Yearning Is the Emotion Farthest from Understanding
"Are you sure you're ready?"
Lin Ke asked again.
Yuan Wei patted his chest loudly, his face full of confidence, and said, "Of course, I have 100% confidence in you, Boss!"
I don't even have that much confidence in myself...
Lin Ke complained inwardly, hesitated slightly, raised his hand, and reminded, "Tell me immediately if you feel any discomfort. I can cancel the technique at any time."
He had been testing with his own shadow and animal shadows for a week before asking his two companions about testing the ninjutsu.
Yuan Wei and Xia didn't hesitate at all and agreed immediately, which made him start to worry if the Shadow Clone Technique might have some other hidden harm.
Their feelings for Lin Ke, who guided their training, were more akin to feelings for an idol than simple friendship between companions.
When a leader who is excellent in every way, calm and mature in character, and willing to help appears, it inevitably turns into admiration over time.
People have inertia. Under the guidance of others, repeated successes will eventually lead to believing others without using their brains at all.
Without considering that experimenting with new techniques is actually full of danger.
Blind trust and admiration...
Lin Ke looked at Yuan Wei, who was smiling, relaxed, and even discussing with Xia how magical the boss's technique would be, and smiled self-deprecatingly.
[Indeed, admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding.]
Extract Chakra, divide it equally, form hand seals, release—
*Shadow Clone Technique!* Lin Ke carefully separated the shadow under Yuan Wei's feet.
"Hoo~"
Yuan Wei's breathing suddenly became rapid. After a brief pause, he said, "Boss, I feel like I've consumed a lot of Chakra all at once."
"Are you sure you're okay?" Lin Ke didn't care about his own technique, but subconsciously cared about his companion.
Yuan Wei took a deep breath, curiously looking at the empty space under his feet. The experience of not having a shadow was very novel. He casually replied, "I'm fine, I just feel a little tired."
Lin Ke paused and asked, "How much Chakra do you feel you've consumed, about half?"
Yuan Wei frowned seriously and thought for a while. Chakra was originally a fluctuating thing. Stamina, as the raw material, would slowly recover and be constantly consumed with action. To quickly determine how much Chakra he had left and express it with more specific data required a certain degree of Chakra control ability.
"It seems, it seems like half," he said uncertainly, then added, "Anyway, it's a lot."
Lin Ke nodded and commanded the Shadow Yuan Wei to stand up from the ground and start moving.
The speed and strength were completely consistent with the original body.
According to the tests over the past week, the shadow's strength should also be exactly the same as the body.
The shadow's injuries would consume the stored stamina to repair, and damage could not be regenerated. Even if it was smashed, it would not affect the original body, but injuries or death to the original body would directly interfere with the shadow.
"Boss," Yuan Wei called out a little eagerly. He wanted to fight his shadow to try it out.
Lin Ke made a gesture of combat readiness and then gave the order to the shadow—
*[Fight]*
Before, when he commanded the shadows of other animals, he simply gave actions and couldn't micro-manage. The shadows all had instincts related to the original body, and there were no obstacles to their actions.
Manipulating the shadow of a human, other than his own shadow, was a first.
"Peng!"
Yuan Wei and his shadow rushed together in almost the same posture. It was quite interesting to see the two 'people' fighting in the same style of taijutsu.
The responses to the enemy's attacks were exactly the same, just like a mirror image.
After they tangled for a while, Yuan Wei suddenly formed hand seals and used the Clone Jutsu. The shadow chose the wrong target, and he kicked the shadow away, shouting, "Boss, it can't use ninjutsu!"
The shadow turned into two dimensions the moment it landed, then suddenly bounced up from two dimensions and became three-dimensional again, continuing to rush towards the original body.
It was tireless and fearless. Even if it couldn't use ninjutsu, it was still difficult to deal with in terms of taijutsu.
The two guys with the same size, height, and build tangled again.
"Bang!" Yuan Wei once again used a small trick to knock the Shadow Clone away, panting, "My stamina is being consumed incredibly fast!"
"Stop." Lin Ke stopped his main body, then controlled the Shadow Clone to move around in the open space, and asked, "Carefully feel it, is your stamina being consumed?"
Yuan Wei frowned and felt for a while, giving a definite answer, "Yes."
[When the Shadow Clone separates from the main body, it takes away half of the stamina. When the stamina taken away is exhausted, it will draw on the main body's stamina. It can inherit the main body's combat instincts, but it cannot extract Chakra. Blunt attacks have almost no effect on the Shadow Clone...]
Lin Ke summarized the characteristics of the Shadow Clone.
After a while, Yuan Wei, who was resting, shouted, "It's back."
Lin Ke looked up, and the Shadow Clone had indeed been dispelled. The shadow returned to the main body's feet, but—
Why? Why did it return before the main body's stamina was completely exhausted?
What caused the technique to be dispelled?
Harboring new doubts, he started the second round of attempts.
The second time was still exactly the same. After the Shadow Clone consumed half of the stamina it had taken, it began to draw on the main body's stamina, but it would inexplicably terminate suddenly, and the technique would end along with it, the shadow returning to the main body's feet.
It didn't match the time he had guessed. This time, the time was even shorter.
However, after testing it twice more, Lin Ke grasped the key point and realized an important blind spot regarding Chakra—
Chakra quantity and stamina are, to some extent, the same thing. After all, stamina is one of the important raw materials of Chakra. However, pay attention to one thing.
The total Chakra on a person is not equal to a person's Chakra quantity, let alone all of their stamina.
What does that mean? Stamina consumption will recover. Repeatedly exhausting it is when stamina and Chakra are completely gone, and the body can't squeeze out even a tiny bit of stamina.
But the Chakra that the Shadow Clone evenly divides is the current stock of Chakra!
Even his Shadow Clone anchors the current stock of Chakra at the time of separation, so when the target's 'total' stamina is exhausted, the technique will naturally be dispelled, but the stamina recovered during this period is not calculated in the Shadow Clone.
To put it in a gamified way, assuming the opponent's stamina is 100 points, the effect created by Lin Ke's Shadow Clone is to consume half of his own stock of stamina, instantly deducting 50 points of the opponent's stamina, and then slowly losing 50 points of stamina, returning to the main body after the loss.
However, they are not dead people, and stamina will slowly recover.
Is it worth it to use half of your stamina to consume a large amount of the opponent's stamina while creating a temporary kamikaze with the same Taijutsu level as the opponent?
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