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"Oh, you actually noticed… Amazing" muttered Bakorio and he sneakily tried to appraise the white snake sage but it failed similarly to what happened with the great toad sage...

'What was that feeling just now?' thought the white snake sage as he suddenly felt someone trying to pry into his very soul but he barely blocked it…

"To answer your question. I haven't learned it from them, they weren't that fond of me in mount Myoboku, but I ended up learning it from Jiraiya the Sannin" Responded Bakorio with a shrug…

"You still haven't answered my question. You are already this strong, why do you desire more strength?" asked the white snake sage and Bakorio simply said "I want to achieve my full potential, that's all, it would be a waste of a life otherwise don't you think?"

"Even if you risk your life for it?" Asked the white snake sage but Bakorio simply chuckled and said "Don't worry, there are many things that can kill me in this world, but learning your sage arts isn't one of them"

"I like your confidence" said the white snake sage with a weird smile "Fine, you passed the trials anyway so I don't mind teaching you… However, don't blame if you cause your own doom!"

"But your majesty, he's already affiliated with those hateful toads…" Tagitsuhime tried to change his mind but he simply glared at her and said "I have decided"

Then he turned to Bakorio and said "Are you ready?"

Bakorio sat down into a meditative state and took out one of his soothing incenses and lit it up before he nodded at the white snake sage "We can begin"

'Interesting, this kid's destiny is interesting' he thought before a small white snake appeared from his huge body and made its way to Bakorio's before it bit him in the neck and begin injecting him with its nature's chakra!

Bakorio frowned slightly but that was all, his pain tolerance was enormous and he soon focused all his attention on the huge amounts of nature chakra that was injected into his body and was trying to turn him into a snake!

But he was used to this, and with his chakra control, and experience with nature's chakra, as well as his Asura's chakra and recently acquired nature's blessing… Bakorio started slowly controlling this new nature chakra and merging it with his body and spirit…

Time slowly passed by as Bakorio kept sitting in his meditative state… Sometimes his skin would turn white with some snake scales appearing on it before it would turn back to normal, at other times horns would appear on top of his head before they disappear… this went on for a whole week before his transformation stopped and he had a stable green aura swirling around him like a chakra cloak with some chakra snakes appearing from time to time!

'Impressive, what a genius!' thought the white snake sage as he sensed that Bakorio's transformation was complete and he slowly opened his eyes while still in his snake sage transformation!

"This feeling is great" muttered Bakorio as a notification appeared in front of him

[Congratulations on learning the snake sage mode]

[Snake sage mode level 10: Grants 100 Agi + 60 Phy + 20 Str]

'Not bad, once I reach level 100 with it, my agility alone would be increase by 1000!' thought Bakorio delighted

"Congratulations, you can stay here for a while to get used to this transformation, the nature energy here will be quite helpful to your training" said the white snake sage and Bakorio nodded gratefully "Thank you, I will be summoning my summon to stay with me, I hope it's fine"

"Don't worry, as long as it doesn't cause trouble with the rest of our snakes!"

Bakorio nodded at him and left with Tagitsuhime who appeared out of nowhere and led him to a room where he can train, and the shock on her face was very clear…

"Just how did you do it?" She couldn't help but ask since what the kid in front of her did was unheard of, Mastering two sage modes at once! And one of them in the span of a week!

"I was just lucky" Replied Bakorio and Tagitsuhime hissed at him and said "Like hell something like this could be done with just luck, you are probably hiding a lot of secret"

She was almost drooling while staring at Bakorio, but he wasn't interested in explaining to her about his secrets and was pondering instead 'This went faster than my training with Jiraiya, the location's truly important for such training and my newly gained abilities also helped a lot…'

After leading him to a room and taking her leave, Bakorio suddenly bit his thumb and used the summoning Jutsu… And he summoned none other than Kurama which he established a contract with, and if the white snake sage knew such a dangerous creature would be summoned to their home, he would have never accepted Bakorio's request!

"Kid, what took you so long?" said Kurama with an angry look on his face and Bakorio said with an apologetic look on his face "Sorry, I didn't think it would take this long…"

"Sorry my ass" said Kurama before he stared at their surroundings curiously and asked "So this is Ryuchi cave huh?"

"Yea, there are many big snakes here for you to play with, go have some fun, and pay extra care to that purple worm Manda, play as much as you want with him" said Bakorio with a wicked smile and Kurama replied with one of his own as he said "Don't worry, I was thinking the same" before he suddenly vanished and went to find another pitiful prey for him to play with other than poor Kimimaro…

"Now then, let's the training begin" muttered Bakorio as he began grinding to level up his snake sage mode as fast as possible…

Very quickly, 3 whole months passed and Kurama was already back in Konoha after he caused too much trouble and the white snake sage was forced to banish him from Ryuchi cave…

Today, Bakorio watched as the level of his snake sage transformation reached 100 and he was very satisfied!

[Snake sage transformation level 100: Grants the user +1000 Agi, +600 Phy, + 200 Str]

But this wasn't all, as many of his other skills and masteries reached level 100 since he spent a lot of his time training with the snakes! These included his close combat mastery, chakra control mastery, Meditation mastery, nature's chakra absorption, and so on and he received many rewards from them which raised his battle strength to a whole new level!

And thanks to his new Taijutsu talent, all of his Taijutsu skills reached level 100 except for his 8th gates Jutsu which was at level 40 allowing him to open the gates all the way to the fourth one!

'I have many advancement quests to fulfill now…' thought Bakorio as he read through his quest details… His close combat mastery reaching level 100 granted him an increase of 100 points in all of his physical attributes! That's the same as gaining 500 attribute points at once! But the advancement quest he received from it was quite tricky as well. He had to defeat someone that was at least 10 times stronger than him and thrice as fast without relying on anything other than his close combat mastery, and this will happen in a special dimension created by the system where all his attributes would be reset...

As for the chakra control, it granted him an ability called chakra merging, and according to the description of the skill, some types of chakras have a high possibility of merging, which will result in the creation of a higher form of chakra… This was one of the reasons why he quickly trained his snake sage mode all the way to level 100… However, he found that he couldn't merge the snake's nature chakra and the toad's nature chakra as they kept rejecting each other for some reason…

As for the quest he received for his chakra control to advance, it required him to use chakra merging to create a higher form of chakra that's at least 50 times better than normal chakra! This was a huge task…

And then there's his meditation reaching level 100 and granting him the ability [one with nature]! It allowed Bakorio to increase the training speed of his spirit and nature-related skills by 500%! But to increase his mastery any further he had to finish a quest that required him to find a natural treasure of at least legendary rank and absorb it…