Chapter 55: Strength, Endurance, and Speed

Strength, endurance and speed ... Looking at it now, these are not just the usual stats that Shikamaru received standard information, along with the system. Now the guy began to understand more and more that the system is not an assistant to him in many ways and there are things that need to be studied by himself. These characteristics were one of those ...

Regarding these three indicators, everything turned out to be much more complicated, and the system just did not provide detailed information about this. There was not even a hint of physical energy and chakra, but this is reasonable. After all, this is the shinobi world, where everything depends on the physical and spiritual energy that form the chakra, so it should be clear that simple strength and endurance mean little without physical energy. After all, they are to some extent her manifestation, at least in this shinobi system ...

In fact, strength, speed and endurance just depend on that very physical energy, it, like spiritual energy, is stored in the entire body of a shinobi and as such there is no special reserve for these energies. The reserve itself is the shinobi. The combination of these types of energy is chakra. At least, so far, Shikamaru thinks, because he has not yet found a more sensible explanation ...

Of course, one should not confuse spiritual energy and Yin chakra, which is the Yin element, but at the same time is mixed with chakra, just in a certain proportion. This just confirms that improving the mastery of the elements of Yin or Yang does not give Shikamaru more chakra, but only enhances the transformation into these elements. Making techniques stronger and more perfect ...

This can be confirmed by a simple example - the Sage of the Six Paths. His transformation was so perfect that he could create life and breathe it into form. This is the highest transformation, to which Shikamaru, even with his hundred percent in the Yin element, is still very far away. In addition, the guy had a suspicion that the sage's chakra itself was at a higher level, which just strengthened all his techniques, facilitated control and transformation. In general, the sage was just a terrifying genius with monstrous genetics, but, moreover, half-human and at the same time different from his mother. Shikamaru had thoughts about this, he was more than sure that Оtsutsuki had some kind of problem and it was probably related to the development of chakra. Of course, everything could be wrong, now it was difficult to judge such higher beings with this worthless experience ... He just made assumptions based on the memories of this world. Even so, they were not always helpful, especially in teaching. Although they made me think ...

In general, any body is limited by genetics and physical shell, this is, perhaps, the natural fetters of any mortal. Shinobi can have a lot of chakra, but its amount directly depends on the body of the shinobi and the lineage. Unfortunately, there are no other options. A kitten cannot have a lion, and a snake cannot have a dragon. Even Naruto's ravings about being a loser without talent is bullshit. Here you don't even need to include your brains in order to understand everything. These words of his in front of Neji's genius sound ridiculous. Unfortunately, this world is not a fairy tale and no matter how hard you train, you cannot achieve the same success that a monster like Naruto will not come out. Remembering this "loser" with the biju and Uzumaki genes, Shikamaru involuntarily crept out a grin ...

"Everyone should be such losers ..."

He did not think about Naruto for a long time and returned to his past thoughts ...

Shikamaru didn't quite understand how things worked in this system yet. But he knew for sure that the characteristics: strength, endurance and speed, in fact, depend on physical energy. All of these indicators are increased by training and increase physical energy.

All this made me think about some situation with one shinobi ... Probably Rock Lee has just a problem with spiritual energy, or rather, with its combination with physical. He is simply not able to form chakra, but he can form physical energies as much as he can. This is evidenced by the fact that he is able to open eight gates, special tanketsu in the body that control the correct chakra flows. But if you look at it now, they control not the flows of chakra, but rather the flows of two energies, spiritual and physical. So Rock Lee and Might Guy are using not exactly chakra as such, but both of these energies flowing through the system of channels. Those who create Ninjutsu combine them into chakra.

After all, if Li could not form chakras, then what runs along his "chakra channel system"? So the chakrakanals are actually channels that conduct two energies, but do not unite them. So basically, calling it a chakra channel system is a bit of a mistake. The chakra is already created by a person, but not by his body.

This was the first thought that Shikamaru had come to before, but now he considered it nonsense ... and quite funny nonsense. From a lack of knowledge about the tanker, he made many erroneous conclusions in the past.

The bottom line was that any shinobi forms chakra, it was as important as blood and circulated in the same way throughout the body, nourishing all organs. The tanketsu regulated the flows, and the chakra itself was formed in the coils of the chakrakanals. That's the whole channel system as a whole. It is very similar to the circulatory system and is no less important for the life of a shinobi. Therefore, Lee, of course, forms the chakra, otherwise he would simply die ...

Scratching his chin thoughtfully, Shikamaru muttered:

- Yes, I remember my thoughts about the Yin and Yang Release, as I did not really distinguish them from Spiritual and Physical energy ... If you think about it, now everything looks different, Li's situation is even more curious ... weak spiritual strength? If so ... No, but, doesn't that mean he has very little chakra then? If so, how is he even able to open eight gates, with a weak chakra?

Nodding to his words, Shikamaru thought again:

"This is unlikely ... It looks like Lee is simply unable to emit chakra from the body, but has a lot of it."

Shaking his head, Shikamaru muttered:

- No, maybe this is not the point at all, but simply the banal control of the chakra and the inability to perform transformation. Hmm, this is probably the point, because, apparently, he uses chakra quite well for taijutsu. In any case, I remember how he opened the gates in the anime and there was clearly visible bluish energy, and there it was usually represented as chakra. She was with green, which was portrayed as evaporating sweat. So he could probably release it, but he couldn't use it properly. This option is the most logical ... It was not for nothing that I visited the library ... Definitely, not for nothing.

Thus, although Shikamaru is threatened with stronger techniques based on the Yin element, in reality he will not have much chakra for this. So there is not so much benefit from this, but it naturally exists, where without it. Therefore, the indicator "Spiritual energy" is not provided in the system. Although, it would not hurt, but three indicators: strength, speed and endurance simply show the amount of physical energy. Well, or its greater influence in specific areas of the body. After all, if you constantly train only strikes, it will increase your physical energy, but will it increase your speed? It is unlikely, because the legs simply cannot use this energy.

In general, these three indicators reflect both the amount of physical energy to some extent, and the ability to use its shinobi, in certain areas. In physical strength, endurance and speed. Therefore, it is quite reasonable to simply designate physical energy as endurance, but this does not reflect all its capabilities and impact on the body. All these indicators together can be called general endurance, but they will not show details, but only the general endurance of all trained body parts, those parts that create this energy during their development, and those areas that can use it. Therefore, the amount of physical energy is also not very important without a developed body. And she simply cannot hold on to such a body and will destroy it. That is precisely what distinguishes it from the spiritual. But, it probably, in turn, in large quantities can affect the mind ... Just mixing with chakra is just as important, because there is no Genjutsu without at least a bit of chakra.

In general, physical energy in the system was a manifestation of strength, endurance and speed, but it did not get its own indicator in the system that determines its amount. This is because it was much more reasonable to show the very development of the body, and not just its energy. At least that's what Shikamaru thought, because it was quite logical ...

Although without three characteristics, strength, endurance and speed, it was also possible to do without, simply replacing them with Physical energy. But then I would have to add Spiritual, which would result in two not very useful characteristics. They would not be as detailed and a little awkward to understand. Therefore, it is quite normal to just have "Chakra Volume". It shows how many shinobi are currently able to create and use it.