"It seems I gained a lot without even giving anything. Seems too good to be true, don't you think? Aren't there any drawbacks to this?" said Kaien, narrowing his eyes with suspicion.
"It isn't that you aren't giving anything in return, it's just that you don't know what you pay with," said Silviya with a mysterious smile dancing on her lips.
She paused for a second, then added, "Plus, on the note of drawbacks—" She suddenly started giggling in the middle of the sentence.
Kaien tilted his head in confusion. That giggle wasn't the usual playful one. This one was a bit strange.
"Wait! What's the drawback?" Kaien asked quickly, a slight anxiety creeping into his voice. He didn't like the way Silviya laughed just now.
"Well, you didn't have to worry about it, for now, that is," she said with a glint of mirthful happiness in her eyes. She was enjoying this a bit too much for Kaien's comfort.
"I still want to know," Kaien insisted, his voice firmer now. If he was being cursed or something weird, he needed to know right now, not later.
"It's a kind of curse, if you will," Silviya finally began to explain, her tone playful again. "You will be very attracted to beautiful women who are of any relevance to the plot. Like, really, really attracted. They will be like an aphrodisiac to you if you don't lay with one for a long time."
Kaien blinked. "...what?"
"On another note," she continued, completely ignoring his reaction, "this act is also the fuel for you being able to use that ominous-looking book you got as a gift. It's set so that you can only use that book the same number of times you've done the deed with a female who is related to the plot of a world."
Kaien's face went blank.
"It was set as a kind of security point," Silviya said, twirling in the air as if she was singing a nursery rhyme. "Though he didn't tell you what you have to pay, I will tell you straight that he wants you to mess up the plot as much as possible. That's your payment. And what better way than getting you entangled with beautiful women? After all, wars were waged because of women in the past."
Kaien's mouth opened slightly but no words came out. This was completely insane.
"As another part of the curse," Silviya went on, "you are sure to attract the attention of those women who are related to the plot and get entangled with them. Though you can also stop yourself with pure will if you want. If you want, that is," she teased with a wink.
Kaien was left speechless. Utterly disgusted.
"Quite the disgusting drawback he has set," he finally muttered, his face darkening. "No wonder he is called the Fool. Only a madman would think of something like this as a curse-slash-reward combo."
"Now, now," Silviya said, floating down to sit on the edge of a platform Kaien didn't know was even there. "Even I feel it was justified. Because from what I can tell from your current attitude, you would not have interfered much with the plot of other worlds just to avoid trouble. You don't like messing with things unless you're pushed. This curse just makes up for that. It's like... a little push from behind."
"A little push?!" Kaien snapped. "This is more like someone kicking me into a volcano!"
"But you don't have to care about it for now," Silviya added quickly, waving her hand dismissively. "You're still a kid. Nothing to worry about."
"Wait, what do you mean 'other worlds'? Isn't there only one ninja world and those parallel worlds I saw in the comics? Do I have to travel to those worlds too?" Kaien asked, now frowning deeply.
Silviya facepalmed hard. Her palm made a loud slap sound as it met her forehead.
"Seriously?" she said, rubbing her temples like she was dealing with a very annoying child. "First we will go do fishing, okay? I think many things will start making sense to you once we fish. Hopefully, the beginner's luck succeeds."
Kaien still looked annoyed and disturbed. He had signed up for power and revenge—not some pervert's idea of a roleplaying fantasy. But deep inside, he couldn't deny one thing.
He was curious.
Silviya created a boat out of thin air and asked me to sit as she too boarded the boat while Kaien was looking at her in surprise.
Seeing his face, Silviya said, "Don't be so surprised, there are many unimaginable things I can do in here. This is just one of those, now come with me."
Kaien too sat on the boat as it started moving towards the centre of the lake.
"So, you said that curse will also help me use that ominous looking book. What does that book do?" Kaien asked.
"That book is called the Book of Origin, but it might as well be called The Book of End."
"It has many ancient rituals and magic written in it but you won't be able to use most of it now. Though there is one spell you can use in danger. It summons a clone of an Outer God or the Outer God themselves depending on the situation. They won't harm you and will even try to protect you but anything that isn't you, it and that whole world you summoned the Outer God in, its fate will depend on the whims of the Outer God."
"It can only be used as a trump card because just the presence of an Outer God is harmful for a world. Not to mention, even the most benevolent of Outer Gods who help humans have a very twisted sense of morals in comparison to you humans. Though I guess even they are afraid of and in awe of the ugliness of human beings and thus like to meddle in their business a lot."
"And how does me doing the deed help any of this?" Kaien asked because most of the things were going over his head. He didn't know how powerful Outer Gods were. The most powerful beings he could think of were Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, maybe Sage of Six Paths.
"For now, you can use only one spell, for a single time at that. And after you grow up, the more deeds you do, the more times you can use it." Silviya replied.
"Do you not find it disgusting to talk to a kid like that?" Kaien jabbed.
"Excuse me Mr. Little Kid, I was born today when you signed the contract. It's just that the way things worked before you really made connection to the Lake of Dreams were different so I had to experience living eternity in a moment while all the information was being thrust inside me. So technically, I am not even a day old." Silviya replied with a pout, which Kaien found unsettling since she was acting like a child with the body of an adult in front of him, who was the actual child?
The boat stopped when they reached the centre of the Lake and Silviya handed him a fishing rod with a hook attached to a Dream fruit.
"Now throw the hook inside the lake."
Kaien did as he was told. After some time of waiting, Kaien felt a tug at the string and he started pulling.
What came into view was a big blue Carp. He didn't know fish like these existed, but he really didn't know many things so he didn't dwell on it.
Silviya took the Carp and cut its stomach open with a swipe of her nails and the body of the fish disintegrated into blue light, leaving behind a blob of glowing white light.
"Now quite lucky aren't we. This is the collection of memories of a student. Specifically, it is the memories of him watching online entertainment. So it will just be like you watched them yourself without affecting your personal self." Silviya replied as she handed Kaien the ball of light.
Kaien hesitated a little but still decided to trust Silviya since he already sold his body and soul to someone else.
After some time, Kaien recollected his thoughts as he opened his eyes. He was now happy and worried. Happy because now he knew that he could reach unimaginable heights after assimilation of memories. Worried because he literally sold his body and soul to an Outer God if he guessed correctly. Though he couldn't do much anyway since he was summoned in front of that pillar-like thing. It may have been an Outer God but he wasn't able to see it fully as a 3-dimensional being and only saw a 3-D form, after all, cylinders are 3-dimensional. Well, he was just happy he was still same after surviving an encounter with an Outer God.
"Continue," said Kaien with gritted teeth, his emotions mixed with excitement and worry.
The second item was a bloodline strengthening potion and its recipe. Its effect - it strengthens the bloodline of people, perfect for him and his clan. On a plus point, all the ingredients were available in the ninja world to make this potion.
The real craziness started in the third pull. Clan evolution and strengthening module.
According to Silviya, it was directly connected to the Lake of Dreams and there were other parts of this module that I could get in the future.
It had many functions like:
1. After assimilating a clan member and scanning them, it leaves a flame-like mark on their forehead. It makes sure that no one will be able to steal their bloodline. Even if the eyes are gouged out or DNA and cells are taken away, it will not be useful nor can it be replicated. Of course, he can also control them like the caged bird seal does but he was not going to tell that part to anyone, except maybe grandpa.
And once you get the flame mark, it will pass on to your descendents.
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2. Next came the REBIRTH Pool. The same flame mark on the forehead connects the clan members to the Rebirth Pool. After a clan member dies, his body will break into tiny pieces of light and will be transferred to the Rebirth Pool no matter which world they are in unless they are trapped by some higher power, and the Rebirth Pool will revive them after a month. Or they can choose to revive immediately but they cannot die during that one month period otherwise they can't be revived again.
3. Bloodline Research Centre. This is the place where scanning and assimilation of clan members takes place. This place can create and transplant Bloodline limits present in the ninja world and even other worlds but it takes time. Just Wood Release takes 10 years and Mangekyo Sharingan takes 5 years. But if he can provide samples for scanning, it can decrease the time taken and if the whole person is used for scanning, then direct copying of bloodline is also possible. Even Kryptonian bloodline is also possible but the condition was to get a Kryptonian.
4. Dimensional walker - This ability allowed me to open gates to other world and make permanent gates to let others walk through. Other clan members who have been assimilated can also walk through them but can't open new world by themselves.
The worlds will be those whose plot I know of as these memories work as dimensional co-ordinates. It also has a map function that can track all the members of Uchiha Clan no matter which world they are in.
5.The last and biggest gain, his strength was directly connected to the strength of all the people under him. So if every clan member had 1 strength point and there were 100 people under him, his strength would be 100 points. This was the most OP ability. And his strength won't be affected if the clan members die but it would still be a loss since his strength won't increase until those numbers were filled up again or other members became stronger.
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"Alright, It's time for me to go. I will come again tomorrow to pull next three chances. And ya, do you need me to bring anything for you. Wait! Can I even bring anything here?" Kaien said.
"No and yes, I don't need anything and yes, you can come here with a physical body so other things can of course be brought here. Otherwise, wouldn't you be naked when you come with your physical body instead of spirit." Silviya said with a smile.
"Now close your eyes and think about going outside."
Kaien closed his eyes and when he opened them again, he found himself lying on his bed with his grandfather sitting beside him.
Seeing him awake, his grandfather said,"Thank Kami you are alright my child. I was very worried about you."
"It's alright grandfather. I am in good health. Awakening the Sharingan too a toal on my mental state. That's why I fainted." Kaien said.
Uchiha Ryoma, Kaien's grandfather hesitated a bit, not wanting to talk about it but still asked," You are the most talented member of our clan, with three tome Sharingan. So, did you awaken those eyes? The same as Madara."
"Yes." Kaien's response was short but that's all he needed to say.
Ryoma 's eyes were filled with tears. He felt happy and proud for his grandson but remembering the price his grandson had to pay for them was too much to bear for him.
He could only think of this as the last blessing of his son and daughter-in-law for his grandson.
"Grandfather, would you believe in me?No matter what I do, would you be willing to stand with me?" Kaien asked with his eyes filled with expectations.
"No matter what my child, I will always be with you." said Ryoma.
"Grandfather, I have seen things due to Mangakeyo Sharingan. I know of ways to resurrect both mother and father. I have seen our whole clan being massacred. We need to change things grandfather and I need help. Because time is always slipping." Kaien said.
Ryoma stared at his grandson with and astonished looked. He one half said not to believe it but the other half was willing to believe just because it was something his grandson said.
At the end, the love for his grandson won. After all, he only had his grandson as a living member of his family now.
"Grandfather, I have gained much more than just Mangakeyo Sharingan." Kaien took out a priscription out of thin air, shocking Ryoma and said," Note the thing in this prescription and try to find these things as much as possible. They are really hard to find but they will be there. We need to grow them ourselves as much as possible of these things but also buy a lot of things that help in physical strengthening of ninjas so no one else can guess the priscription. It will be a game changer for us."
"What does it do?"
"It elevates the level of our bloodline."
"Are you sure."
"Yes, I have one with me. But I will have to sleep for twelve hours after taking it. It can help Jonin with three tome Sharingan in our clan to Mangakeyo Sharingan and also cures the risk of blindness." Kaien explained.
Ryoma was totally disbelieving of it and will not believe it until he sees it himself but still, he didn't argue.