79 Sage Mode

Kentaro began climbing the tree, his agility and explosiveness had increased. He could even use his feet, it was as if he had done it his whole life.

"Jump down! It took you twelve seconds." Kentaro jumped down from the top of the tree.

'Shit, I have to expell the excess natural energy that my body absorbs while using the natural energy to strengthen myself.'

Doing multitasking was much more complex than what it seemed.

"Come on what are you waiting for!? Climb the tree!" Kaito was losing patience.

Kentaro listened to his command and climbed the tree. Every time he would climb, he would climb it faster.

On the hundred fifty-five attempt, Kentaro managed to climb the tree in three seconds.

"Finally! This should have taken fifty attempts. You must be serious in what you do, but you didn't dissapoint me, you climbed it in three seconds instead of four."

Kaito kicked Kentaro in the back and made him fall to the ground, he then jumped down from the tree.

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, MONKEY SA-!"

Kaito shut him down with one big slap of his little monkey hand.

"Shut up! Now, you must jump from tree to tree. Go through the whole jungle and come back here, you have ten minutes. If you fail, I will stop your apprenticeship!"

Kentaro was shocked, Kaito always told him to shut up, but he never said that he will stop his apprenticeship.

"Don't worry, monkey sage! I will be back here in ten minutes." Kentaro gave thumbs up to Kaito.

"Why should I worry? Worriness does not exist in the mind of a sage, always remember that."

Kentaro nodded and climbed the tree extremely fast, he began to jump from tree to tree.

He was getting better at expelling the excess of natural energy and using it at the same time.

'I understand the benefits of what I'm doing now. It's to increase my mastery of expelling and using.'

Kentaro fell a couple of times, but it was part of the training. He immediately stood up and resumed.

Kentaro went through the whole forest and returned to Kaito.

"8 minutes! It's good, but it could be better. Now you're going to wash yourself with the other monkeys."

Kentaro passed the four next days climbing trees, going through the whole forest, doing monkey things and washing with them.

Kentaro had been in the jungle for one whole week, he had perfected his mastery of the natural energy.

He didn't need to expell the excess of natural energy that his body absbored, his own body kept the balance of energies.

This was the fruit of labor, he had been trained so much by Kaito that everything was done automatically and without struggle.

Far from the jungle near the fields of blue flowers, on a tree. Kentaro was sitting in meditation pose on a big leaf.

His eyes had golden pigmentation around them. From each eye, a golden pigmentation line went to the tamples and stopped to the hairs and a big red dot was on his forehead.

'I can finally return, my problem has been solved by the monkey sage.'

Kentaro opened his eyes, his golden iris and red pupil gazed over the serene field.

Kentaro stood up and jumped down, he ran back to the jungle. This time, he saw himself get closer when running.

The first time he tried to run towards the jungle, it seemed as if it was unattainable.

It was because one needs to use natural energy to enter the Kukishoku jungle, unless one is led by people who encircle him and use their natural energy instead.

"Little Kentaro! Where have you been? Come here, I have to give you a couple of things before you go."

Kaito was accompanied by one hundred monkeys. He was holding a one meter long golden staff and a little cloth bag.

"Little Kentaro, why are you staying in sage mode?"

"My body constantly absorbs natural energy, so why not stay in sage mode permanently?"

Kaito had forgotten that Kentaro had a special constitution. He had a faint smile on his face and placed a big scroll in front of Kentaro.

'What the hell is the matter with that big ass scroll?' Kentaro scratched his head while analyzing the white scroll.

"This scroll is a summoning contract. Place your blood on it and the one hundred monkeys that are behind me will become your summons."

Kentaro gulped hard, one hundred monkeys assisting him on the battlefield would be insane.

With a little motion of his finger, a little gust of wind almost invisible made a little cut in his right hand.

Kentaro placed his hand above the opened scroll and drops of blood fell from the cut.

"Perfect!" Kaito faintly pushed Kentaro back to make place for himself. He then placed his hand on the scroll and made the contract official.

The scroll disappeared and Kaito shoved the golden staff and the cloth bag in Kentaro's hands.

"Monkey sage, I will be forever grateful to you." he saw the monkey sage as his savior.

"Little Kentaro, you can come here and collect the unique bananas every twenty years. So, when I'll see you back, you'll be a forty year old man."

Kaito patted Kentaro's arm a couple of times and resumed.

"The Sage Arts I have teached you, use them as you wish. Show the power of the way of the monkey, HONOR US."

Kaito jumped high in the air when he finished his sentence, he came down on Kentaro and whipped him with his tail.

The tail of the monkey sage was so powerful that it knocked Kentaro down.

Everything went black, Kentaro felt as if he was flying in the void until he began falling.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" he opened his eyes and saw himself falling down to what seemed to be the sea.

The naked Kentaro controlled his fall and made sure that his feet touched the water before anything else.

"SPLAAAAASHHHH!" the water splashed so high, it seemed as if there was an explosion. The water fell down, Kentaro stood there on the water.

He was slightly squatting, his head faced the water. He slowly lifted his head and looked in the direction of the land of lightning.

"It's time to get serious." Kentaro vanished from his position, only a gust of wind remained.