Chapter 132 - 132 (1/2)

The following day, Ryo arrived to the 3rd training ground very early. He had spent the whole night thinking about Minato's approach to improve Ice Teleportation.

Ryo's Ice Teleportation allowed him to instantly flicker up to 50 meters away as long as there was Ice at the spot to which he flickered. It goes without saying that this movement, being instantaneous, was even faster than his Flicker in the Ice Lightning Chakra Mode.

If he could deal with his distance limitation, Ryo would have a technique that's rather equivilant to the Flying Thunder God, which might also bring possibilities beyond that.

Minato arrived much later, along with Kushina, Kakashi, Obito and Rin. After handing the Trio's training to Kushina, Minato started working with Ryo.

Ryo's Ice Teleport looked like a Kekkei Genkai to Minato. He speculated that Ryo used his own Ice Chakra to locate external ice and achieve the spatial movement.

The reason why Minato could determine that Ryo's technique was a true teleportation was the fact that he was far more s_e_n_s_i_t_i_v_e to Space-Time Fluctuations than most people.

When Ryo used his Ice Teleportation, Minato could clearly perceive the fluctuations in the fabric of space. That's why he estimated that Ryo ha great talent for Space Perception.

The 1st step in the training was to get Ryo to try to perceive space. Minato covered Ryo's eyes and placed dozens of Thunder God Kunai around Ryo, and he flickered between them non-stop.

Ryo entered sage mode, and following Minato's directions, he tried to sense the fluctuations in the fabric of space around him.

Even with the enhanced perception brought by Sage Mode, Ryo was still unable to capture any fluctuations, so the latter could only stop.

In theory, Ryo's use of Ice teleport should mean that he has already some level of development when it came to his space perception.

The two started thinking of what must had went wrong, until Minato noticed Ryo's use of an Ice Scalpel.

With that he realized that Ryo's space perception should be limited to existence of Ice.

He then held an Ice Scalpel in his hand, and repeated the same drill with Ryo.

With the guidance of the scalpel, and Minato's continuous use of Flying Thunder God, Ryo started finally perceiving Fluctuations in the fabric of space.

After finishing this 1st step, Ryo placed the Ice Scalpel a 100 Meters away from Ryo.

”Ryo, what you have to do now is to find a way to perceive this Ice Scalpel that's a 100 meters away. With this exercise, you should rely on yourself; I cannot help you. The only hint I could give you is to make use of what you've learned with the previous exercise.”

Ryo nodded, closing his eyes and focusing his mental power into the distance. He could actually sense the scalpel in the distance, but had no way to make his special link with it.

In reality, Ryo had a special link with his ice. This link is the one that is the basis of his Ice Teleportation, but its range was only 50 meters.

Minato said that he should find a way to ”fold” space, and that should make this link ignore this distance, than he could overcome the distance limit of his Teleportation.

Over the following few days, Ryo kept thinking about the process of ”folding space”. Unfortunately, he wasn't getting anywhere.

One of Ryo's strongest treats was his perception abilities. In both lives he had, it kept helping him time after time.