Chapter 37: Perfecting Combat Skills

"Yes, we can." I replied, "But, I have to warn you that I am training a new jutsu. However, we can train together if you follow my training plans. Do you want to hear them first?"

"Yes, please." She responded humbly.

Smiling, I said, "It's not very complicated. I will create clones, and you will pursue them with your bow and arrows. The purpose of this training is as follows: to improve your aim with moving targets, while for me, it is a technique related to evasion."

Hinata blinked her large eyes and then said firmly, "Okay, I agree."

Obviously, what I said was advantageous for her. She might even be thinking that I created this to help her and not to train a new jutsu.

"Very well, let's start." I said, then made hand seals and ten lightning clones appeared.

"So many..." She murmured.

"What's wrong, Hinata? Not confident?" I teased her a little.

"That's not it..." She murmured, but then her gaze changed, and she said firmly, "I will do my best!"

"That's the spirit." I said with a little laugh.

Smiling a bit shyly, she picked up her bow, placed her quiver on her back, and said, "We can start."

As soon as her words fell, all ten of my clones began to run in different directions, entering the forest.

Hinata made hand seals and said, "Byakugan!"

Now holding the bow with one hand and using the other to pull the bowstring, she pulled the first arrow from the quiver and shot without hesitation.

"Whoosh!"

A blue streak traveled through the air at high speed, heading towards one of the clones. However, before the clone could be hit, using the Tree Climbing Technique, it managed to dodge by a hair's breadth, placing its foot in an almost impossible way on the tree but without actually touching it, and propelling itself to the side, evading.

I noticed a significant flaw: the speed lost was considerable. However, my clone reacted quickly, using the Speed Style to neutralize this flaw by moving forward with agility.

Without moving from her spot, Hinata continued pulling arrows from her quiver and shooting in the direction of my clones while using her Byakugan.

From what I observed, she almost hit my clones, to the point that one of them had its skin grazed.

'Okay, I'll let her train with my clones and meditate a bit.' I thought.

As I sat on the ground, I took a nutritional pill that costs 5 coins. I didn't swallow it but let it melt in my mouth slowly while the nutrients circulated through my body, recharging my chakra.

This was the best way to use the pills that one of my clones discovered: instead of swallowing the nutritional pill, it was better to simply let it melt in the mouth and replenish the lost chakra, stopping when there was no more need and waiting until being out of chakra again or digesting slowly while spending the chakra, basically having an extra chakra reserve.

When my chakra was almost completely replenished, I saw no need to continue meditating. As I opened my eyes, Hinata was no longer in sight, nor were my clones, but I still heard sounds of battle in the distance.

"Huh?" Suddenly, the information from one of my clones reached me.

'She was faster than I expected.' I was genuinely surprised, since although I was still learning to use this new technique, the way she managed to hit my clone was brilliant.

The moment my clone made a mistake using the technique, losing a lot of speed by using a tree to rebound, Hinata seemed to anticipate that my clone would use the Quick Style and was able to predict the exact trajectory. With one arrow, she managed to finish off that clone by hitting it right in the nape.

"Not bad." I murmured with a small smile.

Her growth was also something I desired and, the more she adapted, the harder it would be for my clones to escape. The more difficult it was, the higher the rate for my clones to get used to the new technique.

Meanwhile, I began to make hand seals, creating a strong wind current around me. Soon, five clones formed next to me and, without needing me to say anything, they began to train the Chakra Elemental Infusion jutsu.

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A few hours later, six of my clones had been defeated by Hinata, leaving only four. In fact, I noticed she wasn't fighting the same way she did when she dueled with me. This time, she was even using Explosive Talismans on her arrows, creating gaps from the explosions, and thanks to that, she managed to hit my clones by determining their trajectories.

Of course, she wasn't always successful. Many times she missed the target, since, even though they were just clones, they were still my clones, and even without giving 100%, I didn't limit the use of the Speed Style. So, even if she managed to anticipate my clones' movements, it wasn't 100% guaranteed that she would hit them.

Meanwhile, I was meditating, replenishing my chakra and vigor.

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Finishing my meditation, I murmured, "Book."

The moment the book appeared, I went to the shop page, spending my current coins to buy a Golden Hammer of Limit Break and two Red Nutritional Pills. Having done that, I went to my inventory page.

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Inventory: [18 - Golden Nutritional Pills], [39 - Red Nutritional Pills], [173 - Golden Nutritional Pills], [1 - Golden Hammer of Limit Break].

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'With this amount of nutritional pills, it should be enough to last a few days...' I thought.

As for the golden hammer, although I don't have any attribute at the maximum level at the moment, I believe that, at the pace I'm improving with the help of my lightning and wind yin-yang clones, it's just a matter of time.

And this amount of nutritional pills should boost my training with my clones to make this a reality.

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Please, don't forget to drop at least 1 Power Stone, it motivates me a lot!

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