Explosion Release: Bloodthirsty Self-Destruction was the enemy's ability to take someone down with him.
It was a secret Explosion Release technique developed by the Explosion Release Ninja Gari to prevent himself from being captured and interrogated under torture.
As long as he swallowed a large amount of blood while in excruciating pain, he could use the blood to replace hand signs and detonate all of his Chakra.
The already critically wounded Explosion Release Ninja Gari drank his own blood frantically.
Hopping on one leg, he charged toward Uchiha Fucheng!
"Art is an explosion!"
The power, nearly seventy or eighty times that of a Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, combined into a terrifying force.
A massive mushroom cloud of the explosion rose into the air with the Explosion Release Ninja Gari at its core.
Sand and rocks sprayed across the ground.
Everything within a hundred meters was ravaged by blue flames.
Mikoto and the others, who had already run quite far, just stared blankly into the distance.
The terrifying explosion scene was so bright that it was impossible to look at directly.
A horrific thought struck everyone's heart.
"Could Lord Uchiha Fucheng have been..."
...
"Lord Fucheng!"
Mikoto, with a sobbing voice, tried to rush recklessly into the flames before they had even extinguished.
In the end, Uchiha Hezi managed to hold her back.
The survivors, Mikoto, Hezi, and Hatake Shoichi, looked at the scorched ground that spanned hundreds of meters and felt unable to breathe.
The three of them opened their mouths, gasping frantically, their hands clutching their throats, their eyes bulging with bloodshot veins.
The thin air caused the flames to start shrinking.
Fortunately, they were far enough away.
Air currents from further away stirred up a strong wind, quickly bringing in more air!
The three of them had not died in the explosion, but they had nearly died from the terrifying suffocation.
"What a terrifying Ninjutsu!"
After regaining their breath, the three of them looked like fish pulled out of water.
They lay on the ground, bodies twisted, breathing greedily with all their might.
Mikoto, weak all over, looked at the sky with tearful eyes.
She murmured in a sorrowful tone, "Lord Fucheng sacrificed himself to save us!"
Hatake Shoichi burst into tears.
Beside her, Uchiha Hezi even shed tears of blood.
A second Tomoe slowly formed in Uchiha Hezi's eyes.
[Follower marked, current follower value 100%]
[Contract met, follower Mikoto successfully bound]
...
Sensing the prompt in his mind, Fucheng looked at the three people lying limp on the ground with satisfaction.
Not until the two-tomoe Sharingan in Uchiha Hezi's eyes had officially formed did Fucheng slowly walk out from behind a giant rock further away.
"Why are you crying? Are you crying for me?"
Uchiha Fucheng walked up to the three with a mischievous sense of humor.
"Ah! Huh?"
The three struggled to sit up.
Seeing that Uchiha Fucheng beside them was uninjured, the three rubbed their eyes in disbelief.
"L-Lord, you didn't die?"
For some reason, the moment Mikoto saw Fucheng, she felt as if the sky had brightened.
She couldn't help but feel an incredibly solid sense of intimacy.
Uchiha Hezi was even more excited.
She endured the pain and stood up, "Lord Fucheng, you didn't die, that's wonderful."
Hatake Shoichi bowed to Fucheng in a full prostration pose, his forehead touching the ground.
"Thank you for your rescue, Lord Fucheng. If it weren't for you, I would have been reduced to bones by now."
The mournful, choked voice was heart-wrenching.
Seeing that none of them were seriously injured, Uchiha Fucheng was very relieved.
Fucheng comforted them, "This enemy was a member of Iwagakure's special Explosion Release unit, an Elite Jonin named [Gari]. We were very lucky to win this time.
The opponent was arrogant and underestimated us; otherwise, this Elite Jonin could theoretically have killed all four of us head-on."
Looking at the completely uninjured Uchiha Fucheng, Mikoto asked with some concern.
"Lord Fucheng, how did you dodge the explosion? We thought you had sacrificed yourself in the big explosion."
Fucheng looked at this successfully bound follower and smiled at Misaka Mikoto with satisfaction.
"The person who released the Fire Dragon Flame Bullet at the end was not my true body, but my Multiple Shadow Clone.
The Explosion Release Ninja Gari, whose eyes were injured by the Fire Release, did not notice my deliberate disguise.
The panicked expression the clone put on made him dare to try to take me down with him.
Having lost too much blood, he had already missed his last chance to discover the Shadow Clone."
At this moment, Mikoto's beautiful eyes shimmered.
Her eyes were filled with admiration and gratitude for Uchiha Fucheng.
She did not know that she had already been bound as Fucheng's follower.
From this moment on, her personal destiny was tightly intertwined with Uchiha Fucheng's.
...
As the three took hemostatic pills and military rations, Uchiha Fucheng immediately led the slightly recovered Mikoto and the others to quickly get away from the explosion site.
The massive explosion was very likely to attract more participating Ninjas to pay attention to this area.
With little Chakra left, Uchiha Fucheng preferred to hide whenever possible.
With the binding of Mikoto's follower status, a series of prompts appeared directly in Uchiha Fucheng's mind.
[Changed the fate trajectory of Misaka Mikoto (Uchiha Mikoto)]
[Changed the fate trajectory of Uchiha Itachi]
[Changed the fate trajectory of Uchiha Sasuke]
"?!"
Fucheng was surprised.
He had clearly saved Uchiha Hezi and Hatake Shoichi as well, yet in the prompts, there were only three fate dice related to Misaka Mikoto.
Fucheng pondered, "It seems that only the fates of characters recognized by the system will yield corresponding rewards when changed."
Uchiha Hezi and Hatake Shoichi were not within the scope of the system's rewards.
[Reward 1: Misaka Mikoto's fate dice]
[Reward 2: Uchiha Itachi's fate dice]
[Reward 3: Uchiha Sasuke's fate dice]
Fucheng had a strange experience of NTR-ing his own brother, Uchiha Fugaku.
He had essentially taken Fugaku's wife and children in one fell swoop.
"Amitabha, forgive me, forgive me."
Having received three rewards at once, Fucheng instantly lost the guilt of "NTR-ing and poaching."
"In the original timeline, Fugaku would give birth to Itachi and trigger the clan extermination disaster.
Mikoto can't go on a blind date with him; I might as well take her myself."
Fucheng chuckled inwardly.
Who cares about Uchiha Fugaku?
The current Mikoto was his, Uchiha Fucheng's, Mikoto.
Mikoto hadn't reached the age for blind dates yet, so him cutting in early didn't count as "poaching."
While maintaining a rapid retreat, Fucheng opened all three rewards in his mind.
The recognition value had increased a little more this time.
However, there were only 10 points that could be allocated to the three fate dice.
"Sigh, small bets for fun, big bets hurt the body. Open, open, open!"
The three rewards ended up giving different contents.
Mikoto's dice rolled a 4, which was a reward for an ability/skill: the Lightning Release ability.
After a tingling sensation on his skin, Uchiha Fucheng felt that his control over Chakra had become much stronger.
His mastery of the Lightning Release transformation of Chakra had also greatly improved.
Fucheng thought to himself, "Then I can also try to develop Lightning Blade or Chidori Current and other Lightning ReleaseNinjutsu; combined with the observation ability of the Sharingan, the attack power will be much stronger than Fire Release."
Previously, Uchiha Fucheng had three attributes: Fire, Earth, and Wind.
With Mikoto's reward, he would have an additional Lightning attribute.
If he gained the Water attribute again, he would be like the Third Hokage or Jiraiya.
It could be considered a Ninja talent with all five elements complete.
As for Uchiha Itachi's fate dice, it luckily rolled a 5!