I can learn jutsu naturally.
If I can learn jutsu by just doing the hand signs then I'll have another way of quickly getting jutsu besides my summoning plan. If this does work then I can immediately learn one A-Rank jutsu.
Its the only one I actually remember from my old world and that's because I specifically memorized the hand signs for it in middle school during my anime phase.
Chidori.
Its been a really long time since I've actually watched the Naruto anime but if there's one thing I'm certain I remember its the Chidori.
I've made several preparations to make sure I'm safe during this experiment just in case I accidentally fuck up channeling lighting nature chakra through my hand.
[Soldier's Pill (Rare)
A pill made with several rare herbs grown in areas rich with nature energy. Grants slight resistance to chakra for 30 minutes.]
[Whistle Blower (Rare)
A special leaf that comes from whistle trees native to the high altitude mountains of the land of Lightning. Grants slight resistance to lightning nature chakra for 1 hour.]
I bought both of these with all of the money this previous body's host saved it. It's expensive to buy this type of stuff but thankfully I got a discount because I'm a still a student.
If my experiment works I'll have a trump card to further my chances of survival when summoning myself to an unknown location.