Restoring Ocular Power

Inside the Aerial Fortress.

After placing the Fire Clone Technique into a large nutrient tank, Hyuga Kagami used instruments to examine its vital signs and found that multiple meridians within the Fire Clone Technique had been damaged. Its injuries were far more serious than he had imagined.

"Was it because of Dark Release...?"

As he reviewed the various readings produced by the instruments, Hyuga Kagami analyzed the cause of the injuries.

During the previous series of fierce battles, the Fire Clone Technique had suffered little damage under the protection of Susanoo. Therefore, the damage must have occurred during the final stage, when Danzo captured it and absorbed its ocular power.

Hyuga Kagami did not know much about Dark Release.

But with a little thought, he could guess that when Dark Release extracted chakra from an enemy target, it certainly would not do so gently. The entire extraction process had to be destructive.

"It looks like this Fire Clone Technique will need time to recover as well."

Hyuga Kagami shook his head and sighed softly.

At that moment, three of the six large nutrient tanks specially prepared for clones of six different chakra natures were already carrying out clone restoration work.

The Wind Clone Technique went without saying. It was already an "old resident" of the large nutrient tanks, and for the foreseeable future, it would likely spend most of its time in one.

The Number Two Earth Release clone, which had been damaged not long ago, was also soaking in a large nutrient tank.

The bitter consequences of rashly using Dust Release before fully mastering it had now completely emerged. Even Hyuga Kagami found it difficult to judge how long it would take for the meridians of this damaged Number Two Earth Release clone to fully recover.

Adding the Fire