Chapter 72: Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan
As Fugaku's ocular power flowed in, Itachi felt his eyes' power surge violently. Two streams of blood tears flowed down his face.
But under their deliberate guidance, the black and red ocular powers rapidly merged, forming a new deep brown power.
This deep brown ocular power surged upward into his brain and downward into his eyes, instantly flowing through his entire system, stimulating his body tremendously.
In just an instant, the structure of Itachi's eyes began changing. The original structural flaws started slowly repairing, transforming toward a new configuration.
Under this entirely new structure, Itachi's eyes could continuously generate ocular power without being damaged by its use. He would never need to worry about going blind again.
His eyes were evolving toward the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!
This evolution required time—definitely not something achievable in a day or two.
But even at the very beginning, the changes were remarkably obvious.
Itachi felt a surging tide of ocular power flowing from his eyes, instantly circulating through his body, beginning to nourish every part of him.
When this power flowed through his brain, suddenly a white rabbit's phantom leaped from deep within his mind, then was entangled and crushed by the new ocular power.
A white rabbit?
What was that?
Itachi's heart jumped. A thought flashed through his mind. He quickly looked up and indeed saw Yasushi covering his right eye with one hand, blood tears streaming down.
"Heh... you discovered it?"
Yasushi casually wiped the blood tears from under his eye, grinning with bared teeth.
"Itachi, you're truly lucky! Without this new ocular power emerging, you never would have detected the abnormality inside your body."
"What a shame!"
"I'll need to revise my follow-up plans."
"Your right eye's technique isn't prophecy!" Itachi's face darkened, speaking through clenched teeth. "What did you do to me?"
"Nothing much. Just made you have a few nightmares, hehe..." Yasushi smiled with malicious intent.
Itachi didn't believe that nonsense for a second!
His fists clenched tight as he carefully recalled the strange occurrences over these past days. Aside from a few nightmares, there truly seemed to be nothing unusual.
But Mangekyo Sharingan techniques were mysteriously bizarre. If even abilities like Kotoamatsukami existed, who knew what other imperceptible powers might lurk?
Just like this time—if not for the evolutionary opportunity that upgraded his entire body, he likely wouldn't have discovered that abnormal technique hidden within.
He meticulously checked his entire body again but found no other hidden threats.
"Forget it. Doesn't matter anymore!"
"Once I kill you, every problem will naturally resolve itself!"
Itachi was decisively pragmatic. Since he couldn't find the problem, he'd simply eliminate the person causing it.
"Father, let's go!"
"Right!" Fugaku responded from his shoulder, his Mangekyo spinning wildly.
The storm clouds overhead immediately grew denser. The heavy black clouds churned as if stirred by invisible hands, forming an enormous vortex.
The already intense lightning grew even more violent. Electric serpents writhed freely through the clouds, illuminating the entire battlefield.
"Takemikazuchi!"
A massive silver dragon emerged from the dark clouds, blazing with blinding blue-white light, trailing lightning as it plummeted downward with an ear-splitting roar.
Itachi's mind moved, and chakra erupted like a volcano, instantly condensing and writhing around his body.
Enhanced by the new fused ocular power, Itachi finally unleashed Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan-level might.
Bones, muscles, and armor layered over each other, encasing Itachi's body suspended at the chest position. Then legs grew, and the form shot skyward, raising its blade toward the descending thunder dragon.
Under Fugaku's control, the violent thunder dragon became remarkably docile, spiraling down along the brown Susanoo's blade and coiling around its body.
The dragon's claws gripped the brown Susanoo's shoulders. The dragon head opened its maw above the Susanoo's helmet, lightning blazing within, ready to erupt—as if adding a lightning buff to the Susanoo's armor.
"Yasushi, prepare yourself!"
Itachi and Fugaku shouted in unison, swinging their blade and trailing long streaks of lightning as they charged toward Yasushi.
By now, Yasushi had calmed the sudden surge in his right eye's ocular power, forcing the multiple ocular powers within him to merge without losing balance. He commanded his blood-red Susanoo forward, swinging its staff to clash heavily with the brown Susanoo's blade.
CLANG!
The instant blade met staff, blinding light erupted, nearly scorching everyone's eyes.
Chakra shockwaves rippled outward like water. Wherever they passed, the ground cracked into spiderweb patterns, layers of earth were torn up, and debris scattered through the air like lethal projectiles.
The tremendous noise from the energy collision made the surrounding air tremble, distorting and warping under this force, visible waves appearing to the naked eye.
Both wielding Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan-level ocular power, their collision finally achieved equilibrium.
But at the moment of impact, the lightning coating the thunder dragon suddenly flared. Violent electrical energy surged rapidly, flowing through the brown Susanoo's blade toward the blood-red Susanoo.
Wherever it passed, the air crackled. The lightning resembled tens of thousands of tiny silver serpents, gnawing at the blood-red Susanoo's chakra armor, exposing the chakra muscles beneath.
The highly concentrated lightning sphere in the dragon's mouth suddenly shot forth, spraying toward the blood-red Susanoo's head.
Yasushi's body floated suspended at that exact position.
"Petty tricks! You dare show off such things!"
Yasushi roared, lowering his head and ramming directly into the lightning sphere.
BOOM! The sphere exploded on impact. Scattered electrical energy ravaged the blood-red Susanoo's head, eroding half the helmet and exposing the chakra face beneath. But Yasushi inside remained completely unharmed.
Itachi and Fugaku showed no discouragement whatsoever, shouting in unison:
"Again!"
"Takemikazuchi!"
A new thunder dragon leaped from the clouds once more, diving toward Yasushi's head.
"Die!"
Yasushi shouted, swinging his staff toward the brown Susanoo's head.
This time the brown Susanoo didn't block with its blade. Instead, it raised its left arm's shield. While blocking, it swung its right blade, channeling the thunder dragon down to merge together, thrusting straight toward the blood-red Susanoo's head.
BOOM!
Staff and shield collided with tremendous force.
This impact surpassed the previous one. A small mushroom cloud once again bloomed within Konoha.
The battle had escalated again!
Those who had retreated from the combat zone suddenly discovered the fighting circle had expanded once more. Some were even knocked down by the aftershocks, then killed opportunistically by the Uchiha Reanimations.
Konoha's shinobi had to retreat even further to avoid being swept into the expanding battle circle.
But when it rains, it pours. Just as they retreated on this side, chaos erupted on the battlefield's opposite end.
Blinding white light instantly illuminated the entire sky. Then another massive mushroom cloud rose slowly in the distance—even higher, larger, and more powerful than the one here!
Immediately after, deafening noise and shockwaves arrived, overwhelming like mountains and seas, devastating everything, sweeping all aside.
The violent force even scattered the storm clouds above, revealing the moon hidden behind them.
Without anyone noticing, this battle had lasted an entire day. Night had fallen.
"You've got to be kidding!"
"What happened over there?!"
Konoha's numerous shinobi turned pale, staring toward that direction in horror, desperately wanting to know whether their village had any hope left.
Could it be... that Konoha truly would be destroyed today?
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