"I thought I had adapted to this world. Only now did I realize how powerless one person could be."
"Hokage? A hot-blooded series? An inspirational series? Heh."
Uchiha Gen only felt his blood turn cold, unable to sense even a trace of warmth from the outside world. The Mangekyō Sharingan spun in his eyes, and the pattern traced by red and black lines finally bloomed with its own unique colors.
Walking out of the room, the sounds of slaughter still echoed outside. After so long, Uchiha Gen finally began forming hand seals manually once more.
"Yin Seal... Release."
Even the Chakra stored over less than two or three days caused the amount of Chakra in his body to surge. A crystalline blue radiance even shimmered over his skin.
"Rain Tiger at Will Technique!"
The Rain Tiger at Will Technique had originally been a unique sensory ninjutsu created by Nagato in Hokage, using the Land of Rain's distinctive environment to infuse Chakra into rainfall.
What Uchiha Gen used now was his own version of Rain Tiger. Because his technique consumed even more Chakra and could not yet be refined enough for continuous use, it could only serve as a one-time ninjutsu.
Rumble!
An immense, invisible mass of Water-natured Chakra rose into the sky, slowly gathering water vapor. Dark clouds converged, and rain poured down in torrents.
The rain came suddenly, but in the midst of battle, no one noticed anything unusual about it. Yet when the raindrops fell upon those shinobi...
Whoosh!
Uchiha Gen's figure instantly appeared behind an enemy shinobi somewhere within the Clan Land, one hand piercing straight through the man's chest.
"Puh! Wh... when?"
He pulled back his hand, and the corpse fell. Uchiha Gen hauled up a clansman still reeling from shock beside him. Without pausing, he used the Body Flicker Technique again and rushed toward the next location.
In the blink of an eye, the sounds of slaughter throughout the Uchiha Clan Grounds rapidly turned into screams. More and more Uchiha Clan shinobi gathered in groups of three or five, instantly reversing their disadvantage and launching an active purge of the Clan Land.
"The clan head is still here! Pull yourselves together!"
"Kill these bastards!"
"Guard the shrine! The rest of you, charge with me!"
Rumble!
Thunder and lightning tore through the night sky, and the tide of battle began to turn at that moment.
The moment the rain began, some rejoiced while others despaired. When the Clan Land had first been breached, the hearts of the Uchiha clansmen had been shrouded in gloom. But when Uchiha Gen's conspicuous Divine Robe appeared, that gloom was torn apart, and the first light of dawn shone through.
At Naka Shrine, only a little over a hundred Uchiha shinobi remained on guard. Everyone else had charged into the Clan Land to fight. The elderly and young clansmen within the shrine, who had originally been trembling with fear, calmed down because that man was still there.
In their hearts, as long as Uchiha Gen was there, every difficulty would be resolved. This was their clan head—the clan head who had changed the Uchiha.
It took Uchiha Gen less than ten minutes to eliminate the shinobi causing trouble within the clan. In total, he killed 596 unidentified shinobi, whose clothing came from at least six shinobi clans.
"What a bizarre conspiracy... Was I being used?"
Uchiha Gen asked himself. He had never encroached on the interests of these shinobi clans. Some of them he had never even heard of. And even if he had, that was merely the norm during the Warring States Era. Looking at the two battlefields burning outside the Clan Land, it seemed that nearly every shinobi clan in the Land of Fire had come.
"No, I remember this Fūma Clan is from the Land of Wind. That means the surrounding shinobi clans are involved too. Kicking someone while they're down? Or fishing in troubled waters?"
Standing on a rooftop in the rain, Uchiha Gen paused. Another ten minutes slowly passed, and more and more clansmen gathered behind him.
"Have the injured been settled?"
"Everything has been arranged, Clan Head!"
"Good! Then I'll have to trouble all of you to continue chanting the song of war with me!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!!"
At that moment, Uchiha Gen's Shadow Clone wore a bitter expression, because he realized the unrest in the Clan Land had already been quelled. There was no need to say it—Little Kuro had successfully brought the original body over.
"Sigh... This shouldn't be my fault. After all, I'm just a Shadow Clone..."
Smack!
The Shadow Clone struck again, slapping an Akimichi Clan fatty to death. The black shadows spreading toward him could not get within three meters, and the Yamanaka Clan's secret techniques had no effect on him whatsoever.
Watching these shinobi clans still desperately trying to stop him, the Shadow Clone curled his lips and muttered:
"Well~ while the original body is on his way, I'll use up a little more Chakra. He can deal with it afterward."
And Uchiha Gen was indeed rushing over. The number of clansmen following behind him only increased, and upon closer inspection, every clansman trailing behind bore injuries.
Uchiha Gen's expression was numb as he took the lead and charged directly into the nearest battlefield. The Mangekyō Sharingan no longer spared its eye power. After instantly controlling the enemy's five senses, he killed with a single strike.
Killing people was much faster than fighting. There was no exchange of elaborate techniques—whatever was more sinister, he used; whatever was more efficient, he employed. At this moment, life was especially cheap.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A massive scroll was thrown into the sky and unfurled. Thousands of kunai scattered from within. Before they could hit the ground, a flash of white light swept through, and only then did the screams ring out with a delay.
Uchiha Gen was like a reaper of life. Whether Jōnin or Genin, none could endure even one blow before him. Electric arcs crackled around his wrists, yet not a single drop of blood stained him.
For some reason, the Shadow Clone exploded. The memories it returned made Uchiha Gen pause for a moment, then his gaze became even gloomier, and his Mangekyō Sharingan glowed an even deeper red.
"Yamanaka Clan, Nara Clan, Akimichi Clan... Even those three clans came? Very good!"
Those three families, who had always remained neutral, had joined in as well. That made it even more likely that everyone had come.
At that thought, the heartbeat in his chest grew faster and faster, like an emperor's engine.
Half an hour later, Uchiha Gen arrived at the third battlefield.
Looking at the conspicuous Susanoo giant and Wood Dragon giant, this force was probably led by the Senju.
However, there was an enormous barrier surrounding the area. The more Uchiha Gen looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. It was clearly the Four Red Yang Formation.
"The Uzumaki are involved too... How did my Uchiha become the public enemy of the Shinobi World?"
When it came to Sealing Arts, Uchiha Gen was exceptionally proficient. He found the four cardinal positions, flashed over, casually dealt with the Uzumaki shinobi, then immediately led his forces charging inside.
The instant Uchiha Gen approached, he sensed someone trying to take over his body. Such clumsy Yin-nature manipulation was nothing before the enhancement of his Mangekyō Sharingan. The rebounding spiritual energy directly turned the brain of the Yamanaka shinobi hiding in the shadows into mush, leaving him an idiot.
"Spread out. Stay as far from the central battlefield as possible."
After giving the order, he immediately rushed toward the great lake. His second brother was still fighting Tobirama there. Once his gaze caught Tobirama's figure in the distance...
"Lightning Release Chakra Mode! Lightning Flash!"
Crackle! Swoosh!!
A white line ignited across the water's surface, and the sound of tearing air exploded. Across a distance of more than a thousand meters, Uchiha Gen was nearly face-to-face with Tobirama in the blink of an eye.
After being nourished by Chakra for a long time and later fused with other genes, the cells in his body now erupted with speed surpassing light itself.
Tobirama only caught a glimpse of white light, confusion and disbelief flashing across his face at the same time.
"What is that?"
Bang!
His body could not react at all. Before he could even raise his hands, a punch sent him flying.
"Third Brother!"
"Why did you come out?"
Uchiha Gen had no time to explain. Now was the perfect opportunity to kill Tobirama, and he had no intention of wasting it. As for the plot... let it do whatever it wanted.
Lightning burst from his hand as a ball of Chakra containing a storm condensed within his palm, brimming with terrifying destructive power.
"Die!"
The Rasengan containing a portion of Natural Energy flew out, its flashing electric arcs resembling a tiny sun in the darkness.
Rumble rumble rumble!!
A hurricane swept in. Izuna forcefully suppressed the questions in his heart and raised an arm in defense. His hair was blown straight backward strand by strand. It took a full five or six seconds before the gale finally subsided. When he looked up again, Tobirama's former position had become a massive crater.
The Storm Rasengan's destructive power had pulverized every substance within fifty or sixty meters into particles. At the center of this Rasengan was also a magnetic field that blocked energy, making pure Chakra defenses completely useless.
Seeing such destructive power, Izuna felt that even Susanoo might not be able to withstand it. He could not help stammering.
"Th... Third Brother, is Tobirama dead?"
"No. He was rescued."
"Huh?"
Izuna was stunned. Someone had managed to save a person beneath a ninjutsu of such power? What kind of powerhouse was that?
Uchiha Izuna stood dumbfounded, suddenly finding the Shinobi World before him strangely unfamiliar.
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