"Understood."
Amid the rocky wasteland, the expression on Uchiha Fugaku's face, so "anxious" as he directed the battle just moments earlier, instantly turned cold and murderous.
He slowly raised his head, his gaze crossing the chaotic battlefield and locking precisely onto Hawk, the Anbu Captain caught in shock and panic.
"The game is over."
Fugaku's voice was quiet, yet it reached every Uchiha clansman around him clearly.
The next second!
Boom!
A suffocatingly vast surge of chakra erupted from his body like a dormant volcano!
At this signal, the Uchiha clansmen who had still been "pretending" all tore away their disguises!
"Roar!"
As one, they threw back their heads and let out a roar filled with pent-up repression and savagery!
Deep blue flames of chakra, visible to the naked eye, blazed around every one of them!
Their eyes no longer held terror and panic, but the cold cruelty of hunters looking at prey!
"Kill!"
At that command, the tide of battle instantly reversed!
If they had merely been "toying" with their opponents before.
Then now, the real slaughter began!
"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!"
Dozens of Uchiha ninja formed hand seals at once!
Fireballs blanketed the sky, hurtling toward the Konoha Anbu like a meteor shower!
Unlike before, however, countless senbon and shuriken coated in deadly poison were concealed among these fireballs!
"Not good! Raise a defensive barrier, now!"
The Konoha Anbu blanched. Never in their wildest dreams had they imagined that the Uchiha could use Fire Style like this!
But it was already too late!
Some Anbu who failed to react in time were instantly swallowed by the fireballs or riddled with poisoned projectiles!
And this was only the beginning!
"Shisui of the Body Flicker Technique, reporting!"
An afterimage moving at blinding speed suddenly streaked across the battlefield!
Wielding Soul Reaper, the enormous scythe he had obtained from the ninja tool storehouse, Shisui Uchiha was like a black tornado of death!
Blood and severed limbs flew wherever he passed!
The Body Flicker Technique those elite Anbu took such pride in was so slow before him that they looked like children playing house!
They could not even touch the hem of Shisui's clothes before the scythe wrapped in pitch-black chains effortlessly severed their necks or pierced their hearts!
"Kotoamatsukami: Light!"
The unique four-pointed pinwheel Mangekyo in Shisui's eyes shimmered with an eerie light.
He did not even need to activate that heaven-defying genjutsu. The dynamic vision and speed boosts granted by his Mangekyo alone were enough to make him the most efficient reaper in this massacre!
Elsewhere.
Uchiha Itachi, a boy of only seven, also displayed composure and strength utterly at odds with his age.
Rather than charge at the very front like Shisui, he acted like an experienced commander, constantly using genjutsu and exquisite Fire Style to create openings for his companions.
"Genjutsu: Tsukuyomi, Inferior Version!"
A Konoha jonin trying to ambush his older brother merely met his eyes once before instantly collapsing with a scream, foaming at the mouth, his mental world utterly destroyed in an instant!
Is this Itachi's true strength?
Nearby, Uchiha Izumi, who was partnered with Itachi, watched the boy stroll through the battlefield as though through a quiet courtyard, reaping enemy lives with every movement, her beautiful eyes gleaming.
The Uchiha dream team!
At this moment, they truly bared their vicious fangs to the world!
These Uchiha clansmen, whose bloodlines had been purified, who had undergone hellish training in the sacred land, and who had been equipped with divine weapons, were no longer the force that could only serve as security guards in the village!
They were true war machines!
A race born to slaughter!
"How could this happen? How could this happen?!"
Watching his subordinates fall one after another, Anbu Captain Hawk was utterly consumed by fear!
He wanted to retreat, only to discover that they had already been split up and surrounded, their escape routes cut off!
"Monsters! They're all monsters!"
The instant his composure broke.
An icy gaze locked onto him.
It was Uchiha Fugaku!
A chill ran through Hawk's entire body as the shadow of death instantly engulfed him!
He saw Uchiha Fugaku's figure rapidly grow larger in his pupils!
"Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!"
At this moment between life and death, Hawk unleashed every last bit of his potential. His hands flashed through hand seals, and a thick earthen wall rose from the ground, attempting to halt Fugaku's advance.
Yet!
Boom!
The earthen wall, strong enough to withstand A-rank ninjutsu, was instantly shattered by Fugaku's fist as though it were made of paper!
"What?!"
Hawk's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets!
Taijutsu?!
The head of the Uchiha Clan was actually proficient in such fierce taijutsu too?!
"It's too late to be surprised now!"
Fugaku's icy voice rang beside his ear.
In his final moment of consciousness, Hawk saw only a flame-wreathed fist growing larger and larger before his eyes.
Bang!
One punch!
With a single punch, Fugaku blasted apart the Konoha Anbu squad leader's head along with the hawk mask on his face!
Red and white splattered across the ground.
The sight completely shattered the resolve of every Konoha ninja still putting up a desperate resistance!
Yet just as the Uchiha Clan was about to achieve total victory.
An overwhelmingly vast chakra pressure descended from the distant sky with a thunderous force, as though the heavens were collapsing!
"Stop!"
An aged roar filled with boundless fury resounded across the entire battlefield!
An elderly figure came hurtling through the air at astonishing speed, standing atop the Adamantine Staff formed by his summoned beast, Enma!
The newcomer was none other than the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, who had arrived personally leading a great army!
As he looked at the battlefield before him, a scene of carnage, and at the Konoha Anbu lying in pools of blood, his eyes instantly turned bloodshot!
"Uchiha!"
"You traitors! Butchers!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi's gaze locked onto Uchiha Gen'yō, standing in the center of the battlefield, like a sharp sword!
In his eyes, the instigator of all this was this very demon who had led the Uchiha into the abyss!
"Uchiha Gen'yō!"
"Your sins end here!"
Roaring, Hiruzen Sarutobi charged toward Gen'yō with a force that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth!
"Fire Style: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet!"
"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"
The combined wind and fire ninjutsu multiplied its power!
A gigantic, ferocious fire dragon bared its fangs and claws, seemingly intent on burning Gen'yō and the entire space around him to ashes!
Yet faced with this all-out strike from a Kage-level powerhouse, Uchiha Gen'yō could not even be bothered to lift his eyelids.
He merely gave a bored yawn, as though saying, "That's it?"
"Sarutobi, you're too slow."
Just as the fire dragon was about to engulf Gen'yō.
A figure appeared before him like a phantom.
"Your opponent is me!"
An icy, commanding voice rang across the battlefield.
Hiruzen Sarutobi focused his gaze, and his pupils abruptly shrank to pinpoints!
The man blocking his path was actually Uchiha Fugaku!
"Fugaku?!"
Shocked and furious, Hiruzen Sarutobi demanded, "Are you going to make an enemy of Konoha too?!"
"Konoha?"
At that, Fugaku gave a disdainful sneer.
"The moment you decided to raise your butcher's knives against us Uchiha, we were already enemies!"
"Hiruzen Sarutobi!"
Fugaku slowly raised his head. Within his pitch-black eyes, three tomoe began spinning wildly and merging!
"Today, I'll show you the power of these eyes you forced into being!"
Hum!
A surge of ocular power, even more sinister and ominous than before, erupted!
Before Hiruzen Sarutobi's incredulous gaze, an entirely new pair of Mangekyo patterns appeared in Fugaku's eyes, eerie and magnificent like black Fūma Shuriken, never before revealed to the world!
"M-Mangekyō Sharingan?!"
Hiruzen Sarutobi cried out involuntarily!
"Fugaku, you've awakened the Mangekyo too?!"
How many secrets was he still hiding? And what terrifying power did those eyes possess?