The Alien that came from the canopy was a shadow clone he had set up to give him a second perspective of his achievement, it transformed into an alien on its own. That wasn't a bad thing though, at least it took the focus of the crowd away from Matsuo.
Matsuo straight away turned all his shadow clones into aliens to pursue the crowd after the act, and to trick others that walk up to the scene.
Then the real Matsuo went to the side and transformed into Aether, using the name of a persona isn't wrong. Anyways, after the alien seemed to examine the crowd, it lunged forward and killed one of them. Of couse a child due to restrictions of strength in a shadow clone, one stike was all it took.
The alien that was faking his flesh feasting ways by putting it in the inventory, was fake kicked away by Aether "Get away now! I can't delay them for long!" All the other shadow clones jumped out, all with various sizes and growth periods.
About half of them were frozen in place "What are you doing! Get out of here!" One of the clones attacked me and I made a small wound on myself with a kunai "Go now!" By now most had gotten out of their stupor and were running away, but there was one that didn't, a chunin.
Fun thing this chunin knew the akatsuki and Aether, he made a fire ball with some random jutsu that was easily evaded "What the fuck are you doing!? Escape!" Aether run at him and picked him up, he ran like the wind, more like made the clones make up fake weaknesses in their movement patterns.
After Some random distance and after a river the aliens didn't follow anymore, The chunin said after a while "Ēteru (Aether in japanese) of the akatsuki, I, Nagao, place you under-" But was interupted by Matsuo's coughing, it slowly increased in intesity, interupting Nagoa's speech.
At the end blood was being coughed up, the last cough brought out dark green blood. After that Aether was still rueing from that "Cough, kid let me tell you something, cough. Those things are called Xenomorphs, cough, they hunt for centers of belief living or alive, and destroy it. I don't know why, but I know a bit, cough, my decades of hunting them hasn't gone down the drain." Aether had another coughing fit "Cough, cough, kid, those things have poison on their claws that weakens you until its taken out. If I wasn't poisoned by them, I would kill them all with one punch. Cough, Unluckily I went after them while I was still at the level of a jonin. I've been training non-stop so as to not fall behind due to the poison."
Aether said to Nagao "Go back, I'll be able to kill them. I still have some poison that can kill them in a few seconds, though its expensive to make. Also, for if your village investigates, Xenomorphs after they die, dissipate. I don't know into what they dissipate or how they do it, I just know they do, cough." Aether walked away slowly while staggering and coughing his lungs out, once in a while coughing up green blood that dissipated after a few seconds.
This is all for the effect of a old hunter that knew the prey well, that coughing made the appearance of the poison believeable. Then the excuse of the xenomorphs dissipating so that the whole shadow clone thing doesn't break Matsuo's quick plan, nothing went wrong at least.
Matsuo cleaned up all his shit and then left after undoing his clones, and ran off in another direction. Right now Matsuo was having a few thoughts on how to put this tiny act on a bigger stage, though it would get in the way of the original plot. But who cares? His little stunts as Aether made some waves already, the hardest is always to start the wave, but its so easy to surf on one.
What should he do? The answer? Ride the wave he's made and exploit until the end.
[Challenge; make Xenomorphs the subject of fear in an entire region
Rewards; Hive ruler_Xenomorph]
What hive ruler (In his mind) is a skill without a specialization cap, the higher the more control and friendship over Xenomorphs. If he added this with a plan to overrun a region with the bugger and he'd be invincible, and if he added to the fact that he could put a nest on his island paridise as an exuse for me to be there.
That day, if you were in the forest you may have heard intense scheming in progress "No, no, no! That wouldn't work, there they would see through the act." Matsuo was in the process of making Xenomorphs a feared existence, and it was difficult.
That night Matsuo got his two books, Both were very welcome to his new evil plan. The current problem was that he didn't have a lot of man power, he couldn't make a hoard of Xenomorphs like he would like to.
He just doesn't have enough chakra, since an entire region needs to be fearfull. What if there's only one person in a region? Good idea, Matsuo would look for a desolate region and kidnap someone to that place.
After two days of going to the land of wind, the region mission was completed. This development completely shocked Matsuo, he thought he would need to add fuel to the fire if he were to do the mission legit.
Since rumors were so powerfull, why not just expand the range but no longer try to enforce it?
[Challenge: Make Xenomorphs the subject of fear in two regions
Rewards; Exp for the Hive ruler_Xenomorph skill]
This was repeated from 2-10 regions, a fair and normal idea. Anyways, Matsuo was now thinking how to get the egg.
Maybe exploit Orochimaru? He may be intrested in Xenomorphs, no more like a hundred percent chance he's intrested. But where was he hiding at right now? He should still be hidden in the Akatsuki, Shame I don't know their little cave's location.
'But since this is already a fiction world, I should stay reasonable and make a filler arc out of this. Maybe if the audiance liked it I could expand it to a full multi-arc mini series, that would be fun.' Matsuo thought, completely breaking the fourth wall.
What Matsuo wanted to do was to get a Xenomorph egg, and second was to change his name into something more familiar and cool. an element maybe? Matsuo chose to think about it later.
Since Aether is a persona made to be mysterious and to cause panic, showing Aether too much will destroy that mysteriousness. So he needed to make a new persona 'let's go with a crazed scientist.'
This persona could be used as an excuse as to why the Xenomorphs change or mutate into different versions of themselves than what I told that chunin, a crazed scientist obssesed with rulling over the Xenomorphs.
[Challenge: Raise an entire city to the ground
Description: as an aspiring Xenomorph dictator, you must show your worth.
Rewards; a facehugger egg, Xenomorph nurturing 101]
'Raise an entire city, huh, that's annoying. But a city is but a name, and what if I try it out with a ruined city?'
[(Ruined cities are not counted as cities.)]
'Fuck.' His first evil plan thworted, Matsuo still had high hopes 'Anyways, the new persona, it needs a name. Let's go with my current naming convention, not the japanese one.'
Matsuo set off to a close by town, of course he chose his new persona for the task. He needed a reputation and backround of hunting for Xenomorphs to show his obsession, before the great act starts you need to make a backround to avoid suspiscion.
It wouldn't be to crazy for the crazed scientist to appear after a Xenomorph appearance, he's obsessed with the things. The first thing he did was asking about sightings of Xenomorphs, without saying the name "Have you heard of sightings of a small arachnid-like life form colored the around the same color of human skin?" After told that there weren't he goes with "Then have there been sightings of a worm-like creature with teeth on the front?" When told another negetive he went with the second to last question "Have there been anysightings of a creature with a vertebrate-like body, a protective dark exoskeleton, a long flexible tail, and an elongated domed head?"
If he didn't get answers about what the hell he was talking about he went with "Have you seen a dark creature with a large head which is able to give children PTSD for the rest of their life?" After getting an anwser for the second last and last question which was almost always had something like "They were seen at the holy tree a few days ago."
Also just so you know, the crazed scientist had the signature scientist coat with a few chemical stains on. He had messy brown hair and slightly cracked glasses, he had a slight hunchback and a slight glimmer of handsomeness shining through it all. Though it did give of a slight feeling of plastic surgery, but only the feeling and none of the signs.
After that the scientist bought a map of the surroundings, he would've liked to buy a full map of the land of fire but that's only possible in the capital. So he mumbled to himself with a strange machine infront of his mouth after a click "Note to self; go to the capital of every nation for maps."
While he was transacting with the merchants the name he gave them was hogyo, or demise in english.
An hour later you could see the crazed scientist taking samples and making flashes with a small device, a group of genin and a jonin appeared behind him. When he turned around while continuing his research, he said "Don't worry ninja, I'm an investigator hired by the fuedal lord in this area." He put his 'findings' inside of his pocket and took out a cigerete, letting the ninjas investigate on their own.
After that he took out a cloak from his bag and threw it, covering him from the ninja's sight. After the cloth fell down, the scientist was gone.
Back in some cave, a cloaked figure was looked at a map handed over by a clone. Matsuo was elated to how easy his act was, setting up a character profile in the system.
[Name; Abyss
Backround; a scientist focused on biology that came from outerspace with Aether, their crew was overwhelmed by Xenomorphs. He found them majestic, after going slightly insane. Aether and him were seperated, the ship torn asunder. Falling from the stars, seperated. He's been lurking in the shadows since then, scared of the unknown world he landed on.
Afilliations; the galactic union, the fleeting star star ship, the endless worlds investigation agency, the Xenomorph research and destruction initiative.
Organizations under their control; a shadowy group of talented orphans taken in by him and indoctronated (Name not decided)
Ideology; Knowledge is a tool to more efficiently use your strength, without it you are weaker than an animal with the same strengths, with it you can kill those many times stronger than you.
Goal; control the Xenomorphs and rule a planet without fully sapient life, with sapiance comes ambition afterall.
Apearences; as a shady investigator calling himself demise in japanese.
Skills/abilities/masteries/techniques; none shown, none planned, none hinted.
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Matsuo would always make one of these when a new persona is made, he got it from a challenge. Not even only this, a few system functions were gained.
[Challenge; give the system 100000000 (1 billion) ryo.
Reward; unlocking of a few system functions]
A very worth it deal if matsuo said it himself, money is but the value we asign to it. Anyways, I don't feel like showing you all the folders. I'll just show you them when they're put into action, I can do that you know.