Chapter 168 Quick Brush Mission

Pseudo-Darkness has two difficult points to learn: one is to compress Lightning Release Chakra to ensure its power, and the other is control. When a wide-range sweep is needed, the lightning spear can be split into multiple lightning bolts to ensure the attack range.

Muzuki demonstrated it again and continued to explain.

“Compression and splitting…” Kakashi showed a thoughtful expression, and then Muzuki’s words kept echoing in his mind. As Kakashi continued to ponder, Muzuki, who was releasing Pseudo-Darkness in his memory, gradually transformed into Kakashi himself.

“So that’s how it is.” Kakashi showed a look of sudden realization.

Looking at the rapidly increasing proficiency of Pseudo-Darkness on Kakashi’s panel, Muzuki felt that the strengthened teaching skill was quite good.

Just now, Kakashi’s proficiency in Pseudo-Darkness had soared to over twenty points.

Next, it was Kakashi’s turn to practice the Ninjutsu himself.

Kakashi performed the Ninjutsu step by step according to the memories in his mind.

“Lightning Release: Pseudo-Darkness!”

Kakashi opened his mouth and spat out a bolt of lightning that struck a tree not far in front of him. However, Kakashi’s lightning not only failed to sweep a large area like Muzuki’s, but it also didn’t even fell a single tree; it merely charred the spot where the tree was struck.

Upon seeing his failure, Kakashi immediately fell into self-reflection, recalling the steps of his Ninjutsu execution, trying to figure out which step went wrong.

“Compressing lightning is not as simple as you think. You need to get more familiar with that feeling,” Muzuki said, pointing out the mistake.

Briefly explaining the principles and techniques of various Ninjutsu makes them seem not difficult. Rasengan is highly compressing Chakra and then controlling it to move in a circular, disordered motion. Lightning Blade is just transforming the converted Lightning Release Chakra into a sharp form through shape transformation.

But in actual practice, it’s a different story. These techniques are not that easy to master, just like mathematics. The teacher tells you that you only need to master certain formulas to solve the problem, but those formulas are not easy to grasp.

Muzuki let Kakashi try twice more, and then Muzuki re-taught Kakashi, specifically demonstrating the areas where Kakashi made mistakes.

This was a teaching method Muzuki preferred, letting students learn with questions. This way, when he demonstrated again, Kakashi would pay more attention to his mistakes.

“So that’s how it’s solved.” Kakashi nodded to himself, his evaluation of Muzuki rising another notch in his heart.

In terms of strength, Muzuki was an excellent Ninja, and in terms of teaching, Muzuki was also an extremely excellent teacher.

Kakashi had been taught by many people, not just Ninja Academy teachers; he had experienced several Jonin instructors, and his father had also taught him.

But solely in terms of teaching, Muzuki truly gave Kakashi a fresh experience. Knowledge continuously flowed into his mind, and when learning with Muzuki, his thoughts seemed to become even more active.

“He is indeed a reliable teacher. Perhaps if I have problems with my cultivation in the future, I can ask him,” Kakashi thought.

Disciple Kakashi Hatake’s trust level has increased. Current trust level: Two.

Muzuki was not surprised by Kakashi’s upgrade.

Trust Level Two is not difficult; it roughly means feeling that this person is quite reliable, which can be seen from the fact that his other three disciples all started at Trust Level Two.

Trust levels become harder to achieve the higher they go. The distance between Trust Level Two and Trust Level Three might be greater than five times the distance from One to Two, and Three to Four is even more difficult.

Muzuki felt that Might Guy and Obito already trusted him immensely, almost more than anyone besides their parents and grandparents, yet even so, they hadn’t reached Trust Level Four, which shows its difficulty.

Moreover, Kakashi’s ability to reach Level Two was also a result of Muzuki’s design.

To increase trust, Muzuki established an excellent persona: strong, knowledgeable, a good cook, and with unique insights into Ninja.

Then, the next day, Muzuki specifically arranged for Kakashi to spar with Might Guy and Obito. Mutual understanding was true, but the goal was also to make Kakashi feel a sense of urgency.

His two former ‘dead last’ friends were now about to surpass him, the genius Ninja. Muzuki didn’t believe Kakashi would be completely unfazed.

It was at this moment that Kakashi discovered his new instructor was an excellent teacher with superb teaching skills. He certainly had to learn well from his instructor.

Muzuki was professional when it came to his disciples. It was difficult for Kakashi to reach Level Three at this stage, but raising his trust level to Two was not difficult.

After morning training, Muzuki took his students to continue doing missions in the afternoon.

“Today, we’re going to do more missions than yesterday afternoon—ten at once!” Obito said excitedly as they approached the Hokage Building.

“Are you an idiot? Even if each mission takes half an hour, ten missions would take five hours,” Kakashi said, speechless.

Some missions could be completed quickly with connections and strong execution, but labor-intensive missions like picking up trash would take at least an hour or more.

“It’s not even two o’clock yet, so even if we work for five hours, it’ll only be before seven. That’s not late,” Obito felt his goal was fine.

“Use your rusty brain and think carefully. Can you finish every mission in half an hour? And submitting missions also takes time,” Kakashi’s language gradually became aggressive.

“It’s just a lack of confidence, which I can understand. After all, I won all three missions yesterday,” Obito said proudly.

Yesterday’s three consecutive victories were a sharp weapon for him to attack Kakashi.

“Kakashi, do you want to compete again today? Let’s see who completes more missions first,” Obito challenged, feeling great about beating Kakashi.

“It seems I need to let you know what a true Ninja is.” Seeing Obito still daring to jump, Kakashi decided to let Obito know the harshness of the Ninja world.

“How can I be left out of such a competition!” Might Guy also joined in.

“Alright then, today’s mission goal is ten. If you complete them, I’ll treat everyone to my special homemade dish,” Muzuki encouraged with a smile.

If Obito and the others could really do ten, then his Chakra would increase significantly. Kakashi was now also a disciple, so the reward for completing the request would be an extra share.

Upon arriving at the Hokage Building, to save time on mission submission, Muzuki accepted five requested missions at once.

“This team completes missions so quickly. If this continues, there will soon be no odd jobs left for them to do,” the Ninja who registered Muzuki’s missions lamented.

D-Rank missions were the only missions without any danger. Many odd jobs had Konoha subsidies or were even directly issued by Konoha itself. For regular teams, one or two a day was fine, but at the speed of Muzuki’s team, doing seven missions in an afternoon, they were simply running out of tasks.

“What will happen when they come to pick up missions then?”

“Let them wait and train first. According to regulations, they are not yet allowed to take C-Rank Missions.”