A Noble Son from a Humble Background

The black shuriken flew from Veigar's hand like a bolt of lightning!

"Thud!"

With a muffled sound, the center of the wooden target was pierced clean through by the shuriken, which then landed on the ground behind the target.

The only thing more terrifying than silence is a sudden, heavy stillness, and the training ground was truly silent now—so quiet it felt as if the very air had been sucked out of the space.

At this moment, Kaoru Iwabe and all the surrounding students stood there, dumbfounded.

A gentle breeze blew, and a few falling leaves drifted by, breaking the quiet atmosphere of the scene.

"Wh-what terrifying power!"

"How did Veigar do that?"

"Impossible! This has to be fake!"

When everyone finally snapped out of their stupor, the entire training ground erupted into chaos!

Not a single one of Veigar's classmates wanted to believe that he had just pierced through the target with a completely ordinary shuriken.

He had achieved a terrifying piercing effect!

In truth, even Veigar hadn't expected to pierce the target; he had simply imbued the shuriken with a small amount of chakra.

And that was precisely the root cause.

One had to realize that Veigar's current chakra quality was three times that of an ordinary person. When using the same amount of chakra as anyone else, his results were more than three times as effective.

"Vega Koshima, full marks."

Taking a deep breath, Kaoru Iwabe immediately announced Veigar's score and recorded it on the report card.

The training session ended, and Obito Uchiha and Might Guy, who had failed, were kept behind.

That evening, the report on Veigar's performance at the training ground was once again delivered into the hands of Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Vega Koshima... could he be a civilian genius on par with Minato?"

It is rare for a humble family to produce a prodigy. Although many refuse to believe it, it is an ironclad fact.

The gap between civilians and prestigious clans is not easily bridged; resources, heritage, and the like are often the reasons for such insurmountable chasms.

However, once a humble family does produce a prodigy, their inherent talent is usually enough to leave the vast majority of people trailing far behind, unable to even catch a glimpse of their back.

Holding Veigar's report card, Hiruzen Sarutobi remained silent for a long time.

Time flowed like water rushing eastward, and over three months passed in the blink of an eye.

At school, Veigar quickly integrated with his classmates thanks to his perfect academic grades and approachable personality.

Regardless of gender, everyone felt that Veigar was a very easy person to get along with.

For Veigar, he had long since passed the age of being playful and restless. Although he currently possessed the body of a seven-year-old child, his soul was that of an adult in his twenties.

Coupled with an interesting soul nurtured by the information age, it was truly too simple to mingle with this group of half-grown children.

After school, Veigar walked down the road with a somewhat distracted look on his face.

"Youth is all about running forward with all your might!"

"Ah..."

From far away, Veigar heard Might Guy's wailing. Turning his head to look, a green figure quickly passed by Veigar, moving as fast as the wind.

Veigar was already accustomed to this.

Two months ago, when Veigar first saw Might Guy running around the village after school, he had never seen him miss a day since.

After cleaning up the slaughterhouse, Veigar did not leave as he usually did this time. Instead, he found Saburoh Toyomi and told him that he wanted to resign.

"Veigar, why do you want to quit? Is it because the pay is too low?"

After working together for so long, Saburoh Toyomi was extremely satisfied with Veigar's performance. Although he was young, he had never made a mistake, and the entire slaughterhouse environment was cleaner than it had ever been before.

Most importantly, Veigar was already generating profit for Saburoh Toyomi. Now, even if he were to slaughter livestock entirely on his own, it would be no problem at all.

This was the reason why he was reluctant to let Veigar leave.

"It's not that."

"The salary you give me is already enough. It's just that I need more time for training recently, and I no longer have the time to come here to work."

The way of trade-offs: one cannot have both fish and bear's paw.

If the ordinary livestock at the slaughterhouse could still provide him with significant improvement, Veigar would not have chosen to give up this job.

However, a week ago, after Veigar's Chakra quality had increased to four times that of an ordinary person, the Source of Life harvested from these livestock could barely serve any purpose for him other than relieving fatigue.

The improvement was almost negligible unless there was a massive quantity to trigger a qualitative change.

Between money and the improvement of his strength, Veigar chose the latter.

The reason that prompted Veigar to quit this job was also related to the fact that his recent training had reached a critical point.

After more than three months of training, the first stage of the Body Strengthening Technique had been completed, and he was now preparing to begin the second stage.

Seeing that Veigar was insistent, Saburoh Toyomi could not force the issue. He immediately settled Veigar's wages and said, "If you ever want to come back to work, you are always welcome here."

Veigar replied, "Yes, thank you very much for taking care of me during this time."

With the matter settled, Veigar finally relaxed.

The money in my hands is enough to support me for a while. For now, I will complete my training before making any further plans.

Returning home, Veigar began the second stage of his Body Strengthening Technique training.

The leaking Chakra was manipulated to cling to the surface of Veigar's body, lingering there for a long time.

The next second, Veigar opened his eyes and simultaneously changed his hand seal. The Chakra wrapped around his body began to change, infiltrating into his flesh.

This was the second stage of the Body Strengthening Technique—Infiltration.

The main purpose of the second stage was to allow the physique to adapt to Chakra, thereby improving control over Chakra, self-regeneration, and so on.

Most importantly, once this stage of training was completed, both extracting Chakra from within the body and applying Chakra to specific parts of the body would become much easier and faster.

Only after completing this stage could one proceed to the third and final stage of training—Body Enhancement.

Itchy!

So itchy!

Extremely itchy!

As the Chakra infiltrated his body, Veigar felt, quite simply, that every inch of his skin was incredibly itchy.

It felt as if his entire body was being lightly brushed by a soft feather.

"Hahaha..."

Unable to bear it any longer, Veigar couldn't help but laugh, and at the same time, he lost his focus, breaking his training state.

The Chakra clinging to his body dissipated, but the smile on Veigar's face had yet to fade, and the itchy sensation still lingered.

Once his body recovered, Veigar picked up his Ninja Sword and began his swordsmanship training.