Becoming a Shadow in the New World

"Master, don't treat me like Delta!"

Chapter Sixty-Six: Sid didn't think of anything.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

Sid shook the glass bottle in his hand, causing the small pills inside to collide with the glass, making a series of crisp sounds. He narrowed his eyes.

"Phew, Master, this is a carefully crafted pill I made using the Shadow Wisdom you taught me. It will surely suppress your so-called distracting thoughts."

According to the machine's detection, as long as there are no problems with this data report, then Master, you are probably now affecting your body because of your common sense that you should be in the puberty stage that every teenager goes through. This has caused your mind to influence your body and cause changes in your body.

If that's all there is to it, then it's quite easy to handle.

Master, you are now dissatisfied with your current state. These medicines can suppress the desires that are arising in your body. So as long as you suppress them for now, once you get through what you perceive as puberty, your body should also get rid of this state.

These are the conclusions I've drawn from this report and your own account, Master.

A smug, silent voice came from the side. Although it wasn't the first time, Sid couldn't help but admire it.

Ita is really amazing; she actually managed to create something from my random, rambling words.

"I hope so."

Of course, that's what I thought in my heart, but in order to maintain the prestige of a Shadow-level powerhouse, I still had to pretend to be indifferent and skeptical on the surface.

It's hard, the fist is hard.

In Ita's inner world, a miniature version of Ita clenched his fist.

Calm down, Ita, you need to calm down. Master has always been like this, and what Master is saying now is the truth. Compared to Master, my knowledge is still insufficient.

It hasn't been long yet, and we don't have enough resources to dethrone Master. We can't gamble.

Think about what happened to Alpha. Ita, you must remember that you only have one chance. If you fail, you will end up like Alpha, with your heart shattered.

After giving herself a pep talk, Ita managed to calm down, but in doing so, she couldn't help but feel a sense of relief, thankful that Sid had some trust in her, who had barely inherited the wisdom of the shadows.

"Master, are you leaving already? Aren't you going to do a few more checks? Didn't you say you wanted to ask for advice from others?"

"There's no other way. I can't disappear for too long to keep my identity hidden. There's no need for a check. We're such good friends, of course I trust you. Anyway, if this thing doesn't work, I'll just take care of it myself."

As he said this, Sid picked up the small medicine jar in his hand and shook it, making a series of sounds.

How could it be useless? I'm not lying.

He watched as Sid opened the laboratory window, letting the scorching sunlight stream into this place that never saw the sun, before leaping into the sky and disappearing.

Ita turned around and walked to the machine on the far right. He pressed a button, and the machine made a series of noises as stacks of documents were printed out.

Reaching out and picking up one of the sheets, rows of data were displayed before Ita's eyes.

"Master's latest data, how long has it been since the last update? I forgot."

After memorizing all the data before him, the dark magic transformed into flames and gathered in Ita's hand.

"boom!"

Black flames erupted, along with these obviously expensive instruments, destroying all the papers containing Sid's physical data.

"Tap, tap, tap..."

"Lord Ita, what has happened...?"

Two girls, drawn by the sound of the explosion, pushed open the door and entered. Seeing Ita standing in front of the ruins, they instinctively asked a question, but their voices suddenly stopped halfway through.

"Nothing serious happened, just a minor accident during the experiment. Remember to notify Gamma to send a new batch of scientific instruments as soon as possible."

Wearing a white lab coat, Ita casually dismissed the explosion as an accident, then pushed aside the two girls blocking the door and slowly left.

"Number 424, I think I just had a hallucination. I think I saw Lord Ita, who always has a blank expression, smile at us."

"What a coincidence, number 425, I also had this hallucination."

The two girls fell silent at the same time. One might be hallucinating, but it couldn't be that both were hallucinating.

Considering the destroyed equipment before them, both of their sharp minds guessed that there might be some big secret involved.

They exchanged a glance, and both could see from each other's eyes that the other had also guessed something.

"Yes, what a coincidence, hahaha."

"Hahaha."

"Alright, stop laughing. We need to clean up the equipment that Lord Ita 'accidentally' broke right away."

"Okay, let's not go in front. There are a lot of people in the training ground at this time, and we might disturb them. Let's go to the back; there shouldn't be anyone there right now."

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Walking to her desk, Ita listed out formulas using symbols only she could understand. After finishing the calculations, Ita sighed.

"As expected of Lord Shadow."

"Of course, I'm not bad either."

She couldn't help but feel proud. This was the first time she had used the wisdom of shadows to conceal the truth, and the person she concealed it from was none other than Lord Shadow. She had succeeded. Any of the Seven Shadows would be proud of this.

"However, this calming pill suppressed Master's desires that I had painstakingly aroused. Given Master's physical abilities, it will be really difficult to have another chance."

What she gave Sid was, of course, the real deal—something that could perfectly solve Sid's current situation.

Moreover, she didn't lie once during the entire conversation, after all, she didn't think she could fool Master with her lies.

She specifically stated that the conclusions she reached with Sid were entirely based on the fact that there were no problems with the stack of documents in Sid's possession.

While the possibility of a machine accidentally malfunctioning and providing incorrect information is small, it's not impossible, is it?

The calming pills were indeed effective. She didn't think she could surpass her Master in her understanding of medicine. Her Master probably accepted the calming pills for convenience, and because they were indeed useful to him.

Thinking about this success, even knowing how risky things had been, Ita couldn't help but feel excited.

After all, what she's about to do is... blasphemy.

How long has it been? How long has it been? She finally caught a glimpse of Master's back. Although she only managed to do so through underhanded means, it was still much better than Alpha, who tried to use force to touch the gods and ended up being so badly hurt that he is still in the stage of having a broken Dao heart.

What exactly is the Shadow of the Seven Shadows?

This is a very interesting question, because if it were in the past, before that fragile fig leaf was torn off, the other seven Kage would probably have answered that they were with their families.

Alpha is like the mother, Dark is like the father, and the other six are like the children.

As for now? After the fig leaf was torn off, everyone has come to realize the truth: it's not family, but the gods and believers of one's loved ones.

She was an exception, because from the very beginning, Shadow's pride had been shattered by his seemingly omniscient mind, and she had come to realize this fact when she was so devastated that she became withdrawn.

So this Alpha is just lousy. It couldn't withstand more than two setbacks. Do you understand the value of being defeated dozens of times from childhood to adulthood?

What she needs to do now is to pull this god down from the heavens, even if it means using such despicable methods, even if it means using knowledge obtained from this god.

Although it's like a joke that the knowledge you gain from someone else can never be greater than all the knowledge that person possesses, what if that person doesn't care at all?

This is her Master, so arrogant, saying he'll ask the bystanders. But in this world, the only bystanders he can take seriously, besides her who has obtained a portion of her Master's Shadow Wisdom, are probably only the Netheril Emperor.

It was precisely because of her arrogance that she had the potential to dethrone Master.

While Ita was having a good time by himself, what was Sid thinking as he flew through the air on his way to Itogami Island?

Oh, he wasn't thinking about anything.

Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Despicable Ita

Ten thousand meters above the deep blue sea, a black figure streaked across the sky, stirring up waves of clouds.

"Ita, you're really amazing."

Using magic to protect what he held, Sid couldn't help but sigh as he recalled what he had just witnessed in Itana.

Ita was the smartest person Sid had ever met in his life. This was evident not only in her ability to easily discover various things from Sid's nonsense, but also in her understanding of the world.

Are magic and technology the same?

I believe 99% of people in the world would give a different answer to this question. Magic is magic, and technology is technology. That's not wrong, because they are indeed two different things.

But Ita is different. She would answer the same way: whether it is magic or technology, these are just the manifestation and application of knowledge. The combination of the two is magic.

Yes, Ita views the magical devices currently on the market as a combination of magic and technology, rather than simply magical creations.

She believes that as long as technology develops in the right direction, it will eventually lead to the same goal. There may be many differences between the two in the process of development, but there will definitely be many similarities.

As it turned out, Ita was right. After the worlds merged, Ita directly and legally copied a lot of technology from other worlds using this theory...

This is outrageous. According to Ita, she first memorized the technologies of other worlds, then analyzed their principles, then replicated these principles using magic, and finally reduced and rewrote the magic circuits and engraved them on the instrument. A magic machine with the same effect, but cheaper, was thus created.

The conversion of technology to magic follows the same principle, and the conversion of magic to technology follows the same principle. If the corresponding technologies already exist on both sides, then each technology is divided in half: the first half uses circuits, and the second half uses magic circuits.

This process takes only one or two days, or at most three or four days, to complete the transformation of a technology. It's unscrupulous, but also very profitable. After all, this isn't about taking a shortcut; it's about pulling the other party into your area of ​​expertise and then using your extensive experience to defeat them.

By doing this, Baita's approach theoretically led to a rapid rise in magical technology in the countries of World Three, the world where he and the Seven Shadows were born, which was the weakest in terms of technology and magic. The price was that the Mikoshi Trading Company became incredibly wealthy, becoming a behemoth on par with other countries.

God knows what he felt when he saw the report about Ita. After thinking it over and over again, he still replied to Ita with "not bad". The reason he said "not bad" was because the method was too despicable. Wasn't he afraid of getting beaten up for blatantly plagiarizing?

Of course, although it was despicable, it still proved Ita's talent, and as Ita's childhood friend, he was still happy for Ita.

This also proves just how valuable the medicine Ita gave him was.