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Mangekyo Sharingan

The next morning was still a weekend, so Dix was free to do whatever he wanted. He already had his break and had some fun with the gang, so he decided to continue training. The one item with the highest priority on his list was his new sharingan.

The Mangekyo Sharigan is an extremely useful, almost broken thing to have as a ninja. It brings many great possibilities and abilities. For example the famous Amaterasu, the Black Flames, which burns the target until it completely turns into ashes, without any way to extinguish them, except for the user's will. Or the Tsukuyomi, which is said to be the strongest genjutsu. Sooner or later he might be able to unlock Susanoo too, which is the huge physical manifestation of one's chakra. It's possible because the Mangekyo Sharingan gives the user power and an instinctive mold to form the shape.

Apart from these there are drawbacks too. These are incredible powers to have, but if one were to overuse them, their eyes' power would start dwindling and their eyesight would soon fade. There is a way to go around this, specifically to implant a close relative's own Mangekyo Sharingans. He doesn't have anything like that though. But he had some thoughts and ideas regarding the matter. For now its enough to know that he can't use those abilities too much.

Dix was excited to check out his new powers. In reality whatever powers he got might be entirely different from anything ever seen, as even in the anime, no two ninjas were seen using the same abilities, except for Susanoo.

Dix was already standing in his camp in the woods. He gave Yami some petting, changed the clone that was caring for her, then let them alone to make some distance between himself and the camp. Just to make sure nothing is destroyed.

After some walking, a neat little clearing with a single tree in the middle of it was found. He closed his eyes and reached into the depths of his new sharingans to grab their power. These abilities are also great because nobody has to teach Dix to use them, they were instinctively available for anyone that can evolve their sharingan. He was able to feel the two different ability that was residing in his eyes. One of them was quite familiar, while the other one was completely new. He wasn't able to feel exactly what they do, but he had a rough idea.

First he summoned the power of the familiar ability. He looked at the tree in the middle of the clearing and marked it as a target. The tree caught fire right away. Dix knew it will be something like the Amaterasu, but he was shocked to see he was only partially right. Even though the tree seemed to start burning, instead of the usual black flames, those were whitish-blueish flames. And instead of burning to ashes... the tree started freezing.

"Holy cow, is that what I think it is?! Is that... endothermic fire?! WOW!"

Dix was quite excited. He lacked a quick and long-ranged attack for a while now, and was happy to see this gap in his repertoire fill. He wanted to check on the fire, which quickly spread wherever there was life to freeze. He had to consciously contain it so it doesn't freeze the whole clearing. It seemed like the fire was actually collecting all the heat in its vicinity and was glowing stronger and stronger.

Dix moved closer and tried to see if he feels the cold, but he found out that he could even jump directly into the fire, he wouldn't be affected whatsoever. He let the fire go for a while, to see if the growing glowing goes anywhere. It was worth the wait. After a minute or so the contained fire froze everything around it, and when it reached its peak it suddenly became unstable. Dix had a bad premonition, so he jumped back as fast he was able to.

As soon as Dix landed the fire blew up with all the energy it previously sucked away. The explosion was so great that even the wind burst hurt Dix a bit, and the loud bang echoed in the woods for seconds more. The whole forest felt the shock caused by the explosion. Many birds frantically took off from their resting spots throughout the forest, animals were trying to run the opposite direction and some people that were the closest to the explosion got scared by the unknown sound.