[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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Madara looked at the wizard, maintaining a firm gaze with his new eyes; it seemed the world had become sharper to him, the colors more vivid. He could notice things he couldn't before... His 400-point chakra had increased considerably, reaching the level of a chuunin; jutsus rapidly entered his mind, jutsus he was happy to obtain. Perhaps he could try one in this fight, it would be quite fair.
"What's with you, boy, how did you become so strong all of a sudden, what's happening??" the wizard said, clearly curious about this, as what had happened was something he had never seen or read in his records during his long life.
"It doesn't matter to you, after all, you're going to die here." Madara spoke, for he had finally found him, regardless of supposedly having fallen into a trap. He had finally reached the end of his hunt, and he couldn't deny that it had been quite fun chasing this wizard. He didn't know if it was his Uchiha blood pulsing in his veins, the anticipation of entering a battle to the death with this wizard and defeating them excited him.
The wizard looked at him for a moment, after hearing such words, however, he wasn't angry but laughed instead. "Hahahaha!" his laughter echoed around the place. After a moment, he stopped and looked at Madara with an equally animated smile.
"You know, I was so angry at you that I wanted revenge... But seeing you act so confident was a great way to improve my mood..." he said, and then continued with some calmness. "You are certainly special, your abilities, strength, how you did that wind spell in the arena along with fire... if that was a spell, it is very strange, however, it's frustrating to see your strength increase this way from one moment to another, it's hard to understand you when I don't know what's happening right in front of me..." His face began to darken, switching moods from one moment to the next.
"But I'm looking forward to opening you up, seeing what's inside you and your secrets, I'll be investigating you thoroughly and will find out everything, you are the one I needed all this time, I just need you, that's why I organized that event giving those drugs to those pathetic nobles, because I knew you would show up all the time. After all, that's why you're special!" The wizard seemed to go from bad mood to mad, looking at Madara as if he was already ready to dissect him.
"But where are my manners." The wizard continued speaking, "We've never been introduced before, I know your name and how you have been working with the Royal family of Cintra..." he said. "I am Bernado Kuny, a son of a servant who ended up becoming a wizard, that was over 100 years ago..." he murmured. "I am currently 118 years old, I became a wizard and have been doing research all these decades..." he finished.
In the next moment, a fireball flew towards the wizard, stopping his words as he saw the flames coming towards him. "This fireball is different from the one you used... A new magic like that wind one?" he asked as the flames approached with curiosity.
He simply summoned a shield with some quick and silent words, while the flames hit against it and he appeared intact amidst the fire that spread, looking at Madara who had invoked the jutsu.
"Strange... why does he make those hand gestures... he did that in the arena all the time... there is this way of summoning magic, it's even different from the witchers use... I've never seen it and the boy does it very well trained..." he commented.
Madara didn't waste time and rushed at the wizard, leaping through the flames and performing a spinning acrobatic move, while holding his single kunai ready to kill the wizard as he descended. The wizard, quickly, cast a telekinesis spell throwing it into the air heading towards the boy.
However, at that moment, Madara spun his Sharingan while moving his body in the air, making a move to weigh his body to the side, dodging the attack by inches while performing a somersault.
"Incredible," the wizard described with admiration, since Madara couldn't do that before, the boy really had gotten stronger.
Madara continued descending with the Kunai in hand, however, before Madara could reach him, the wizard disappeared in a flash and reappeared some distance away.
"That was certainly incredible," the wizard spoke, opening a portal and reappearing on one of the podiums above the strange arena. "However, I want to see more. Fighting a beast and men are easy. I want to see you fight my creation," he said, and one of the arena's gates began to open after he moved his staff. Madara was still amidst the flames, watching the gate rise.
From there emerged a kind of three-meter-tall man stepping out of the gate. It was made entirely of metal like armor, but it was not a person or anything inside that can. It seemed more like some kind of strange robot, Madara quickly analyzed.
"So you're sending your dog instead of fighting?" Madara asked, looking up at the wizard above.
"Of course, I'm not going to be so reckless to fight you again. So, I prepared something better," he said. "I hope you can withstand my creation well. I don't want to take you out in pieces from this place, after all, you are still important for my research." He spoke.
Madara turned his attention below and saw the creature, or whatever it was, stopping in front of him, a few meters away. Besides being tall, it had a large blade on its arm and its legs were odd as if it were designed to move at high speed and jump.
It started to emit steam from some of its vents and with just a subtle movement, it had disappeared, appearing in front of Madara, who was slightly surprised by this, as he quickly turned to the side, jumping while the ground where he had been was destroyed by the arm of that mechanical thing.
"What is the source of this?" Madara wondered still in the air, turning his body, looking at that thing, knowing there must be something powering it to function.
"Incredible, Haha!" the man clapped from above. "This is the Px-1, the result of my research which I have been doing for over 40 years until I created its first prototype, what you're seeing now..."
"Knowing what makes the thing move..." Bernardo spoke, hearing Madara's earlier question. "It's a source I take from my biggest trade today..." he said calmly.
Madara frowned and looked at him. "The children?" he asked, surprised and not liking it at all.
"Yes, unfortunately, the core of this creature needs a special little thing, and I need quite pure people for that, after all, I tried with many adults and couldn't get many results... but my trade with Cintra... I was able to get enough energy to power and charge the core."
"That's disgusting and repulsive. I'm going to kill it here," Madara said in disgust and saw once again the creature moving towards him as he quickly jumped out of the reach of the hand and the impact it caused on the ground again.
But it didn't stop there. That creature quickly used those strange legs to spin its body and once again advance with the bladed arm as it was launched against him in the air. His Sharingan spun once more and he turned his body in the air, letting the blade pass by just a few inches from him.
"That was certainly incredible," Wizard Bernardo looked satisfied. "For a moment, I thought he was going to die..." he murmured, seeing that Madara had narrowly missed being sliced in half.
The creature continued the chase while Madara tried to maintain a distance from that machine. Madara continued to dodge its attacks, at a moment when he found himself in a corner of the arena the creature attacked him as he jumped over its arm and ran on it, circling around while the arm itself was stuck in the arena's wall.
Seeing this, he quickly made a series of hand seals, launching fireballs at the creature while the whole area was burned.
Then from the flames, the machine emerged after drawing its arms, while Madara barely had time to react. He saw the bladed arm coming towards him and had to use his own kunai against the blade that was about two meters long.
Madara placed his weapon between him and the machine, while his kunai emitted sparks, but due to the strength of his opponent, he soon found himself losing, being thrown backwards. He quickly tried to get up, while the creature was already on top of him, giving no respite.
He used the punching arm while Madara jumped spinning to the side, but the machine saw this and simply turned the arm, hitting him in the air. Madara immediately felt the blow and was sent flying back, landing at a distance and stopping there, with his body on the ground.
As the beast approached, Bernardo ordered as soon as he saw this with disappointed eyes... "Px-1, stop immediately!" and the machine stopped at that exact moment.
"That was a bit disappointing. I expected more from you, boy," the wizard clearly was sure he would see something more interesting in this fight, but now seeing Madara fallen on the ground, he was really mistaken.
"Grab him and let's take him to the laboratory to start dissecting him..." He said, and the machine moved its hand to grab the boy. However, something happened, for as soon as PX-1 touched him, Madara on the ground exploded into smoke, leaving nothing in the spot except the Kunai he had used in the fight, on the ground.
"What is this?!" The wizard immediately exclaimed with something he had never seen. After all, who disappears into smoke?
And something caught his attention immediately after, with his sharp reflexes, while sensing movement on the ceiling, he quickly looked up and could not be more shocked, for there was Madara exactly there. Before he could finish, Madara rushed from the ceiling and, without his kunai—he had left it in the clone—had to use his hands in a quick movement, approaching the wizard and tearing out one of his eyes, since it was the best way to damage him.
"Aaaah!" the wizard screamed in pain and didn't have time to use his staff, as Madara kicked him at that moment.
"You bastard!" The wizard once again remembered his humiliation when he let his guard down to this boy and was enraged once again, probably regretful, he kept a hand on the torn eye while bleeding profusely.
Even without the staff, he could still cast magic and in the midst of fury, he released a large amount of chaos, being thrown in all directions while Madara couldn't even react.
BOOOOM!
Unable to defend against this, the Uchiha boy is sent back, falling off the podium, Madara landed again in the arena while the man tried to recover from that and his immense pain, never before being so humiliated, he was already limping, now was one-eyed...
"You damn!" He screamed in pain once again cursing Madara, still unable to believe that his little scheme would end up in more damage to him.
"PX-1 don't stop until you kill him!!" In the midst of the anger of that situation, he gave an order he knew he might regret later. But it didn't matter now as long as he could have the dead body of this child.
The robot again went for Madara with the intention of killing him more than ever, while Madara prepared for the confrontation once more.