I flicked the condensed-reishi-blood off my Zanpakuto idly as I read the new description for it.
[Zanpakuto – Akuma-sha (Legendary)
The physical manifestation of the power of your Reiryoku, Akuma-sha is the only Zanpakuto in existence that has sentience but not a soul or avatar. Instead, the blade consumes the spirits of any Zanpakuto it destroys and gives you unrestricted access to their powers, even those that are hidden from the original wielder.
Soul Storage: Ryuujinjakka, Senbonzakura, Suzumebachi, Zangetsu, (Empty), (Empty).
DMG: STR + (0.5)AGL]
I sighed. Killing Ichigo had been child's play. Literally. He didn't have any powers or skills besides his forever-unsealed Zanpakuto, whose powers I took for my own. Fortunately, I was able to simply knock out his gang. Ryuuken was nowhere to be seen.
PING!
[Quest Complete!
Main Quest: Strawberry Troubles
The time has come for things to change, for better or for worse. You have been tasked with killing the most naturally powerful beings by Aizen himself during the invasion of Soul Society.
Completed Objectives:
Kill Kurosaki Ichigo.
Kill Genryuusai Shigekuni Yamamoto.
Completed Bonus Objectives:
Kill all the Captains who appear.
Kill all the Vice-Captains who appear.
Finish the battle in less than a minute.
Finish your battle with Kurosaki Ichigo in less than a minute.
Reward:
200000xp, Mirror Dimension Skill Book, Onmitsukido Armor Set]
[You have levelled up multiple times!]
I… I just can't, anymore. A full armor set from the bonus objectives. And that's not even counting the fact that I just got double the experience from that new skill… ugh. Whatever. I'm the next god. Fear me, blah, blah, blah.
Just as I finished that thought, the clone that I sent out to procure what Ii wanted popped. Hm. It seems that my shadow clones can use my [Inventory] as well. How useful.
I navigated over to my [Character Page] and saw my new stats… God, I'm so depressed about how easy stuff is now that I can't even muster up the capability to be angry anymore. Anyway, fifteen points… lets even things out as much as I can…
[Character Page
Gundan – Level 43
Title: Outsider's Chosen
Next Level: 57,000/60,000xp
HP - 6700
QI - 6700
RR - 6700
CON - 660
STR - 660
AGL - 747
INT - 660
LCK - 746
WIS - 660]
Eh. Whatever.
"Legion?"
I looked up and sighed. "Master Ti… I hope what I did hasn't scared you." I said, quietly.
She looked at me carefully, analyzing my posture and expressions, no doubt. Jedi always kept their analytical skills as sharp as possible. "Come here." She said simply and pulled me closer to embrace me in a hug.
I blanked out for a moment, before giving in and wrapping my arms around her. My six-year-old body could only barely reach her waist, but still. It felt nice. I imagined that this is what a hug from a mother would feel like.
"I don't know whether what you did was right or wrong." She spoke, rubbing a soothing hand down my back. "This world was forever destined for ruin, even before you came. Burning a rotten root is not a crime." That brought me up short. I never made it to the end of the Bleach manga but I did know that Ichigo had a kid and there was a happy-ever-after for the characters here. Then why…? Whatever. I'm not really bothered. Let's just finish up here.
I pulled away and smiled up at her the best I could, letting [Gamer's Mind] quell the fog that covered my awareness. "Let's just get back to Aizen so that we can get going."
She seemed the slightest bit unsure but nodded anyway.
I turned to the Espada behind us and arched an eyebrow. "Someone, please, open a Garganta into Soul Society. No offense, but I'd rather get home as soon as possible."
They just looked at me for the longest moment. I don't know what was going through their mind, and, honestly, I wasn't too excited to find out – their faces were grim enough.
I just shrugged.
Ulquiorra, at not signal that I could see, turned and opened a portal to the place. I squared my shoulders and walked through, the others following close behind.
Once again, I felt that strange pull. As if something were calling out to me, but with a… feeling… instead of actual sound. I tried to look around the passageway we were in, but for some reason I couldn't fly here. I tried jumping, but I only managed to go as high as a child my age should. Odd. It seemed that the place in between places brought down my potential to what it should be.
I shrugged it off altogether then and walked out into the open. Once again, it felt as though I didn't belong here. The air was heavy. Moving seemed to take more effort, although far lesser in magnitude than when I was in Hueco Mundo… although that could be because of my new level of stats.
Speaking of which, I spotted a collectible right in front of me. We did end up in front of a Sereitei gate, so I guess it's only fair there was one. I walked up to it and tapped it.
PING!
[You have discovered: Southern Sereitei Gate! 1/50 Soul Society Locations discovered!
Please select one of the following –
6000 Exp
150 Perk Points.
40 Stat Points.]
Fifty of them… that's bring the total up to two thousand points…. Whatever. I'd rather pick them up and not need them than need them and not have them. I created a clone to scout out more collectibles and hopefully be done with it by the time I'm finished with Aizen. It vanished in a flicker of black lightning.
Ulquiorra turned to look at me for a second, before he jumped. I sighed and jumped after him; hopefully he was going right where Aizen was.
Oh, wait! What about the clone who I created to practice earth and air bending back in Karakura? I created another clone and dispelled it. Almost immediately, I was hit with another set of memories.
PING!
[Due to a special action, two skills were created!
Earth-bending (Active) Lv 26 (5.22%)
By using your body's energy to exert your iron will, you have learned to manipulate the unyielding element of earth.
Cost: 10QI/min.
Air-bending (Active) Lv 38 (76.2%)
By using your body's energy to open yourself up to the nuances of the world around you, you have learned to weave the element of air.
Cost: 7QI/min.]
Cool. I wonder when I'll be able to go into the Avatar state, if at all? Wait, would the Avatar state grant me even more stats? Because if so, I think I'm going to scrap this idea right now.
Eh. Who cares? I'm literally so overpowered it's not even funny. It's depressing. And that's not even counting the fact that I have practically doomed this world just because I got bored.
I froze.
Wait… did I do everything I did so far… just because I got bored?
I thought back to when I first got here. I wanted to get stronger because of survival, at first. I trained under Tousen and Tia to strengthen my skills before I shot up thanks to collectibles. But when I told Aizen about Juuha Bach and Ginjo… was I…
Was I thinking what would be the most entertaining?
Back when I gutted ROOT, I had to pretend to be disgusted with myself when Hiruzen found me. I don't think I feel bad about killing Ichigo or the Gotei 13 who showed up at all, no… I just… was petulant. I didn't want to, so I was upset.
What exactly does [Gamer's Mind] do? Its most important function is preventing any negative mental debilitations from affecting me. Does that include guilt? I've seen it clearly with anger…
Have I actually been sad about anything important since I woke up in Konoha?
I shook my head. Here, in enemy territory, was not the best place to contemplate this. I needed to think about this when I returned home though. My morality was skewered enough in my old life… I don't need it to be ruined permanently. Or at least, if it is, I should know, so that I can switch paths and go fully evil. Has any gamer fanfiction I've ever read compel their main character down the dark path? I may have seen a couple but… not many, I think.
Wait, would that even be supported? The quests I can don't seem to be generated from my thoughts like some fanfiction, or else, believe me, I'd be level hundred right now. So, the question is whether the system wants me to be evil, or have I just subconsciously selected a path and gone down it?
A hero wouldn't have slaughtered ROOT. A hero would have learned sealing in the shortest possible time, figured out a counter-seal for their brands, and then reported to the Hokage. A hero would have participated in a controlled mission to take as many alive as possible. A hero would have told the Hokage about his skills from the start.
What… what did that make me? A villain? Or… something in between?
Ulquiorra set us down and I dutifully followed, landing without so much as a muted thud. I found Shaak Ti at my side in the next instant. Oh, that's why we were so slow – Ulquiorra set the pace according to her.
"Ah. Legion."
I looked up towards the voice and saw Aizen. But this wasn't the Aizen that I was so used to seeing. This was Aizen in chrysalis, with his face entirely hidden with white material and only his eyes visible. "Aizen." I greeted neutrally.
"I see that you have also ascended beyond the norm." he noted, and something told me he was smiling. "Would you like to accompany me to destroy the Soul King once and for all? Or would you like me to open the way into the realm where the Quincy are imprisoned right this moment?"
I shook my head. "Neither, really. I just wanna return home. I did what you asked and wiped out Genryuusai and Ichigo, though… and the others."
"Very good." The man… thing… nodded. "This allows me to conserve my strength for the Zero Division. Well. As for your payment…" he gestured with his hand.
The Hogokyou, planted in the center of his chest, flashed white and a book appeared in front of me, hovering. I scanned it.
[Skill Book – Time-Space Gate]
"The means to travel to your home is now with you." He gestured grandly. "You have helped me more than I could have hoped for. I do hope that we will remain in contact as the years go by. Perhaps even when you're more physically mature."
I arched an eyebrow but shrugged. "I don't know how this works, Aizen. But I can promise you this – if the door is open, and you ever need me, simply send me a message, and I will be here."
The man tilted his head. "Interesting. Your intrigue me as always, Legion." He said in lieu of farewell, perhaps, then about turned, walking away. In the distance, I couple see that capsule-spaceship thing that the Zero Division uses to travel to and from the Sereitei and the Soul King Palace. I narrowed my eyes when I saw a black flash go up, and then back down again. Were there any collectibles up there, too?
I shrugged and tapped on the scroll in front of me.
PING!
[You have acquired the skill book – Time-Space Gate.
Would you like to learn this spell?]
Duh! I accepted it immediately.
PING!
[You have learned a new skill!
Time-Space Gate (Active) Lv MAX
By concentrating, you are able to rip open a portal in space-time itself to travel to your destination. While dimensional boundaries mean nothing to you, you can only travel to a place you've already been to and a time you've already lived in.]
Okay, wow. What's next, make me omnipotent or-
Wait.
A place I've already been to. That part is just like apparating. I can't go to any place I haven't already been to. And I can't go to a time in which I'm not present or alive. Did… Did the Hogyoku react to my inner desires to remain as plain as possible? It gave me a way to freely travel between dimensions to a point of time when I left, but didn't give me any room to abuse it… well, at least not much room to abuse it. I couldn't go back to Kaguya's time and end her permanently, but I could travel back in time to tell myself to change a decision I made. Wait, would I just appear next to myself, or would I take over my older self's body? Would my skills jump with me in that case? Oh wow, my head hurts. I need to get away from here as soon as possible.
But, rule – no time travel. If I need to hop dimensions, I'll appear in the exact instant I left. But I will never, ever, try to rewrite something I've done. I don't know what could happen.
A hand on my shoulder started me out of my thoughts. I looked behind me to see Shaak Ti standing and, oddly enough, Tia and Tousen still lingering.
"Thank you for all that you have done for me." I bowed low to the latter two. "You educated me when there was no need to. For that, I will always be thankful."
"You are a wonderful student." Tousen simply said.
Tia waked forward and forced me to stand. "Then as a parting advice, remember this – there is never any reason to decline learning. Even if it may seem unusable to you as some point, learning a seemingly-useless ability can save your life sometime. Remember my words, and always keep learning."
I looked into her eyes and nodded. I was too overpowered now… but…
"Thank you." I said once again, then turned to Shaak Ti. "Are you ready to return to your home, Master?"
"About that…" Shaak Ti trailed. "I don't wish to return. I want to accompany you."
I froze. "What?"
"The Force pulled me into this place in preparation to meet you." She spoke. "Even before that… man… captured me for information, I was already having visions of you as I wandered the desert. In the time I've known you, this… sensation… that my future lies on the road you take, has only strengthened. And then you return my lightsaber…"
"Think about what you're saying." I muttered. "I don't know if this skill will work from where I'm talking about if you change your mind. You're probably asking for me to close the only door that exists into your universe."
She nodded, solemn. "I have decided. I will accompany you, Legion, wherever you go."
I sighed and rubbed the bridge of my nose. This… this makes talking to the Hokage a priority as soon as I get back. "Fine. I have to wait for-"
I paused midway as a rush of memories hit me. I found all fifty collectibles and, again, they had nothing fun to offer. I wonder if the replacement feature is only something available back home? Anyway. I quickly navigated over to my [Character Page] and assigned all the points. Strangely enough, none of my attributes would go beyond a thousand. So, with a hundred and thirty-three stat points on hand and a heavy feeling in my stomach, I accepted the change.
PING!
[You have reached the limit for all of your attributes. Would you like to Prestige?]
"That's strange." I murmured.
"What's wrong?" Shaak Ti asked, trying futilely to spot what had me confused with narrowed eyes.
"I'm not sure." I admitted. I tapped the question mark in the corner of the window, thankful that I had long ago purchased [Hints].
[Hints – Stats and Prestige
Every time you level up, you gain five attribute points to allocate to any of your six stats as you see fit. However, there are multiple other ways to receiver points aside from the obvious. Once you have allotted points up to the limit in all of your attributes, you can then prestige into a higher race.
As your base form, there is only so much you can improve even with the influx of multiple energies. The Prestige system allows you to, essentially, ascend into higher races. Each time you prestige, your limit is extended and, thus, you must spend more points to prestige the next time. There is no limit to the amount of times you can prestige.
When you choose to prestige, your level and attributes are reset to what you allotted at the start. You also receive the stat points you received naturally from the progression system, excluding all points earned through other means. However, you retain your perk points and skills as they are, and purchased perks remain as they are. Your base health and energies increase, your attributes increase in effectiveness, and you climb higher on the ladder of existence.]
My mind blanked out. I haven't heard of this sort of system in any fanfic I'd read when I was alive. But then again, this system is somewhat totally out of whack, so I guess it isn't unexpected.
I returned to the original window and accepted the offer.
[Name: Legion
Race: Human
Current Level: 43
Path: Rogue
Are you sure you would like to Prestige?]
I bit my lip. I never saw my race before, or my chosen 'path'. Why did this seem like such a big deal?
I quickly accepted.
[Please select your race:
Angel (+ Paragon Alignment)
Demon (+ Infamous Alignment)
Nephilim]
Alignment?! Now what the fuck is this crap?! Ugh. Well… I don't really want to commit to either path so…
[Are you sure you wish to ascend as a Nephilim?]
Something in my eyes itched. I tapped 'yes'.
PING!
[You have begun the process of Prestige! Please visit the Character Page to finalize the changes.]
My eyes were itching really bad. As was the mark. Something inside my chest hurt too….
I did my best to ignore my discomfort and navigated over to the page as requested.
[Character Page
Gundan – Level 5
Race: Nephilim
Title: Outsider's Chosen
Next Level: 0/5000xp
HP - 1200
QI - 1200
RR - 1400
CON - 2
STR - 2
AGL - 7
INT - 4
LCK - 6
WIS - 4
Resistances:
Physical – 90%
Chakra – 6% (-50% vs Tainted)
Spiritual – 43%
Available Points: 215]
Oh… wait. Why did I have a thousand two hundred points as my HP already? I quickly tapped the hints icon. And read through the description…
Holy fuck. I started out with a base thousand for the meters now, and it increased by a hundred for every point in it! Also, my regeneration now counts per every thirty seconds by default! This means… coupled with the bonus from my [Chakra Medium] skill, my energies regenerate every… fifteen seconds.
…
THE FUCK KINDA NERF IS THIS, GAME? WHY I OUGHTA-
Ugh.
Just... never mind. I quickly assigned the points off, doing the best I could to stay as balanced as I could for now, since I don't know how the [Location Collectible] s around me will react to this.
[Character Page
Gundan – Level 5
Race: Nephilim
Title: Outsider's Chosen
Next Level: 0/5000xp
HP - 5000
QI - 5000
RR - 5000
CON - 40
STR - 40
AGL - 40
INT - 40
LCK - 40
WIS - 40
Resistances:
Physical – 90%
Chakra – 6% (-50% vs Tainted)
Spiritual – 43%]
I grumbled but accepted it. What was the point of this Prestige, anyway? The only thing that changes is my level! All my stats theoretically work the same as if they would at ten times their value, if my calculations are correct. Ugh.
Wait, what about my skills?
[Skill List
Gamer's Mind and Body (Passive) Lv MAX
Your powers have forced you to migrate to a different plane of existence. You cannot be affected by negative mental debilitations and emotions, and your body behaves as if it were in a game and reacts accordingly.
Restore HP, energies, and remove debilitations by sleeping in a bed (sleeping and eating optional).
Pain is brief and injuries only affect HP.
Protagonist's Tumultuous Luck (Passive) Lv MAX
Interesting events will happen to you much more frequently as time passes on. Don't be surprised at the rate at which they occur. Because of your fervent use of luck when it comes to finding items that, by nature, do not belong, you are now able to sense the nearest such item regardless of distance. You now receive double the rewards from every quest, and rare items are now easier to find!
+100% chance for Plot Events to occur.
+100% EXP and Ryo from quests.
+50% chance for rare item drops.
Might of the Offensive Stonewall (Passive) Lv MAX
Your might is noteworthy, whether in battle or not. Now, you can no longer be interrupted by enemy attacks, and can simply not be knocked down. Enemy combatants can no longer resist being knocked back by your attacks, regardless of how strong they are, if chances exist. When health bar is empty, you are reinvigorated with your single-minded focus, regaining ten percent of your health once every twelve hours. Also, a percentage of the damage you receive is reflected back towards the attacker.
25% damage reflected.
Energy Medium (Passive) Lv MAX
By mastering strict control over internal energy flow, only a bare minimum is required to initialize a skill. Finely tuning energy movement throughout the body is now second nature. Due to unshakable control, you now regenerate all energy at a much higher rate.
-50% delay in regeneration of energies.
-99% chakra cost for chakra-imbued skills.
Exercises Discovered – Leaf Balancing (0.1 CP/min), Tree Climbing (0.2 CP/min), Water Walking (0.3 CP/min), Chakra String (0.4 CP/min/string), Cloth Stiffening (0.5 CP/min/m2), Senbon Balancing (0.6 CP/min/needle, Flight (0.7CP/min).
Rapid Learner (Passive) Lv MAX
Your amazing rate of study is only further enhanced by your raw mental processing and comprehension power! Skills now advance 200% faster!
Detect Bloodlust (Passive) Level MAX
Allows you to pinpoint the person who is emitting the sensation of wanting to very-much kill you, and from where.
+20% skill effectiveness for every five levels you are beyond the source.
Silver-tongue (Passive) Lv 96 (0.00%)
Your mastery with words allows you a greater chance to persuade targets, allowing them to see your view of thinking and, more often than not, gently tugging them onto your path.
70% chance of working.
-1% chance of working for every five levels the target is beyond you.
+18% chance of working for every positive REP with target.
Eavesdropping (Passive) Lv82 (42.0%)
Allows the user to listen in on things happening around them.
172 meters range.
-10% effectiveness in loud areas.
Idiocy (Passive) Lv 49 (4.12%)
Sometimes, people don't understand why you are doing what you are doing. Because of this, they may think you are insane, really foolish, or just plain endearing.
49% chance to earn positive REP with those around you.
51% chance to make those around you think you are crazy.
Taijutsu Mastery (Passive) Lv95 (0.32%)
The mastery of hand-to-hand combat.
+95% chance to cause damage to internal organs.
-95% evasion chance for opponents.
Styles learned: Konoha Academy Style, Arrancar Hakuda.
Master Illusionist (Passive) Lv MAX
Weaving illusions as a master, you are now familiar with the art as you are with the back of your hand. None can escape your weaves, and the damage inflicted is doubled. Sometimes, casting illusions doesn't even incur a cost.
+99% chance to inflict double damage.
+50% chance to cast an illusion at no cost.
Master Swordsman (Passive) Lv MAX
A true master of the way of the sword, your self-taught style in conjunction with several others makes you a fearsome opponent.
+100% damage with bladed weapons.
-99% chance for your opponent to dodge.
+50% chance for a critical strike.
Master Marksman (Passive) Lv MAX
You are a master at hitting your target, whatever the type of projectile you use.
Accuracy: 100%
Accuracy penalty: -20% for every 500m after 500m.
Highest throwing speed: 10 projectiles/sec.
Advanced Telepathy (Active) Lv 75 (3.62%)
Attuned to the living, your scrying skills now allow you to see into the mind of the person you are observing and manipulate it. By connecting with others on an emotional level, you are able to understand what they feel and why.
1 sec in target's mind is 0.005 sec in real life.
4 CP per second while looking into someone's mind
Void Gaze (Active) Lv 1 (0.00%)
An eye technique developed due to the entwinement of the Mark of the Outsider with your soul, as well as various little bits of your ability that exist quasi-independently from your physical and mental bubble. The Void Gaze allows you to see the presence and movement of energies as you see fit. You are also able to deduce exactly where the critical points on your enemies are. Hitting these points will allow you to instantly score a critical hit.
Cost: 10RR/sec.
Exemplar Speed Force Connection (Active) Lv MAX (100%)
The Speed Force has sunk a fragment of itself in you. Your now have a far better connection with it than most speedsters in the multiverse.
Increase speed by 10000 times when active.
Subterfuge (Active) Lv MAX
A master of the unseen, you are able to stay hidden even in the most unorthodox of circumstances. Unless the target has a massive advantage, you cannot be found.
-99% chance to be detected.
+50% chance of landing a Critical Strike.
Water-bending Master (Active) Lv MAX
By using your body's energy to redirect and flow with change, you are able to control the healing element of water in solid, liquid, and gaseous states. As a master of the art, the things you can do with water are legendary.
Healing limit: 250HP/sec.
Fire-bending (Active) Lv 89 (0.00%)
By using your body's internal workings to regulate energy, you are able to control the destructive element of fire in great magnitudes. Having tuned into its wavelength, you can now use Fire-bending to analyze a person's energy.
Cost: 1QI/sec.
Earth-bending (Active) Lv 26 (5.22%)
By using your body's energy to exert your iron will, you have learned to manipulate the unyielding element of earth.
Cost: 10QI/min.
Air-bending (Active) Lv 38 (76.2%)
By using your body's energy to open yourself up to the nuances of the world around you, you have learned to weave the element of air.
Cost: 7QI/min.
Mark of the Outsider (Active) Lv 43 (90.2%)
Granted to those who pique his interest regardless of moral alignment or sanity, the Mark allows you to bend the rules of reality. The Mark allows you to access the capability to cast spells, where otherwise you would need a focus of some sort.
Branches of Magic accessible: Transfiguration, Conjuration, Animation, Combat Spells, Miscellaneous.
Magic Specialty: Titan (Active) Lv 53 (3.72%)
You use magic to enlarge yourself. Along with your physical size, your physical attributes and capabilities gain a boost.
Boost value: +6% for every 50m on al physical stats.
Cost: 184 RR/min/5m
Hollow Skill: Zero (Active) Lv MAX
Compress your spiritual energy into a ball with great pressure, then 'rip' its shell to expel the energy in a cascade of great power that completely bypasses armor and resistances due to its spiritual nature. Having a great mastery over it, you now can use multiple variants.
Simple Cero: 500 HP Damage; Cost: 100RR
Gran Rey Cero: 1000 HP Damage; Cost: 500RR
Cero Oscuras: 2500 HP Damage; Cost 1000RR
Hollow Skill: Pulse (Active) Lv 47 (0.54%)
A sensing technique used only by the most proficient spiritual energy users, by pulsing out your own spiritual energy and calling it back in, you can pinpoint beacons of spiritual energy around you via spiritual resonance.
Max sphere radius: 2.5km.
Cost: 53% of RR.
Hollow Skill: Steel Skin (Active) Lv 76 (0.50%)
Your mastery of Reiatsu allows you to condense it around your skin, forming a barrier between an incoming attack and you. It cannot be broken, only powered through.
HP + 760.
Ninja Art: Chakra Leap (Active) Lv 49 (9.62%)
Using chakra directed to the lower-leg muscles, one can increase the distance covered by a single bound.
59 meters distance covered
Cost: 0.4 CP
Ninja Art: Chakra Scalpels (Active) Lv49 (9.10%)
The user forms a sharp blade out of their chakra that covers the hand from fingertips to wrist. It allows them to cut into a living body without breaking the skin, decreasing chances of infection.
Damage: (INT + DEX)
Cost: 0.6CP per blade
Ninja Art: Shadow Embrace (Active) Lv29 (0.00%)
The user embraces the shadows, allowing better hiding capabilities.
+ 31% to Subterfuge skill when active.
-15% to enemy vision cones
Cost: 0.7CP/sec
Ninja Art: Illusory Clone (Active) Lv 30 (0.00%)
By ejecting chakra from your body and manipulating it, you are capable of creating a basic illusion of yourself. The image produced is intangible and vanishes after three solid objects pass through it.
Cost: 7CP
Duration: 120 seconds
Ninja Art: Substitution (Active) Lv49 (0.00%)
After charging an object with your chakra, you can instantly substitute with it at any time.
Cost: 25CP
Range: 59m
Ninja Art: Organic Shapeshifting (Active) Lv MAX
By utilizing memory as a medium and chakra as a catalyst, you can effectively change shape into any living creature you have observed in the past.
Cost: 0.1 CP/sec.
Ninja Art: Shadow-clone (Active) Lv MAX
You bring a non-elemental tangible clone into existence by this skill, splitting your energies evenly into each of them, including yourself. It can act independently from the user. Any knowledge the clones gain is transferred back to the user.
Stats Effectiveness: 100%
Knowledge relayed to the user: 100%
Maximum Creation Range: 1km]
Okay, so apparently becoming a Nephilim is not just a simple race change. A lot of my skills have been played around with and merged. The [Mark of the Outsider] is the thing that's changed most, I think. [Void Gaze] has become an entirely separate skill – a Dojutsu. While the mark itself… wait. I know those branches of magic! Those are from…
Crap.
I can do Harry Potter spells now?! But, but… there was nothing such as Nephilim in Harry Potter… was there? Ugh!
Anyway, besides that, al my skill names seem to have been translated into English from their respective languages, regrouped properly according to their active or passive type, and sorted according to… what kind they are, I guess. Damn. Even if I go down to 1HP though, my fighting skills make my stats a non-entity. Dammit…
Here I am, crying about my stats, when it was my skills I should have been bothered about all along! Almost no chance for my opponent to dodge my sword strikes… no way for them to break my illusions…?
I… you know what? Fine. I'm overpowered. But watching those skills rise by the number is so satisfying… I'm practically a six-year-old Kage! Hell, there are people who'd kill to have powers like mine! So, you know what, fuck being underpowered…. And fuck whoever made it so easy for me to advance my skills. Don't they have any sense of moderation?!
Well… I guess it's never going to be okay with me how powerful I really am. I guess… it's just something I'm going to have to deal with.
"Legion?"
I looked up towards Shaak Ti and saw her concerned glance. It took me a while, but it was only then that I felt it. I brough my hands to my cheeks and… there! Wetness… Tears?
I wiped them off and shook my head. "Nothing is wrong, so don't worry." I reassured her. Did I just cry? How did I cry? Isn't sadness a negative mental debilitation? What, how why? Ugh, this game just gets more confusing by the day… "C'mon." I said, then turned away, picturing the last time I was in the elemental nations in my mind.
'I'm creating a portal home. A portal is being created. I will arrive just when and where I was pulled from.'
There was the sound of a bell tolling. A light breeze picked up, and suddenly, in front of us, a pitch-black orb appeared, grey wisps of energy forming and fading in random intervals around it.
"I guess… we have to step through." I shrugged. I didn't step forward yet.
Shaak Ti nudged me. "What's wrong? Don't you want to go home?"
I looked at my hands. I killed people here just because a quest told me to. Is that… is that something I should be ashamed of?
I clenched my fists and sighed. I'm a ninja, and I'm being overdramatic. Pretty soon I'm going to have to kill many people because of missions. I can't get cold feet now… once a ninja, always a ninja.
"Yeah." I murmured, reaching out to take her hand. "Let's go home."
Notes:
And we're at the end of Bleach! Finally! I don't know how starting this was so fun but the end never seemed to come. I wrote out many different paths this arc would take but eh. Obligatory skill list at the end too. Hope to see you for the Naruto arc!