Changes in Wisdom 2

Kirito was a little dumbfounded now. After bidding farewell to the newly made friends who had been brutally beaten up by Chizuru Uchiha, he decided to head to the village library. Yet the moment he arrived at the library, he suddenly received a notification from his cheat.

You have successfully changed Yakushi Nonō's fate and obtained 1 Enhancement Point.

This sudden notification and reward from the cheat left Kirito utterly baffled.

How had he suddenly succeeded in changing Yakushi Nonō's fate?

Danzo clearly had not come looking for her yet.

Could it be that Danzo and the Third Hokage had suddenly shown mercy?

That was impossible no matter how he thought about it.

And so, the Enhancement Points at the bottom of the Attribute Panel were obtained this way?

He actually had to change the fates of plot characters. Was this encouraging him to derail the original plot? If so, then he could not just stand by and watch Nawaki die. At the very least, he had to reverse his fate of dying after stepping into an Exploding Tag trap.

Although he had obtained 1 Enhancement Point for no apparent reason, how should he put it?

It was awesome.

Kirito began considering how to make the best use of this Enhancement Point. He looked through the many options on the Attribute Panel and found that all of them could be upgraded, with only 1 Enhancement Point needed for each increase.

In the end, his gaze settled on Wisdom 2.

He had disliked that Wisdom 2 stat for a long time.

How should he put it? His intelligence was actually on par with Nawaki and the not-yet-born Obito. That hurt him deeply.

He already knew that the Wisdom Attribute was tied to IQ and the amount of knowledge one possessed.

He was six years old now and had already read plenty of books and memorized much knowledge, yet his Wisdom Attribute was still 2. That undoubtedly meant that, at present, the Wisdom Attribute was related to a person's IQ.

Of course, a starting Wisdom Attribute of 2 was actually the value held by the vast majority of people in this world. It absolutely, absolutely, absolutely fell within the range of normal people.

The fact that he was not an idiot was the best proof of that.

Still, seeing that value of Wisdom 2 annoyed Kirito.

"If I add a point to the Wisdom Attribute now, it should raise my IQ, right? No, knowledge can't just appear out of nowhere. It definitely has to increase my IQ. Mm, it's time to become a real genius for once."

Kirito thought happily.

If ordinary people only had an IQ of 2, then once he raised his to 3, would that not make him a genius beyond ordinary people?

In fact, of all the attributes on the Attribute Panel, the one currently most useful to him was still the Wisdom Attribute.

After all, IQ was often inborn and could not be improved through later effort.

Moreover, IQ was closely connected to one's ability to learn.

As long as his IQ improved, his learning ability would surely improve as well.

Perhaps the benefits did not end there.

He had not been any sort of genius in his previous life. He had merely been an ordinary person who got into a B-tier medical university through hard work. He truly could not relate to the world of geniuses, so naturally he could not know the benefits of having a high IQ.

With 1 Enhancement Point spent, Kirito's Wisdom 2 became Wisdom 3.

"Mm, that's it? I don't feel any different."

Kirito thought in confusion.

But the next moment, an intense pain suddenly erupted in his brain, as though it were splitting apart. If he had not been continuously cultivating Natural Energy recently and grown used to pain, he would likely have screamed immediately. Even so, with his brain injured, his body collapsed out of his control.

For a moment, Kirito lay sprawled across a table in the library, his entire body trembling slightly.

The agonizing pain from deep inside his brain did not last long, only around ten seconds.

By then, Kirito was drenched in sweat as though he had undergone intense exercise, and his face had turned terribly pale. Yet his eyes shone brighter than before, revealing a joy that came from the bottom of his heart.

"Incredible. Is this the realm of geniuses? How should I put it? My whole mind feels so much clearer than before. So much knowledge I'd already returned to my teachers, along with things I'd forgotten, has come back to me clearly. I even remember every detail perfectly."

Kirito raised his head and thought with sparkling eyes, his gaze frighteningly bright.

An astonishing memory was the most profound change Kirito had felt after turning Wisdom 2 into Wisdom 3.

No wonder some people did not seem to study particularly hard, yet still ranked at the top of their exams. Clearly, their IQs were higher than ordinary people's. They possessed memories far stronger than ordinary people, so how could their learning efficiency possibly be low with that kind of talent?

To verify this, Kirito found a medical book that provided a detailed analysis of the human body's structure.

The author of this medical book was none other than Tsunade herself. She had written it when she was eighteen years old, and it was called Medical Fundamentals.

Unfortunately, since Medical Ninja had yet to receive much attention from Konoha or even the entire Shinobi World, this immensely valuable medical work had been casually left in a public library, gathering dust for a long time.

However, after opening the book, Kirito understood why it had gathered dust. Its contents were simply too dry. Although it was packed with useful material, it contained countless technical terms as well as many bloody illustrations, making it obscure and difficult to understand while causing readers considerable physical discomfort.

This was not something an ordinary person could read. It required an extremely rich foundation in medical knowledge and a strong stomach.

Kirito had been a medical student in his previous life. Although he had not graduated yet, his grades had not been outstanding, but neither had they been poor. His professional medical knowledge was fairly solid, and he had already trained his mental fortitude. Now that his IQ and memory had improved, he could recall much medical knowledge that he had once learned and later forgotten.

Therefore, he could probably still understand this medical book Tsunade had written in her early years.

After patiently reading several pages, Kirito closed the book and shut his eyes to reflect. He discovered that he had remembered more than half of what he had read after seeing it only once, and he could recall it very quickly.

Next, he picked up a basic book related to Sealing Jutsu.

Sealing Jutsu in the Shinobi World actually had an extremely deep connection with mathematics. More specifically, a Sealing Jutsu was like a math problem. For ninja to learn and undo Sealing Jutsu, they first needed an excellent foundation in mathematics.

Therefore, Sealing Jutsu was an extremely difficult form of Ninjutsu to learn.

After all, if you couldn't learn mathematics, then you simply couldn't learn it. There was no way around it.

Precisely because of this, mathematics was an important tool for testing genius.

Among them, powerful mental arithmetic was a talent every mathematical genius ought to possess.

If Kirito were still at Wisdom 2, then the various arithmetic problems in the book in his hands would definitely have given him a massive headache. He would have needed to take out paper and pen to work through them, but now, he could complete the calculations rapidly in his head.

For simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, even when the numbers were fairly large, he could quickly work out the answers. Only problems involving higher mathematics required him to spend a little time.

"Wisdom 3 already grants such outstanding memory and calculating ability. I'm really looking forward to what comes after further improvement."

Kirito closed the book with satisfaction, filled with anticipation for the future.

Ever since arriving in this dangerous new world, filled with terrorists possessing tremendous power, he had for the first time gained confidence that he could establish himself here.

Next, he needed to study hard.

"Let's get to work."

Kirito eagerly flipped through the book and read with earnest focus.

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