About Graduation
Chapter 8: About the Second Day After Graduation, Afternoon, Ninja Academy.
"Good afternoon, Teacher Mizuki."
Lin Ke looked at Mizuki, whom he had 'coincidentally' encountered again, and felt speechless.
Doesn't this guy think his appearances are a little too coincidental?
"Good afternoon," Mizuki greeted with a smile, then quietly left.
Lin Ke watched the guy's receding figure and sighed silently. As expected, showing extraordinary performance meant being targeted.
Today was his first day of school. How should he put it? It felt quite... boring.
After registering, they were collectively taken to the classroom. The entire school had just over a hundred students, with twenty or thirty students in the same intake. There was no need to divide classes, and even the grades were vague.
The teacher in charge of their freshmen wouldn't appear later, so he would call him the homeroom teacher for now.
On the first day of school, the homeroom teacher led the students to exercise and familiarize themselves with each student's physical fitness.
Unfortunately, Lin Ke's physical fitness was below average among the students of the same year, but he was persistent enough. During the running test, he endured the discomfort and persevered to the end.
Although the homeroom teacher didn't directly comment on each person, it was clear that he was quite satisfied with him.
For ninjas who haven't reached a certain level, effort and persistence are very important.
After testing their physical fitness, the first lesson was an explanation of basic Chakra knowledge. It wasn't exactly reading from the textbook, but there wasn't much new stuff either. Lin Ke had already heard it from his father.
After lunch, the students began their cultural classes in the afternoon. The cultural class was history, but it was more like a political class. It started with the Will of Fire.
It was very inspiring for children, but for the adult in Lin Ke's child's body, it was boring. But he still pretended to be inspired.
This stuff is very important. The Ninja Academy's curriculum (different from the transcript) is divided into six modules: theory, practice, exercise, personal experience/insights, spirit, and history.
The fact that history can be singled out proves that Konoha Village at least attaches great importance to it.
Lin Ke wanted to become a ninja who could climb up the ranks, so he couldn't be too out of sync with the group. Even if he could be more mature, he couldn't appear too clear-headed.
Being a genius is fine, but a genius completely detached from the environment is very suspicious.
Konoha Village is a violent institution, not some peace envoy. They don't need evidence to take action against suspicious people. They can completely act first, search memories, and then determine the evidence.
Back to the topic, the Ninja Academy doesn't emphasize gradual teaching. In the first semester, they will assess taijutsu, ninjutsu, individual combat, group combat, and tactics. So only the first day will be relatively easy.
Starting tomorrow, they will have to arrive at school early to exercise, learn basic knowledge in the morning, and conduct simulated combat after cultural classes in the afternoon.
The first semester doesn't involve mental training.
The so-called mental training is not about exercising the mind, but about letting students accept the stress of killing, being killed, and the death of comrades. (After the mission to pursue Sasuke, Choji almost died during surgery, and Shikamaru cried. Temari asked in surprise if he should have received mental training.)
This is why children in their teens or even younger can kill mercilessly on the battlefield.
No matter how good the Will of Fire in Konoha Village sounds, it doesn't change the essence of the war machine. The essence of mental training is brainwashing, allowing children to accept taking the lives of their own kind.
In fact, being a ninja is a rather dark profession. They are hired to collect intelligence, engage in espionage, assassinate targets, and participate in wars... There is no such thing as justice or evil.
As tools, ninjas erase emotions and pursue the completion of tasks. Where does right and wrong come from?
It's purely a dark profession.
Under this premise, although the Ninja Academy is a six-year system, it doesn't mean that all six years are spent studying.
All cultural classes and basic knowledge learning will end in one year. The subsequent years will be spent continuously increasing practical exercises, tactical application, and mental training.
Note that the school doesn't necessarily require students to study well or have excellent grades. It's very easy to graduate. If you think you're ready, you can take the Genin Certification Exam. Considering the difficulty of randomly selecting an E-rank ninjutsu as the exam content, normal people who can enter the school can graduate.
Just as anyone who learns ninjutsu can take the Genin Certification Exam to become a Genin, the difficulty of the graduation exam is very low.
Only freaks like Uzumaki Naruto would fail the exam three times in a row.
In fact, ninjas with a little background will honestly exercise and study at the school for six years before choosing to graduate. There is no need to graduate early in a peaceful era.
Moreover, after graduating from the Ninja Academy, the Jonin leading the team will have their own assessment of their subordinates. According to Hatake Kakashi, only one-third of the people can become Genin. The others will fail the assessment and return to the Ninja Academy to study again.
But Lin Ke is different. He knows about the Konoha Crush Plan three years later, Pain's Assault seven years later, and the Fourth Shinobi World War eight years later...
He doesn't have time to stay in the Ninja Academy and slowly develop.
Graduating quickly and finding ways to learn more ninjutsu is the right path; having enough Chakra is sufficient.
After extracting Chakra, a ninja's physical fitness and Chakra reserves will rapidly increase for a period. The principle is simple:
The total number of cells in people of the Naruto World far exceeds that of Earthlings, but the principle of training is surprisingly similar. Muscles, when slightly torn, will repair the damage and strengthen muscle fibers, while synthesizing more muscle to adapt to the training.
Extracting Chakra—the process of consuming physical strength—is an exploitation of the body, an alternative and comprehensive way of damaging the body's muscle structure. The human body will naturally repair and adjust the structure, while creating more muscle to meet the demands of Chakra extraction.
Coupled with appropriate exercise to stretch and deform cells, it promotes increased permeability of the muscle cell membrane, thereby increasing the number of free amino acids within the cell, providing more basic raw materials for protein synthesis and accelerating the rate of muscle synthesis.
With both approaches working together, it's difficult for ninjas not to get stronger quickly.
However, the human body structure has its limits, and exercise has diminishing returns. No matter how much you exploit it, it still depends on talent. Effort can only help you reach the upper limit of your talent faster, and you may not even reach someone else's lower limit.
That's why there's the concept of Chakra reserves.
Lin Ke's Chakra control is excellent, allowing him to more clearly judge his rate of progress, but also to make a more pessimistic judgment. If he maintains this effort, at most half a year, his rapid progress will asymptotically approach zero, and he can only wait for his body to slowly grow stronger and have more Chakra reserves as he ages.
When that time comes, he should graduate early.
He will seek another path to become stronger from more ninjutsu.
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