Chapter 09

Slowly every breath made my stomach rise and fall. And slowly, I felt something move.

It was in my gut, slowly rising up every time I breathed out. Like a water pump being pushed down squirting a little bit of water out every time.

I remained calm, I didn't let the excitement take over me, I continued the exercise.

The chakra at first began to spin around near my gut, I'm guessing my chakra pathways were circular near my gut. Slowly though I felt it began to swim all over my body. It was like there were several tiny river canals in my body and the chakra was the water finally being poured in.

I opened my eyes and let go of the chakra allowing it to return back into my gut where it came from. Amazing, this was all simply amazing.

I looked at the leaf in my hand and immediately placed it on my forehead. I closed my eyes and felt around for my chakra once more. This time it was much easier to use it, allowing me to direct the flow into my forehead.

I suddenly found the chakra running my neck and around my face. My cheeks blushed, the feeling foreign. It passed over my eyes without incident before meeting on my forehead. I scrunched my eyes, focusing on keeping the leap steady by using all the chakra I could muster to hold it there.

And suddenly;

Ping!

The chakra flow became natural to me, it was like I didn't have to tell it what to do anymore. I opened my eyes and looked at the box before me;

You have created a new skill!

Leaf concentration exercise, Lv- 1 (0%)

By keeping a leaf stuck on your forehead thanks to chakara you now only help with your chakra control exercise but also improve your concentration.

Uses: 20 CP per minute

Leaves to hold up- 1

+1 INT while active

+1 CC permanent bonus per level

Ping!

You have gained +1 CC thanks to skill: Leaf concentration exercise!

I looked at the box and grinned. 'Oh hell yes! This means I gain one permanent control point every fucking time I level up this thing! And what's more, when it's active I get a bonus of +1 INT! This is so freaking cool!'

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It was ten minutes into the exercise when I figured that out.

There was one small thing I overlooked.

Uses: 20 CP per minute

Yup, that's the one. And considering that I had only 25 CP, that meant I could only use the exercise for a minute. But guess what, even that was fuckign wrong! Because….

CONTROL- 20%

That meant I was only using 20% of the all the chakra I was fucking using! Meaning not only could I not do the exercise of a minute. I could use it for only 16 fucking seconds! FUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKK!

After sixteen seconds I was done. Not a drop of chakra left. I couldn't believe it, I had wasted 80% of all my chakra simply because I didn't have enough control. What the fuck right?!

So now I was sitting panting on my bed, not believing how unfair the world was. Either I fucking raise my chakra level or I improve my control. And honestly I don't know which.

I opened my menu and looked at my menu and saw my CP bar slowly filling itself, up. I don't even know the rate of regeneration. So growing curious I clicked on the bars and a new menu popped up;

HP- DEX [Base 50 + 50 per 10 points in DEX]

HP REGN. [Base 10%+ 2% for every 10 points STR per minute]

SP- VIT [Base 25 + 25 per 10 points in VIT]

SP REGN. [Base 10%+ 2% for every 10 points in VIT per minute]

CP- CHA [Base 25 + 25 per 10 points in CHA]

CONTROL- [+ 2% per 10 points put into CC]

CP REGN. [Base 10% + 2% per 10 points in CHA and CC per minute]

Perfect, just what I needed. From what I can see I need DEX to get more life, and STR determines my rate of regeneration, so got to keep that us for sure.

Then there is VIT that keeps up my stamina, and oh, it seems it also makes handles regeneration. Damn, that's an important stat right there.

Then comes chakra. The one I'm most concerned about right now. According to this CHA deals with my chakra capacity and also adds to my regeneration. CC deals with control and again adds to my regeneration. So they both were on equal footing so far.

But...I realised something very important. CC dealt with percentages while CHA dealt with hard numbers. If I raised CHA it would give me limited boosts, but if I improved CC, then when I deal with CHA on a latter date I wouldn't just have a little chakra to work with, I would have colossal amounts!

For now controlling chakra is more important to me than becoming the next tailless beast. And while gaining a level in leaf concentration exercises would help in granting me an additional point into CC, I can't do that if I don't have enough chakra to work with in the first place!

So reluctantly I took the four points I had on hand and placed them all into CC.

CC- 8

Damn it it had to be done. At least now I should have better control…..why isn't the thing increasing?

I grumbled and re-read the conditions and realised that it only applied to every 10 points of CC, meaning...I was two points short. I hanged my head in shame. I don't deserve to live.

I waited for around ten minutes before regaining my Chakra to 100%. I placed the leaf on my forehead again and made it stick using chakra. I counted, one, two, three…..ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen and done!

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