As Mahoraga's huge body slowly faded, an indescribable feeling surged within Kagami. He could clearly feel a strange new existence merging into his shadow, an invisible bond that now connected him to the Divine General. He stood there quietly, feeling this new connection, knowing it was the special sensation of a successful taming. From now on, he could summon Mahoraga with a single thought.
A smile touched Kagami's lips. Eager to test this new power, he immediately channeled his cursed energy and summoned Mahoraga once more. But when it reappeared, he was stunned. The Mahoraga before him was completely different. Its originally white body was now covered in a layer of black and red armor, adorned with hideous patterns like a host of coiled, predatory dragons. This armor was not an external addition; it had grown from Mahoraga's own body, seamlessly connected to its flesh and blood, making it look even more ferocious and evil.
Confused, Kagami quickly reviewed his memories of the Ten Shadows Technique. He soon understood. The power of a destroyed shikigami is not lost but inherited by the remaining ones. Because Mahoraga had killed the chimera formed from the other nine shikigami, their power had been absorbed and integrated into it after it was tamed. This, he realized, was Mahoraga's complete, true form. For Kagami, this was an excellent development, another powerful card in his hand.
He had summoned Mahoraga to test the limits of its adaptation ability after the tenfold amplification. He used an ordinary fire-style ninjutsu, hitting the shikigami directly. Mahoraga stood motionless, but the Dharma Wheel above its head spun rapidly. In the next second, something shocking happened. The part of its body that was hit wriggled and deformed, then instantly returned to its original state.
Through his connection with the shikigami, Kagami could clearly feel it analyzing and deconstructing the ninjutsu he had just used. It then directly shared several countermeasures with him. It was a wonderful, indescribable feeling, as if his mind had merged with Mahoraga's. He could sense every subtle change within it and its strategic responses. It was like having an external brain, and his own thinking speed and combat effectiveness were enhanced to an unprecedented degree.
But that was just the beginning. As Mahoraga continued to analyze the ninjutsu, Kagami discovered he could adjust the power, range, and form of the jutsu to guide Mahoraga's analysis. This was a dream for any ninja—the ability to create new ninjutsu on the fly, making it impossible for an enemy to defend. And the source of this incredible ability was Mahoraga.
"So this is the power of Mahoraga," Kagami marveled, feeling as if he had opened the door to a new world. He had truly found a treasure. The tenfold-amplified Mahoraga was not only extremely powerful but also possessed this incredible adaptability. This meant that in battle, no matter what kind of attack the enemy used, Mahoraga could quickly adapt, find a way to counter it, and even allow Kagami to rapidly master the enemy's attack methods.
"I wonder if the Brain-Brain Fruit will increase Mahoraga's analysis speed?" A brilliant idea suddenly struck him. Since he could share Mahoraga's analytical ability, then Mahoraga should be able to share the ability of his Brain-Brain Fruit. Mahoraga, having no brain of its own, was like a high-spec computer mainframe. The Brain-Brain Fruit was like connecting that mainframe to a cloud computer with unlimited processing power. If the two could be successfully linked, Mahoraga's analytical ability would be improved countless times over.
Kagami could even use this to solve the problem of his emotions disappearing when he simulated a supercomputer. He would be using Mahoraga's processing power, while he would only need to receive the results. It was like being a player sitting in front of a computer connected to an infinitely powerful cloud server. Even if the computer ran so fast it burned out its hardware, it would have nothing to do with him. He would only need to read the screen to issue commands and see the results, without needing to run his own brain according to the computer's logic. It's like people using AI in my previous life.
The more he thought about it, the more promising it seemed. He immediately began to experiment. Through repeated attempts, he finally established a shared connection, allowing Mahoraga to access the power of his Brain-Brain Fruit. And just as he had thought, once connected to this "cloud server," Mahoraga's "processing speed" increased dramatically. Solutions that had previously been slow to parse were now analyzed almost instantly.
Kagami tested it again with a fire-style jutsu, this time choosing the most difficult and slowest adaptation method: adapting to the essence of flame itself. If Mahoraga could analyze this, it would evolve the ability to be completely immune to fire attacks and even control the essence of fire. Since Kagami could share the results, he too would gain this ability.
Perhaps because analyzing the essence of flame involved the fundamental rules of nature, the progress was slow. In more than ten minutes, less than 0.001% of the analysis was complete.