Game of Shadows by Adrian King1

Chapter 25

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor The Gamer. I own nothing, really.

Chapter 25

It was one month after we all graduated from the Academy that I found myself looking intently at my Status screen.

[Eiji Satou

Title: Anko Mitarashi's Apprentice

Energy Points: 620/620

Chakra Points: 465/465

Strength: 31

Dexterity: 34

Constitution: 31

Chakra: 31

Chakra control: C]

It had undergone several changes through the week, most of which thanks to my now not so new weighted clothes. All my stats had grown like nobody's business and I had made sure to thank Naruto at every chance I got and spoil the guy rotten with food, although I had to make sure that it wasn't always ramen, for diet's sake.

The biggest change though, was one that brought a smile to my face every time I looked at it. It was understandable too, I thought, since it should have sat at 310 right now, but instead I had a whooping 465 instead. Why? Well, that was thanks to the perk I got when Chakra (and Constitution) had hit 30.

It seemed that all stats gave a perk at 30. Which brought the question of why Autodidact had appeared at 20, but I had given up on that mystery.

Case in point, the new perks.

[Calm Spirit

Increases Chakra Point gain for every Chakra level by 50%.]

That one was the best, in my opinion at least. Bloodhound was cool and all, but considering how restricting my chakra pool had been ever since I seriously started training jutsu, I was very grateful for Calm Spirit. I had been a little concerned at first, since such a change to my chakra would have been very noticeable, but at least it had slowly grown over the week since I had gotten it. It was still a drastic change, but nobody had said anything so far, which I took as a good thing.

The other two new Perks weren't bad either, I had to admit.

[Resilience (Basic)

The user recovers from injuries slightly faster than normal.]

Resilience had been the Constitution Perk, and I had to admit that it was great. I was nowhere near Naruto's regenerative powers, but it was noticeable nonetheless. And it was probably tied for second favorite with Bloodhound since it helped heal all my training injuries, which helped me keep training.

The Strength one though, was by far my least favorite.

[Knock Out

Increases the chances of knocking the opponent out with a hit.]

At first it sounded cool, but it didn't have any numerical value for a reason. The increase was either very small or more situational than it let on, since I hadn't noticed it taking effect so far. Anyway, it was so-

"Brat, either you snap out of it or I smack you," The annoyed voice of my teacher woke me from my musings and I grimaced.

We were currently making our way towards one of the village's gates. Why? Well, I was going on my first C-rank mission. Nothing too fancy though. A simple patrol mission, not even that far from the village, which was what made it C-rank instead of B-rank. There was little chance of encountering another ninja.