The two continued onward together.
Uchiha Madara and Ikki arrived before a massive statue. Studying it, Madara asked Ikki, "Do you recognize what this statue is?"
After taking a look, Ikki said in surprise, "It seems... this is a legend from our world..."
"What legend?" Uchiha Madara asked.
"It's a... legend of a hero slaying a dragon. The hero who defeated the evil dragon bathed his entire body in a liquid that blades and spears could not pierce. With that invincible body, he slew the dragon!"
"Oh? Is that so? Then it seems the God Warrior stationed here is likely the incarnation of that hero..."
Uchiha Madara looked up at the top of the hero's statue. Sure enough, a man clad in a dark-blue God Robe stood there, smiling.
"I never expected you to discover my presence!"
Siegfried leaped down! Standing upon the icy plain beneath the hero statue, he smiled at Uchiha Madara and Ikki.
"I never expected you to pass every God Warrior's trial and reach this place. Then I, Siegfried, will tell you something."
"The legend of the hero slaying the dragon that you spoke of just now is all true. And the hero who defeated that evil dragon was indeed me, Siegfried!"
"Yes, my guess was correct." Uchiha Madara smiled. "But you are not that hero himself. You merely inherited his legacy—his God Robe, that is!"
Siegfried said in shock, "Why... why do you know that?"
Uchiha Madara smiled. "The legend of the hero slaying the dragon exists in our world as well. But what I, Uchiha Madara, know is that when that hero bathed in the liquid that made his body impervious to blades and spears, a leaf stuck to his back. That spot became the hero's fatal weakness. Later, his enemy discovered it and