The live broadcast was transmitted back to the Chat Group.
Kumoko, who was leveling up, hid in a safe spot and opened the Chat Group's live stream to watch the duel.
However, with just one glance, she was startled by a certain flamboyant hairstyle.
[Kumoko: "Eh? That old man, Uchiha Madara, was actually so handsome when he was young."]
[Kumoko: "Group Leader is also so pretty, white hair is cute! But she looks so soft and weak, a single punch might make her cry for a long time. Can she even win like this?]
[World's No. 1 Princess: "@Kumoko, you're exposing your preferences, and also, don't talk about me casually, I can hear what you're saying."]
[Kumoko: "Group Leader, I, I, I..."]
Kumoko immediately panicked; she had spoken too quickly and was caught directly.
[World's No. 1 Princess: "Don't worry, I'm not that petty. Is Uchiha Madara handsome? Actually... he's a bottom."]
[Kumoko: "Eh? No, no way... Unbelievable!"]
[Kikyo: "What's a bottom?"]
[World's No. 1 Princess: "..."]
[World's No. 1 Princess: "@Kumoko, you explain it to Kikyo, I need to focus on the battle."]
[Kumoko: "..."]
...
In the arena.
Beliris quickly withdrew her consciousness as if fleeing, no longer paying attention to the Chat Group's messages.
Opposite her, the leader of the Four Uchiha's Crazy Laughter.
Although he hadn't spoken in the Chat Group, he had been lurking.
Uchiha Madara's face gradually darkened.
It seemed he had understood the concept of "bottom" that Kumoko was explaining to Kikyo in the Chat Group.
"Mr. Madara, your complexion doesn't look so good. Fighting like this, won't it be a bit unfair to you? You won't go back on your word if you lose, right? Though it wouldn't matter even if you did." Beryl's teasing voice reached Uchiha Madara's ears, and he almost broke his composure.
"Hmph, I won't go back on my word. I, Uchiha Madara, am not someone who can't take a loss," Uchiha Madara said coldly. "Also, are you going to fight me in those clothes?"
A casual knee-length pleated suspender dress, set against her snow-white hair, made the young girl look less like she was preparing for battle and more like she was on vacation.
"It's fine, I'll be careful not to tear my clothes. You can attack as much as you want, don't worry about anything," Beryl said, showing great understanding.
"Brat, do you mean that you can defeat me, Uchiha Madara, without even tearing your clothes?" A vein popped on Uchiha Madara's forehead, and he laughed in extreme anger. "Even Senju Hashirama back then wouldn't dare say such arrogant words."
He had always thought that Senju Hashirama's "I don't want to kill you" at the Valley of the End was arrogant enough, but he never expected someone today to be even more so than that blockhead.
"If Mr. Madara wants to think that, it's not impossible," Beryl said, spreading her hands. "Speaking of which, what adult would take a child seriously?"
"You..." Uchiha Madara was instantly infuriated.
He used to be the one who said such things to others; now the tables had turned.
"I had originally intended to go easy, hmph!"
He couldn't win an argument with her. From Beryl's words, Uchiha Madara sensed that she very likely knew about the matters of his world.
Uchiha Madara didn't make the first move, not because Beryl looked only fifteen or sixteen, but because he was wary of her.
Don't assume Uchiha Madara is reckless. As a third-party force and the second most cunning and ruthless leader in the ninja world, he had seen countless conspiracies and dirty dealings between ninja villages throughout decades of Ninja World history.
Even if he was initially less cunning than Senju Hashirama's younger brother, time and experience were enough to compensate for this deficiency. Moreover, Uchiha Madara was a man who had served as clan head.
Uchiha Madara was reckless because, with his strength, he didn't need cunning; he could solve problems with the simplest methods.
But Beryl is the current Group Leader of the Chat Group.
Even a fool would figure out that this surprisingly young girl, who appeared to be only fifteen or sixteen, was very likely even more difficult to deal with than Senju Hashirama.
Beryl was not in a hurry to act. As time passed, Uchiha Madara started to get a little impatient.
Even under her gaze, Uchiha Madara subtly felt pressure.
This was a feeling that even Senju Hashirama had never given him.
The pressure was still slowly increasing, seemingly a deliberate result of her actions.
Uchiha Madara formed hand signs and roared:
"Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation."
Terrifying Chakra erupted, and a scorching sea of fire formed in front of Uchiha Madara.
The intense flames spread across the ground and rapidly moved towards Beryl.
Uchiha Madara's strength allowed even ordinary Fire Release ninjutsu to unleash incredible power.
The sea of fire quickly enveloped Beryl's surroundings, like a massive tsunami rising from the ocean, instantly engulfing the spot where Beliris stood.
The scorching flames roasted the earth, emitting crackling sounds.
In the Chat Group, Kumoko and Kikyo witnessed Uchiha Madara's formidable strength.
[Kumoko: "So scary, will the Group Leader be gone?"]
Having transmigrated into a spider and possessing a system template, Kumoko knew that there were magical and extraordinary non-human powers in the world.
The might of the great fire released by Uchiha Madara seemed much more terrifying than the brief glimpse she had stolen of her large spider mother.
[Kikyo: "Uchiha Madara is not the Group Leader's opponent."]
As a miko capable of slaying great demons, Kikyo's perspective was broader than Kumoko's current one. Although she also didn't know the Group Leader's methods, from the Group Leader's previous words, she was quite convinced that the Group Leader knew about the affairs of all the group members' worlds.
Given this premise, if the Group Leader still entered the arena with Uchiha Madara and appeared unconcerned, then the Group Leader's strength was much greater than Uchiha Madara's; this could be determined.
And just as Kikyo said, even if Uchiha Madara was conceited, he didn't believe that a mere Great Fire Annihilation would easily resolve his enemy.
"Hmm?"
Uchiha Madara frowned.
In the area covered by flames, a purple light spot was extremely conspicuous. Then, the purple energy from the light spot rapidly devoured the surrounding intense fire.
In the blink of an eye, a large section of the sea of fire turned purple.
"What exactly is this inexplicably heart-pounding energy?"
No sooner had Uchiha Madara's words fallen than the purple sea of fire rapidly receded. In less than a second, the massive sea of fire, thousands of meters wide, that had been scorching the ground red, vanished without a trace.
And in the center of the sea of fire, the white-haired girl's beige pleated dress gently swayed in the breeze.
The girl's expression was calm; the scorching flames just now seemed to have caused her no harm whatsoever.
"So that's how it is, the so-called Chakra composition is quite interesting, isn't it?" Beliris looked up, her gaze serene as she looked at Uchiha Madara in the distance.
"Mr. Madara, with this level of strength, you won't be able to suppress me, and the position of Group Leader is not for you!"
"Hmph, that was just a test to gauge your depth." Uchiha Madara's face darkened, and he clasped his hands together. A more powerful surge of Chakra than before emerged, causing the surrounding ground to tremble.
"Now for the real deal. This is Senju Hashirama's technique. I'd like to see how you defend against it!"
"Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees."