Uchiha En remembered that the last time Teleport and Insight upgraded was two years ago.
In these two years, Uchiha En has used Teleport and Insight frequently. Especially Insight, it would activate as long as the Sharingan was open.
Yet, it still took two whole years to complete the upgrade.
First, Teleport. The previous Teleport allowed spatial jumps within 200 meters, consuming 9 Chakra.
After this upgrade, Teleport's jump distance increased by 100 meters, allowing jumps within 300 meters, and the Chakra cost changed from 9 to 8.
Previously, when Insight upgraded from Level 1 to Level 2, it also increased Teleport's distance by 100 meters and reduced Chakra consumption by 1 point. This upgrade from Level 2 to Level 3 is the same, and it's highly likely to continue this way.
Finally, at Level 10, Teleport will be able to jump within a 1000-meter range, consuming only 1 point of Chakra.
Next is Insight. After the upgrade, the skill effect of Insight remained unchanged; only the consumption was further reduced.
It changed from consuming 1 point of Chakra every 20 seconds to 1 point every 30 seconds.
Insight also has 10 levels. After reaching Level 10, it should consume 1 point of Chakra every 100 seconds, which is almost negligible.
Over the past two months, the Uchiha Clan, after multiple discussions, made a major decision: except for the First Squad of the Police Force, the Second, Third, and Fourth Squads would all recruit members from other clans.
The hawk faction was definitely against giving up power, but this time, Uchiha Fugaku, who always sought balance, allied with the dove faction to make this happen.
This decision caused a huge stir within the Uchiha Clan.
Since the founding of Konoha, the Police Force and Konoha Prison have always been managed by the Uchiha Clan. Now, they were going to recruit outsiders, which caused dissatisfaction among many Uchiha Clan members.
The hawk faction even incited clan members to "force" the issue.
Uchiha Fugaku was actually helpless about this; he didn't want to give up the Police Force's authority either, but he had no choice.
The Uchiha Clan suffered immense losses in the Third Great Ninja War; more than half of the clan's Ninja were casualties, making it impossible to support the Police Force.
Therefore, the only solution now was to recruit members from other clans.
Uchiha En, however, strongly supported this decision.
Because in Uchiha En's view, there were two reasons for the Uchiha Clan's current predicament: the first was undoubtedly the Konoha High Council, and the second was the Police Force.
The main job of the Police Force, to put it simply, was to maintain internal security and stability in the Village, and to arrest ordinary villagers and Ninja who had committed crimes or showed criminal tendencies.
Fairly speaking, Uchiha En felt that the Police Force did not do a bad job in its main duties.
This could be seen from how ordinary people in Konoha lived in peace and prosperity, and how the Village's commerce thrived.
But even though the Uchiha Clan was doing its job, the reputation of the Police Force remained so poor. This was not solely due to the guidance of the Konoha High Council, but more due to the Police Force's functional issues.
The Police Force was established by the Second Hokage, Senju Tobirama. Senju Tobirama handing this important department to the Uchiha seemed to be a sign of valuing the Uchiha Clan, but in reality, it made the Uchiha Clan take on the role of punishing evil.
Moreover, under the guise of monitoring criminals, the Police Force and Konoha Prison were built together.
In this way, Senju Tobirama could logically drive the Uchiha Clan to a corner of the Konoha Ninja Village.
Senju Tobirama's move was to guard against the Uchiha Clan, as dangerous individuals like Uchiha Madara had appeared within the Uchiha Clan.
Senju Tobirama singled out the Uchiha Clan to better monitor them and to react immediately should another Uchiha Madara appear. In his view, this would better protect Konoha.
And the Third Hokage and the current Konoha High Council members were all disciples of the Second Hokage; they consistently and firmly followed the Second Hokage's ideology.
Under such an ideology, Konoha would never trust the Uchiha, from beginning to end.
Konoha's High Council deliberately guided the villagers, making them distrust, and even resent, the Uchiha Clan, who served as law enforcers.
This is how the current situation of the Uchiha came about.
Therefore, the Uchiha Clan recruiting outsiders due to a shortage of personnel, in Uchiha En's opinion, was a good opportunity to break the deadlock.
In the original work, the Uchiha Clan also did this, but they didn't truly allow outsiders to act as law enforcers; instead, they turned the outsiders who joined the Police Force into puppets.
The high-ranking officials of the Police Force were still members of the Uchiha Clan, and outsiders merely followed orders.
Thus, the Police Force's actions would still be attributed to the Uchiha Clan, making no difference from before.
So this time, Uchiha En planned to take this opportunity to "give away" some of the Police Force's authority.
He was about to take over as captain of the Third Squad, so it was a good chance to experiment with the Third Squad.
That evening, Shisui returned to the Village after completing a mission. He excitedly brought something to Uchiha En's house.
"Senior En, I found a nest of Chakra-infused crows during this mission. Do you think they can be trained as Summoned Beasts?" Shisui asked, holding the old crow's nest.
Uchiha En opened his Sharingan and glanced at the crows in the old crow's nest. Indeed, this nest of crows had Chakra within them.
"It seems Shisui's crow-based Ninjutsu will come from these," Uchiha En thought.
"Shisui, this nest of crows has great potential. I think they can be raised."
"Bang!" Before Uchiha En could finish speaking, his door was kicked open.
"You're Uchiha En?" The newcomer immediately activated his Sharingan, with three tomoe swirling in his pupils.
Uchiha En remained silent. He slowly stood up and activated his own Sharingan.
The next second, Uchiha En vanished from his spot and instantly appeared in front of the newcomer, grabbing him by the neck.
The newcomer clearly hadn't expected Uchiha En to be so fast; he had no time to react before Uchiha En grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up.
"What stray cat or dog dares to kick open my door? Do you really think I'm easy to bully?" As Uchiha En spoke, he tightened his grip slightly, and the newcomer's face instantly turned crimson.
"Uchiha En, stop!" Elder Takeshi ran over and said.
Uchiha En turned to look at Elder Takeshi. The moment their eyes met, Elder Takeshi felt a dizzying sensation, then was pulled into Uchiha En's Genjutsu Space.
Elder Takeshi's expression changed slightly. He knew Uchiha En's Eye power was strong, but he hadn't expected it to be this strong.
"Elder Takeshi, does your hawk faction intend to kill me directly after I take over the Third Squad of the Police Force? Or is your hawk faction already impatient to move against the dove faction?" Uchiha En asked within the Genjutsu Space.
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