Seeing Yuya, whom he had just killed, sent flying backward and knocking down a large group of people along with his corpse, Veigar felt no disturbance in his heart at all. The unease that had plagued him before he struck had completely vanished at this moment.
Moreover, at this very moment, Veigar discovered something that moved him deeply.
However, he temporarily had no time to concern himself with the changes in his body, because Kawamura Daiji had already ordered his subordinates to surround and attack Veigar.
Seeing his own subordinate directly beaten to death by Veigar, Kawamura Daiji's eyes widened in terror. However, his desire to live forced him to suppress that fear, and instead he roared, "All of you, get him! All of you, attack!"
"They're just two little children. As long as we kill them, we might obtain the method to become ninja and gain powerful strength."
"Kill them!"
At this moment, Kawamura Daiji no longer dared claim that Veigar and Kakashi Hatake were not ninja. Instead, he tried to tempt his subordinates with promises of profit.
They were all bandits. To secure their place in the world, they needed not only ruthlessness but, more importantly, powerful strength of their own.
They no longer cared how Yuya had just been killed, but the fact that a child possessed such powerful strength filled them with incomparable excitement.
When they heard Kawamura Daiji's roar, the bandits, who had originally been stunned by Veigar's previous move, were immediately roused to bloodlust, overcoming the fear they had shown.
"Get them! Kill them!"
"Kill them! Once we become ninja, we'll have everything!"
"Kill them! Let's kill them together!"
However, as Kawamura Daiji's subordinates charged toward Veigar like madmen, they failed to notice that their boss was already preparing to flee.
Kawamura Daiji slowly stepped backward, as if he were making way for the people behind him to advance.
Facing the attack of a group of bandits, Veigar did not panic in the slightest. His eyes seemed to be looking at a group of dead men.
Veigar moved.
In an instant, Veigar charged into the middle of the bandits at astonishing speed. He did not draw the Ninja Sword on his back, instead using the Evil Force Spiraling Sphere to smash them. Every strike took down a whole swath of people.
As Veigar slaughtered the bandits, Kakashi Hatake discovered Kawamura Daiji trying to escape and made his move as well.
"Ah..."
"My hand..."
"Don't be afraid! Kill him together..."
Veigar's small face was icy cold as he slaughtered bandit after bandit. The bandits suffered grievous casualties at his hands, wailing and crying out, while some remained crazed and shouted for others to kill Veigar.
However, very soon they could no longer make a sound, because all eighty-plus of them were lying motionless on the ground, which had been smashed into a pockmarked mess by Veigar's Evil Force Spiraling Sphere.
In less than a minute, Veigar, who had killed someone for the first time, had slaughtered more than eighty people in one go.
Standing among the many corpses, Veigar panted heavily from exhaustion. He gently closed his eyes and sensed the changes within his body.
Only now did Veigar truly understand why the Source of Life he had absorbed earlier had provided less and less of a boost to his Chakra strength.
It was not that the effects of the absorbed Source of Life had weakened. Rather, all of that Source of Life had been absorbed by the Superior Evil Power icon and then used to fuse with his body.
No wonder I can digest everything I eat lately, no matter how much it is. So that's why?
Having finally discovered the reason for the changes in his body, Veigar silently pondered without moving.
Before this, the relationship between Veigar and the power within his body had been like that between a landlord and a tenant. The Superior Evil Power, acting as the tenant, had been extremely dissatisfied with the body Veigar provided as its residence. Thus, it had used the Source of Life it absorbed to improve Veigar's physical condition and increase his Chakra strength.
Now, the situation was that the Superior Evil Power within Veigar was satisfied with his body's condition and had begun to fuse with him.
Before the Superior Evil Power fused with Veigar, it had always been the dominant force. Veigar could only passively cooperate, so he had been completely unable to use the Superior Evil Power.
Now, Veigar could combine the Superior Evil Power with the Rasengan. This was the most direct indication that after the Superior Evil Power had begun fusing with him, he had changed from passive to active and was gradually gaining control over this ability.
"Eight-thousandths?"
"I'll complete it soon."
After calculating that the fusion progress between the Superior Evil Power and himself was approximately eight-thousandths, Veigar silently thought again.
At the same time, he estimated that he would need to absorb the Source of Life of ten thousand humans to completely fuse with the Superior Evil Power and control it.
Veigar had just killed more than eighty people and absorbed nearly all of their Source of Life, yet his fusion progress with the Superior Evil Power had only reached eight-thousandths.
Not far in front of Veigar, Kakashi Hatake had already killed Kawamura Daiji, who had tried to flee. When he saw Veigar standing motionless in the middle of a pile of corpses, he asked with concern, "Veigar, are you all right?"
Seeing that Veigar did not respond, Kakashi Hatake calmly walked toward him, as if he were strolling through a land without corpses. Veigar still had his eyes gently closed.
However, someone appeared beside Veigar even faster than Kakashi Hatake.
"Whoosh."
Using the Body Flicker Technique, Minato Namikaze appeared beside Veigar with a whoosh. Worried that Veigar might have problems after experiencing killing for the first time, he hurriedly patted Veigar on the shoulder and said, "Veigar, you completed the mission excellently!"
Feeling the warmth of the hand patting his shoulder and hearing Minato Namikaze's words, Veigar finally opened his gently closed eyes.
"Hoo..."
After exhaling a breath of stale air, Veigar looked up at Minato Namikaze and replied, "Thank you for your guidance."
Then Veigar looked toward Kakashi Hatake and said, "I'm fine now."
"Thank you, Kakashi."
Working together, the three of them quickly dealt with the corpses of the more than eighty bandits and buried them underground.
As soon as they returned to the entrance of Yamagō Village, the three of them saw Takeuchi Joji pacing back and forth at the village entrance, waiting anxiously. Minato Namikaze called out to him from a distance.
"Mr. Jōji, sorry for the wait."
Hearing Minato Namikaze's voice, Takeuchi Joji immediately turned toward its source. When he saw Minato Namikaze, Veigar, and Kakashi Hatake returning unharmed, he hurried over and shouted, "Jonin Minato, you're back!"
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