Chapter 44: Sharingan Upgrade

Li Wei had no sympathy whatsoever for Wells. This guy had brought it all upon himself.

Waving his hand dismissively, Li Wei said, "Let's not talk about this person anymore. I've completed the mission and received the reward. Your reward points have been transferred to your account. Check it yourself. If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."

With that, Li Wei walked towards the stairs, leaving behind Cai Yutong, who seemed hesitant to say something.

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Back in his room, Li Wei took out the rewards from this exchange, as well as the spoils of war. The blood flesh core obtained from dissecting the mushroom person's corpse was undoubtedly a C-rank item. As for the reward points from the mission, after splitting them evenly with Cai Yutong, what remained barely covered the cost of another dose of C-rank genetic fluid. It was a stretch because he still needed to chip in a little extra.

Money wasn't a problem for now, but Li Wei knew he needed to consider his financial situation going forward. Most of the money he had on hand was from the last time he raided Chapter Xi's place, and he had already spent a good portion of it. Staying in the Clover Branch here required paying rent, and considering the future expenses, he needed to figure out a way to make some more money.

Thinking it over, Li Wei remembered seeing some local businesses posting missions as he passed by the mission hall earlier. The monetary rewards seemed decent, so he could consider taking one.

Putting that aside for now, Li Wei took out the C-rank genetic fluid and the blood flesh core, preparing to boost his strength once again.

Before heading to the headquarters for training, he still had three months left in the Clover Branch. He hoped to significantly improve his strength by then.

Nowadays, he wasn't as clueless as before. He knew that in large branches like the Clover Branch, there were only four or five slots available for training every three years. In places like District 17, it might take six years to secure a slot due to fierce competition. Those who managed to get a training slot were usually the top young talents in each branch, with at least formidable strength.

If his strength didn't improve, wouldn't it be embarrassing to attend the headquarters training?

Of course, embarrassment wasn't something Li Wei cared much about. What concerned him was that if his strength wasn't enough, he might not be able to keep up during training.

Hunter headquarters training wasn't about sitting in a classroom; it involved a lot of practical combat training and mission simulations. Without some skill, it was entirely possible to die during training.

This wasn't meant to scare people. According to what Li Wei had heard, although each session of headquarters training resulted in significant strength improvements for participants, there were always some hunters who died during training. In some sessions, there were as few as five or six deaths, while in others, there were over a dozen. The mortality rate ranged from five to ten percent.

This once again proved that being a demon hunter was a very high-risk profession.

Shaking off his thoughts, Li Wei took out the blood flesh core from the mushroom person. It was a gray-white fleshy mass, roughly the size of two chicken eggs.

With bare hands, the power contained within the blood flesh core slowly seeped into Li Wei's body, turning into a warm flow that entered his chest before disappearing without a trace.

He was already familiar with this process.

Summoning the Book of Ten Thousand Laws, the sixth page had been unlocked, revealing three options this time.

"Upgrade Sharingan level."

"Upgrade Mage Armor level."

"Acquire new ability: Flying Leaf Quick Blade."

After checking the effect of Flying Leaf Quick Blade, which belonged to the grass system, Li Wei decided to pass on it. Although the ability seemed powerful, it was somewhat redundant for him. He had Zangeki Senko for close combat and firearms and Engravings for ranged combat. The need for Flying Leaf Quick Blade wasn't significant.

Moreover, if he learned this ability derived from Pokémon, it might feel a bit odd.

After abandoning it, Li Wei considered and chose to upgrade the Sharingan.

After making his choice, the text on the sixth page of the Book of Ten Thousand Laws changed again, completing the upgrade of the Sharingan.

In the next moment, he felt his eyes burning.

Closing his eyes, he endured the searing heat. After a few minutes, the burning sensation gradually subsided, and he opened his eyes, standing in front of the mirror and activating the Sharingan.

The Sharingan had transformed into two, with the newly appearing right eye still at one tomoe, while the left eye had been upgraded to two tomoe.

After a brief test, Li Wei felt a significant increase in the power of his eyes.

His Sharingan now had a much stronger ability to perceive and a certain level of hypnotic ability. After this upgrade, with both eyes complete and the left eye upgraded, the perceptual and hypnotic abilities had increased by about twenty percent, while the burden and consumption on the body were directly halved during usage.

This was quite a significant improvement!

However, in the original work, the abilities of the Sharingan were actually more than that. Before reaching the Mangekyo Sharingan stage, the Sharingan was already an excellent dojutsu. However, Li Wei hadn't yet felt his eyes having the ability to directly recognize and resist illusions, nor had they reached the level of copying enemy techniques or directly releasing illusions—hypnosis and genjutsu were two different things.

Clearly, the power of the Sharingan still needed to be developed further, which would require further upgrades to the eye in the future. It wasn't something that could be rushed.

In terms of this upgrade, the most important thing was the reduction in the burden on the body after both eyes were complete, which enhanced Li Wei's combat endurance.

For him now, facing enemies or monsters at the limit level with all his strength wasn't much of a problem. However, his ability to sustain prolonged combat was poor. After a serious fight with a well-prepared opponent, although he could win, he usually found himself on the brink of exhaustion, mainly due to the Devil's Left Hand releasing claws and maintaining the Sharingan's active state, which consumed too much physical energy.

Now, half of the problem had been solved, which made Li Wei quite excited.

He was feeling quite good now. After resting for a while and feeling that his physical condition was quite good, he planned to use up the other dose of C-rank genetic evolution fluid in one go.

He specifically exchanged for the evolution fluid instead of the blood flesh core, indicating that he wanted to enhance his body's strength.

He was now just one step away from breaking through to the limit level, and there was a high probability that this injection would directly lead to a breakthrough.