But Second Pillar, Neji Hyuga, and Sakura had all surpassed the level of ordinary Kage-level experts.
Just how strong was this Fifth Hokage? And he was only sixteen years old.
A young man of merely sixteen possessed such an overwhelming advantage that he could suppress three experts beyond the Kage level.
Most outrageous of all, Second Pillar, Sakura, and Neji Hyuga were all just as young.
They were all only sixteen or seventeen.
Too terrifying. Was Konoha in this era about to return to the time when the God of Shinobi had dominated an entire age?
Whenever the Third Tsuchikage thought of those days, of Madara Uchiha's terrifying, godlike power, he could not help but feel immense fear.
"This Second Pillar has awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan too. Aren't those the same eyes Madara Uchiha had back then?"
"Does that mean Second Pillar already possesses Madara Uchiha's power from back then? He may have even surpassed it."
"After all, the ocular power of Second Pillar's Mangekyō Sharingan seems to have surpassed Itachi Uchiha's."
"A Susanoo dozens of meters tall and one over a hundred meters tall—there's far too great a difference between them."
"Madara Uchiha's Susanoo back then also seemed to be over a hundred meters tall."
"Damn it, Second Pillar must already possess Madara Uchiha's power from back then, right?"
"But Madara Uchiha definitely wasn't only sixteen when he possessed that kind of strength. He was already much older."
"Will this Second Pillar surpass Madara Uchiha in the future?"
"And then there's Neji Hyuga. He's from the Hyuga Clan. Aside from its immense value in reconnaissance, the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan doesn't seem to possess many powerful abilities."
"Could it be that Neji Hyuga has evolved his Byakugan as well?"
*"Since the Byakugan and Sharingan are both ocular techniques, why can