"Just as I thought. Peace gives technology time to develop."
Uchiha Ensei held a game console a merchant had recently released. The games were rather primitive, but it was a promising start.
Ever since Madara Uchiha had firmly established his rule over the Land of Waves, the entire Ninja World had seemed to change by the day.
Konoha was particularly safe, making it a focus for merchants.
At the same time, as the ninja wars ended and taxes on some civilians fell, the role of ninja gradually took on a different form.
Before, ninja had obeyed their superiors' orders and risked their lives to complete all kinds of missions.
Now they were more like mercenaries, with the freedom to accept missions, recruit subordinates, and set their own working hours.
This shift inevitably weakened the authority of the ruling class in the ninja villages.
But no one could truly stop the tide of change. Anyone who tried to stand in its way would be swept aside.
These days, the Ninja World seemed to change every day.
Whenever Uchiha Ensei went out after some time away, he saw something that opened his eyes.
The game console he had bought on this outing, for instance, gave him another way to pass the time.
For now, though, game consoles were still too primitive and had few entertaining games.
Once Uchiha Ensei had satisfied his curiosity, he set it aside.
Next, he planned to replicate the ocular technique he had seen Ōtsutsuki Isshiki use.
Before he could do that, however, he needed to prepare a clone of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
Uchiha Ensei had already tried using an ordinary clone. It could not meet the demands of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's eyes and could not use their unique ocular technique at all.
As for directly absorbing their ocular power,