Displaying Talent

Heaven Rewards Diligence: Heaven will grant corresponding rewards based on your efforts. Your creation, learning, training, and comprehension processes will all be affected by Heaven Rewards Diligence.

"This talent seems insanely awesome!" Kamiya Keiyun carefully studied the effects of this talent, then was stunned!

People often said that heaven was fair and hard work would always be rewarded.

But that was poisonous chicken soup. The truth was that talent was needed for everything. Some people only needed 1% of the effort to surpass your 99% of sweat.

There were so many people in the country who played piano, yet there was only one master like Lang Lang. So many people played Go across the country and even the world, yet only a handful had reached Ke Jie's level.

Back in university, six people in one dorm had all started playing League of Legends from scratch at the same time. Kamiya Keiyun had worked himself to the bone just to reach Diamond, while his roommate Li Zhun had effortlessly hit 600 points in King and even received an invitation from a youth training camp.

If he had not been too old, he really would have gone!

That was clearly the work of talent. Even if ordinary people gave it everything they had, they could only reach the ankles of those with true talent.

But things were different now. Kamiya Keiyun had the talent Heaven Rewards Diligence. It clearly ignored the effects of physical talent and truly achieved the result of heaven being fair and hard work always being rewarded!

From then on, even if Kamiya Keiyun lacked talent for cultivation or had no talent for piloting mechs, with Heaven Rewards Diligence's help, he could still become an elite in those fields!

When the time came, should I pilot Crimson Typhoon or Flame Kirin?

Coming back to his senses, Kamiya Keiyun realized that he had already left the Mental Space. Then, he sensed two streams of energy.

One was warm and surged from within his body. He did not know exactly where it came from, but by the time Kamiya Keiyun sensed it, it was already in his abdomen.

The other emerged from the top of his head before rapidly spreading downward.

The sensation was vague, almost nonexistent. Kamiya Keiyun even wondered whether it was an illusion, but as time passed, it became clearer and clearer!

"Heaven Rewards Diligence is taking effect!" Kamiya Keiyun worked hard to sense the two energies, and his ability to sense them naturally improved.

He tried to control the two energies and gather them inside his body. In an instant, it was like Mars crashing into Earth, like the Big Bang.

Well, it was not that exaggerated. There was only a faint tremor before Kamiya Keiyun felt the two energies naturally merge together, giving birth to a type of energy that was countless times clearer to perceive than the first two. He even felt that with a thought, he could move it around!

"Chakra!" Kamiya Keiyun understood. This was Chakra, the core of the ninja system—the extraordinary power he had long heard of but never had the chance to see!

Opening his eyes, Kamiya Keiyun curiously looked around. He wanted to know how good his talent was, but before he could look far, he noticed that Kakashi had his eyes open!

"You succeeded?" Kamiya Keiyun asked in surprise.

"I had it ages ago!" Kakashi replied casually.

He was not naturally aloof. It was just that his appearance and background made everyone unconsciously keep their distance from him.

When a child took the initiative to talk to him, Kakashi found it boring, but he was still happy to answer.

Especially when he could casually show off his talent. He did not yet know there was a term for this: humblebragging.

"Uh..." Kamiya Keiyun was speechless. As expected of a named character.

"How long did it take you to extract Chakra from scratch?" Kamiya Keiyun asked.

"Two hours!" Kakashi said offhandedly, pretending to be impatient.

"Wow!" Sure enough, someone exclaimed, "Kakashi, you're amazing! It took me a full four days back then!"

It was a brown-haired girl with two locks of bangs hanging over her forehead, a ponytail, and reddish-brown paint on her cheeks. What was her name again?

"Ahem, those of you who have Chakra, quiet down. Don't disturb the other students!" Umino Iruka knocked on the desk from the front.

The girl stuck out her tongue and quieted down.

"Kamiya Keiyun, why aren't you extracting Chakra?" Umino Iruka looked at Kamiya Keiyun again. "You probably haven't learned this before, right? Don't see Kakashi not cultivating and follow suit. He's different from you!"

"Uh, Teacher, I've already succeeded!" Kamiya Keiyun said with a wronged expression. At the same time, he checked the time. Less than fifteen minutes had passed!

Kakashi was a named supporting character and the child of a clan. Even he had needed two hours—that was four whole hours!

And people still thought he was impressive!

I only took fifteen minutes. What did that make me? A genius!

"Really?" Sure enough, Umino Iruka was stunned. Kakashi beside him also turned his head in surprise. How long had it been?

I'm a genius, and it still took me two hours. You only took fifteen minutes?

Compared to that, what kind of genius am I?

Kakashi had already fallen into self-doubt.

"What?" The other students cried out as well.

"How is that possible? I'm an Uchiha, and I haven't even succeeded!" The first person to speak was actually the suspected protagonist, Uchiha Obito.

The other students also chattered among themselves, looking at Kamiya Keiyun with doubt and uncertainty.

"He's bluffing, right?"

"Maybe commoners have never seen Chakra before. Perhaps he just ate too much and thought he'd extracted Chakra?"

"Quiet!" Umino Iruka waved his hand. "Continue extracting your own."

Umino Iruka did not believe it either. He walked over in a few strides and grabbed Kamiya Keiyun's hand.

Kamiya Keiyun felt a stream of energy slowly enter his body through his wrist. The moment it touched the Chakra inside him, it immediately retreated along the same path.

Then Umino Iruka exclaimed in admiration, "It's real. It's actually real!"

"What would I lie to you for?" Kamiya Keiyun replied with a smug grin.

He had no intention of hiding his talent. To advance from twentieth-century technology to the point of building Gundams would require an enormous pool of talent—and an even greater number of geniuses!

Since Kamiya Keiyun wanted to participate in this project, he naturally had to show off his abilities.

After all, talented people and untalented people received completely different treatment.

Besides, he believed that any organized group had to have a system for selecting talent. Even in demonic sects that represented disorder and chaos, gifted disciples found it easy to rise to prominence.

If a mature organization suppressed or crushed its geniuses, then it was doomed not to last long. But Konoha was the foremost of the Five Great Ninja Villages!

Surely they would not do something so stupid!

Well, probably.

Sure enough, delight began to appear on Umino Iruka's face. Kamiya Keiyun was very familiar with that expression—it was exactly like the look on his professor's face back in class when he had answered all four linked questions flawlessly.

"Keep refining it and get used to the feeling!" Umino Iruka patted Kamiya Keiyun on the shoulder, then hurried out.

Did he go report this to the higher-ups? Kamiya Keiyun guessed, then turned to look at Kakashi.

Kakashi was also staring at him with a shocked expression.

"You really did it in fifteen minutes? You've never refined Chakra before?" Kakashi asked softly.

"My family used to farm. Where would we have gotten a Chakra refinement technique?" Kamiya Keiyun shook his head. "I really only started just now!"

"This..." Kakashi's mouth twitched twice. He suddenly felt that he might never be able to show off in front of this classmate again.

"Um, how did you refine it? Teach me. Why can't I feel anything at all?" Uchiha Obito also leaned closer. In fact, many others had gathered around, but Kamiya Keiyun only knew Uchiha Obito. During the introductions earlier, his mind had wandered and he had not listened carefully.

"Well, I think it's because you have too many distracting thoughts and can't focus completely on your bodies," Kamiya Keiyun considered before answering. "As long as you calm your minds down, you should succeed right away!"

He was not making it up. Umino Iruka had said exactly that earlier; he was merely repeating Iruka's words in a different order.

"I see!" Sure enough, protagonists of hot-blooded manga were all idiots. Uchiha Obito had not caught on at all.

"Isn't that exactly what the teacher said?" someone remarked disdainfully.

"Yeah, I learned it by following the teacher's instructions," Kamiya Keiyun nodded as if it were only natural.

"Wow..." The classmate's mouth twitched. "I'm starting to hate you."

Kamiya Keiyun shrugged. That was simply the truth. He had neither lied nor held anything back, so what was he supposed to do?