Naruto: Kage of Kages

The only things left to mention of Shiki’s training was his progress on his Nirvana Hidden Jutsu and the progress of his stats.

On the former, there was really nothing much else to say with the Nirvana Art: Enlightened Mind’s Eye having already been explained and the other two Nirvana Arts not undergoing too many changes.

Nirvana Art: Three Bodies Breathing Method improved from 40% mastery to 50%, but the effects remained similar with a marginal increase in intensity, the real improvement was the technique now being constantly maintained without any thought or focus required.

Its patented effects of continuous physical and spiritual energy cultivation, increased physical and spiritual activation, intensification of chakra with greater control, all around increase of physical abilities and massive increase in energy recovery speeds along with moderate healing boost.

Shiki could now benefit from them at all times without needing to waste mental strength and focus on maintaining the method.

The final Nirvana Art was Kukyo that only underwent a small improvement from 7% to 10% with its effects remaining the exact same.

The big change that marked the first 10% milestone was the elimination of the subconscious resistance Shiki had against his own technique as a form of self genjutsu. With that being done, the boy could now activate Kukyo without suffering any mental exhaustion whatsoever.

As mentioned, the simple effects of emotion deadening, preventing them from affecting the user’s judgement, hypercognition inducement, intention concealment and powerful genjutsu resistance remained exactly as they were.

And with that settled, basic stats and fundamental skills were all that still needed to be discussed.

To better take advantage of his newly developed Assault Storage Seal, Shiki made sure to train in bukijutsu, the art of wielding weapons, which included the art of throwing shuriken and kunai as projectiles, getting the general skill to 30%.

For specifics, he fully mastered the Shadow Shuriken Jutsu, the ability to throw two projectiles simultaneously with one being hidden in the other’s shadow and learned the Prepared Needle Shot to a neat 50%.

The latter skill was the ability to shoot senbon, large needles, from either special mechanisms hidden within the user’s clothes or by spitting them from one’s mouth; this second method was the one Shiki focused on.

It was split into mastering the ability to safely hide prepared senbon in the user’s mouth and the ability to actually spit them out with enough force and speed. Like before, the second part was where the boy spent his effort.

And this was because he put a small Assault Storage Seal on his tongue from which he could summon senbon at will.

The seal was usually hidden, only revealing itself when activated and enabling opportunistic sneak attacks, greatly enhancing the usability of the Prepared Needle Shot.

As a side note, Shiki prepared two more Assault Storage Seals, one for each arm, larger ones that contained his regular ninja tools like kunai, shuriken, various types of paper tags, etc.

He also inadvertently created what he called the Hidden Hand Jutsu. When Shiki was practicing channeling his Chakra Cutter into kunai and shuriken with the Chakra Flow method, he discovered that he could maintain a tenuous control over the weapons after throwing them.

It was still a very underdeveloped jutsu however, barely meeting the 10% mark as it was accidentally created near the end of the boy’s month-long training.

Moving on to other base skills, when it came to genjutsu, Shiki only learned the standard technique for breaking out, Genjutsu: Release, to 30% mastery and that alone, along with his partially genjutsu based Kukyo, pushed him to the 10% milestone of genjutsu mastery.

For Ninjutsu, despite all of his practice with it, considering the bottomless depths of the art, Shiki went from 13% to 27% and he could feel the difficulty of increasing it would be growing at an extremely high rate.

On the contrary, despite only practicing basic taijutsu principles, the boy still managed to get to a neat 30% thought after that, it would not budge regardless of training, leading him to believe actual specialized styles and techniques were required to progress further.

With only the pure stats left, beginning with Affinities, the increases Shiki experienced from training showed and considering his low original values which should have made raising them easier, the speed was a bit bad for the boy’s liking, especially since it would only get slower.

As for Attributes, Shiki had finally hit the physical cap for his age. Without mutating his body through some external stimulus or waiting to get older, his physical stats would not be improving any more.

Agility had already reached B rank and though Shiki pushed it to the peak of that rank with his month long training, the rank itself remained the same.

Strength and Endurance both went from D rank to C rank both hitting their caps at the peak of that rank.

The boy’s Chakra Capacity, much like his Agility, had already reached B rank and just the same, it was pushed to the peak on that rank with his training with him not being able to push it any further.

As for Chakra Potency, Shiki did not feel any measurable change, it remained high B rank.

Hand Seal Mastery was raised from the pathetic 1% to a much more respectable 20% which represented full mastery of basic Hand Seals. It meant Shiki could perform all of the basic two handed hand seals with blinding speed and impeccable precision.

But things like making custom Hand Seal Sequences for jutsu or even just shortening the Sequences for jutsu he was not very familiar and extremely proficient with, was still beyond the boy’s grasp.

Finally, when it came to Chakra control, Shiki managed to boost his already extremely impressive 80% all the way to 90% which he deduced was the human limit.

Finer chakra control than this is beyond the skill of nearly any being, as the nature of chakra itself should not enable it to be manipulated at such a minute level.

And so, with all the details hammered down, Shiki took a good long look at his post training status sheet with great satisfaction gained from the numerical proof of his efforts.

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