Chapter 132 - 132 (2/2)

Even though he wasn't making progress, Ryo wasn't giving up. A few days later, he used ”Summoning” to bring Kogin to the 3rd Training Ground

Then he did the same, summoning Rashomon this time. on both times, he carefully perceived the flow of Chakra in space.

”Summoning” was also a Space-Time Jutsu. This time of Jutsu with its disregard of distance was the biggest application of Space Folding. Ryo did summoning several times in succession, and finally found a clue to understanding Space Folding.

After the release of Summoning, Ryo closed his eyes and tried to locate the scalpel in the distance with his mental power.

With his spiritual power and Chakra as medium, Ryo finally was able to complete Space Folding, and create that special link with the scalpel that was at the time over 200 meters away from him.

With this link, Ryo finally completed a long distance teleportation for the first time!

After being through with the most difficult steps, practice afterwards became much simpler. With Minato's guidance, Ryo improved his Ice Scalpel, infusing it with a little spiritual power.

This way, as long as the Ice was within his sensing Range, Ryo could ”fold space” and complete the teleportation.

Ryo's Teleportation distance limitation was finally dealt with under the joint efforts of him and Minato.

For Ryo, while this technique was comparable to the Flying Thunder God in speed, and maybe even more flexible, it was clearly less practical, as it didn't allow him to teleport non frozen people and objects.

To deal with this problem, Minato suggested making Ryo learn [Teleportation Barrier]

, which was a space time seal.

In Minato's words, Ryo's Ice teleportation had more potential that the Flying Thunder God in battle. This was what's most important. For other respects, it was enough for Ryo to learn the  Teleportation Barrier technique.

After Minato's explanation, Ryo realized the Nature of Minato's [Teleportation Barrier].

It was actually a special seal that combines space folding with the Uzumaki's fuinjutsu.

Its biggest effect was allowing for long distance teleportation. The Reason why Minato developed this technique was that the Flying Thunder God had special limitations in special circ_u_mstances. Minato's development of this special mark was to make up for the deficiencies of the technique.

Ryo was somewhat curious about these special situation, and Minato answer mentioning the incident with the 2nd Hokage when he could teleport away from his death.

The surprised Ryo greatly, he did not expect that Tobirama's death was related to such a problem.

However, this explains why the 2nd Hokage didn't use the Flying Thunder God when he and his team were pushed into a desperate situation, staying behind instead to die in order to save his disciples' lives.

Minato didn't mention any clear details about the incident, as these are just things that were vaguely described to him in the past.

Afterwards, Minato handed Ryo his mark to analyze, and the latter learned how to make his own ” Teleportation Barrier ” marks relying on his understanding of Folding Space and the Uzumaki's fuinjutsu. With that, his practice was over.

Ryo left marks at his family's place, the Forest of Death, the 3rd Training Ground, and just about any place they went to a lot. From then on, there was another person able to teleport through long distances besides Minato!