Chapter 2: Ninjutsu and the ninja clan is born.
(Welcome back fellow readers, as I promised, second chapter will be posted when the view counts digits were double and the happy to see that you didn't give up on me so I thank you for your loyalty. Now then, Go on with the story.)
A year goes by as Komodo, now at the age of 8, has spent the year inside the Kagemori village's orphanage picking up a lot of things. He studied the emotions children showed and discovered the emotion of sadness, confusion, happiness, fear, anger, interest, disgust, and envy. After going through his hypothesis and conclusion of if he had those feelings as well, he found out that he had some of them but they were extremely dulled except hatred and only a high dose of emotional exposure would help him feel the others. Although he suffered those handicaps, he sought to overcome them by learning to be normal by reading the expression of every human he saw. He played games with the children to learn how to act like one and be one with his inner child but that didn't work out due to the kids fear of him so he learned from observing them all creating his personality. He watched all types of personalities and attitudes that showed up at the orphanage from happy-go-lucky to arrogant, from stoic to hot-headed, from stupid to battle-hungry and so on.
After learning that, he began molding his own personality that would go with his identity and further build his personality and finish another piece in his quest to gain true purpose for his life. Komodo also found out that due to the war with the supernatural, it was legal for orphaned kids from ages 7 and up were randomly drafted into the military. Luckily for him, depending on how one looks at it, he was chosen. After being drafted they went through an initiation of how they were tools to the emperor to end the existence of supernatural beings. The teachers may have told an abridged version to the children but Komodo knew what they really meant by that. He also learned that there that samurai seemed to be the only military might that they used when they had other warrior types like fist fighters and sorcerers. When he asked that innocent question, it immediately caused a confrontation and they immediately expelled him for coming up with such a blasphemous idea and was labeled a draft dodger.
Word had spread around as kids called him a failure after being kicked out and was evicted out of the orphanage by the head patron which caused the madness in his mind to begin growing. Komodo couldn't understand what he did wrong as the madness inside him roared at their insolence and how at the flip of a switch that the positive emotions immediately turned negative toward him on a dime. He now wanted to consume this entire village while Annaisha soothed his wrath and explained to him that he wasn't dealing with an average human. These humans were on a whole different level that he did not know and they might have ways to possibly kill him. If he was successful in killing everyone here then what would he do now? Would he continue what he was doing before and wait many more months to find food again? She also explained that while his question was innocent, he didn't know the full history of the village and advised him to head to a public library to learn everything about the village and the world.
Komodo followed the advice of his confidant and calmed down. If those foolish creatures think that they will stop him from getting strong then they were wrong. After being kicked out, he headed towards a public library to learn all he could about the world, monsters and warriors alike. He learned that the giant snake creature he killed was called a Basilisk. Reading what the creature was capable of. It gave him the answer of why he passed out and woke up inside the snake's stomach before eating his way out of the snake, killing it. Since he had died and as long as he had evolution energy, Annaisha had given him the ability of adaptive resurrection. Apparently staring into a basilisk eye caused instant death due to some type of magical ability and its poison caused untold amounts of damage. After experiencing the killer glance, Komodo was now immune to the glace and since he ate the basilisk, he was able to use the ability as well after testing it on vermin instead people which would draw attention but got tired immediately meaning he must have used a power source he didn't know he had.
Annaisha had given him an analysis that he had unintentionally used all of his usable "Mana." Confused by this, Komodo asked her to explain what that was. She went on to explain that mana is the ability to manipulate the energy that is used to form magic. Mana is an impersonal source of energy that is both external and internal, existing in people, places and objects, and can be transmuted by the user into magical powers that yields upstanding results in both practice and combat and the user is able to draw the energy from their surroundings or the mana reserves. However, the ability of mana relies more on the use of different methods of magic such as spoken incantations, mystic items, spell books, charms, talismans, weapons, etc. and many other ways in order to achieve the effects that the user desires. It is the power source that the warrior type "Sorcerers" used.
Thanking his confidant for her support, he continued on with his studies. He sought to master reading, writing, medicine, military, and any other branches of educational activities. To the average human, all that studying would be impossible or take decades to learn but since his IQ was 420 and he had Annaisha who had a higher IQ of 2000 due to the many brains she assimilated from the foundation members to gain a massive edge to help her host immensely. He could cut that time down exponentially. He first learned about the village's history and found out what was the blood feud that was going on in the village. The village is divided into three districts and each district has a power source that they believed to be the strongest in the village and the world.
With the samurai district, they believed in the power of soul force or spiritual energy. A user of soul force can create, shape and manipulate their own or others' spiritual power, which is generated by every sentient being that possesses a soul, or in places with powerful spiritual influence. They can convert it into various forms of energy, manifest it into solid form, merge into existing objects, and gain access to their own spiritual dimension or "Soul realm." This power source is used by samurais only. Their way of the warrior they follow is swordsmanship and consider battling with their hands and feet below them, and for the poor and weak who can't lift a weapon. Next were the fist combatants. These warriors consider chi the strongest power and consider using weapons were for cowards. Chi is the power to manipulate the flow of latent energy that is present in the body and is the physical counterpart of soul force which is the spiritual counterpart. By learning to harness this inner latent energy, they can gain superhuman capabilities and use them in cases of extreme combat.
Some examples include physically manifesting all of their inner strength and unleashing it to the fullest extent of its power through sheer force of will. The control of one's chi can allow extraordinary abilities such as strength, speed, durability, and reflexes, or in some cases, enabling the use of energy blasts, elemental manipulation, hyper awareness, and sometimes invulnerability. Komodo could clearly see that chi and soul force can do almost the same thing but could see the minor differences. The last warrior type is the sorcerers and they consider the mana best power source due to its ability to bend the rules of reality and break the rules of science. Sorcerers believed that fists and weapons were pathetic and that mana is the way. The reason for the blood feud is due to the tournament that is held every 20 years called "Champion of Champions" tournament.
The champion of champions tournament is where the best of samurais, fist combatants, and sorcerers compete in a bracket tournament to gain the honor of becoming the emperor and the strongest warrior in the village. Komodo discovered that they had two things in common and it was that they believed that their source of power was absolute and that they all follow the number one warrior code.
"Absolute power is all that matters."
Absolute power? Absolute power?! ABSOLUTE POWER?! Those were the thoughts that roared inside Komodo's head since he was an inch away from going into a frenzy. What has absolute power done anything for him. The H.E.L.L. foundation always talked about him being absolute power but all that did was cause him pain, torture, madness and most importantly his freedom. After going through the history, Komodo can confidently say that while these humans were rightfully strong, they also were extremely stupid and hypocritical. It's illogical to hold hatred over a pathetic excuse such as a power source when all three power sources basically come from the same category and instead of striving for a common goal of surviving together, they want to hate on someone due to the power they wield or the money they make more than others.
But then again, he thought, who was he to judge? He hated all life, so what he said or thought was hypocritical but at least he is willing to give the benefit of the doubt, no matter how disgusting that idea is to him. Besides, what idiot hates someone or something they do not understand? Not only was it illogical, it was downright remedial but once again, who was he to judge? At least he had a legit reason instead of a stupid one. He couldn't be a samurai, sorcerer, or fist fighter. Nor does he want to, so what was he to do now? He decided then and there that he would create his own race of a warrior. A warrior that lives and fights in the light and shadows.
A warrior that embraces the unknown and is a master of all he sees, all he hears, all he touches and all he is. A warrior that takes their secrets to their grave. A warrior that does not follow the illusions of what is good or evil. A warrior that means to walk the shadows unseen and unheard and walk the light unknown and unassuming and achieves absolute patience and wisdom. A warrior that's a monster on the battlefield but always works in concealment, despises absolute power and surpasses his limitations. And finally, a warrior that follows his four creeds of evolving, surviving, getting strong and staying strong. Now that he's set the principals of his warrior race, now he had to come up with a name for his warrior race and discipline. The kanji of his warrior name would be "忍者戦士" and the discipline would have the kanji, "忍術."
And so begins the birth of the "Ninja Warrior" and the martial art discipline known as "Ninjutsu."
6 months since the creation of ninjutsu and ninja warrior. Komodo had studied everything there is to know about the world and the village and now he that he's caught up and surpassed everyone academically it was time to surpass all of them physically, mentally, politically, swiftly and honorably and to do that he must gain experience in all he learned. After performing the average hygiene cleansing, he went to an abandoned training ground which had a hidden cave system that was 200 meters deep. The first thing to do was to unlock both his chi and soul force through meditation. Setting himself in a comfortable position and his hands in the dhyana mudra position, he slowly began to calm his mind and body. According to Komodo's first victim's memories about chi, mana and soul force. All three could be activated by merely touching it and bringing to the surface but that only unlocks the potential of the power sources by 50% but the victim found out that to unlock the full potential of the power sources they must recite the oaths to the power sources.
Only then would they have the full potential and virtually limitless versatility of their powers. The reason everyone doesn't say the oath is because no one knew the language to say the oath and on had to reach grandmaster level and a year of meditation to understand their power source. Komodo however lucked out due to having the power of psionics which is basically a free pass to mastering meditation and can understand his power sources much faster than others and the fact that he knew the oaths because the victim knew the oaths and the language to speak the oaths which was ironic since it was the first language that Komodo had learned or in his case was ingrained into his mind. After entering the subconscious library, he exited from the building and asked Annaisha to guide him to the closest power source he needed to unlock. She told him that the closest power in his vicinity was his soul force.
A few minutes later, he came upon a giant, metallic, emerald green jewel wedge into the ground. The emerald was the same size as his silver galaxy and judging by what he sees inside the emerald, an ocean of energy was sealed in the emerald. (A/N:Think of the form of his soul as a chaos emerald from sonic.) Komodo walked toward the emerald and placed his hand on the emerald. A wave of energy slammed into him and a strong, calm, cooling sensation flowed throughout his entire body. The feeling was absolutely superb. It felt like all the suffering that happened to him felt like he could brush it off and move on with his life. Then he realized that if he gets consumed by his own power it causes major consequences like alerting the entire village of his power and becoming arrogant by thinking he was invincible and going back on his vow to never underestimate anything and overestimate everything. Getting a hold of himself, he began to unlock his soul force and chanted the oath.
"I, who sees the soul in my sights, chained to the land with a will but no rights! I release the binds and release its light, and bond with its force and divine might!
Suddenly, the ground started rumbling and began cracking as the emerald began to rise from the ground and slowly started spinning clockwise. The emerald started glowing and in spinning slightly faster and like an electromagnetic pulse, energy exploded out the emerald and spread all throughout the subconscious realm. The white grass now had patches emerald green and forests of emerald green trees started growing from the ground and were hundreds of feet high. Komodo was mesmerized by the beauty of his inner realm and the power of his soul. Annaisha warned him that his power was extending beyond the cave and was still extending and that if he doesn't real it back he will catch the village's attention. Thanking her for the warning, he tried to pull the energy back but it was too much for his body to contain and was only able to keep the energy in the training ground which is about 100 meters in diameter.
After gaining adequate control of his soul force, he returned back into his inner realm facing his soul before asking Annaisha to direct him to the next power source. She told him to head east which is where his chi is located. Thanking her, he headed east. 15 minutes later, he came upon the manifestation of chi. He would've been here sooner but he was busy modifying his inner realm. He learned that the inside of one's own realm are considered an all-powerful god and can do virtually anything in their world when they have fully mastered their realm. If that theory proved correct, Komodo was going to abuse this ability to the bone. Now the sense of day and night was formed and following the real world's time and weather and the clouds were green which was the manifestation of his soul's soul force energy. Back to the manifestation of chi. His chi was also the form of an emerald but the emerald was black sapphire and the size of his sliver galaxy that isn't at full potential and was in the middle of an empty river bed.
Knowing what needs to be done, Komodo climbed into the river bed and placed his hand upon the emerald and waited for the power to slam into him and chant the oath. This time a much different sensation flowed through his body, this power felt like absolute freedom, the sensation was wild, untamed, and full of limitless stamina. letting the feeling pass by, Komodo began to chant the oath.
"I, who have embraced the power of chi, have gazed into its empty sea! I will free its waters and soothe its frights, and together we battle in endless fights!"
The emerald started levitating and spinning counter-clockwise instead and began glowing. However, instead of a wave of ethereal energy exploding from the emerald, the emerald spewed black sapphire liquid like a geyser and it was rising extremely fast. Komodo jumped out of the river bed as the water and emerald was rising. 3 minutes later, the river was completely filled, the emerald was floating 50 feet above the river and about the size of the earth's smallest river: The Roe River. Annaisha stated that his chi only extended to half of the cave. He asked could she reign in his and train his control for him while he searched for his mana power source. As she was doing that he took notice that his library was to the north, his soul force to the west and chi to the east and the evolutionary energy in the middle, he easily deduced that the manifestation of mana was in the south so he headed southwest. 20 minutes later, he came upon a 2 story dark gold pagoda with a staircase of a thousand steps.
Sighing to himself, Komodo climbed the stairs until he reached the sliding doors, opened them, and entered the pagoda. The only thing inside the pagoda was black rectangular pedestal that was holding a dark gold emerald the size of a basketball. Sighing to himself about finally finishing, he placed his hand upon the emerald and began drawing out some of the supernatural energy and began to chant the oath to unlock its full potential.
"I, who has found the magic core, have come to open its mysterious door. Let the laws bend and power sore, and let the will of logic control it no more!"
Once again, the emerald levitated and started glowing. The pagoda had started expanding and 2 more stories were constructed on the pagoda. Komodo began awakening and looked around seeing that he was still in the cave but noticed that it was darker than usual. He felt pure exhaustion in his mind and body but tried to draw out a little of each power into his hand. tiny orbs of dark sapphire, sliver, gold, emerald, and crimson enveloped his hand. The crimson one confused him before realizing it might be his mental energy but he asked Annaisha why didn't he unlock his mind's full potential to which she stated that when she resurrected him, his mind was the first thing she evolved and its full potential was already unleashed. Komodo lowered power and sighed in elation and satisfaction, he has accomplished part one of his long-term goals and now was a time to get started on the next plan. But, for now, he will celebrate this achievement and take a break. As he groggily got up, he left the cave.
A week later, Komodo made it his mission to build himself up year by year and by the time he is 14, he would start his legitimate ninja career. Right now he was brainstorming for the first three techniques that would be crucial to his survival. The first technique is to gain experience on multiple things as if he was in two places at once, the second technique is shape his form and shift his appearance and the final technique is switch with an item to survive a fatal blow at the last second. But, there was one problem. He had the power but the three things he needed most were foundation, fluidity, and most importantly...control. To gain them he would need to enter the warrior library which is only accessible by licensed warriors only and if any civilian is caught would be arrested and by judging on the mood of the empire's government officials...Executed.
Without that information his warrior race would not exist. Annaisha threw an idea and asked that she could create a scanning ability that works at a distance for him if he wished. Komodo immediately agreed with the idea and asked her to create it for him and that he can activate it by using his psionics. She stated that it could take a moment and that he should close his eyes since she wants no interference that would disrupt the procedure. Following her command, he closed his eyes and waited. Komodo felt his evolutionary energy flare from his scar and felt his eyes and brain shiver and wiggle around. This would have been excruciatingly painful but due to his pain receptors being destroyed at an atomic level he felt no pain whatsoever. 15 seconds later, Annaisha stated the procedure was done and that he could open his eyes.
Komodo opened his eyes and saw that everything was red and his mental energy was decreasing slowly which told him that scan mode was on. Suddenly, a whooshing, echoing ping and ethereal dome erupted from his body and began expanding in a very wide range and 5% percent of his psionic energy vanished in an instant. (A/N: Think of the sound and ability of the viral sonar from prototype 2) The red dome suddenly stopped and began shrinking going right back into his body and a wave of information was being slowly ingrained and organised in his subconscious library. Alarmed and slightly enraged that he might have been sensed by someone, Komodo demanded Annaisha on what had she done. Sensing the rage of her host, she soothed him and explained that she sent a psionic pulse in a mile radius around himself to locate the library and collect all the information and hidden info in the library and slowly ingrained his mind with the info and that no one in the mile radius had the training nor ability to sense psionic energy and that she made the energy color invisible.
She also explains the other functions of scan mode like the ability to archive information, project holographic images in a six meter radius, monitor the health of the user, scan hidden targets in a 500 meter radius of himself and notice when the user is stuck in a supernatural phenomenon I.E. illusions, psychic probes, and mental attacks. Komodo sighed in relief and scolded her that she needs to give a full report of anything that's happening to him and around him. He will not be caught off guard by anything and anyone, that includes himself. Annaisha followed his order and apologized as she stated that she will do better next time. Komodo almost missed it due to her emotionless way of speaking but he caught the minuscule, low octave in her last two words. Even though he couldn't sense her feelings due to his basic mastery or her not having any he knew that he might made her sad and doubt herself it was his turn to soothe her as he apologized and thanked her for everything she did for him and that he trusted her with his life and she would always be his heart figuratively and literally.
Annaisha thanked him for his kind words but stated that she had no emotions, but Komodo sensed that minuscule of happiness from which told him that she was embarrassed of his gratitude or that she was unaware of her emotions. That would be another for her to experience positive emotions and give her a human form when he has the power resources get it done while he will take all the negative emotion so that it doesn't corrupt her like it shattered him. Now that he gained the information he could increase control on his energies. The first two energies he would train would be his chi and soul force. The village warriors ranks were Cadet, Basic, Scholar, Journeyman, Provost, Master, Grandmaster, Advanced Grandmaster, Legendary Grandmaster, and True Grandmaster. And, according to Annaisha's analysis, His spiral energy which was formally called "evolutionary" was at the rank of master, soul force at provost rank, chi and psionics at scholar rank and his mana at cadet rank.
Through a few trials and errors of combining chi and soul force with an equal ratio, he was able to create bodies made of his chi and soul force. The drawback was that all his attributes were cut by half for each body he made and he only had enough power for five of them since his chi was lower than his soul force. However, Komodo may have found a hypothetical advantage in the drawback as he thought that the clones can regain his original power through training. After catching his breath from splitting his power, Komodo began wondering if it truly worked due to them staying stationary. Without an order, the copies began touching the ground and breathing the air until one of them spoke to Komodo saying that the body multiplier test was a complete success. Komodo was surprised since he was thinking inside his head making him realize that he might have a hive mind as well.
With that done, Komodo gave them orders to control their power and train to boost their power to create more bodies as well. The reason he stated this was based on a theory he wanted to test and a plan he had in motion. The theory was that if he made clones out of soul force, he would gain spiritual refinement and mental control since mental energy existed in both the body and soul which would also unintentionally train his psionics and if he made clones out his physical chi then he gains the physical experience and muscle memory. However, it could be dangerous because it could double the stress, pain, and tiredness of the body and mind exponentially. But, due to his type 3 healing factor, his reactive adaptability speed and the fact that he can't feel pain anymore, he could continue on. A week of nonstop training was his breaking point by himself but with five clones it would be cut down so he might as well gain the full experiences of both but had to be extremely careful and train only twice a day.
The reason why he doesn't just use spiral energy to get this training done as quickly as possible was because he didn't want to waste unnecessary energy when the energy is already being siphoned when the body is fully healed and adapted from the training and that he didn't want to become arrogant and dependent on his power because as a ninja, he was to become humble yet deadly, modest yet brutal, calm yet murderous and most important of all, balanced. Now that he created the technique it was time to name it. In the end, he called it "Ninja Art: Multi-Form." With him and his clones, they got to work on the first control exercise for soul force and chi. It was called the "Dermal Armor technique." This required warriors to use their signature power to encase themselves in a shell of energy to protect themselves from the damage and the energy must be stable as titanium but elastic as rubber. Komodo split the clones with him and 2 clones working on chi armor and the other 3 on soul force armor.
An hour later, Komodo and his 2 clones were enveloped in a dark sapphire sheet of energy while the other clones were covered in emerald green. The technique is considered mastered when ten sheets of energy is fused into one and keep it active until it becomes natural to have it on at all times. The reserves of cadet rank warriors would be too much but the advantage was that it increases their reserves to basic rank and would have mastered the technique in a month for the average warrior while a prodigy will master it in a week and a half. However, Komodo's case was entirely different because his power surpassed the cadet rank so he had to add more energy sheets and fuse them into one. The layers of energy for his chi is 100 sheets while the layers for his soul force is 1000 sheets. Luckily with the clones training with chi, they were able to make 20 sheets of energy each while the clones training in soul force created 40 sheets of energy each. Now it was time to stabilize and fuse into on. 5 hours later was the limit that Komodo and his clones took and stopped.
The energy of the clones was depleted to 1% which caused them to turn into streams of energy before shooting back into the original body proving his theory to be correct as he had gained the experience, fatigue, strained muscles, and the increase of control. Although he had more soul force left, Komodo had never felt such a level fatigue since unlocking and organizing his inner realm, but the training paid dividends as he stabilized and fused 60 sheets of chi and 120 sheets of soul force energy with 6 versions of himself for a total of 6 hours. Both groups have done a total of 18 hours of training of their respective energy source and the grand total of training is 36 hours of training. Ergo, Komodo has done a day's worth of training in a mere 6 hours. That is terrifyingly phenomenal. Feeling the tenseness of his muscles loosen and heal he decided to perform the second skill that learned from his inner realm called "Progressive Relaxation."
Progressive relaxation or sometimes called "Body Scan Meditation," is a meditation technique that encourages people to scan their bodies for areas of tension, fractures, breaks, and diseases and the energy around them. The goal is to notice tension and to allow it to release. Know of any damage or disease before it gets worse and sense the many hidden energies hidden in the environment and to draw them in and converting the energy into a signature energy source. Wasting no time, Komodo got into a half lotus position and placed his hands in the horse sign. He felt the tenseness of his muscles and stamina rapidly in seconds when it was taking minutes before. 3 minutes later his body and stamina were fully healed and he took notice that they surpassed their limits by 30% due to his spiral power's automatic adaptability. However, just because his body was fully operational didn't mean his energy was. It took a total of 4 hours for him to charge both energies which increased by 30%, but like all abilities, he must work at it like a muscle and it will charge faster after each use.
Now that his power is restored, he began training again. As he performed the ninja art, he noticed that less of his power needed which had enabled him to create 10 clones instead of 5. Now that he had more clones he decided that only he would finish the chi training while the rest would do the soul force training. 3 hours later, he has mastered the chi dermal armor technique while the soul force layers massively increased to 520 sheets of energy. Now that his chi armor was fully operational it was time to get used to it on a natural level. Noticing that his clones' soul force was draining but he only had enough to charge 5 of them, he dispelled the other five and gave this rest of the clones the soul force he had left. 2 hours later as night has set, the clones had used up all of their soul force but their 40 sheets of energy was stabilized and fused into one bringing the total to 720 sheets fused into one. The clone was dispelled and returned to the host. Komodo felt the fatigue and strained muscles but it wasn't as effective as it was before. Calling it a day, he went back to the orphanage.
6 months had passed and now at the age of 9, Komodo had made tremendous progress. He finished the armor training the next day and according to the information about the technique, once it's mastered, the user would gain control of 20% of their energy. There are levels of control that a warrior could reach, the first one is basic, then proficient, then advanced, then pinnacle, and the last rank was perfection. Komodo also learned that the warrior ranks had levels. The first 5 warrior ranks had 3 levels while the last 5 ranks had 6 levels. The first level of the first ranks is 4 times more powerful than the rank, with each level up the energy multiplier would go up by 4 and since there were 3 levels each rank a warrior would only have 4 to 12 times more than their official rank. While the last 5 ranks and its 6 levels have a multiplier 6 to 36 times the original rank. Anyway, why was 20% control of his chi and soul force so important? It is because every 20 percent meant that he was at that rank of control which right now was basic control and now Komodo could finally build his foundation.
The techniques he focused on were his own. He found out the weaknesses and strengths of the multi-form ninja art. The weaknesses were that his chi and soul force was depleted immensely when used separately even with basic control. He was only able to create 5 clones with each energy source so it was paramount that both were needed to create the clones and that they dissipate when hit with a strong force and that the energy didn't return him. The strengths were with training, he learned that his hive mind theory was correct and that he could see, hear, and know what the others do. Multiple, working as one, each of them thinks with the same "mind." Komodo thought this can be used to scout out areas, being able to see and experience in multiple areas at once, act as their own team or unit, control several bodies at the same time, communicate with a person in the hive mind, gain powers of the body connected to the hive mind, hive senses across all bodies increasing the personal powers of one another. Share calculations/problems with everyone connected to the hive mind.
In other words, he achieved lower-tier nigh omnipresence.
The next technique he trained was the shapeshifting technique. With his level of control and knowing that it was somewhat a variation of the dermal armor technique, He was able to transform into another person. However, Komodo wanted to take this technique to the next level. Not only he wanted to change into another person he wanted to change into anything such as an animal, plant, or inanimate object. Gain the attributes and physical features of whatever he transforms into, such as a weapon's sharpness or an animal's fangs. To be able to assume so many different forms makes this technique invaluable for not just combat, but intelligence gathering and diversionary tactics as well and if he used the multi-form ninja art with this technique, the two techniques would make him the most dangerous intelligence gatherer and ninja in the world. This technique will be called "Ninja Art: Transformer."
The last technique would be his life saver. This technique would allow him to place his energy into animate or inanimate in a 20 meter radius. The aim being that the enemy will feel like they've hit him because once that's achieved, they'll let their guard drop for a moment. From that point till the end of the shock of realization, the art user has time to escape and make a surprise counter-attack. With training he wanted the technique to be able replace the caster completely with anything and use it as a puppet to fight in the stead of the user. This technique was called "Ninja Art: Misdirection." This training would have taken a month but with his multi-form ninja art and due to the basic control of his chi and soul force, he was able to create 25 clones and mastered them in a week. 5 to work on the transformer art, 5 to work on the misdirection art, 5 to increase the speed and efficiency of the body scan technique and once the two arts are mastered, the last 10 would be used to build experience in civilian skills like how to cook, hunt, build, forge, farm, heal, and other important things.
After that was done, he would later build an information broker to collect any details that will help him keep up with what's going on in the world. With 25 clones working on different branches of jobs for six months gained him a lot of experience and income. With it, he was able to buy an acre of land and tools to build his own house, indoor plumbing, electricity, farm, blacksmith/laboratory, and training ground and all of this was done in just a mere year. Speaking of his spiral power, he learned that he can activate and deactivate any adaptation his spiral power upgraded on him which helped him since when he bled out, the blood doesn't melt the ground causing craters to form. During the six months he mastered the multi-form art to the point where it took a death blow to dispel them and the other attributes he theorized were achieved and the limit of 25 clones shot up to 50 clones with his chi reserves increased to level 1 provost rank and his soul force reserves increased to level 0 master rank or just master rank.
He mastered the transformer art to the point that it was now a complete transformation gaining the real flesh and blood of humans and can keep the transformation on indefinitely in non-combat situations and in battle for 30 minutes. The misdirection art he mastered is to the point where he was able to switch with absolutely anything in 500 meter radius and manipulate the disguised object to fight for him within a range of 100 meters. These three arts were considered mastered in a week but Komodo wanted to above and beyond its mastered state and so he trained these three arts to extreme for the first month. The second month was spent on increasing his control to proficient rank by using a technique of the warrior library he took from that was called "Universal Push & Pull Technique." This technique was the first technique that cadets learn to put the energy in a single point with something like a marble on their head and use the energy to make sure the object stays in place and once mastered they are able to repel and rotate it while within their own energy's grasp.
This exercise is used by Academy teachers as a way to teach students how to control their power more effectively and gaining 10% control of the power and going to the next energy control exercise which was the dermal armor technique. However, the true purpose of the exercise is actually to hone the individual's concentration and to keep their mind from becoming distracted. Komodo however saw a way to take this basic technique to the extreme. Why focus on a single focal point on the body when he could make every part of his body a focal point and use the attractive and repulsive forces to walk up vertical surfaces and stand on liquid surfaces that would massively increase the experience of the control technique. With a plan in motion, he placed not one, not two, not three, but 361 leaves all over his legs, arms, fingers, toes, chest, face, back and head. While doing the attractive force exercise, he'll use the repulsion and rotation part of exercise to spin the leaves in different directions. Knowing that this technique might be deadly to his reserves, he made three clones to train with.
The modified technique was the hardest training that he has ever experienced as his chi and soul force was dropping like flies sprayed with raid. Him and his clones could only train for 30 minutes each and was only able to clock in 2 hours training instead of the usual outrageous amount of time and training done in hours even then he and his clones was only to keep 10 leaves on and 3 leaves rotating. Luckily he never stopped using the body scan technique and was able to recharge his power in 2 hours instead of 5 due to the reactive adaptation attribute of his spiral power. Once again speaking of his spiral power, Komodo asked Annaisha to upgrade his reactive adaptation which took another hour and what she explained to what it was capable of astounded him. She explained that before the upgrade, his R.A. would increase all the attributes and energy he trained in by 30% when his body, mind, and energy reserves were moderately exhausted or damaged but when critically damaged or on the brink of death, the attributes and reserves would be quadrupled than the moderate way.
Now that he upgraded, The moderate way would be double the attributes and reserves but the critical way attributes and reserves would not be tripled, quadrupled, not even quintupled, but decoupled. That's 10 times the adaptability which is horrifyingly superb, unfortunately he made the upgrade after he healed from his critical state which only gave him the quadruple multiplier and 75% percent of his spiral energy was used to upgrade his R.A. and the only way to recharge it was to rest or eat biomass and hearts. After regenerating, his reserves for chi reached the pinnacle level of the level 1 provost rank while his soul has reached the advanced level of level 0 master rank. The number of leaves that were to stick on his body was 40 with 2 clones instead of 3 and were able to rotate 15 leaves and he would train until he was in a moderate state with his attributes doubling every training session. It took a week to complete the leaf practice and another week to combine the practice with the vertical surface and liquid walking. The first one implied he needed to use a certain amount of energy.
Too much energy, then he would blast off leaving an indenture but too little energy, then then he will not stick. The water walking technique was the harder version of the vertical surface technique due to ripples in the liquids change frequency and that he needed to constantly change his energy frequency constantly with the liquid as well. This technique was completed and mastered in the last two weeks of the second month. Due to the upgrade to his genetic code, he decided to name the upgrade, "The Zenith Effect." With his mastery of his modified control technique his basic control has immensely increased to 90% which is the half-step perfection rank. The energy that flowed through his body was like a calm and slow river and smooth like silk on skin. The last 4 months was spent on training to hide and lower his power level and using his clones to transform into random citizens and work odd jobs to build experience, get promotions, make money, and enroll into the samurai, fist master, and sorcery schools.
However, he needed to change the appearance of his clones and create identities since all he took from the warrior library was control techniques with his now named "Psionic Sonar Scanner." While 25 of his clones were working on their jobs and going to school to study in different branches, the other 25 was spent on still hiding and lowering his power level and now he hide could hide his lower to level 0 basic rank. On this year, him and 25 clones would train in stealth and energy sensing but just not a typical energy, he planned to be able sense and differentiate all forms of energy like physical, spiritual, positive, negative, divine, demonic, planetary, cosmic, quantum, psychic, life-force, death-force, elemental, natural, magical, aether, nether, foreign, all-composing, spatial, and dimensional. 21 clones would work on the energy senses while him and the last 4 clones would work on stealth techniques.
According to the clones that were enrolled in the schools, he found out that the military hired what was known as "Assassins." Assassins were warriors that did not care about who they target as long as they were paid and they would assassinate anyone for either political, religious, military or monetary reasons. However, there are some assassins that would just do this for fun. They also didn't care which power source is better and would train with the one they liked and used surprise attacks and stealthy weaponry to get their job done. Komodo considered the assassins a corrupted and obsolete version of what a ninja should be. If he didn't learn start his ninja career he would have immediately became an assassin but then he realized that he had somehow made a friend with the princess and he was sure that she wouldn't respond well to him just killing innocent blood and the fact that he would dishonor his ninja code which focused on balance, discipline, effort, concealment, adaptability, and loyalty in everything he sees and does.
Although the warrior race was corrupted and weaker than ninjas, he respected their freedom of taking anyone with any power source, their jack-of-all-trades mentality and their stealth techniques but now they were considered competition. Getting to work, Komodo asked Annaisha to do another psionic scan for sensing and and stealth techniques and exercises since he wouldn't start on his mental training until he is 10. Annaisha did as he commanded and performed the scan. 30 seconds later Komodo felt the wave of information slowly ingrain into his mind then got to work on the 4 clones he had with him while other 21 trained in the energy senses. The first exercise he did in his training room was walk across a floor that was rigged to tweak when someone walks across it. First, he had to walk across it barefoot and not make a sound. Which was easier said than done. It took him nearly a week before he was able to walk across it without making a sound. It would have been faster with the clones he had but they were working on the stealth skills the in involves chi and soul force.
The skills of the stealth techniques were called "Camouflage," and "Suppression." The names of the techniques were... abysmal, so he decided to change the names and make them sound more sophisticated. Camouflage was now called "Ninja art: Chameleon of the Mist" and suppression was called "Ninja art: Sounds of Shadows." The first ninja art enables him to control the reflection of light around his body using his chi and/or soul force and once mastered, would be able to cause his form, shadow, and even breathing to become invisible to the unaided eye even when he's in motion. Because only the user's appearance is camouflaged, they can still be discovered through the sounds he makes which makes the second ninja art the key to a complete synthesis. The second ninja art enabled him to control the sound vibrations of his motor functions. Sounds are made when objects vibrate. The vibration makes the air around the object vibrate and the air vibrations enter your ear. You cannot always see the vibrations, but if something is making a sound, some part of it is always vibrating.
However, apparently these two techniques were considered hard to master because an assassin had to have a half-step perfection rank of control over their power which only a certain amount of people that can be counted with a single hand has attained that level of control and now Komodo can be apart of that group of individuals. The techniques were used sparingly due to the low level of control since it eats up one's signature power source. However, Komodo planned to use both until he no longer feels the strain and until it was instinctive to activate and stay active indefinitely. With these two techniques he would be as stealthful as the night and as deadly as the dawn as he roams the village and forest as a living ghost, a forest ghost. And with that title a clan name was born. For now and forever more the name and kanji of his ninja clan will be 林鬼 or in English...
...The Lin Gui Clan.
(End of Chapter 2)
(And there you have my loyal readers. Some parts rewritten and some abilities revised. I hoped this has given you a more in-depth informant of my OC and possibly fixed all the mistakes. There will be more coming so get ready and on my behalf, I thank you all for your patience and support. Farewell warriors.)