Chapter 139: Chapter 138 - The Battle Between the South and the North 05.
[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]
Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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In the midst of the battlefield, Madara paused for a moment, and in the next moment, he took a step, beginning to take another, quickly covering ground in the chaotic battlefield. His steps and speed constantly increased.
He began to accelerate and shot to one side of the field, crossing the chaos between the north and south, weaving between two knights fighting, dodging them effortlessly amid attacks, advancing with superhuman agility. Other knights attempted to strike him upon seeing him, but he swiftly spun his body, swinging his sword and cutting down any opponent within reach as he ran nonstop, leaving a trail of death.
The Northern army was pushing the Nilfgaardians further back, putting them in a very difficult position as they tried, in vain, to reverse the situation. But it would be futile at that moment. After Madara had weakened all the foundations of the enemy army, devastating the center of the battlefield, killing many, and with his clones continuing to act, it was only a matter of time before the North broke through all defenses and charged forward, which would be disastrous for the Nilfgaardians at this moment.
However, Madara was not paying attention to this now; he was moving to the other side of the field, where he spotted, in the distance, a fight between the magic archer and his clone.
Madara's clone threw a kunai toward the man, who glowed and disappeared, reappearing on the other side while firing an arrow. Madara's clone dodged the arrows even without the sharingan, grabbing another kunai and trying to hit him. But as he approached, the mage simply vanished, reappearing at another point, attempting to catch him from a blind spot and not allowing Madara's weapons to get near him due to their last encounter.
It was quite frustrating to deal with him, but there wasn't much the clone could do other than attempt to strike him. The archer looked at him arrogantly while the clone maintained a narrow gaze, thinking about how to catch him.
But it was at that moment, as the clone stared at him and the archer prepared another arrow, that a figure landed between the two. The original Madara appeared in front of the clone, surprising the mage, who, upon facing those red eyes, felt himself being distorted. Madara wasted no time and quickly activated a genjutsu on the archer.
"What is this?" he murmured, feeling himself lose control of his body as his vision darkened. He quickly worked with magic to free himself from any mental manipulation, and as soon as he succeeded, he regained sight of the battlefield, looking ahead in near desperation as he saw the boy running toward him with a sword in hand, already very close, though still at a certain distance. Seeing this, Madara threw his sword, which spun through the air toward the enemy.
In an act of desperation, the mage vanished, reappearing in a corner of the field and, with surprise, looked to the side as he felt Madara's clone strike him in the chest, already prepared to hit him as soon as he used his teleportation.
The mage felt immense pain as he was flung backward, his ribs breaking, and he roared in pain, disappearing again to escape.
He reappeared in a corner where Northern and Nilfgaardian soldiers fought each other all around. He stood up, frustrated and in severe pain, as he looked at Madara and his clone, who were over 50 meters away.
"You know it's a mistake to have come here, right? You could have just waited for your death," Madara spoke calmly, observing the mage as the clone moved closer to him.
"Shut up! Do you think you'll stop me with those strange transformation spells of yours again?" declared the mage angrily.
"There are a thousand ways to kill you. I may have used one, but 999 ways still remain to finish you off. I'll try not to let you escape this time," Madara replied coldly, preparing to fight again, but with an arrogant look in his eyes.
"You won't defeat me now, damn child! I'll kill you, find the princess of Cintra, and complete the mission I once failed!" the mage said, breathing heavily.
Madara took a running start and swiftly drew a kunai, throwing it at the Nilfgaardian, but the mage quickly disappeared, reappearing at another spot, clutching his broken ribs in pain from using magic.
'This is bad... I can't use magic like this...' he muttered, feeling the pain hit him with each teleportation. It seemed his rib was struck so hard it punctured one of his internal organs, hence the immense pain, and he knew he needed help quickly.
When the mage looked around, he saw three Madara clones approaching from both sides. He tried to react, but before he had time, he felt one of his legs get pierced without warning, with only the sound of air slicing through, throwing him violently to the ground.
A fourth Madara emerged from the chaos, holding a bow after firing the arrow at the mage from a blind spot. "I remember you injured Calanthe in the war at Cintra, striking her leg with an arrow, and I remember how you smiled about it..." said Madara's clone.
"So, I made sure you'd feel that same pain. I hit your tendon, and I don't know if your magic can heal that, but you might remain like this for a long time—perhaps for the rest of your life—if you don't die today, becoming a man who needs a crutch."
"Damn you!" the mage muttered from the ground, gritting his teeth in pain as blood spurted from his leg through the leather armor. His gaze darted between the original Madara and the surrounding clones, desperately searching for a way out.
Suddenly, another arrow flew at him; he barely had time to react, feeling the impact as it struck his other thigh, pinning him forcefully to the ground. A third arrow followed just seconds later, making any reaction or use of magic impossible.
The third arrow pierced his chest, and the mage was speechless, feeling his body impaled by three arrows and surrounded by the clones who had launched them.
The mage found himself trapped, waiting for death in a way he had never experienced before. He had come to fight and defeat the boy but was brought down so easily he hadn't even had a chance to fight back.
Now, he saw the original Madara draw a kunai, aiming it at his head to finish him off. In a tone of desperation, he forced his magic, gritting his teeth until they bled from the pressure he was putting on himself, making his body glow until he finally disappeared, leaving the kunai to strike only empty ground.
"He escaped," Madara commented calmly, looking at the spot where the mage had been and letting a small smile cross his lips. "I expected that to happen. After all, all the effort with those arrows would have been wasted otherwise..." he murmured to himself.
The Nilfgaardian leaders watching the battle saw their army beginning to retreat more and more, with some soldiers even attempting to flee the battlefield. As bad as things were, they got worse when suddenly a magical explosion appeared before them, and the wounded mage fell to the ground, battered and exhausted, with a desperate look, pleading for help in his eyes.
General Menno Coehoorn could not hide his surprise at seeing the mage he had sent into battle reappear there, with three arrows lodged in his body—one in his foot, another in his thigh, and the last in his chest—lying on the ground like a wounded animal, blood pooling beneath him.
"Help..." the mage murmured, frustrated and ashamed of his condition.
The general looked anything but pleased but turned to the others nonetheless. "Help him!" ordered the general, as a Nilfgaardian mage approached to assist the wounded mage, attempting to remove the arrows in front of the general with some difficulty, for he was a mage, not a warrior.
When the first arrow was removed, the mage suddenly screamed in pain, drawing surprised looks from those around him as his hands shook with burns, and small flames appeared around the arrow that had just been removed.
Then, all the arrows lodged in the mage began to glow, igniting in flames. The wounded mage himself looked at this in shock, sensing his death approaching, and in the next moment, he was entirely dismembered, with the remnants of his body scattered across the destroyed area. The explosion struck not only the mage and his helper but everyone nearby, leaving them without time to react to the sudden attack.
BOOOMM!!
Madara heard the explosion and felt satisfied. "If he was going to flee the battlefield like a coward, at least he could take others with him," he couldn't help but mock, knowing he'd prepared his arrows for this purpose.
Madara then let it go and quickly grabbed his swords, activating his sharingan as he sprinted across the battlefield. He began to reap lives while his clones fought on other fronts. The original moved effortlessly, cutting down and dismembering men around him. Everyone who witnessed the shocking scene questioned if they were truly fighting a small man in armor who moved with supernatural agility.
The battlefield soon turned in favor of the North, and the troops began to break through enemy lines, advancing with triumphant shouts. The Nilfgaardians, in despair, started to retreat upon seeing their last line of defense crumble, losing all resistance against the Northerners.
The battle favored the North, which advanced with spears and swords piercing the black armor of the Nilfgaardians. Nilfgaardian archers desperately tried to regain an advantage, though now they could only hit a few Northerners in the area.
Meanwhile, across the battlefield, all of Madara's clones began to pick up arrows and, using their bows, fired rapidly at the Nilfgaardian archers. The Nilfgaardian archers watched in terror as forty arrows came hurtling toward them, striking them and leaving a trail of screams and pain.
"Shoot! Kill the blockers! Don't let them gain ground!" the archers' commander shouted, but he was soon hit with a direct arrow to the head, falling before anyone could see where the attack came from. More arrows flew, hitting more archers.
Meanwhile, the original Madara continued advancing, leaping through the battlefield and killing enemies using only taijutsu and kenjutsu. The Northern leaders, watching the battle from afar, were stunned by the relentless destruction unfolding before their eyes. Many Nilfgaardians began to flee.
Then, a trumpet sounded from the other side of the battlefield, and the Nilfgaardians began to order the retreat of their remaining troops, as half of the army had been annihilated.
"It seems we have a great advantage now, don't you think, General?" Thorne murmured with satisfaction, while the general observed in silence.
"That explosion hit the command... What happened?" he murmured, confused, hearing the explosion of the explosive tags on the arrow. Everyone on and off the battlefield was shocked by the devastation that ravaged that side, decimating the Nilfgaardian command.
The Nilfgaardian general should have ordered the retreat, but it seemed something serious had happened to the army commander, leaving the group of nobles in despair in the situation, and it was they who sounded the retreat trumpet.
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