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Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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The explosion quickly alerted all the Nobles on site as they cast glances toward the entrance and the guards appeared cautious while still surrounding Madara.
"What is this?" The men were wary of it.
It didn't take long for a guard to burst into the second floor, desperate, "The queen's soldiers! We're being attacked!" He shouted.
"What?! They found us?!" Another noble yelled in concern.
"Let's get out of here! There's a back entrance!" Said another noble.
"This is bad, Guards try to buy us time!"
"Tsk..." Lord Rushford growled at that, seeing the situation with frustration.
"Of course the crown was behind this, after all this boy couldn't just show up here so easily... But how did I not see this..." Sir Charles said with a frustrated tone.
"You, you should know exactly what was happening at the castle!! You said no one would try to stop us at this event!!" Lord Rushford snarled at the man who was supposed to be a competent spy.
"Lord Rushford! There's no time for this. The nobles are trying to escape through the sewers!" Another noble came up to them.
"Forget the sewers..." Sir Charles commented, "They probably put men there, I know my commander's strategy..." He said still somber from what he heard and about the situation.
"There's another way out... The wizard told me to put something in the vault... It was as if he already knew this would happen..." Lord Rushford couldn't help but comment.
While chaos reigned on the first floor where the podiums were, Madara looked at all the guards around him, still dazed by what was happening.
Then he decided to act, kicked the ground at that moment, and one of the guards who was still looking at the entrance didn't even have time to react as Madara emerged, grabbing his last kunai and surprising the first, he plunged the weapon into his head, killing him painlessly.
"Watch out for the child!" His colleagues shouted, while he already advanced on the second, trying to retaliate, but he was quicker and swiftly cut him with a clean slice on the neck.
Three guards came at him at that moment, while Madara began to use his body to dodge all attacks with agile movements while his body moved masterfully. He moved, swiftly calculating the trajectory of the attacks with his sharingan now activated.
"His eyes are red!" Someone immediately noticed, as Madara began the counterattack, cutting one, slicing the second, and breaking the neck of the third with a kick.
This made the other guards take a step back. "He's a monster!" They concluded not wanting to face the child who had not only killed a monster with magic but also had slain five of them in 2 minutes.
"This child needs to be stopped!" A noble said beside Rushford, who frowned at that.
"We can't... We need to escape, this child is too important to the wizard, we can't kill him, otherwise that wizard will kill us." He said, after all the wizard was more terrifying than this boy, because with teleportation, he could simply appear, kill them, and leave.
However, on another podium... Some nobles didn't even care about this as they watched the boy kill the guards while thinking they might be next, then they shouted to some guards there who were protecting them against the queen's soldiers when they invaded the place.
"Guards!" One of the nobles yelled frightened, pointing to Madara amidst the sound of fights coming from the entrance of the coliseum. Several men with crossbows began to appear at the entrance of the podiums, raising their crossbows towards Madara amid some fallen guards and points.
"Shoot him!" The nobles gave the order and the soldiers obeyed.
"No!!" Lord Rushford saw this at the last moment, and exclaimed, but it was already too late, after all, he still didn't want to face the wrath of the wizard.
The sound of the crossbows firing quickly drew Madara's attention as he watched them coming towards him in slow motion, tracing the trajectory of all of them.
'I can't dodge all of these...' He thought as a huge amount flew towards him. He quickly made a set of hand seals, completing the wind jutsu, a vortex of wind emerged, stopping all the arrows from passing, creating a shield in front of him.
"The boy is a mage, arrows won't work against him!" They exclaimed, yet they continued to launch arrows at him.
Madara saw some men from Cintra beginning to invade the place through the arena, so he decided to act against the soldiers with the crossbows and quickly started running towards them.
"It doesn't matter, he's running!! Shoot, shoot!" More bolts were launched as Madara dodged them, using only his body this time, getting closer and closer to the wall. And when he stepped at the end of the arena, he didn't stop running, defying the laws of gravity, walking upward.
As people were all scared by the confusion and when they realized, Madara jumping there, it was too late. After all, a soldier died as soon as Madara climbed on the podium, and killing a second soldier there dazed while trying to reload his crossbow.
"He's here!!"
"Ahhh"
People ran in despair with the child killing the guards, more soldiers tried to stop him with crossbows and swords, and Madara with just his Kunai dodged, parried the blows moving with pirouettes and movements that only a shinobi could do while he killed more and more soldiers.
It was after he had killed the twelfth soldier since climbing up there that he began to search for his target with the soldiers beginning to escape from the monster child.
Madara didn't care while men and women screamed, running, and trying to hide around the place. With some looking cautiously at him, but still ignoring, Madara began to search for Lord Rushford to get information from the wizard. Passing through the running people, he finally saw the group that visited him in the cells fleeing as they entered one of the corridors there with guards.
He quickly went to the chaos while seeing the crowd ahead unable to pass. He jumped to the ceiling while beginning to run upside down, following the group that cut through a corridor, these soldiers were keeping the other nobles out of there, so they could escape alone. Quickly they went to the vault while a group of guards stood in front of them.
"He's following us!" Sir Charlos quickly pointed upward, seeing Madara approaching. Despite finding it supernatural, the guards began to shoot at him, who quickly dodged with his sharingan, jumping to the wall and pushing himself into the midst of the guards, killing the first while the other tried to hit him with a small dagger, but he quickly dodged, killing the second and spinning his body, killing the third while the fourth tried to escape, but Madara simply appeared in front of him, gave a kick causing him to faint on the ground after hitting his head on the wall.
Meanwhile, the group seemed to get desperate when they opened the door, seeing Madara approaching them.
"Sir, You take care of him," Rushford immediately complained about his situation to the royal guard, as he blamed him for the situation reaching this.
Sir Charles nodded, although he was left behind. He no longer had another choice, his life as a knight would no longer be the same, but after that night.
Madara landed in front of him and looked closely as the door behind him closed.
"I've always noticed that you don't like me, Sir Charles," Madara commented calmly, while the man just clicked his tongue, but didn't respond. Madara then tightened his kunai while the man drew his bastard sword.
Without saying anything more, Madara advanced, after all, he needed to catch the other Lord and would have to finish quickly with this royal guard.
Quickly the sword and the kunai clashed against each other, releasing a small spark. The royal guard quickly made a move and attacked with strength, trying to beat the child. Mara quickly moved his weapon, intercepting the man's attack.
He took a step back, steadying his feet, and once again went on top of the child trying to stab. Madara just moved his body to the side. The man, seeing this, moved with all the strength he could to cut him, but Madara crouched at that moment while tilting his head back, making the sword pass a few inches from him.
"You shouldn't be here, you are just a nobody. You were not worthy of getting the queen's attention," he began to speak angrily, preparing once again while working his feet to get into position again and attack the child.
Madara did not respond this time. The man seemed to have petty motives, which was common not only among Nobles but even commoners could act this way.
The man attempted a vertical slash at the boy, who quickly raised his kunai after spinning it in his hand, striking against the sword and swiftly moved it diagonally, causing the weight of the sword to slide off the side of the kunai, and the man, surprised, lowered his sword due to the force he put into the strike, losing a bit of balance. Seeing this, Madara acted and advanced through the man's opening, while passing his kunai across the man's neck.
Sir Charles felt the cold of the small blade on his neck and dropped his sword, stunned while touching his neck trying to stop the bleeding, falling to his knees and looking at Madara, scared as he began to collapse on the floor, dying with open eyes.
Madara no longer cared for the body of the fallen royal soldier and continued on his way. No noble had approached this place since Madara began killing the soldiers there, while fleeing from that chaos.
He looked ahead and saw where they had run, it was a wooden door, though a bit reinforced, nothing he couldn't handle.
Meanwhile, inside the location which would be the vault on a secret door, his men, looking like gangsters, held swords watching attentively at the wooden door.
"Lord Rushford, will we be safe here?" One of them asked, afraid of dying.
"Yes, he won't be able to get in here," Rushford spoke, but he didn't believe that.
He just wanted to keep his men to delay Madara after he got a bit occupied with Sir Charles, while he hid inside the reinforced vault.
His idea was simple. As much as his plans had gone awry, he might still be charged with a crime. Still, his father could save him. So, he just had to stay safe until he was taken into custody. But he couldn't afford this luxury with the child, as clearly he had already tried to kill him with that kunai. He just had to get to his parents alive and everything would be alright.
Lord Rushford then started to act, pressing a part of the wall where he just pressed one of the stones and an entrance began to open, leading to the vault that only he knew about, after all, this arena was his family's.
"Lord Rushford?" His men were surprised by this, not understanding as their boss entered the door.
"Sorry about this men, but you need to sacrifice for me." He said and something happened at that moment, the gaps in the wooden door turned red, and suddenly, flames exploded destroying the door in the next moment.
Lord Rushford quickly began to run to a secret area. His men didn't even have time to react as the huge door shattered on top of them, and the flames swallowed them right after.
Even Lord Rushford didn't escape the attack, as part of his body still outside the vault, suffered a burn on his arm while he screamed in pain falling backward.
Madara saw this from afar, quickly jumped in the air and began to run across the ceiling above the fire he created with the fireball jutsu. As the Lord fell back in pain, the noble turned scared when he saw the child coming faster than he could close the door, wondering if Sir Charles couldn't even withstand the fight and died so easily to this boy.
Madara jumped and appeared in the gap of the door and kicked it once more, making him fall to the ground in pain as he landed in the middle of the vault, with some gold scattered around.