After greeting Sho and asking him to bring people to cooperate with the Lion King Agency in cleaning up the battlefield, Tatsuma got into the Lion King Agency's special car and drove all the way towards outside Tokyo.
As the organization in Japan specifically dealing with supernatural phenomena, the Lion King Agency is divided into two parts.
The headquarters within Tokyo, used for administrative work and assigning tasks on weekdays.
Takatenjin Shrine on the outskirts of Tokyo, where newcomers with excellent spiritual abilities are collected and trained.
Normally, Koyomi should go to the headquarters to discuss cooperation matters with Tatsuma.
However...
"I want to find a bodyguard for my secretary. Do you have any recommended candidates at the Lion King Agency?"
"Most people usually stay at Takatenjin Shrine during their rest days, we can go and see."
After similar conversations, the destination of Tatsuma and Koyomi changed from the Lion King Agency headquarters to selecting someone at Takatenjin Shrine.
Along the way, Koyomi kept actively looking for conversation topics, trying to inquire about Akatsuki's situation and Tatsuma's true strength through various means.
Tatsuma didn't hide too much about this.
When negotiating, the most important thing is to show off your strength. If you don't show enough power, then you're just waiting to be bullied once you get to the negotiation table.
On the other hand, after roughly understanding Akatsuki's situation, Koyomi couldn't help but sigh.
"Although I had heard about it, I didn't expect that Toichiro would actually join Akatsuki."
"Just beat him up a few more times and he'll behave."
"Hmm? Is that all?"
"Yeah, that guy was still a bit unconvinced after he woke up, so I used one hand and beat him up a few more times, then threw his wife's and son's resumes in front of him, and then he behaved."
"???"
Are you sure he was beaten into submission?
Koyomi's eye twitched, and her gaze towards Tatsuma instantly became complicated.
Using family members as a threat, isn't this blatant terrorist behavior?
Natsuki had previously praised Tatsuma as a law-abiding good student, how thick was her filter?
After a moment of silence, Koyomi decided to abandon this topic that sounded rather ominous and switch to another conversation.
"Tatsuma-san, I heard that Akatsuki is more committed to capturing Cursed Spirits and Evil Spirits alive and transporting them back to the headquarters rather than directly annihilating them. May I ask why?"
Tatsuma said, "For me to kill."
"For you to kill?"
"Yes, I like killing, but killing people is illegal, so I can only kill some legal things."
"???"
There was no way to talk today.
Looking at the man in front of her, who was talking nonsense and seemed to be giving irrelevant replies, Koyomi sighed silently, giving up on asking.
Forget it, this kind of thing wasn't her responsibility anyway.
On the other side, seeing that Koyomi was no longer speaking, Tatsuma turned his attention to the inventory of traits.
After the battle not long ago, he had annihilated millions of Cursed Spirits in one go.
However, just like the Cursed Spirits he encountered before, most of these Cursed Spirits dropped white traits, and among the remaining traits, green ones were the majority.
With one click to filter and one click to synthesize, Tatsuma synthesized these low-tier traits into blue traits.
Even so, the blue traits in the inventory still amounted to over twenty thousand, making him dizzy.
"What a happy problem."
After a sigh of emotion, Tatsuma began to consider how to use these twenty thousand blue traits.
First of all, he had to leave a few dozen to reward his subordinates or enhance the strength of Rias and others.
After that, he planned to use all of the remaining twenty thousand or so traits on himself.
Let's increase equip slot first.
Tatsuma took out a thousand blue traits, synthesized a gold trait, and used it as material.
[Upgrade complete, equip slot +1]
[Detected that Host has ten equip slots, the cost to increase equip slot is fixed at one gold trait.]
Hmm? There's such a good thing?
Listening to the prompt in his ear, Tatsuma's eyes lit up, and he was in a great mood.
To be honest, the lack of equip slots had always been a big problem for him.
Although he would switch different traits for use depending on the situation, as the number of traits increased, he had already encountered situations where the equip slots couldn't match the number of traits he had for a certain situation.
Just like the battle with Walburga, he had nearly twenty traits that could increase combat power, but he only had nine equip slots.
If he had enough equip slots and equipped all these combat-type traits, why would he need to bother taking control of the isolation barrier?
He would just maximize his output and kill them all with one punch.
According to previous actions, after consuming a gold trait to increase equip slot by 1, a rainbow trait would be required to unlock the eleventh equip slot.
Tatsuma, who possessed [Limitless Potential], knew better than anyone how powerful a rainbow trait was.
If such a situation were to occur, unless he had ten rainbow traits on him, he would never use a rainbow trait to increase equip slot.
But now it was different.
Using gold traits to unlock equip slots was something Tatsuma could barely accept.
Looking at the remaining stock in his hand, Tatsuma pondered for a moment and then synthesized six more gold traits.
[Upgrade complete, equip slot +1]
[Upgrade complete, equip slot +1]
[Upgrade complete, equip slot +1]
...
A series of prompts sounded, and Tatsuma used the newly synthesized gold traits to unlock six equip slots.
After that, he took out over three thousand blue traits as materials and upgraded [Senjutsu], [Pawn], and [Energy Accumulation Physique] to gold.
[Senjutsu (Gold): A magical art that manipulates Ki and natural energy. After deep development, it can be used in many fields.]
[Pawn (Gold): Gathers the power of eight mutated Pawn pieces, can transform one's race into a Devil, and greatly increases physical stats.]
[Energy Accumulation Physique (Gold): Physical stats are greatly enhanced, and the energy that can be stored in the body +3000%.]
After the upgrade, the description of [Senjutsu] remained unchanged.
The description of [Pawn] changed from "eight Pawn pieces" to "eight mutated Pawn pieces," further increasing the physical stats boost.
Coupled with the [Energy Accumulation Physique], whose boosting effect also improved, Tatsuma's physical stats in his normal state had now reached Satan level.
But this was not the end.
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