The Hashira Meeting ended, and everyone dispersed.
Uesugi Sasuke did not linger at Headquarters. He returned directly to the somewhat deserted Thunder Hashira residence assigned to him.
He needed a quiet environment to digest what he had gained from this battle and... examine his true spoils.
Inside his room, Sasuke sat cross-legged, surrounded by silence.
He closed his eyes and sank his consciousness into his mind.
- Ding! Host detected to have successfully slain Upper Rank Five, Gyokko, and Upper Rank Four, Hantengu. - Evaluating battle results... - Evaluation complete: perfect (S). - Assessment: with overwhelming power, eliminated two Upper Ranks simultaneously in an extremely short time, with zero casualties. Perfectly demonstrated the Uchiha Clan's power and greatly intimidated hostile forces. - Calculating rewards... - Points obtained: 200,000.
A series of system notifications sounded, just as he had expected.
Two hundred thousand points.
It was an unprecedented fortune, enough to unlock most of the powerful ninjutsu from the Shippuden era, and even a small portion of those from the Shinobi World War era.
Yet Sasuke felt no stir within.
He knew very well that conventional ninjutsu, however powerful, would only be icing on the cake at his current level of strength.
Only the evolution of his bloodline could bring about a qualitative transformation.
Sure enough, the next notification confirmed his thoughts.
- Ding! Congratulations to the host for earning the special achievement [Twin Moons Fall] (kill two or more demons ranked "Upper Rank" in a single battle). - Achievement reward: unlock the "Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan" advancement quest. - Quest objective: obtain a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan of the same origin and fuse them.
Here it was.
At last, a ripple stirred in Sasuke's mind.
The Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
This was the power he most desperately wanted