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Current Experience Points: 21280.
As 2800 experience points vanished, the void around Ishikawa Katori trembled slightly, but in the next second, it returned to its normal state.
"It truly is a qualitative change."
Ishikawa Katori felt that after investing 2800 experience points to raise his spiritual pressure to High Level, he could clearly feel a qualitative change in his spiritual pressure, and his control over it became much more proficient.
It's just that…
Spiritual Pressure: High Level (0 / 100000)
"Isn't that a bit too much?"
Ishikawa Katori's eyelid twitched. In the five years he had been in the Soul Society, the experience points he had gained did not seem to have reached 100,000.
And this was just for Spiritual Pressure. He also had Zanjutsu, Shunpo, Hakuda, Kaido, etc., to level up… If each item required 100,000, just thinking about the required experience points made Ishikawa Katori's face turn a bit dark; and this was not the most terrifying part, compared to the individual investment in these items…
Kido was a truly massive pit. There were over a hundred Bakudo and Hado combined. Even if he only chose 10 of them to cultivate, it would require at least a million experience points!
This made Ishikawa Katori even consider giving up Kido and focusing on Zanjutsu, with the idea of getting a wooden sword engraved with 'Lake Toya' and just cutting things everywhere.
"I still lack friends!!"
Ishikawa Katori sighed and refocused his attention on the system interface.
Although 20,000 experience points were a good amount, it wasn't a lot, so he had to carefully consider how to use them.
Even knowing that Kido was a huge pit, Ishikawa Katori couldn't possibly give up on Kido.
However, Ishikawa Katori did not immediately enhance his existing Kido. Instead, he opened the 'Unactivated Kido' interface, selected a Kido from it, activated it, got the basics, and immediately raised it to Mid Level, consuming another 1550 experience points.
Bakudo No. 58: Kakushitsuijaku: Mid Level (0 / 10000)
Actually, after sending off Kotetsu Isane and Hanatarō, Ishikawa Katori had been thinking: what if it wasn't Kotetsu Isane who came this time, but an enemy who entered the Everything Store without his knowledge? How would he respond?
He couldn't respond!
This was the conclusion Ishikawa Katori reached. If Kotetsu Isane had been an enemy and he only detected her after she was so close, then he would only have one option left…
Fight!!
There would be no time for either escape or pre-arrangement in such a situation.
To prevent this from happening, he could only try his best to pinpoint the enemy's location before they arrived, prepare in advance, or run away beforehand.
Previously, Ishikawa Katori always felt that functional Bakudo like 'Kakushitsuijaku,' which couldn't be used in combat, were not worth investing experience points in; but now, it seemed that such functional Kido could often produce unexpected effects in specific situations.
Bakudo No. 58: Kakushitsuijaku.
This was a Kido that sensed the opponent's spiritual pressure, tracking and pinpointing their location.
In short, it was a detection-type Kido. Although it was an active skill, it could only detect spiritual pressure reactions in the surroundings when cast. It wasn't like a radar that would warn you if someone entered its sensing range after being cast.
But in some ways, this Kido was much more useful than a radar.
Because once 'Kakushitsuijaku' was cast, as long as the person within the sensing range didn't deliberately hide their spiritual pressure, they would definitely be detected by 'Kakushitsuijaku'; even if the caster was only a Seated Officer, he could still use it to determine the location of a Captain-level spiritual pressure.
Of course, it wasn't entirely without limitations, otherwise Ishikawa Katori wouldn't have raised it to Mid Level in one go after activating it.
Deepening the mastery of Kakushitsuijaku did not increase its power, but its tracking range.
In other words, the higher the mastery, the larger the tracking range, but at the same time… the spiritual pressure consumed would also increase. So, although theoretically a Seated Officer could use 'Kakushitsuijaku' to track a Captain, in reality, achieving this required extremely strong spiritual pressure as a backing.
Often, before the exact location could be tracked, one's own spiritual pressure would already be insufficient to sustain it.
The newly Mid Level 'Kakushitsuijaku,' while not able to cover nearly half of the Seireitei in its tracking range, from Central 46 to Sōkyoku, and track the locations of all Vice-Captains and Captains as Kotetsu Isane did in the original work, Ishikawa Katori, if he used it with full power, could detect all spiritual pressure reactions within the 37th, 38th, and 39th districts.
Through the knowledge instilled by the system, after mastering 'Kakushitsuijaku,' Ishikawa Katori nodded: "Indeed, functional Kido all have their necessity."
Ishikawa Katori searched the unactivated interface again. When he saw 'Bakudo No. 77: Tenteikūra,' his gaze lingered for a while, but after pondering, he still gave up on activating it.
Tenteikūra is a Kido for 'transmitting information,' mostly used in conjunction with Kakushitsuijaku. One determines the opponent's location with Kakushitsuijaku, then connects to the opponent with spiritual power. If the opponent accepts, the information is directly sent into their mind, similar to texting in the Human World.
However, the receiver cannot reply.
If it were ancient times, this Kido would be a weapon of war, but in modern times… Ishikawa Katori felt that popularizing mobile phones in the Soul Society would be much more convenient than this Kido; although the Seireitei already had 'Spirit Communication Devices' similar to pagers, they seemed to only be carried by Shinigami when on duty in the Human World.
Getting back to the main topic.
This Kido, you could say it's useless, but it's actually quite useful, for example, for transmitting important information; but to say it's useful, a mobile phone can replace all its functions…
So Ishikawa Katori pondered for a moment and did not activate it, instead looking at other functional Bakudo.
"Indeed, most of them are still not useful."
Those high-numbered Bakudo, while making Ishikawa Katori drool a bit, were clearly not the time to learn them yet. After all, his current spiritual pressure was only just entering the Vice-Captain-level. Instead of distracting himself by learning those high-numbered Kido, it would be better to improve his existing Kido first.
And after realizing that Kido was a huge pit, Ishikawa Katori also didn't want to learn too many Kido without practical combat use.
After closing the 'Unactivated Kido' page, Ishikawa Katori gritted his teeth and directly invested over 8200 experience points into Hakuda, raising his newly Mid Level Hakuda to High Level, truly giving himself a Vice-Captain-level combat skill.
After a spree of spending, most of the 20,000-plus experience points vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving only 8700 experience points.
"No pain, no gain!"
After muttering through gritted teeth, Ishikawa Katori invested another 2000 experience points into Kaido, directly raising Kaido to High Level.
Even a newly promoted Vice-Captain is still a Vice-Captain. If she didn't have the corresponding ability, even if the position was empty, it would absolutely not have been given to Kotetsu Isane.
Therefore, Kotetsu Isane was definitely not as incompetent as she thought she was, but possessed Kaido abilities strong enough to be recognized by a Captain, otherwise the vacancy for the Thirteenth Division's Vice-Captain would not have remained open until now.
To keep her, he must possess sufficiently high Kaido abilities.
As for the remaining 6700, Ishikawa Katori didn't hesitate and invested all of it into Shunpo!
The investment of over 20,000 experience points allowed Ishikawa Katori's strength to advance to the fourth stage, equivalent to the Vice-Captain-level.
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Name: Ishikawa Katori
Race: Human
Level: Fourth Stage
Physique: Entry Level (307 / 500)
Spiritual Pressure: High Level (0 / 100000)
Hakuda: High Level (0 / 100000)
Shunpo: Mid Level (8467 / 10000)
Zanjutsu: Mid Level (432 / 10000)
Zanpakuto: Unactivated (Activation conditions unknown)
Kido:
[Hado]:
Low Level Hado 'Numbers 1-29': Quantity (4) (↓ Expand for details)
Mid Level Hado 'Numbers 30-59': Quantity (4) (↓ Expand for details)
High Level Hado 'Numbers 60-89': Quantity (1) (↓ Expand for details)
[Bakudo]:
Low Level Bakudo 'Numbers 1-29': Quantity (5) (↓ Expand for details)
Mid Level Bakudo 'Numbers 30-59': Quantity (4) (↓ Expand for details)
High Level Bakudo 'Numbers 60-89': Quantity (1) (↓ Expand for details)
※ Unactivated Kido Quantity: 57 (Please enter activation interface to activate.)
Special Skills:
[Chantless Kido] Mid Level (240 / 10000)
[Kaido]: High Level (0 / 100000)
[Post-chanting]: Mid Level (360 / 10000)
[Lightning Rope] Entry Level: (430 / 500)
Current Experience Points: 0
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