Chapter 125 - Sodden's Hills 05.

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Third Person POV

Northern kingdoms.

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All sorts of creatures were moving slowly but steadily, wandering aimlessly as if they'd been doing the same thing for hours. Madara swiftly landed on the ground with a sound meant to grab their attention; after all, he wanted to see what was going on with them.

"What happened to them…?" Madara couldn't help but ask as he examined them more closely, wondering what was happening here.

The creatures, who had been wandering, stopped after hearing Madara land nearby, finally seeming to focus their attention on him.

A moment later, Madara saw dozens of creatures turn toward him, moving slowly. He noticed all sorts of monsters there, each in a deplorable state—some were missing body parts or bleeding, but none seemed bothered by it as they stared at him.

"Is this some kind of zombie?" Madara questioned in a slightly surprised tone upon seeing the state of the creatures. They were clearly no longer alive, and necromancy was not an unknown magic here. Even Yennefer could perform that kind of spell, but it was surprising to see it used on monsters, which made Madara wonder what was going on.

After a moment of them staring calmly at him, the first creature took a step forward. Then, suddenly, all of them rushed toward Madara, running at him as if seeing him as something to kill.

"…" Madara just looked at them calmly before readying himself to fight.

The creatures started charging at him, launching an attack with some Nekkers leaping toward him. Madara kicked them away, but the creatures quickly got back up, seeming unfazed by the pain.

"Are these really zombies?" Madara murmured as a Leshen approached from the side, attempting to grab him with its claws. He quickly drew his sword and sliced off the creature's arm. Despite losing an arm, the creature showed no signs of pain and tried to attack him again with its other arm, forcing him to leap back, leaving his sword behind.

Before landing, he swiftly took out a shuriken, infused it with wind chakra, and launched it mid-flip. The weapon produced a cutting sound that echoed across the area as it flew toward the sea of monsters. He landed on the ground, his feet catching his sword perfectly as he picked it up again.

Several creatures' bodies were sliced in half, but even as they fell to the ground, the creatures continued to crawl toward him. However, the severed legs didn't move, suggesting that control stemmed from the brain or some vital point.

Madara confirmed this when he saw a nearby Nekker, piercing its head and driving his sword through its small brain. The creature dropped to the ground, motionless and no longer moving.

"Even so, this is very strange and inefficient for me…" Madara murmured to himself. While he knew the brain was a vital point, not all undead had such a point in their head. He would need another way to kill them, as he didn't have a witcher's knowledge to understand all the specifics.

He was debating this while more and more monsters charged at him.

"I shouldn't reveal my location like this, but I have no choice." Madara pondered, knowing that by using fire, he could be easily detected by anyone in the region. Though he wasn't sure if the mages had arrived yet, he decided it was necessary to deal with these strange creatures.

With no other choice, he crossed his fingers and quickly created several clones, who began running toward the forest, trying to detect any nearby enemies who could relay information to the original.

Meanwhile, the original Madara dodged attacks from the approaching creatures, finding himself surrounded by hundreds of them of all kinds. He began to distance himself, placing a clone to keep them occupied as he prepared his most powerful fire-style jutsu on a large scale, swiftly forming hand seals and ending with the horse seal.

"Fire Style Technique: Great Fire Annihilation!" He began to unleash flames, using far more chakra than he had in Brokilon, and as soon as the fire erupted from his mouth, it exploded on the ground before him, spreading forward at full speed, producing a flash that illuminated the mountainous area with a powerful echo. The fiery explosion consumed the dark part of the forest on one of the peaks.

The Nilfgaardian mages, who were preparing to confront the Northern forces from a distance, quickly turned their attention toward the explosion of fire behind them.

"What is that?" one of them asked as the others also observed the blazing area lighting up all of Sodden Hill.

"I don't know... It doesn't look good. Could Northern mages already be infiltrating the forest? That might explain why the camps were all destroyed, with no bodies of the black-clad soldiers left behind..." said the leader, his expression serious and brows furrowed, suspicious of what was happening here, unable to understand it fully.

"Well, that doesn't matter now, leader. We must act," another mage said to the leader, who, after a moment of reflection, nodded.

"Yes, you're right. Let's move forward," the leader ordered. Even though things were still unclear, he had to act to complete his mission.

At the same time, the Northern mages were also leaving their tents, on high alert. There had been intense watchfulness after Madara's warning, though many had gone to rest to switch shifts later.

Now, however, they all watched the distant flames lighting up the sky.

"What's going on over there?" one of them murmured.

"I think it might be that boy... Madara… Maybe he encountered the mages he mentioned?" Triss murmured, remembering the boy's skill with fire.

"You must be kidding. Are you saying that boy could create an explosion of that magnitude?!" Keira was stunned, watching the intense flames burn in the distance, unable to believe it was the work of a boy.

"Didn't you hear the reports from the war in Cintra? There's information that the boy incinerated two thousand people on the battlefield with some strange spell," Coral approached, watching with interest.

"I thought you weren't interested in the reports..." Triss raised an eyebrow at her.

"I wasn't. I only became interested after seeing the boy, so I was reading about this Uchiha Madara and where he operated," Coral replied in a curt tone.

"Wait a moment! Two thousand people, he killed all that many!?" Keira exclaimed, while other mages nearby also listened to the conversation in astonishment. It was not a small number, especially for something done by a 12-year-old boy.

Triss stopped looking at the flames when she felt something coming toward them from the other side and quickly noticed a glimmer in the forest near him as a bright light appeared on the other side of the woods.

"Attack! Enemy attack!" she exclaimed, immediately pointing to the side, and everyone turned their gaze from the distant flames to the glow where Triss was indicating. They all opened their eyes wide, realizing it was a combined spell targeting them.

"Shield yourselves! Shield yourselves!" the mages shouted, chanting protection spells in ancient Elvish to raise barriers. The next moment, an explosion erupted from the forest, with multiple beams of light shooting into the sky and toward their camp.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM

The attack was brutal. Not everyone managed to raise shields in time to strengthen the group's protection, and the entire camp was quickly consumed by the explosion as a dust cloud rose, scattering debris across the terrain.

"Did we get them?" one of the Nilfgaardian mages murmured from afar, hoping they had eliminated the Northern mages with this attack.

"I don't think so... They were quick; I noticed several shields going up, but still not enough as we anticipated," another mage remarked beside him, watching as a protective shield of energy emerged amid the dissipating dust cloud.

"Let's prepare for another attack..." the leader said as everyone nodded.

In the Northern group, the situation was not looking good.

"Are you all right?" one of the sorcerers from the Chapter murmured, looking around at his companions amidst the destruction, while the ground within the combined shield remained intact.

"Not all of us." Someone responded, coughing and looking at the bodies nearby.

"Three of us have been killed…" one of them lamented, deeply saddened by the loss.

"We can't let that damned attack go unanswered!" Coral exclaimed angrily as she began preparing spells. The Nilfgaardian mages, seeing the glow of magic in the distance, also started to prepare more quickly to counter the enemy spells.

Geralt was nearby and could see the distant flames as well as the lights from explosions in the part of the forest close to him, between the two groups of mages.

Another glow appeared, but this time from both sides, as the two forces unleashed new spells toward each other. The spells collided mid-air, exploding like fireworks, causing the forest to tremble with the intensity of the battle.

"I need to hurry!" Geralt said, moving toward the side he believed to be the Northern mages.

"We managed to cancel them out, but we can't keep this up!" commented one of the Northern mages, realizing the energy it took to match the enemy's assault was too much for them to sustain. Although they had equalized both energies, the effort was rapidly draining their strength, placing them at a disadvantage with 11 mages against Nilfgaard's 30.

Madara's clones, upon seeing the explosions, were surprised and began advancing rapidly toward the battle, realizing that the mages had finally clashed sooner than he had anticipated.

Meanwhile, the original Madara was in the midst of the flames he had unleashed, watching as the explosion burned monsters and trees. But he wasn't simply observing charred bodies; he was in the middle of an intense fight as well.

The creatures kept advancing on him, even while on fire, and he fought them with his sword, cutting them down as they approached, trying to locate their vital points with his Sharingan. The flames from his jutsu, however, helped to decimate hundreds of them in a single blow, leaving him to deal with what remained.

Yet, unbeknownst to any of the groups—Madara, Geralt, the Northern mages, or Nilfgaard—there was something else lurking in the forest. A shadowy figure watched them with interest from a distance, its face a skull of something far from human. Where its eyes should have been, a red glow began to intensify, as if intrigued by the events unfolding.

It raised a skeletal finger from beneath its cloak and pointed toward the mages. All around it, hundreds of corpses began to march, including the Nilfgaardian soldiers Madara had slain. And this was only the beginning of a confrontation that would turn all those mages into an army of the dead, regardless of their allegiance—Northern or Nilfgaardian. All that mattered was building its army.

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