[Chapter Size: 2200 Words.]
Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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Madara's clones continued to kill the Nilfgaardian black soldiers at every corner, but soon their chakra began to run out and they started to turn into smoke, disappearing from the battlefield.
The original was in the midst of chaos, with Cintra's soldiers beginning to flee due to the lack of command and being surrounded while being massacred as they tried to run to the nearby forests in search of shelter.
''There's nothing more I can do here...'' Madara thought internally as he sighed and began to run too, but not before creating an extra clone running to one side, surprising the Nilfgaardian soldiers who tried to hit him with their weapons, but Madara easily dodged their attacks as he moved to that side.
Meanwhile, the original began to run faster than the horses could, easily passing by the soldiers trying to capture or stop him. Madara began to use up all his weapons from his storage and started to expend them on as many soldiers as possible, causing more than 200 to fall to the ground while they screamed words in Nilfgaardian. He headed towards the capital where Calanthe had gone and he needed to get Ciri out of Cintra and another clone to the east.
At sea, the Skagos fleet seemed to have the same fate as the Nilfgaardian army while they were being slaughtered after withstanding the attack from the south and their ships soon began to be destroyed, and even Eist ended up falling in the middle of the battle in chaos after facing more than 10 warriors at the same time as he fell with swords embedded in his chest.
Madara's clone left the army with some people trying to catch him, but he easily evaded them. This clone had only one objective, to at least end the life of the one who helped bring disgrace to this kingdom.
Luk was having a fun moment, drinking wine while looking at his battered brother in front of him. "You see, brother... Nilfgaard must be completely destroying Cintra." He began to mock as his brother was tied up.
"You bastard! You sold us out!!" Victor exclaimed aggressively as he sat up to advance against his younger brother with all the hate.
"You don't understand... I'm doing this to finally gain the power I deserve, I will rule Cintra for Emperor Emhyr var Emreis," Luk said.
"You're really a fool, look at our home, you bastard, all the soldiers have taken over our house, filling it with their own, you can't even command your own soldiers anymore! Tell me, did they kill our mother, was that in your plans too, tell me you bastard!!" Victor growled with more hatred than he had ever felt before for his brother, he just wanted to go back in time and have thrust a sword into the body of his younger brother.
Their lands were in chaos, full of corpses while various villages were destroyed by Nilfgaard's soldiers, women raped, men brutally killed including children with the enemies looting everything as they set fire.
The city itself was no different, as the guards of his own house opened the gate for the black soldiers as they began to devastate everything. Victor was so angry at his own soldiers who saw their own people being miserably destroyed and the chaos still continues in the city, one of these people was their own mother, something unforgivable with her ending up dead in the end. He was crazed and didn't even have the courage to meet his father when he was taking care of this territory, ending this way being betrayed by his own blood.
"..." This seemed to shake Luk a bit, after all, he knew he was losing control and had even been cursed at by common Nilfgaardian soldiers, raising doubts about whether he would really be rewarded as he wished.
He regained his composure and smiled. "Our father is dead at this moment. Our mother sacrificed herself to strengthen me and you will have the same fate, I just haven't killed you yet because I want you to witness my ascension," he spoke with a firm tone.
"Liar! You are a monster! You betrayed your family, your people! You will be killed soon too, because no matter what Nilfgaard promised you, you will be disposable soon and I will not have the pleasure of seeing that..." Victor wanted nothing more than to see his own brother choking on his own blood.
"You just talk nonsense... I will be the king of this region, I will no longer be a younger brother without lands, I have ascended! I will prove it to everyone and you will never see me die, Victor, no matter what happens!" Luk tried to sound brave, despite his voice not sounding so confident at the beginning.
"Maybe he has." Victor was about to curse at his brother again when a new voice emerged in the room, as everyone immediately looked behind Victor, exactly to the ceiling, where there was a person hanging upside down with their red eyes glowing.
There were 4 guards from House Hugkil in the room along with Luk, who quickly drew their swords from their sheaths, stunned; Victor was speechless as he looked at Madara, but the worst reaction was from Luk, who now looked very scared.
"You?! What are you doing here?!" He exclaimed with his voice faltering a bit.
"Isn't it obvious? I was on the battlefield when I heard of your betrayal, so I came myself to kill you before the Nilfgaardians could do it," Madara said calmly.
Luk was scared, but still fueling his anger with what Madara was saying. "They won't kill me! I am an ally, what kind of message would that send to their potential allies if they are known for killing those who helped them?" Luk argued, and Madara wanted to laugh at that.
"A very simple message, after all, they have more important people to please than a mere landowner who betrayed his country, trust me, you are just someone they can erase without anyone even knowing of your betrayal and deeds, just an insect who betrayed everyone and will die as one," Madara spoke each word making sure he heard, after all, he didn't grant a quick assassination to these people, first he wanted to say a few things.
"You freak, you won't live long. Guards!!! An intruder!!" He immediately shouted towards the door where there were some Nilfgaardian guards when he entered, but there was no response.
"It's no use... I killed all of them before coming here. The entire floor is filled with dead Nilfgaardian soldiers," Madara spoke mockingly, while the guards there looked at each other, wondering if this thing hanging from the ceiling was telling the truth.
Meanwhile, in the hallways behind the doors, dozens of men lay on the ground with blood flowing, Madara had been clean and quick as he eliminated the whole place without making a sound.
"He's lying, kill that thing!!" Luk exclaimed seeing that there was no response, he had to act while his men would go for Madara, he would immediately run out in search of help.
But as soon as he began to run, 4 kunais flew forcefully piercing all the heads of the 4 guards so fast that no one could react, even the master-at-arms of the noble house, was killed in milliseconds in front of Victor seeing it with frightened eyes, remembering how terrifying this Madara was.
The next moment, Victor heard the sound of his brother screaming like an animal, while a Kunai hit his left leg tendon. "I told you you would die here," Madara said as he jumped from the ceiling and approached Victor who was also scared, but Madara just released him while turning his attention to Luk fallen on the ground with his foot bleeding, this injury would never allow him to walk again, as he screamed with pain he never expected to feel in his life.
"AHHHH!!! Guards!!! I need help!!! AHHHH!!!" He continued to exclaim while no one seemed to respond, until he began to hear footsteps approaching, he looked fearfully at Madara, while tears began to appear in his eyes.
"Decided to cry now that you are going to die? You are someone who should have been dead a long time ago..." Madara spoke while taking out a piece of paper, a prototype that he had begun to create with fuuinjutsu, but still extremely difficult for him, as he had only managed to make 3 of them in all these months.
He was cautious in what to use it for, but saw no reason not to use it here. He took the paper and went to the boy crying and screaming while forcing open his mouth and placing the paper inside it. "Just swallow this, you will die as you deserve," Madara spoke and before Luk could react, Madara took two Kunais and nailed one in each hand of the traitor to the wooden floor, creating an even more animalistic sound from the noble traitor, but muffled by the paper in his mouth, at least he couldn't use his hands to remove the paper.
Madara no longer cared about the traitor and looked at Victor, who was still cautious. "Your family is dead, Cintra and your lands, the Hugkils, can no longer be recovered... If you want, I can escort you to Angren, at least there you will have a chance to survive and start over." Madara was sincere in this, at least he could save the life of one of Victor's sons.
Despite his reluctance, what else could he do? Victor eventually nodded to Madara. "Then let's get out of here, this place is going to explode." Madara spoke and began to leave while Victor passed by his brother writhing on the ground trying to remove that strange paper from his mouth, but his hands pinned with a blade to the floor prevented him while he tried to scream, but he could not as the floor was soaked with his own blood, a scene even crueler than he had wished in a moment of anger for his brother, but in the end, he followed Madara out the door, finding all the guards dead in the hallway.
They proceeded through the corridors filled with corpses, until Madara stopped. "The explosion will alert all the men on the floors below, I want you to follow the path to the exit while I clean up the entire place." Madara spoke in a firm tone.
"Explosion? What explosion?" Victor asked, confused, but in the next moment, a huge explosion emerged from the corridors they had come from, as the explosive paper that Madara had shoved down Luk's throat, who was still screaming, started to catch fire burning him, before exploding and scattering the entire room with Luk's body in pieces.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM
"What is that?!" Victor exclaimed, frightened, looking back.
"Just follow the path," Madara warned him once more as he jumped down the stairs, and Victor, having no choice, followed the Shinobi's instructions.
The explosion alerted all the Hugkil and Nilfgaardian guards as they immediately advanced to see what had happened, but then Madara emerged, grabbing a sword from a dead soldier and a kunai in the other hand, swiftly cutting through creating a path for the eldest son of the man he had known for years.
He made his way through the castle, and soon Victor found himself passing by hundreds of corpses, unable to believe that Madara was so powerful, but he continued seeing it as his only chance to live.
They made their way through the city as Madara took the best possible route and it wasn't long before they left the city while the Shinobi tried to kill as many enemies as possible on the way.
"We're heading east now," he spoke as they mounted two horses and fled the region, continuing for more hours while encountering some patrols here and there, with Madara easily eliminating them.
"I've reached my limit... it's almost dusk... I can no longer accompany you, you must continue alone," Madara suddenly spoke.
"What, what do you mean?" Victor was a bit reluctant to part ways with Madara.
"Take this, this is a letter in my name, King Thorne of Angren knows me, and if you can speak with him, I'm sure he will help you," Madara spoke, handing over a scroll.
"What? What do you mean... where are you going?!" Victor asked, not understanding, after all Madara had come this far with him, suddenly he's saying he's leaving.
"I was never actually here... my original should be arriving at the capital at this very moment," Madara spoke as he exploded into smoke, leaving the horse empty, and Victor bewildered by what had just happened.
Meanwhile, the original Madara finally saw the capital returning from the south as it was beginning to get dark.
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Raccoon here: Sometimes I think I'm a psychopath writing this, but I found no better way to end this wretch that even I am angry at.