Chapter 2: Chapter 2: Sage's Transformation
In the middle of the night, the old dean slowly pulled open the door to her room, taking the candle and looking into the room to see the faces of the children, nodding in satisfaction as she realized that they were all sound asleep before carefully closing the door to her room.
A few minutes later, with the sound of the old dean's footsteps walking down the hallway in the distance, Kirito slowly opened his eyes before gently getting up from the blankets and leaving the room unnoticed.
"The moon is very full tonight."
Kirito looked at the moon in the night sky and smiled before leaving the orphanage with the help of the bright moonlight.
After a short while, he came to the outside world and sat down on a large rock, closing his eyes and adopting a posture of meditating in silence under the full moon.
Kirito quickly cleared his mind of all distractions, allowing his mind to enter an empty state as much as possible.
Soon, he noticed many colorful points of light appearing in his dark vision, slowly gathering around him and then entering his body.
The moment the points of light entered his body, Kirito immediately felt a tingling sensation coming from his body, but it was accompanied by an indescribable feeling of smoothness that made Kiryu enjoy himself a bit.
Painful and yet pleasurable, that was Kirito's current feeling.
Therefore, Kirito willingly continued to silently endure the pain from the point where the light entered his body.
As time passed, the pain increased, along with the corresponding feeling of euphoria, as Kirito began to sweat, his breathing intensified, and his skin gradually turned red.
After about a minute, when a feeling of saturation appeared in his body, Kirito opened his eyes and interrupted his cultivation.
After that, he jumped down from the boulder and hugged it with his tiny hands.
The next moment, the stone, which weighed at least hundreds of pounds, was lifted by Kirito.
After about ten seconds had passed, Kirito, who had been holding back his little red face, finally couldn't hold on any longer and put the stone down with both hands in the air.
"Whew~, I finally made it through ten seconds."
Kirin clapped his hands and gasped.
Born to absorb natural energy, i.e. Senjutsu, was the ability Kirito gained by absorbing the memories of the original host after crossing over, and to put it bluntly, this was the original host's natural ability.
However, the original host was too weak, and after awakening this ability similar to Jugo, due to unconsciously absorbing the natural energy, he immediately fell seriously ill, and finally, because he could not bear the torment of his body day and night, coupled with the idea of taking his life for a long time, this negative idea was amplified by the natural energy, and as a result, it was easier for the current Kirito to take over this body.
After Kirito crossed over, he was also tormented by the natural energy for a while, and the reason why he was able to survive was due to the advantages of being a traveler, foresight, and a system.
His system is an attribute panel thing that digitizes his abilities in detail and calls them up at will for him to view at any time.
Relying on the attribute panel, Kirito was the first to realize that he was being tormented by something like Natural Energy, and then relying on keeping his mood calm and eliminating negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, and anger, he finally succeeded in switching off the automatic absorption of Natural Energy by his own will.
Natural energy was undoubtedly a very powerful force, and it was the basis for practicing senjutsu.
It was just that those who did not have the body of a sage and absorbed it rashly often ended up turning into stone.
Natural energy was undoubtedly a very powerful force, and it was the basis for practicing senjutsu.
It is just that those who do not have the body of a sage and absorb it rashly often end up turning into stone.
And even though people with natural absorption of natural energy don't turn to stone, if they don't have enough understanding of natural energy, they won't be able to control it perfectly, and their negative emotions will increase, eventually leading to violent self-destruction.
Kirito possessed the ability to become a sage, of course he would not waste this talent, especially in the current situation where he was weak and had no one to rely on, it was even more important to tap into this aspect of his potential as much as possible so that he could gain the power to defend himself in this strange world.
Thus, after he successfully mastered the switch to absorb nature's energy, he secretly practiced nature's energy, and in order to keep it as secret as possible, he would sneak out every night to practice.
After a while, he realized that he could not cultivate natural energy overnight, and that he had to do it gradually.
From now on, he could only absorb a little bit of natural energy every day, and if he absorbed more, he would run the risk of his body bursting or going crazy.
Natural Energy was worthy of being a powerful force, he had only been practicing for about a month, and his physical quality had improved significantly.
Kirito could clearly see this from the change in the strength and speed values displayed above the attribute panel; when he first crossed over, Kirin's strength and speed were both 0, showing that his strength and speed were not worth mentioning, and now both strength and speed had reached 2.
Kiryu's own current attribute panel looks like this:
Attribute panel:
Ninjutsu 0, Body 0, Illusion 0, Wisdom 2, Strength 2, Speed 2, Essence 1, Seal 0
(Ninjutsu: Skill and proficiency in Ninjutsu, Body: Skill and proficiency in Body Arts, Illusion: Skill and proficiency in Illusion Arts, Wisdom: Wealth of knowledge and IQ, Strength: Muscular strength of the entire body such as wrist strength, foot strength, etc., Speed: Speed of movement and reaction, Essence: Amount of Chakra, and Seal: Skill and proficiency in Hand Seals)
Physical: Sage Body
Chakra Affinity: Thunder, Yin, Yang
Chakra Nature: Wind 0, Fire 0, Water 0, Earth 0, Thunder 0, Yin 0, Yang 0
Ninjutsu:
Enhancement points: 0
In addition to the increase in power speed, his perceptual abilities had also improved, especially his vision (including dynamic vision), hearing, and perception of chakra; it had become difficult to hide any wind movement within a twenty-meter radius of him.
There was also chakra, a power derived from the fusion of physical and mental energy, which slowly increased as the natural energy stored in his body increased.
Kirito currently did not know how to refine chakra, when he first crossed over, he had very little chakra in his body, and the essence of the attribute panel showed 0, but now it was already essence 1, so it can be seen that the cultivation of natural energy will also increase chakra.
Kirito guessed that this might have something to do with the increase of his physical energy and spiritual energy, and the practice of natural energy could increase both of them.
After Kirito finished practicing natural energy, he picked up some small stones on the ground and after collecting about a hundred of them, he threw them hard at a nearby rock.
He couldn't find a decent weapon in the orphanage, so the stones that were scattered on the ground became his favorite weapons, and he used them to practice Flying Stone Technique, a simple and practical means of attack, and after practicing it, it would be convenient for him to practice throwing senbon later on.
The improvement in his muscle strength and eyesight gave him an advantage in practicing Flying Stone Technique, the stones he threw were fast and fierce, after nearly a month of training, his Flying Stone Technique had already become a small success, his power technique and accuracy had improved nicely.
After throwing 100 stones, Kirin waved his slightly sore hands before returning to the orphanage.
When he returned, he found Nono at the door.
Not surprised, Kirito just smiled at the blonde girl and said, "Ah, good evening."
He snuck out every night and it must have been hard to hide it from the others when he did it so often.
As they say, you can't walk along the river without getting your shoes wet.
After all, he wasn't a powerful ninja, he was just an ordinary kid.
Not long ago, he was discovered by Nono, who was the first to know about it, but she didn't say anything about it, instead she offered to help him cover it up.
Kirito asked why she was willing to help him, to which Nono replied that we were family.
Since then, Kirito has finally found a home in this other world, developing a sense of belonging to the orphanage and wishing the best for his family living here.
The fish trap was Kirito's first gift to his family.
When Nono heard Kirito's greeting, she rolled her eyes at him in dismay, then handed him a change of clothes and said, "Wash up before you come back to bed, and move gently, Dean's been sleeping rather shallowly lately."
"Okay."
Kirito took the clothes and smiled.
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