Chapter 101: Becoming Colleagues with the Shinigami
Yue Yan's vision went black for only two seconds before his strong physical constitution pulled him back.
"Yue Yan, are you really okay?"
Hearing Minato Namikaze's concerned inquiry beside him, Yue Yan showed a rather terrifying smile, but still said he was okay.
"I'm really fine, Senior Brother Minato Namikaze. By the way, hasn't the underground factory been destroyed yet?"
Although Minato Namikaze didn't know why Yue Yan suddenly asked this question, he still replied, "We did consider using Explosive Tag to blow up the underground factory before, but before we could finish pasting the tags, An Lushan showed up. And during the subsequent battle, there was no time to detonate them."
After listening, Yue Yan nodded and looked at Sara.
"Is it okay for me to destroy the factory?"
"It's all good." Sara shook her head.
"Good."
After saying that, Yue Yan got up and walked towards the factory.
Watching Yue Yan's back, Sara wanted to go over to show her concern, but was stopped by Minato Namikaze.
"Yue Yan's in a strange state now. Let him be alone for a while."
Since Minato Namikaze said so, Sara had no choice but to give up.
On Yue Yan's side, after arriving at the underground factory, he didn't use any ninjutsu. Whenever he saw those machines, he punched them. As he was punching, he kept cursing under his breath.
"Stupid piece of shit! That author Mu is a motherfucker! Damn it! Why does he have to write such a good power - fantasy novel like this? Why can't he just make me invincible right away? You deserve to be a flop! Fuck you! You stupid piece of shit! You'll starve to death sooner or later! I'm so fucking pissed off!"
Right now, Yue Yan felt like he had won a hundred - million - ryo lottery ticket in his previous life. But then, some son of a bitch tore it up, and he was only compensated with a hundred - thousand - ryo compensation.
Although it was still like picking up money for Yue Yan, a hundred - thousand - ryo compensation couldn't be compared with a hundred - million - ryo lottery ticket.
After Yue Yan vented his anger by destroying all the machines for making Puppet in the underground factory, he felt a little better. Looking on the bright side, even without the Yveltal template, the Electivire template made up for his weakness, and it was almost like being invincible. It's just that he couldn't instantly kill powerful enemies.
Thinking like this should have made him feel better... Bullshit! Why does my heart still feel so blocked!
Right now, Yue Yan really wanted to give his lousy system a bad review.
Just as he was thinking like this, Yue Yan reached for his ninja tool bags, planning to scatter a thousand or eight hundred Explosive Tag to completely destroy this place. Anyway, these were supplies allocated by Konoha, and he wouldn't feel bad about using them up.
But just as Yue Yan's hand touched the ninja tool bags, a strange feeling welled up in his heart.
"What is this..."
Yue Yan looked at the Shinigami Mask in his hand that was causing this strange feeling, with a full head of question marks.
Previously, the Shinigami Mask just felt a bit cold to Yue Yan. As long as he didn't be stupid enough to activate it with chakra, it was just the most ordinary mask, just uglier than most.
But now, it's different. Yue Yan couldn't quite describe it, but he felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy when around the Shinigami Mask.
Trying to recall the differences between his current self and his past self, Yue Yan could only think of the time when he took advantage of the system not fully reclaiming the Yveltal template to fully integrate it.
As previously mentioned, after integrating a Pokémon template, Yue Yan would become that Pokémon. But what if the integration wasn't complete? Did nothing happen, or was only a part integrated?
Based on the sense of familiarity coming from the Shinigami Mask, Yue Yan thought it was the latter, so he decided to give it a try.
After putting on the Shinigami Mask as usual, even without activating it with chakra, Yue Yan's vision changed. The colorful world turned into a shade of gray with a hint of black and red.
"Whoa... this is so amazing."
Yue Yan mumbled to himself and looked around with his newly acquired special vision. Just as he turned around, he saw a huge phantom behind him.
This phantom resembled a bird, mainly in black and red hues. There were five claws on the broad outer edges of its wings and tail, with three of them curving inward. Black antlers protruded from above its blue eyes, with some curving sharply forward and the smaller branches pointing backward. A gray ring of feathers encircled its neck and extended onto its back. Its powerful claws resembled those of an eagle.
"Is this... Yveltal?"
Yue Yan stared blankly at the phantom behind him and couldn't resist reaching out to touch it. However, his hand passed right through.
Although this was a normal situation, when his hand passed through the phantom, he also felt something passing through his body.
"Let me think for a bit..."
Yue Yan crossed his arms and started to ponder.
First of all, he definitely hadn't fully integrated the Yveltal template. That's why before, Yue Yan couldn't feel any power from Yveltal. Secondly, seeing this situation through the Shinigami Mask...
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Yue Yan's mind. He got excited and looked around, intending to verify the correctness of his idea.
Not long after Yue Yan started looking, he saw a distant figure so hazy that its face was indistinguishable.
Without hesitation, Yue Yan approached the figure and reached out to touch it.
It is widely accepted in the ninja world that after a person dies, their soul will go to the Pure Land. However, some souls remain in the mortal world due to certain special reasons or strong obsessions. Without the support of a physical body, these souls lose their ability to think independently and can only stay in one place aimlessly.
This is the underground factory in Roroku, so there must be some souls of those who were enslaved to death by An Lushan and are unwilling to leave. The figure in front of him is the soul of someone who had been enslaved by An Lushan in life.
As Yue Yan had guessed, he could now touch souls. Moreover, he had a feeling that he could send this already shattered soul to the Pure Land.
However, when he took off the Shinigami Mask, he could neither see nor touch souls, and that feeling also disappeared.
In some worlds with deities, the most important thing for a deity is its divine essence. Although Pokémon are different, Yue Yan felt it was somewhat similar.
Although he hadn't fully fused with the Yveltal template, Yue Yan had fused with some of its divine essence, making him akin to a Shinigami.
As for the Mondai of being able to do certain things only when wearing the Shinigami Mask, Yue Yan guessed it might be because the Shinigami is the bridge between the mortal world and the Pure Land in this native world. After all, Yue Yan was an incomplete Shinigami.
To put it simply, currently, as long as Yue Yan wears the Shinigami Mask, he is like a colleague of the Shinigami. If he fully fuses with the Yveltal template, Yue Yan will be like the Shinigami's "father". After all, according to Yue Yan's speculation, once he is fully fused, the Pure Land in the Hokage world will probably come under his control.
There is also another possibility: Yue Yan can only unleash part of Yveltal's power in his soul form after death.
Of course, Yue Yan wouldn't deliberately seek death for such a reason.
After sorting things out in his mind, Yue Yan's gloomy mood improved a bit. No wonder the system only compensated him with the Electivire template after taking back the Yveltal template.
Without this current ability, the Electivire template would not be enough. It would at least have to be a secondary god like Raikou or Zapdos to be comparable to Yveltal.
Come to think of it, did I scold the author and the system prematurely?
Thinking this way, Yue Yan shook his head.
Forget it. I deserved to scold them. I'll just apologize to the system.