The Hakimaster of Naruto

Chapter 253 253: The God of the Old Era

"Junior!"

"Do you know who you are facing?"

"Such insolence!"

To hear Ragnar dismiss his legendary defeat at the Valley of the End as nothing more than the desperate clinging of a corpse that refused to rot—it was an insult that pierced deeper than any blade.

Uchiha Madara's pride was not merely a personality trait; it was the very core of his existence. He had bent the Nine-Tails to his will. He had stood as the only equal to the God of Shinobi. To be spoken of as a loser who had merely overstayed his welcome in the world of the living?

Unforgivable.

The withered old man's eyes snapped open. Scarlet light flooded the cavern as the Three Tomoe Sharingan blazed to life. The tomoe spun with violent, accelerating fury, blurring until they merged into a new, intricate pattern—a pinwheel of absolute calamity.

Madara rose from his stone throne.

The moment his feet touched the ground, the air itself seemed to shatter. A gale-force wind erupted from his frail body, carrying with it a pressure that was not merely physical. It was spiritual. It was the weight of a legend who had slaughtered armies.

The entire cave trembled. The temperature plummeted. It was not the cold of winter, but the cold of the grave—a chill that sought to freeze the soul itself.

Whoosh!

Ragnar stood motionless in the epicenter of the storm. His long black coat whipped violently behind him, snapping like a war banner in a hurricane. His expression, however, remained carved from stone. There was no fear. No awe.

Only calm.

Then, he vanished.

The stone floor where he had stood exploded into a spiderweb of cracks and debris. In a breath, Ragnar materialized directly before the standing Madara. The Demon Blade Yama left its sheath with a shriek that sounded less like metal and more like the wailing of the damned.

Clang!!

Fast. Precise. Merciless.

It was a strike from the depths of hell, a reaper's whisper that promised a swift end.

Squelch!

"You're old," Ragnar said, his voice flat and devoid of triumph. He did not even turn his head to look at Madara. Their shoulders were nearly aligned, two predators passing in the dark. "Pathetic."

Madara's eyes widened, a flicker of dull surprise crossing his ancient features.

"Madara-sama!" White Zetsu shrieked from the throne's base, his pale face twisting in genuine horror. Ragnar had actually struck! Such audacity was beyond anything the creature had calculated.

"This isn't your era anymore," Ragnar continued, his voice echoing in the stunned silence. "You are nothing but a remnant. A loser clinging to the shadows of a history that has already forgotten you."

He leaned closer, his voice dropping to a cold whisper.

"Whatever scheme you've spent decades nursing... abandon it. Stay out of my way. If you don't, I will grind every last trace of your existence into dust."

Madara's body began to slump forward, as if the strength had finally left him. It seemed gravity was claiming its due.

Ragnar sneered, turning away from the falling corpse. A relic of a bygone age. Better dead than this mockery of life.

"Heh."

The sound stopped Ragnar in his tracks.

"Heh heh."

The slumping figure straightened.

"Junior... impressive killing intent."

The voice had changed. It was no longer the dry rasp of a dying man. It was deeper, richer, and laced with an arrogance that could only be forged on countless battlefields.

"But compared to my hatred?" Madara's head rose, and the Sharingan in his eyes gleamed with renewed, terrifying vitality. "You are still a thousand years too green."

"A loser from the old era? How amusing."

The frail body suddenly erupted. Chakra—dense, heavy, and impossibly vast—exploded outward from Madara's core. The air pressure in the cavern skyrocketed, forming a visible vortex of raw energy around him. The ground beneath his feet didn't just crack; it pulverized. Solid rock turned to fine powder, swept up in the maelstrom.

Ragnar's eyes snapped down to his blade. The edge of Yama was pressed against something hard and dark blue. He hadn't pierced flesh. He had struck a barrier that had materialized in the split second between life and death.

Glowing, ethereal bones—a skeletal ribcage of pure chakra—had formed around Madara's body, stopping the blade cold.

Susanoo.

Ragnar's instincts screamed a warning. A rush of wind howled in his ears.

The skeletal arm of the Susanoo, massive and unstoppable, swung upward in a brutal haymaker. The fist was the size of a boulder, and it carried the condensed weight of Madara's legendary chakra. The air itself screamed as it was displaced.

There was no time to dodge.

Ragnar wrenched Yama upward, placing the flat of the blade across his chest. Simultaneously, a sheen of invisible black iron—Busoshoku Haki—flooded his skin, hardening it to the consistency of seastone.

BOOM!

The impact was cataclysmic.

Ragnar's body was launched like a meteor, blasting backward across the cavern. He crashed into the far wall with a thunderous explosion of rock and dust. The stone buckled inward, creating a crater deep enough to entomb a man. Debris rained down, burying him.

Careless.

Ragnar coughed, pushing against the shattered rock pinning him. The Haki armor had held. His bones were bruised, his pride slightly dented, but his body was intact. He emerged from the rubble, dust caking his black hair, his gaze locked onto the figure standing in the center of the cavern.

Uchiha Madara was no longer a withered husk.

He was enveloped in the shimmering, dark-blue aura of a fully materialized half-body Susanoo. The skeletal warrior loomed over him like a guardian deity of destruction. Bathed in its ghostly light, Madara looked less like a man and more like a wrathful god descending from the heavens.

"Rakshasa," Madara intoned, his voice echoing with divine condescension as he stepped forward. The Susanoo moved with him, its massive feet cracking the stone floor with every step. "Have you ever witnessed the power of a god?"

Ragnar's eyes narrowed. He could feel it. Madara's presence was climbing. It wasn't just chakra; it was something more primal. The very atmosphere of the cave was warping under the weight of his existence. The air grew thick, heavy, and suffocating. Compared to the Kazekage or the Tsuchikage, those men were mere candles. Uchiha Madara was a blazing sun.

This was power that transcended the classification of Kage.

"Do you know what I looked like at my peak?" Madara mused, his tone almost nostalgic. The murderous intent radiating from him was so dense it felt like drowning in a sea of blood.

Then, the impossible happened.

Ragnar's stoic mask cracked. His eyes widened in genuine shock.

Madara was changing.

The long, ghost-white hair that had draped over his shoulders like a funeral shroud began to darken at the roots. The color bled upward, strand by strand, turning from snowy white to the jet black of a raven's wing. His cloudy, rheumy pupils cleared, becoming deep, sharp pools of obsidian that gleamed with predatory intelligence. The deep-set wrinkles that had carved canyons into his ancient face smoothed over, the skin tightening and firming until it was taut over a strong, angular jawline.

Rejuvenation?

Ragnar's mind raced. This was impossible. This was wrong. Madara Uchiha did not possess this power. In the story Ragnar knew, Madara had died a withered old husk attached to the Gedo Statue, waiting desperately for Nagato to grow up and use Rinne Rebirth. He had needed resurrection.

Had the timeline shifted this drastically? Had Ragnar's presence in this world unlocked some hidden ace that even the Sage of Six Paths hadn't foreseen?

"It feels... magnificent... to be young again."

The transformation was complete.

Standing before Ragnar was not the decrepit ghost of the past. It was Uchiha Madara in his prime. The wild, spiky black hair. The proud crimson armor of the Warring States Period. The expression on his face was one of absolute, unrestrained arrogance—a man who looked down upon all creation and saw only ants.

The pressure in the cave multiplied tenfold. This was not just the presence of a strong shinobi. This was the weight of a legend who had fought a god to a standstill.

So this is Madara at his peak... Ragnar felt the hair on the back of his neck stand on end. Terrifying.

Madara walked forward, and as he did, the Susanoo around him flickered and dissolved. He stood bare before Ragnar, confident in the invincibility of his restored flesh. He stopped a few paces away, a smirk playing on his youthful lips.

"Do you know why I have regained my youth?" Madara asked.

Ragnar stared at the restored warrior, his mind sifting through the impossibilities until one answer surfaced. A detail from the lore. A curse and a blessing intertwined.

"The Mangekyō. A unique ocular jutsu," Ragnar answered, his voice steady despite the storm in his chest.

Madara's smirk widened. He looked at Ragnar as a teacher might look at a surprisingly astute student. "So you do understand my clan. They call the Uchiha a cursed bloodline, slaves to their emotions. Fools. We are the favored children of the heavens."

He tapped the corner of his eye, where the intricate pattern of his Sharingan pulsed with light.

"Every time a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan is born into this world, it brings with it a unique mystery. In the long, blood-soaked history of my clan, countless such powers have manifested. This pair of eyes..." he gestured to his own face, "...does not originally belong to me. But I can still utilize the dōjutsu sealed within them."

Madara spread his arms wide, as if embracing the very fabric of time.

"Time Reversal. A power that rewinds the clock on this body. It pulls me from the brink of the grave and restores me to the exact moment of my greatest glory."

Ragnar's blood ran cold.

Time Reversal.

He had underestimated the depths of the Uchiha clan's archive. He had assumed Madara was limited to the canon powers he knew. But a spare pair of Mangekyō with a temporal ability? It was the perfect explanation for a man who refused to die before his plan was complete.

"The power of time is truly intoxicating," Madara declared, his voice ringing with the authority of a god reborn. "Now, Rakshasa... let us see if the 'Demon of the Battlefield' can withstand the fury of a legend who has clawed his way back from the past."

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