To expand and increase the power for himself, to be able to sense things at such a long distance, it seemed impossible at this time. It was almost like he was set up to fail from the beginning, however if that had been the case why even train him. It was obvious he needed to do exceptionally and improve is skill right here and now. He decided for the time being to sit down in the grass and relax, using this time to calm his body and focus his chakra through his tongue, mouth, throat and all his taste receptors, focusing on increasing their power of taste before even attempting to taste his surroundings. after a while of complete silence from hannibal's side, even though Alice and her henchman sometimes lit up with some strange conversations, he remained focused. His first task was simple, locate the 4 containers. This would seem simple but it put a great strain on Hannibal, attempting to keep his focus and taste his surroundings, slowly increasing it, tasting more of the nature around him, the animals, the fish, the trees, the soil until he slowly reached one container at a time, finding all of them was a success after quite some time. they all taste the same, the containers that is, but he was sweating from all the focus. Opening his eyes he stopped for a brief moment, taking off his blazer before looking at Alice.
"Well at least I found the containers...."
He closed his eyes once more before beginning to focus again, this time focusing all his attention on one container at a time. The first container he found stood hidden quite far up the river, filled with salt water, quite unusual, he could taste the salt and the water separately in the container, but he could also taste something else, it was meat. this was a fish, a very tiny one at that. Simplified it was just a fish in a container filled with water, not sure if Alice needed more than that when he was done, he continued to taste what was inside finding a few fish eggs, determining that this was a female fish. Not wanting to continue with this he stepped on to the next container hidden in a tree. why the hell did she put it there. Well he did as before letting his taste do the work, a slithering long body, with no arms or legs, tasting the foul venom in its body as well as its two fangs, it was a quick deduction that it was a tree snake that she had contained inside it. The third container he found was concealed under a pile of rocks. trying to taste what was around and inside it, it was almost as if they were trying to trick him, because all he could taste was rocks nothing else, even if he continued to attempt to taste it, all he could taste was rocks and the container itself, either the container was empty or there was rocks inside it. The fourth and last container was the one furthest away. Standing in an open space inside the forest, the sheer distance was the challenge, when he first got the taste of what was inside, it was not that hard to deduce what it was. He could taste the leather inside the container, smooth with a few engravings in it, the taste of the leather was from a strong bull, and inside the leather it tasted like paper, a horrible boring taste, almost none existent. A book, why that, oh well, Hannibal might even take the book after the training is done, but for now all this tasting had taking a slight strain on him, exhaling and relaxing again he stood up and looked towards his teacher.
"Alright so the containers are.... first one has salt water with a fish and some fish eggs inside it, the second one has a venomous snake inside it, the third either its empty or it is filled with rocks.... the fourth is a book with a leather cover... anything else you would like to know?"
as this your rank promotion test now. Good luck!
