Land of Rice, Training Ground.
Inside the Training Ground, the vast space was covered by detection devices with no blind spots. The nearly hundred-meter-long main training area at the center was currently operating at full capacity, with dozens of Chakra-powered moving targets freely darting across the floor, walls, and even ceiling.
At that moment, Sasuke stood in the center of the Training Ground. Two scarlet Mangekyo in his eyes moved rapidly, their patterns intricate and sinister.
They were no longer ordinary three-Tomoe Sharingan, nor were they newly awakened Mangekyo. They were Eternal Mangekyo—eyes that no longer carried the risk of blindness and contained immense ocular power!
He stared fixedly at the targets constantly moving around him, without the slightest hint of slackness in his eyes.
The targets were made from a mixture containing Chakra Metal, and their speed had been set to a level that even an ordinary jonin would struggle to catch with the naked eye.
They flickered in and out of sight throughout the Training Ground, moving so fast that only afterimages remained.
Yet beneath Sasuke's gaze, every shift of those speeding targets was crystal clear!
He closed his right eye and focused with his left.
The Mangekyo suddenly spun, ocean-like ocular power rapidly surging into that eye and gathering in his vision into a light that drained all things of color.
"Amaterasu."
As Sasuke's low cry fell, black flames appeared on the surface of the targets without warning!
The black flames rapidly melted the target surfaces before beginning to spread outward, crawling across the floor as though alive.
Sasuke reacted swiftly. Just as Amaterasu was about to spread, he drew the long blade from his back with a backhanded motion, rapidly formed hand seals with both hands, and cried again:
"Kagutsuchi!"
As his words fell, Amaterasu's black