At that moment, Belaque appeared in front of Uchiha Madara.
"I think you'd be better off staying hidden. A little girl like you showing up in Winterfort is far too suspicious. It makes us stand out even more," Uchiha Madara said.
"If I could, I'd stay invisible the whole time. But at my current level, I can only maintain it for a very limited time. This is already pretty good," Belaque said.
"So it only lasts that long." Uchiha Madara smiled. "Just a few minutes? I thought it would at least last half a day."
"If I could keep it up for half a day like you said, there wouldn't be anything on the Elzeran Continent I couldn't get my hands on," Belaque said.
"Though it seems there's nothing I can't get anyway," Belaque added.
"Do you think there was something wrong with that person just now?" Uchiha Madara asked Belaque.
"I didn't notice anything. Wasn't he just a big-bearded man who drank too much? People like that are everywhere among the Dwarf Clan," Belaque said.
"But this is Winterfort," Uchiha Madara continued. "There aren't any guards outside Winterfort, yet someone inside is getting drunk. Unless there's some major celebration today, Winterfort may already have changed hands."
"Now that you mention it, I also find the drinking a little strange." Belaque thought it over. "There aren't many people in Winterfort, but supposedly every one of them is an elite. The gates are wide open, and they're getting drunk inside—it really is hard to explain."
"Maybe something really did happen to Winterfort. We just don't know what happened yet," Belaque said.
As they spoke, the two arrived at a staircase.
"Should we go up?" Belaque asked Uchiha Madara.
"If we go straight up the stairs, won't we run into people we