The Birth of the Ten-Thousandth Eye! The Wandering Everworld Plan! The Tide of the Underworld, Destroying the World in an Instant!

Gurgle, gurgle...

It was as if he had forcefully swallowed two blazing planetary cores. An indescribable, scorching heat spread through the sensations of every eye on Uesugi Tetsu's body, even dyeing his originally pitch-black form crimson.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Volcanoes erupted, and lava flowed.

Striking flames flickered around the edges of every golden-red eye.

After quite some time, Uesugi Tetsu finally finished digesting the two Dual Pupils provided by Kitano Runa.

The taste... It was like stuffing two freshly baked, scalding soup dumplings into his mouth and biting down on them all at once. Uesugi Tetsu had not instinctively spat them out, and had even suffered a minor injury because of it.

But in exchange, his pitch-black dragon body suddenly gained a full fifty golden-red vertical pupils!

Two exchanged for fifty!

The number of eyes he had gained in a single burst was unprecedented.

Even Uesugi Tetsu was a little stunned. Under normal circumstances, he might have needed to swallow more than hundreds of thousands of pairs of eyes to achieve this result—and might not even have succeeded.

Now, simply opening his mouth and eating had saved him an enormous amount of time.

The taste was a little bad, but that was a minor issue. He could get through it by toughing it out.

"Kitano-san, do you have any more?"

Uesugi Tetsu's gaze truly began to burn with fervor.

"Uesugi-kun, do you think I'm like you, able to mass-produce eyes nonstop?" The giant peng spread its beak with two hollows filled with flames, pouting in an exceedingly humanlike manner. "These two alone will take quite some time to grow."

"Since they work so well, I'll keep feeding you the ones that grow afterward. We can't waste resources, after all."

Kitano Runa had already begun treating the current stage as a