After bidding farewell to Kaguolet, Uchiha Madara went up onto the city wall.
"Why did you come back?!" Belaque looked at Kaguolet, who was already tangled up with four large magical beasts, and said to Uchiha Madara, "If you still won't help him at a time like this, when do you plan to help? Can't you see he's facing four of them by himself?"
"This is a matter for the young," Uchiha Madara said to Belaque with a smile. "You've been young too, so you know that young people need room to grow. I'm simply giving him that room."
"Excuse me." An elderly voice sounded behind Uchiha Madara.
Uchiha Madara turned around and saw an old man with graying white hair and beard looking at him. "I saw you make your move. Are you a mage as well?"
Belaque smiled at Uchiha Madara and said, "This is Ansheng, Red Rock City's foremost fire mage."
Uchiha Madara looked at the old man. He was clearly quite advanced in years and held a walking stick in his hand.
Yet the walking stick struck Uchiha Madara as anything but ordinary. A red gemstone was embedded at its top, and within that gem seemed to burn a living flame, blazing fiercely.
Though the man looked frail with age, Uchiha Madara thought that judging by that gemstone alone, he had to be someone of great importance in Red Rock City.
"Greetings, sir," Uchiha Madara promptly said.
The old man nodded. "I saw your technique. What were those two fire dragons called? I consider myself somewhat knowledgeable about fire magic, yet I have never seen a spell involving two fire dragons."
"I created it myself," Uchiha Madara said with a smile.
"You must be a genius among mages," the old man said to Uchiha Madara. "Creating