Chapter 16
One week has passed since I started to learn and analyze every piece of knowledge that I can get from the scroll that Tsunade sent to me, and right now, I am about to test the result of my study with Fuuka and Nonou that currently standing a few meters away from me as we stand in the middle of my secret training place
"Alright then girls, I will begin", I said to Fuuka and Nonou as they nodded their heads
"Spirit transformation technique"
Weaving the necessary hand seals and channeling my chakra, the result can be immediately seen as my spirit begins to appear from my physical body and float away in the air, leaving my physical body to stop moving like a statue on the ground
"Hoo~, interesting sensation"
Looking at this scenery, Fuuka and Nonou cannot help but be alarmed and decide to call my name to make sure that I am okay
"Kyu-sama, are you alright?", Fuuka asks me while looking at my floating soul
"I am alright, but I want to test a few things first, Fuuka"
"At your service, Kyu-sama"
"Try touching my body down there"
"I understand", answers Fuuka as she moves closer to my physical body and touches it on a few spots
"I can sense it, looks like I am still connected to my physical body even though it separated from my soul, now, try to touch this body of mine"
Floating down toward the ground, Fuuka moved her hands toward my spiritual form as it passed through without any resistance at all
"Alright, now, try to cast some elemental technique on me, Fuuka"
Nodding her head, Fuuka began to attack my spiritual body with fire, air, lightning, earth, and water, yet all of them also passed through my spiritual form
"This time, cast some Illusion and healing technique on me, Fuuka"
Once again following my order, Fuuka began to cast a [Mystic Healing Palm] directly to my soul, resulting in her hands passing through my body once again
This time, she cast a few illusion techniques on me, and the result surprised me
"Interesting, illusion technique that cast toward this form of mine will be completely nullified, but it will drain my chakra depending on how powerful the illusion is"
"This means I have gained complete immunity against any offensive attack below the Rinnegan level since those eyes possess the power to touch the target's soul directly"
"Oh, reaper seal is probably the other one that I need to worry about, but the number of users of those things can be counted with a single hand, as long as I keep my guards up then I should be fine"
Seeing that I managed to familiarize myself with this technique, I returned my soul back to my body and decided whether it was possible to combine sage mode with this technique
Activating the seal on my body to gather the surrounding natural energy and channeling it into my body, I begin to mix it with my chakra to produce the sage chakra and channel it into my hands while also weaving the necessary hand seal for the technique
*Poof*
"Huh, Kyu-sama?"
Seeing that their master has vanished without any trace, Fuuka and Nonou immediately use their sensing technique to search for his presence in the surrounding area
"He is gone"
"Fuuka, what should we do, Kyu-sama is~"
I am alright
"Kyu-sama?", replies both of them at the same time at the moment they hear his voice
Fuuka, use [Socket Seal: Sharingan] to search my presence, I am currently standing in front of you right now
Following my order, Fuuka active the seal on her palm and moved it toward her front, allowing her to gaze through the eyes of the Uchiha bloodline limit
"Kyu-sama, I cannot detect your presence at all", replies Fuuka as she releases the seal
Then, what about [Socket Seal: Ketsuryuugan] ?
"Nothing appears in my vision either, Kyu-sama", replies Fuuka again once she uses the seal on her other palm
Hearing her answer, I control this new form of mine and show its appearance to these two
"Kyu-sama, is that you?", asks Nonou with a curious gaze after seeing my unique appearance
"Indeed, explain to me what kind of appearance I currently look like, both of you?"
"Your appearance to me is like a see-through version of your physical appearance, I can see the outline of your body, but everything else is clear to see,", replies Fuuka while caressing her chin
"Kyu-sama, as for me, your appearance is like a dark-colored humanoid-shaped fog, similar to those simply drawn humanoid shape images", replies Nonou as well
"Hmm, interesting indeed"
"Do you need us for something to do, Kyu-sama?", asks Fuuka from the side while I begin to mutter to myself
"Ah, yes, Fuuka, do we have any spare sacrifice left in stock?"
"We do, Kyu-sama, we have about ten adult humans left"
"Then, Fuuka, place them in a sedated state and bring them all to this place, as for Nonou, get me those seals that I have prepared in the underground room"
Nodding their head and moving away to do my bidding, I was left all alone in this place as I began to ponder about this sudden success of my curiosity
"When I combine my sage mode with a lighting element, it practically turns me into pure lightning that can move at the speed of lightning while also maintaining my physical capabilities"
"This time, this new form of mine turns my whole body into a being of pure spiritual energy that is capable of interacting with any intangible aspect of any living being such as their mind and soul, as proof, Fuuka and Nonou did not even realize that I have directly touched their soul and tempered their perception and memories while they were searching for my presence with the Socket Seal
"Other advantages that I gain while using this form is that I will be able to defend myself and harm any spiritual being in this world such as that black Zetsu, the core of the tailed beast, and many other spiritual creatures as well"
"Now, there are only a few things left for me to test, after that, I can expand my research in this technique even further, as for now, I will call this new form of mine [Astral Form]"
About thirty minutes later, ten living adult humans can be seen lying on the ground with empty eyes on their face as none of them realize that their life is about to end in a few moments
Meanwhile, on the side, floating in my new astral form, I look at Fuuka and Nonou who are about to finish placing the [Life-span absorption seal] on the sacrifices
"Kyu-sama, the sacrifices are ready"
"Good job, now step back, both of you"
After Fuuka and Nonou move away from my spot, I release my chakra into the seal and begin to drain the life-span of these sacrifices into the seal on their body, slowly sending these sacrifices into their death until they turn into a dried-up husk of human body
Once the process is finished, the seal on the dried-up body begins to glow as a blue-colored wisp-like thing begins to float above the seal
"This is the soul, although I can just devour it like this, it will cause a backlash on my consciousness, so~"
Moving my hand while still using my astral form, I infuse my chakra into this wisp of soul and begin to separate, extract, and place this sacrifice's consciousness from their soul into the seal on the dried-up body, reducing the size of the soul by small amounts, but it also causes the soul to become pure and safe to consume in my astral form
"Now then, time to eat"
Grabbing the now transparent-colored wisp of soul, it begins to dissolve once it comes in contact with my astral form as I can feel this undescribable feeling coursing through my astral form, refining my soul to become stronger by a little degree
"Damn, that feels incredible, at this rate I am going to become addicted to consuming these souls like a drug"
Wanting to feel that sensation again, I repeated the process nine more times as I finally finished cleaning up the whole plate all by myself
"Alright, I think I will stop for now"
Letting my astral body complete the refining process, I slowly turn off my astral form and return back into my human form while my soul with my body begin to synchronize each other with the growth of power that I received
"Incredible, my chakra level and my physical limit have been increased by a small degree, I wonder what will happen if I devour something like a tailed beast"
"Nah, I will take it easy for now, the tailed beast is way too dangerous to handle unless I have someone that can suppress them"
Brushing my clothes from the dust after regaining my perfect condition, I order Nonou to collect the seals on the dried-up corpse while Fuuka cleans up the place with a few fire release
"Congratulations on your success, Kyu-sama", Said Nonou as she approached me and handed me the seals
"What are you going to do with the seal, Kyu-sama?", asks Fuuka from the side while approaching me after burning the remains on the ground
Picking up the seal from my hand, I begin to use my [Life-span absorption seal] once again and drain the energy from the seal into my body until there is enough energy to contain the remaining consciousness
Once I have done absorbing the remaining seal, I use my fire release to burn these seals and remove every trace of those sacrifices from this world since there is nothing left to use from their existence
"Alright girls, shows over, let's go back and get ourselves some fun in the bed since I feel so energetic that my dick has been standing like this for a while"
Lowering their gaze onto my hardened dick, the two of them begin to giggle as I place my hands on their slender body while moving back to my room
Somewhere inside one of the inns on the land of hot water, one of Kyu's puppet merchants, Gato can be seen sitting and folding his arms while looking at the dark-skinned young woman with light-grey hair that continues to explain the contents of the deal that listed inside the paper that placed on the table in front of them
"Sir Gato, that is everything that I can summarize from our offer, as for the rest, you can see for yourself inside the paper that we have prepared for you", said the young woman while presenting the paper to Gato
Taking the paper into his hands, Gato began to read the rest of the content while secretly moving his gaze hidden by his glasses to the woman in front of him
'This woman, if I am not mistaken is one of the targets that our master wishes to capture for his collection', Gato thought to himself while remembering the identity of the woman in front of him and knowing that if he reported this matter to his master, Gato knows that he will be given even more authority to control the trades among the puppet merchants
"Hmm, this is an interesting proposal, miss emissary, but I still need to think about this matter for a few days or so, is that alright with you?"
"That is alright, I will be staying in this town for at least a week", replies the woman with a flat tone
"Okay, I will send someone later once I have done thinking about this matter", said Gato to the woman as she left the room after they were done with this discussion, leaving him all alone in his office
After making sure that he is all alone, Gato takes out a small piece of paper from his desk and places it on his ear, a piece of paper that will allow him to come in contact with his revered master
[What is it, Gato?]
'Please forgive me for taking your time my Lord, but I think that I have something that you would like to know~'
[Speak]
'Lightning Nation wishes to create a trade route through our merchant's group, so they decided to send an emissary which happened to be one of the Kunoichi that you fancy, I thought that you would like to capture her for your collection so I decided to contact you for that'
[And her name is?]
'If I am not mistaken, her name should be Mabui'
[Good job, Gato, As a reward, I will let you gain total control over this deal, I am sure that you know what to do]
'Thank you for your praise, my lord', replies Gato to his master as he decides to order his henchman to prepare something for him