So upgrading the Sharingan could upgrade my Spiritual Network ability too... Was this function that let me link the Spiritual Network with other people the effect of the Transcription Seal?
The Transcription Seal was a secret technique of the Uchiha Clan. By making eye contact with a target through the Sharingan, one could seal a "technique" within their own or the target's eye. Once the "condition" was met, the seal would automatically release, and the "technique" would automatically attack the target.
In theory, this was a secret technique that required at least the Three-Tomoe Sharingan to use, and Uchiha Qi was no exception.
However, every Uchiha could grasp the principles of the Transcription Seal. It was also a secret technique one could learn as soon as they awakened the Sharingan.
Uchiha Qi's current combination of the Two Tomoe and the Spiritual Network had allowed him to obtain something like a mutated version of the Transcription Seal.
What it sealed was not a "technique," but a "port" of the Spiritual Network, allowing others to share the Spiritual Network as well. Uchiha Qi himself served as the "main server," possessing the highest authority to control those "ports."
Of course, this function had only just been developed. What effects it could achieve specifically would require further research later.
When the time reached four in the afternoon, Left 4 Dead, the third game created by Uchiha Qi, finally unveiled its mysterious veil.
The organizers cleared out the entire central area, creating an open space and ensuring that the game screens of participating players could all be projected for the audience to see.
The people who had been playing since morning until just recently had already returned to the stands under the staff's arrangements, eagerly awaiting the demonstration of the new game.
For most people, this game called Left 4 Dead was the one they anticipated even more.
After all, the officials had made it clear: Left 4 Dead was a game that both ninjas and civilians could fully enjoy, a game that could be played with family and friends. Its defining feature was an all-out pace that allowed ordinary people to join in the revelry.
Then, before an audience of more than five thousand people, four "lucky" selected teams stepped onto the stage. Under the staff's arrangements, the sixteen people entered their respective player areas in groups of four.
Of the four teams, three were unfamiliar to the audience. They were simply lucky people who had been selected and grouped together, so they enthusiastically responded to the audience's cheers and shouts.
But the last team received a very different reception, one far surpassing that of the others.
That was because Minato Namikaze, the crowd favorite, was among them. After his performance that morning, Minato Namikaze had become thoroughly famous throughout Konoha. His fame was no longer limited to a small circle; he had become the universally recognized representative of Konoha's younger generation!
This new idol, who bore the title of the Yellow Flash, waved to the audience with a sunny smile, fully displaying his astonishing charm.
The enthusiastic atmosphere, however, made the three kids who had taken the stage alongside Minato Namikaze extremely nervous.
Even Hatake Kakashi, who had graduated from the Ninja Academy long ago and become a Chunin at the age of six, was no exception.
After all, the three nine-year-olds had never experienced being intensely watched by so many people. Nervousness was unavoidable, and their heads were practically buzzing.
Although they had said that morning that they were looking forward to Left 4 Dead and wanted to experience it together, now that anticipation had become reality, they still felt as though their brains could barely keep up.
Yes, they had been "luckily" chosen as the fortunate trial players for the new game Left 4 Dead.
And they were really playing alongside their teacher, Minato Namikaze. It was truly a classic case of fantasy becoming reality.
Of course, the clever Hatake Kakashi had already realized that this "luck" had actually been deliberate. After all, Minato Namikaze was one of the organizers, and the fact that he had personally joined in and been assigned directly to the same team as the three of them looked like an intentional arrangement no matter how one saw it.
Or rather, it was an arrangement deliberately made by their teacher, Minato Namikaze.
Kakashi glanced at his teacher, but ultimately did not voice his suspicion.
This time, Uchiha Qi did not need to take the stage as a guest host. Other staff members would handle the explanation.
Besides, with four teams playing at once, there was no need for a host. The audience only needed to watch.
When all was said and done, Left 4 Dead was at most an unfinished game, merely a trial version put on display.
Then, under the staff's arrangements, Left 4 Dead started. Through four specially made large Sealing Scrolls, all sixteen people were pulled into the game together.
Yes, using specially made large Sealing Scrolls to store a genjutsu game could achieve the miraculous feat of pulling multiple people into the genjutsu game at the same time.
Uchiha Qi had developed this based on the "spectator mode" function, making use of the Sealing Scrolls' characteristics.
As everyone knew, Sealing Scrolls came in many varieties, large and small, with differing effects and entirely different prices.
The genjutsu game Sealing Scrolls currently sold by the Uchiha Clan were the cheapest kind, which was why the cost of buying the scrolls was so low.
But Left 4 Dead was different. The Sealing Scrolls used for this brand-new game were relatively high-grade. Even a blank scroll could sell for forty thousand per scroll, making them quite costly luxury goods.
They were expensive, but their effects were excellent. The ability to pull multiple targets into the same genjutsu game at once was something ordinary scrolls could not replace.
Now, with the high-grade Sealing Scrolls, the multiplayer online game Left 4 Dead was successfully activated.
The sixteen people who entered the game, along with the more than five thousand spectators in the real world, all watched a CG animation at the same moment.
The background of this CG animation was that the Land of Demons had sealed the terrifying Chimi Moryo since ancient times.
However, one day, the seal suddenly shattered. Chimi Moryo's power spiraled out of control, spreading directly outward and corrupting the living beings beyond it.
At that moment, the corrupted creatures mutated, each transforming into all sorts of monsters. Ordinary humans were also twisted by this power, becoming mindless living corpses filled with endless resentment and hostility toward the living.
And under such circumstances, Chakra, the unique power of the ninja world, was also corrupted by Chimi Moryo. Ninjas lost their powers one after another and became ordinary people. Only a very small number of ninjas retained some of their strength, but it was already too little, utterly incapable of stopping the ninja world's apocalypse from descending.
And now, the players would take on the roles of a group of four from the ninja world, struggling desperately to survive in that apocalyptic world and swearing that they would live on.
When the CG animation introducing the background story ended, four screens were projected above the venue, each showing one team's situation. Within the game, the players discovered in astonishment that they had become different people—in this game, they directly played the corresponding game characters, rather than personally taking the field as they had in Fruit Ninja.
This caused the players who entered the game to first be startled by the unfamiliar faces around them. Once they realized that they themselves had changed as well, they were startled all over again. Only then did they understand that, like Homecoming, this game required them to play other people.
Of course, this sort of "self-recognition" was no longer much of a concern. Whether inside or outside the game, people cared far more about the opening CG they had just watched.
This was a performance format they had never seen before, and it had directly constructed an apocalyptic ninja world. It was far too advanced and novel for the entire ninja world, prompting people to discuss it one after another.
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