Leveling Up To New Heights

Chapter 6: The Instance Dungeon (Part 2)

I struck the shinobi with the butt end of my katana before raising it and bringing it down on him.

The shinobi himself grit his teeth as he narrowly dodged the downward swing, which I spun on my feet to cut him in half. He narrowly blocked it with a kunai as he skidded back, stumbling before he caught himself just as my katana crashed into his kunai.

It's not that he's more skilled than me, he's just faster and stronger. How strong is this guy? I don't want to waste my CP anymore than I need to. I thought as the guy sent a roundhouse kick my way which I grabbed and, spinning with the momentum, slammed him into the ground. I grabbed grabbed one of his kunai and tried to stab him in the chest before feinting it as I jammed the kunai into the man's throat. He choked on his own blood as he gurgled out something in pain as he tried to reach into his pouch but I grabbed it and shoved another kunai between his eyes.

As his eyes rolled into the back of his head, I slowly rose as I wiped the sweat and blood on my face. Since I was so preoccupied fighting the man, I hadn't noticed the orange name tag above his head.

[Kenko Uru, Konoha Genin]

Genin? Konoha? What? Wait... Konoha... That sounds familiar. It was in one of the Sage of Six Paths' texts, wasn't it? I thought.

Unlike my ancestor Sung Jinwoo, Otsutsuki Hagoromo was one who hardly documented his tales or what he did. Sung Jinwoo did so for his country, but Hagoromo was a simple Sage who ensured peace and wandered the world, going out of his way to do good deeds. He had existed long before Sung Jinwoo did and hadn't made himself known until he showed up, and by then he was a man who had already aged by quite a bit. He's walked this planet longer than even the most primitive of humans ever did and was the one who single-handedly defeated the world-ending calamity brought to our planet a millennium ago. That being his own mother which had transformed into a form of absolute chaos with ten ginormous tails that alone could destroy mountain ranges with ease.

In the process, he sealed the beast within himself and separated his mother's astral form inside of a satellite. One that we all call the Moon, which orbits our planet even now.

I brought a hand to my chin, Konoha... he mentioned in one of his texts how he had met the reincarnations of his sons in country called Konoha, back when humans were barely able to survive several thousand years ago. Was I dropped in such an era? I wondered as I blinked as another screen popped up in front of me.

[Level Up!]

[Status]

[Name: Mizushino Sung Level: 2

Title(s): The Will of the Strong Fatigue: 0%

Job(s): None

Cursed Technique(s): Shadow Dominion, (+2 more)

HP: 3,200/3,200

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MP: 240/240 (Sealed)

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CP: 520/520

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CEP: 200,040/200,040 (Sealed)

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Strength: 24 Vitality: 16

Agility: 16 Endurance: 16

Intelligence: 12 Sense: 16

Spirituality: 12 Wisdom: 26

(Available Points: 5)]