Mind-Controlled Calligraphy

"What are skill traits?" Hyuga Ningyuan hurriedly asked.

"When a skill reaches a multiple of five—level 5, 10, 15, and so on—it gains a skill trait. Skill traits grant the skill additional effects!"

"Huh?" Hyuga Ningyuan froze, then immediately regretted it.

My Breathing Technique had already reached level 4. One more level and it would have been level 5!

And I fused it?

But...

Even a Black Skill could gain such an excellent trait. The Phoenix Genealogy Chart is a blue skill, so there was no way its skill trait would be bad, right?

Hyuga Ningyuan let out a breath. He could only comfort himself that way.

"Hyuga?" A surprised voice sounded beside him. Hyuga Ningyuan looked up and saw that Yūhi Kurenai had arrived.

But her gaze...

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Hyuga Ningyuan touched his face. "Is there a problem?"

"No, no!" Yūhi Kurenai hurriedly shook her head. She just felt that her deskmate somehow seemed much more handsome than before!

And those Byakugan—yesterday, they had seemed somewhat frightening, but today they felt like deep springs, making people unable to resist sinking into them.

If Hyuga Ningyuan had been the proactive one yesterday, then today...

Yūhi Kurenai had already taken the initiative to place her hand in Hyuga Ningyuan's!

When girls encountered a handsome guy, they could be this proactive. If you had never experienced it, well...

That only meant they had yet to discover your beauty.

Especially since this was the Naruto World, where girls were naturally more outgoing.

"I practiced the dance you taught me yesterday when I got home," Yūhi Kurenai said softly.

"Mm." Hyuga Ningyuan nodded. "Good. Once you've mastered it, we'll take jobs together!"

"Mm-hm!"

As the bell rang, Shōhoku Sōun entered carrying Standard Language.

Hyuga Ningyuan held Yūhi Kurenai's hand with his left hand while pulling out his mathematics textbook with his right, then began writing furiously.

Once he had finished drawing the entire book, the system's voice rang out.

[ Ding, you have completed a Learning Activity. Arcane Art Gallery level +1. Current level LV1 (2/100) ]

Hyuga Ningyuan was speechless. Come on, I completed a Math Activity, yet you increased the level of Arcane Art Gallery. Is that appropriate?

Looking at the still-level-1 Arcane Art Gallery, he might as well raise its level a little.

System, add points!

[ Ding, Arcane Art Gallery has been raised to LV2 (0/500) ]

[ Ding, Arcane Art Gallery has been raised to LV3 (0/1000) ]

General Experience: 310

"Wow!" Hyuga Ningyuan felt a cool sensation sweep through his mind, followed by a library filled with books appearing within his consciousness.

This world seemed boundless, and as for the books on its shelves...

Hyuga Ningyuan randomly pulled one out. It was actually Linear Algebra!

"These are all the books and knowledge I saw in my previous life." With a slight sense of it, Hyuga Ningyuan understood the purpose of this consciousness space.

Absolute memory, logical reasoning, and data analysis were its basic functions. Since the foundation of the Arcane Art Gallery skill was his brain, its functions had naturally been strengthened along with the skill's level.

Storing and strengthening mental power was where the name "Arcane" came from.

Later, although the skill description said he needed to view mountains and scenery to increase his mental power, Ningyuan discovered that after leveling it up, he no longer needed to look at mountains or landscapes. He merely had to keep his eyes open.

After all, even ordinary scenery contained the Great Dao.

Finally, Hyuga Ningyuan could use painting to mobilize this mental power. Since this was the Naruto World, when that mental power manifested externally, it became Yin Release Chakra.

Yin Release Chakra could create all things, but Ningyuan still required a medium to release it. Paper and brush were Hyuga Ningyuan's mediums.

"My drawing skills improved by so much too!" Since his drawing skill had been fused into the Arcane Art Gallery, raising the latter's level had also improved Hyuga Ningyuan's drawing ability.

Hyuga Ningyuan's current drawing ability could already be considered accomplished.

"Do you have any money on you?" Hyuga Ningyuan turned and asked.

"Yes!" Without even asking what Hyuga Ningyuan wanted it for, Yūhi Kurenai directly took out a banknote. "Here!"

100 taels!

Ryo was the currency unit of the ninja world, like yuan, yen, or Beli. It was not a unit of weight.

The banknote was generally brownish yellow. Its denomination was written in the upper-left and lower-right corners, while a large portrait occupied the center. Above the portrait were the seven characters: [Directly Issued by the Daimyo of the Land of Fire].

The reverse depicted a mountain. Hyuga Ningyuan had no idea which mountain it was; he was not very familiar with the mountains of the ninja world.

The ninja world's current technological level was far inferior to that of Earth in his previous life. It barely matched the 1970s, so naturally its currency production was not particularly advanced either.

At least in Hyuga Ningyuan's eyes, neither its refinement nor its anti-counterfeiting features matched the banknotes from his previous life.

Which meant...

This thing could be counterfeited!

Of course, Hyuga Ningyuan could not do that yet. He did not have the tools.

But with his drawing ability, making a template would not be a problem. Then he could have Snake Uncle obtain acid-free paper and color-changing ink.

That would certainly be illegal, but what if I didn't make Land of Fire currency and made the currency of the other four nations instead?

They were going to war anyway. During wartime, wasn't disrupting the enemy's economy a normal operation?

Hyuga Ningyuan stored the matter away in his mind. It might come in useful someday.

After a class and a half.

[ Ding, your Glazed Robe has been raised to LV3 ]

Hyuga Ningyuan used Chakra to lift a pen, holding it steadily above the paper!

"It worked!"

After the Glazed Robe reached LV3, not only had its Chakra carrying capacity increased to 1 KG, its controllability had also improved tremendously.

But that alone was not enough for Hyuga Ningyuan to control a pen and write with it.

Being able to accomplish this also relied on the Arcane Art Gallery reaching LV3!

His mental power had greatly increased, and the Arcane Art Gallery included drawing skills. Drawing meant using a pen!

Only with both skills could Hyuga Ningyuan steadily control a pen above the paper.

Now that he could do this, he could try writing with the pen next.

After all, this was school. Hyuga Ningyuan did not do anything flashy. He merely pretended to hold the pen in his hand, though he was actually only loosely gripping it.

Then he took out a notebook and began copying the text.

At first, his handwriting was crooked and uneven, but as his proficiency rose, his strokes quickly became much steadier.

By the third class, Hyuga Ningyuan's handwriting had become neat and square!

[ Ding, you have completed a Mind-Controlled Calligraphy Activity. Mind-Controlled Calligraphy level +50. Current level LV1 (50/100) ]

"A new skill! But calligraphy levels up so quickly!" Hyuga Ningyuan raised his calligraphy level while looking at the system.

Then he calculated that every ten characters he wrote granted one point of experience. He had gained fifty points because he had written five hundred characters!

This might have been the easiest skill for him to raise, because the system did not restrict what he wrote.

So even if he controlled the pen to write nothing but ones, he could still raise its level!

Time to grind! He had nothing better to do anyway, and raising Mind-Controlled Calligraphy not only made his handwriting prettier, but also increased his writing speed.

He had originally only been able to write thirty characters per minute, but it quickly rose to fifty.

[ Ding, your Mind-Controlled Calligraphy has been raised to LV2 ]

Hyuga Ningyuan could no longer feel any difference between controlling a pen with Chakra and using his hand.

No, there was still one difference. The characters written by hand were not as beautiful as those written with Telekinetic Power!

"Right, calligraphy and painting go hand in hand. Can Mind-Controlled Calligraphy and Arcane Art Gallery be fused?" Hyuga Ningyuan thought of this.

And it was too inconvenient that the mental power in the Arcane Art Gallery could only be used through painting. If he fused in calligraphy as well, perhaps he could release it through words!

Activate Skill Fusion!

[Arcane Art Gallery] + [Mind-Controlled Calligraphy] =?

[Arcane Brush Palace]!