Destruction

After hearing Shiro's idea, Minato fell silent for a moment before saying, "Shiro, do you think I learned the Flying Thunder God Technique, or learned how to use Flying Thunder God kunai?"

"..." All right, Shiro understood what Minato meant.

In other words, the Flying Thunder God kunai was merely a coordinate. The one actually casting the Flying Thunder God Technique was still Minato. Trying to learn Flying Thunder God by projecting Flying Thunder God kunai was undoubtedly a fool's dream.

Seeing Shiro's dejected expression, Minato smiled. "If you really want to learn it, you can ask Lord Hokage for permission. After that, I can teach you."

"Ah, forget it. I should just honestly practice my secret techniques." Shiro had already obtained the training method for Flying Thunder God when he projected the kunai.

However, Shiro had no intention of practicing it. First, he knew his own talent. After casually looking it over, Shiro was surprised to discover that because he had studied Sealing Jutsu with Kushina for a while, he recognized every symbol on it.

Well, Shiro just could not understand them once they were put together.

It felt like learning English. Shiro knew all twenty-six letters, but once they were combined, the simple words were fine. Anything more complicated... sorry, patriotism kicked in.

Therefore, Shiro's meager knowledge of Sealing Jutsu was only enough for him to use a few minor sealing techniques. Something as high-end as Flying Thunder God was not something a rookie like Shiro could learn.

Second, Shiro already had too much to learn. Adding Flying Thunder God on top of that would be difficult to fit into his schedule.

Thus, Shiro politely declined Minato's offer and focused on learning the Shadow Clone Technique from them. Once he learned this technique, his learning progress would speed up considerably, so Shiro mastered it in a single afternoon.

Well, it was not because Shiro's talent had improved, nor because Shadow Clone Technique was easy to learn. Its rank alone made that clear.

The main reason was that Shiro had been secretly practicing this ninjutsu all along, and he had nearly succeeded over the past two days. Minato and Kushina's guidance simply became the final straw that broke the camel's back.

After all, Shadow Clone Technique was one of the protagonist's cheats in the original work, and it was even something that could be learned. Shiro had no reason to pass it up, though he did not have Naruto's level of perseverance.

He did not dare create too many clones, but one was already enough. Previously, Shiro had worried about being discovered, so he had always practiced in secret, making his progress painfully slow.

Fortunately, he had learned it now. From here on, he could also speed up his Magecraft training. At present, Shiro was still mainly working on the fundamentals, placing greater emphasis on building up theoretical knowledge.

"I'm back." After pushing open the door and receiving no response, Shiro could not help saying, "Huh? Is no one home?"

After discovering that no one was home, Shiro went to the training ground behind the house to practice. It was relatively quiet there, making it perfect for testing the results of his new training method.

Once he arrived at the training ground, Shiro began practicing.

Although it was jointly run by Shiro's family and Okita's family, neither Shiro nor Okita practiced there very often.

The place was mainly suitable for training that did not cause much commotion. After all, it was their own property, and if anything broke, they would have to repair it themselves. As for Shiro's quieter training, he could do that in his room.

As a result, Shiro had only trained here a few times.

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

Not wasting any time, Shiro immediately summoned a shadow clone and had it take a Magecraft Scroll aside to study, while Shiro himself practiced hand seals.

However, he was no longer using that Sealing Jutsu for practice. Instead, he practiced in a seemingly random, disorderly fashion. Of course, that was only how it appeared. In reality, Shiro was practicing the hand seals for Wind Release: Divine Gale in broken-up segments.

If someone looked closely, they could spot a few clues. But who would be bored enough to carefully observe Shiro's hand-seal practice?

The reason Shiro was practicing the seals for Divine Gale was largely because he guessed that Nakamura would teach him this ninjutsu tomorrow.

It was not because Shiro had any ability to foresee the future. It was because Divine Gale was the only large-scale Wind Release technique Nakamura knew, and he had specifically chosen it back then to coordinate with his close friend Shimizu.

Judging from the effect Blood Maiden had on amplifying Wind Release, large-scale ninjutsu was clearly more suitable.

Shiro actually thought Wind Release: Thousand-Faced Wind would be more suitable, but unfortunately, Nakamura did not know that ninjutsu. Although Shiro knew how to train it, the problem remained the same: he had no suitable explanation for where that knowledge had come from.

Therefore, Shiro could only settle for Divine Gale. Rather than spend time learning a highly compatible but not particularly versatile ninjutsu, it was better to learn one with slightly lower compatibility that could be used as a standard technique.

After all, Shiro, who possessed Projection Magecraft, did not lack trump cards.

Therefore, Thousand-Faced Wind could be put off for now. There was still plenty of time, and he would have opportunities in the future.

And so, Shiro's main body practiced hand seals while his shadow clone studied Barrier Magecraft. Once Shiro's main body had nearly exhausted his Chakra, he would dispel the shadow clone and use the Chakra returned by it to practice and verify Barrier Magecraft.

Yes, although Shiro was practicing hand seals, it was not merely a matter of finger movements. Chakra also had to flow in coordination with the corresponding seals, so Shiro's main body still expended Chakra.

Besides, practicing Reinforcement Magecraft or Projection Magecraft also consumed Chakra, so Shiro's arrangement was just right.

After a while, Shiro had nearly exhausted his Chakra, so he dispelled the shadow clone.

Although hand seals did not consume much Chakra, Shiro did not have much Chakra to begin with. After splitting it evenly with a shadow clone, he had even less.

This also reminded Shiro that his most important task now was to speed up his Barrier Magecraft training and complete the construction of his Magecraft Workshop as soon as possible. Only then could he achieve a breakthrough in his Mana rank sooner.

Otherwise, with his current amount of Chakra, he could not use a shadow clone to practice Barrier Magecraft and Reinforcement or Projection Magecraft at the same time.

Although Shiro's current Mana rank was C++, equivalent to Kakashi without the burden of the Sharingan, which seemed quite good, there was something else that needed to be made clear: this referred to the amount of Chakra Shiro would possess as an adult.

And Shiro was still several months away from turning eight, so his current Chakra reserves were still very limited.

Shiro had already placed Projection Magecraft in the second tier of his training priorities. Of course, that did not mean Projection Magecraft was useless. Rather, for a long time to come, the factor limiting the rank of Noble Phantasms Shiro could project would not be his progress in Projection Magecraft.

It would be Shiro's Chakra reserves. Shiro estimated that for some time to come, he would still only be able to project C-rank Noble Phantasms. Anything higher would exceed his available Chakra.

Therefore, he now only practiced it a little each day, increasing his proficiency to improve the speed at which he could project Noble Phantasms and how long they could remain in existence.

At present, Shiro devoted more of his energy to Reinforcement Magecraft and Barrier Magecraft.

Of the two, Shiro placed greater importance on Barrier Magecraft because, according to the information he knew, a Magecraft Workshop could draw upon underground leylines to replenish Mana—in other words, Chakra.

However, leyline was a term from the Type-Moon world, and Shiro did not yet know what they were called here.

But based on Medea's Magecraft knowledge, Shiro could be certain that leylines existed in the Hokage world. He simply did not know their quantity or quality.