"The titanium-alloy dog eyes have also been massively strengthened. Once they focus, they can even injure Little Yellow's eyes. They can absolutely be used as a hidden trump card!"
Shangguan Mo understood very well that in the ninja world, any technique that hurt the enemy a thousand while injuring oneself eight hundred was terrifyingly powerful.
Some could even be called forbidden techniques.
But when he saw Little Yellow's face, on the verge of tears, Shangguan Mo couldn't help feeling a bit exasperated.
"Useless mutt! You've finally flipped your salted-fish life over and that's the face you show me? You really planning to coast through life on acting cute forever? I'm telling you, your 'cuteness jutsu' won't work anymore! From now on you're a taijutsu mutt—get up there and tank on the front line for me!"
He scolded in a bad mood.
"Woof, woof-woof!
—Wuu, wuuu…
I just wanted to quietly live my life as a salted fish…"
Shangguan Mo ignored its protest, opened up the system and glanced at his own stats.
[Host: Shangguan Mo]
Race: Human
Summoned Beasts: …
HP: 225
Chakra: 59
"To recover from fifty-nine back to a hundred chakra, based on past experience, it'll take about two days…"
He turned to look at Watanabe Mousse.
"Uncle Watanabe, I'll have to trouble you to come over again in two days."
Watanabe Mousse didn't even look back. He kept petting Little Yellow, who was two heads taller than he was; that soft golden fur was simply impossible to put down.
"Sure, got it."
…
After Watanabe Mousse reluctantly took his leave, Shangguan Mo started making some preparations.
He quickly ran into trouble.
"This chakra metal is a bit too hard…"
Looking at the kunai in his hand that had been worn down to half its length, Shangguan Mo gave a wry smile.
Among his summoned beasts, only the actual dog and the wind eagle were suitable for fusing with Lightning-nature chakra. The others all had too low an affinity and were discarded by Shangguan Mo.
He had just tested the chakra metal on all of his summoned beasts.
His beasts all had pretty high compatibility with this kind of metal that conducted chakra extremely well.
In other words, this was basically a universal blue-grade material: almost no creature in the ninja world would have extremely poor affinity with it.
That made Shangguan Mo all the more reluctant to waste any. He wanted to cut it into many small pieces and only take out a sliver each time he synthesized.
But splitting this metal up was no simple matter.
He shook his head and pushed the issue aside for now. He already had a rough idea of how to cut the chakra metal later.
For the moment, he was focused on the next round of synthesis.
The summoned beast with the highest affinity with chakra metal turned out to be the earth dragon. Its compatibility reached seventy percent, and the synthesis success rate was as high as two hundred percent. That pleasantly surprised Shangguan Mo and left him a bit stunned.
This meant that besides Little Grey, Little Yellow, and the wind eagle he was about to synthesize, he would gain yet another C-rank summoned beast.
What that represented went without saying.
Altogether, that was at least the equivalent of four jōnin-level combatants!
Apart from Little Grey, whose affinity with natural energy made it unsuitable for secondary synthesis—
—The success rate of combining his remaining summoned beasts with chakra metal all surpassed one hundred percent. That meant the Blazing Ant Queen would be upgraded from D-rank to C-rank, while the self-destructing flies, earth-armored beetles and iron hedgehogs would all rise to D-rank, giving Shangguan Mo's overall combat power a solid boost.
…
Two days later, at the crack of dawn.
Once again, in the courtyard of Shangguan Mo's home.
"Ready?"
Watanabe Mousse asked Shangguan Mo impatiently.
Shangguan Mo glanced at the sky, still only faintly light, then at the system display where his chakra, painstakingly refined until the latter half of the night, had finally climbed back to 105 points. Disheveled and bleary, the corner of his mouth twitched helplessly.
"Big bro, what are you doing? Being this enthusiastic—wouldn't your time be better spent going home to make a second kid?"
"Cut the crap! Use your ability already—I can't wait to see what your next summoned beast turns into."
Shangguan Mo: "…"
Sure, sure—why don't you be the system's host instead!
He'd only seen the system's synthesis process once, yet Watanabe was even more hooked on it than he was.
"Little Wind, wake up!"
Shangguan Mo called weakly toward the outside.
"Hold on a minute, let me wash my face. I was refining chakra until late last night—I'm dead tired!"
He yawned, eyelids drooping, and spoke to Watanabe Mousse.
…
Two minutes later.
"Let's go."
Shangguan Mo stepped onto the wind eagle's broad back and looked down at Watanabe.
He paused, slightly taken aback.
"We're not doing it here?"
Shangguan Mo shook his head.
"Little Wind's body might change later. I'd rather not have the courtyard demolished again by this guy."
Once bitten, twice shy.
After witnessing the wind eagle burst his house apart last time, Shangguan Mo no longer dared to synthesize anywhere near his home.
…
In the depths of Hot Spring Hidden,
on a quiet patch of grass.
Shangguan Mo and Watanabe leapt down from the eagle's back.
The chilly morning wind rushed over them, jolting Shangguan Mo wide awake and blowing away his drowsiness.
The fresh air, birdsong and wildflowers actually made him feel very comfortable.
He unconsciously closed his eyes a little, soaking in nature's cleansing.
Zzzzzzz…
A crackling burst of electricity suddenly sounded right beside his ear, wiping the contentment clean off Shangguan Mo's face.
He opened his eyes and stared expressionlessly at Watanabe.
Then spoke slowly.
"Are you sick in the head or what?"
"Watch your tone with your elders! Do you have any idea how precious my time is? I stayed in the village for two whole days without taking any missions just to help you upgrade your summoned beasts. Do you know how big a loss that is? The ninjas in the village are already run off their feet!"
Watanabe shot him a glare.
Shangguan Mo rolled his eyes. He'd been choked into silence.
Then he pressed one hand against the wind eagle's belly and moved the other toward the ball of lightning in Watanabe's hand, stopping skillfully about ten centimeters away.
Watanabe's eyes lit up; he stared fixedly at the wind eagle beside them.
[Lightning-nature Chakra] + [Wind Eagle] = ???
Affinity: 50%
Material: Lightning-nature Chakra (blue quality)
Creature: Wind Eagle (D+ rank)
Synthesis Success Rate: 105%
Chakra Required: 200
Synthesize?
Shangguan Mo didn't choose to synthesize right away. He'd forgotten that synthesizing a D-rank summoned beast required 200 chakra, while he only had 105 at the moment…
In other words, if he went through with it, he'd lose ninety-five HP and might end up so weak he'd be bedridden for several days.
"What are you dawdling for, brat? I've got a mission lined up! I'll be leaving the village soon, so hurry up."
Watanabe started hurrying him again.
Shangguan Mo's heart softened, and he still tapped "Confirm Synthesis."
All the chakra in his body was instantly drained, and nearly a hundred HP were ruthlessly devoured by the system along with it.
Synthesis started!
Shangguan Mo's body went limp and toppled, but Watanabe reacted quickly and caught him.
"What's wrong with you?"
He cried out in alarm and hastily propped Shangguan Mo up against himself.
This time Shangguan Mo didn't pass out; he just had no strength left anywhere in his body.
Through gritted teeth, he muttered:
"Rush, rush, rush—rush my ass…"
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