At the start of the game, Aoki Sora's identity was set as a "distant relative of the Yuhi clan" in Kurenai's route and a few others. His specialty was Genjutsu, like Kurenai, but with a unique twist.
Unlike Kurenai's purely illusion-based style, Sora possessed the rare potential of Genjutsu Materialization. His entire skill tree centered around turning illusions into real, tangible forms, what you'd call conceptual manifestation, and branching out into various derivative applications. He also had a basic foundation in Taijutsu and Ninjutsu, making his style completely different from Kurenai's.
And speaking of Genjutsu Materialization...
That ability was essentially a bug in the game's system.
Why? Because with just 10,000 chakra points, you could use Genjutsu to manifest an immature God Tree, and then force its unripened fruit into reality.
Eat it right away...
Sure, the fruit would eventually disappear as the world corrected itself. But before that happened, you'd still absorb a small portion, about 1 percent of the tree's unique constitution.
Yes, we're talking about the Ōtsutsuki Clan's innate divine physiology.
And because you were only absorbing a small amount, you wouldn't be overwhelmed or mentally corrupted by the tree's energy or will like Kaguya was. No consciousness erosion, no power backlash.
Then, once your chakra recovered, you could just repeat the process.
In short, you were trading 10,000 replenishable chakra points for a permanent 1 percent boost in divine body constitution.
It was kind of like watering a tree. The water gets used up and restored naturally, but the tree keeps growing stronger each time.
Repeat. Again and again.
Eventually, when your constitution became strong enough to sustain 100,000 chakra points, you could then manifest a fully mature God Tree.
And manifest its fully ripened fruit.
And devour that too, in one gulp.
Even then, you'd only absorb about 1 percent, but just like with the immature fruit, you could rinse and repeat.
100,000 chakra for 1 percent of a high-grade divine body.
This was equivalent to the constitution an Ōtsutsuki would gain from eating a God Tree fruit directly. After gaining this constitution, their descendants would be born with a base-level version of it. To upgrade it, they'd need to consume another fruit or absorb a fellow clansman who had become one.
As your divine body strengthened, your chakra reserves and recovery rate increased exponentially.
Which meant the 100,000 chakra you once struggled to recover would later come back in minutes.
Allowing you to manifest more fruits.
Eat more.
Grow stronger.
Recover.
Repeat.
In short, infinite stacking buffs. A Matryoshka loop of power-ups.
Eventually, you would acquire the full 100 percent God Tree Fruit Constitution.
And with cheats or mod tools, you could even push it to 200 percent, 300 percent...
Beyond that point, your stats would all be maxed out anyway, so there wouldn't be much left to gain.
You'd be able to one-shot Kaguya like a joke.
But Sora found that kind of cheat-burst boring. Too obvious. Too fake-looking. So instead, he only used a 200 percent constitution build when fighting Kaguya in the game.
He even went out of his way to trim out the overtly gamey parts, editing the pure battle footage into a polished video montage.
That said, during his transmigration, the cheat engine didn't seem to come along with him.
So for now, he didn't know whether his upper limit was 100 percent or 200 percent.
Not that it mattered too much.
Even a 100 percent high-grade divine constitution came with chakra levels and intensity sufficient to physically materialize things like Wood Release and even Susanoo.
That meant multiple new abilities unlocked instantly.
After all, even Kurenai could create Genjutsu forests and vines with ease.
She just couldn't turn them into real attacks, nor did she have the Yang Release affinity to sustain a Wood Release's true power. So her vines could only serve as visual tricks.
But Sora, who could materialize Genjutsu and infinitely stack buffs, could summon Wood Release techniques that, though eventually erased by world correction, still inflicted real, lethal damage for a limited time.
And he could go even further, crafting entirely new original skills through conceptual projection.
Unlike in the game, where only a few preset abilities existed, in this world he could create as many as he wanted.
Add in his steadily growing combat experience, or to use gaming terms, his improving micro-control, and that was more than enough to handle any future boss fights.
Still, all that was long-term.
Because right now—
Current Stats:
Body Constitution: Normal (C) [Scale: E–S]
Taijutsu: D+ (91)
Ninjutsu: D+ (93)
Genjutsu: C- (132)
Chakra Reserve: 91
Chakra Nature Strengths:
Wind: C
Lightning: C
Water: D
Fire: C
Earth: E
Yin: D
Yang: E
Ninjutsu/Secret Techniques/Special Skills:
Genjutsu Materialization (Not Yet Developed)
Overall Rating: Genin-level
Top Stat: C
Chakra Reserve: 91
Still a long, painful road before hitting 10,000 chakra.
In the game, he could've just used a cheat code.
But in this reality...
There was only one option. Grind hard, and grind smart.
Thankfully, the game systems had apparently carried over too.
So he had multiple training methods available.
For example:
Training Quests / Practice Quests:
Swing a sword 10,000 times / 100,000 times
Hit a wooden dummy 10,000 times / 100,000 times
Run around Konoha 1,000 laps / 10,000 / 100,000 laps
Use Genjutsu 1,000 / 10,000 / 100,000 times (includes Genjutsu Materialization)
Learn 1 / 5 / 10+ C-rank or higher elemental jutsu
Master 1 S-rank jutsu + 3 jutsu from each element (Wind, Lightning, Water, Fire, Earth)
Challenge Quests:
Sword Skill Challenge: Yugao Uzuki / Hayate Gekkō
Taijutsu Challenge: Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Hyuga Hinata, Rock Lee, Hyuga Neji, Might Guy, Hatake Kakashi
Endurance Challenge: Rock Lee, Might Guy
Genjutsu Challenge: Yuhi Kurenai, Uchiha Itachi
Ninjutsu Challenge: Uchiha Sasuke, Nara Shikamaru, Temari, Hatake Kakashi, Hiruzen Sarutobi (Third Hokage)
Just like in the game, repetition meant growth.
And when you hit certain milestones, you'd trigger a big breakthrough.
Defeating NPCs in challenges gave massive XP boosts too. Even failing would still grant minor stat increases, like +3 to some skill.
In short, it was time for Sora to go all-in on grinding.
After briefly syncing up with his two teammates (who were classmates he already knew), Sora wasted no time.
That very morning, he was already running laps around the village.
His focus:
Run Around Konoha 1,000 / 10,000 / 100,000 Laps
Endurance Challenge: Rock Lee, Might Guy
These were, short of Sage Mode, the most direct methods to boost his constitution and chakra.
And right now, what Sora needed more than anything was body strength and chakra.
"Whoa, that guy Aoki Sora, he's going all in, huh?"
"You think it's because he found out he's gonna marry a total babe like Hinata in the future? Bet his motivation's shot through the roof."
Voices buzzed with commentary.
Hinata, hearing them, blushed again.
Sora-kun… he really is working hard...
But not because he saw a future where they'd get married.
No, he had always been this hardworking.
Even in the future, the one she saw in that strange projection, he had pushed himself again and again to protect her in moments of danger.
And she couldn't just sit back and let him shield her forever.
She needed to treasure his kindness, his quiet strength, and etch it into her heart.
And use it as her own motivation to become stronger.
With that thought in mind, Hinata soon found a quiet grove nearby.
She stood before a tall tree, and without wasting a second, began practicing her Gentle Fist technique with all the energy she could muster.
For some reason, she suddenly wanted to run with Sora-kun.
Run side by side, in the morning light.
But thinking about it made her too embarrassed to follow through.
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