25 Ready For The First Mission
Moments later only shrill screams could be heard.
"Ah, Sir please not the right eye again Ahhhh."
"Shut up Onoki, I hit wherever I want. And it's tiring to lower myself to hit your dwarf body."
"I'm sorry Sir wuhuuu!"
After a few minutes, Onoki with a bruised face and tears in his walked out from behind the wall. Madara followed him with a face full of pleasure, not caring if people misunderstand.
Takashi sighed at this sight and said to Madara.
"Madara come with me for a moment."
After nodding, Madara followed Takashi some distance away from the people. Looking at Madara deeply, Takashi started talking.
"So how is it? Although what we did here is nothing, you made the first step in the right direction.
I know you are older than me and have experienced a lot of things in your life, but sometimes a bystander is clearer than the person involved.
Why do people get strong? What is the true use of strength? What you just did, is the answer. Don't misunderstand, I am not talking about the somewhat childish action of beating Onoki or whatever, I am talking about the feelings you felt when you did it.
You enjoyed it right? That's the use of strength, because only when you are strong can you do what you enjoy.
No institution, no superiors, no rules, no morals, nothing can prevent you from doing whatever you want if you are strong. These are things to restrict or protect, call it however you want, weak people.
What restricted you Madara, was yourself, your past, it narrowed your thinking and stopped you from truly enjoying yourself, chasing the illusionary dream of peace.
Now you did it though, breaking the first restrictions you placed on yourself. Even if others call your actions morally wrong, embarrassing, unbefitting of your identity, and so on, just break their kneecaps. Weak people have no right to decide or judge strong people, but you should understand that.
Well, I'll stop being long-winded, I'm happy about your change, keep it up."
With a solemn expression, Madara placed his hand on Takashi's shoulder and thanked him.
"You are right, I enjoyed it. I felt fun. Thank you for making me realize this.
You are leaving now right?"
Takashi smiled a bit.
"Yes I have something important, I will be gone for a few days. I will communicate with you via the ninja world chat group when I'm back."
Suddenly Madara grinned.
"Okay do your thing, I will play with that little boy Obito. I can already imagine if his fragile mind truly breaks after he finds out that Infinite Tsukuyomi doesn't exist.
After that, I will tell his little girlfriend Rin everything he has done over the years. Then he will neither have the real nor the illusionary Rin Hahahahahaha."
Madara started laughing like a standard maniac Uchiha again and Takashi watched him with helpless eyes, but he also likes the plan Madara came up with for Obito, because he truly dislikes Uchiha Obito.
In Takashi's opinion, Obito's life can be divided into two parts.
In his childhood, he was a complete loser. As a ninja during wartime, instead of training hard both his body and mind, he spent his time chasing after Rin, who didn't even like him.
Even Kakashi who had embarked on the road of a strong man after his father's death, dedicating his life to training and missions, as a shinobi should, was influenced and harmed by him.
The second part of his life started after Rin's death. He became a delusional lunatic. With his starting point of the incredibly strong Kamui and Hashirama cells, he didn't even try to get back his second eye from Kakashi.
Killing his teacher Minato and his wife by threatening them with their newborn child is fine for him, but taking back his own eye he once gifted is not? Ridiculous. Hypocritical. Wasting his options to become stronger, obsessed with the girl he one-sidedly loved, and in the end, he even got 'white-washed' after a few words from Naruto.
'Ah, I should really control my drifting thoughts better.'
"Okay, I'm leaving now Madara."
"Okay."
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Thirty minutes later.
150 kilometers outside of Iwagakure, Takashi stopped and was about to tell the other group members to get ready, when a question appeared on the stone tablet again.
[ The next question will appear in ten minutes.
Answering the question correctly will be rewarded with abilities and treasures from different worlds.
Wrong answers will be punished by taking away something precious to you, if the value is not enough, the answerer will be obliterated.
Everyone will have one minute to fill in an answer into the answer box in their mind.
The right answer is published.]
Right after the countdown began and the ninja world got turbulent again. These questions bring people with no talent and strength, the opportunity to change their destiny, so every time a question appears, the attention of the whole world will be drawn to it.
'Let's answer this question first and then I can travel to Against the Gods universe.'
Soon ten minutes passed by and the question appeared on the stone tablet.
[What is the identity of the currently strongest being in the ninja world?
You have one minute to answer this question.]
'It should be Ishiiki Otsutsuki. This guy can easily defeat the adult Naruto and Sasuke, even while his body is almost destroyed.'
Thinking of Ishiki, Takashi truly felt his own weakness.
'I have to get stronger as quickly as possible, otherwise, I really feel insecure thinking of these Otsutsukis.'
Not delaying any more time, Takashi typed in the answer and a minute passed by in a flash.
[Congratulations to Uchiha Takashi for answering the question correctly.
Reward:
Spartan Rage and Aura of Kratos from God of War.
Spartan Rage: After using this ability, the user will fall into a rage state, making strength, endurance and speed rise drastically. Ability adjusted to not influence sanity.
Aura of Kratos: Killing Aura was developed by Kratos after countless battles.
Passive ability will give others the impression that the user is warlike and mad.
Active use allows it to focus on targets, capable of scaring and affecting weaker minds, making them lose combat effectiveness.]
[Congratulations to Ishiki Otsutsuki for answering the question correctly.
Reward:
Ten-tails maturing time shortened to one year.
Punishments for wrong answers are being distributed.]
Takashi fell into ecstasy when he saw the rewards, but he was also in a hurry because of Ishiki's reward, but quickly put it to the back of his mind and tried out his new abilities.
He was originally worried that the other group members won't take him seriously, because of his young age, but with the Aura of Kratos, this problem is basically solved.
Who is Kratos?
A true warrior, a madman, someone who has slaughtered the gods of the Greek and Nordic pantheons, ancient Titans, monsters, and different kinds of magical creatures one after another. His aura is enough to overwhelm any group members that have joined until now.
Of course, Takashi himself can't do that yet, he can use the active only on people with weaker mental power than himself, but the passive is enough to make people fear him or at least make them apprehensive.
Spartan Rage on the other hand is also an extremely practical ability to fight opponents stronger than oneself. Especially because it doesn't affect the sanity of the user, instead it will boost the physical stats and get rid of feelings like fear that may affect one's battle mind.
'Hahahaha perfect.
Let's contact the others, now I am truly ready to torture some hapless protagonists.'
{Takashi: Everyone ready?}
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Author Note: Okay I know I said the mission will start in this chapter, but I thought about it and decided that the mc needs an ability so that the others take him seriously. Otherwise considering his physical age it may be problematic.
But I posted two chapters today anyway, so be content hehe.
Tomorrow in the next chapter it will truly begin.
