ch. 3 Target Spotted

Walking past the headless group of bodies, Madara's couldn't help but be frustrated at the progress he was making.

'That group had no new knowledge whatsoever and their pitiful spiritual energy barely increased mine, not to mention that they all attack in the same instinctive way. I need to find that Creature!'

While devouring these weak creature's did increase his energy, it appeared to give diminishing results. Madaras only solace was that the deeper he went in, the quicker he could find more creatures to hunt.

The lonesome figure of Uchiha Madara could be seen constantly shuffling through the vast yellow sand, forced to reflect on his thoughts with all of his alone time as he continued looking for his target, the all black creatures that were as tall as small mountains and had masks the size of a house!

One of the many beings Madara consumed had a very interesting memory. It showed a creature devouring the head of another, only for it to suddenly stop moving and scream out in pain!

The creatures entire body turned a jet black before the growing to an astronomical height as it continued to scream out in pain, giving the creature who would eventually be consumed by Madara a chance to escape.

This memory opened a new door for Madara, as not only did it show that consuming other creatures made your stronger, it also made you evolve! While losing his agile and small form to grow into that giant evolution did displease him, he still welcomed his future evolution with welcome arms.

Since he didn't know how many creatures he'd need to consume to evolve, Madara figured as long as he eats the Large Creatures then he too should evolve!

With a strong desire to evolve into a Meno's Grande, Madara Uchiha firmly stepped forth and started the next round of hunting.

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Arriving at the scene of the disturbance, Madara watched in surprise as over a dozen creatures were battling it out against each other. Is was a 7 vs 6 vs 3 but surprisingly it was the 3 creature group that were winning this battle, they undoubtedly would've won if Madara hadnt appeared.

"HEY BASTARDS!" unleashing his spirit energy, all 16 of the creatures looked up at Madara only to see a blood red eye with a single tonoe!

Without pause the somewhat organized battle suddenly turned into a free for all as every creature attacked in a frenzy, not taking any effort to defend or dodge attacks.

'Hmmm... Even for mindless beasts who can't think for themselves, that took a considerably about of spirit energy to pull them into a genjtusu. Seeing as how they don't have any chakra networks it takes much more energy to do even perfom a basic genjtusu, against an intelligent opponent it wouldn't even be worth it energy wise."

While his genjtusu could still work against opponents, he realized it's affects had heavily been decreased as this world's inhabitants have different bodies than his past.

'Ill have to use it against weaker foes, seeing as how id get much more value out of a ninjutsu than a genjtusu.'

At the battle died down, Madara looked at the last two creatures clawing each other apart before activating his Flickering Body jutsu and quickly taking care of the heavily injured creatures at once before feasting on them.

"With each creature devoured I'm getting less and less of an increase, growing at this rate It'll take me decades just to reach my previous level of power!... Does this new body even grown old, or am I going to walk this desert for centuries growing stronger at a snails pa-"

*GRRRAAAGGHHHH!!!!*

Chomping down on the last skull, the stunned stood up with an expression of ecstasy.

This voice sounded exactly the same as the one in his memory, the large evolved being that brought terror to the creature that solved it.

*GROOAAGGH!!*

The voice of the Menos Grande came from afar, but even still it was deafeningly loud. The voice had no humanity to it all, only a primal and gutteral roar that shook all those that listen to it, however it was different to Madara's ears.

Like the horns of war that would signify battles in the past, this creatures roar also awoke the similar excitement for battle. Clenching his fist, Madara felt his senses sharpening and his mind focusing as his body subconsciously got ready for battle before he ran like a mad man towards the deafening noise.

The Uchiha had a blood thrirsty smile on his lips as he stood on the top of the hill, seeing the figure of the Menos Grande for the first time emerge. He spotted the large black cloak like material that clung to ut and concealed it's limbs, and it's large white mask that had a pointy nose.

As the being came closer to him, he could clearly feel the ground shaking as if a huge monster was slowly approaching his position, each stepped sounding like thunder.

At this moment Madara thought of nothing, he didn't care about his past life or even this current life, all he wanted was to defeat this mighty foe and nothing else mattered beyond that point.

As it entered within a hundred feet of the Old Ninja, the Menos grande seemed to sense his Spirits energy as it's eyes suddenly locked directly onto Madara before letting out a gutteral shriek of hunger and anger.

Unlike the previous creatures he fought, there was simply no intelligence in the creature's eyes, just empty and emotionless orbs. If the previous creatures had eyes similar to a beastly predator, then the Menos Grande had eyes akin to a Robot!

As the Menos Grande sluggishly increased it's speed towards Madara, he calmly waited for it as his hands began to move in a flury

'Fire release: Great Fireball Jutsu!'

*Boom!*

As expected, the Great Fireball Technique smashed hard on Gillian's body, turning the black close even darker as it now had large scorch marks, burning the creatures legs

*AAARRGGGHHHH!!!!*

The Meno Grande once again let out a scream, except this time instead of it being a scream if hunger and anger, it was of pain.

Looking down at the tiny Madara, the Menos Grande opened it's mouth slightly as dark red Spirit energy began to coalesce into a tiny ball.

This was the signature move that every Menos grande and above Hollows could perfom, the Cero!