Of Ninja and Games
Getting thrown into another world is never fun, but at least I got some absolutely Broken powers out of it. Both "Ninja Magic" and the Gamer are ridiculously overpowered on their own, but with both of them and a base genetic affinity of zero for everything? The worlds won't know what hit them.
So, I've had yet another idea from the Worm CYOA, more specifically version 3. It's just so easy for me to come up with ideas, yet I can't seem to finish a single chapter of many of them. And worse, it keeps distracting me from my stories that I've already posted. As usual, on with the story!
Chapter 1
I find myself waking to the sound of a ding, and a floating screen with words. Taking a minute to get my bearings and finish waking up, I looked around to try and see where I was, only to discover that I couldn't see. Starting to panic, wondering what happened to me, I heard another ding from the screen, which I can still see while being blind, somehow. Calming down, I read what was on the screens.
[Welcome, Gamer, to your new World. You have been given new powers to go with your displacement. Given your choices, you now have "Ninja Magic" and, of course, the Gamer. Both of these are overpowered as anything, so good luck, and try not to die before you get started]
[Warning! Dangerous levels of emotion detected! Emotions dialed down to acceptable levels]
Oh. And I can't even panic over my new powers messing with my head, or that I'm blind in another world, likely Worm given the ninja magic bit. I did do a CYOA for a story with both powers. Feeling myself calm down, naturally and not just having my panic suppressed, I started to feel around where I was. As far as I can tell, I was dropped in an alleyway off of a road, with a backpack I could feel myself wearing, the exit found by falling out of the ally. I wasn't close enough to get ran over by a car, but I'm lucky I wasn't hit by anyone walking.
Standing up and turning to my right, I started walking that direction with my hand following the wall. Being blind and walking alongside a bad road in a bad area of the city, I kept tripping over random objects in my path. The final straw was when I stepped onto and tripped over a random bottle (I think) and fell flat on my face. Growling in frustration, I pushed all the Chakra I could in the direction of my face, in the area around my eyes, just wanting to see! I was rather shocked when I could suddenly see everything around me, even if it wasn't really sight.
Checking my status page, and wondering how the Hell I activated the Byakugan of all doujutsu, even if I couldn't see in color, as well as asking the power itself for an answer.
[You have an affinity of zero for everything ninja can do. Chakra takes some amount of influence from your thoughts, and you wanted to see more than anything else. There was also influence from the Archive, the Byakugan being a doujutsu that didn't exactly rely on sight to see. As different ocular based jutsu have costs to activating them, the Byakugan being relatively cheap in comparison to the others, starting with roughly ten meters of sight, it wouldn't kill you on activation. The Sharingan would have been near worthless as you cannot see, and the activation cost would have killed you]
[Name: Theo Anders
Level 1
Title: Apprentice Gamer
HP: 100
CP: 60/100
Physical: 10
Mental: 10
Chakra: 10]
[Skills:
Gamers Body: Allows the body to be adaptable and attain growth. Allows instant healing from food and rest
Gamers Mind: Allows visual interface with the Gamer. Dials down dangerous levels of emotion to reasonable
Byakugan Lv1: Allows near-perfect sight within your range, with higher levels increasing it. Range is 10 meters, costs 10cp per/min]
Continuing walking until I reached a street sign, I pulled out a map of the city to check where I was. Turing around, I started walking to the area where I knew I owned a warehouse, having pulled out the deed to the building along with the map.
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Entering through the front of my warehouse, I waited for my Chakra to regenerate from my use of the Byakugan to see well enough to get here. After that was done, I got started on the Tree Walking exercise. Due to the Archive, I already knew how much Chakra to use to make it work. Walking a bit up the wall, not quite high enough to be injured if I fell, I started to do physical exercises while waiting for the skill to finish reaching its max level, as well as playing around with my Byakugan in the semi-safe area.
[Wall Walking skill learned
Chakra Control skill learned
Wall Walking has leveled up to 2
Gentle Fist Taijutsu style learned
Chakra Control has leveled up to 2
Chakra has leveled up to 12
Wall Walking has level up to 3
Physical has leveled up to 11
Gentle Fist style has leveled up to 2
Byakugan has leveled up to 4
You have leveled up to Lv2
Wall Walking has leveled up to 4
Chakra Control has leveled up to 3
Wall Walking has leveled up to max]
And with that, I've finished training for the moment. It took an hour, including breaks to restore my Chakra when it ran low. As it stands, I'm a bit stronger now. I pulled up my status again and had it only show what has changed.
[Level 2
HP: 110
CP: 120
Physical: 11
Mental: 10
Chakra: 12
Points: 2]
[Skills:
Byakugan Lv4: Allows near-perfect sight in your range, with higher levels increasing it. Range is 1 kilometer, costs 4cp per/min
Chakra Control Lv3: Your skill in controlling how your Chakra moves and how much you put into your jutsu. Currently allows for a single hand seal to be dropped when preforming some jutsu, and eventually removes the need for hand seals entirely
-Wall Walking Max: Allows you to stick to walls and ceilings with your Chakra. Costs 5cp per 10 minutes, and is almost second nature
Taijutsu: Hand to hand combat styles
-Gentle Fist Lv2: A precision-based style of fighting, designed around the Byakugan, using attacks infused with Chakra to control another person's Chakra flow and damage internal organs]
I finished reading, finding it acceptable for an hour of training. Now I have the option of continuing training with the Gentle Fist, starting on nature transformations, going on with strait Chakra control, or starting on seals. Or some combination of several. I'll go with Chakra control until I can create shadow clones, mostly to work out the cost to effect ratio and not have it kill me, while working on the Gentle Fist as it's the sort of repetitive skill I can work on somewhat subconsciously. From there, I can have the clones work on Chakra control and nature transformations.
Starting on that plan, I focused Chakra into my muscles to get that skill, and went to continue working at that.
[Chakra Enhancement skill learned
Chakra Enhancement has leveled up to 2
Chakra Control has leveled up to 4
Gentle Fist leveled up to 3
Chakra Enhancement leveled up to 3
Chakra Control leveled up to 5]
Now I should be able to create at least one shadow clone and survive. Quickly doing just that, I watched a clone of myself form in a puff of smoke, taking 60cp along with it. As soon as that happened, I received a message from the Gamer.
[Shadow Clone skill learned]
[For the sake of balance and the limitations of the Gamer system, only a single shadow clone can give experience for skills at a time, and only 25% of what it would have given you for the same effort. They can only train in skills you've already learned]
Disappointing, but reasonable. I didn't really expect much more than that in the first place. To start with, I grabbed some paper, a brush, and some ink to draw some of the symbols used in the ninja's written language. That… didn't go so well, but it got me the Cartography skill, which I sent my clone to work on. I wasn't going to have anything, even a clone, experiment with seals, not with how poor my Cartography is right now. After sending it off, I personally did just the basics of the basics in transforming my Chakra in the basic natures. Having an affinity of zero and knowing how from the Archive, each of them were just as difficult as the others, which is to say, not much at all. It did net me another level in Chakra Control, which is nice.
The Chakra natures, in the Gamer system, counts by percentages instead of levels. In that case, I'll work on each of them up to 20%, then I'll see what I can do about looking for people who took care of… I'm going to go with 'me' to nip possible confusion in the bud, I'll go looking for them in the morning.
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Finishing my training with elemental Chakra natures, I looked through one of the windows, I saw the sun just starting to rise. Quicker than I thought it'd be, but I can at least preform most low-ranked jutsu, like little camping tricks, with only a hand sign or two. Dispelling the clone, I braced myself for the memories. It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, but I still wouldn't want to dispel 10 or more without being asleep first. Reviewing the results of the training session, I have four levels in Cartography, am in the low 20%'s with all elemental Chakra natures, and reached level nine with Chakra and eight in Chakra Control.
Exiting the warehouse, I checked the map to see where to go to find the police station. I know who I am, but I have no memories of living in this body before gaining powers, and Kaiser, Max Anders, would have put up a missing person report at least for his son, if only to look like a decent person. Looking as far out as I can with my Byakugan, I put an illusion over my face to cover the bulging veins while dismissing the mostly atrophied Chakra networks of most people and somewhat working ones of Parahumans.
Finding no Parahumans, although there was a police station within my range, I started walking. It wasn't too far away, maybe ten minutes at most, and it's a police station so it should be open- actually, no. I have no interest in living in and around the neo-Nazi area, at least not unless it's to have easy access to socially acceptable targets, especially not with their leader. He may not be a neo-Nazi himself, but he still acts like one. I don't need to live with him, the Resources perk gives me houses, safe houses, and a secret base, to say nothing of the money it gives me.
Turning a different direction, I headed to the feudal-era Japanese styled house I know I have at the edge of the city. Heading in that direction, this time using the roof hooping and Chakra Enhancement to get there, I arrived quicker than most vehicles could have. Reaching the house and finding a blood seal that was locking it from the average city-goer exploring, I bit my finger and let the seal register the blood signature as mine before entering.
Heading towards a chest labeled as holding my combat gear that I couldn't see through, I opened it up and pulled out the items inside. Snorting at the clothing, sword, and shakujo I could now see, amused at the Resources perk putting in even more parallels with Hamura. I guess it themes around my apprentice and takes inspiration from the Case-53 disadvantage. I did have it set my appearance as a roughly age 15 Hamura, after all I didn't get any physical advantage from the appearance so it was an easy two points and an explanation on why I didn't have any memories of living on Earth-Bet.
Creating and sending off a clone with orders to continue practicing Cartography until dispelled or dispel itself after reaching max level with the skill, I put the clothes away and went to the bedroom to get some sleep.
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Stretching as I woke up, I read the notifications the system showed to me. The complete regeneration through sleep was in full force here, and I did reach max level in Cartography over the course of the night. That meant I wasn't going to be making mistakes with creating the actual lines and kanji when I start making seals, but misremembering the placement of them could be just as disastrous during the creation process. And I'm not even going to try to create and use seals in battle until I'm at least two-thirds of the way through leveling the skill.
Still, I used some of the leftover Cartography materials to create the most basic seal I could to get that skill, an exploding tag. After that, I created another shadow clone with orders to alternate between practicing sealing and working on the Gentle Fist every half hour, and to dispel itself after three hours, if I didn't do it myself before then or give other orders
Putting on the combat gear in the chest, before using the Henge to look like an average person, I stepped out into the city. Currently it is about mid-afternoon, so I don't have to fake being an adult and could just wander around without hand-eye coordination issues. My current Chakra regeneration rate allowed me to sustain both the illusion and my Byakugan indefinitely, and if necessary, say in combat, I could shorten the range for the eyes to cut down the cost.
Thankfully, this city isn't bad to the point that there's a Cape fight every hour, just every couple of days, so I was able to get the groceries, put them away, and head back to the city without incident. In between the time of putting the groceries away and leaving the house again, the shadow clone was told to continue for another three hours with the same conditions. I dropped my transformation as I walked through an alleyway that had no one watching, electronically or otherwise, and started running over to where I could see a crime in progress. A simple mugging, sure, but even if I wasn't to be a Hero alongside the Protectorate, that didn't mean I had to let crimes I could see and stop succeed.
Falling down onto the pair of criminals, I struck a specific point on both of them with Chakra to a pressure point. Sure, it wouldn't last as long without a needle stuck in the spot, but they'll stay asleep for long enough for the police to pick them up. Turning to face the person I saved, I saw a normal woman with brown hair and eyes. Not recognizing her from any canon descriptions, and not really being someone who would stand out besides, I checked for injuries, because even if I already know there aren't any, I'll keep up the façade. Catching her flinch at my apparent blindness, I ignored her and checked on the other two for injuries as well, at least anything more than scrapes and bruises. Not finding anything on either of them, I took out my phone and called the police.
"Hello, this is a new Independent Cape, Hamura," both my perks, powers, and appearance seem to be following the theme anyway, "There are a couple of criminals that need picked up on an alleyway near the corner of Park and Main."
Taking out a couple of pieces of paper, I drew a seal for each of the unconscious criminals. Going slowly, so I didn't mess up and get us all blown up, I drew a seal array that put enough resistance in the muscles that trying to move would feel, to them but not the cops, like trying to lift a car with your bare hands, without Chakra or a Brute power. Handing over the muggers when the cops arrived, I exited up the wall, after explaining what the seal did at its most basic, not allowing them to move on their own power.
Running on top of roofs, I continued to stop more crimes in the same manner, heading to the crimes that are the most serious or the furthest along. There weren't actually as many as you would expect, given fanfiction, but there is a lot that can happen in a kilometer radius.
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And now I go back to training. Thinking of the future, what I need to work on are very strong, multi-use abilities, specifically for use on the Endbringers and such. In this setting, they are the equivalent to the Tailed Beasts, sort of. That immediately brings to mind Fuinjutsu, the Wood Release of the Senju, and the Chakra Chains of the Uzumaki. Of the three, the last is most useful in my mind, being a form of Chakra Manifestation and Shape Manipulation, strong enough to hold down the Tailed Beasts. Wood Release can as well, but I think that was due to being able to calm the corrupted Chakra of the Biju, which might not work the same with the Endbringers.
And I have that clone working on Fuinjutsu anyways, so I'll still have the option to use it when the time comes. But Fuinjutsu takes time, and it can be very dangerous. Even if it takes longer, better to have the clone working with the deadly explosions, while I worked on the less dangerous and more immediately useful skill. And when the System finally gave the notification that I learned the skill? Well, I can't deny that my smile was more than a little unhinged.
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Okay, I should probably be working on that sequel story, but that is more of a collection of chronologically ordered short stories, going through many different settings, and so it will not really be finished for a long time. This story idea is a bit older than that one, but it took a while to write out in a way I'm happy with.
As with most of these that I like to write, Scion is dead, although it was done differently than in my other story. Here, he met a Master that tried to help him with his depression, said the wrong things, and caused him to self-destruct. The city they were in at the time was destroyed, but it was mostly an empty relic after the aftershock of the sinking of part of Japan.
As is normal, or going to be normal, with my Gamer stories, past the setup with it in this chapter, it will have much less of a presence in the story like here. Oh, there will be quite a bit of it, but directly stating what the screens say will be less of a thing further on. I don't like dealing with all those numbers. And I think that's about it. Goodby for now.
