Uchiha Madara looked around at the trees, which seemed to have lost all their color. As far as the eye could see, everything was black.
Moreover, the foul smell was growing stronger and stronger. Clearly, it was coming from this black forest.
"It stinks so badly here." Belaque said with disgust. "I can put up with anything else, but this smell is really unbearable."
"And at my age, I've seen plenty of things, yet I've never smelled anything this foul before," Belaque said.
"It smells even worse than an animal's corpse after it rots," Belaque said.
"Let's go forward and see what happened. The color of this forest and its smell obviously don't want us to enter," Uchiha Madara said.
"It seems to be trying to warn outside intruders. But the more it does that, the more it shows that there's no real danger inside the forest," Uchiha Madara said.
"Danger lurks in the unknown. When something openly tells us that there's danger ahead, it means there's nothing truly frightening there," Uchiha Madara said.
"I hope your theory is right." Carter Binda smiled at Uchiha Madara. "But if there's no danger ahead, then that would be boring."
"The difficulties I face on this continent are beyond anyone else's imagination. If everything were easy, what would be interesting about that?" Carter Binda said.
"Young people just love adventure. Old folks like us still prefer things to go smoothly," Uchiha Madara said.
"Don't they say that wisdom comes from suffering? If I always did things smoothly, wouldn't that make me someone without a brain?" Carter Binda said.
"We're different. People our age already learned all kinds of lessons when we were young," Uchiha Madara said.
"What we want now is a peaceful life. I'm starting to think your Winterfort would be a