The Lost Forest, located at the eastern border of the Astral Continent, was a large forest filled with numerous dangerous spirit beasts.
It was a paradise as well as a hellish place for the adventurers. Blinded by their greed or with the wish to become stronger, many of them died without the possibility to achieve their goals.
Eliana was a noble from the Aestal Kingdom, she was a top-notch adventurer who joined a famous adventurer team called the "Guardians of Heroes". Without the possibility to refuse the marriage that their parents forced upon her, she ran away from her house to become an adventurer to live on her own. As a brilliant student from the magic school of the Aestal Academy, she was easily accepted as a member of the Guardians of Heroes.
It has been 2 years since Eliana left the Aestal Kingdom to travel around the world with her teammates. Even though it was relatively difficult for her at first, she became accustomed to the living of an adventurer.
Today, the Guardians of Heroes was directing towards The Lost Forest. As one of the top adventurer team of the Astral Continent, they were confident enough to complete the task which was entrusted to them.
The mission that was given to them was to save a friend of the guild master of the adventurer guild. The difficulty of the mission was ranked A+, a difficult mission that only few rank S- adventurer team could achieve.
The difficulties of the missions were always ranked F- for the easiest mission to SSS+ to the most difficult one. An adventurer team that could complete an A+ mission was already an amazing feat within the Astral Continent.
The mission itself was not that difficult itself, but since the friend of the guild master has been last seen inside The Lost Forest on the deepest part of the forest, the difficulty of the mission climbed from C+ to A+.
After encountering countless spirit beasts ranked between F+ to C+, the Guardians of Heroes smoothly advanced in the deepest part of The Lost Forest. But once they entered in the deepest part of The Lost Forest, they became extremely careful and they kept carefully observing their surroundings to a new whole level.
The spirit beasts were also ranked from F- to SSS+. S+ spirit beast was already considered as an elite monster who could destroy a whole kingdom. SSS+ spirit beasts were legendary elite spirit beasts from the legends.
With the Guardians of Heroes' abilities, they could defeat a B+ spirit beast without receiving too many injuries. The spirit beasts they encountered until now was unexpectedly easy for them to deal with. But in the deepest part of The Lost Forest, encountering an A- monster was a common occurrence. With their current abilities, defeating such a strong spirit beast was almost impossible.
Fortunately, their luck was really good and they didn't encounter such elite spirit beasts. After finding Albert, the guild master's friend of the adventurer guild of the Astral Continent unconscious inside a cavern, they decided to carry him out of the forest.
Unfortunately, they encountered an A+ elite spirit beast right after leaving the cavern. And on top of that, it was one of the most dangerous A+ spirit beasts.
"Damn! It was easy so far...Why our luck is so bad to encounter a Frenzy Fire Bear." Damien shouted with a gloomy expression. He was a Qi Warrior as well as the leader of the Guardians of Heroes.
"It's probably because this cavern was his refuge..." Eliana muttered, while looking at the Frenzy Fire Bear with a frightened expression on her face.
"Eliana cast your strongest offensive spell, I'll distract him during this time. Maria uses your defensive spells on me. Brock cover me with your arrows!" Damien quickly ordered. He was the most experienced adventurer in the party and was used to life and death's situation.
With a nod, Maria and Eliana retreated while casting their spells. Brock who was the archer of the group took out his bow and prepared to send an arrow while Damien charged towards the Frenzy Fire Bear.
Maria decided to cast a light defensive spell to Damien before preparing a stronger defensive spell. She was a priest, the healer of the Guardians of Heroes.
Priests were necessary for adventurers. Not only could they cure poisons and have strong healing spells, they also have defensive spells such as Light Barrier or Wall of Light.
Casting one of the most basic defensive spell Light Barrier on Damien, a thin light barrier surrounded his body. Closing the gap between him and the Frenzy Fire Bear, Damien enhanced his fists and aimed for the Frenzy Fire Bear's stomach.
Bam!
Once Damien's fist entered into contact with the bear's stomach, a huge sound resounded. Damien frowned both of his eyebrows, the Frenzy Fire Bear didn't even move an inch.
Damien was aware of his own strength, as a fist practitioner, he strengthened his fists since he was young. His fists were as though as a rock and he was rumored to be one the top fist practitioner of the Astral Continent but even so, the Frenzy Fire Bear in front of him didn't receive a single scratch on his belly.
He once heard about the Frenzy Fire Bear's toughness, but he never expected that his skin was that hard!
Noticing the bear who raised his arm, Damien showed an ugly face. If his skin was as hard as diamond, he didn't even want to think about the strength of his arm. Even with a light barrier surrounding him, he knows that he was going to receive a huge injury.
Preparing to block the blow of the Frenzy Fire Bear's paw, a wall of light suddenly appeared in front of him. It was the Wall of Light of Maria who finished casting her strongest defensive spell.
When the paw of the Frenzy Fire Bear hit the Wall of Light, the wall was easily broken and the paw continued its trajectory. Receiving the bear's blow, Damien was blown several meters away, his body smashed against a tree.
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During that time, Brock already sent several arrows towards the Frenzy Fire Bear. They were poisoned arrows which could paralyze any B+ spirit beast instantly but the arrows were easily reflected once it hit the Frenzy Fire Bear as if the arrows were hitting a wall.
At the same time that the Frenzy Fire Bear easily reflected the arrows of Brock, a terrifying huge frostbolt was sent towards him. It was one of the strongest spells of Eliana.
Even though Eliana was more specialized on fire spells, she still cast a frost spell towards the Frenzy Fire Bear. The Frenzy Fire Bear has a huge fire magic resistance; thus, it was totally useless to cast a fire spell on him. Since frost element was the second-best affinity that Eliana had, obliviously, she casted her strongest frost spell which was the spell frostbolt.
Unfortunately, the Frenzy Fire Bear was a fire element spirit beast. Opening his huge mouth, a huge fireball came out and collided with the huge frostbolt, stopping the incoming frostbolt.
Realizing that none of the attacks of their team hasn't even scratched the Frenzy Fire Bear, the party was discouraged.
If it was any other A+ spirit beast, maybe their attacks could have worked against them. But the Frenzy Fire Bear was one of the strongest spirit beasts of the A+ rank. The difference between him and the other A+ spirit beasts was like a human and an insect.
Shouting a loud roar, the Frenzy Fire Bear became enraged. Looking at his current state, the adventurer team knew that they were going to fail the mission and die at this place.
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Phantom Cat was observing the fight between the adventurer team and the Frenzy Fire Bear. While exploring the northern part of the village, she felt several human presences with her sensing jutsu, thus, quietly approached them.
Watching the fight between the adventurer team and the Frenzy Fire Bear from the beginning until now, she perfectly knows that they were going to be decimated but she was still hesitating either to help them or not.
Phantom Cat's master, Ren always prioritized benefits over deficits. If helping them doesn't bring him many benefits, then he won't even care about them dying in front of his eyes. Kind towards his friends and merciless towards his enemies. It was how Ren was back then in the game.
When Ren created his support characters, he put a lot of efforts into it. He thought a lot about their stories before creating them. The story background of each of his support characters was profound and complex.
Phantom Cat was an orphan. Born in the Land of Lightning, not only did she lost her family after the Third Shinobi World War, but she also became a human-weapon not too long after that her village was destroyed by a mysterious organization of assassins' shinobis. At the young of age of five, she has been trained to assassinate people until that she reaches sixteen.
At sixteen years old, the mysterious organization of assassins' shinobis has been destroyed by the Third Hokage during the war. Joining the Hidden Leaf Village after being saved by him, Phantom Cat met for the first time Ren, her sensei as well as her current master.
That was Phantom Cat's setting so far.
Watching the frail young woman in front of her, she recalled her little sister before her death. Even though she won't gain anything by saving her, even though that person wasn't her little sister, the slight aching pain in her heart when she couldn't do anything to save her little sister back then made Phantom Cat unconsciously jump from her tree joining the fight.
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After that Phantom Cat and Lightning Claw left the village to explore its surroundings, Ren left the Hidden Leaf Village's entrance and was standing not far away from it. In front of him, several trees were lined with a distance of 5-meters from each of them.
The reason why Ren went to that place was quite simple. He wanted to try out his jutsus and taijutsu. Since he didn't unlock the Academy Ninja School, he couldn't enter and use the training ground. The lined trees in front of him were perfect targets to try them out.
In the corner of his field of views, small icons could be seen. There was a building icon, a scroll-like icon, a shuriken-like icon and several others icons. Tapping the scroll-like icon, a long list of jutsus popped in front of him.
There were all the jutsus that Ren learned back in the game. There were also jutsus that he still didn't learn.
Back in the game, Ren's nature affinity was the fire element, the wind element, and lightning element.
Since he was from the Uchiha's clan who was favored by the fire element, he didn't have any other choice. As for why Ren chooses the lightning and wind element, it was mainly because of Chidori and Rasenshuriken which required to have an affinity with lightning and wind element.
"Raiton: Chidori! (Lightning Release: One Thousand Birds)"
Completing the hand seals required for the lightning jutsu Chidori, a lightning orb appeared on Ren's right palm. He was totally taken aback by the violent thunderous sound of the lightning.
Regaining his composure, he then used his Chidori against one of the lined trees. Even though he expected the terrifying result of the Chidori's destructive damage, he was still shocked. A huge hole two times larger than his palm appeared in the middle of the trunk. The Chidori pierced the trunk as if it was cutting butter. Ren could feel his right hand going numb from the electricity produced by the Chidori and the after-effect of using the Chidori.
Using a jutsu on The Naruto World and in reality, was two things completely different. Back in the game, he didn't feel any inconvenience using the jutsus, but now he knows that he'll need to be careful before using jutsus with strong backlashes such as The Eight Inner Gates or the Rasenshuriken.
Hesitating either to try out the Rasengan or not, in the end, Ren couldn't help but try to use the Rasengan.
Unexpectedly, even if he did learn the Rasengan back in the game, it didn't come out from his right palm.
'Is it because I don't have a perfect control of my chakra?' Such thought entered Ren's mind. In fact, he noticed after installing the Naruto World Application that a new energy entered into his body. He guessed that it was the chakra that fused with his body, but although he was a large amount of chakra, controlling it was something else.
"The first thing I should do is to control my chakra more proficiently..." He muttered. He then recalled Naruto's training which consisted of walking on the water or climbing trees.
Ren absolutely needs to have a proficient control over his chakra. Without a good chakra control, most of the jutsus he'll use from now won't have their maximum efficiency.
Clearing his mind, he gets over the chakra control for now and focused on taijutsu instead. After installing the Naruto World Application, he felt that his body was lighter and stronger compared to before.
Dashing towards the tree in front of him, he didn't expect his speed to be so fast and bumped his face hard on the tree.
"…. I should try to adapt my body first probably."
A few minutes later, he finally managed to completely adapt to his new physical body. Testing out his taijutsu techniques for about 15 minutes, he nodded totally satisfied. The lined trees which were used for his ninjutsu and taijutsu training ended totally shattered with holes all around the trunk.
With the thought of starting his chakra control by walking on a tree, he was about to start running toward a tree but a sudden notification popped in front of him.
A rare elite spirit beast appeared next to one of your support characters. Difficulty: 1-Star Rewards: Unlocking the Ichiraku Ramen restaurant and apparition of the villagers of the Hidden Leaf Village.