5 Training
Other than the daily chore quests I received from the system, other quests were also created when someone of authority requested something of me or asked for a favor. However, not every request would be translated into a quest.
Picking up a pen Rie dropped did not count as a quest, but when she had asked me to help out in the kitchen a quest was created. Through this system I was able to successfully complete around 3-5 quests a day, accumulating EXP to level up twice more. Some of them even gave money as a reward, which was automatically added to my inventory.
Additionally, I was also able to create some new skills and grind up the levels of existing ones. As expected, just like The Gamer anime, I was also able to create new skills through repeated actions. My current status and skills page looked like this.
[Name: Shinji Ikari]
Age: 7
Level: 5
Next Level: 300/750
HP: 550/550
CP: 900/900
STR: 7
VIT: 6
DEX: 9
INT: 13
CHA: 3
Points – 25
Ryo – 580
[Skills]
[Observe] (Active) LVL: 3
The ability to read information about the targeted object or person through observation.
Improved proficiency in the ability reveals more information.
[Basic Body Conditioning] (Passive) LVL: 3
Increases your body's strength, speed and endurance through training
+3% to physical damage
+3% to movement speed
-3% to physical damage taken
+3% to physical stat growth rate
[Shurikenjutsu] (Passive) LVL: 1
Increases accuracy of thrown shuriken and kunai by 10%
[Knife Fighting] (Passive) LVL: 1
Increases damage dealt with small, bladed weapons by 10%
[Beginner Taijutsu Mastery] (Passive) LVL: 1
+1% to physical damage
+1% to movement speed
[Meditation] (Active) LVL: 2
+20% to CP regeneration
+20% to HP regeneration
Skills like cleaning or dishwashing was, surprisingly, not created even through repeated actions. It seemed like created skills were almost exclusively related to combat.
The [Basic Body Conditioning] skill was created after reading the tattered academy guide on body conditioning, I had found on my exploration quest. It was basic information about how to properly exercise and strengthen our muscles through body-weight training; information that was a little common sense, but I was grateful for the skill regardless.
Similarly, the [Shurikenjutsu] and [Knife Fighting] were a result of me experimenting with the blunt kunai and shuriken I had found. After throwing the shuriken against a tree a few times, the skill was naturally created, and I could immediately feel a slight improvement in my accuracy. However, my aim was still atrocious. I had also practiced wielding a kunai, stabbing and slashing at the air.
[Beginning Taijutsu Mastery] was created when I threw a few traditional one-two combos at a tree, mixing up the attacks on the poor, immobile tree with kicks, hooks and some fundamental footwork I had learned over a decade ago in my previous life from the few lessons I had in kickboxing.
[Observe] was an ability I had received from my orphanage exploration quest, and was something I would be eternally grateful for. It was able to show me information about any object or person that I concentrated on. For example, if I looked at a table and used my observation skill, I would be able to see something like…
[Wooden Table]
A table made of wood found in the Konoha Orphanage.
And as the [Observe] skill levelled up further, I was able to see more information, especially on people or weapons. When I observed the blunt kunai in my inventory I saw this:
[Training Kunai – Grade: Common]
A roughly made kunai made of scrap iron, blunted for training purposes.
Durability: 14/15
Damage: F
Rather than a numerical damage value, the damage the weapon was inherently capable of was given a letter grade to measure its lethality. I would have to assume the lowest grade was F as the blunt kunai could not even hurt a fly.
Different levels of [Observe] showed me different amounts of information about a person. At level 1, all I could see was their name, level and some information. At level 2, it showed me their max HP count and added on to the information available. At level 3, I was able to see their max and current HP and CP as well as additional information about the target.
Observing the caretaker-baasan with the level 3 [Observe] showed me her status:
[Name: Kuroda Rie Lv 14]
HP: 1200/1200
CP: 300/300
Rie is the head caretaker of Konoha Orphanage. She cares deeply for the children under her care and tries her best to make sure they are taken care of and sheltered from the dangers outside the orphanage walls. While she can be stern at times to the children, she ultimately has their best interests at heart.
She thinks that Shinji is a cute but curious child who sometimes acts strangely.
The other orphan children mostly had levels of 1 and 2, with the only other 7-year-old girl being at 3. I had grumbled how unfair it was I started at level 1, but I was rapidly catching up, so it was fine. For now I was still unable to see the stat count of people with my level 3 [Observe], but hopefully it would be possible at higher levels.
I was able to increase stats such as STR and VIT through the body conditioning exercises and, DEX from my practice with the shuriken and kunai, and my INT from reading the few books the orphanage had and making a few intelligent and logical decisions through rational thought. The books gave me some desperately needed general knowledge about the world and its history too.
There were also some quests created when I was sneakily training my newly acquired skills. They mainly related to accomplish some sort of achievement corresponding to the skills that I had been practicing in. However, I only managed to successfully complete 1 out of the 3 quests generated.
Quest [Amateur Shurikenjutsu] Failed!
Achieve more than 50% accuracy out of a 100 shuriken thrown from 15m away (X)
-Hit 10 'bullseye' (1/10)
Rewards:
+100 EXP
+1 LVL to Shurikenjutsu
Failure:
None
Quest [Create Your Own Fighting Style] Failed!
Create your own fighting style out of your past martial arts experience (X)
Rewards:
+100 EXP
+1 LVL to Beginner Taijutsu Mastery
+1 LVL to created fighting style
Failure:
None
Quest [Hit the Gym] Completed!
Get Basic Body Conditioning to level 2 by the end of the day (√)
Rewards:
+100 EXP
+1 LVL to Basic Body Conditioning
Failure:
None
I hesitate to call the quests unreasonable but yes, they definitely were very unreasonable. I only barely managed to increase my body conditioning level through sheer grit and determination before receiving the level up notification and collapsing in agony.
Additionally, the [Slightly Incompetent] title had been removed a few days after I got it, after I managed to complete 10 quests in a row successfully. Thank kami for that as the 10% reduced experience was really taking a toll.
I also found out that I would be entering the Shinobi Academy in roughly a month's time, and a week before that I would have to start moving out of the orphanage and into the student dormitory the village had prepared for the orphan academy students.
We did not have to pay for utilities, rent and academy fees, and would even be receiving 20,000 ryo a month as an allowance. It was a sizable sum that roughly translated to perhaps 2,000 dollars. We had to use the funds provided to buy our own groceries as well any other daily necessities including clothes or training materials.
I had taken the past week to slowly orient myself to my new environment: gathering information, picking up the common sense of this world as well as acquiring some general knowledge of the village. I had only ventured out of the orphanage a couple times the last few days, primarily for the purposes of checking out the surrounding area. The 'original' Shinji Ikari similarly did not have very much experiences with the world outside of the orphanage as the children were sheltered protectively by the head caretaker, Rie. Only the oldest, like myself and that other girl were permitted to travel outside the orphanage gates without supervision but with some limitations as to how far we were allowed to go and a curfew to boot.
My initial hesitancy to dive right into training with chakra was also contributed by my concern that we might be watched by Danzo's ROOT agents, and if I showed any exceptional talent I might be taken and forcibly recruited into the organisation. However, as I started practicing the taijutsu and shurikenjutsu, I realized my talent was paltry as compared to some of the real geniuses.
Furthermore, basic chakra exercises were not as restricted as I had thought. When I explored the outskirts of the orphanage, I witnessed more than one child younger than me, presumably clan members, who were training in the leaf concentration exercise.
Thus, after the week-long delay, I was finally going to start training in the chakra control exercises. I have a month to get myself up to scratch before my first day of the shinobi academy!
Quest Alert!
Preparations:
Train yourself before entering the Shinobi Academy!
-Increase your level up to 6
-Increase your Shurikenjutsu up to LVL 3
-Increase your Basic Body Conditioning up to LVL 5
-Increase your Beginner Taijutsu Mastery to LVL 3
-Learn the Leaf Concentration Exercise
-Increase your Leaf Concentration Exercise to LVL 3
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Rewards:
New Title
+2 to all stats
+1 LVL to all skills
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Failure:
New Title
REP decreased with 'Rookie 9'
REP decreased with Shinobi Academy
