Once he finished delegating all his missions, Uchiha Madara's gaze returned to the game scroll of "Outlast."
After a moment of contemplation, he re-entered the game.
At this point, there was no use in hesitation. Better to see the game through to the end.
Finishing what he started—that was Uchiha Madara's way.
At the very least, he couldn't let the sacrifices of Hashirama and Izuna in the game be in vain. Their dying wish must be fulfilled: to destroy the evil Gen Organization!
Madara dove back into the game, returning to his youthful form. However, with the death of his two companions, "Outlast" had now entered its second half. The protagonist in-game was wounded, his movements sluggish and difficult.
At this point, the game shifted into its "truth revealed" phase.
The deranged monsters had all been defeated. The hospital was engulfed in flames. The only path left was the newly opened passageway ahead.
Madara soon found himself in a dark, damp underground lab. It appeared to be built within the roots of a massive, withered tree—its infrastructure based on its twisted, hollowed-out root system.
The lab branched off in every direction, lined with winding underground tunnels. After the Gen Organization excavated sections of the roots, they reinforced the interior using various building materials and steel plates. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹✶𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲✶𝗻𝗲𝘁
Compared to the current infrastructure of the shinobi world, this was exceedingly advanced. Yet it still fit within the realm of possibility—like how the Land of Rain had densely packed urban zones fused with shinobi aesthetics. It gave off a kind of ninja-punk vibe.
The underground lab in the game borrowed heavily from such architecture. Cold and clammy, the place felt like it could give you rheumatism just by staying too long. Anyone with joint issues would be in absolute misery here.
But for Madara, this dampness felt oddly familiar—almost like home. After all, his usual resting place wasn't much different. Fortunately, he had transplanted Hashirama's cells and had White Zetsu's cells maintaining his life functions. Without them, he'd have been tortured by arthritis long ago.
In this setting, Madara advanced into the lab and soon encountered a new enemy.
This time, it wasn't psychotic monsters—it was vengeful spirits. Actual vengeful spirits!
They had translucent blue bodies with humanoid shapes and radiated intense malice, attacking players on sight.
True to the "Outlast" style, players couldn't fight back. All they could do was run.
These spirits could fly, dash, and phase through walls. They were far trickier than the earlier monsters. Madara, not realizing the difference at first, used his usual parkour strategy—only to find that no matter how fast or skilled he was, he couldn't outrun them.
Frustrated but determined not to let Hashirama and Izuna's sacrifices be in vain, Madara finally made use of the game's hiding mechanics—not out of cowardice, but because exposing the Gen Organization's dark secrets was his current priority.
He never thought he'd find himself doing something so righteous. But it didn't matter. He wasn't acting out of some vague idea of justice—he just didn't want to let down the two people who meant the most to him.
For the sake of what truly mattered, Madara, who had endured decades of hiding in the real shinobi world, could also abide by the game's mechanics.
The key mechanic was a series of experimental zones containing special materials developed by the Gen Organization. These areas emitted a magnetic field that rendered the player invisible to the spirits.
But invisibility didn't mean safety. The spirits could still attack the hidden zones blindly or respond to any noise the player made.
So hiding required absolute silence—and a bit of luck.
Using this method, Madara pressed on, unlocking room after sealed room in the lab. Inside, he found the corpses of Gen Organization members.
They had all died gruesome deaths—obviously slain by the vengeful spirits.
Through investigation, Madara learned that the spirits weren't naturally occurring. They were the result of the Gen Organization's experiments.
By researching the Indra lineage, they discovered that members of this bloodline possessed not only unique ocular powers but also unusual souls. Combining this with their technology, they managed to partially "materialize souls."
Thus, the Ghost Legion project was born. By capturing and experimenting on Indra descendants, they succeeded in creating artificial spirits and controlling them as weapons for the Gen Organization.
If this plan succeeded, they would have an immortal army—an unstoppable force capable of dominating the shinobi world.
That's why the Gen Organization had been relentlessly targeting the Indra clan. The vengeful spirits the player encountered were actually transformed members of the protagonist's clan, mutilated into monsters through unspeakable cruelty.
The game even included grainy footage showing the experiments: innocent Indra clansmen tied to lab tables, their skulls sawed open, their bodies dissected—only to reveal that a soul had to be filled with pain and hatred before it could manifest as a spirit.
So the experiments turned into relentless torture. Each Indra clansman was brutalized to the brink of madness before being killed and converted into a horrifying spirit.
Madara saw it all. He knew it was fake, yet his expression remained cold and murderous. The fury and killing intent radiating from him could not be hidden.
Especially when he noticed how the victims looked exactly like real-world Uchiha.
As the former clan leader, Madara had never forgiven the Uchiha for turning their backs on him. But he also never forgot that he *was* an Uchiha—and that in the Warring States Era, countless clansmen had followed and protected him with their lives.
Some things can never be forgotten.
In the original story, Madara never sought to annihilate the Uchiha. He merely chose to cut ties after their betrayal. Appointing Obito as his successor and entrusting him with the Eye of the Moon Plan didn't mean he wanted the Uchiha gone.
In fact, he never mentioned them again—that alone spoke volumes. For someone as proud as Madara, silence often meant more than words.
Obito and Itachi later destroyed the clan due to other forces. Madara's will was not part of that decision.
So now, after witnessing the horror inflicted on the in-game "Uchiha," how could Madara possibly stay calm?
Come on—even non-Uchiha players who reached this point were furious enough to want to destroy the Gen Organization. And this was Madara—the proudest Uchiha of them all.
By now, Madara was completely immersed. The truth only enraged him further, and his hatred for the Gen Organization skyrocketed. He no longer needed Hashirama and Izuna's dying wish to justify it—he now had his own burning reason.
Soon, he progressed deeper and found new intel—along with a living enemy.
It was none other than Elder Danji of the Gen Organization—the chief scientist and head of this underground lab!
Every twisted experiment, every evil secret Madara had uncovered, had been orchestrated by this man.
Even the deranged monsters that rampaged in the hospital? Danji's creations.
In short, everything tragic about "Outlast"—every horror—was rooted in Danji's actions.
He was, without question, the game's ultimate evil.
Madara looked at the trembling Danji, who was hiding in a spirit-proof chamber, and the killing intent in his eyes surged beyond control.