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Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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Cintra was not having a very calm night. Even Princess Cirilla, in her room in the royal family's tower several meters above the ground, could hear the noise in the middle of the city. She sleepily rose from her bed at the sound coming from the city and approached the window.
"Hm?" She soon could hear the noise better, losing her sleep due to the sound of battle below her.
"What is happening?" She couldn't help but comment as she heard shouts of battle occurring at several points in the city while some people at a distance shouted something she deduced to be people wanting to know what was happening that night.
There were two specific sides of the city where there were sounds of screams and people fighting, to her right to the west and the north, the latter just below the castle. As she was still wondering what was happening there, since the operation was happening in a hidden manner.
Lord Commander was commanding his men as they stormed each of the hideouts in the west, capturing all the soldiers who were also bribed, since they were on that gang's payroll that Madara had managed.
As they advanced, the gang did not let this happen easily, so a resistance arose as they tried to combat the kingdom's soldiers, however the royal guard was there, the fight was practically a massacre as the men led by the Lord Commander easily made their way through the men.
They were raiding all the hideouts that Madara had passed on at once, to not let anyone escape, it would be a long night and they were just starting.
Already in the North area of the city, specifically at the entrance of the arena under the museum after Madara passed the information about all the entrances, Eist, leading the group of Cintra soldiers, began to invade the arena after blowing up the entrance with Mousesack making his entrance with magic.
"Come on, I'll give gold to anyone who can kill more men than me!" Eist shouted to the Cintra soldiers while running excited, advancing against the group of soldiers placed by the nobles.
His axe quickly dodged the first blade that tried to stop him, and making a gap by having more strength in the impact on the enemy and cutting the neck as he moved to the next man who didn't even have time to react as he drove the axe into his head.
"Let's go!! Let's enjoy this night!" Eist shouted excitedly going to the next fight.
The group began to gain territory as they advanced through the corridors before reaching the arena where the nobles were.
They reached a division between going to the stairs or continuing going forward. "Let's go up the stairs," Mousesack sensed with his magic the place and spoke while looking at Eist and turned back to the soldiers. "You keep order here below," he said, going to the podiums along with some soldiers and the regent king.
He quickly found the place with many nobles hidden, while some soldiers were keeping their lords safe.
One of the nobles quickly stood up and demanded of them as Mousesack approached. "Do you know who I am?" He tried to gain some authority there.
Mousesack didn't care at all that this man was a noble and just hit his staff on top of his head. Making the man fall unconscious on the ground. "It doesn't matter who you are... now you're a prisoner of Cintra," He murmured.
Eist seemed to be having fun while looking at the cowering nobles, until one caught his attention. "Look what we have here, Lord Caji, it's been a while since I've seen you at the castle, seems like you've been getting involved in strange activities." He murmured approaching.
"Do you know who you're messing with, you savage from Skellige? Rely on me and not even the queen will be able to help you!!" He bravely exclaimed to the regent king of Cintra.
"Tsk. These guys are so unbearable in bad situations for them..." Eist spoke and before the noble could react, Eist swung his axe, hitting the man's head with the blunt side.
After seeing the situation while no noble tried to oppose them anymore, seeing that they were really attacking them, he returned to the mage approaching analyzing the situation too. "Well, where's the boy?" he asked, looking quickly at the lower floor of the arena, some men dead on the floor along with a burned monster carcass and some men on that floor the same way as those in the arena were left, clearly done by the same short blade, like the boy sometimes uses those strange knives.
"Some nobles trying to escape through the sewers, from what I can see," Mousesack studied the situation, but he had placed some soldiers there to capture them. "So he can only be there, but it's strange..."
There was something wrong there, Mousesack could feel it... "There's something in this place that interferes with my magic... when it comes to Madara... not letting me locate where the boy is... which is strange and suspicious..." He murmured.
"Let's look for him while the soldiers control the place." Eist spoke and pointed to a line of dead soldiers where Madara had left before chasing Lord Rushford.
They followed the location and turned the corner, finding more soldiers dead from the strange knife and the most notable. "Sir Charles..." Mousesack commented.
"That damn, didn't he have an oath with the crown?" Eist spat on the ground, he like many from Skellige, hated men who broke their oaths.
"It seems he was the spy, a royal guard... which is quite sad..." Mousesack also felt disappointed about this, after all, it seems that he had engaged in combat with Madara here.
"Anyway, the boy defeated him, he even killed the royal guard, this boy keeps surprising me..." Eist spoke with a smile and a renewed humor as he looked at the burning room in front of him.
"Leave it to me." Mousesack commented as he used his magic and the flames disappeared... revealing a group of charred bodies.
"Where did he go?" Eist was confused as there was no exit there.
"Behind this wall..." Mousesack understood and touched the wall with his hand.
"So can you open it?" He asked.
"I can, but what I felt interfering... comes from inside this place..." Mousesack frowned, wondering what was happening.
Meanwhile, Madara himself was in the vault while the door behind him closed with the flames being muffled. He was in the middle of the place with gold while Lord Rushford fell to the floor still with a hand where Madara hit him, feeling pain and frustrated, looking at Madara with caution and anger.
"You're here... What the hell are you?" Lord Rushford asked with as much frustration as he remembered not having.
"It doesn't matter, you will tell me about the mage and where I can find him..." Madara demanded, not caring about being in a young man from a great family, he would get all the information about the mage from this place.
"The mage? You want to know about the mage, he should have been here to begin with..." Young Rushford couldn't help but comment angrily, after all the mage had assured this.
He had asked to do exactly as suggested, putting Madara against the monster in the arena. And since he didn't show up, it was strange as if he was watching it all calmly from somewhere and yet, the man had made no move to stop the disaster that this night had become.
He had also asked for one more thing, for him to keep something in the vault... and that made him think about the object saved near them, while Lord Rushford looked at the location of the object beside.
"Hello, are you looking for me?" a new voice emerged in the place, coming from that same object, which was a sphere with some strange symbols, even leaving Lord Rushford stunned. Meanwhile, Madara looked at it, narrowing his eyes.
"So you were watching this whole time?" Madara asked the object, which was a kind of magical artifact.
"You can say that yes, you acted better than I thought..." The ball continued talking. "You are really someone special, I saw how you destroyed those monsters, you learned new tricks since our last encounter..." He said.
"..." Madara remained silent.
"You know, since the last time I saw your interest in gold, I believed you would come to this room soon, so I asked the man in front of you to place this artifact of mine..." He revealed seeming quite pleased. "Although you came in a better way than I imagined, so congratulations... Madara Uchiha..." The voice finished its little speech.
"Hey, get me out of here!" Lord Rushford suddenly demanded, seeing that he could get out near this red-eyed monster child. "You're not going to let me die here, are you?"
"I will get you out of there," the sphere responded to the demanding young man.
"Where are you?" Madara asked, curious.
"I'm not in Sintra, if you want to know, but don't worry, you'll be here soon, now let's get started." she said, and suddenly that sphere began to glow, catching both Madara and Rushford by surprise.
Suddenly, the entire place disappeared with them and the gold, without anyone being able to react, even Madara. Madara found himself a few inches off the ground with the young noble and the other, who made a sound of metal falling.
"What is this?!" Lord Rushford seemed a bit dazed from the space travel while Madara looked around.
He quickly studied the place as bonfires began to light up on all the walls. It seemed like some kind of secret and ancient arena, while a man in a hood was at least about 50 meters away from them in that space appearing with the bonfire on the walls revealing him.
"We finally meet back, boy," he said to Madara, keeping a smile within the hood.
Rushford, seeing this, quickly ran to the mage. "What am I doing here? Why did you send me here too? I want to leave soon," he demanded, wanting to go home so his father could get him out of this situation.
"Didn't I tell you I would get you out of that place?" The mage looked at the noble while he began to walk, but still showed a limp due to the last battle with Madara.
"Hm?!" Rushford was confused by that, especially when the mage suddenly pointed his staff at him. "What are you doing?!" He demanded.
"Your payment for bringing the boy here..." The mage then fired a beam, throwing the noble 10 meters away as he fell dead. "I no longer need you," the mage said calmly.
His gaze returned to Madara, who was looking at the dead noble, but without any emotion on his face, the mage began to speak. "You know, I predicted exactly what would happen tonight, the whole time. I knew you would end up here and we would have our encounter. After all, you are a special boy, and we also have a fight that did not end well for me, so I'll make sure to catch you this time, I intend to see all your secrets soon... Boy." the mage said with a smile.
Madara returned his gaze to the mage and was silent for a while, analyzing his situation. His gaze returned to the golden glow beneath him.
"If you want a fight... then let's have it..." He simply crouched down and touched the ground with his hand.
The mage saw this and raised an eyebrow wondering what the boy was doing, then saw the gold begin to disappear beneath him, at least part of it. "Hm? What is this?" He couldn't help being surprised.
Madara continued consuming gold until he completed his 5,000 gold coins, as there was so much gold there that he had never seen such an amount before.
[Congratulations, you have acquired an additional 2% of Uchiha Madara's total power!]
Madara at this moment began to feel changes as he sensed strength increasing throughout his body. The chakra he had spent that night began to increase, even his eyes, were undergoing a transformation here.
The mage could feel the boy changing somehow, making him shocked. "What is this change?" he asked, despite not sensing any of the chaos energy in the boy to say what was happening, certainly his somewhat sharp instincts told him that the boy had grown stronger after making some of that gold disappear below him.
"Your eyes... what is that?" The man commented, while seeing a new black dot appear in the red eyes, Madara had achieved his second Tomoe.
Madara, despite receiving numerous system messages at this moment, with some new jutsus and a new peak of power, "Well, if you want another rematch... then let's finish this," Madara spoke, with a smile. Their battle was about to begin at that moment.