The Electric Light Dancing at Your Fingertips...

[Lottery activated]

Like last time, countless figures flashed across the interface.

Once the final lottery result appeared, Xuanye revealed an utterly shocked expression.

She had neat, short light-brown hair, with the dashing air of a young boy mixed with a girl's charming liveliness.

Though she was dressed like a wealthy young lady, she did not seem delicate in the slightest. Instead, she resembled a brilliant, scorching bolt of lightning.

Xuanye could not help finding it strange. Was it because he had visited Mikoto before making his appearance that he had drawn Tokiwadai's Electric Princess?

[Lottery complete. Selected character: Misaka Mikoto]

[Obtained superpower: Electromaster (Lv5)]

Railgun was merely Misaka Mikoto's nickname, as well as a teasing reference to her signature move of launching coins.

In truth, Misaka Mikoto's ability was extraordinarily outstanding. She could control all manner of electricity-related derivative powers, far more than simply discharging electricity.

She could manipulate magnetic fields, hack into networks, create Electromagnetic Barriers, guide electrical currents through her body, and even summon heavenly lightning to alter the weather.

An Lv5 esper represented a superhuman level capable of fighting a modernized army group without falling behind.

The instant such a high-level superpower fused into Xuanye's body, it automatically became perfectly compatible with him and transformed into lightning-nature chakra.

At that moment, blue-white arcs of electricity burst all over Uchiha Genya's body, making him look like a novice ninja completely unable to control his own power.

The powerful lightning-element energy merging with his chakra unexpectedly produced an effect like a catalyst.

As lightning-nature chakra continuously leaked out, the chakra within his body became like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly churning into towering waves.

After awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, Xuanye's chakra reserves had already surged to Kage Level.

Now, they multiplied again on that foundation, leaping straight into the realm beyond Kage Level—and they continued to rise without stopping.

Feeling the vast lightning power within his body, Uchiha Genya now had violent lightning flashing even within his pupils.

Even though the sudden surge in strength had left him somewhat unable to control himself, Xuanye still wanted to throw back his head and laugh.

This explosive increase in lightning power did not merely raise his chakra reserves. Watching the blue sparks dancing in his hand, Xuanye suddenly had a feeling.

Any Lightning Release he used now would not only be far more powerful than before, but he would no longer need hand seals to cast it.

The lightning power within his body was enough to support the use of any Lightning Release.

He clapped his hands together. Getting exactly what he wanted did not apply only to Wood Release.

Any power, once cultivated to the extreme, could achieve the same thing.

While Xuanye's strength soared, the Musō Isshin within his body also stirred restlessly, continuously absorbing the enormous amount of lightning-nature chakra inside him.

Though saying so was somewhat belittling to himself, Musō Isshin truly had not thought much of Xuanye at first.

How could a mere frail human body possibly wield the divine weapon of a true god?

The Thoughtless Blade he had unleashed before was absolutely not Musō Isshin's limit. It had been Xuanye's limit.

That attack had only been possible after he used the Saha World to turn illusion into reality, temporarily transforming the Susanoo into the Evil Radiance Shadow-Facing Heavenly Demon form.

But now, Musō Isshin actually seemed to be starting to acknowledge Xuanye.

As long as he allowed Musō Isshin to absorb enough lightning-nature chakra normally, Xuanye would be able to barely wield this blade's power at critical moments without going all out.

The system really understood him. Every reward was so perfectly timed, generous, and tempting.

Still, he had drawn lightning-related characters twice in a row. Was he going to keep going down this path for the rest of his life?

But whatever. There was nothing wrong with that.

All-around strengthening was certainly good, but walking one path to the end could also lead to the pinnacle.

Xuanye was in an excellent mood. Not caring that all of Konoha had mobilized, he lifted the blanket by himself and fell happily asleep.

After a night of cleanup, Konoha temporarily regained order, and the wounded received treatment and proper arrangements.

Yet the trauma caused by the Night of the Nine-Tails had taken root in the great tree that was Konoha.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and the rest of Konoha's high-ranking officials had not slept all night, and many clan heads wore exhausted expressions as well.

But once the ruins caused by the Nine-Tails had been initially cleared, they all gathered in the Hokage Building's conference room for a jōnin meeting.

Strictly speaking, it was extremely rare to convene every jōnin. Under normal circumstances, gathering the various clan heads and department leaders would be enough to resolve most of Konoha's problems.

Many jōnin from the clans did not need to attend such meetings at all. Once they returned to their clans, others would naturally relay the meeting's contents to them.

But what had happened in Konoha the previous night was simply too significant. The Nine-Tails had broken free of its seal, and the Fourth Hokage and his wife had died.

Konoha had effectively lost two vital strategic pillars of deterrence at once.

Even Orochimaru, who had not shown himself for a long time, had come to the Hokage Building's conference room. He wore a smile as he watched the worried crowd.

Orochimaru appeared somewhat uninterested. Clearly, if Sarutobi Hiruzen had not dragged him here, he would not have bothered attending this kind of meeting.

And besides...

Orochimaru glanced toward the Uchiha.

The Uchiha alone had more than ten jōnin, accounting for one-tenth of Konoha's total number of jōnin.

Moreover, Uchiha jōnin were famously formidable fighters. It could be said that the Uchiha alone possessed a quarter of Konoha's upper-level combat power.

But what truly surprised him was the Uchiha's current attitude.

Everyone, including Fugaku, the clan head, sat obediently behind Xuanye, wearing solemn expressions.

Aside from Fugaku and Shisui, everyone else looked at Xuanye with fervor in their eyes.

Those gazes seemed to say that even if Xuanye led them into open rebellion right then, they would dare to draw their blades and attack every jōnin present despite their absolute disadvantage in numbers.

There was only one reason so many Uchiha were so fervent: supreme power.

Besides Orochimaru, everyone else was also looking toward the Uchiha clan, either openly or covertly. Clearly, they had been frightened by what they had witnessed the night before.

Worthy of being one of the two great clans that had laid Konoha's foundation, the Uchiha had actually hidden such power.

It was simply too terrifying.

When one could not win, no amount of political maneuvering had any meaning.

Since the Uchiha possessed the power to destroy Konoha, they should have the qualifications to stand above worldly constraints.

The enormous scar stretching nearly a thousand meters through the forest outside the village was enough to make the vast majority of ambitious people abandon every improper thought in their hearts.