Drip... drip...
It was as if a spark had fallen into a vat of oil. After stirring up that tiny, insignificant ripple, Uchiha Jin felt the ocular power that had already been far more abundant than that of ordinary clan members begin to burn at a frenzied pace!
No, it was not burning. It was compressing!
The ocular power in Uchiha Jin's eyes was crazily contracting. The change was so abrupt and violent that, in his perception, it was as though countless reserves of ocular power were being burned away into nothingness.
And that was not all.
The Sharingan, which normally required deliberate activation to refine ocular power, was now madly extracting Uchiha Jin's physical and spiritual energy, continuously supplying material for this extreme compression.
It felt incomparably long in his perception, but only a brief moment had actually passed. Uchiha Jin's chakra and ocular power, already far surpassing those of ordinary people, had been completely drained away.
Yet just as Uchiha Jin felt as though he had been utterly hollowed out, a bright moon suddenly appeared before his eyes. Warm moonlight brushed over every cell within his body like a sheer veil.
At that very moment.
Uchiha Jin, who had just been drained dry, discovered in astonishment that his body was once again filled with endless chakra, restoring him to his peak condition!
No!
It was not recovery, but transcendence!
Uchiha Jin felt better than ever before. An unparalleled sense of power filled every cell of his body, while everything before his eyes became clearer and more distinct.
Open—
Mangekyō, awaken!
As time, seemingly frozen for an entire century, began to turn once more, the Mangekyō Sharingan, its six-pointed-star pattern slowly rotating, fully opened, as though formally announcing its arrival to the world.
Hoo...
Uchiha Jin gently exhaled, pulling