Thirty minutes earlier.
Madara Uchiha, clad in a black robe patterned with red clouds, had just wiped out over five thousand robots attacking J City.
He was now floating high in the sky, looking down over the city.
But the instant his body and mind instinctively relaxed, an unimaginably fast flash of blade light swept past.
At once.
Blood sprayed from Madara Uchiha's neck, leaving the soldiers, police, and heroes below staring in stunned disbelief.
Wh-what happened?
[Bang!]
The next second, Madara Uchiha's body suddenly exploded into a large cloud of white smoke.
Immediately afterward, a headless wooden remnant fell toward the ground under everyone's watchful eyes.
This made many officers from Sea Star, disguised as heroes, breathe a sigh of relief.
As expected, Lord Hokage wasn't so easily taken down.
At the same time.
Madara Uchiha, who had used a Wood Clone as the medium for his Body Replacement Technique, invisibly approached the attacker's position.
The Flame Fan in his hand, empowered by wind-nature Chakra, slashed swiftly toward the other man's neck.
He had no interest in asking who the other party was first. They could talk if he survived Madara Uchiha's hands.
[Clang!!!]
Fan and blade collided, and a resounding metallic crash exploded on the spot as a ring-shaped shockwave swept outward.
"Tsk, tsk. There's actually ninjutsu in this world that I've never seen before. Interesting~"
The attacker held his blade in one hand and blocked the fan's spine, grinning calmly.
But his appearance was truly hard to compliment.
A savage face, a mouth full of fangs, terrifying vertical pupils, armored skin, and a glowing V-shaped mark on his forehead.
No matter how one looked at him, he was a humanoid monster.
Yet the aura around him, the strength in his hand, and the speed he had shown