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Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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Eithné, who had seen darkness, suddenly found herself in the same place while Madara was surrounded by her warriors, still aiming their arrows at him.
Eithné couldn't understand what that was, while Madara still displayed those red eyes with dark marks she had never seen before.
It was at that moment, before the first arrow was launched, that the boy simply moved like lightning, grabbing the girl in surprise and jumping up, surpassing the stones and dryads above her, while everyone watched in astonishment, unable to react.
"Shoot, shoot!!" the dryads exclaimed as Eithné was still stunned by everything that had happened. The boy looked at her with those red eyes, and even she couldn't react, while the dryads took the initiative.
Madara carried Cirilla, who was surprised, as they began to descend to the ground, and arrows were shot at him in the air. He quickly made seals using only one hand, with the jutsus he had mastered for years, and swiftly completed the combination before spitting fire at the dozens of projectiles heading his way.
The flames began to burn all the arrows rapidly as Madara landed outside, while the other dryads, who weren't in the sanctuary... were agitated by the explosion of flames in the air and looked at Madara with a frown, grabbing their bows to attack him as well.
"Madara..." Ciri murmured, holding onto him.
"I'll have to get you out of here, but with a clone. I'll meet you soon." Madara said and simply created a clone right there, which grabbed the stunned Cirilla and began to take her away from the scene.
"Madara!" she exclaimed as she was carried outside.
"He's fleeing... wait...?" The dryads shot their arrows at Madara with Cirilla, but they were confused that a copy of the boy remained, which was, in fact, the original Madara.
"Certainly, I could leave here... but it would be a shame for me to run away from beings like you after you've dared to challenge me..." Madara responded as the dryads began to leave the sanctuary, while some, still on the stones, aimed their arrows at Madara.
"!!" Eithné appeared at that moment as she approached with other dryads. "You... where is the girl?!" she demanded, facing the crowd surrounding Madara, who stood there, more relaxed now that he no longer had Cirilla to protect, while his clone was leaving Duén Canell.
"Leader... we saw him create an identical copy of himself and leap away like a cricket before we could catch him!" The dryads weren't sure how to explain what they had seen; it was already surreal to see someone jump 10 meters into the air and advance at high speed... now multiplying himself was even harder to describe.
"What did you say?" Eithné seemed frustrated; she wanted the girl... her power...
First, she needed to deal with him before chasing her down before she left the Brokilon forest. But she also had to be careful... he could easily deal with their arrows, as he did in the sanctuary.
'Should we face him and make enemies of him...' This doubt was planted in her since the boy showed his red eyes... making her doubt even more if he was human... A freak of nature that has no connection to chaos... a freak that could destroy her...?
"You... I..." Eithné finally addressed him when suddenly, an object flew towards her with a quick movement from the boy, and a dryad jumped in front of her before the kunai hit her neck, causing her to fall to the ground, choking on her own blood, with Eithné widening her eyes at the sight.
"Don't think there's any point of return here, Eithné. We're enemies from now on, and only one of us will survive here." Madara responded calmly.
It took a second for the other dryads to finally realize what was happening before they raised their voices with a tone of hatred, pointing at Madara. "Kill him!!! Quickly!" The first dryads launched their arrows as Madara moved his body, dodging them with ease, then began to run towards the nearest ones while drawing his magical sword and advancing on the first dryad, cutting her down before she could reload her bow to attack him.
The one beside him tried to attack while he spun his body, dodging and cutting her in half as he advanced towards the second. Eithné watched as her entire tribe began to be cut down by Madara, who continued creating a line of death wherever he passed at the edge of the area, while the dryads tried unsuccessfully to hit him.
"Stop him!!" Eithné exclaimed with a certain sadness, seeing her warriors fall one by one.
Eithné then began to utter words in the elven language, as a druid she could cast spells connected to nature.
Meanwhile, Madara spun from side to side, fighting only with taijutsu and kenjutsu, slashing as he performed his ninja movements, while the dryads couldn't react to his speed, becoming mere targets for him to cut down.
Suddenly... while Madara appeared beside a dryad, looking at her with fear and surprise, ready to kill her, the ground began to shift beneath him. He quickly noticed something emerging — roots sprouting from the ground and reaching for him.
"This?!" He was surprised as he swiftly dodged the roots, which were slow despite being unexpected, while his Sharingan with three tomoe spun. More roots began to emerge from the ground, chasing him as he leaped backward, dodging more arrows while looking at the one who cast the spell — Eithné herself.
"This is certainly unexpected... do you use mokuton, Eithné?" Madara asked with a smile, seeing an ability he hadn't anticipated encountering, though it seemed that Eithné couldn't do much more, as she was panting... it was too much for her. "That's a shame..." Madara murmured.
"You bastard!" Eithné was furious, while the place was filled with dead bodies, and she had to push herself to create such power, consuming much of her magical energy. But her attack was easily avoided by that abomination, making her waste energy for nothing.
"Stop him! Quickly!" Eithné gave another order while looking at the most trusted dryads by her side. "We need to get to the sanctuary; we can't handle him like this!" she exclaimed, and they all nodded as Madara continued to be attacked by the other dryads. Eithné left that chaos, now engulfed in flames, with Madara using his jutsus, causing part of the place to explode into fire.
"Tsk!" Eithné just looked ahead; she couldn't help but regret now, but what good would lamenting do? She had to deal with this Madara before all of Duén Canell was destroyed.
Madara saw the movement but found it easy to kill hundreds of dryads while waiting for Eithné to provide some challenge, so he let her go to see what she would do. He no longer had anyone to protect here since his clone had fled with Ciri, allowing him to finally release his focus on the battle. His Uchiha blood heated and pumped with excitement — it was addictive to him.
"Fire Style, Great Annihilation!" he exclaimed, launching his jutsu as dozens of dryads could see their deaths approaching, with the flames engulfing them as they continued to sweep through Duén Canell, destroying their homes and burning their trees.
Eithné could see the flames from outside, but she simply closed her eyes and approached the power stone. "Please, give me the power to destroy this monster!" she begged as she touched the light to take the power and face Madara.
The power began to flow through her, filling her with unlimited energy as she touched the light in the center of the stone. After all, these power sites were distortions in space that connected pure chaos with this world.
"I need you all to help me too!" Eithné asked her companions as they sat beside her, also touching the stone, though not on the light as Eithné did, while they began chanting in the elven tongue like a ritual.
"Hm?!" Ciri and the clone were in the forest when they felt all the animals, except for the monsters, begin running towards Duén Canell, as if they had been called.
"..." Madara's clone didn't care and continued onward.
Meanwhile, the original Madara noticed the strange movement outside Duén Canell but paid it no mind. He felt a strong surge of energy coming from the sanctuary, and the ground began to tremble at that moment, with Eithné creating roots, now much larger and seemingly limitless, as they advanced towards Madara.
"This... the leader is using the forest to protect us!!" Despite seeing hundreds of corpses as their homes burned, the dryads couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope as their leader tapped into the power of the sanctuary.
However... their hopeful expressions began to change.
"Why can't she catch him?!" they exclaimed, watching the terrain produce colossal roots, yet Madara continued dodging them effortlessly, moving away before forming hand seals and releasing a massive surge of chakra, advancing against the wood being created and consuming it.
"He's too strong!" Eithné exclaimed inside the temple, almost unable to believe what she was seeing.
"Have the animals arrived yet?!" she asked her companions who had summoned all the animals of the forest.
"They're coming now, leader!" they responded as, at the edges of Duén Canell, animals arrived at that moment, advancing directly towards Madara.
"Please, living beings of Brokilon, protect our home..." the dryads prayed, hoping the animals would kill Madara.
Madara saw this and scoffed with a click of his tongue, waiting for his new enemies to approach him, whether they were giant bears charging with brutal force, wolves running in packs trying to surround him, or crows flying toward him to attack his eyes and obscure his vision, alongside many other smaller terrestrial animals. The chaos of the forest had now become a symphony of beasts, all controlled by the dryads' power, with the intent to kill Madara.
"Let's help!" The dryads there didn't hold back either, moving their weapons toward Madara as he waited.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu..." He created six clones as all sides prepared to launch a large combination of fire, which exploded in all directions the moment his enemies rushed toward him.
Dryads and animals could only see the intense light of the flames, larger than any jutsu Madara had previously launched, as all of Duén Canell illuminated with the flames exploding in every direction.
BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM
"No!" Eithné and the dryads inside the sanctuary could only watch as the flames swept over them, with the stone around the place offering protection, but this couldn't be said for most of the dryads still alive.
"They... they were decimated by this!" the dryads beside their leader exclaimed with a sorrowful tone, as who could have survived those flames?
"I will kill him!" Eithné, who had been holding back to accumulate a powerful enough attack, saw her chance to kill Madara now that there was an opening.
Madara looked up when an explosion of trees erupted around him, advancing so quickly that he could only glance as both he and his clones were bombarded at that moment.
BOOOOM
The explosion echoed as it began to subside, leaving only the sounds of flames and animals still arriving at the scene.
"Did we... manage?" Eithné murmured inside the sanctuary, feeling several roots on the ground where Madara should have been, hoping they had finally dealt with him, yet still keeping her hand on the power source, ready in case the boy survived.
"Hm?!" Eithné suddenly felt a dreadful sensation as she began to cough up blood.
"Leader!" the dryads tried to help her.
"You must stop... using this place has a price, you know that..." they murmured to their leader with concern.
"I know... but you saw what he did... most of our people are dead. I have to ensure that he is dead!" she said, recalling all the opportunities she'd had not to become Madara's enemy. After all, what happened today was unprecedented, and she didn't think Duén Canell would recover from this chaos.
Eithné felt even worse, as her hair began to turn white, aging—or worse, dying—as her vital energy was the price for using the unlimited power of a power site.
"Please... Leader... we cannot lose you as well," the dryads implored her.
"Not yet! He must be stopped first! We don't know if he's been caught yet!" Eithné argued once more, holding on firmly, refusing to stop until she was certain that what remained of her people were still alive.
And she was right about Madara, for the next moment, from the roots where Madara should have been buried, a blue explosion erupted.
BOOOOM!
The explosion was heard by Eithné and the others as she used her spells to see beyond the sanctuary walls, witnessing an enormous hand emerging from the roots.
"What is that?!" She was terrified, seeing it made of pure energy.
But it didn't stop there. As energy gathered within the hand, it rose, forming a sword over 10 meters long. The arm moved, raising the sword before bringing it down toward the sanctuary. The ground exploded at its touch, and Eithné and the others, even at a distance, saw their deaths approaching, as the attack that started from that distant spot advanced toward them like a sweeping cut, breaking everything in its path.
The dryads could only watch as the impenetrable walls of the sanctuary cracked in the next moment, barely having time to react as everything collapsed, and they were thrown back, hit by the attack that shattered the entire sanctuary.
Eithné could see everything in slow motion, as her most trusted dryads exploded like bubbles of blood in an instant. She saw herself losing her arm while the stone she had been holding was destroyed, shattering into pieces.
Eithné's world spun several times as she could only think about how things had come to this—what kind of demon she had allowed into her forest.
She rolled for dozens of meters, hitting everything in her path, feeling her body break with each impact, falling far away, and finally coming to a stop among the debris.
Her head was spinning, her pain immense... she could barely stand... coughing up blood, her missing arm bleeding profusely from her shoulder. She gritted her teeth against the pain as she tried to see who had survived... but all she found were debris and the parts of her companions' bodies. She was the only one who survived, even the power stone had been destroyed.
"Why..." Eithné had reached her limit... tears, even of blood, welled up in her eyes. Her entire home, Duén Canell, was either burning in the distance or destroyed by that attack that had torn everything from the sanctuary to the farthest point, devastating everything in a straight line. "Why is this happening..."
"Because you challenged me... because you thought you could face Madara Uchiha." Footsteps began to echo in Eithné's ears as Madara's voice emerged. But it was different from the one she knew. As Eithné raised her wounded face, her now white hair still allowed her to see the man approaching.
Man, because there was no longer the boy she had fought, but an adult, clad in red armor, looking at her with the same red eyes as the boy. It was his adult version, but Eithné didn't understand how or even care anymore—after all, what could she expect now... only her death.
Madara crossed his arms, looking at her with disdain. He had expected to dance with her, but all he found was a weak woman, her spirit gone, waiting to die.
"Tsk." He clicked his tongue in frustration. His gaze shifted back to the forest, where the cries of animals continued, as it seemed the order to kill him hadn't been canceled, and the entire forest still wanted him dead.
"Well... I'll make sure to deal with them before I go..." Madara murmured, while Eithné barely noticed the change in his eyes.
The adult version of Madara raised his hand, and in his palm, a dark sphere appeared.
"It's time to end all of this." He declared, looking at the small gravitational ball, still controlled in his hand.
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