"Phew—finally, we're here."
"But dawn's almost here. Madara, your ability is way too slow."
High in the sky, Hashirama Senju, clad in a black robe patterned with red clouds,
first looked at the sprawling snowy mountains now within sight, then at the sky in the east, which was gradually beginning to lighten.
He then complained to Madara Uchiha, who wore the same black-and-red cloud-patterned robe beside him:
"I'd be faster using Geppo myself."
Veins immediately bulged on Madara Uchiha's forehead as his cold Rinnegan glanced sideways.
"Hashirama, you talk too much."
But to be fair,
his method of flying through gravitational force truly was slower than Kaido, Shiki, Newgate, and the others.
Let alone Bullet, who could transform directly into an F-15 fighter jet.
Of course, it did have its advantages—it required less effort.
The amount of Chakra it consumed was less than what Madara Uchiha recovered naturally.
Still, after hearing Hashirama Senju say that, he began considering it himself.
Once he returned, he would use the Rinnegan to develop some kind of space-time ninjutsu that would make traveling easier.
The next time he carried out a mission with Hashirama, he would give him a huge surprise and show him what Lord Madara was capable of!
At this moment, the two had successfully arrived at the southern edge of the Ice and Snow Mountains, at the northernmost end of the Falmart Continent.
Behind them lay a forest that was not particularly large, while to the west stood a lake known as the Inland Sea.
It had actually been blasted into existence when Sage Cato experimented with forbidden magic in his youth.
To the east stretched an endless grassland, once the territory of the Headhunter Rabbit Tribe.
In recent years, after becoming unclaimed land, it had been flooded by many races