Of course, the so-called Mangekyo Sharingan was merely Uchiha Fugaku's helpless complaint. He knew perfectly well that Uchiha Qi's was not a Mangekyo Sharingan; otherwise, activating the technique would not require the other person to offer absolutely no resistance.
After all, if it really were the legendary Mangekyo Sharingan, resisting or not would make little difference. Either way, they would be unable to resist.
It could only be said that the activation conditions for Uchiha Qi's technique were indeed extremely harsh, while its effects after succeeding were equally monstrous.
However, unlike Minato Namikaze, Uchiha Fugaku did not consider the possibility of this technique continuing to evolve and rival Wood Release. Though Uchiha Qi was talented, his aptitude as a ninja was far too poor.
As the Clan Head of the Uchiha Clan, Uchiha Fugaku was a standard bloodline supremacist. Naturally, he did not share Minato Namikaze's belief that, given the opportunity and conditions, one could break through the limits of the body and the shackles of bloodline.
Still, this technique had indeed allowed Uchiha Fugaku to see hope—the possibility of greatly increasing the Uchiha Clan's rate of awakening the Sharingan, as well as drastically accelerating the Sharingan's evolution.
This level of realism, along with a solidity that even the powerful Three Tomoe Sharingan could not break through, was practically an ultimate secret technique created specifically for the Uchiha Clan.
Not to mention anything else, just the unprecedented, extreme terror alone could possibly cause anyone with even slightly better bloodline potential to awaken their Sharingan under such stimulation.
Uchiha Fugaku believed that if he had not yet awakened his Sharingan, the stimulation from before would have been enough to nearly make it happen.
And now, when those terrifying Blood Humans charged at him within the scarlet domain, when he was besieged by countless enemies, and when he exhausted every effort only to be overwhelmed and killed in the end, Uchiha Fugaku became even more certain.
The experience of death was simply too real. The agony of having his body torn apart by enemy weapons was equally shocking. It truly gave Uchiha Fugaku the feeling that he could no longer distinguish illusion from reality—if the Sharingan had not remained completely useless even after activating, he might truly have believed it.
Note that by useless, this did not merely mean that the Sharingan could not break the Genjutsu Game. It also meant that, in this world, the Sharingan was nothing more than ordinary eyes.
Do not forget that Uchiha Fugaku was playing a game character here, and that character had been strictly fixed.
Although the game did not prohibit Uchiha Fugaku from using a cosmetic contact-lens skin, that skin could not break through the underlying code and directly grant enhanced effects.
Thus, Uchiha Fugaku, with his Sharingan activated, was essentially playing the game while wearing a cosmetic contact-lens skin. His game character's strength remained whatever it was supposed to be.
In fact, because the Sharingan was useless, the strength Uchiha Fugaku could display was even lower.
Uchiha Fugaku had already been inferior to Minato Namikaze in combat technique. Under equal conditions, he had grown accustomed to the Sharingan's support, and now even that support was gone. He had thoroughly become a complete noob playing a Soulslike, with one specialty: dying.
What Uchiha Qi saw was Uchiha Fugaku constantly challenging the game again after dying, then dying again, fully demonstrating the art of dying in creative ways.
Stabbed to death, trampled to death, rammed to death, hacked to death, pierced to death, dismembered, split apart, turned into two and a half Fugakus—every method of death was put on display, truly showing what a chronicle of suffering was.
Uchiha Fugaku went from fearing death at the beginning to gradually becoming numb, then slowly turning red-hot with unwillingness and rage. He became increasingly invested, holding back a breath and pressing forward step by step with the resolve of, No matter what, I'm going to defeat these Blood Humans today, desperately killing one Blood Human after another.
That desperate and unyielding posture left Uchiha Qi silent for a while. Then he could not help scratching his head. "Should I tell him that he doesn't actually need to fight so desperately and defeat every Blood Human? He only needs to break through their blockade and reach the end."
"Looking at how worked up he is, if I tell him the truth now, he might get angry out of embarrassment, right?"
"Forget it. I won't tell him. It's not like I need these users who provide Emotion Value to clear the game. I only want them to provide enough Emotion Value."
Muttering inwardly, Uchiha Qi turned his gaze to the system panel. The number displayed there made him nod in satisfaction.
Uchiha Fugaku had already provided 1,024 points of Emotion Value. Though it had stopped increasing, and though it was less than the Emotion Value provided by Minato Namikaze, it was still quite a substantial amount. It had pushed Uchiha Qi's mission progress forward by a large step.
Moreover, the Emotion Value Uchiha Fugaku could provide had already reached its limit.
He had barely even played the game, yet he had already provided all the Emotion Value he could. It showed just how intense Uchiha Fugaku's emotional fluctuations were.
Uchiha Qi felt somewhat regretful.
He regretted making the game too large. Though he considered a game with a playtime of less than two hours to be a small game, based on the current player feedback, a miniature game with only around half an hour of content would actually have been enough.
Even if it could not maximize the Emotion Value, it would still earn the bulk of it. The Chakra and ocular power saved could be used to open the game several more times each day, achieving the effect of small profits and quick turnover, rather than being limited to only two or three game sessions per day like now.
"I still overestimated the psychological resilience of the ninja world's elites. Or perhaps these ordinary hellish tricks from Earth are simply too advanced for this world, to the point that even these ninja world elites can't stop themselves from dropping coins."
As he muttered this, Uchiha Qi considered another possibility: splitting the current game apart and making a half-hour trial version.
It was perfectly normal for this kind of single-player game to have a trial version. Usually, however, a normal single-player game had at least five or six hours of content, with a twenty-to-thirty-minute trial sliced out of it. He, on the other hand, would be slicing a half-hour trial out of a two-hour game.
Since he only needed to complete the beginner mission and collect 5,000 Emotion Value, there was nothing wrong with doing it this way as long as it completed the mission.
Thinking of this, Uchiha Qi could not help asking the system whether he could carve out a trial version to collect Emotion Value.
Although the system was still artificially stupid, it gave him an answer nonetheless, and that answer was: yes.
As long as it was the first game, regardless of how much content it provided, as long as players met the minimum requirement of experiencing it for ten minutes, it could collect Emotion Value. The only difference was that if the game time was too short, the Emotion Value collected would not reach its peak.
Without question, the system's answer left Uchiha Qi immensely satisfied. He also somewhat regretted not asking clearly from the beginning. Otherwise, perhaps he could have completed the beginner mission today.
It had to be said that the system's mission requirements were truly lenient, giving him full room to operate. A single trial version could ruthlessly squeeze out the Emotion Value players could provide for the entire game. Judging from Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Fugaku's performances, half an hour would most likely be enough for most other players to provide all their Emotion Value.
Based solely on the goal of completing the mission, it seemed that making only a trial version would be enough.
But in reality, this was because of the ninja world's unique circumstances. In a world where entertainment culture was a complete wasteland, encountering the Genjutsu Game created by Uchiha Qi was practically a dimensionality-reducing strike.
If this were on Earth, setting aside the fact that Earth's technology still could not establish the foundations of a Spiritual Network, even the most realistic game would offer only limited stimulation to people in modern society, who had already experienced bombardments of every kind of entertainment.
A mere trial version, no matter how well made, would only make those people excited and expectant. The Emotion Value they could provide would definitely not compare to that of people in the ninja world.
Moreover, Uchiha Qi believed that once he created more games in the future, ninja world players would also develop strong resistance to all kinds of gaming formulas.
By then, with the amount of content in this little game, it would probably at most make those people's heartbeats speed up slightly. It might not even manage that much.
That was only natural. After all, humanity's threshold for happiness was always rising.
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