"Rumble!"
With a thunderclap that shook heaven and earth, a huge crater was blasted into the ground. Several trees were caught in the lightning's wake and burst into blazing flames.
Then heavy rain poured down from the sky. In mere moments, it had extinguished the fire. Once the flames were out, the clouds overhead vanished in an instant, as if their task had been completed.
"Teacher, how was my genjutsu?!"
Kurama Yakumo asked with a smile. The girl was seated in a chair, a canvas in front of her. The scene depicted on it was exactly the same as the one before them.
Or rather, the real world had answered Kurama Yakumo's wish and created the lightning and dark clouds before them because that painting had appeared!
Uchiha Shūichi's eyes had transformed into Three Tomoe, and an unusual gleam flickered in them as he analyzed the principles behind Kurama Yakumo's genjutsu. When he heard her question, he casually rapped her on the head.
"It's terrifying, absolutely terrifying. It's almost beyond the limits of genjutsu and can be used just like ninjutsu—but it's too much trouble!"
"In the time it takes you to paint, I could summon Lightning Release and plow through this whole forest. With such a troublesome activation, there's no way you could use it in battle!"
Uchiha Shūichi's assessment was spot-on. Purely in terms of technique, the genjutsu Kurama Yakumo had just used through painting was so profound that it was every bit as impressive as the Uchiha Clan's Mangekyo Dojutsu, or even ultimate genjutsu like Izanagi and Izanami.
However, there was no time to paint on a battlefield. Before you could even get your brush out, your opponent would probably have cut you three times.
What's more, in terms of destructive power, the genjutsu she conjured wasn't