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Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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"Are we about a week away from the position Tissaia asked us to reach, aren't we?" a sorcerer asked in the circle of people gathered around.
"Yes... just a bit more, and we'll be there... But we're late... the battle will start soon," another middle-aged man responded.
"Yes... but, you know... I feel like sothing is strange here... we haven't seen a single animal or monster," another mber of the group comnted cautiously, finding the situation very unusual.
"Yes... we don't know what's going on, but sothing is definitely strange here... either way, we need to stay alert," a sorceress replied.
"You all talk too much..." soone interrupted in a bored voice. "I'm going to sleep; there's nothing else to do here anyway," the red-haired woman replied as she walked away.
"As annoying as ever..." Keira muttered next to Triss, watching Coral leave and head toward her tent.
"..." Triss said nothing, her gaze fixed on the forest. At that mont, soone appeared, erging from the trees and walking toward them. She quickly stood up and prepared a spell.
Naturally, this drew everyone's attention as they turned to see a boy approaching them, dressed in dark, common clothes.
"Who is that?!" one of the sorcerers exclaid in surprise.
"I set up a detection spell in the area; how could he have gotten past it?!" another sorcerer demanded in an irritated tone, realizing his spell had failed.
"This can't be a re child... What is this?!" a woman said, alard.
Even Coral, who had just laid down on her bed, stood up upon hearing the commotion and murmurs from her companions outside and quickly approached.
"Are you talking about those glowing orbs around the place? It was pretty easy to slip through them... especially since they light up," Madara said, still approaching with a bored tone. He walked past several stones with glowing glyphs on them; it was easy once he saw the nurous cracks in the spell.
"Who are you?!" another mage asked, preparing a spell. Madara's presence clearly aroused suspicion, as they were in the middle of nowhere, and here was a child walking toward them without fear.
Madara finally stopped ten ters away from them. "My na is Madara Uchiha," he simply stated.
"Madara Uchiha...?!" Triss exclaid, her eyes wide as she recognized the boy's na, seeing him for the first ti.
"Who is this... Do you know him?" Keira asked, looking surprised at Triss's reaction.
"I don't know him either, who is he?" another sorcerer asked, equally curious about the boy's identity.
"He's responsible for the deaths of twelve mages and the attempted assassination of the king of Brugge after he controlled one of the mages with so type of mind spell," Coral explained, stepping closer, keeping a cautious eye on the boy, aware that he could kill groups of mages.
"It's true. I had to show what happens when I'm followed," Madara said, admitting it openly, seemingly unconcerned if they hated him.
"Are you here to kill us?!" soone questioned, preparing a spell, as did all those who had been quite calm before. But upon hearing that Madara was responsible for the massacre in Verden, they knew he was dangerous.
Despite the spells being readied to strike him, Madara remained calm, facing them without moving. Lightning and even fire appeared in front of him, conjured by all the mages present. Triss also watched him suspiciously, preparing a spell of her own.
"No, I'm not here to kill you..." Madara broke the tense atmosphere, answering calmly.
"Then why are you here?" Coral raised her voice this ti.
"I'm here to warn you. Soone spoke of your expedition, so I ca to check the situation, and I easily discovered that the Nilfgaardian Empire already knows you're setting up an ambush for the battle up in the mountains..." he said, taking all the mages by surprise.
"How do they know about this?!" one of the sorcerers asked, perplexed.
Madara shrugged, unconcerned with explaining his suspicions. It wasn't his place to provide details; he rely dropped a hint about who might be responsible for Yennefer and left it to her to investigate further.
"Why should we trust you? You killed our companions in Verden!" another mage spoke up, the group visibly tense both because Nilfgaard might know their movents and due to the presence of soone recently infamous as a mage-killer.
"And I'll kill them again if they keep pursuing , especially if they go after my companion," he replied in a firm tone.
"So he's the one with the princess of Cintra?!" so of them exclaid as Madara mocked them with a look.
"I fear neither you nor your group, no matter who you are... not the Nilfgaardian Empire, nor the whole North," Madara declared, his confidence evident despite the audacious words coming from a teenager.
"What nonsense! Should we just capture or kill him?" soone suggested.
Triss glanced at Keira, frowning as she prepared a spell, then looked at Madara, who gave a mocking smile as he heard the mage's suggestion, as if daring them to try while he remained fearless, facing the many spells prepared to be cast at him.
"Wait!" Triss exclaid, stepping forward and dispelling her spell, worried about what might happen to everyone there if they pursued that insane idea of fighting soone who had already killed nearly as many as were present. She turned to him, her voice wavering slightly. "Just tell why we should trust you." She continued, trying to calm her companions as she stepped forward.
"Because we have a common enemy," Madara replied, arms crossed. "I am also an enemy of the Empire and am willing to fight them on the Sodden border. That's why I'm here, and I intend to head south," he concluded.
"An enemy of Nilfgaard—why wouldn't he be with them? He must be here to deceive us!" soone said as Madara looked at him with disdain, wondering why he kept encountering such fools.
"Think a bit more carefully; he fled with the princess of Cintra when the emperor clearly has been hunting them since Cintra, and we've heard of a boy with red eyes killing many of the emperor's n... so it's more likely that the boy is indeed an enemy of Nilfgaard," Coral responded sharply, analyzing the facts while casting a scornful look at her colleague who had spoken so foolishly.
"In any case, I just ca to warn you that there's likely a group of mages coming to kill you, so you'd best watch yourselves," Madara said, wanting to end the conversation.
"Wait! Can you tell us where the Nilfgaardians are?!" soone quickly asked.
"The Nilfgaardians are dead, so don't worry about them; just focus on the imperial mages who could arrive at any mont," Madara replied.
"..." The group fell silent.
Madara said nothing further, leaping into the trees as everyone watched him disappear into the forest, transforming into smoke a few ters away, his presence vanishing. He avoided revealing his clone technique to these mages, though many likely suspected his abilities.
"..." All the mages remained there in silence, their spells gradually fading as they could no longer find a reason to attack Madara after everything he had said.
"Should we trust him?" soone asked, still with an attack spell ready in case the boy returned.
"Do we have a choice?" Surprisingly, it was Triss who spoke this ti. Thinking over everything Madara had said, it seed very likely that he was telling the truth; there was no reason for the boy to have co all the way here to deceive them.
"But he killed our companions; we shouldn't be trusting soone like that!" another mage insisted, continuing to distrust Madara, which was understandable after everything that had happened.
"Yes, but we also pursued him in the middle of a forest at night. Do you expect him to welco us with open arms?" Coral questioned this ti. Though insufferable and petty most of the ti, she still knew how to use her head.
She continued, "Tissaia made a big mistake thinking they could reclaim the princess of Cintra. Anyway, I believe that boy, and we should rest. We can't simply abandon this mission; any portal used here will end up revealing our location, which would be worse. But at the sa ti, we need to make sure we're prepared for an enemy attack, as the boy ntioned." She spoke, returning to her tent, leaving the group of mages still looking at each other, pondering what to do.
In the end, they all nodded in agreent, and after that, they began to organize themselves to rest and prepare for a possible Nilfgaardian mage attack during the rest of the night.
anwhile, Madara was already back in the forest, observing the darkness around that area, which was much more sinister than all other parts of the forest. The atmosphere there was grim, more so than any other part he had seen.
Before entering this place, he received mories from the clone that had t with the sorcerers but set them aside, as they no longer mattered. His focus was ahead, his expression cold and sharp as he activated his Sharingan, sensing a large movent in front of him.
"What happened to these monsters?" he murmured, looking at a place full of monsters in the distance, though they appeared different from the creatures he usually encountered.
They wandered like zombies, their movents clumsy and awkward. There were all sorts of monsters together, from simple Nekkers and their pack to sturdy Golems, along with Necrophages, Arachnomorphs, and even two Leshens, one of which had attacked him yesterday.
It seed every monster he could find in the forest was gathering here, as he hadn't encountered any since the start of his investigation.
"Well then, let's see what's going on here," he said before moving forward, jumping directly into the massive group of strange monsters to investigate them.
At the sa ti, Nilfgaardian mages were on the move. A portal appeared at another camp Madara had passed, where curiously, there were no bodies, only blood and an air of death—every corpse seed to have vanished.
"Did you find anything?" a mage asked the sorcerer stepping out of the portal.
"Yes, I found a group camping to the north thanks to their bonfire... They're probably our targets, but I don't think they're connected to the empty camps," he replied.
"These soldiers were here just a few days ago, and now they're all gone... likely dead. What the hell happened?" one of the mages murmured, concerned.
"We have sothing more important to focus on right now," their leader spoke. "Our target has appeared. Let's get ready to ambush them, destroy them, and find out what's going on here..." he commanded.
They all agreed and prepared to launch an attack on the northern mages at last.
Further north from the camp where these mages were located, even in the dead of night, Geralt continued galloping at full speed to reach the mages who, according to Madara's clone, weren't far away.
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