As Orochimaru watched Nagato's eyes manifest, his vertical pupils suddenly brightened. "Oh? Is this Uchiha Madara's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan...?"
"That's right. These are Madara's genuine Sharingan."
At that moment, every trace of moisture in the air and every movement of fine dust on the ground appeared in Nagato's eyes with exquisite clarity.
The Sharingan's dynamic visual acuity surpassed that of the Rinnegan.
That was also why Edo Madara had switched his Rinnegan back to Mangekyō during high-intensity close combat.
This further proved that the Rinnegan was not an evolution of the Sharingan, but an independent, entirely different ocular technique.
Orochimaru asked curiously, "Can the Six Paths of Pain still be used?"
Nagato said, "They've all gone dormant. The Rinnegan is a necessary condition for that technique—at the very least, one eye is needed to maintain it."
Orochimaru smiled. "Well then, that will require flexible judgment in actual combat~!"
"Yes. I switched both eyes at this moment because I first wanted to confirm whether the eye power of Madara's Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan can help me. Orochimaru."
"Gladly, Nagato-kun!"
Nagato withdrew his gaze, walked up the stairs, and pushed open the hatch at their end. Beyond it lay the sea formed from gathered rainwater.
The eye power of Madara's Sharingan had never been directly displayed in the original work.
That was undoubtedly extremely unreasonable.
Well, no matter how enthusiasts of power-scaling debates tried to patch things up afterward or wracked their brains to reason it out, it was all wasted effort.
Because it was simply that Masashi Kishimoto, the author of Naruto, could not be bothered to portray it.
From a creator's perspective, sometimes the important points were downplayed for the sake of narrative flow. Take Madara's portrayal, for example: once his "power level" had been established, his status could not be