Chapter 213: Young Hatake Kakashi

After reviewing the recruitment results and collecting a total of 26 ninja fragments from the ten-consecutive draw, Charles felt satisfied with the almost perfect outcome.

Among them were 14 A-rank ninja fragments, 7 B-rank ninja fragments, and 5 C-rank ninja fragments. 

Charles was now only 10 fragments away from acquiring Deidara. Perhaps with just two or three more ten-consecutive draws or the appearance of Deidara in the ninja shop, he would complete the set.

Instead of continuing the ninja recruitment, Charles decided to take a break and exited the recruitment page. 

He navigated to the ninja section, and the icon for Young Hatake Kakashi was now illuminated. Clicking on Kakashi's icon, it displayed 42/40 fragments, ready for recruitment.

Excited to recruit Kakashi, Charles clicked on the ninja recruitment.

Ding! Congratulations on successfully recruiting the B-rank ninja, Young Hatake Kakashi.

A new image appeared before Charles, depicting a 12-year-old Kakashi with armor on his arm, wielding a short blade, and wearing a Leaf Village headband. 

Although Kakashi was only 12, he was already a genuine jounin-level ninja. The equipment suggested that he had recently been promoted to a jounin-level ninja and had not yet acquired the Sharingan during the Ninja World War.

Opening Kakashi's details, Charles first confirmed his ninja skills.

Young Hatake Kakashi: B-rank Ninja

Skills:

Chidori: Gather lightning in hand and dash forward. If it successfully collides with an enemy, it will perform a high-speed impact, piercing through enemies in its path.

Gliding: Perform a sliding tackle attack. If it hits an enemy, it will lift the enemy into the air, and Kakashi will use the short sword to heavily slash the enemy down.

White Chakra Sabre – Light Blade: Focus a large amount of chakra on the short sword. After three consecutive sword slashes, Kakashi jumps into the air and delivers a finishing blow to the ground.

Charles wasn't too concerned about Kakashi's skills, especially since this Kakashi didn't have the Sharingan. The power of Chidori was limited to a straight thrust, and Charles had a more mature version of Chidori in his arsenal.

Charles was more interested in Kakashi's swordsmanship. Besides the increase in ninja technique skills, Charles was quite satisfied with Kakashi's overall strength. 

In his team, aside from Tsunade, Kakashi, who was promoted to a jounin-level ninja, immediately became the second strongest. This was especially true since Kakashi, at this time, had no shortage of chakra.

Moreover, this version of Kakashi, with a mission-first mindset, experienced numerous battles, making Charles very satisfied.

Now, Charles wondered how Sasuke, who was around the same age as Kakashi, would react to seeing his former teacher. As for Naruto, he currently had no idea that their team leader would be none other than Hatake Kakashi.

As Charles received the ninja, a massive amount of chakra surged within his body, causing his chakra level to increase once again.

The increase in chakra for a B-rank ninja was five times that of a C-rank, equivalent to using Chidori 15 times. 

Simultaneously, memories of Hatake Kakashi's ninjutsu skills, including the swordsmanship, were also implanted in Charles's mind. Instructions on how to use the short blade and insights into Chidori were transferred as well.

Feeling the increased strength within himself, Charles nodded in satisfaction. It seemed that tomorrow, he would ask Ginny to arrange for the forging of the short blade. He not only needed to make Gamakichi's short blade but also a weapon suitable for himself.

After recruiting Young Hatake Kakashi, the next step for Charles was to unlock new battle slots and bring Kakashi into the real world.

Ding! Would you like to spend 8000 gold coins to unlock a battle slot?

Without hesitation, Charles chose yes.

The next moment, a new slot appeared, and Charles's gold coins decreased from 21284 to 13284.

Observing the reduced coins, Charles tried opening another slot.

Ding! Would you like to spend 10000 gold coins to unlock a battle slot?

Seeing the increased price to 10000, Charles breathed a sigh of relief. This cost was still within his acceptable range, causing minimal impact.

Given his current ability to obtain energy blocks and blood cores, he didn't need to worry about recharging gold coins in the short term—of course, only for the short term.

Choosing "no" this time, Charles refrained from unlocking another battle slot. With eight slots available, it was sufficient for now. He could consider unlocking more when he acquired new ninjas in the future.

Exiting the system space, Charles didn't summon Kakashi immediately but decided to do so tomorrow night.

...

Vampire Castle-

The Iruka Squad had cleared all the vampires without letting a single one escape and returned to the castle's hall.

Iruka gave orders through his earpiece, "All werewolves, come in. You're responsible for cleaning up the battlefield."

In order to annihilate all the vampires in the castle, leaving no one behind, Iruka's team didn't immediately collect blood cores after each kill.

Soon, all the werewolves outside the castle walked in. Seeing the bodies scattered on the ground, they felt the satisfaction of avenging their fallen comrades.

"The vampire's brain, the pineal gland has a red crystal about the size of a grain of rice called a blood core. Go and collect the blood cores from all the vampires in the castle."

"Yes, Lord Iruka."

Receiving the order, the ten werewolves immediately began their actions, collecting the blood cores of the vampires.

Watching Selene still immersed in the memories, Iruka turned to Michael and asked, "Does it always take this long to obtain memories each time?"

Michael, feeling a bit awkward, replied, "Lord Iruka, I'm not sure about such matters. After all, I've only recently become a half-vampire."

"But Viktor and Marcus have both lived for thousands of years. It's likely that retrieving memories from them takes much longer than from ordinary people."

Iruka nodded, accepting Michael's explanation.

He then took out his phone, dialed the London Continent Hotel's corpse disposal unit, and said, "I am the Adjudicator Iruka. There are over a hundred bento boxes that need to be cleaned up here. I'll send you the address shortly."

"Yes, understood, Lord Adjudicator!"

Ending the call, Iruka waited. He couldn't clean up the bodies himself and had to rely on the London Continent Hotel's services to handle the aftermath.

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