"Haha, if I could be promoted, who'd want to stay a genin forever?" Might Duy laughed heartily, but a trace of loneliness hid in his eyes.
If he had been willing to remain a genin forever, he would not have spent ten years training the Eight Gates day after day.
Training nothing but a single taijutsu technique for twenty years was an enormous test of both body and mind.
Although he had eventually learned the Eight Gates as he wished, it had taken far too long. His performance during that time had made him someone everyone looked down on, leaving him without any opportunity to prove himself.
Forget A-rank Missions or B-rank Missions—even D-rank Missions were difficult for him to obtain.
Many D-rank Missions were subsidized by the village to train newly graduated ninja. They were not meant to support incompetents in retirement.
However, Might Duy felt that this experience had not been entirely bad. At the very least, it had tempered his heart and made him mentally stronger. The hardships he had endured had not been for nothing; they had served as an experiment for Might Guy. He would not let Might Guy walk down the same old path.
"The ninja world is in chaos right now. Both the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth are plotting against the Land of Fire. At a time when Konoha is short on combat power, it is unreasonable for a taijutsu master like you to remain a genin, Senior Duy," Mu Yue said with a pained expression.
Other than the special case of Special Jonin, ninja ranks had only three levels. Reaching each new level could be called a qualitative transformation.
Genin could only obey orders on the battlefield and were always commanded by others. Chunin could serve as team