Uchiha Gen's heart stirred as he began to examine the new rare item card.
[Item Card: Character Designation Card]
[Item Description: Can be used during a pity draw. Upon use, a special affix will be randomly added to this pity draw, along with two additional character card options. The player can choose one of the three character cards as the result of this draw.]
A special affix plus two extra character options?
That seemed decent.
Just having a special affix meant the character card wouldn't be weak.
Add to that a three-way choice, and it ensured his next pity draw would yield a relatively powerful character card.
It just so happened that at his current level, he could already trigger this pity draw.
[Would you like to use the designated item card?]
[Yes.]
Uchiha Gen proceeded to use the remaining four draw attempts on the spot.
[Congratulations, you have obtained: Weapon Enhancement Card (Green) ×1, Standard Explosive Tag Card (White) ×1, Standard Soldier Pill Card (White) ×1]
[Congratulations, you have obtained character: Hyuga Neji (Ninja World War) ———— Character Designation Card in effect. Extracting affix from this character card ———— Affix extracted: Six Paths Scion! Extracting two additional character cards.]
[Additional character cards extracted: Uchiha Sasuke (Road to Ninja), Uzumaki Karin (Boruto)]
[Please select the target card from the three character cards.]
The three cards were lined up one after another.
The first one featured Hyuga Neji with his palm raised and a resolute expression.
The next was Uchiha Sasuke with a sunny, frivolous smile, his Sharingan's tomoe spinning, and a rose in his mouth, looking like a complete playboy.
The last one, Uzumaki Karin, looked rather ordinary—just a woman with smooth red hair and black-rimmed glasses.
Uchiha Gen scrutinized the three character cards, carefully filtering his options.
They all seemed to be of good quality.
Hyuga Neji during the Fourth Ninja World War was the only one among the Konoha 12 to be formally promoted to Jonin.
His performance during the war was respectable, fully meeting the expectations of a Jonin.
Among all bloodline limits, the Byakugan is considered high-quality.
While its direct combat bonuses are only "good"—not quite reaching the level of combat-specialized bloodlines like the Sharingan or Shikotsumyaku—it is top-tier for sensory reconnaissance.
The other two weren't bad either, but one was the Uchiha Sasuke from the Limited Tsukuyomi world, and the other was Uzumaki Karin from the Boruto era.
It was hard for him to judge their specific abilities.
However, they were all Blue cards; no matter how low the configuration, they wouldn't be that bad.
Although Karin lacked direct combat strength in her youth, her aptitude was definitely not poor.
After more than a decade, she couldn't be incompetent.
As long as she could proficiently master abilities like the Adamantine Attacking Chains, having a Jonin-level paper configuration would be reasonable.
But Karin is, after all, a support-type ninja.
Her true strength lies in her body's healing effect on others and the wide-range sensory ability of the Mind's Eye of the Kagura.
While these are powerful abilities, Uchiha Gen was worried that the Blue rating might be inflated by these non-combat skills.
In that case, it would be a bit of a loss.
Uchiha Gen was unwilling to take such a risk.
Although these support abilities were powerful, the most important thing for him was to increase his combat power.
After all, while his current strength had reached the average level of a Jonin, that level of power was only just enough for self-preservation on the battlefield.
To say nothing else, if he encountered a powerful Elite Jonin, his odds of winning would be on the lower side.
If he ran into a Kage-level powerhouse, he could only pray for reinforcements; even escaping would be difficult.
So the remaining choices were War Arc Neji and Road to Ninja Sasuke.
Uchiha Gen remembered that in the limited world of Road to Ninja, it seemed the most prominent personality traits of everyone were reversed.
Hinata became a bossy big sister, Ino became timid, Lee was a pervert, and Shikamaru was an idiot.
And the Uchiha Sasuke who was full of deep-seated hatred in the original timeline had turned into a frivolous playboy.
So, how strong would this Uchiha Sasuke be?
Since it was only a Blue card, he certainly wasn't as strong as the canon Sasuke, but—
Uchiha Gen looked at the pair of Sharingan on the flashy Sasuke's card on the panel.
Three-Tomoe Sharingan!
As a carefree, wandering second-generation playboy, he actually awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
Uchiha Gen didn't know what to say.
After all, in his previous life, the game's planning team had to add some substance to design a set of original skills for this Sasuke, who barely had any screen time in the original movie.
Since he was an Uchiha, adding a Sharingan was appropriate, right?
So, to save trouble, the production team simply took the white-clothed Shippuden Sasuke from the same period in the original timeline, changed some code, stitched together skills, and added effects to fit the characteristics of a flashy playboy.
Whether it was logical or not wasn't even within the scope of the planning team's considerations.
And so, such a character card appeared.
"Road to Ninja Sasuke and War Arc Neji—"
Uchiha Gen scrutinized them for a while, and his heart still leaned toward Uchiha Sasuke.
War Arc Neji was certainly not weak, but all his abilities were centered on the Gentle Fist of the Hyuga Clan.
There might be some compatibility with his current combat system, but it wouldn't be very high.
Uchiha Gen didn't have the status or strength to explain why he knew the Hyuga's Gentle Fist.
If he accidentally manifested a Byakugan because of the character card, the situation would become quite a mess.
In comparison, Road to Ninja Sasuke was a better choice.
No matter how high the purity of the Byakugan, until it evolved into a Tenseigan or mutated into a Jougan, its destructive power was ultimately limited.
Even if its insight and field of vision were stronger, its combat bonus didn't match the Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
No matter how flashy Road to Ninja Sasuke was, he still had a pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
He couldn't be that weak, and it would directly fit Uchiha Gen's current combat system.
His combat style and system had been formed early on under the guidance of the Great Elder—it was a method of fighting summarized by countless generations of predecessors, most suitable for an Uchiha who had awakened the Sharingan.
However, times had changed.
He now had Jonin-level combat power, but his Sharingan was still stuck at a single tomoe.
The bonus to his strength was becoming smaller and smaller, far less than it was at the beginning.
But with this pair of Three-Tomoe Sharingan, he wouldn't need much adaptation.
He just needed a little familiarity to make his strength explode again.
Secret techniques like Uchiha Kagami's Afterimage Clone Technique could also be learned immediately.
His cultivation direction for the coming period would remain clear and bright.