"Stop! Everyone, stop! It was that Uchiha—Shukaku, you—"
Whoosh—smack!
Pakura still wanted to mediate, but Shukaku swept his tail straight at her. The ground split open, and she barely dodged!
Meanwhile—
Shukaku slapped his belly, instantly firing a Wind Release chakra projectile from his mouth at the retreating "Itaro"!
!
Shukaku was targeting Itaro, but the problem was—
Itaro had already retreated far away, into a densely built-up district!
Boom! Buildings exploded under the Wind Release chakra projectile, and screams, sobs, and cries of confusion erupted throughout Sunagakure.
Although Akaseki dodged, he suddenly shuddered and nearly stumbled as he ran—
He still had not fully deconstructed that final hour of immersion!
That caused the scene before him to overlap somewhat with the devastation in his memories, briefly shaking his mental state.
"@￥!" Akaseki shook his head and spat out a curse.
This immersion really was dangerous!
The next moment, Akaseki split into two, then three, then five—one of the clones he created kept making more clones, while his original body only split once.
Meanwhile—
"Y-you! Who are you?"
"Sharingan? Uchiha! It's an Uchiha!"
"What's going on? Is Konoha attacking?"
Four Mirror Clones charged into the surrounding crowds, and at the same time—
They began using Sharingan Genjutsu on a massive scale!
There was no special reason he chose genjutsu—
Akaseki simply had far too much dojutsu power.
Although his eyes had already advanced, he had been suppressing them rather than unleashing their power, so he had not clearly felt the change.
Only now, with the balanced Three-Tomoe power of both eyes fully unleashed, did Akaseki realize how terrifying it was!
His original dojutsu power had already been equivalent to thirty large-scale A-rank jutsu—
During the ninety-nine hours of immersion before his eyes formally awakened, his dojutsu power had nearly doubled.