Summary

"Start! Damn it!"

"Boom!"

Hearing the sounds coming from the Second Experimental Zone, Azu and Ayue looked at the scrolls in their hands with unusual calmness, as if nothing had happened.

The brother and sister had been here for half a year and had gotten used to the situation; in Shiro's words, it was a daily routine of courting death.

Six months ago, they came to this Underground World with Shiro. After seeing the facilities inside, Azu thought he was there to be used as experimental material, but he found that he was wrong.

Upon arriving here, Shiro immediately threw a talking snake and a scroll at the brother and sister, instructing them to learn writing by following the snake. Later, he began teaching them a special Ninjutsu called Magecraft.

Furthermore, in the second month after arriving here, his sister Ayue's illness was cured. After that, Shiro continued to teach them Magecraft, and at the same time, he made Ayue call him teacher.

At the moment, the siblings, Azu and his sister, didn't know what "teacher" meant. They simply thought it was Shiro's request and did as he asked. Of course, later, after they learned the meaning of "teacher," they became even more grateful to Shiro.

However, Shiro only took in Ayue, not Azu. He simply taught Zu a lot of knowledge that Azu needed and let him learn it on his own. After that, besides teaching Ayue, he kept researching Magecraft. Of course, he would occasionally go out to do missions to earn money.

In fact, both siblings have good Magecraft talents, but Shiro couldn't discover Azu's talents, so he gave him enough knowledge to develop freely.

Moreover, the two siblings have a good relationship, so there's no need to worry that this will cause them to become estranged.

Furthermore, the reason why Shiro took Ayue as his disciple was very simple: to make up for what he had done to her. Her situation was very similar to Shiro's. Therefore, by combining her with Kazuki, Shiro would find it much easier to progress on the path of transforming Magic Circuits.

Furthermore, Shiro is not yet a true Magecraft; he still retains some of his old moral values, although they are slowly being lost, but at least not yet.

Saving Ayue was one of the conditions of the deal between Shiro and Azu. Therefore, Shiro also offered to teach Ayue how to master her own abilities in exchange for research on her.

Whether this emotion is sentimental or fake, it is Shiro's choice; he still doesn't want to truly become a Magecraft.

At least for now, he doesn't want to. He can have the mindset of Magecraft, but he absolutely cannot become a complete Magecraft. This is the bottom line he has set for himself, and it is absolutely not to be crossed this time!

Furthermore, Ayue is quite talented, and she'll likely amount to a lot as she grows up.

After Ayue's injuries healed, Shiro with the Mystic Eyes experimented on her, and the results were excellent.

Her Mystic Eyes are of the Stop Mystic Eyes, and they are also quite powerful golden Mystic Eyes. Even if the target is Shiro, she can bind him for 2-3 seconds.

Furthermore, even after he is out of her sight, this effect will last for a period of time, lasting for one second on Shiro.

This is what they have measured so far. They don't know if there are any other abilities, because Ayue is too young, and it is already very difficult for her to maintain the existence of the Mystic Eyes.

Not to mention exploring higher levels of power; those can only be discussed in the future.

However, there's not much Shiro can teach her right now, because her attributes have been mutated to be the same as the Root, which is also a form of decay, and Shiro isn't good at that.

The advice he could give was Curse Magecraft and Barrier Magecraft. Curse Magecraft could perfectly complement her Magecraft, while Barrier Magecraft was Shiro's forte and the Magecraft he had studied the most, making it easy to teach.

Of course, some basic Magecraft, such as enhancement, were also included. Reinforcement Magecraft increases strength, which, combined with Baji Quan techniques and the Mystic Eyes, makes the character virtually invincible in close combat once fully developed.

Of course, she's still far from that level; right now, she can only skillfully use Reinforcement Magecraft. However, in terms of learning speed, she's incredibly fast—she's already far ahead of Shiro.

Meanwhile, it wasn't just Ayue who made progress; Azu also made significant progress. Firstly, his intelligence network had already encompassed the two kingdoms of Chuan and Yu, as well as a portion of the two kingdoms of Feng and Huo.

Shiro's mission has been progressing so smoothly recently, thanks in no small part to Azu. However, there are still some shortcomings. His current method of gathering intelligence is to contact birds in the corresponding areas only when needed to obtain information.

However, birds do not stay in one place for long, and their memory is also limited, so this intelligence network has significant shortcomings.

Shiro's idea was to create a computer-like device that would periodically import the information from their minds using a special technique, allowing them to simply organize it.

In this way, intelligence work will proceed very smoothly.

However, while the idea is easy to conceive, its realization is difficult. There are many technical challenges that need to be addressed, and it cannot be completed in a short period of time. Therefore, Shiro and his team are currently still using the original method.

This is one of the reasons why the intelligence network has not been extended to other countries.

Of course, they have all made progress, Shiro is no exception. In the past six months, Shiro has also changed a lot. First of all, his Chakra level has officially reached one hundred chakra, an adult chakra level, not a child chakra level!

Secondly, Shiro went on missions very frequently during this period, and his completion rate was also very high, which made him quite famous. It can be said that the Smiling Wind Demon has become famous.

Unfortunately, Shiro still failed to develop the Destructo Disc, but he did learn quite a bit of Wind Release. After summarizing his experience, Shiro felt that the problem lay in the Shape Transformation.

Shiro envisioned it as a Ninjutsu without hand seals, but Shiro himself doesn't know how to perform a Ninjutsu without hand seals yet, so he still has a weakness in this aspect.

Fortunately, he had Minato's Rasengan as a breakthrough point. He had a premonition that when he truly mastered the Rasengan without any seals, that would be the time when he successfully developed the Destructo Disc!

However, learning the Rasengan is still a long way off; he'll have to wait until he returns to the village. Therefore, Shiro has suspended his training and development of the Destructo Disc and is currently focusing on developing a Magecraft.

It has to be said that this is really difficult. Shiro hasn't even found a way in yet and is still in the stage of being beaten.

However, Shiro's intuition told him that he was not far from opening up his mind, and his progress would be rapid.

At that moment, the door to the Second Experimental Zone opened, Shiro walked out looking disheveled. Upon hearing the door open, Ayue quickly placed a bookmark on the scroll, closed it, and put it on the table.

Then, she jumped off the stool, picked up the water that was placed beside her, and wobbled over to Shiro, saying in a clear voice, "Teacher, water."

"Hmm, good girl." After saying that, he habitually wiped Ayue's fair face with his dusty hands, leaving an unusually obvious mark.