Chapter 31

I was extremely surprised when the old man said that he wanted to have a serious spar and test my abilities. Though I accepted his request on the spot because of two main reasons.

One was because I naturally wanted to fight the old man as it would provide me with good battle experience. Well even though his body state was declining due to old age , he was still a veteran Kage level shinobi and had much greater chakra capacity than me.

Second was because of the sudden quest issued by the system and the rewards were too great to ignore them.

QUEST : SPAR WITH SANDAIME AND LAST FOR MORE THAN ONE HOUR.

REWARD : 4 ROKUSHIKI SKILLS OF HOST'S CHOICE.

I always wanted to learn Rokushiki skills and now could get four of them for free and those will be of my choice on top of that. The manual could be bought for 5000 shop points but it was a different matter when purchasing skill directly from the system.

Soru skill alone costed 5000 shop points in the system shop skill section. So it was a great bargain that I could get four skills together for free if I completed the quest. Naturaly I immediately accepted it.

Still I also knew that my current self was no match for the old man. I could battle him at slightly advantageous stage if I used Flying Thunder God but the problem was that my chakra capacity was nowhere near enough to use the S rank ninjutsu so many times. Besides I originally wanted to hide it from the old man in the first place.

Still the quest was important too so I decided that I would use it if push comes to shove and then do my best to convince the old man to not leak the information to anyone especially Danzo as I wanted to avoid trouble with him for now.

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It was decided that we will fight in the dense forest area few ten kilometers away from the village as to not alert the sensors about our fight. I did not care about his reason as I did not want someone else there if I happened to use Flying Thunder God.

The old man had changed into his brown battle armor now and I could feel from his chakra signature that he was excited. I was too so once we reached the forest , we both immediately separated without a word and I unsheathed my sword Dragon's breadth.

We both moved at pretty much same time and started running apparel to each other at fast speeds while throwing some shuriken which of course were deflected easily. I used my sword while the old man used a simple kunai.

One moment , I felt some movement in the old man's chakra and immediately jumped back and as expected, found an earth bullet crossing through my previous position. The old man was really skilled with using ninjutsu as he did not use any hand signs plus the time he used to cover his chakra into earth nature and fire the jutsu from his mouth , was barely two seconds. As expected of the one who reached his level by mastering jutsu of all 5 basic nature transformations.

Well he also was met with a flying slash of mine though which was dodged but left a deep crack of slight more than one meter in length on the ground. I enjoyed the shocked look on the old man's face and felt proud because I could finaly use flying slashes without using chakra. Well this time I had enhanced my arm with chakra but I could use it without that too.

The art was slashing the air itself and using the air pressure it produced as an attack for greater distance. My mastery was still not that good so I could only cover several ten meters with my strongest flying slash right now. After crossing the distance the power behind the slash would start to decrease until it finaly dissipates. Well I was satisfied though as the power , size of the slash and distance would continue to increase with my body stats improvement and the mastery of the technique in future.

We had stopped for a few seconds but did not attack as there was no real opening for it. My attack was unsuccessful and only provided information to the enemy so I felt a little regretful as I wanted to at least leave a small cut on the old man's body but it was not without any results either because I know knew that the old man's reaction speed and agility was at least two times faster than I had guessed before. So at least I could use the information while forming my battle plans.

The battles between ninja were like this. We had to gain small pieces of information from the opponent during the battle and form plans

while working our minds at full throttle. It was obvious that no one spoke the name of the technique they used like the anime even they shouted name of the jutsu practically every time.

The fight continued and we both only fought using bukijutsu for now. Whenever we got additional information about the enemy's body strength , agility, body flexibility etc , we added it into our next plans and so the battle plans changed regularly during the battle.

We were not moving on with other types of attacks yet simply because there was no nerf to do that yet. Both of us will continue like this until we have the general idea of opponent's basic stats like strength , flexibility , speed etc so that we can use that information to make sure that our powerful attacks actualy do some damage. After all jutsu used chakra and it would decrease with each use so it would be best if it did damage to the opponent rather than letting them dodge it and wasting chakra.

This was one of the main reason that battles of kage level were generally long because it took longer time to gain a general understanding of the opponent's strengths and weaknesses during the battle. After all their body were inhumane and the jutsu they knew would also be many both in types and numbers.

Finally , I was now getting ready to use other tricks as I had gotten the genral idea of the old man's AGILITY and reaction speed. They were way better than a normal elite jounin but were also not better than mine. Even though, my stats were barely kage level yet but it was also true that not many Kage level ninja trained their body strength and AGILITY after reaching a certain level.

After all it took long time to break the limits and the further the strength advances, it becomes more difficult to increase it even by a little . So it was better to spend time practicing jutsu which could increase their arsenal for real. Well I was different from them though as my body STATUS still did not show signs of accruing any bottlenecks. Thanks to the body remodeling pill from the system.

Once I decided it was enough , I started to take it a little seriously and started relying on flying slashes more often while the old man had no choice but to use some jutsu as it got difficult for him to dodge just relying on his body. The second phase of the battle was now on.