The System Backs Down

"No!"

Hearing the system's long-missed notification, Shiro paused for a moment. Then, without even looking at the mission details, he refused outright.

It wasn't that he couldn't complete it. With Enkidu in hand, the Three-Tails was nothing more than a heavily guarded wild beast to him. Besides, the whole point of this trip was to hunt the Three-Tails, so it did not conflict with the mission.

The main reason Shiro refused was that the timing of this mission was a little too convenient. He just so happened to be going after the Three-Tails, and the world just so happened to be changing faster—the abnormal case of Chakra meridians and Magic Circuits coexisting had appeared, aside from the Mystic Eyes—and the so-called Jashin just so happened to have issued a revelation...

All these things mixed together made it impossible for Shiro not to overthink it. Besides, this repair had taken far too long. A long time had passed since Shiro's magical energy broke through to B-rank, and during that time, he had not provided the system with any high-energy materials. That, too, felt a little too coincidental.

But what was even more coincidental was that Shiro had read plenty of system novels in his previous life. It wasn't as if he had never considered the possibility of the system stabbing him in the back; he simply hadn't had the strength before, nor any choice.

Now things were different. Ever since Shiro began that experiment some time ago, he had officially broken free of the system's restrictions. The most obvious proof was that his magical energy was still at B-rank, yet he could already project A-rank Noble Phantasms!

That was also why Shiro refused this mission. At present, he no longer needed this system that much, so naturally there was no need