At the center of the testing area, the head of Shinji's golden, half-bodied Susanoo kept flashing with light.
Inside the Susanoo, Shinji sat cross-legged, his expression grave.
The two pairs of Byakugan had fused without any resistance. Driven by the Dojutsu of his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, the Susanoo Lamp had finally melded the two pairs of pure Byakugan into one.
What Shinji hadn't expected was for the fusion process to take so long.
Thirty minutes had passed since he began using the ocular technique, and even then, the fusion had only just reached the halfway point.
"Strange."
Though a fair number of questions arose in his mind, Shinji still managed to suppress them one by one.
If he still had only the Mangekyō Sharingan, maintaining his Dojutsu for so long during the fusion might have put an unbearable strain on his eyes. But now he possessed the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. Even if the fusion took a long time, it would only cost him a little more Dojutsu.
Time trickled by. Before he knew it, the fusion had been underway for a full hour.
Throughout the process, Shinji carefully controlled his perception, making sure the Byakugan being fused didn't resonate with the Giant Tenseigan on the moon.
Whoosh.
Suddenly, a brilliant light flashed across the head of Shinji's Susanoo.
It appeared without warning and, in an instant, illuminated the dim testing area as bright as day. Even Shinji, a Bloodline Ninja with a Dojutsu, felt a slight discomfort.
When the light faded, Shinji's expression changed abruptly. "It's done!?"
He saw that the third pair of eye sockets in his Susanoo was now empty, ready to hold another pair of eyes through the Susanoo Lamp. In the second pair of eye sockets, a brand-new pair of Byakugan had appeared.
After confirming that