The Mangekyo Sharingan's Dojutsu

As soon as Uchiha Yato finished speaking.

They saw him use another Fire Release ninjutsu they had never seen before.

"Fire Release: Great Meteor."

A massive meteor fell from the sky, hurtling down toward the three of them.

Its surface blazed with enormous sparks, and just as it was about to reach them—

Uchiha Yato shouted, "Scatter!"

The meteor instantly turned into a rain of flaming stones, falling from above and reigniting the flames around the three men that had originally been extinguished by Water Release.

The black-clad man at the front immediately lost his nerve and wanted to beg Uchiha Yato for mercy.

"My lord, we were wrong."

"We were deceived into coming here. We were told the Uchiha had a great deal of money, so we came to plunder it."

"Please spare our lives, sir. We'll tell you who hired us. Would that be acceptable?"

Hearing his words, Uchiha Yato knew they definitely were not from Root.

He silently praised Danzo Shimura. This time, the man had not been too stupid and had not sent Root members to attack him.

Even if these three died here, Danzo would not feel any pain. They had merely been hired by him, and he would not even have to pay them.

Uchiha Yato said, "Forget it. Judging by the state of you three, life hasn't been easy."

Upon hearing that, hope instantly flared within the three men. What no one saw, however, was that they gripped the explosive tags behind their backs even tighter.

As long as Uchiha Yato came close, they would definitely give him an unforgettable memory.

Uchiha Yato continued, "Since that's the case, I, Uchiha Yato, will show kindness for once."

The smiles at the corners of the three men's mouths gradually softened. They thought Uchiha Yato had gone softhearted.

Then Uchiha Yato said, "Let me take you away from this painful world."

After saying that, he revealed his Mangekyo Sharingan.

Of course, Uchiha Yato knew they were lying. Rather than searching for the Uchiha Clan's storehouses when they arrived, they had come straight to kill him. That alone proved their only target was him.

It was not as they had claimed—that they had set their sights on the Uchiha Clan's wealth and been moved to wickedness.

When fighting an Uchiha, one must never look into their eyes. That was common knowledge among all shinobi.

But when people were tense or relaxed, they would subconsciously forget certain important things.

Uchiha Yato had first used his words to put them at ease and lower their guard against him.

Their perfect fall into the trap at the end had all been designed by Uchiha Yato.

The reason Uchiha Yato had gone to such lengths was naturally to test the dojutsu of his Mangekyo Sharingan.

Although he had learned its abilities when it awakened, some things still needed further development.

Perhaps, after developing it further, he might discover that his dojutsu could even become intangible like Obito's Kamui.

His left eye was called the Wheel of Time. As its name implied, it was related to time.

It could regulate his own time and save states. For example, it could slow his speed by twofold or accelerate it by twofold.

Slowing it by twofold was equivalent to giving himself more breathing room, while speeding it up by twofold was like activating double speed.

The ability of his right eye was called Time Space.

It could adjust the flow of time within a certain area. The amount of ocular power consumed depended on the size of the adjusted space and the time multiplier.

Uchiha Yato had even specifically asked the system whether he could save a state first to preserve his ocular power, then use that ocular power afterward to exploit a bug.

Unfortunately, he could not exploit a bug that way. Ocular power that had been consumed could not, in principle, be restored.

The Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan in the system shop cost 300,000 emotion coins. That was what Uchiha Yato needed to strive for now.

Consumed ocular power could be replenished in small amounts with emotion coins, at roughly five emotion coins each time.

Uchiha Yato had also asked the system why it could replenish ocular power.

The system replied that he should not ask questions he was not supposed to ask.

Now that he had three little white mice, Uchiha Yato could naturally test the functions of his abilities properly.

He had already tested the ability of his left eye. Anything that entered his body could be slowed down or accelerated to a certain extent.

For example, if Ryoma Aburame used insects against him, they might not necessarily harm him.

But they would expose his Mangekyo Sharingan. That was why Uchiha Yato was not afraid of Ryoma Aburame at all.

This time, what he mainly wanted to test was his other dojutsu—Time Space.

It could alter the time within a certain area, but there was much more to it than that. After all, space and time were interconnected.

For his first experiment, Uchiha Yato slashed one of the black-clad men, covering him in wounds.

Then, he manipulated the time within this space.

After a brief change, the wounds no longer bled, but they did not heal either.

After trying repeatedly with no obvious changes, Uchiha Yato began the next test.

As Uchiha Yato adjusted the settings, he discovered that he could make the blood flow faster, driving someone into a state of imminent shock.

And when someone was on the verge of death, he could also slow the approach of death, though he could not prevent death from occurring.

Just like that, the first little white mouse soon paid for the knowledge Uchiha Yato gained about the abilities brought by his dojutsu with its life.

Very soon, it was the second little white mouse's turn.

Uchiha Yato directly made him attack him, altering the man's own speed.

In other words, it could take effect even on a living target who was not unconscious.

During the process, Uchiha Yato deliberately released the genjutsu, yet the other man still failed to notice that he himself and the surrounding environment had changed.

It was extremely covert. Without points of reference nearby, it was difficult for someone within the affected space to notice the changes.

In the end, when the last man's stamina was exhausted, Uchiha Yato forcibly extended his life by thirty seconds before he finally died.

Congratulations to the second little white mouse for completing its mission.

Before starting on the third little white mouse, Uchiha Yato tried changing the surrounding scenery.

He restored the small area of scorched ground to look slightly better, but even that tiny alteration consumed three to five times more ocular power than using it on a person.

That also made Uchiha Yato abandon the idea of accelerating crop growth and other beneficial projects for the people.

As for the last man, Uchiha Yato tested the enhancement of his own genjutsu on him. Afterward, he ended the test and readily sent him away from the sorrows of this world.

By then, through his tests, Uchiha Yato had gradually figured out the abilities of his Mangekyo Sharingan.

Uchiha Yato muttered, "This time, I have to thank our comrade Danzo Shimura for sending me these little white mice."

"As thanks, I'll definitely come find you again someday and fleece you once more."

By the time he sensed someone approaching, Uchiha Yato had long since left the area.

As for the deaths of these three shinobi, Hiruzen Sarutobi could worry about them.

When the ANBU reported the deaths of the three shinobi to Hiruzen Sarutobi—

The Third Hokage had no choice but to crawl out of his tender embrace and rush back to the office building to handle the matter.

After all, it concerned Konoha's safety. The Hokage could not afford to be careless.

Without realizing it, Hiruzen Sarutobi was once again cleaning up Danzo Shimura's mess.