Chapter 319: Improving strength

Merlin Magic Tower-

After receiving the notification, everyone rushed back. Looking at his own team and the reinforcement Tony, Charles spoke, "We have determined the initial invasion location from the Hell dimension. Everyone will go with the magic team to fortify the area. You can prepare some traps on-site in advance."

"Teacher Balthazar, take everyone to the battlefront to prepare. I need to activate the magic tower."

Without Charles's authorization, the senior mages from the Merlin Knights couldn't invoke the power of the magic tower, nor could they establish a permanently effective magic circle.

Relying solely on their own power, the magic circle would only be effective temporarily.

Seeing the team with forehead protectors, Balthazar knew they were powerful. He directly said, "Follow me. I'll take you to the frontline battlefield."

The ninjas followed Balthazar, but Tony didn't leave. Instead, he approached Charles, taking out a box from his pocket.

"This is what you wanted. However, due to time constraints, there are only ten of these available after I used what I need."

"I didn't expect the war to break out so soon on this side; otherwise, I could have made more."

Looking at what Tony held in his hand, Charles knew it was the same-element that Tony discovered. He was filled with anticipation.

"How much?"

When Tony heard Charles mention money, he couldn't help but feel helpless. He didn't intend to sell these things, and the cost had already been told to Charles. Taking more wouldn't make much difference to him.

"30 million each. However, I also have a condition."

"After this, you have to send Parker to protect me for a while. This time you need to bring him back to play for a month."

Hearing Tony's request, Charles knew that Tony wanted to mess around again. He didn't refuse.

"Okay, you can bring him back for a month after that."

Taking the box from Tony's hand, Charles held it and asked:

"Have you named the new element?"

"Badassium."

Hearing Tony's name for it, Charles felt weird. It reminded him of another person with a talent for naming – Minato Namikaze. But it seems Tony's naming talents were impressive as well.

"This name is very unique."

Tony laughed, "Haha, I also think so."

"By the way, aren't you a ninja?"

"But I heard from your junior brother David that you're a mage, even a Supreme Mage. Your status here is quite high."

"Tony, besides being Iron Man, you're also a playboy, a billionaire, a scientist. On my side, in addition to being a ninja, I'm also a mage."

"Okay, I understand."

Hearing Charles's explanation, Tony also understood. Instead of saying more, he put on his Iron Man suit, took out his prepared equipment, and flew out of the magic tower towards the direction of the main forces.

After Tony left, Charles came to the top room of the magic tower. Then, with a wave of his hand, the Merlin robe and Merlin staff in the spatial ring were summoned.

The two magical items that came out of the room rotated once and then stood to the side.

Looking at the performance of the two magical items, Charles nodded. Tomorrow, these items would be crucial.

He then opened the new elements Tony handed him and looked at the neatly arranged triangular crystals. Taking one out, he placed it on his palm.

"Ding! Rechargeable item detected. Do you want to recharge?"

"Recharge!"

"Recharge successful. Received 500 gold coins!"

"Ding! Triggered first recharge reward. Additional reward: 500 gold coins!"

Discovering that Tony's new element was unexpectedly so valuable, it was indeed worth 30 million dollars each.

However, it was still more satisfying to obtain such items for free. Nevertheless, it could be considered as a supplementary means. When he acquired real Space Stone, he wouldn't need to spend money to buy them.

Without hesitation, Charles immediately used the remaining nine new elements for recharging, gaining an additional 4,500 gold coins.

Charles then tallied his gains during this period. Through the system sign-in, he obtained 500 reputation, 200 reincarnation stones, 80,000 copper coins, 10 Ninjutsu scrolls, 600 reputation, 50 delicious ramen, 1 Ninja summoning scroll, and 1 random A-Rank Ninja experience card.

During this time, Charles also received reminders from the system because his VIP level was not yet level 11 and he didn't receive double rewards at level 12.

When he received the A-Rank random experience card, he regretfully missed the double reward because he hadn't reached VIP level 12.

As for why there was a Ninja experience card, Charles didn't know. The rewards were quite mysterious, and unlike mobile games, there wasn't a sign-in page showing him the rewards for each month.

Looking at the ninja cards in the warehouse - an A-Rank and one marked with a "?", Charles didn't use them immediately. After all, the experience card would only last for a 24-hour duration. He didn't know how long the defensive war would last, so he would have to wait for the right moment.

Moreover, the power of an A-Rank ninja was not to be underestimated, and it might even include Jinchuriki, Sharingan users, and even those with the Mangekyo Sharingan. The Sage Mode and Kurama's chakra mode might be among them as well.

In addition to the sign-in rewards, during these 12 days, his ninjas completed 98 C-rank missions by doing 9 missions each day, bringing a significant harvest.

The rewards for C-rank missions were 500 reputation, 50,000 copper coins, and 1 normal treasure chest for each mission.

With a total of 98 missions, Charles now had 76,970 reputation. Without hesitation, he decided to upgrade Gamakichi to the maximum level.

In the next moment, Charles started Gamakichi's leveling journey.

At this time, Gamakichi was at level 25. Each level up required 2,800 reputation and 320,000 copper coins.

Each level increase also brought an increase in strength. After spending all his reputation and 12.13 million copper coins, Charles upgraded the Summoned Beast Gamakichi to level 50, reaching its peak strength.

However, Charles didn't expect the consumption to be so high; he almost didn't have enough reputation. Copper coins were easy to come by with recharging, but reputation wasn't, especially at this quantity.

Nevertheless, he barely managed to gather enough.

Simultaneously, with Gamakichi now at the max level, the new summoned beast is also activated- Ninja Turtle.

Charles opened the introduction for the Ninja Turtle:

Ninja Turtle

Skills: Earth Thorns, Earth Wall

Earth Thorns: Summon a large number of earth thorns to attack enemies in front.

Earth Wall: Summon an earth wall that can be used for defense or to block the enemy's movement path.

Additional skill: Ninja Turtle's Shelter - Increases the defense of the entire ninja team by 30%, lasting for 15 seconds.

Charles was satisfied with Ninja Turtle's skills and nodded. The skills, especially the additional skill, were quite powerful. Unfortunately, he currently lacked the reputation to upgrade Ninja Turtle.

Inside the summoning world, Gamakichi was practicing his Frog Short Sword Slash. Suddenly, he felt his strength increase and excitedly leaped a hundred meters high. He shouted, "Haha, Aoda, where are you? Let's have a match."

"I want you to experience the power of Mount Myoboku!"

Gamakichi rushed towards the direction where Aoda was, completely unaware that summoned beast Ninja Turtle had also entered the summoning world in an area he wasn't paying attention to.

After resolving the summon beast power-up, Charles shifted his focus to equipment. Opening the dressing menu, he looked at the six pieces of Chunin equipment he was wearing.

First, Charles focused on the Chunin Shuriken. He upgraded it from Chunin level 1 to Jonin level 100, investing 3 million copper coins. This allowed him to directly promote it to Jonin Shuriken.

After finishing with the Shuriken, Charles then turned his attention to the other five pieces of equipment. Without hesitation, he spent 100 million copper coins to upgrade all his equipment to Jonin level.

To fund these upgrades, Charles specifically recharged 100 million in cash, converting it into copper coins. After the operations, he had just over 28 million copper coins left. However, the corresponding increase in his personal strength was significant.

In terms of attack, defense, and even the amount of chakra, there was a roughly 30% improvement in his overall power.

Each piece of equipment provided about 5% increase, but this was only at the current stage. As Charles's strength continued to grow, this percentage would gradually decrease.

This expenditure could be considered well worth it, especially considering that this set of equipment did not interfere with his ability to wear the Merlin set.

Feeling the increase in his personal strength, Charles looked at the remaining resources and began considering how to continue strengthening himself.

He knew that Mephisto's true form was a formidable entity, and even though his strength would be severely weakened in the magical world, dealing with him would still be challenging.

With 26,926 gold coins, 102 normal treasure chests, and an upcoming cost of 16,000 gold coins for an additional combat slot, Charles decided to open 100 normal treasure chests directly.

This would provide him with some good items and, based on past experience, it would be at least 30 ninja fragments and some gold coin rewards.

Ten consecutive openings of normal treasure chests:

Ding· Obtained 60 Reputation!

Ding· Obtained B-Rank Ninja, "Naruto: Kankuro" fragment 1!

Ding· Obtained 70 Reputation!

Ding· Obtained 60 Gold coins!

Ding· Obtained 60 Gold coins!

Ding· Obtained C-Rank Ninja, "Naruto: Hinata Hyuga" fragment 1!

Ding· Obtained Ninja Recruitment Scroll 1!

Ding· Obtained B-Rank Ninja, "Naruto: Ino Yamanaka" fragment 1!

Ding· Obtained 60 Gold coins!

Ding· Obtained 60 Gold coins!

Observing the displayed information on the screen, Charles quickly scanned through it. The first thing he wanted to confirm was whether there was a Ninja Recruitment Scroll, and indeed, he managed to get one from the ten chests.

Satisfied with the results, Charles proceeded without hesitation, opening the remaining 90 chests.

After nine consecutive ten-chest openings, Charles started to tally his gains.

He obtained gold coins 40 times, totaling 2400 gold coins; Ninja Recruitment Scrolls 5 times; copper coins 10 times, totaling 100,000; reputation 10 times, totaling 600; the rest were Ninja fragments, totaling 35.

Among the fragments, there were 14 B-Rank fragments: Naruto - "Naruto Uzumaki" 5, "Naruto: Kankuro" 3, "Naruto: Ino Yamanaka" 3, "Naruto: Sakura Haruno" 3.

For C-Rank fragments, there were 21: "Naruto: Kankuro" 8, "Naruto: Hinata Hyuga" 4, "Naruto: Sakura Haruno" 2, "Naruto: Kiba Inuzuka" 3, "Naruto: Shino Aburame" 1, "Naruto: Chocho Akimichi" 2, "Naruto: Rock Lee" 1.

Having received all the rewards, Charles found that both Kankuro and Sakura Haruno in the C-Rank category had reached the 10 fragments requirement for summoning.

Although Charles hadn't decided which ninja to summon in the upcoming battle, he went to the ninja section and prepared to recruit them.

The first one he saw was Kankuro, the Sand Ninja from the Wind Country. The fragment count was 10/10. Charles clicked on "Recruit."

The next moment, a new screen popped up.

Kankuro, with threads of chakra lines all over his fingertips and two puppets floating behind him, was ready for battle!

Congratulations! Successfully recruited new ninja, C-Rank: Kankuro.

Checking Kankuro's details, Charles first focused on the ninja's skills.

Kankuro: C-Rank Ninja

Skills: May Rain, Invading Mechanism, Black Secret Technique - Mechanical Explosion.

Explosive Rain: Manipulates puppet crows to ascend, hover, and throw explosive beads, which explodes upon landing.

Puppet Rotation: Controls puppet crow to rapidly charge forward, cutting enemies with rotation.

Black Secret Technique - Mechanical Explosion: Releases puppet ants that charge forward, capturing all enemies on their path into the puppet ants' bodies. The puppet crow's limbs, along with the sharp blades, pierce through the enemies. Finally, detonates the puppet ants, killing the enemies.

Basic Attack: Uses puppet crow for mid-range attacks.

Seeing that he finally had a ninja who specialized in puppets, Charles was quite satisfied. Although Kankuro's current strength wasn't particularly powerful, he was a potential talent.

Charles now had an additional ninja from the Sand Village.

With his talent, Kankuro could get inspiration from Tony's advanced materials and make more powerful puppet.

Even though Kankuro was nowhere near as powerful as Tsunade or Sasori, he was still a considerable asset.

After successfully recruiting Kankuro, Charles's chakra increased by 1, reaching a total of 57. He also gained proficiency in puppet manipulation techniques, and learned about the use and creation of the puppet ant and crow that Kankuro possessed.

The only difference was that Charles didn't get these two puppets. To use them, he needed to either create them himself or obtain them from Kankuro.

Fortunately, Charles didn't need these things. The only thing he cared about was the increase in chakra.

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