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Unlike the Byakugan, Sharingan, or even the Rinnegan, Haori's "Death God's Eye" is undoubtedly a more fundamental power. Or rather, their concepts are fundamentally different.
The Sharingan with its straight tomoe is straight, and the Death God's Eye is also straight, but they have nothing in common. The Sharingan is better at capturing and perceiving, and its power is more focused on physical attacks. It's weaker in terms of genjutsu.
But "Death God," as its name suggests, is simply the ability to look directly at "death."
As long as there's a beginning, there's always an end. So, it can reduce everything to nothingness. According to the laws of the universe, cause comes before effect. But in the vision of the Death God's Eye, it's different. Or rather, it's the opposite. If a head is severed, then death occurs. But conversely, if there's no act of severing a head, then the death it causes shouldn't happen. Cause comes before effect, but the Death God's Eye is the opposite. It first induces the effect of death, then the cause of being severed.
Connecting cause and effect are those lines of death. To put it extremely, atmosphere, will, language, space, time, and so on, can all be classified as things that this eye can obliterate. In fact, the eye has indeed obliterated the predetermined "future," causing events that should have happened to disappear.
But this places extremely high demands on the user of the eye. In reality, many conceptual things are extremely difficult to see the lines of death for. For example, a predetermined future can be erased, but a future with infinite possibilities and unknowns?
Haori probably won't ever be able to do that.
According to the conditions for using his eyes, the first time he awakened them, he needed to be near death. And using them in the future also requires a certain kind of predicament. So, this S-rank jutsu, it's not so much a super-powerful skill that can only be activated when near death, but rather a skill that he uses when he's about to die, to save the day.
But no matter what, this power is the highest level of ability at a fundamental level. So, compared to the electrocution user, whose ability is easy to learn, using this power requires Haori to explore it himself. And compared to the most orthodox users, for whom using it is as simple as breathing, he always has some kind of mental burden when using it.
Although they're not exactly the same, if you really had to say, it's a bit like the Sharingan that appeared on Kakashi.
S-rank isn't S-rank at all. It feels more like M-rank. This situation made Haori a little discouraged, but he quickly understood. It was only natural.
If he could easily unleash the full power of his eyes, then this world would become a complete game. After all, theoretically, no matter if it was Kaguya or Saitama in front of him, he could poke them to death with one finger…
So, this unreasonable cheap situation didn't happen. The Death God's Eye of the Two Rituals can be freely opened and closed. The Death God's Eye of the Faraway seems unable to close. And Haori's… is difficult to open.
His "eye power" is very extreme, but considering the conditions for use, Haori had to classify this power as "non-conventional."
So, all in all, why couldn't they have just given him a Death Note?
Okay, complaining is complaining. In reality, Haori really needs this eye to kill things that won't die. That's enough.
He naturally needs to explore how to use his eyes, but more importantly, his regular combat abilities need to be strengthened as well. So, he occasionally goes to Shikkotsu Forest.
Let's not talk about the electrocution user's abilities. It's basically impossible to upgrade them anymore. The most they can do is refine them. As for ninjas and ninjutsu, there's still a lot that Haori can improve.
Aside from the techniques for using his abilities, the super-large electromagnetic railgun is actually Haori's most destructive attack. But he won't fire something like Roshomon again in the future.
He'll just pick something of a suitable size and throw it. The cost of firing Roshomon is too high.
But… he probably won't encounter that kind of urgent situation again.
Setting aside these powers unique to him, as a ninja, Haori's biggest problem is his stamina. You could say he's fragile. That's nothing. Most ninjas are fragile. But being fragile is different. In terms of chakra amount, other fragile ninjas also have a lot of chakra. But Haori… is still a scrub.
Although he's not the kind of ninja who relies on chakra to fight, it wouldn't hurt to strengthen it if possible.
How to solve this problem? Haori already has an idea.
At this point, the Third Hokage doesn't seem to have any intention of sending him to the battlefield again. As for the missing ninja investigation he's doing, that's completely perfunctory. He can't help with taking care of the twins. So, he can spare some time to go to Shikkotsu Forest and research those things he's been interested in for a long time.
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Simply in terms of area, Haori hasn't been to the other two sacred places with senjutsu inheritance, but he intuitively feels that Shikkotsu Forest is probably the largest one.
The air is humid and hot. Water vapor hangs in the air. The terrain has ups and downs, but it's generally flat. Tall broadleaf forests block out the sky, turning the entire space into a windless zone.
To be honest, this space isn't comfortable. It's like the hottest part of the afternoon in a tropical rainforest, all year round.
Haori used reverse summoning to directly arrive at Shikkotsu Forest. Actually, it's only humid here. There are no bones. But as far as the eye can see, you can see a milky white mountain in the distance… It's not a mountain, but the Slug's true body. It's the highest peak in this place.
If you could summon the Slug all at once in the outside world, then the Great Snake and the Toad wouldn't have a chance.
The Slug naturally sensed Haori's arrival, but it didn't move towards him. Its body is so large that it's very inconvenient to move. It can't possibly come over here.
At most, it would just send a split body.
As for the occasional roar, Haori could tell that it was his little dog.
These summoning beasts are undoubtedly at the top of the food chain in this ecosystem. They can eat whatever they want.
But Haori didn't come here for the summoning beasts… He walked step by step along the steps under his feet, towards the direction they extended.
Every thirty meters or so, a mottled vermilion torii stood on top of the stone steps. In the distance, where his vision couldn't reach, there was a fairly grand man-made structure, also in the same color.
On both sides of the stone steps, you could see the ferocious iron gates of the Roshomon.
As for how many there were, Haori hadn't counted. But if someone's chakra amount was off the charts, and they weren't afraid of doing something unnecessary, they could summon fifty layers at once.
Although they were in the same place, the Roshomon and the Slug weren't part of the same summoning system. This jutsu was something Haori learned from the Scroll of Seals. The Roshomon he used was summoned from Shikkotsu Forest.
These man-made objects, including the buildings, are most likely related to the Senju clan. But whether or not that's the case, Haori didn't know, and he wasn't very interested.
In terms of power systems, the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama, was truly powerful when he combined his senjutsu with Wood Release. Senjutsu without Wood Release doesn't have that kind of suppression.
And Wood Release without senjutsu is probably on the level of the Edo Tensei First Hokage fighting against the Third Hokage.
When senjutsu and Wood Release were combined, the First Hokage was truly the First Hokage… Senju Hashirama had his own way of being powerful, and Haori had his own way of being powerful.
He walked past the last step. His feet were now on a square stone plaza.
Unlike other areas that were more densely forested, because this area was slightly higher, it was relatively empty.
And what appeared in front of Haori now were wooden towers filled with strange energy.
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