Mystic Shadow - Level I

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Reo opened his eyes while feeling refreshed. His body was repaired anew and all the injuries and scars were already restored. His body felt soothing and he was able to sense pretty much each and every muscle in his body.

"It is a wonderful feeling..." moaned Reo while adjusting his eyes to the surroundings.

"Hm" murmured Reo as he saw water all around, but the most surprising was the fact that there was a fire that was burning all around his torso.

"What the hell!" exclaimed Reo as he tried to swim up above the river surface.

With a low thud, in a mere moment, he splashed out of the river and was now flying the region above. He himself seemed quite shocked by the force of his jump.

"Did I just..." stuttered Reo, "came out flying from the riverbank?"

He himself was doubting whether he was having a dream. Such force, such power, the muscular strength was comparable to that of a Jounin.

It was just a mere push and yet he was flying across in the air at the moment.

"What happened?" asked Reo as he suddenly came to a moment of realization.

"Martin!" he exclaimed, "As far as I remember, he did say that he gave me some essence... blood essence, I guess."

He recalled that Martin seems to say something and after that, the tormenting pain crashed upon him.

"He said," whispered Reo as he placed one of his hands and pressed onto the front part of his head, "a couple drops of blood essence... Ah yes! he said that I will now be able to practice Mystic Shadow."

Reo was elated when he thought up to this point, but soon he revealed a horrified expression as he blurted out, "Shit... he knows about the technique. But how?"

Reo thought over it and as expected soon enough he got to a conclusion.

"Yes, I get it now. He must have restored and pretending to be asleep whenever I checked up on him. Damn..."

Reo turned angry as he understood how Martin seems to get the info on his 'Mystic Shadow'. But as soon as he got flared up, he calmed down as he laughed, "So he did not care about the technique. Wait... he even mentioned that it was a part of the heritage techniques. Interesting."

Reo was truly lucky, as he did not know at this point that heritage techniques, were those techniques that required the clan's lifeblood flowing in the veins of the user to get to use the technique. It was the same reason as to why Reo failed to comprehend the technique, even after assigning so much time to it.

Yet, now the barrier of the heritage techniques seemed too small for Reo. He soon will understand that what Martin has given him in such a short meeting has changed not only his fate but the fate of the entire shinobi world.

"Well, he said that now I would be able to comprehend the art, so its time to get started."

Reo was pumped up and why not, he had spent a lot of time and effort to understand, yet was not able to understand even a tiny bit of it. And now the opportunity to pick up on the fruits of his hard work and patience was now so close to him that he almost felt like living a fantasy.

He quickly lugged across the trees and came over to the usual spot that was the very same spot where he had been practicing and training in the technique.

As soon as reached, he took a seat and took the stance as mentioned in the 'Mystic Shadow' technique. This time, unlike the previous times, he was able to vary his breathing pattern accordingly with the change instances.

Previously, whenever he practiced, he was unable to achieve such perfect harmony. The credit should also be given to the fact, that now his physical prowess has been improved by heaps and bounds.

Unknown to Reo as his eyes were closed at the current moment, a purple sparkle lighted across his chest at the very same place where it sank earlier when he came conscious.

With the arrival of the sparkle, Reo felt a cooling sensation around his heart and the main pass to solve this art was also taken down.

As 'Mystic Shadow' was a heritage technique, hence, it verified the existence of its blood races by posing a restriction at the hearts location since its the very place where each and every drop of blood present in the body has to travel through.

Quickly, a crackling sound came out from Reo's body as he excitedly yelled from the discovery, "Fuck yeah! I have comprehended the I level of Mystic Shadow."

Along with the shout, sun was starting to show its majesty in the sky above.