Ding~

As soon as the summoning contract was established, a crisp bell-like notification sound rang in his mind.

This was clearly his system notifying him about something.

He didn't waste time and checked the notification he had just received.

[Congratulations! You have formed your first summoning contract.]

[You have gained a new summon—Frost Wolf Shirayuki.]

[A new window, "Summoning Contracts", has been added to your panel.]

[Do you want to check the details of your summon, Frost Wolf Shirayuki?]

Seimei blinked as he looked at the transparent blue system panel containing a series of notifications regarding his summoning beast.

But he wasn't surprised.

Since establishing the summoning pack, Seimei had felt an inexplicable connection with that white wolf.

Hmm?

Oh, he should call it Frost Wolf Shirayuki now.

Anyway, since the connection had been established, getting a separate window for his summons in his system panel was only natural.

What surprised him was that his usually mechanical, silent system could fetch the details about his summon and display them.

That was unexpected.

It seems that the system somehow used the connection between me and Shirayuki to scan and gather its data. Seimei mused with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Interesting."

"But first, let's check Shirayuki's data."

And just with a thought, he commanded the system to display Shirayuki's data.

Ding~

[Name: Shiryuki

Race: Frost Wolf (Nature Beast)

Age: 476 Years

Affinity: Ice LV8, Wind LV8, Water LV8

Danger Rating: S++ (Requires multiple peak Kage-level ninja to defeat it.)

Domain Skills: …

Innate Skills: …

Sage Techniques: …

Sealing Arts: …]

"Oh!"

Seimei looked at the display with a somewhat baffled expression.

He was baffled by the lack of data.

All the system panel told him was the wolf's name, age, nature transformation affinities, and power level.

Everything else was empty.

Seeing this, he could only rub the bridge of his nose in the middle of his brows with exasperation.

"Hah~"

"I got my hopes up for nothing."

"I got all excited, System. And you give me this?"

If the system had intelligence, it would surely scold him mercilessly.

The system: I help you upgrade your skills, and even your bloodline. I make sure your skills don't deteriorate even if you don't train them for a long time. And you still want more? Ungrateful bastard!

Fortunately, his grinding system had no intelligence or AI.

Although he had to figure out the system functions and details related to his skill and bloodline upgrade himself, it was still better than the system that forced its host to complete certain missions.

A mechanical, no-nonsense system was good. Having an intelligent system would feel like some cosmic being was spying on him.

Of course, he still wondered where his system came from.

But he didn't dwell on this topic too much.

After all, with his current strength, there was nothing he could do even if he knew anything. So, he just decided to go with the flow until his strength is high enough to figure out the mysteries of the system.

Anyway, the information he got about Shirayuki was enough for now.

As for Shirayuki's empty technique slots…

Perhaps the system needed Shirayuki to display its skills before the system could fill the empty skill slots.

"Since I have already established the summoning pact, I should at least try to summon it right now to see how much chakra I would need to spend to summon Shirayuki, right?"

He grabbed another thin, sterilized needle from his ninja pouch.

The wound on the index finger that he pricked open earlier to sign the summoning contract had already healed.

Seimei looked at the needle in his left hand and his healed right index finger, and smiled.

"Perks of having a powerful physique. The chakra infusion exercises have really paid off."

Seimei muttered with an amused look on his face before he pricked his right index finger with the needle again.

As he removed the needle, a drop of crimson blood came out of his index finger once again.

"Here goes nothing!"

With that, Seimei crouched down and slammed his palm on the ground.

At the next moment, a pitch-black Fuinjutsu seal appeared on the ground, glowing with a faint blue light.

As Seimei activated the Jutsu, it greedily absorbed his chakra like a bottomless pit.

Summoning Jutsu: Shirayuki

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That day, Seimei summoned Shirayuki for the first time.

However, since the wolf's power level was way beyond his, it required Seimei to invest a lot of chakra just to summon it completely.

Over 95%. One summoning technique sucked over 95% of his massive chakra reserves, which would put even the purest Uzumaki clan prodigies of his age to shame.

The only one who was keeping up with his chakra reserve was Uchiha Reina. But Seimei had already surpassed her when it came to raw chakra reserves.

As of now, Reina's chakra reserve was barely half of what Seimei had. Unless she pulled some insane shit or awakened some crazy Mangekyo Sharingan power that supplied her with infinite chakra, he could confidently say that he would outmatch every single human in terms of pure chakra capacity.

Unless some horned bastard popped up all of a sudden, there was no way in hell anyone could match him in sheer Ninjutsu spamming abilities within a few decades.

But this is a topic for another time.

Right now, he really couldn't summon the wolf until he tripled his chakra reserves at the very least.

But Seimei wasn't worried. It would only take him two years at most to triple his chakra reserves.

After that, the problem of immediate massive drain would be solved.

And with his massive chakra reserves and almost inhumane chakra recovery speed, he could still spam his enemies with wide-area annihilation Ninjutsu with ease, all while his summon, Shirayuki, dealt with the toughest opponents.

Meanwhile, Shirayuki, the ever-excited wolf, played around on the Hokage Rock and even froze the top of the cliff entirely before returning to the Deepwood Forest through reverse summoning.

That day, the frozen scenery on top of the Hokage Rock left many Konoha ninjas puzzled and absolutely baffled.

The temperature was so cold that they felt like their blood was freezing.

Still, except for a few people, other Konoha ninjas and citizens had no idea why the top of the Hokage Rock became a chilling, frozen land during the heat of the summer season.

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Time slowly ticked by, and in the blink of an eye, it was already July of Year 015 in the Konoha Calendar.

In his study room, Seimei was working on a special Fuinjutsu seal that was complex enough to make most people feel dizzy.

After writing the last runes with special chakra-infused ink on a scroll, Seimei put the fountain pen down and looked at the seal with a scrutinizing gaze.

"It's done."

"Now…"

Next, Seimei channeled his chakra into the Fuinjutsu seal and activated a specific series of runic constructs.

Flying Thunder God Seal—Condense

The mind-bogglingly complex seal glowed with a faint blue light.

And within a few seconds, the runes, the runic structure, and the entire Fuinjutsu seal began to move and rearrange themselves before condensing into a series of letters that looked like Japanese Kanji.

The moment the kanji appeared, Seimei felt a special connection to it.

It wasn't the usual resonance of the chakra.

No!

His senses told him that as long as his spatial sense was developed enough, he could instinctively sense this Kanji-like seal's location, no matter how far he went from the seal.

It was an inexplicable connection. As long as he concentrated, he could sense this seal, even if it meant transcending layers of space.

The seal was like a spatial coordinate unique to him.

Seimei looked at the Kanji-like seal and smiled.

"Now, I have it, too."

"My very own Flying Thunder God Mark."

But then, his expression turned a bit complicated.

"I know I decided my Flying Thunder God Mark's Kanji on the spur of the moment."

"It probably won't cause any trouble, right?"

Seimei rubbed his smooth chin, stared intently at the Kanji, and fell into deep thought.

As for the meaning of the Kanji, it wasn't something innocent and passionate like Namikaze Minato's Flying Thunder God Mark from his previous life, which spelled "Sword of Ninja Love."

In fact, it was rather rude.

Rude enough to earn him several rounds of beating, even from the peace-loving people.

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