Chapter 16: Super Giant Fireball

Uchiha Fenghuo's hand holding the sword trembled slightly, and a pair of scarlet pupils emitted a grayish-white aura.

The Uzumaki clansman in front of him was as strong as a monster. His own taijutsu wasn't too bad, but after a few rounds with the opponent, he could only be suppressed and beaten. Uzumaki Hanado's tyrannical fists could even withstand the katana made of refined iron in his hand.

Not only that, his chakra volume far exceeded his own, and after releasing chakra around his body for so long, there was no sign of attenuation. Even so, the other party hadn't even used his trump card ability. Fighting him felt like playing with a child.

Uzumaki Hanado, uninterested, yawned. Opposite him was the famous "God-Hidden Fenghuo."

Originally, he had held great expectations, but he didn't expect it to be almost over before he even warmed up. Only that genjutsu had posed a bit of a threat to him.

"So boring. If this is all you've got, get out of the way quickly; I'm going to find little Mito."

Uzumaki Hanado, without even lifting his eyelids, waved his hand to knock away the few shuriken Uchiha Fenghuo threw. Seeing the shuriken he threw being easily knocked away by the other party,

Uchiha Fenghuo didn't feel discouraged; instead, he had an expression of "plan succeeded." He swung his hands forward violently, and the shuriken that had been knocked away actually collectively changed course as if being manipulated, attacking Uzumaki Hanado, who was standing still.

In an instant, the shuriken circled Uzumaki Hanado a few times, perfectly missing all vital points.

"Is the Uchiha clan's throwing technique only this accurate?"

Uzumaki Hanado, still indifferent, mocked. The next moment, he felt his body tighten.

"Shuriken Manipulation Technique."

Uchiha Fenghuo, whose ten fingers were wrapped with Uchiha Gin-style threads, let Uzumaki Hanado experience the same "binding play" as her sister, but that wasn't all.

"Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique."

Uchiha Fenghuo brewed scorching flames in his mouth, and a fire dragon surged out from his mouth, rolling toward the bound Uzumaki Hanado along the threads in his hands, instantly swallowing him in flames.

Watching the other party being burned into a man of fire, Uchiha Fenghuo didn't let his guard down, raising the katana in his hand to slash at Uzumaki Hanado, who was wrapped in flames.

As the blade got closer and closer to the other party's head, Uchiha Fenghuo felt the joy of victory rise in his heart.

But the next second, a horrifying scene appeared: a flaming arm steadily grabbed his blade, and no matter how much force he used, he couldn't break free.

"A combination technique, really not common."

Uzumaki Hanado's calm voice came out.

Only then did Uchiha Fenghuo realize that the other party was clearly wrapped in raging flames, yet hadn't let out a single wail.

"Bang!"

As Uzumaki Hanado's aura tightened, the binding threads and the flames burning on his body were all shaken away, revealing his unscathed body.

Shaking the slightly burning hair on his head, Uzumaki Hanado praised,

"Worthy of the Uchiha of the Fan, the tricks of playing with fire are truly gorgeous."

Uchiha Fenghuo, whose eyes were a bit dry, swallowed hard. This Uzumaki clansman's body was simply too BT.

A sense of despair instantly surged into his heart. On the other side of the battlefield, Uchiha Liang Yi and the others were still fighting fiercely.

The long-haired Uzumaki clansman opposite had an expression of ease. It seemed that defeat was only a matter of time.

"Is it really going to end here?"

Uchiha Fenghuo thought of his life of fighting, and finally falling in this kind of mission, he couldn't help but feel a bit emotional.

Feeling that his chakra was about to bottom out and his Sharingan was unable to support him, he struggled to lift his head to look at the sky. The events of the first half of his life flashed back like a revolving lantern.

The scene finally froze on a curly-haired man with a warm smile. A trace of nostalgia rose in Uchiha Fenghuo's eyes, and then, thinking of something, his eyes became firm again.

"I haven't burned out yet. As long as I can drag you for a while longer, the probability of that kid surviving will be higher."

Thinking this, another burst of power surged within Uchiha Fenghuo, and the Sharingan that had been closed quietly reopened.

With this emotion, the three tomoe in his eyes began to spin rapidly, and there was a trend of gradually connecting together.

Frowning, Uzumaki Hanado, relying on the Uzumaki clan's powerful perception, discovered that this Uchiha clansman, who should have been at the end of his rope, was actually bursting with intense chakra, and a sinister aura rushed toward him.

"This is?"

It wasn't that Uzumaki Hanado hadn't seen enemies burning their life force in a desperate situation, hoping to die together, but the Uchiha clan didn't seem to have such means, or was it bluffing?

While Uzumaki Hanado was distracted, a strange chakra rose behind Uchiha Fenghuo, and it was slowly condensing into a weird shape.

Just as that aura was about to condense into shape, a figure flashed in front of Uchiha Fenghuo, holding a kunai in one hand. Uchiha Gin landed in a pose he thought was cool,

"Am I late?"

After saying that, he revealed a smile he thought was cool.

With Uchiha Gin's sudden appearance, the changes on Uchiha Fenghuo's body stopped abruptly, and he looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.

"You came for a hammer! **&……*&%……￥%……"

Uchiha Fenghuo was furious. He had finally managed to sacrifice himself to win a path of survival for Uchiha Gin, but he didn't expect this kid to come back to seek death.

"Uh, shouldn't you, old man, be moved to tears?"

Uchiha Gin, who had been scolded, was a bit dumbfounded. He came back to save the scene and still had to be scolded, so he was immediately unhappy.

"You came."

Uchiha Fenghuo, after his anger, sighed.

"I came."

"You shouldn't have come."

"But I came anyway."

"Are you two finished? Are you just padding the word count here?"

Uzumaki Hanado, who had been ignored by the two for a long time, had a # on his head, and his veins were bulging.

"Oh my, oh my, I'm so sorry."

Uchiha Gin, who was a bit out of character, scratched his head embarrassedly, rolling his dead-fish eyes and apologizing perfunctorily.

"Despicable Uchiha, you actually dare to come back. Where did you hide Mito?"

Seeing that the person who came was the lecherous Uchiha who had "touched" his precious sister, Uzumaki Hanado clenched his fists, which cracked and popped.

Staring at the Uzumaki big guy's sandbag-sized fists, Uchiha Gin swallowed and touched the artifact gifted by Uzumaki Mito in his arms.

"I hope the thing that little girl Uzumaki Mito gave is powerful enough."

"Uchiha Gin, why didn't you listen to the captain's orders?"

Uchiha Fenghuo, who had calmed down, asked in a deep voice. He was anxious in his heart; what was this kid running back for?

"Captain, let's not talk about idle talk, focus on defending against the enemy."

Uchiha Gin didn't answer his question, but instead drew the katana from behind his back.

"You don't even have a Sharingan... when did you open your eyes?"

He was speechless at Uchiha Gin's overestimation of his own abilities. Did this kid not know his own strength? If he couldn't beat the person himself, what was the use of adding an Uchiha Gin?

But the next moment, he saw the tomoe spinning in Uchiha Gin's familiar dead-fish eyes. He was stunned, and a familiar figure appeared in front of him, overlapping with Uchiha Gin.

"What's the use of this one tomoe? The opponent is a taijutsu expert, and you are naturally weak in physique. Facing such an opponent, you have no chance of survival."

Although he was happy that Uchiha Gin could open his eyes, the current situation was not something a single tomoe could reverse.

"Don't challenge my patience, despicable Uchiha. If you hand over Mito, I will consider leaving you a whole corpse."

Uzumaki Hanado, with a red chakra cloak rising on his body, said coldly. His delicate face had a pair of sword-like eyebrows raised, like a lion out of a cage.

"Although I want to say this is all a misunderstanding, it seems this misunderstanding cannot be easily resolved now."

Uchiha Gin felt the other party's tyrannical chakra, as if being stared at by a beast, and his muscles instantly stiffened.

"As things stand, what misunderstanding? Wait until I break your limbs, and I'll naturally make you spit out the truth."

After saying that, Uzumaki Hanado instantly rushed in front of Uchiha Gin and threw a heavy punch at his arm.

With a blow carrying the force of thunder, Uchiha Gin's Sharingan also began to spin rapidly with the rapid secretion of the host's adrenaline.

Just as the punch was about to hit him, the tomoe in Uchiha Gin's eyes turned into two, and within a hair's breadth, he raised his sword and stabbed at Uzumaki Hanado's exposed armpit from a tricky angle.

Uzumaki Hanado, who possessed super perception, knew that if this blow landed, both sides would lose an arm.

He immediately twisted his body and threw the punch at a huge tree nearby. The tree, which required three people to embrace, was instantly pierced by the punch, and then fell down, swaying.

As the thick smoke dissipated, Uzumaki Hanado looked at the small wound on his lower ribs with lingering fear.

The wound had already begun to heal under the Uzumaki clan's BT-like physique, but he was still shocked by the other party's ruthlessness and decisiveness.

Uchiha Gin on the other side was not having a good time either. He touched his right arm. Although Uzumaki Hanado had been wary of his sword-for-injury trade and changed the direction of his punch,

even the wind from the punch had torn the skin and flesh on the outside of his right arm, and blood was flowing incessantly.

But miraculously, after only a few breaths, the wound actually began to sprout tender buds, the blood stopped slowly, and he didn't know when it happened, but he found that the world in his eyes was clearer.

"The Uzumaki clan's recovery power is truly astonishing. I only absorbed a trace of Uzumaki bloodline, and I actually have such powerful recovery power."

After about ten breaths, Uchiha Gin's wound had miraculously recovered, with only a blood scab that was about to fall off hanging on it.

Snake - Ram - Monkey - Boar - Horse - Tiger

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique."

Uchiha Gin, with a normal arm, performed hand seals to use ninjutsu for the first time. This was the only long-range ninjutsu the original owner knew how to use. In the original work, this ninjutsu was also known as the "Technique of Mercy," and its real hit rate was pitifully low.

Feeling the scorching heat brewing in his mouth, Uchiha Gin had a feeling of wanting to spit it out.

Taking a deep breath, he puffed out his cheeks and sprayed the fire-attribute chakra condensed in his mouth toward Uzumaki Hanado not far away.

Looking at the huge fireball rushing toward him, Uzumaki Hanado's eyes almost popped out of his head, and he looked up in surprise.

"Are you sure this tm is a Great Fireball and not a Majestic Destroyer Flame?"

The Great Fireball used by ordinary Uchiha clansmen was about a hundred cubic meters, with a damage range of about ten meters. Uzumaki Hanado was very familiar with this move, but he absolutely couldn't believe the huge fireball in front of him, which was several times larger than an ordinary Great Fireball, if he hadn't seen Uchiha Gin's hand seals.

And this Great Fireball wasn't just for show. Uzumaki Hanado, who possessed super perception, could clearly perceive the powerful destructive power contained in this astonishingly sized Great Fireball.

Unlike the Uchiha's weak Dragon Fire Technique just now, his body might not be able to withstand this Great Fireball, so he had to dodge to the distance in a sorry state.

Any escape technique actually has no distinction between high and low; it is determined by the practitioner's own strength.

The B-rank Fire Release Majestic Destroyer Flame and Majestic Demolisher Flame released by Uchiha Madara had destructive power that could be called world-destroying.

Uchiha Gin, who closed his eyes and compressed all the air in his lungs, stopped the ninjutsu in his hands and took a deep breath to give his parched lungs a burst of vitality.

At this time, the chakra in his body was squeezed to the bottom of the bottle. Opening his eyes and looking at the forest in front of him being burned into a clearing the size of a football field, he wiped his dead-fish eyes in disbelief.

"Did I fall for a genjutsu?"

His tone was a bit uncertain. Uchiha Fenghuo, who had been offline behind him, had the same expression as Uzumaki Hanado just now, and his two Sharingan were almost popping out.

Uchiha Fenghuo swore that since he could remember, he had never seen such a terrifying ninjutsu. Even the clan's number one powerhouse, Uchiha Tajima, had never displayed a Great Fireball of this scale.

Although he was behind the Fire Release, the terrifying residual heat still brought him some dryness, and the moisture in the air was completely evaporated, making it uncomfortable to breathe.

"What technique is this?"

Uchiha Fenghuo spoke to pull back Uchiha Gin, who was still thinking. Looking at the miserable state in front of him, the other party scratched his curly hair uncertainly,

"Probably, a Great Fireball."

Although the hand seal method was in his memory, Uchiha Gin himself wasn't sure if something had gone wrong just now. After all, the Great Fireball in front of him was indeed too exaggerated, more than ten times larger than what the original owner had ever displayed.

Could it be the Uzumaki clan's bloodline?

Uchiha Gin suspected whether the Uzumaki clan bloodline he had integrated had caused his chakra to skyrocket, which was why he could release a ninjutsu with such destructive power.

But on second thought, it wasn't right. He had only integrated a trace of the Uzumaki clan bloodline, and his chakra was only twice as strong as before according to the bonus on the system panel. He simply didn't have the strength to display this giant Great Fireball.

If ninjutsu could be amplified to this extent just because of a large amount of chakra, then the Uzumaki clan, with their large and satisfying chakra volume, would have long ago dominated the Warring States Period and unified the Ninja World.

"System, system, what's the situation?"

Uchiha Gin, who couldn't find the reason for himself, simply tried to ask the system, but got no answer.

Anyway, the time flow inside and outside the system was different, so the next second he chose to enter the system space.

"***********"

It was still the familiar arena. The furnishings on it hadn't changed much. The Heartsteel chest was still lying there quietly, and the layer count had been reset to 0, waiting for tomorrow's refresh.

Turning his head to look at the game console on the right that he didn't know what it was for, Uchiha Gin discovered the clue.

The game console that once had the number 10 on the screen now no longer displayed the number 10, but a row of "*" signs. Where did the ten points he had worked so hard to save go?

"Hey hey hey, System Brother, are you there? Answer me?"

Uchiha Gin, feeling something fishy, turned and started calling the system.

"System is loading..." After a few seconds, the system's emotionless voice came from the void.

"Where did my points go? And what's going on with my ninjutsu?"

Hearing the system's voice, Uchiha Gin couldn't wait to ask repeatedly.

"Detected that the host's strength has increased, system loading speed +10%, updating, please wait..."

Strength increased? Had he become stronger again? Uchiha Gin recalled everything that had just happened. It seemed that when he was confronting Uzumaki Hanado, he saw the other party's movements more clearly. Could it be that the Sharingan had become stronger again?

"Ding! Update complete!" With the system's prompt, the "*" on the game console screen slowly disappeared, and then turned into 0.

"Ah? Where did my 10 points go? The kind with a 1 and a 0!"

Uchiha Gin stared with dead-fish eyes, spread his hands toward the game console, and questioned.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 17 =====