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Beauty divine.
Naruto's Caster, a legendary figure that many believed to be a myth, since her mummy had never been discovered and rumor has it she was the only Pharoah of Egypt to never take the steps to have her body preserved. If Ravel had ANY doubts about her own beauty, the mere existence of this woman was capable of bringing them out of her.
Pharoah, Queen Nitocris.
A tall, sensual beauty that remained somewhat cute, with mocha skin and a slime figure she showed no shame in revealing with her nearly completely exposed body. Eyes and hair purple, she was both tall and elegant. She didn't need huge breasts to highlight her body, even with her modest chest she gave off an air of superiority and womanly beauty.
She was a queen of old.
She was also a master of Egyptian magic, which included some of the most vile curses known to all of the supernatural world. If you wanted to see some of the most sick and twisted curses of all time, then egyptian magic was the way to go. While Mordred could and would kill her at the drop of a hat, and Ravel was very sure that she would have PTSD for a good while stemming from the "Mordred Experience", she feared this woman even more than she did Mordred.
She was not powerful, one could say that in a fight Ravel was actually pretty sure she stood somewhat of a chance against this woman. The curses and their effects that this woman could inflict though would be a lifetime of suffering.
"Lady Nitocris-"
"Hush child, I sense your fear and it is unneeded. I have no desire to inflict any harm on you for any reason as of now. You have committed no crime against my or my Master." Nitocris stated as she sipped on the tea that Ravel provided. She was not a brute like Mordred, she was far more sly in how she approached things that mattered.
Ravel was cowed.
She was also relieved.
"So... I have your approval?" Ravel would really like an easy win after the monster she faced yesterday. She saw the queen smile and giggle, before she sighed in relief. "Thank you-"
"As of now, I will initiate my test for you. If you pass this test, then you will have my approval. You know, the Pharoahs are rulers who chase the title of god you could say. In my time, the Pharoah could be either gender, or rather, our rulers were chosen by the gods themselves. When you look at Naruto, does his form not inspire confidence and a belief in him?" Nitocris asked as she waved her hand.
Ravel wondered why they were outside, sipping tea at a table her servants had prepared for them. She glanced at Nitocris, and she looked at Naruto as he placed sealing tags around the field.
"What is he-"
"Have you wondered how he got so strong, when he only recently learned of the Time Barrier technique of his family? You see, Naruto has only been to the Uzumaki island once before, where he recovered that delightful yo-yo of his, and the technique that has made him stronger." Nitocris ignored what Ravel was going to say, no matter what she would have said, it mattered less than what Nitocris herself was going to say.
The authority of a Pharoah was absolute.
"So... I'm about to see some ancient Uzumaki technique... but how is this a test for me?" Ravel asked, unsure of what this would play out as.
How could Naruto training be a test for her?
Naruto surrounded himself with 5 sealing tags, before he placed one in the center below his feet and he took a deep breath. Ravel saw as a barrier sprung up around Naruto for a split second, before the barrier itself sank into the tag that was stuck in front of Naruto.
"That is the 5-Seal Barrier, place 4 tags on the ground, and then a 5th tag on an object and that object becomes unbreakable while the 4 tags are undestroyed." Nitocris explained, since she had memories of Naruto using this technique quite frequently to train. The funny part was that Naruto never once used the technique for anything other than training.
The Uzumaki vault was unbreakable.
Scattered across the entire globe were over 10,000 copies of the Five-Seal Barrier all attached to the Uzumaki vault, making it the world's most unbreakable vault. ALL of the gods on the planet could attack the vault with all of their power, holding nothing back, and the vault would remain completely unbroken.
"There are 6 tags-"
"Silence child, you are not to speak until given permission." Nitocris reminded her of her place, and Ravel wisely decided to quiet herself. "Underneath those seals is the Mirrored Sudden Attacker seal, a trap for those who remove the seals. I myself added a curse, which is where the 6th seal comes from. The 6th seal will undo the Mirrored Sudden Attacker seal when destroyed." Nitocris stated as she played with Naruto's yo-yo in her hand, holding it but not wielding it. She decided it would be best if Naruto didn't have access to this weapon while he was trying.
Naruto yanked one of the seals off of the ground.
Ravel gasped when another Naruto grew out of the ground like a plant, before it turned into a 100% accurate copy of Naruto.
*BOOM*
Naruto and Copy slammed their fists into each other's face, and Ravel was nearly knocked out of her seat by the force of the colliding powers. Their pure physical strength holding nothing back bent the space around them, and both of them took the attack to the face without any care for their own safety at all.
Naruto jumped back and ripped 2 more seals off the ground, while Copy ripped the 4th remaining seal.
"Yes, it makes a perfect copy of the one who enacts it's curse. A delightful trick, because the copy has ALL of the skills and abilities of the one who rips the seal off. Only, the copy is superior since it has infinite stamina." Nitocris stated as she stabbed her staff in the ground to root herself in place.
This was going to be a hell of a fight to watch.
"He's... fighting a superior version of himself that will never grow tired... this is... this training method is insane." Ravel whispered to herself, and because the girl wasn't speaking to her, Nitocris allowed her to finish her sentence. She smiled though as she watched Ravel, and she gripped her staff tightly.
*BOOM - BOOM - BOOM - BOOM*
Ravel watched in horror as Naruto caught two punches in each of his hands, but took two of them to the stomach and back. His grin was stained with his blood that he refused to throw up, and he spat his own blood into the face of Clone 2. Naruto threw the two attackers that he had caught away from himself as he took a powerful blow to the back again while Clone 2 wiped his face clean of the blood.
The punches were so powerful.
4 monsters were facing off against 1 monster in an absolute battle to decide who would live and who would die.
"It's very foolish, correct? But, that is your future husband risking his life, will you support this great Pharoah? One chosen by the gods themselves to rule the world of man?" Nitocris asked Ravel with a smile on her face.
Naruto's strength, the reason he was seemingly invincible was because of a simple fact.
Naruto knew his own weaknesses better than anyone and he himself constantly looked for new areas he was weak in. Whenever he found a weakness, he found a way to prevent anyone from ever exploiting that weakness or hiding it. Naruto was a man who didn't consider any other his worst enemy or his weakness.
"... Naruto has no weakness, not because..." Ravel was starting to understand.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battle. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Naruto was constantly understanding himself and his own weakness, and Naruto never looked down on any of his opponents because he understood himself well and how badly it would be to look down on an opponent. Naruto fought his enemies with the understanding that as he fought them, he would analyze them and understand them. His confidence to defeat any foe didn't come from his Kingly arrogance.
It came with his understanding of his own weakness.
"Naruto knows every single weakness he has, and when he loses a weakness and gets a new one, Naruto works to understand it and exploit it, so that others may not. This training is the harshest training, because the entire time he trains this way, he is forced to think about how to kill himself, and then follow through with it. This training is a mental nightmare that only those with an iron willpower can attempt. It's physically brutal as well-" Nitocris added when Naruto took several extremely powerful blows. "-well, you can stop his training early before he gets too hurt you know." Nitocris stated as she pointed to the 6th seal.
Ravel looked at it.
"You are testing my ability to stand behind Naruto's choices, as his wife I'm expected to support him? This isn't a physical test, you are testing my faith in my future husband to decide what is best for himself." Ravel stated as she looked at the battle unfolding.
It was horrorific.
It was bloody and brutal, and she was watching Naruto take a beating that would make what she suffered at the hands of Mordred look tame. She gripped her teacup in her hand, and forced herself to sit back.
She needed to pass this test.
Nitocris smiled.
"I-I'll show my support, and won't interfere with this training. I'll support my husband."
"Lets see how that works out, by the way, I myself don't approve of this training. It's inhumane, and unfitting of a person of his position. You could say, this training is the ultimate form of hating oneself." Nitocris added as they watched the training.
Ravel didn't avert her eyes.
-4.5 Hours Later-
Ravel hated this.
Watching a man kill himself multiple times was horrible, and she was watching as Naruto was down to his last clone body. His arm was clearly broken and bent the wrong way, whatever part of him wasn't bloody and broken, was bruised and stained in dirt. It honestly did make her torture with Mordred look tame, because she had Reneration that was nearly instant for most of that nightmare.
Naruto could succumb to his injuries at any second and die on the grass like a old dog who had met it's end.
"Heheheh... fuck yeah, I've figured it out... come at me then. I've already surpassed 3 of my weaknesses... now lets see if I'm right about a 4th one." Naruto grinned as he stood up with his back straight.
Clone 1 rushed towards Naruto at full speed.
Ravel didn't know what happened next, because she blinked, but she saw a headless Naruto fall to the ground after a moment. Clone 1's headless body turned into back into nothing, while the original Naruto stayed standing. All Ravel knew was that Naruto had somehow managed to beat himself 4 times.
Naruto discovered 4 weaknesses in himself and then overcame them.
"Amazing... I can see where I need to improve, I can't wait to train even harder than before-"
"-here."
Ravel offered Naruto a vial of her own tears, and she smiled down to him as he took them and drank them. Like magic, his injuries started to quickly heal themselves until he had no injuries and the only problem with him was the blood and dirt he was covered with.
"Thanks." Naruto stated to Ravel as he stood up and flexed.
He felt good as new.
"Yes, that was a wonderful display, truly that is a wife that will support her husband no matter what happens. Truly, a display of loyalty." Nitocris clapped her hands for Ravel.
Ravel smiled.
"So I pass?"
"Actually, you failed my test horrible. You were a complete and utter fool with an absolute loyalty, no good wife would ever sit back and watch as her husband put himself through those levels of hell. You just sat there, while Master risked his life doing a completely foolish training. One wrong move, and he would have died and you would have lost him forever." Nitocris still had a smile on her face.
Ravel's jaw dropped.
"Wh-what?"
"There is a difference between supporting your husband, and enabling him. My Master is constantly pushing himself too hard, he doesn't need somebody to enable his self-destructive tendencies. He needs a strong woman who can and will put her foot down, and stop him before he goes too far... you should have STOPPED his training the second his injuries got too severe." Nitocris lectured Ravel on what a good wife should do.
Supporting somebody with absolute faith and loyalty was foolish, to always stand by a person's side and never argue against their foolish choices because of something like 'faith and love' was what caused many self-destructive people to meet their ends.
"Naruto would have been pissed at me-"
Naruto tapped on her shoulder and stopped her.
"I would have been pissed, but just because you are pissed at somebody, doesn't mean you can't forgive a person and get closer to them. Yes, I would be very angry with you, but eventually I would forgive you and realize that you stopping me came from a place of caring." Naruto told her in a tone that surprised her.
Where did this come from?
"Master?!" Nitocris was shocked, before she palmed her own face. '... Nevermind, this is actually in character for you... you are a very forgiving person... sometimes I forget that underneath your mask...' Nitocris allowed her thoughts to trail off.
Naruto could be surprisingly mature when he needed to be, and right now he needed to be mature.
"... I'm not giving up, just because I failed a single test. I'll just have to be sure that I, Ravel Phenex, don't fail another test." Ravel stated with a graceful smile.
Nitocris smiled.
"Well, while I approve of arranged marraiged, I will not give my approval to a fool. Though, do take what you have learned from this." Nitocris was happy to let Ravel use the knowledge that she had gained.
If she could pass the other tests, more power to her.
If she couldn't, then Nitocris would proceed to find a more suitable partner for her Master herself. She could think of a couple of good candidates herself, but she would be exceedingly picky of course.
The problem was seeing if those candidates were still alive.
Chapter End!
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Saber - Pass
Archer - Undecided
Lancer - Undecided
Assassin - Undecided
Berserker - Undecided
Rider - Undecided
Caster - Fail
Ruler - Undecided
Foreigner - Undecided