The Serpent's Temptation

The Three-Tomoe Sharingan was hardly impressive to the Eight-Branched Serpent. After all, it had once fought the Uchiha Clan's ancestors and knew the Three-Tomoe Sharingan inside and out.

Thinking that the Three-Tomoe Sharingan alone could easily suppress the Eight-Branched Serpent was pure delusion.

In truth, if Uchiha Chen weren't on an entirely different level from everyone else, his situation would be far more dangerous.

As the Eight-Branched Serpent put it, "I've killed plenty of Uchiha with nothing but a Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Why would one make me wary?"

But was Chen just any Uchiha? Of course not. The Three Tomoe in his eyes gradually faded as his power slowly gathered, concentrating around his eyes. A pair of straight-tomoe Mangekyō Sharingan appeared in Uchiha Chen's eyes.

There were two types of Mangekyō Sharingan. One was the curved-tomoe type, with slightly curved patterns, like those of Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui. This type of Mangekyō Sharingan reached the pinnacle in enhancing genjutsu, but was somewhat lacking in offensive power.

The other type was called Straight Tomoe. Its tomoe marks were shaped like commas, a traditional Japanese pattern.

Straight Tomoe literally meant "straight tomoe" in the island nation's language. It referred to the shape of the Mangekyō Sharingan's tomoe. This type of Mangekyō Sharingan reached the pinnacle when it came to enhancing offense—in other words, attack power.

Throughout history, only Sasuke Uchiha and Madara Uchiha had possessed Straight Tomoe.

In fact, Madara's Mangekyō only evolved into Straight Tomoe after he transplanted his younger brother's eyes. Just how powerful was Straight Tomoe? One only had to look at the strength of Madara Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha to know.

One of them commanded the strongest flames in the world, while the other wielded the world's most powerful offensive technique. These were abilities granted to them by