Chapter 109: Ruyi Worm
[Summoning Beast: Ruyi Worm]
Rank: C
Species: Arthropod
Attribute: Chakra Affinity
Abilities:
Infinite Division (Passive): The Ruyi Worm possesses the ability to divide infinitely. After a period of growth, each division becomes indistinguishable from the original body. (The Ruyi Worm's division and regeneration ability stems from ganglia distributed throughout its body. Because it has mastered chakra, this regenerative ability has been strengthened to the extreme! Each ganglion is an independent control center providing sensory and motor functions, so even if cut into pieces, each part can use its own ganglion's regenerative ability to recover and continue growing.)
Forest of All Creation: The Ruyi Worm can provide the carrier with a layer of chakra cloak corresponding to their attribute, increasing the carrier's chakra by 20%. Depending on the strength of the host's spiritual and physical power, it can increase each by 5%-15%. The stronger the carrier's spiritual and physical power, the higher the boost, up to a maximum of 15%.
This chakra cloak will automatically gain different abilities based on the carrier's chakra attribute. (Only one attribute can be active at a time, but the attribute can be switched at will according to the carrier's intent.)
Water Style Chakra Cloak: Reduces chakra consumption for Water Style ninjutsu by 20%, provides 10% immunity to Water Style damage, and offers defense against standard ninja tools.
Fire Style Chakra Cloak: Increases the flight speed of Fire Style ninjutsu by 20%, provides 10% immunity to Fire Style damage, and adds fire burning damage to close-combat attacks.
Earth Style Chakra Cloak: Increases the activation speed of Earth Style ninjutsu by 20%, provides 10% immunity to Earth Style damage, and offers significant defense against ninja tools and ninjutsu.
Wind Style Chakra Cloak: Increases the power of Wind Style ninjutsu by 20%, provides 10% immunity to Wind Style damage, and increases the carrier's movement speed.
Lightning Style Chakra Cloak: Increases the attack range of Lightning Style ninjutsu by 20%, provides 10% immunity to Lightning Style damage, and activates the carrier's body cells.
System Evaluation: Ruyi, Ruyi, obey my command, manifest quickly!
"Hiss..."
After reading the abilities of this newly synthesized summon, Kael couldn't help but take a deep breath.
He hadn't expected a purely support-type C-rank summon to have such overpowered abilities!
"A 20% boost to chakra! A 5%-15% boost to spiritual and physical strength! The bonuses from the chakra cloaks are also incredible, compensating for many weaknesses of various elemental ninjutsu. And the most crucial part is that they can be switched at any time!"
Kael could already imagine the scene of Hidden Hot Water ninja, each clad in five-colored chakra cloaks, sweeping across the battlefield.
"Although the boost isn't nearly as great as a Tailed Beast Cloak, this can be mass-produced!"
Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered something.
Earlier, Kael had tried to synthesize Eight-Tails chakra with a slug, but found the compatibility was only 0.00000001%. He had been dumbfounded.
What's the deal? Does the Slug Sage of Shikkotsu Forest own all the slugs in the ninja world? Not even giving a Tailed Beast's chakra any face!
The highest compatibility Kael had seen so far between material and creature was the overalls and the rooster, reaching an astounding 199%.
But now the lowest compatibility had appeared: Eight-Tails Chakra and Slug, reaching an equally astounding 0.00000001%!
Both shocked Kael to his core.
The compatibility between material and creature represented their affinity. The higher the affinity, generally the more powerful the synthesized summon.
After so many syntheses, Kael had figured out a pattern.
White, Green, and Blue quality materials corresponded to E, D, and C rank creatures.
If a White quality material had high compatibility with an E-rank creature, pushing the synthesis success rate over 100%, the result would be a more powerful E+ rank summon. The initial version of Goldie was like this, surpassing all of Kael's other E-rank summons in ability and growth potential.
If a high-quality material was synthesized with a low-rank creature—for example, a Blue quality material with an E-rank creature—and the success rate exceeded 100%, the final summon's rank would increase by one level, from E to D.
If the success rate exceeded 200%, the final summon would jump two levels, leaping from E-rank to C-rank—a carp leaping over the dragon gate, a pheasant becoming a phoenix! The Ruyi Worm was one such example.
But Kael had found these synthesis methods through painstaking effort. High-quality materials for synthesis were easy to find in the Shinobi World, but high-rank creatures were rare. Otherwise, Kael would already have a large group of C-rank summons.
And this time, Kael finally witnessed the birth of another C-rank summon with his own eyes.
But Kael wasn't ready to stop synthesizing. The Ruyi Worm had only cost him 100 chakra; he still had the capacity to continue.
Although the Ruyi Worm greatly enhanced the combat capabilities of future Hidden Hot Water ninja, Kael felt it wasn't enough. Whether it was sustained combat ability or survivability, he felt they were still lacking.
Hidden Hot Water ninja came from a small village with insufficient foundation.
This lack of foundation manifested in many ways.
First was the lack of trump card ninjutsu, commonly known as "ultimates." Kael had no good solution for this, so he could only compensate for the Hidden Hot Water ninja's lack of foundation in other ways.
Second, the base number of ninja couldn't compare to the Five Great Ninja Villages. Although Kael had already made arrangements for this, he still felt it wasn't enough.
Every Hidden Hot Water ninja was a living life to him, not a pawn to be discarded at will, and certainly not a "leaf" to be burned at any time like in Konoha!
So Kael had always placed great importance on the lives of his subordinates. Calling him kind would be hypocritical; the key point was that he couldn't bear the loss!
The Hidden Hot Water Village only had so many ninja; the death of any one of them would pain Kael!
That was why he had considered synthesizing healing-type summons, Kun Kun, and the communication-type Communication Bat. He just wanted to minimize the losses of his ANBU ninja as much as possible.
But Kun Kun's appearance was an accident—a pheasant becoming a divine descendant, a C-rank high-level summon. Its abilities were so overpowered that Kael couldn't bear to send it away. Plus, his status had changed. As the Leader of the Hidden Hot Water Village, he now had to worry more about the three hundred ninja under his command.
Therefore, synthesizing another summon with healing effects was imperative.