Obito's wish was very basic. He didn't care for things like invincible power or earth-shattering achievements; he just wanted to be with Rin. In his early years, he wasn't so deranged. He was quite normal when he was with Rin, doing things like helping old ladies cross the street. It wasn't as if he would panic if he didn't see Rin for a minute. But after so many years of self-hypnosis, self-denial, and self-affirmation, he had clearly fallen into his own delusion.
Did he love Rin? Yes, he had to. If he didn't, then all his years of persistence would be meaningless.
Zetsu knew he had hit a nerve with Obito. "You just want to be with Rin, right? Old friend, I know you. Give up eternal life, and use the power of the God Tree to awaken the Eye of the Moon. Project that ocular power onto the moon, and you can activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi."
Obito nodded numbly. "I understand."
He was, in fact, an ordinary person. His strategic abilities were average at best. Give him a month to meticulously set up a do-or-die scenario, and he could pull it off. But his ability to handle sudden events was far inferior.
Zetsu's words were inconsistent and full of holes. If it had been Madara, he would have definitely seen the problem, but Obito could not.
Dazed, he ran through the entire process in his mind and felt that there was no issue.
He ignored Kakashi's shouts from below and placed a hand directly on the trunk of the God Tree. He was going to absorb it.
He already had the Ten-Tails within him. At this moment, a power from the same source instantly flooded his chakra pathways.
For a moment, he felt his whole body swell, as if he were about to explode.
This chakra had been directly extracted by the God Tree's vines, not converted through the Infinite Tsukuyomi. It carried the consciousness of those shinobi. One or two would have been manageable, but now, tens of thousands of consciousnesses, memories, and experiences rushed into his brain. He felt as if a great sword had cleaved him from top to bottom, then sliced him twice horizontally and three times vertically, until he was cut into countless small pieces.
Just as Obito was preparing to endure it with sheer willpower, he discovered that the God Tree he had absorbed had given birth to a main consciousness. Under the intense pressure of this consciousness, all the chakra suddenly became gentle.
So gentle that it had no temper at all.
He had previously transplanted Madara's Rinnegan and absorbed the Ten-Tails' chakra. Both experiences had been worse than the last, a torment that felt like being torn apart from the depths of his soul. What was happening now?
Such a massive tree, even bearing the chakra fruit said to grant eternal life—could absorbing it really be this smooth?
Zetsu stated with conviction, "That's right. The God Tree's chakra is the gentlest energy in this world. It never harms the chakra pathways. After all, it is the source of all chakra."
Feeling that this statement was a bit too absolute, just like Conan pinning it on Mori, he quickly added, "This is all what Uchiha Madara told me."
Obito touched his right eye. The eye that had gone blind from using Izanagi had not regained its sight. He was now a little puzzled. "With such immense chakra flowing into my body, my eye still can't recover its sight?"
Zetsu wracked his brain to deceive him. "That's because the Eye of the Moon requires even more massive amounts of chakra. Just think of the cost of casting Infinite Tsukuyomi on the entire shinobi world! Your right eye actually did recover, but its ocular power was immediately drained again. Rub your left eye and then look; you'll see that a portion of its power has been lost too. Of course, I don't have your Sharingan. Uchiha Madara also told me all this."
Obito subconsciously rubbed his left eye. When he opened it again to look, his vision was indeed a bit blurry.
Deep within his consciousness, Zetsu secretly wiped away sweat. When it comes to eyes, if you use them for a long time and then rub them hard, anyone's vision would get blurry.
Obito then touched his heart. "I have an uneasy feeling. What's going on?"
Zetsu laughed loudly within him. "You're probably just nervous about seeing Rin soon. I don't really understand you human emotions, so you're asking the wrong person."
Obito smiled like a lovesick fool, his attention completely diverted.
He flew into the sky, and a slit slowly cracked open in the center of his forehead.
"This is the Eye of the Moon?"
Zetsu was so excited he wanted to cheer out loud, but he suppressed it with all his might, endured, and kept his tone as calm as possible. "Yes, this is the Eye of the Moon that Uchiha Madara dreamed of."
Obito poured the power of the God Tree into this new eye in the center of his forehead. Soon, a red Rinnegan with nine magatama floating inside slowly opened in the middle of his brow.
As its ocular power was projected onto the moon's surface, the face of the moon also took on the shape of the red Rinnegan. At this moment, Obito received a piece of information from his mind: this was the Progenitor's Eye, the Rinne Sharingan! It was countless levels higher than Ino's Magatama Rinnegan.
Obito had little interest in this matter, and Zetsu didn't overcomplicate things, instead watching as he completed the final step.
"Everyone! The war is over! The shinobi world has finally achieved true peace!" Obito shouted to the remaining Konoha and Iwagakure shinobi below.
Kakashi, carrying an unconscious Sasuke on his back, looked up and saw Obito form the Ram Seal. His Rinne Sharingan resonated with the red moon in the sky, and a light that covered the entire shinobi world cascaded down at extreme speed.
This light ignored shadows and buildings, its target all intelligent life.
"Infinite Tsukuyomi!"
Kakashi was the first to be hit. He was looking right up, was too close, and had no time to react before falling into the genjutsu.
Sasuke fell from his back, dazedly opening his eyes, only to have his entire consciousness immediately consumed by the intense light.
Gaara was not spared either.
Next were the Konoha and Iwagakure shinobi who formed the vanguard. Everyone's eyes transformed into the shape of a dual Kamui, and they were all controlled by the genjutsu.
Gekko Hayate was also part of the vanguard and was likewise enveloped by the light. But just as he was about to fall into the genjutsu, a young man's roar erupted from within his body: "Get lost! Don't you dare try to control me with that bitch Kaguya Otsutsuki's ability!"
Following this roar, the thawing rate of the "Wedge" on Gekko Hayate's body rapidly climbed, soon exceeding 50%. The bio-monitoring device issued an alarm, which he manually shut off. He would rather fight one last battle than become a mindless puppet.
A faint blue curtain of light appeared around his body, resisting the Infinite Tsukuyomi with some difficulty.
The cost of using this power was enormous. By now, the consciousness belonging to Otsutsuki Urashiki had awakened by more than half. Bluish-black lines spread from the "Wedge" on his palm toward his heart. After passing through his heart, they continued upward, and this power finally caused a crooked horn, resembling a forehead protector, to sprout on the right side of his forehead.
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