In Silveridge City, within a small apartment outside the city center, Max, who had just returned, opened the door to his home.
Before he could even find a place to set down the pile of puppet materials in his arms, he nearly collided with a young woman.
Her hair was wrapped in a towel, strands still dripping with water droplets.
She was exceptionally beautiful, with delicate features and a proud, well-endowed figure that made her seem as if she had stepped out of a painting.
If Max saw an unfamiliar person on the street, he might stop and glance for a moment.
But seeing this person…
was like encountering a plague god.
He instinctively lowered his head, wanting to slip away.
However, at that very moment, an annoyed female voice rang out from behind him.
“What kind of older brother sees his sister, ignores her, and just turns to leave!?”
Before Max could say much in response, she continued, “If I’m not mistaken, your class change ceremony ended today, right? What profession template did you awaken?!”
“…”
“Today was indeed the class change ceremony… it went smoothly. I awakened the Puppet Master template.”
Max looked at the haughty young woman before him…
a wave of helplessness washed over him.
Ever since he transmigrated here, it seemed as if to correct the world’s timeline, he had been forcibly assigned a non-blood-related sister…
Her name was quite pleasant, Seraphina, but her personality…
left something to be desired.
The reason he underwent his class change after her was simply because he started school later; there was no other special meaning.
“A Puppet Master… that’s indeed an awkward profession. Looks like you won’t become a combat professional. Just wait quietly in the rear for the state to assign you a job.”
“Mhm…”
Max was at a loss for words.
After briefly stating his profession information, he prepared to turn and head back to his bedroom…
He had things to do later…
Other Puppet Masters might not become combat Professionals…
but what did that have to do with his Six Paths of Pain!?
Did they want to understand Pain!?
Clearly not.
Right now, he just wanted to develop in secret and amaze everyone in the end.
Standing in place, Seraphina watched Max, carrying a pile of parts, return to his bedroom.
She first dried her hair, then spoke softly, “Idiot older brother.”
After returning to his bedroom, Max first piled all the materials for crafting the Asura Path Pain on his desk.
Then, he opened the system interface and began operating according to the prompts.
A flash of blue light enveloped all the materials before him.
Immediately after, a blue message prompt box popped up in front of Max, indicating that successful completion would require one hour.
Compared to the time normal Puppet Masters needed to create a puppet, this was incredibly fast.
The system was truly awesome!
“A transmigrator with a system is indeed different from one without.”
“Even something as simple as crafting a puppet shows it.”
“If I had to make a puppet with these materials myself, it would be nothing but a pipe dream…”
Watching the glowing mass gradually take on a humanoid shape over time, Max felt immense delight.
Without the system, it would be impossible to create a puppet this quickly, let alone one that was Pain from naruto!
This was simply amazing!
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the system’s required hour had arrived.
As the blue light enveloping the humanoid glow dissipated, a tall, burly humanoid puppet appeared before Max.
Its skin was an unnatural white, its facial features stiff, but a faint, scornful smile seemed to play at the corners of its mouth.
It wore the standard Akatsuki Organization uniform—black with red clouds.
Numerous black rods of varying lengths were densely inserted all over its body.
But the most shocking thing was…
those pair of illogical, purple, ripple-patterned eyes.
Just standing there, its oppressive aura was already overwhelming.
Max couldn’t help but circle it several times, unable to suppress the smile on his face.
Finally, after inspecting every angle of the Asura Path’s body, Max sat contentedly on the edge of his bed.
Using his mental energy, he made it sit beside him, feeling quite proud.
“This is the Asura Path Pain! It looks exactly like in the original!”
“It doesn’t look cheap or knock-off because the crafting materials were low-grade. It seems the system really just simplified the materials… it didn’t actually use only those materials for construction!”
“Standing before me is the genuine Pain!”
“A small detail.”
Max tried focusing his mind on the system interface and opened the information panels for himself and the Asura Path Pain.
Soon, two profession panels projected in blue light appeared before him.
[Name: Max]
[Profession: Puppet Master]
[Level: 1]
[Strength: 7]
[Stamina: 8]
[Wisdom: 15]
[Agility: 8]
ps: The average person’s four attributes are 10.
[Skills: Crafting, Sorting, Controlling Puppets…]
[Talent: SSS Living Puppet: Damage suffered by the host will be converted to 1% damage transferred to the puppet. As long as the puppet remains intact, the host cannot die.]
…
[Puppet: Asura Path Pain]
[Strength: 500]
[Agility: 300]
[Stamina: 700]
[Wisdom: 250]
[Skills: Body Modification (Can modify, harden, or create weapons from its own body during combat…) Create Black Rods (Black rods inserted into an enemy’s body will disrupt their spirit, affecting skill usage to a certain degree.)]
[Advancement Conditions: Fifth-order monster core, large quantity of technological weapons, nano-materials…] ps: After advancement, the four attributes will be enhanced, but appearance and skills will not change.
As Max opened the information panels for himself and the Asura Path, an expression of shock instantly appeared on his face…
Honestly, could such stats really exist!?
Strength, Agility, Stamina were all dozens of times that of an average person…
Even some third-class Professionals didn’t have such high four attributes!
It was simply monstrous…
Not to mention, after Max gathered the advancement conditions later…
the Asura Path’s four attributes could be enhanced again.
There was no need to worry about it becoming weak later on as monster levels increased!
Every time he thought of this, Max couldn’t help but marvel at the system’s power!
The reason was simple: it was just too good, far exceeding expectations.
Initially, Max only wanted to rely on the Asura Path Pain to clear some simple-level dungeons.
Now, he had completely abandoned that idea!
Later, he’d just choose the highest difficulty dungeon and charge right through!
Even those who awakened extremely powerful profession templates at the same time couldn’t achieve this!
[Ding! Detected host has successfully crafted Asura Path Pain. Automatically integrating partial Rinnegan power for host!]
[Revised by this system: The strength and consumption of Rinnegan power used by the host and the Six Paths of Pain depend solely on Wisdom points. The higher the Wisdom, the stronger the power of the Rinnegan.]
[The stronger the host’s Rinnegan, the more powerful the dispersed abilities each Pain possesses.]
[Hint: Host can choose whether to manifest the Rinnegan.]
…
Just as Max closed the information panels for himself and the Asura Path, the system’s prompt sounded in his ears again.
Then, his eyes began to change.
The irises turned purple, and black ripple patterns appeared on their surface.
The Rinnegan power (Body Modification) possessed by the Asura Path was directly inherited by Max.
An inexplicable, profound force echoed in his mind.
Immediately after inheriting the Rinnegan, Max jumped up from the bed and ran to the mirror in his bedroom to examine himself.
Seeing that he truly possessed the Rinnegan filled his heart with joy!
This was what it meant to be a true Puppet Master!
Once he inherited the full power of the Rinnegan in the future, he would become the nightmare of all enemies who tried to rush him.
Just imagining that scene filled Max with delight!
But he had no intention…
of revealing his Rinnegan to everyone now.
That would definitely attract a lot of unnecessary trouble.
In that case, it was better to hide the Rinnegan.
Wait until during combat, when others thought he was an easy target and prepared to attack.
Then give them a surprise.
“This way, the future development direction is completely clear!”
“Just mindlessly stack Wisdom points… This system really doesn’t want me to put in any effort at all!”
After hearing the system’s explanation, Max reaffirmed his future development path: all the free attribute points obtained from leveling up would be dumped into Wisdom!
After all, in the future, whether it was the strength of skills used with the Rinnegan or…
the consumption of various abilities, they would all rely on a large amount of Wisdom points.
Wisdom points also symbolized a Professional’s skill release strength and mana pool length.
Put that way, Rinnegan ability strength was tied to skill release strength…
and consumption was tied to mana pool length!?
Thinking about it, that seemed to make sense.
“This is only the first Asura Path… If I can gather all the Six Paths of Pain in the future…”
“How powerful would I become then!?”
Max couldn’t help but start to daydream…
Right now, just creating one Pain had made him incredibly powerful…
If he could create the Deva Path Pain…
At that time, it would shock the entire world…
“No time to waste. Tomorrow, I’ll go challenge some dungeons!”
“!!!”
Max turned off his bedroom lamp and lay comfortably in bed, quietly waiting for tomorrow to get up early and take the Asura Path into a dungeon for training…
It was definitely going to be interesting.