Then he pulled the throwing darts from his waist and sent them flying with a series of swishes.
Throwing weapons were the Uchiha Clan's specialty.
In the original story, Itachi had taken them to incredible heights.
Fugaku, his father, certainly couldn't be bad at them either.
He unleashed a dazzling series of trick throws in unmistakable Uchiha style.
Darts flew in different directions, then curved into the mountain where Mikoto had blasted a huge hole earlier.
As expected, a series of bangs rang out.
Fugaku's darts could explode too.
Its defense was slightly weaker than Mikoto's third stage, unable to block some highly penetrating A-rank ninjutsu.
After all, without the crow tengu armor, the drop in defense was understandable.
But this stage's mobility far surpassed the third stage.
Fugaku was only standing still for the tests; otherwise, even landing a hit on him would have been a problem.
When Fugaku returned, everyone turned to Seiichi.
Seiichi's figure flickered, and he teleported to an open space in the distance.
He waved to the others.
Then Seiichi began pouring Eye Power into his Sharingan like mad.
The speed at which Seiichi first activated Susanoo and advanced through its stages far surpassed Fugaku's and Mikoto's.
When Mikoto activated Susanoo, she paused at each stage.
When Fugaku activated Susanoo, it was like a giant slowly evolving.
But when Seiichi activated Susanoo, it was like a magic trick. In the blink of an eye, you might lose track of what he was doing.
Even watching with their Three-Tomoe Sharingan activated, everyone found it a little fast. That only proved one thing: Seiichi's Eye Power truly wasn't on the same level as theirs.
An enormous mass of purplish-black energy appeared directly around Seiichi, its color giving an impression of profound depth.
Moreover, this initial mass of energy was already about as large as Mikoto's third stage.
The initial form, the skeletal stage, the flesh-covered stage, the half-body crow tengu stage, the full-body stage.
These stages passed extremely quickly, almost in a flash.
Until now.
Seiichi stopped at the fourth stage, the full-body stage.
His fourth stage looked a whole size larger than Fugaku's fourth stage.
Of course, the fourth stage wasn't important. What mattered was the fifth stage-Perfect Susanoo!
As Seiichi poured in ever more Eye Power without restraint, his fourth-stage Susanoo began expanding rapidly as though being inflated.
Not only that, as its size increased, pieces of armor appeared on the purplish-black Susanoo, clashing with sounds like steel scraping and colliding.
Then they formed a complete suit of crow tengu armor that covered the entire enormous Susanoo, with a pair of wings on its back that seemed to blot out the sky.
A sword hung at this purplish-black Susanoo's waist.
Nine tomoe also hung around Susanoo's neck.
When Seiichi's Perfect Susanoo appeared before them.
The others stared blankly upward, gazing at this utterly gigantic, overwhelmingly imposing purplish-black Susanoo.
By their visual estimate, Seiichi's Susanoo was about three times as tall as Fugaku's fourth-stage Susanoo.
In other words, it stood around 300 meters tall.
Shisui and Itachi gaped, their expressions blank as they looked at Seiichi, then at Fugaku and Mikoto, then turned back to Seiichi.
Although they said nothing, Fugaku and Mikoto understood what they meant.
In fact, the same question had occurred to both of them.
Were their Susanoo and Seiichi's Susanoo even the same thing?
Holy shit, this fucking gap was way too big! To them, it felt even greater than the difference between D-rank and S-rank ninjutsu!
Seiichi ignored their reactions and instead turned to look at the long sword hanging at his Susanoo's waist.
At a thought from Seiichi, Susanoo drew the sword with its right hand.
It held the sword in one hand, raising the blade upright before itself.
Once Seiichi saw the weapon's true appearance, he froze.
It was actually a saber?!
The weapon had a rather unusual design. Rather than an ordinary saber hilt, it had a sword hilt.
It was a Chinese-style sword hilt at that, with a red sword tassel attached to its end.
It could be gripped with either one hand or two.
Looking farther up, he saw that its blade was long and slender, but straight and single-edged.
And this saber was extremely long.
An ordinary saber was only about half its wielder's height.
But this saber's overall length was nearly four-fifths the height of Seiichi's Susanoo.
Still, though it was a little long, it looked quite good.
"To think I'd have a divine weapon too!"
Seiichi murmured to himself.
In the original story, Itachi's Susanoo had two divine weapons, the Totsuka Blade and the Yata Mirror.
(Originally, there had also been Yasaka Magatama.
At first, this move was established as Uchiha Itachi's exclusive technique, usable only by Uchiha Itachi.
Later, Kishimoto changed the setting so that any member of the Uchiha Clan who activated Susanoo's second stage could use this technique.
That was why Madara Uchiha also used the ninjutsu Yasaka Magatama during the Shinobi World War.)
Naturally, Seiichi coveted something as good as a divine weapon.
But those came with Itachi's Susanoo, so however much he coveted them, there was nothing he could do.
Now Seiichi's Susanoo had given him a huge surprise.
Divine weapons? He had one too!
Even if it was only one.
The moment Seiichi saw this saber, he knew its name and the tremendous power it contained.
Saber name: Shusui Parting Clouds.
It came with two passive skills and two active skills.
Passive skills: ultimate durability, ultimate sharpness.
Active skills:
1. "Destruction": upon activation, a layer of purplish-red energy would cover the blade. Any wounds inflicted on an object by Shusui Parting Clouds in this state would remain permanently and could not be repaired.
2. "Evilbreaker": upon activation, a layer of bright golden energy would cover the blade. Damage dealt to all "non-carbon-based life-forms" would be multiplied fivefold and could not be healed!
Moreover, both effects could be stacked and used simultaneously, covering the blade in a golden-red color.
Seiichi raised his eyebrows.
These two skills were rather interesting.
Seiichi was very satisfied with this saber.
It was just a weapon. He didn't need it to have a bunch of flashy skills; mindlessly stacking attack power was enough.
Next came the tests.
He extended his right arm straight down, holding the saber with its blade pointing downward, then swung his right hand hard diagonally upward. A blade wave that was already about as tall as Seiichi's Susanoo at its outset flew straight toward the battered mountain in the distance.
Fugaku and the others covered their ears with practiced ease, but even after a while, there was still no sound.
They had only just lowered their hands when they saw a sight that left them dumbfounded.
The mountain's peak began to tilt, then slowly slid toward the valley.
Until the peak separated completely from the mountain below.
Looking at the mountain's smooth diagonal cut, Shisui and Itachi twitched their noses, feeling an itch.
It wasn't over yet. Susanoo raised its left hand and tore the tomoe necklace from its neck.
With a light flick of its left hand, the nine tomoe flew out like cannonballs.
Boom, boom, boom, boom...
Immediately afterward, Susanoo extended its left hand forward, spreading its fingers and aiming its palm ahead.
An immense surge of chakra emanated from its palm.
Everyone saw a purplish-black energy sphere appear in the palm of Seiichi's Susanoo's left hand.
And it began expanding continuously.
It only stopped once the energy sphere had grown to the size of Susanoo's head.
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