Atop Hokage Rock, Sōkyū Hatake was looking down at the village below.
[Check in at Hokage Rock?] [Yes/No]
Looking at the system prompt, Sōkyū Hatake did not hesitate at all and clicked [Yes].
[Detected that the host has completed today's task. One check-in attempt awarded!] [Ding!] [Check-in successful!] [Location: Hokage Rock, Konoha!] [Check-ins: 365/365] [Check-in successful!] [Ding!] [Congratulations to the host for checking in for 365 days! Check-in critical triggered!] [Congratulations to the host for obtaining one opportunity to raise a chosen skill to perfect level!] [Congratulations to the host for obtaining Pirate King's [Rumble-Rumble Fruit] ×1!] [Congratulations to the host for obtaining [Bakusaiga] ×1!]
Looking at the prompts popping up from the system, Sōkyū Hatake's grin nearly reached his eyes.
Good grief, this really was a reward worthy of a whole year of diligent check-ins. This reward could already be called perfect.
Never mind anything else-just look at the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. This was Enel's fruit!
Effects: turned the user's body into electricity, rendering physical attacks, most energy attacks, and non-Haki attacks ineffective against them. Allowed the user to freely release blue, high-voltage currents to attack. Could also use electromagnetic waves to extend the range of Observation Haki, use the fruit to teleport, and wield terrifying destructive power. Also provided electrotherapy capabilities, allowing the user to massage their own heart with electrical currents and restore the heartbeat of an injured heart.
Allowed movement through electrical conductors and air in the form of lightning and at lightning speed; could discharge electricity directly to attack, with a maximum voltage of 200 million volts. Could also generate electricity to power machines, produce high temperatures through electrical heating, and even discharge electricity to stimulate the electrodes in thunderclouds to strike a designated area with lightning. Could also eavesdrop through "electromagnetic waves." Enel might have combined this ability with his own "Mantra" (Observation Haki) to monitor the whole of God's Island over a vast area. Nico Robin had also mentioned that this was one of the many Devil Fruit abilities that could be called "invincible." However, the lightning strikes it released had no effect on insulators, such as the Gum-Gum Fruit.
In other words, after using the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Sōkyū Hatake could become immune to most Taijutsu and even transform himself into lightning!
For Sōkyū Hatake, this was practically a game-breaking ability!
Not to mention that Sōkyū Hatake now also had an opportunity to upgrade a skill to perfect level, followed by Bakusaiga.
This was Lord Sesshomaru's exclusive weapon, a sword nurtured from the demonic power within his own body. It required no outside craftsman, inherited no outside power, and did not need a fang as its raw material. This was its most fundamental difference from Tenseiga and Tetsusaiga!
Furthermore, anything damaged by Bakusaiga could never be repaired, and whatever it cut would suffer continuous destruction.
At the thought of this, Sōkyū Hatake wanted to see whether something reanimated through Impure World Reincarnation, which supposedly could repair itself endlessly, could still repair itself after being cut by Bakusaiga...
Of course, these were all things Sōkyū Hatake wanted to try.
But for now... Sōkyū Hatake turned his gaze to the Rumble-Rumble Fruit in his hand.
It was a blue fruit densely covered with lightning symbols.
"Um... don't Devil Fruits all taste like bleep?" Sōkyū Hatake looked at the Rumble-Rumble Fruit in his hand with fear in his heart.
After all, even CP9, who supposedly possessed wills of steel, could not help looking as though they wanted to vomit after eating Devil Fruits.
"Forget it. Life and death are fate; wealth and honor are up to heaven! Eat!" After considering it for a long time, Sōkyū Hatake ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
Yes, he did not leave a single bite. When he had read fanfiction in the past, Sōkyū Hatake had come across a claim that whoever took the first bite of a Devil Fruit would gain its ability, but only someone who ate the entire thing could obtain its fullest power!
So, regardless of whether that claim was true, Sōkyū Hatake did not hesitate and ate the entire Devil Fruit!
"Ptooey!" Sure enough, after finishing it, Sōkyū Hatake felt as though he had eaten something disgusting, leaving him feeling very uncomfortable.
But immediately afterward, streams of warmth appeared inside Sōkyū Hatake's body, as though they were remodeling it.
"This feels so good!" Sōkyū Hatake felt as comfortable as if he were soaking in a hot spring.
Then Sōkyū Hatake looked at his hands. They were still the same as before, without any changes.
But with a thought, arcs of electricity appeared on Sōkyū Hatake's hands on the second floor!
"So this is the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's power?" Looking at the electrical arc in his hand, Sōkyū Hatake hurled it out.
Bzzzt!
With a series of crackling sounds, a large tree not far away turned the color of charcoal.
Tree: What did I ever do to you??? Why is it always us???
[Host: Sōkyū Hatake!] [Chakra: 53] [Strength: 32] [Speed: 32] [Stamina: 33] [Swordsmanship: 44] [The maximum for the above stats is 100!] [Mastered skills: [Chakra Extraction Technique] perfect level, [Transformation Technique] perfect level, [Clone Technique] perfect level, [Substitution Technique] perfect level, [Soru] beginner level, [Kami-e] beginner level, [Finger Pistol] beginner level, [Geppo] beginner level, [Iron Body] beginner level, [Inuyasha Skill Pack] beginner level!, [Rumble-Rumble Fruit] beginner level!]
Looking at his stats, Sōkyū Hatake sighed at the hard work he had put in over the past year.
He was almost six, and his height was already barely different from Kakashi's. Only his slightly immature face gave any sense that he was still a child.
Beginner level?
Looking at the Rumble-Rumble Fruit's level in his skill list, Sōkyū Hatake seemed to think of something and immediately applied the perfect-level upgrade opportunity awarded by the system to the Rumble-Rumble Fruit!
[Ding!] [The clever host has used one opportunity to raise a chosen skill to perfect level on the Rumble-Rumble Fruit!] [Rumble-Rumble Fruit proficiency raised to perfect level!] [The Rumble-Rumble Fruit's weakness of becoming powerless upon contact with water has been removed!]
Looking at the system prompts, a smile appeared on Sōkyū Hatake's lips.
This really was an enormous improvement.
No wonder the system called me a clever host... wait... did that mean I was a clever Malphite (the rock guy from LoL)???
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