Book of the Ancient Warlock and the Innate Spell

Konoha, Year 30, August.

Inside an ordinary two-story building in the village's West Street District.

"Transmigrated again? And it's actually the Naruto World?!"

Yagami Shiraha stared at the delicate-featured boy with short black hair in the mirror, momentarily dazed.

Transmigration was nothing new to him. After all, this was already his second time.

Shiraha, a twice-transmigrated person from the Wizarding World.

In his first life, he had come from Earth and watched Naruto, though only the first part on DVDs, up until Sasuke's defection.

Not long after finishing that arc, he had been sent to the Wizarding World by a truck.

If becoming a wizard apprentice had not greatly enhanced his Mental Power, he would have long forgotten the Naruto plot over his thirty-odd years in the Wizarding World.

Combined with this body's memories, he could calculate that the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, who died at sixty-nine in the first part of the story, was only thirty-nine now. There were still thirty years until the plot he knew.

"At least I have a basic understanding of the Naruto World. I'm not completely in the dark."

Shiraha comforted himself inwardly.

A week ago, Konoha's ally, Uzushiogakure, had sent Konoha a Request for Aid.

Several major nations had taken the lead in launching a surprise attack on Uzushiogakure.

Because Sunagakure and Iwagakure's relations with Konoha had worsened drastically over the past few months, Konoha had deployed additional troops to its borders.

The Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi gathered the ninjas who volunteered to provide aid, forming a vanguard force that set out for the Land of Whirlpools.

However, by the time the reinforcements arrived, it was already too late. All that remained of Uzushiogakure was a field of broken walls and ruins.

The reinforcements encountered the enemy head-on and were ultimately overwhelmed by their superior numbers, suffering devastating casualties. Shiraha's parents had died in that battle.

"Is war about to break out?!" Shiraha frowned tightly.

The one fortunate thing was that he was a first-year student at the Ninja Academy. Summer break would not end for another month, and only then would his second semester begin.

He still had time to grow stronger.

It was just that...

This starting hand was a little too terrible.

There were forty students in his class, and he ranked twentieth.

He had no special bloodline, and his Chakra Talent was fairly average.

In his previous life, at least he had started as the second son of an imperial count. His brothers treated him well, and his elder brother often took him to the Rose Bar to have some fun.

Moreover, his talent had been quite good. At fifteen, he had trained his family's Knight Breathing Technique to the second level and become a Formal Knight.

Just when Shiraha thought he was destined to become a winner in life, a passing wizard detected his high-grade Wizard Talent and brought him to a Wizarding Academy.

However, only after arriving did Shiraha learn that above high-grade talent were exceptional-grade and supreme-grade talents. With talent like his, his chance of advancing to a Formal Wizard was around twenty percent.

He was the sort of student the academy would neither abandon nor devote all its resources to cultivating.

From then on, Shiraha lived through twenty years of relentless cultivation.

Just as he had finally advanced to a Third-Class Apprentice and could begin looking ahead to the Formal Wizard stage, news spread through the academy that a treasure had appeared.

Before he even had time to run, the entire academy was buried beneath hundreds of meteors summoned by a high-level wizard.

"I remember that Chakra is refined through the combination of Mental Energy and Physical Energy.

"The Knight Breathing Technique mainly strengthens the body, while the Wizard Meditation Method mainly enhances Mental Power and can also improve the body.

"In other words, training in the Knight Breathing Technique and Wizard Meditation Method can promote the growth of a ninja's strength."

Shiraha pondered inwardly.

But the problem was that his parents had only been ordinary Chunin. Other than this house, they had not left much savings behind.

There was no way Shiraha could take a medicinal bath every day while training the Knight Breathing Technique.

He probably could not even guarantee two steak meals a day.

As for the resources needed to assist Wizard Meditation Method cultivation, those were even further beyond his means.

That would make his cultivation progress far too slow.

The Naruto World was quite dangerous as well. Konoha was especially likely to go to war with other villages. If the war was not over by the time he graduated, he might have to go to the battlefield.

As Shiraha considered his future path, he followed the remembered method and mobilized the Chakra within his body.

Suddenly, his expression shifted slightly.

"What's going on? Why is my physical constitution so high? Wasn't my talent supposed to be ordinary?"

Shiraha felt that his current physical constitution surpassed what he had possessed at age ten in the Wizarding World, when he had first begun learning the Knight Breathing Technique.

He quickly realized why. Based on the plot he knew, there had been an explanation for it.

Humans in the Naruto World had approximately 130 trillion cells in their bodies, two to three times the number from his first life and one and a half times that of his second.

Even children with Wizard Talent in the Wizarding World generally began formal cultivation around the age of twelve, with ten being the earliest. Even if their physical constitution was sufficient, their Mental Power growth had not yet reached the minimum standard for practicing a Meditation Method.

Yet Shiraha's current physical constitution met the requirements for training both the Knight Breathing Technique and the Wizard Meditation Method.

Wizard Talent was primarily a talent of the soul. After transmigrating, Shiraha clearly still possessed Wizard Talent.

Still, to be safe, Shiraha calmed himself and began attempting meditation.

Advancing to a First-Class Apprentice was the easiest. As long as one possessed Wizard Talent and their Mental Power met the standard, they only needed to meditate twelve Will runes into existence at once.

After reaching First-Class Apprentice, one could begin sensing the various energies that existed everywhere in space. The kind one sensed most clearly would become the priority direction of one's choice.

Shiraha had already meditated thousands of times, so he quickly entered the state.

After an unknown amount of time, Shiraha's consciousness entered a pitch-black space.

As his meditation deepened, twelve Will runes bearing mysterious patterns manifested under the influence of Shiraha's Mental Power.

Soon, a large number of Energy Particles surged into Shiraha's body.

"What dense Energy Particles!"

Shiraha was startled inwardly.

A long while later.

Outside the window, the evening glow spread in from the horizon, draping the sea of clouds in a thin veil. The setting sun gradually dipped its head and hid beneath the horizon.

Shiraha checked the wall clock. He had meditated straight from noon until sunset.

In around seven hours, he had become a First-Class Apprentice.

"How could this be? Did my soul talent improve because of transmigration?"

Generally speaking, as long as one possessed Wizard Talent, one could cultivate to the First-Class Apprentice stage.

Even those with the worst talent would take at most one or two months. Those with good talent took about a week, while those with strong talent could become First-Class Apprentices within a single day.

However, from Second-Class Apprentice onward, the time required increased geometrically.

Even with extremely dense Energy Particles around him, Shiraha's advancement speed was close to that of exceptional-grade talent!

"At this rate, even without cultivation resources, I should have no problem advancing to Second-Class Apprentice before graduation. But that still won't do. It's too slow!"

Only Second-Class Apprentices could use 0th-Level Spells. Setting aside their power, spell flight speed was faster than most ninjutsu.

Even with his family's full support in his previous life, Shiraha had taken six years to advance to Second-Class Apprentice, then another fourteen years to advance to Third-Class Apprentice. For someone with his high-grade talent, that had already been considered very fast.

"What's happening? My Magic Power! My Mental Power!" Just as Shiraha was envisioning a bright future, he suddenly discovered that both his Magic Power and Mental Power were draining away.

At that moment, Shiraha's consciousness suddenly returned to his Soul Space.

A deep blue radiance tore through the darkness, and a blue-gold metal book appeared in his field of vision. On its cover was a line of characters he had never seen before, yet somehow understood—Book of the Ancient Warlock.

The metal book suddenly opened, revealing words on its title page.

Owner: Shiraha

Below was a short sentence—

Seek truth, master rules.

Innate Spell acquired—Eye of Truth

Shiraha suddenly felt a heat in his eyes, and information about the "Eye of Truth" appeared in his mind.

A vast stream of data flooded into his mind like a tide before finally condensing into a simplified data panel:

Name: Yagami Shiraha

Attributes: Fire (Weak), Yang (Medium)

Professions: Wizard, Ninja

Ranks: First-Class Apprentice, Prospective Genin

Constitution: 0.51 (related to vitality, defense, endurance, resistance, etc.)

Strength: 0.46 (related to burst speed, attack power, etc.)

Agility: 0.55 (related to reaction speed, dynamic vision, etc.)

Spirit: 1.25/1.41 (related to Magic Power, spell damage, perception, etc.)

Magic Power: 12.5/14.1 (related to spell consumption, etc.; Magic Power increases proportionally with Mental Power)

Charisma: 4.1 (related to social interaction, summoning, etc.)

Chakra: 220 (normal theoretical value)

Bloodline: None

Cultivation Methods: Chakra Refining Technique (Beginner), Basic Wizard Meditation Method (Beginner)

Skills: Three Body Technique (Beginner), Ninja Tool Throwing (Beginner), Basic Taijutsu (Beginner)

Passives: Chinese (Advanced), Byronian (Master), Japanese (Intermediate), Ancient Warlock Language (Beginner), Wizardry Fundamentals (Intermediate), Biomedicine (Intermediate), Pharmacology (Intermediate), Precision Cartography (Advanced)

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