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Chapter 18: The entire massacred!

In an instant!

Uchiha Hikaru stopped moving, standing stiffly in place, as if his mind had been controlled and he had lost the ability to act.

Taking advantage of this fleeting moment, a Root ninja rushed forward and thrust his short sword with all his might, piercing straight through her back!

The Root ninja's face lit up with joy.

But the next moment...

Bang!

Uchiha Hikaru, stabbed to death by the blade, vanished in a blur, leaving behind only the base of the sword with its pupils suddenly contracting.

"A clone technique?! When did that happen...?"

Before the sword-wielding root could react, Uchiha Hikaru's figure, accompanied by the whoosh of wind, plummeted straight down from the treetops above. In the instant he passed by the former, he raised his arms, wrapped them around the former's neck, and then gently twisted it!

click-

Neck broken!

Uchiha Hikari casually picked up the Root ninja's short sword, using the corpse as cover to block the Yamanaka clansman's view, and then used a Body Flicker Technique to teleport behind a large tree several meters away. Having done all this, she let out a soft breath, a vast blueprint seemingly unfolding in her mind—

"Not counting the first two, there were twelve Root members who came to assassinate us. We've already taken care of three, so there are nine left..."

"These people are located at... the closest one is about ten meters away, and the furthest one is about forty meters away. There are also two Root ninjas supporting that mountain clansman. We must find a way to take him out first, otherwise he will be a great hindrance to me..."

"It's possible they have reinforcements coming..."

During the rapid calculations, an unnamed rage welled up within Uchiha Hikaru—

Danzo, Root...

These gutter rats...

They dare to hunt me down?! They're not even worthy of hunting me down!

Since that's the case... then we should be prepared to be completely wiped out!

The next moment, Uchiha Hikaru opened and closed his eyes, his gaze becoming sharp and piercing:

"Amaterasu!!!"

With a surge of eye power, Uchiha Hikaru leaped out from his hiding place. In a single glance, a ball of scorching black flame appeared out of thin air next to the Yamanaka clan ninja, setting him ablaze. Although the latter immediately tried to take off his clothes, the black flames seemed to have a life of their own, climbing up his collar and cuffs and burning half of his body to a crisp in the blink of an eye!

Amaterasu-Kagutsuchi!

This is similar to Sasuke's, a dojutsu that further incorporates shape-changing abilities on top of Amaterasu!

"Aaaaaah!!!"

Even the roots, which are said to be devoid of emotion, could not endure the pain of being burned by the black flames and let out a miserable wail.

But Uchiha Hikaru didn't even glance at the "dead man." He immediately moved and jumped onto a tree trunk several meters high, then turned to face the other side.

With another glance, black flames also erupted on the bodies of the other two Root ninjas. Although the people next to them immediately released water jutsu to try to extinguish the flames, the eye technique called Amaterasu could not be extinguished by ordinary water.

"Six more people..."

"A swift and decisive victory!"

Uchiha Hikaru took a deep breath and controlled all the black flames to burst out in all directions. Taking advantage of the surrounding Root members fleeing and avoiding, his main body once again controlled Susanoo to rush out and smash the earth wall that rose in front of him. Then he reached out and used Susanoo's two giant hands to grab the two Root ninjas at the end of the rubble and slapped them hard!

Bang! !

Amidst a fierce whooshing sound, the two root-like bodies collided and, under immense pressure, exploded into a cloud of blood mist!

"Four……"

Next, relying on the dynamic vision provided by his Sharingan, Uchiha Hikaru lunged into the middle of several Root members. With his left hand, he grabbed the blade of one of their opponents, while his right hand slit his throat with a kunai. He then seized the blade and threw it, the short sword piercing the skull of another Root ninja with a sharp whistling sound!

The blade got stuck in the hard skull, and blood and milky white fluid splattered together!

"two……"

From the moment Uchiha Hikaru reappeared to the moment he killed seven Root ninjas in one fell swoop, the entire process took only a dozen seconds. After witnessing this firsthand, the remaining two Root ninjas' eyes flickered. Instead of charging forward, they began to try to escape.

Uchiha Hikaru stood up, used the Body Flicker Technique to leap forward a few meters, his body darting into the forest like a nimble cat. He lightly stepped on a tree trunk, then pounced on one of the roots with the ferocity of a tiger. The moment their bodies collided, he deflected the short sword that the opponent was slashing with his shoulder, and then plunged a kunai into his throat!

boom--!

Driven by the momentum of his lunge, Uchiha Hikaru and the Root ninja crashed into a large tree together. Using the latter's corpse as a cushion, he absorbed most of the impact, then struggled to his feet and looked at the last person.

At this moment, the Root ninja had already escaped to a distance of over 100 meters and was about to break free from the other side of the forest.

however……

Uchiha Hikaru extended his right hand and pointed forward.

The next moment, a sound like a dragon's roar rang out. A jet-black dragon shadow formed from the flames of Amaterasu passed by Uchiha Hikaru, smashed through the dense bushes, and pounced on the last Root ninja. In an instant, it swallowed him up and reduced him to ashes!

"zero!"

The twelve elite members of the Root Force were all wiped out!

"call……"

Uchiha Hikaru stood still, took a deep breath, and calmly surveyed his surroundings.

Only after confirming that she could no longer sense the presence of another living person around her did she deactivate her Mangekyou Sharingan.

As the Sharingan closed, the dark red Susanoo dissipated in mid-air, and the black flames of Amaterasu gradually disappeared. The surrounding air quieted down, with only corpses scattered everywhere and the earth and forests ravaged by various ninjutsu telling the story of what had just happened.

It was around this time that things started.

Uchiha Hikaru felt a slight stinging sensation in his eye socket, and his eyes seemed to be a little wet, with faint bloody tears flowing out.

"Come to think of it... I guess my eyes are just ordinary kaleidoscopes..."

Uchiha Hikaru from the Warring States period had no siblings, and his parents were ordinary ninja with tomoe (magatama-shaped ninja heads).

This means that she did not have the opportunity to complete her eyes into an eternal kaleidoscope.

In theory, the "Eight Thousand Spears" can absorb the eye power of others to replenish itself and slow down the rate at which eye power is depleted. After all, eye power itself is a special kind of chakra. However, this method is not a permanent solution and there is still a risk of blindness.

Moreover, the effects of the "Eight Thousand Spears" are too terrifying and cannot be tolerated by any of the ninja clans. Once discovered, it could lead to endless trouble.

—This is why Uchiha Hikaru from the Warring States period was sealed away. The same reason why Uchiha Hikaru didn't use this eye technique earlier.

"It seems we need to find a way to eliminate this potential threat..."

Uchiha Hikaru composed himself.

After confirming that no one else was coming, she wiped the cold sweat from her nose, picked up a long sword from the ground, and slowly circled around, finishing off each of the Root ninjas who had tried to assassinate her.

(End of this chapter)