The first thing Bakorio did after he finished the grueling quest wasn't to check the system's notifications but instead he slumped on the floor with his hands raised and he kept staring at them… "I actually did it… I did the impossible?"

Muttered Bakorio, although in a form of a question since he was still finding this experience unbelievable as he recalled just how many times he kept failing over and over again until he found his first success in the form of landing one punch…

After recalling all of his experiences during this quest, Bakorio clenched his fists tightly before he released them and stood up to check the notifications

'True fighter mastery huh? let's see what this is all about' thought Bakorio before he checked on the description of this new mastery

[True fighter mastery level 1: Only the true masters that reached the peak of martial arts and fought countless battles could unlock such a mastery. The host gains the ability to manipulate their willpower and manifests it in a formless form that covers their body like an armor and enhances their capabilities. +10% to strength, speed, and defense!]

'Incredible, this is the first mastery that directly increases my stats, and it seems like I was using this instinctively which is why I was able to deal with the muscular man and the difference in our strength and speed' thought Bakorio, delighted by such a reward that was worth the effort! Although he knew that leveling up an evolved skill is no easy task… In fact, from what he felt from his evolved Jikininki, it's at least 50 times harder to level an ability after the evolution… but he could go back in time so time wasn't a problem for him if he so wished…

After he finished checking out his new mastery, he turned his attention to the other abilitiy he gained…

[Future sight level 30: Once activated, Allows the user to predict the movement of an opponent for up to 3 seconds into the future]

A simple description, but the effect was terrifying… In a fight where even a split second matters and can make the difference, being capable of reading the movement of an opponent for 3 whole seconds matters a lot! And could easily make a difference when the difference in strength is huge just like how it was with the trial from his quest…

"With this, my strength has evolved to a whole new level… Although I wonder if there was another way for me to pass that quest… It doesn't matter anymore" Muttered Bakorio before he turned his attention to what other quests he had.

Most advancement quests required him to find specific items or have chakra-related tasks, so he couldn't do them for now and had to focus on those that were similar to his close combat quest…

"Surprisingly, there are only two more quests that I can do right now and they are related to my Sharingan… let's start with the quest for the Eye oh hypnotism" mutter Bakorio…

After reaching level 100 in his eyes of hypnotism, he received a quest that required him to face the strongest Genjutsu from this world and somehow find a way out of It without relying on any of his abilities that might help him such as reinforced heart or the natural resistance of his eyes…

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So, after Bakorio prepared himself mentally, he accepted the quest, and instantly a silhouette of a pale woman with two white eyes appeared in front of him and it took Bakorio by surprise "This is…" However, before he could contemplate what was happening further, a slit in the woman's forehead opened slightly revealing a red eye with many tomoe in it…It was the terrifying Rinne Sharingan!

Frozen in place, Bakorio suddenly found himself in the same white eternal chamber and completely forgot about that illusion… In no time, he found a way out of the chamber and learned sage arts from the black tortoise sage, and before long, he did the same with the sage arts from the dog and the monkey which made him successfully collect all the sage arts and in turn, succeed in merging them and become a perfect sage gaining immense power!

And that wasn't all since just a few years after, Orochimaru succeeded in his experiments and he was able to merge Bakorio's blood with Hashirama's allowing him to gain immense chakra reserves that made him invincible!

And then, he was able to commence his plan to destroy the dark seeds from the whole world and face the one that created them in the first place and defeated him as well making the world a peaceful place and become a hero beloved by many…

This was the effect of Mugen Tsukuyomi (Infinite dream), a terrifying Genjutsu that could only be cast by the Rinne Sharingan. It puts the target inside the dream where everything goes perfectly for them the way they imagined it, but they will never realize that everything was a lie and will remain stuck inside a mere dream forever…

This was the fate of the current Bakorio who was inside the dream… with his outside body incapable of relying on any of its abilities, he was slowly drowning in the illusion until he lost complete touch with reality and believed what he was experiencing to be the truth…

However, he soon achieved everything he ever wanted inside that dream world, and his savior finally arrived, the same thing that tormented him for both lives, an emptiness that could never be erased or forgotten no matter what…

Slowly, it engulfed his heart, and the eyes of the Bakorio inside the dream suddenly sobered up slightly as he put his hand over his heart and muttered "This feeling, why does it feel familiar? This emptiness… why is it here when I have everything I need in life"

Doubts emerged inside his heart, and the emptiness used it to create its own nest as it grew bigger and bigger day by day…

Bakorio walked throughout the lands of ninjas, searching for an answer yet he found none, so he returned to the only place where he thought he got rid of this emptiness in the first place, the eternal chamber…

"Our hero, welcome again to our dragon palace" said Otohime with a delighted look on her face, but Bakorio completely ignored her with a dark look on his face as he went directly to the eternal chamber

'How come I didn't lose my emptiness, if I didn't lose it, then how did I pass the trail?' thought Bakorio as he entered the eternal chamber and closed the door behind him…

He spent a week inside the chamber before the door suddenly appeared in front of him, yet the emptiness was still there and he found it weird so he went to the black tortoise sage and questioned him "Young hero, what do you seek?" asked the ancient voice, but Bakorio was having none of it as he immediately appeared in front of the sage and tied him with his now evolved Yomi no Kuni (in the dream) easily!

"I seek answers, you don't need to speak" said Bakorio, and Otohime yelled "Our hero! What are you doing—"

However, a chain went directly through her head and immediately erased her from existence before Bakorio activated his Mangekyo Sharingan to its full ability and began reading all the knowledge the sage had regarding the eternal chamber, and he found that just as he suspected, at first he was told that no one could leave the chamber until they pass the trial, but now there was a change in the information saying that only the first time was hard to pass and further attempts could be passed easily since the chamber remembers the individuals…

"Remember us huh?" Bakorio grinned before he activated his save and load ability and returned to a save point before he entered the room in the first place…

"Let's see if you remember me now" he thought as he went to the dragon palace again…