13 Step 7.5
Thanks to these runs at the limit, I had increased my speed by two units, and my agility and endurance by one. I was sometimes caught up, but they didn't hit me too hard, at least there were no broken bones, and the bruises and abrasions themselves healed very quickly. So I had this kind of training once every couple of days.
Sitting in dark corners, too, did not go without consequences, but there was nothing like that at first, just the system periodically issued a message about the increase in affinity to the elements of darkness, not much, just a tenth of a percent, but quite often. And when it crawled to three and a half percent, the increase stopped.
But that was not the most important thing ,when I was once again sitting in a dark alley, in the shadow of a garbage can, trying to hide from the owner of the butcher shop, whom I was pestering with my new ability, and apparently a little too much, because he rushed after me with a cleaver in his hands. Check to see if he's going to use it or not, I had no desire, and ran this hog despite its size very fast, so I had to hide. When I literally pressed myself into the darkest part of the corner, hoping that I would not be noticed, the system gave me a message.
*Param pampam.
*Congratulations!!!
*You have acquired the skill "Deep Shadow Plane Dive" Level 1.
*"Deep Shadow Plane Diving":
*You are able to dive into the deep shadow plane, and move between shadows through it.
When I read it and realized what I had received, I ran out of that alley with joyful shouts. As time had shown, it was in vain; the butcher had not yet gone far enough. They didn't mince me, of course, but they made a chop.
The skill I had learned fit so well into my genius plan that I could already see the mountains of SCs, and the millions of experience points I would gain. But it was all spoiled by my lack of observation and stealth.
After suffering for two weeks and not achieving results, I began to beg for these skills from the system. And so that she understood the importance and necessity of me obtaining these skills, I told her my brilliant plan. It was ingenious, and like all ingenious things it was simple. With observation, I would identify a victim I could handle, and with stealth, I would approach unnoticed and kill him, and just as unnoticed I would leave.
And with the ability to move between shadows, I could get anywhere. So I'd gain experience, get SC, and still get my revenge. But instead of giving me the skills I needed, the system gave me the following...
*Param pampam.
*Congratulations!!!
*You have completed the hidden quest.
*Come up with a "GENIAL PLAN" to gain power and wealth.
*As a reward, you receive an out of level artifact.
*P.S.
*Use it for its intended purpose.
I was so excited that I went straight to my inventory to see what I got, but my joy was short-lived until I saw what I got. And I got a lip-capper. To express all my gratitude for such an "artifact", I did not have time.
I hate moon.
But after sitting and thinking, I was inclined to agree that, yes, I was getting a little carried away. No, there was no doubt in my mind that I would kill him, and there was no doubt in the plan itself that it was feasible.
The only thing I didn't take into account was that the police here are made up of Uchiha's, who are clearly better than our own police force, and I don't know how they look for criminals. If I can cover up fingerprints, shoe prints, and other evidence of this kind, I don't have a clue what to do with something I don't even know about.
Yes, now that I think about it, I realize that I can be tracked by scent, there is a whole clan of dog-walkers. And even if I can cover all the tracks and clues leading to me. The locals have the Edo Tensei technique. They'll pick up a dead person and ask who killed you, and then nothing good will come of it for me.
*Intelligence +1
*Wisdom +1
*Intuition +1
Yeeaas, something is not a good tendency, that all sensible thoughts come to my mind while sitting in the toilet. But I will not abandon the plan, I will just postpone the implementation until the end of the academy, there I can find out more about the ways of searching and covering my tracks.
And the Uchiha's will be gone by then, too.Okay, stop making plans in the toilet, or the God of Games will give me another achievement.
*Param pampam.
*Congratulations!!!
*You have received the achievement of "The Toilet Sage".
*"The Toilet Sage":
*Chance of gaining insight while in the toilet +15%.
*Intelligence, Wisdom and Intuition +5.
- FUUU**....
I didn't get out of the bathroom until five hours later, the debuff had gotten worse, and four more hours had been added to the time I had left. There was a full moon tonight or something.
But, as they say, there is no harm without good, and during this time I got some good ideas, and in addition, Iand beyond that, I thought about what I was going to do next.
First, I need to improve my physical characteristics, because the clashes with the village children showed that I'm not superman, far from it. Secondly, I should take care of gaining experience, new levels would not be superfluous.
This should help me quests, and illusory barriers. But to deploy the barriers, you need to find the right place, and then deploy anywhere and get mobs two-hundredth level.
The third thing that follows is to thoroughly investigate the village. In addition to the right places, maybe I'll find something useful, Orochimaru's secret laboratory, or Uzumaki's block under the protective barrier. And finally, fourth, is to figure out the chakra and its management, to practice diving into the shadow plane, and to increase the affinity with the elements.
With the elements it was relatively simple, using darkness as an example, I concluded that the more you are or come into contact with a given element, the greater the affinity. If you are in contact with water, earth, wind, and light, there is relatively no problem. Standing in the wind, swimming, sunbathing, and lying on the ground is not a problem, but lightning and fire are.
There was no desire to electrocute myself and stick my hands in the fire. And as for the increase in affinity with death, the ideas reeked of extreme idiocy. With life and chaos, not even the extremely delusional ones.
Here's another problem was with the quests, or rather their complete absence, the inhabitants do not take, they have only one quest for me, called "go somewhere and die, demon". The system also gave nothing. Therefore, all hope was on the illusory barriers.
Well, the plan of action was made, and all that remained was to put it into practice.
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Danzo Shimura was in his office reviewing reports and documents, among them the Jinchuriki surveillance reports. These were the ones that caused the head of the Root the most headaches. The strange, and at times highly inadequate, behavior of the jinchuriki was disturbing. Especially when he talked to himself, or simply sat motionless for long periods of time with an absent look.
But the experts who compiled the psychological profile argued that for an unsociable loner of his age, such behavior was not far from the norm. And other strange behavior, such as mentioning names of non-existent people, as well as a strong hatred of the moon, and meaningless muttering of some set of sounds, were caused by a conflict of mental tabs set by Hiruzen's subordinate.
Reading the reports, Danzo was amazed that ninety percent of what the jinchuriki said was swearing, another seven percent was meaningless mumbling, and only the remaining three were normal speech.
The moon was the subject of especially colorful and lengthy epics. He had to swear at the moon for half an hour without repeating himself even once. Even in his diary, his dream was to destroy the moon. What was wrong with it?
One particularly meticulous subordinate expressed the opinion that these obscene epics were some kind of cipher.
It's an interesting idea to get a not very reliable person to deliver scrolls of these epics, under the guise of secret reports, and leak information about him to enemies. Both the unreliable element would be eliminated by strangers, and the enemies would be confused.
Having made this decision, Shimura called a subordinate and gave the appropriate orders.
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And Naruto spent the next two weeks wondering where and how he could mess with Botsume Konotori of Kumogakure so badly that his reputation with him fell every day until it reached the point of fierce hatred.
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And Encryption Department employee Botsume Konotori sent more and more gruesome curses at the author of this obscene cipher every day.
