Chapter 48: New Training Missions
[System Notification]
[Disciple Uchiha Obito: Training Mission Set!]
[Training Mission: Achieve First Place in the Ninja Academy's Practical Exam for your Grade!]
[Reward: Dependent on mission completion rate and strength growth during the mission period.]
[System Notification]
[Disciple Might Guy: Training Mission Set!]
[Training Mission: Achieve First Place in the Ninja Academy's Practical Exam for your Grade!]
[Reward: Dependent on mission completion rate and strength growth during the mission period.]
Muyue fell into thought, looking at the sudden pop-up windows.
Although he didn't know what had happened, the result was quite good.
With two training missions and the rewards from the exam results, his chakra would definitely break five digits by the end of this semester.
It was a pity that there wouldn't be a tie for first place in the practical exam; there would definitely be a clear winner and runner-up, meaning one mission reward was bound to be less.
"Would it be better to have one of them suffer an accident and miss the exam, pushing it to next semester?" Muyue seriously considered this question.
Muyue was a bit hesitant; he was confident he could pull it off.
However, he couldn't guarantee this was the optimal solution, as there hadn't been a situation with two training missions at once before. Muyue had always assumed a maximum of one training mission per person.
If one of them delayed completing the mission until next semester's monthly exam, then there would be approximately three months in between where no new training missions could be triggered.
Extending the mission time might increase the base reward, but would it truly be more profitable than completing more training missions?
According to the training mission trigger mechanism, it wasn't impossible for the disciple who got second place, feeling dissatisfied, to immediately trigger another mission to get first.
Muyue decided to play it by ear and first plan out Obito and Might Guy's strengthening regimens. After all, regardless of the outcome, increased strength would always lead to more rewards; that much was constant.
Tuesday morning, Anko Mitarashi hummed an unknown tune, walking happily towards the Ninja Academy.
She had been absent from school yesterday, Monday, and with the two weekend days, she hadn't heard Muyue's lectures or played with her good buddies for three days.
So, Anko was especially looking forward to school today.
"Will Muyue-sensei think I'm sick and ask about me? Did Kotetsu and Izumo win the competition prize money? I'm so excited!" The more Anko thought about it, the more hopeful she felt about going to school.
"That's Mitarashi Anko, isn't it? One of that 'talented trio'."
"It is her. I remember her. She was also second in practical skills in the last exam."
"Second in practical skills? That's strong, but her thought process is a bit unique."
As Anko neared the school, with more students around, she noticed many people looking at her strangely.
"Does no one usually take leave at the Ninja Academy? Did taking one day off really spread throughout the whole school?" Anko thought it was because she had taken leave.
Anko mumbled to herself as she walked towards the classroom for Class 1-1.
The closer she got to the classroom, the more strange looks she noticed, and she gradually felt something was amiss.
Upon entering the classroom, she found something unusual: Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki weren't chatting but had their heads buried on their desks as if sleeping.
Usually, when she arrived, the two would either be discussing how to deal with Kotetsu's troublesome cousin or talking about meeting girls.
Anko was about to walk back to her seat to wake them up and ask what was going on when a girl she was on good terms with called out to her.
"Anko, you've become famous at the Ninja Academy these past two days," the girl said, covering her mouth and trying to suppress a laugh.
"Huh? I haven't been at school these past few days. It can't be just because I took leave, right?" Anko scratched her head, a bit confused.
"Was that jutsu that transforms into a chair developed by you?" the girl continued to ask, still trying to hold back her laughter.
"Transform into a chair? Are you talking about the Deception Jutsu? Well, I guess so. It was developed with Kotetsu and Izumo," Anko replied.
The girl could no longer hold back and burst out laughing, "Haha, you should ask your two good buddies!"
"Kotetsu, Izumo, did you guys not sleep well last night?" Anko, growing more puzzled, decided to wake her two good buddies.
But you can never wake someone who's pretending to be asleep. The two seemed to be in a deep slumber, and Anko called out several times without waking them.
Normally, a girl might give up or poke them with a finger, but Anko was different.
After confirming her good buddies were faking sleep, Anko directly punched each of them.
"Are you two hiding something from me?" Anko said suspiciously.
Knowing they couldn't pretend any longer, the two opened their eyes.
"It's all Kotetsu's fault! He made a fool of himself on stage and dragged us into it," Izumo Kamizuki immediately sold out his good buddy and told Anko about the weekend competition.
"He deliberately shouted our full names! His intentions are truly wicked!" Izumo Kamizuki stood with Anko, scolding Kotetsu indignantly.
Her fists clenched, her fists clenched. She knew that taking one day off couldn't cause such a fuss. So, Kotetsu made a fool of himself and sold her out.
Kotetsu saw Anko rolling up her sleeves and quickly brought up Izumo's brilliant idea from yesterday:
"Anko, don't believe him. Izumo is a sneaky one. It was his idea yesterday to just push everything onto you since you weren't here anyway, saying that all the jutsu were developed by you."
Anko: ...
She shifted her gaze to Izumo Kamizuki, her eyes filled with killing intent.
She had even thought yesterday of them winning the prize money and treating her to dango. Yet, these two good buddies were more backstabbing than the other.
"You two are both no good! You'll both get a beating!" Anko grabbed Izumo Kamizuki with her left hand and Kotetsu Hagane with her right.
Since the two good buddies were in the wrong, they could only flee. For a moment, the atmosphere in the classroom became livelier.
This farce only ended when Muyue arrived.
"Muyue-sensei, my reputation has been ruined! I'm no longer 'Genius Anko,' but 'Talented Anko' now," Anko said to Muyue, looking depressed.
"Since you're not called 'Mediocre,' it means everyone still acknowledges your strength," Muyue said with a comforting smile.
"I still think 'genius' sounds better."
"Then next time, prove yourself with your strength."
"If I do well, will there be dango?"
"If you do well."
"Yay!" Hearing that she'd get dango if she did well, Anko instantly cast aside her unhappiness and smiled again.
Just then, the class bell rang.
"Let's begin class," Muyue started his lecture for the day.
He tirelessly explained the three basic ninjutsu taught at the Ninja Academy.
[Lecture Completed]
[Rating: A]
[Reward: Water Release: Water Wall]
[Under your guidance, the students of Class 1-1 have made significant progress in ninjutsu. You have received a reward—Proficient level Three-Body Technique.]
After the lecture, in addition to the usual lecture reward, Muyue received an unexpected bonus.
"So it's not just lecture rewards," Muyue was a bit surprised.
He had been teaching for over two months, and this was the first time he had triggered such a reward.
Although it was only the Three-Body Technique, it was at least at the proficient level. It would be good for actual combat, even if not for teaching Ninja Academy students.
Muyue thought about it and found it quite reasonable. After all, this was a teacher system, not just a master-disciple system.
As a teacher, he had been teaching a group of students, so it was normal to receive some rewards when the students' strength improved.
"If I teach slightly higher-level ninjutsu, will the rewards be better?" Muyue first thought about how to increase the rewards.
The idea was good, but Muyue knew it couldn't be implemented yet because the Ninja Academy's regulations stated that ninjutsu classes, apart from ninjutsu theory, could only teach the Three-Body Technique.
Muyue could somewhat understand this regulation.
With forty students in one class, each with different innate chakra affinities, they couldn't expect a Chunin teacher to know ninjutsu of all five chakra natures. Besides, they also had to consider the students' learning abilities.
This wasn't an issue for Muyue, as he not only mastered a large number of ninjutsu but also had the bonus of teaching skills, and his lecturing ability was good.
However, for his own safety, Muyue definitely couldn't reveal too much.
"Perhaps I can consider applying to the Third Hokage to also teach Class 1-1's taijutsu class," Muyue felt he could pay more attention to the teaching quality of non-disciples.
He remembered that the students of Class 1-1 were quite dissatisfied with their taijutsu teacher, often saying that the taijutsu teacher taught poorly and was boring.
If Muyue personally taught Class 1-1's taijutsu class, the students' taijutsu strength should improve faster.
After eating, Muyue returned to his office, thinking about how to improve the strength of Class 1-1.
In the office, the events of last month were repeating themselves.
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