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Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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The mages were all silent. They could have caused massive destruction to the zombie army with combined attacks, as they had done against other mages, but that was no longer the case after the intense battle they had just faced.
They could only watch the battlefield after Madara had simply burned down the entire forest by himself. Endo felt conflicted after witnessing the battle between Geralt and Madara against the giant zombie monster.
"Is it over…?! Are these monsters finally stopping?" One of the mages sounded quite frightened.
"I think so…" Madara replied with a serious tone. He had made sure to destroy all the zombies in the area, so he believed they could finally breathe.
"Can we get Triss out of here now?! She needs to be saved!" Keira exclaid at that mont.
"Calm down, Keira... we should first understand this entire situation," one of the mages urged, asking for calm. anwhile, soone stepped forward, approaching Madara, leaving the group of mages behind.
"Despite the circumstances, what you did there was incredible… what are you? I've never seen anything like you before… even Geralt didn't seem as capable as you… and you're just a boy," Coral spoke up, looking at Madara with interest.
"..." Geralt remained silent at the comnt.
Madara raised an eyebrow at her before continuing. "It doesn't matter. In any case, I need information about sothing in that forest," Madara began.
He debated using genjutsu to show them, but it would be a waste of chakra, so he quickly summoned a piece of paper with a quill and ink before starting to draw what he wanted to show.
Everyone around was surprised as Madara drew rapidly, creating a perfect black-and-white illustration of the creature, which he then showed to everyone.
All eyes opened wide in astonishnt, which was no surprise. Even though it was just a drawing, it conveyed the feeling of actually seeing such a creature in front of them, sending shivers down everyone's spine.
"This… What is that?!" One of the less courageous mages trembled as he raised his voice.
"That's what I want to know. No one here has any idea what this thing is?" Madara asked, raising an eyebrow.
His gaze fell on the mages, who could only show fear as so shook their heads, finally looking at Geralt.
"I have no idea what that is; I've never seen anything like it, and we were never taught about such a thing," Geralt replied.
"I see…" Madara sighed, realizing he wouldn't get any useful information. It seed this creature wasn't supposed to be in this world, just like the presence of other chakra users and perhaps even a mber of the Otsutsuki clan. This made him wonder what else he might encounter. But that didn't matter now; he had a creature to fight, a group to kill, and a war to wage. There was no ti to try to understand what was happening.
"I believe that creature is a Lich," Madara finally said, looking at his own well-drawn illustration.
"Lich?" a mage asked as everyone turned to look at him.
"It's hard to explain… but it's a kind of undead, with powers, as you can see… quite dark powers, capable of creating an army of the dead," Madara explained.
"Wait… if we think about it… could this creature be waiting for the war?" Keira raised her voice with a question that left everyone stunned, not having considered that perspective.
"Exactly… I believe it's here to build its own army," Madara confird.
"That would be a catastrophe… both for the North and Nilfgaard!" a sorcerer exclaid.
After all, they could envision the army this monster could amass, one that would turn thousands of soldiers into such monsters. They had faced hundreds, but how many dead would there be when over 100,000 n tried to kill each other?
"Not just the war between the North and Nilfgaard… all the kingdoms, both in the North and South… if an army of the dead arises in this war, it will be the end of the continent," Madara said as everyone absorbed the weight of this scenario.
"We cannot let that happen!" one of the older sorcerers spoke out.
"Yes... this goes beyond the war. Even if Nilfgaard finds us here... we can't let this creature do as it pleases!" Another from the group nodded.
"Wait." Madara suddenly spoke, interrupting the discussion.
"I want to face it myself," Madara declared in the midst of the group.
Everyone looked at him at that mont, surprised, while Geralt raised an eyebrow, wondering to himself if Madara was serious.
"Why do you want to face it alone?" an older mage asked, stunned.
"For personal reasons," Madara replied. "I want to face it first, and I'll do it alone. But if I can't kill it, I'll let you take care of it. Besides, I've seen a bit of its powers, but I don't believe that was all… so there are more things I need to discover about it," Madara said.
Everyone still looked at him, a bit shocked, trying to process his words. After all, they hadn't expected this after the battle they had just witnessed.
"Do you really think you can face such a thing?" Geralt asked more calmly, though his brow was furrowed.
"I don't know," Madara admitted. "But I still have a few tricks up my sleeve that might help in this fight." He said this with confidence, and Geralt nodded, sensing that Madara truly believed in himself, so he decided to let the young man proceed.
Madara then continued, addressing the witcher directly. "I believe you should go north and take the wounded sorceress. If I don't return, you'll know what to do." He comnted.
Geralt understood what he was implying, preferring not to speak openly before the others about Ciri and her hiding place. He had to respect Madara, as he truly seed to be protecting Ciri.
"Wait, are you really going to do this alone?! We can help," Coral said, approaching. She wanted to assist.
"Yes. Stay here tonight. I'll head south and clear a path through the groups of undead for you. Don't worry; I'll inform you when I've destroyed it. Afterward, I'll go to the army, and you can carry out your mission," Madara affird as the mages exchanged glances.
"Well, he's the one who discovered all the information, and he did save us. I suppose we have no reason to oppose this boy's decision," one of the sorcerers spoke rationally, and most of the others nodded in agreent.
Madara simply nodded and set off toward the burning forest, jumping and disappearing the next mont.
"He just left," murmured one of the sorcerers, watching as Madara vanished into the flas burning that night.
Geralt sighed. "Well, I think he's right. I'll take Triss out of the hills, and you all continue on your journey. Don't try to call for reinforcents until he returns, if that's the case." Geralt looked seriously at the other sorcerers, who weren't paying much attention to him, their eyes fixed on the flas, not even Coral, with whom he'd once shared a bed, looked at him. But everyone seed to silently understand.
Geralt then took Triss with Keira's help and placed her on his horse, which had fled during the explosions but was later retrieved through Keira's magic.
Without delay, he rode north, while the mages, now only seven out of the original fourteen, sighed and remained at the site, trying to recover and waiting for the right mont to continue their journey, keeping a watchful eye for any other enemy attacks. Deep down, they hoped the creature wouldn't cross their path again, as they still had an army to set a trap for, hoping that the boy would handle it.
anwhile, Madara didn't imdiately confront the creature. He stopped at a spot near the forest and, seated in a lotus position atop a tree, began to ditate to speed up his chakra recovery.
As the first rays of sunlight began to peek from the east, illuminating the mountain, Madara opened his eyes, glowing a bright red, and stood up, preparing as his watching clones disappeared.
Now he had only one objective: destroy that creature.
The Lich, in turn, knew he had lost many of his creatures that night and was furious. He understood that sothing unusual was happening beyond his knowledge.
After all, dealing with mages or soldiers would have been easy if his soldiers ca in large numbers. However, the situation was quite different. First, soone had killed human soldiers in their own camps, and he saw this as an opportunity, gathering the bodies left behind to turn them into new soldiers at his service.
Then, it all began with an explosion coming from one side of the forest, with flas illuminating the entire night's darkness as the Lich felt his creatures dying on that side. He had stationed a part of his army there, full of monsters to use if he needed extra force coming from another direction.
The battle between the mages then comnced, and though he was surprised by the attack from that distant side, he focused on capturing mages to turn them into his puppets. However, he arrived too late; the fight had already ended. Just when he thought he could at least capture soone that night among the remaining human mages, flas started to consu his army of hundreds of humans—results of all his weeks stationed in this place—being annihilated.
He felt his power weakening over the undead, each ti with fewer numbers, and in an attempt to eliminate whoever was disrupting his plans, he sent one of his most powerful beasts, which he had turned into his puppet. But it, too, fell shortly afterward.
Though he was a malevolent being, this Lich was still rational and tried to understand what was happening. He rembered seeing an intruder approach shortly before the battle on that side.
He managed to capture him, but when he attempted to absorb his life, he felt sothing strange: that human didn't seem truly alive, but neither was he dead. It was as if he were both alive and not at the sa ti. So, he crushed him, but to his surprise, the figure transford into smoke, appearing more like a duplication of soone than a real body.
Frustrated by the night's events, he still had a substantial army of the dead around him, stationed on that side of the forest, waiting for any other intruder daring enough to approach.
He didn't care if the sun began to rise over him, illuminating his figure. Even though he was a creature of darkness, he had gained immunity to that light after obtaining so much power.
But just as he thought of acting on his own and investigating what was happening, he felt sothing approaching. His undead minions, off in the distance, began to be destroyed, and his eyes flared intensely, like slits in the abyss. The only light that emanated was a sinister crimson that revealed his fury.
Then, he once again sensed the presence of the one who had appeared the previous night, but now it was different. The figure advanced with red eyes brimming with life, showing no hint of fear, as though those eyes, also red, stared directly into his own, as if anticipating his destruction.
The Lich felt insulted by such audacity and decided he wouldn't let such an affront go unanswered.
anwhile, Madara advanced through the area filled with animals and monsters turned into undead, intent on facing the creature alone. After all, the system had triggered a new mission, which was why he decided to go solo; he didn't want to miss another opportunity to gain more power.
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