Transcendent Fusion (Polite Request)

Watching Yuya, whom he had just killed, his corpse flying backward and knocking down a large group of people, Veigar felt no ripples in his heart at this moment. The unease that had clung to his mind before taking action had completely vanished.

And at this very moment, Veigar discovered something that moved him deeply.

However, he had no time to attend to the changes within his body for now, because Kawamura Daiji was already commanding his underlings to surround and attack Veigar.

Seeing his own subordinate killed outright by Veigar, Kawamura Daiji's eyes instantly widened in terror. But his desire to live forced him to suppress that fear deep inside, and he roared instead: "All of you, get him! All of you, get him!"

"They're just two kids. Kill them, and we might get the method to become ninjas and master powerful strength."

"Kill them for me!"

By now, Kawamura Daiji no longer dared to claim that Veigar and Kakashi Hatake weren't ninjas; instead, he tempted his men with rewards.

They were all bandits. To survive and thrive, besides being ruthless, what mattered most was possessing formidable strength themselves.

How Yuya had just been killed no longer concerned them, but the fact that a child wielded such power made their hearts burn with desire.

Hearing Kawamura Daiji's roar, the bandits, who had been stunned by Veigar's earlier move, had their bloodlust stirred up, overcoming the fear that had surfaced in their hearts.

"Charge! Kill them!"

"Kill them, and once we become ninjas, we'll have everything!"

"Go! Kill them all together!"

Yet, as Kawamura Daiji's underlings charged at Veigar like madmen, they failed to notice their boss already preparing to flee.

Kawamura Daiji's feet slowly retreated, as if making way for those behind him to advance.

Facing a siege of bandits, Veigar showed not a trace of panic, his gaze fixed on them as if looking at a crowd of corpses.

He moved. Veigar moved.

In an instant, he shot into the midst of the bandits at incredible speed. Without even drawing the ninja sword on his back, he simply smashed with the Evil Force Spiraling Sphere, taking out a swath with each blow.

While Veigar was slaughtering the bandits, Kakashi Hatake spotted Kawamura Daiji trying to escape and made his move.

"Ah..."

"My hand..."

"Don't be afraid, kill him together..."

Veigar's small face was ice-cold as he butchered one bandit after another. The bandits suffered heavy casualties under his hands, wailing and crying out in grief, while some still screamed madly for his death.

But soon, they could no longer make a single sound. All eighty-plus men lay motionless on the ground, pockmarked by Veigar's Evil Force Spiraling Sphere.

In less than a minute, Veigar, killing for the first time, had slaughtered over eighty people.

Standing among the many corpses, Veigar panted heavily from exhaustion, closing his eyes lightly to sense the changes within his body.

Only now did Veigar truly understand why the Source of Life he had absorbed before had increased his Chakra strength so little.

It wasn't that the absorbed Source of Life had weakened in effect, but that all of it had been taken in by the Superior Evil Power icon and used to fuse with his body.

"So that's why I've been digesting everything I eat lately, even in large amounts?"

Having finally discovered the reason for the changes in himself, Veigar stood motionless, thinking silently.

Before this, the relationship between Veigar and the power within him was like a landlord and a tenant. The tenant, Superior Evil Power, was dissatisfied with the body Veigar provided, so it used the absorbed Source of Life to improve Veigar's physical condition and boost his Chakra strength.

Now, however, Superior Evil Power within Veigar was satisfied with his body and had begun to fuse with him.

Before the fusion, Superior Evil Power had been in control, and Veigar could only passively cooperate, unable to use it at all.

But now, Veigar could combine Superior Evil Power with the Spiraling Sphere. This was the most direct sign that, after the fusion began, he had shifted from passive to active, gradually mastering the ability of Superior Evil Power.

"Eight thousandths?"

"I'll finish it soon."

After calculating that his fusion progress with Superior Evil Power was roughly eight thousandths, Veigar thought silently again.

At the same time, he estimated that to fully fuse with and control Superior Evil Power, he would need to absorb about ten thousand units of human Source of Life.

After all, having just killed over eighty people and absorbed nearly all their Source of Life, his fusion progress was only eight thousandths.

Not far from Veigar, Kakashi Hatake, who had already killed the fleeing Kawamura Daiji, saw Veigar standing motionless amid a pile of corpses and asked with concern: "Veigar, are you alright?"

When Veigar didn't respond, Kakashi Hatake walked calmly through the corpses as if they weren't there, slowly approaching Veigar, who still had his eyes lightly closed.

But someone reached Veigar's side even faster than Kakashi.

"Whoosh."

Using the Body Flicker Technique, Minato Namikaze appeared beside Veigar with a "whoosh." Worried that Veigar, experiencing killing for the first time, might be troubled, he quickly patted Veigar's shoulder and said: "Veigar, you completed the mission excellently!"

Feeling the warm hand on his shoulder and hearing Minato Namikaze's words, Veigar finally opened his lightly closed eyes.

"Phew~~"

Letting out a breath of stale air, Veigar looked up at Minato Namikaze and replied: "Thank you for your guidance."

Then, he turned to Kakashi Hatake and said: "I'm fine now."

"Thank you, Kakashi."

With the three of them working together, the bodies of over eighty bandits were quickly dealt with and buried underground.

Just as they returned to the entrance of Yamagō Village, the three spotted Takeuchi Joji pacing anxiously back and forth at the village gate, waiting with a worried heart. Minato Namikaze called out to him from a distance.

"Mr. Jōji, sorry to keep you waiting."

Hearing Minato's voice, Takeuchi Joji immediately turned his head toward the source. Seeing Minato Namikaze, Veigar, and Kakashi Hatake completely unharmed, he hurried over and shouted, "Minato Jōnin, you're back!"