Without wasting words, Uchiha Takashi led his Uchiha clansmen straight into the Three-Clan Allied Forces' main camp after breaking through the rear gate's defenses.
The Three-Clan Allied Forces inside the camp had never expected enemies to appear behind them. In the blink of an eye, the Uchiha clansmen were right in their faces.
"Argh-" "Urgh-" Uchiha Takashi darted through the crowd, screams echoing endlessly in his ears.
After tilting his head to dodge an incoming kunai, he looked at the person who had thrown it.
"These eyes of mine have already seen through everything," Uchiha Takashi said flatly, then raised the blade in his hand very slowly.
Cold steel flashed. Uchiha Takashi abruptly vanished from his original position and appeared before his opponent, slashing down.
"Adamantine Sealing Chains!" A furious shout suddenly rang out in the distance, and countless golden chains shot toward Uchiha Takashi.
Uchiha Takashi immediately retreated, dodging the golden chains snaking toward him, and turned to look.
"An Uzumaki..." Uchiha Takashi pointed the tip of his blade at him. "Have you come to get yourself killed?"
Tetsu Uzumaki, the Uzumaki's frontline commander, swallowed and warily watched the boy before him, who looked barely into his teens.
Although the boy was only in his early teens, the killing intent radiating from him was almost tangible, and the chakra emanating from his entire body was terrifying!
The sinister chill within that chakra alone made Tetsu Uzumaki feel cold all over.
"Elder Tsuru Senju at the rear gate... did you kill him?" Tetsu Uzumaki gripped his ninja blade tightly.
"...Too much talking." Uchiha Takashi was in no mood to waste words with Tetsu Uzumaki. What he needed now was a swift resolution.
As Uchiha Takashi advanced rapidly, Tetsu Uzumaki knew full well that if his opponent could finish off Tsuru Senju, he himself was certainly no match for him head-on.
I can't clash with him directly. My only chance of winning is to hold out until Elder Genichi settles things at the front gate and comes to help me. Tetsu Uzumaki's mind raced.
In those few short seconds, the two had already exchanged several blows.
After another clash of ninja weapons, Tetsu Uzumaki hurriedly put some distance between them. By now, even his sword hand was trembling slightly.
Through their repeated clashes, Uchiha Takashi had kept using skillfully applied force to injure Tetsu Uzumaki's wrist.
At this point in the fight, the web of Tetsu Uzumaki's hand had begun to ache.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Blade!" Giving Tetsu Uzumaki no chance to catch his breath, Uchiha Takashi closed in again. This time, he imbued his blade with lightning.
Blue arcs of electricity skittered across the ninja blade, especially dazzling in the dead of night.
Tetsu Uzumaki had no way to react. His stamina was nearly exhausted, and all he could do was watch Uchiha Takashi charge toward him.
"Earth Release: Pursuing Rock Spikes!" At the critical moment, Genichi Senju, who had been commanding at the front gate, arrived.
Seeing Tetsu Uzumaki in danger, he immediately unleashed Earth Release to force Uchiha Takashi back.
Then he hurried over to Tetsu Uzumaki and pulled him up from where he was bracing himself against the ground. "Tetsu, are you all right?"
Tetsu Uzumaki shook his head and said between gasps, "Elder Genichi, I'm fine. This Uchiha is very strong. Be careful!"
Genichi Senju fixed his gaze on Uchiha Takashi's chin. "We've lost this round. I never expected the Uchiha to have an expert like you."
Before he finished speaking, the figure before him suddenly used the Body Flicker Technique to dart right up to him. Genichi Senju reacted immediately, holding his blade horizontally in front of himself to block Uchiha Takashi's surprise attack.
"Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame!" Uchiha Takashi suddenly unleashed a Fire Style attack at point-blank range.
Thud... The fire dragon was too close for Genichi Senju to block. The instant it made contact, it exploded into a cloud of smoke.
A figure tumbled out of the smoke in a sorry state. It was none other than Genichi Senju.
Having taken the fire dragon head-on, Genichi Senju slowly climbed to his feet and dusted himself off. The move did not seem to have caused him any harm.
"Using Fire Style at point-blank range? But you Uchiha, have you forgotten that our Senju Clan's robust physiques are far stronger than yours?"
Genichi Senju said coldly, "Trading injuries like that is useless against a Senju."
Yet when the smoke cleared, Uchiha Takashi slowly walked out with his blade in hand, also completely unharmed.
At the sight, Genichi Senju raised Uchiha Takashi's danger rating another level in his mind.
Uchiha Takashi did not continue attacking the two men in the distance. Instead, he looked around.
Thanks to Genichi Senju's timely arrival, the previously disorganized camp had actually rallied.
The surprise attack squad he led had become embroiled in a bitter struggle.
Uchiha Takashi fixed his gaze on Genichi Senju again. It seemed he would have to kill the man before him to maintain the Uchiha's advantage.
"Looks like I'll have to hurry." Uchiha Takashi bent forward slightly. Seeing this, Genichi Senju immediately assumed a fighting stance opposite him.
Unexpectedly, however, Uchiha Takashi did not charge straight at Genichi Senju.
This left the two men facing Uchiha Takashi somewhat puzzled. What was he doing?
"Minakanokū." Uchiha Takashi suddenly covered his left eye, then focused his right eye on Genichi Senju.
The Mangekyō Sharingan's dōjutsu abruptly activated, and Genichi Senju suddenly froze where he stood.
Before Tetsu Uzumaki could register what had happened, Uchiha Takashi was already beside them.
Under Tetsu Uzumaki's shocked gaze, Genichi Senju simply stood there, offering no resistance as Uchiha Takashi slit his throat with a single stroke.
"You..." Tetsu Uzumaki had just started to speak when a blade pierced through him from behind. He turned his head in shock, but before he could see who was behind him, the blade was abruptly withdrawn.
Everything happened too quickly. To the onlookers, the two men fell one after the other in the blink of an eye.
Seeing both their key commanders fall, the surrounding Senju and Uzumaki clansmen quickly panicked.
"Elder Genichi and Lord Tetsu have both been killed..." Someone let out a distraught cry, and the clansmen who had just rallied immediately fell into disarray again.
The Uchiha Clan's assault squad immediately seized the opportunity, weaving through the chaotic crowd and precisely harvesting enemy lives.
The reason Genichi Senju had suddenly frozen in place was the Mangekyō Sharingan dōjutsu in Uchiha Takashi's right eye, Amenominaka-Minakanokan.
This dōjutsu had been born from Uchiha Takashi's doubts about the very meaning of things' existence.
It had two main functions. When used on an object, it briefly stripped that object of the meaning of its existence.
In other words, it temporarily disappeared from reality, as though the world had judged it to be "something false that should not exist."
When used on a person, it briefly erased their "awareness of the user." They would momentarily forget the caster's appearance, location, and most recent combat moves, leaving a blank in their cognition.
It was an utterly broken ability, specializing in first-encounter kills. Without knowing the specifics, it was easy to be instantly killed on the spot by this move of Uchiha Takashi's.
In fact, it was somewhat like Uchiha Itachi's Tsukuyomi, but compared to dragging someone into a genjutsu, Uchiha Takashi's activation criteria were clearly more powerful.
Its range of application was also broader, and it could be cast without the target seeing his eyes. Compared to genjutsu restricted by line-of-sight conditions, Uchiha Takashi's ability was clearly even more unfair.