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chapter-201

Title: Faction Recruitment

For the next two days, Shiro spent her time sparring with Lisandra and Yin. In this time, she had also gotten used to her new body and was surprised at how much her combat prowess had increased by. However, her combat prowess what not the only thing that was increasing. Her bank balance was also increasing due to the sale of her Humiliation items in the faction.

Almost every disciple wanted one since the fact that it can help protect one's life was truly a must have. Plus, it was also an ass accessory so they didn't need to worry about removing a ring or a necklace.

Not to mention, from the description of the item, they might even survive a low ranked B grade attack. Such a feature was a must have when they're challenging high level dungeons since accidents were prone to happen.

Many would rather keep their life than their shame in times of need.

Meanwhile in the training room…

"Damn, mum, I know you classed up but why is the upgrade so big?!" Lisandra asked with fatigue.

Shrugging her shoulders, Shiro only smiled.

*BOOM!!!

Swiping her hand, she blocked one of Yin's fire balls easily.

"Tch." Clicking her tongue in annoyance, Yin struggled to land a single hit on Shiro.

"Yin your intent is too obvious. Try to hide it a little, or disperse it as much as you can." Shiro called out while readying her sword.

Gesturing for Lisandra to attack her, Shiro stayed on the defensive. After all, going offensive against Lisandra would just be bullying her.

"Here I come." Lisandra said seriously as she spread her wings and flew towards Shiro.

*CLANG!

Parrying her sword with ease, Shiro flicked her wrist and broke her guard.

"What did I say about the initiative? Make sure you're the first one to break the guard. If you're going to focus on attack, don't make it half assed against an opponent like me." Shiro explained.

Lisandra only nodded her head before summoning another sword.

After making a contract with Shiro, Lisandra had discovered that her own system had undergone an upgrade. She now had her own inventory and didn't need to use storage items.

Due to this upgrade, she started to experiment with how she could incorporate it into her own fighting style.

Twisting her body, Lisandra slashed her second sword toward Shiro. Before Shiro could even parry it, Lisandra put away her sword.

*Clang!

With a quick twist of her wrist, she used her first sword to parry Shiro's before summoning the second sword once more.

"Mn, not bad." Shiro praised since what Lisandra just did wasn't easy. The problem with using the inventory in combat is that most people can't set the location correctly and would either A, summon the sword out of reach or B, harm themselves instead.

While Lisandra's stunt seemed easy, she had actually calculated the speed of her hand, the angle and the position before successfully summoning her sword into her hand to continue her swing.

However, to Shiro, it was nothing but a small trick.

Casually drawing a line in the air with her spare hand, Shiro conjured up a small ice rod to block to sword.

*CRACK!

Holding their position for a moment, the two pushed at each other and jumped back lightly.

"Yin, where were you then? You could have assisted your sister." Shiro called out.

"But I might hit her." Yin frowned. With the way Shiro had moved, it was hard for Yin to launch the attack confidently since the chance of hitting Lisandra was high.

If this had happened in a real fight, she would be in a tough situation. She couldn't fire her attack since the chances of friendly fire was high and yet, she couldn't just do nothing either since that would mean she is leaving her teammate to fight by themselves. Increasing the danger to the party.

"You need to be confident in your mana control. Otherwise, you'll be useless in a team fight." Shiro laid the harsh truth on Yin.

"Plus, since we're going to be together, you'll just become a hindrance if you don't improve."

"Urg." Flinching slightly from the criticism, Yin knew that Shiro was correct in her assumptions.

"When have you seen a phoenix with good control!? We always just destroy everything." Yin pouted as she tried to defend herself. She didn't want to seem useless since she is a phoenix after all.

"Yes but if you don't change, improvements won't appear." Shiro replied while clashing with Lisandra.

"I'll give you an exercise to fix this in a moment."

"Alright."

After sparring with Lisandra for a while longer, Shiro walked over to Yin.

"So what I want you to do is guide your flame through a maze. However, you cannot touch the walls or else the maze will extinguish your fire. There are several levels with the first one being rather easy."

Flicking her wrist, Shiro built a nanomachine maze that was roughly 10 meters by 10 meters. Each of the passageways where equal in width and there were lots of forked paths. Not only did Yin need to control her fire to not hit the walls, she also needed to guide it through the maze.

"I'll show you a demonstration first ok?" Shiro suggested. As a 'teacher' she wanted to show that it was possible before handing it off to her 'student' to attempt. After all, it was easy to run your mouth off about a hard task.

Clicking her fingers, Shiro conjured up a spar of Dark Star Element and flicked it into the maze.

"Now here is the catch. You need to keep the fire at the start or else the exit would not open. You can't make two sparks either since the maze will detect it and extinguish your flame. You need to mold the fire into a different shape and have it travel through the maze." She smiled.

Flexing her fingers slightly, the flame started to stretch and move through the maze like a snake.

Looking at Shiro's control over her mana and the fire, Yin couldn't help but wonder who was the phoenix here. It was clear that Shiro was much better at using fire than her.

Finishing the maze in record speed, Shiro created a new maze before gesturing for Yin to attempt the same.

"It shouldn't be that hard." Yin looked at the maze in suspicion before creating her own spark.

Flicking it into the maze, she started to frown when she realised her fire was about to explode.

Exerting her control over it, she barely managed to have it stabilize at the start of the maze. However, she didn't attempt to stretch its shape since she was already struggling for it to keep its shape.

Leaving Yin to try clear the maze, Shiro had a small smile on her face.

She understood Yin's problem since her Dark Star element was a very volatile element. It was similar to what had happened to her nanobots when she first got them. They would always threaten to expand rapidly and consume everything until nothing else remained. If she wasn't careful, it would easily damage her teammate.

This was when the scientists came up with this exercise to have her improve on her control.

'I have to admit, while the scientists are assholes, they're pretty damn good at what they do.' Shiro thought to herself.

"Alright Lisa, you ready for more?"

"No."

"I'll take that as a yes, now come on." Shiro grinned.