Chapter 4: The Experiment.
In the apartment of our protagonist, Naruto is lying on the floor in the kitchen, asleep, in his hands there is a screwdriver and a hammer.
Above the table there is a kind of machine under construction, surrounded by dozens of cups full of various luminous substances.
"Damn machine ... no ice cream ... no ramen ... just poisonous soup," Naruto murmured in his, as it seems to create a frozen factory machine is a more difficult task than expected.
But creating possibly toxic substances is an easy task for Naruto's cooking skills.
Thanks to heaven that in the bowels of Naruto there is a certain demon fox, without it, Naruto would have died asleep at the first sip.
However, Naruto's sweet sleep has been interrupted by a loud ring, which comes from the Naruto Omni-Tool.
"Nobody touches my Ramen!" Naruto shouted, waking up suddenly, standing up and taking a fighting position.
Looking around for a thief who wants to steal his ramen, as if there is such a thief, Naruto has noticed that the noise comes from his Omni-Tool.
"I feel like an idiot," Naruto murmured, seeing that his exaggerated reaction to the ringtone of his multipurpose gadget, in both defense, the master of Naruto is training him to react, you have noises and you wake up suddenly.
Responding to the call, a holographic image of Mystic wearing his usual black suit, with his lab coat on and his multi-functional belt on.
"Good morning, Naru-Chan, today the lessons are canceled, in exchange I have prepared a special program, a little experiment and a school trip, I want you on the Hokage monument in an hour." He told Mystic, before closing the call, leaving Naruto with his thoughts.
"Mystic-Sensei has canceled the lessons, it never happened before, this means that it will be an unforgettable one!
Perhaps the experiment I talked about above is about giving me Mana and Od.
I can't wait any longer, I'm about to become the greatest magus of all time, Dattebayo! "Naruto shouted, full of excitement, running out of the apartment, forgetting to have breakfast or to close the front door.
Well the last one is not such a big problem, with all the runes engraved on the walls no normal person can approach the apartment without permission.
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Shortly afterwards, above the Hokage monument, Naruto is cursing his impulsive habit of running without thinking.
"Mystic-Sensei said, getting to your destination in an hour. That means he won't show up sooner or later," said Naruto sullenly, putting a hand on his stomach for food.
"I should have had breakfast," Naruto said, feeling his stomach declare war on his brain.
"If I go home to eat, I risk being late and I will be punished." Naruto said, in a frightened tone, feeling a strong chill all over.
"What a monster forces a child to write a 100-page essay on the difference between Dead Apostles and True Ancestor."Naruto said, trembling with fear at such an inhuman punishment.
Clearly this little apprentice is a bit crazy, the cause of the many beatings on the head by the villagers or the lessons of his semi-crazy teacher?
"At least it is certain that it will be a fantastic experiment. This magic circle is so big and complicated, the bigger it is, the more amazing is the result, Dattebayo!" Naruto exclaimed, looking at his master's work.
On the surface of the Hokage monument there is a huge magic circle, with a circumference of three hundred meters.
Naruto's magic studies are just beginning, but even a beginner can tell the complexity of this magic circle, there are hundreds of runes and numerous precious gems full of magical energy.
"When Mystic-Sensei arrives, I'm dying to see what this thing is going to do!" He said Naruto, excited to see a magic of the highest level, until now the magic that have been seen to be small enough for Naruto's tastes.
" I'm already here !" He said a base and thin voice that comes from behind Naruto, while a dagger made a thin cut on his cheek.
"haaaaaaaa!" He shouted Naruto, starting to run to save his life, but he took no more than two steps to realize that he had the jerks of the shoes tied together, so Naruto stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Naru-chan, are you okay?" Said the owner of the dagger, which scared Naruto to death.
Recognizing the voice, Naruto calms down and stands up, discovering that his assailant is ...
"Mystic-Sensei, I was going to cause a heart attack!" Naruto shouted, angry at his teacher who decided to take a bad joke.
"Naru-chan is only four or five years old, a heart attack is unlikely for you." Mystic commented, confident that Naruto is exaggerating.
"Because in the name of Kami you did something like that," Naruto asked, up until now Mystic has never expressed an interest in making jokes.
"Two reasons. Number one, a lesson, a real warrior is always ready for combat and never lowers his guard," Mystic replied in a serious tone, giving a lesson to his young apprentice on trial.
"While you were talking to yourself, not only did I get close behind you, but I also sabotaged your shoes, if you were a murderer or a sniper you could be dead or worse," Mystic said, continuing with his stern teaching tone .
"Understood, today's lesson is to always be vigilant, don't let your guard down for any reason and be attentive to the environment around you." Naruto said, in a monotonous tone, repeating some of his teacher's wise (and paranoid) words .
"Is that the second reason to scare me?" He asked Naruto curious, putting his hand on his cut cheek already healing, then giving a quick glance to Mystic's dagger.
Instead of the usual Black Keys, Mystic used a golden dagger decorated with precious gems of various colors.
If Mystic just wanted to teach him a lesson, just frighten him, then why hurt him, well hurt him is a big word, why cut it?
Especially because using a gold dagger, gold is a weak material, plus those gems can reflect light and foil the element of surprise.
"Is it somehow about your new dagger?" He asked Naruto, wanting to see if his hypothesis is true.
"Apparently my lessons are bearing fruit, you start using that little head of yours," Mystic said, stroking Naruto's head, giving him some affection for using his head.
"You guessed it, to perform today's experiment I need two things: this instrument is a little blood," Mystic said, making some moves with the golden dagger.
For example, throw the dagger in the air with your right hand and land it in your left hand.
Except that instead of the golden dagger in the left hand there is something else.
"Let me introduce you to one of my most powerful and rare instruments, Bezel's lost scepter, is it a beauty?" Mystic said, showing Naruto one of his magical artifacts, a 200 cm long gold stick, takes on characteristics similar to those of the caduceus of the Greek god Hermes. It is intertwined with six snakes and in each of the mouths of the snakes that hold it holds a jewel of a different color, one of its interesting features is its lower end that resembles a kind of large archaic key.
"This thing is one of the rel-rel ..." Naruto is trying to utter a word quite complicated for a four-year-old.
"The word you are looking for is a relic," Mystic said, giving a quick correction to Naruto's pronunciation.
"Yes, a very very old object, with so many magical powers that can destroy a city, Dattebayo!" He shouted Naruto, super excited, unable to stay in the skin anymore.
In the last few months, in the small head of Naruto, a lot of knowledge has been inserted, many of them concern in some way the magic or the legendary heroes who use fantastic objects (Noble Phantasm, Mystic Code, artifacts, relics etc) to become legends.
Consequently, the mind of Naruto recorded this information / logic, magical things are very cool and who uses them is a fantastic person.
"I can touch it," Naruto asked, wanting to hold the golden scepter for at least a second and be able to do magic never seen before.
"Naru-chan doesn't ..." Mystic is trying to warn his apprentice, but Naruto is lost in his world.
The apprentice ignored the teacher's words and tried to grab Bezel's scepter.
In just an instant after having touched the magical relic, it shines and throws Naruto into the air, as if it were made of paper.
Naruto's misfortune didn't stop there, Naruto was thrown out of the Hokage monument.
"Touch the stick, because it is bewitched, if you are not its master you will be damaged" Mystic has finished saying his warning, simultaneously the laws of gravity have entered into force and Naruto is falling to a bad end.
" Help !" He shouted Naruto, wildly moving his hands and arms, looking for something to grab to stop his fall.
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"This idiot because he never manages to listen, we step forward, then we take two steps back," sighed Mystic, wondering if he should prepare a more ... strict study regime.
"Eloah, I like to see you care about Naruto's education. But your apprentice is falling and he will soon be smashed on the ground! " Ali Ali communicated, Metatron, who lives inside Mystic's head.
"Okay, first I save him, then I give him a good lesson," Mystic said, with a smirk under his mask, slamming the stick on the ground, making one of Bezel's six gems shine, thus triggering one of the relic's powers.
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Returning to Naruto, he finds himself half way to hit the ground, fortunately his fall suddenly stopped, it seems that the law of gravity has been tampered with because Naruto is going up, he is precisely floating towards Mystic, like if he was a magnate.
In a matter of seconds, Naruto finds himself floating in front of Mystic and the latter doesn't look happy.
"Naru-chan, the next time you ignore my warnings or don't listen to my words, I dropped you.
I promise you that I will make sure that you do not die, but you will not go out unharmed, wrapped in pain is the best teacher, "said Mystic, slamming the stick on the ground, deactivating his powers, denying tampering with gravity, consequently Naruto fell on ground.
'Mystic-Sensei wrapped up is more frightening than death itself' He thought Naruto, wondering if it was better to suffer a very likely fatal fall than to face an angry Mystic-Sensei.
"For the moment I pretend that you didn't do something stupid and it was just a little while before you joined Akasha.
Let's continue with the experiment, no, let's continue with this important procedure for your future, but first let me explain what it consists of. "Mystic said, buying Naruto's full attention.
"Magic is an art without limits, some may call it omnipotent.
Not everyone can practice it, something is needed, every people to its own methods to tap into arcane power and use it at will.
In most cases I use the Magic Circuits in my body to produce magic or Mana energy.
Your people use a combination of physical and spiritual energy, creating the Chakra and using it to practice Ninjutsu, a fairly good, but still limited imitation of offensive magic.
According to my studies, a person born with Chakra to learn the arcane arts has two methods:
A) Long and difficult method, decades of study and practice so that it poses to separate the spiritual energy from the physical energy, a process quite difficult for an organism accustomed for millions of years to use the Chakra.
B) Short and easy method, an archmage like me, can use his knowledge and his artifacts to create Magic Circuits and make it possible to use magic in a few days instead of decades.
Naru-chan what do you choose, method B or method A? "Asked Mystic, already knowing Naruto's answer, the child can barely wait for the food to cool, but wait decades to become a magician.
"What are we waiting for, Mystic-Sensei uses your magic stick and makes me a super-magician, Dattebayo!" He shouted Naruto, throwing himself in the air, unable to wait so long, he wants to become a magician now.
"I already have some of your blood for the ritual, you just have to go inside the magic circle and I'll do the rest," Mystic said, while Naruto nods and puts himself in position, ready to make his first real steps in the world of magic.
"Time to pull out my favorite book," Mystic said, making a small book with a metal cover appear in his left hand.
Naruto is watching his teacher getting ready to do something big.
Holding the bezel scepter in his right hand and the grimoire in his left hand, Mystic looks a lot like the classic fantasy archmage, missing only a long beard and a pointed hair.
"Let's start, Codex Analysis: Creazion Hexenmeister!" He shouted Mystic, unleashing the magic of his Nobel Phantasm.
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The Phantasm Nobel by Alex Brunestud, Codex Analisys, belonging to several categories such as Support / Anti-Army and Anti-Fortress (EX)
A Grimoire that represents Alex's Archive Origin, has a connection with Infinity Dream.
First known as Manuscrisul by Xela-Voynich or Controller Dream, in practice it is Alex's true Noble Phantasm.
This Grimoire contains all of Alex's spells and more. Thanks to the connection with Reality Marble and the representation of the Archive.
Codex Analisys stores everything that Alex perceives, with its Mystic Eye, magic, objects, equipment, Noble Phantasm, moves, abilities, animals and people.
As if it had its own consience, it analyzes the 'subject' with a kind of Clairvoyance, then writes everything it can, about the person or the object.
This Noble Phantasm support has a lot of skill:
- Increases the user's arcane abilities, control and stability is four times larger than normal.
- All user spells can be activated avoiding "loading" time. Using only the name of the spell, the mana cost is reduced to a quarter.
- Once in the user's hands passively grants a skill to destroy any
magic, guaranteeing its owner the passive ability to deal with a grade A and lower Magecraft, even if its magic Resistance is normally C Rank, it is elevated to A Rank, making it effectively immune to all modern magecraft.
As Noble Phantasm Anti-Army and Anti-Fortress.
He manages to create 'artifacts', using Alex's talent as a writer and artist. Imagining the artifact, writing its history and drawing its appearance on the pages of Codex Analisys.
A process similar to creating a soul, mind and body.
The created artefact will be kept in Alex's archive, present in the Codex Analisys and in Reality Marble, Infinity Dream.
Not usable in combat due to the time involved in creation, the cost of magical energy for such an undertaking and the need for inspiration and imagination.
Alex can use the artifacts in the archive. It operates similar to 'Gate of Babylon' in summoning weapons inside, as there is only one-time expenditure of prana to make them come true.
However, the destruction of each artifact has a terrible cost, as the recreation of even one consumes a large amount of prana, equivalent to using a Noble Phantasm of Rank-A.
To use the Noble Phantasm present in the archive it is necessary to go through a recreation process, something that every spell and technique goes through.
Concept - Grasp the basic concept of magic or Noble Phantasm.
Alex must confirm both the name and the execution with his eyes and his ears.
Understanding - Understanding the basics, understanding the subject's history and characteristics.
Through the Grimori analysis and the memories of EMIYA, this phase is already done.
Reasoning - Analyze the fundamentals of magic or Noble Phantasm, then disassemble its 'chemical' structure, which simply means dismantling the "nature" of magic or Noble Phantasm through the use of logic or fantasy.
Forging - once the last three steps have been made, all that remains is to shape the magic or Noble Phantasm to adapt to your personal Alex criteria.
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After uttering his spell, a gigantic dome-shaped magic circle appeared around Mystic, which extends about ten meters from him.
The magic circle shines bright white and translucent diagrams of runes and symbols appear. These images change incessantly, with kaleidoscopic speed, which differed from one second to another.
Mystic is pronouncing ancient words in a language incomprehensible at a high speed.
A second dome is forming around Naruto, while the ground is covered by a third magic circle that is slowly growing.
"Whoa" Naruto whispered under his breath, seeing the magic of his master in action.
The little guy is very far from being a sensor / sensor or even what he is doing with precision.
But even in his ignorance Naruto can feel the raw power that Mystic is emanating, a monstrous amount of energy is coming out of his body.
Naruto's heart is filling with two strong emotions: fear and admiration.
Fear, pure power is monstrous, an energy different from anything you've ever heard.
The heart beats madly, Naruto feels like he is in front of him there is no man near her, but an alien creature so powerful that it can destroy him with only his presence.
The worst part that this power is not fully awake or used, looks like a newborn flame or a dragon that is just waking up.
If Naruto was more normal he would have certainly escaped without looking back.
Admiration, his teacher is powerful without a trace of doubt, a person so strong as to be inhuman is wasting his time teaching them.
Naruto understands that he is not the strongest, smartest, fastest or agile of Konoha, indeed almost everyone considers him an inept with no future.
An orphan without any special qualities, he among all received the possibility of learning from a man who can easily kill a kage.
This awareness gave birth to a new desire in Naruto's mind.
"I want to be as strong as he is," Naruto thought, before everything he saw was swallowed by a very strong light, followed by a stab of pain in his chest then ...
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A few seconds ago.
While Naruto was lost in his thoughts, Mystic's spell is about to reach its final.
The magic he is using is quite risky, but Mystic is sure that Naruto is there to survive.
What the spell does is quite simple to explain.
In trivial terms this magic transfers energy from one user to another.
In practice, Naruto's body is being pumped by the immense amount of Mystic's magical energy.
Normally such a thing would end up with the death of Naruto due to incompatibility between Chakra and Mana or Naruto's body cannot contain or metabolize energy therefore it should explode like a balloon too swollen.
A bad show, for this reason towards the end of the spell, when all the magic circles began to shine by transferring the energy.
Mystic threw his Grimoire, holding Bezel's scepter as if it were a spear, the master ran to his student.
Cutting the two away, Mystic pushed the lower part of his scepter into Naruto's rib cage.
"It will hurt a little, but all this pain deserves," Mystic said, pumping his energy into the scepter, activating one of his abilities to increase the abilities of a chosen individual.
In this case increase Naruto's healing abilities, as well as tripling the energy within him.
In an instant from all the pores of Naruto an uncontrollable wild energy similar to fire erupted, a combination of human Chakra, Demonic Chakra and Mana.
From the eyes, mouth, even from the fingers waves of energy are coming out, comparable to a Doctor Who regeneration process, only more violent and magical.
A person normally if he was close to Naruto would be thrown like a bomb or incinerated.
But Mystic is far from being a normal person.
"You're cooked enough, we close the fire and let it cool," Mystic said, joking in a fairly tense situation.
I have everything is going according to his plans or Mystic is crazy to tie, maybe both.
Removing the magic relic from Naruto's chest, Mystic kicked Naruto and put him on the ground.
Naruto now has a hole in his chest, but instead of running out of blood other wild energy is coming out.
"▂▂▂▃▃▃▄▄▄▅▅▅▅!" He roared Naruto, emitting an inhuman sound, his body is starting to become covered with cracks, the little one is just exploding or turning into a magical abomination.
"Kristal Soul" said Mystic, then clapped his hands creating a crystal ball as bright as the sun.
"Almost finished, it supports a little more," said Mystic, with a bittersweet tone, he doesn't like to inflict pain on Naruto, but all this is for his best.
"▂▂▂▃▃▃▄▄▄▅▅▅▅!" Naruto roared, rising to his feet and attacking his half-mad master.
Mystic sigh bored, Naruto's attacks are comparable to a mindless beast governed only by instinct.
Perhaps he could seriously injure or even kill a Shinobi Chunin, but Mystic is a Servan-Vampire who lived for more than half a millennium, for him it is impossible to be hurt by a possessed child who is not even a hundredth of his age.
Mystic easily dodging the first shots of Naruto Berserk, then selling an opening gave him a knee under his chin and sent him in mid-air.
Mystic grabbed Naruto by the neck, lifting in the air using only his left arms, while the other hand is holding the crystal ball.
Naturally Naruto tried to defend himself by throwing punches and kicks, but before his shots could touch Mystic, four energy chains came out of the ground and immobilized Naruto's arms and legs.
"Semiramis' spells are more useful than you can imagine," Mystic muttered, seeing that the tricks learned from the Wise Queen of Assyria are always effective and efficient.
Naruto coming that can no longer move his arms and legs, he did something that would take most people off guard, spit a stream of flames from his mouth.
A fairly good surprise attack, especially at a short distance from the enemy, but there are mistakes in Naruto's plan.
One, Mystic is not like most people.
Two, Mystic with his hand on Naruto's neck can feel the flames passing through Naruto's throat.
Increasing the grip on Naruto's colo, not only weakened the fire breath, but also distorted the aim, now the spit of fire is burning the air above Mystic.
"You're worse than a six-year-old girl who has to go to the dentist, you don't stop even a second." Mystic commented, criticizing Naruto's behavior, a strange moment to act in a fatherly way.
"I just have to put this enchanted crystal ball in the hole in your chest and it's all over.
Kristal Soul, once inside, goes around as a stabilizer, stopping this violent reaction of your body to this mystical energy mix.
What remains of your heart will become a Magic Core, then your entire nervous system will turn into magical pseudo-circuits.
Most likely there will be several side effects. But I'm sure most of them will be positive, "Mystic explained, squeezing the magic globe into the hole on Naruto's chest.
"▂▂▂▃▃▃▄▄▄▅▅▅▅!" Naruto shouted, while his whole body was hit by an indescribable pain.
The energy flow slowly starts to go off, Naruto's body is emitting several ellipticals and muscle spasms.
After a while Naruto returned to his usual self.
Mystic approaches Naruto's body, using an Omni-Tool a at some blood shows and several scans.
"Metatron, for the moment I can say that this experiment was quite successful.
Now let's take Naru-chan to my lab, prepare bioengineering equipment, it's up to science to do its part.
A little genetic manipulation can't do anything wrong, maybe I can add an X-gene in the Naruto genetic code.
Once the procedure is done, let's go and have fun outside this village, "Mystic said, with a devilish grin on his face, ending his orders to his AI friend.
Keep it going ...