Chapter 25 - BUFF Integration
"Are you the ninja... the world consciousness of nature?"
Rin Itsuka asked tentatively.
"That's right."
The consciousness of the natural world nodded.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Drive out the invaders, eliminate the chakra!"
"Oh, that's a good idea, but while I'm good at fighting, how do I eliminate chakra?"
"The Divine Tree! As long as the Divine Tree is planted again, it will absorb all the chakra back. Then you drive away the invaders, and I will let the Divine Tree convert the chakra back into natural energy."
"I see."
Rin Itsuka pondered, remembering that in the original story, when Infinite Tsukuyomi was activated, the Divine Tree would regrow.
"Yes, that's right."
"Wouldn't that kill a lot of people?"
Ignoring the fact that the world consciousness was reading her thoughts, Rin Itsuka frowned and asked.
"It's alright, they've just had their chakra drained, they won't die."
"Alright."
She could disregard the world consciousness before her, but she couldn't ignore the world consciousness of Blue Star.
Since they've entrusted me with this task, I can only do my best to complete it.
The next moment, Rin Itsuka was pulled into a dark space, where a luminous figure stood before her.
This figure was no different from the previous one, but Rin Itsuka instinctively felt close to them.
"Blue Star?"
She asked tentatively.
"Yes. My child, this time, in addition to helping nature, you must also eliminate the Otsutsuki clan, who are plundering the energy of the universe."
"Me? Is the Otsutsuki clan really someone I can defeat?"
"Don't worry, just focus on leveling up. The power I'm giving you is enough to wipe out the Otsutsuki clan."
The Blue Star consciousness seemed very confident.
"Alright."
Rin Itsuka nodded. "You're the boss, I'll listen to you."
"I will reward you when this mission is completed."
"Oh? What kind of reward is it?"
"You will be able to fully master the abilities you have now, and I will allow you to enter other small worlds under my jurisdiction."
"Great!"
Rin Itsuka excitedly agreed.
Then, she returned to the spherical space. The world consciousness had disappeared, and a force began to merge into her body.
[Congratulations, host, on your successful awakening! You are now able to learn new skills.]
Upon hearing the system notification, Rin Itsuka pulled up the skill panel.
She discovered that not only the first awakening skill, but also the second and third awakening skills were shown as learnable, but when she tried to select them, she was prompted that her level was not high enough.
"Great, it looks like I'll be able to learn them as long as my level is high enough."
Rin Itsuka then opened her own status panel.
Name: Itsuka Rin
Gender: Female
Level: 50
Age: 12 years old (0 years old according to the Demon Realm Algorithm)
Bloodline: Demon
Occupation: Ninja (from the Demon Realm of Zhiyuan)
Skills: Sky Strike, Magic Star Bullet, Whiplash, Electric Eel...
Magic Points: 130,000
Good heavens, according to the demon realm's algorithm, I was originally a baby?
But that's not bad either, after all, who wouldn't want to live a little longer?
She learned all the skills she could, and then her consciousness returned to her body.
First, she finished cleaning the house that was only half-cleaned, then made herself something to eat. Rin Itsuka then entered the training ground again and found Albert.
She had spent almost all her free time in the arena, so she had accumulated a lot of victory points. This time, she came to learn the awakening skills of other classes.
Awakening skills are much more expensive than regular skills, requiring 1000 victory points each, but for Rin Itsuka, who had accumulated plenty of victory points, this was nothing.
Having learned all the active and passive skills, Rin Itsuka was about to summon a training dummy to activate their effects when the system's voice suddenly rang out.
[Too many buff skills detected on host. Should we combine them?]
"Combine? What are the effects?"
[After combining, they will become a single buff, retaining all buff effects.]
Rin Itsuka had been worried about having too many buffs. In DNF, each character has several buffs, and if she were to apply them all one by one, it would take her forever.
"Combine!"
[Combination complete! Host gains skill: Zhiyuan!]
Rin Itsuka checked and found that her buff skills had indeed merged into a single active skill.
**Zhiyuan:** Demon beings who have awakened to their origin can activate the blessing of origin, gaining all buff effects simultaneously.
With a gentle swing of her arm, Rin Itsuka felt her strength and speed increase several times over, and her perception greatly enhanced as well.
She summoned a training dummy to test her damage output, and the screen filled with damage numbers hitting the maximum cap!
"Am I invincible now?"
Rin Itsuka could barely contain her excitement.
She needed to calm down. The next moment, Rin Itsuka entered the duel arena, intending to test herself against some NPCs.
With her powerful buffs and greatly enhanced perception, ordinary NPCs were no match for her.
She quickly climbed all the way to Supreme 8, only to be defeated by several level 85 NPCs, which finally brought her back down to earth.
"That's enough, time to go back and sleep."
Back in the real world, Rin Itsuka casually picked up the broom lying next to her.
With a snap, she looked down at the broken handle in her hand, utterly exasperated.
"The power increase is too great. I can't control it at all right now."
After thinking it over, she chose to deactivate the buff, and this time it worked fine.
"Looks like I need to practice my control, but that can wait until tomorrow."
Rin Itsuka muttered to herself, yawned, and lay back down on the bed to sleep.
The next day, Team 7 resumed its previous routine, completing D-rank missions every day.
Naruto seemed to be competing with Sasuke, always trying to outshine him during missions, but he usually ended up bruised and battered, while Sasuke continued to regard him as nothing more than a nuisance.
Kakashi also reverted to his lazy habits, arriving two or three hours late every day with all sorts of excuses — helping an elderly person cross the road, carrying groceries for an old lady, or getting held up chasing a cat.
One day, after getting stung all over his head by bees, Naruto was bickering with Sasuke when suddenly the cry of a messenger hawk echoed from the sky.
"Alright, that's enough for today. I still need to submit my mission report, so I'll be heading off now."
With that, Kakashi disappeared.
"Strange, why is Kakashi-sensei in such a hurry today? Is his stomach bothering him?"
Naruto stroked his chin and guessed.
"Idiot, he's not you!"
Sasuke said dismissively.
"What did you say? Arrogant jerk!"
Naruto was provoked by Sasuke once again.
This time, however, Sasuke didn't bother arguing back. Instead, he simply turned and walked away.
"Hey! Where are you going? Are you scared?"
Naruto called out loudly.
"Training. Think about Haku, the one you faced last time. You're still far behind him."
Naruto fell silent upon hearing Sasuke's words.
He wasn't unaware of the gap between himself and Haku, but without proper guidance, he couldn't do anything except repeat the same basic training every day.
"Ah, I'm so hungry. I need to buy some food and head home to cook."
As Rin spoke, she turned around and stared blankly at the stone wall in front of her.
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End of this chapter...