Chapter 79 - 72 (1/2)

”Please! I'm begging you, don't kill me!” The middle aged Wind Daimyo cried, begging in front of Hikaru and Itachi. The Wind Daimyo was a fat man with small eyes. He was bald and he was kneeling in front of the two of them, crying and bawling his eyes out.

They were inside the living room of the palace of the Daimyo's family. The room was wider than normal houses with a beautiful chandelier made of pure gems in the middle. The walls were painted with golden paint, the tables and chairs around them were made of gold. And on top of some tables, there were foods coated with edible gold. It seems like the Daimyo's family had been living in luxury while the people in the capital were having a financial crisis.

Hikaru stared down at the pathetic Daimyo kneeling in front of him, and coldly said, ”Do you take me for a fool, Wind Daimyo?”

”N-no, sir! I-I was just trying to-”

Pak!

With one slap, Hikaru sent him flying. He did not put any force in that slap, yet the Wind Daimyo was sent flying, even destroying the luxurious wall of the room.

Since the Wind Daimyo was just a mortal, he couldn't withstand that one ”weak” slap from Hikaru and died almost immediately.

Even though the capital was having a financial crisis, most of the people living there are nobles. Nobles are the kind of people that don't eat cheap food, even if they don't have any money. Yes, that's the kind of situation they are facing right now. They have no food shortage, they're just people who like expensive things.

Look at the food of the Daimyo's family, they were all coated in edible gold. Do you know how much is that? Just 1 normal size apple coated with edible gold could cost someone about 316,000 Ryo! But the average income of a normal family in this world could be estimated to about 1,000,000 Ryo per year! That's like a 1/3 of their yearly income.

These people are too used to living in luxury that they couldn't even think of humbling themselves a bit.

But now, the Wind Daimyo is dead and no one in the capital can quickly replace him at the moment. But that's easy to solve for Hikaru, just put a clone of his as the fake replacement. Of course, this is not just any normal clone. It's a Mana Homunculus!

Mana Homunculus is the technique he created for stuff like this. He is basically making a homunculus that is smarter than normal clones. As you can guess, Homunculus are technically not clones but are beings that are capable of thinking for themselves but the thing is, they don't have a soul and Hikaru can create any kind of person right now.

The Homunculus would not acquire any of Hikaru's abilities and would be like an infant when they are first created. The way they are created is by dropping a drop of his blood, and then multiplying the cells of that blood by using his mana and in about a month, he would have a newly born homunculus. But that is too slow, so he would have to use one of his limbs to create a homunculus for faster creation.

Itachi stared at the dead body of the former Wind Daimyo and said to Hikaru, ”Was that really necessary? Killing would only bring a loss of power and a lot of people would create unnecessary bloodshed to take the throne for themselves.”

”Don't worry, Itachi. I have a plan for that.” Hikaru said confidently, ”I'll be replacing the Wind Daimyo in a moment, we just need to destroy any evidence left behind by this fat bastard.”

”I understand.” Itachi said to Hikaru with his usual stoic face.

With a snap of his fingers, Hikaru watched the corpse of the Daimyo burn to ashes. His chaos flame right now is easily stronger than the black flame of Amaterasu.

'No matter how many times I witness it, his flame is clearly more powerful than my Amaterasu. I wonder how he got hold of such power.' Itachi thought in slight awe of Hikaru.

”Raaaahh!” Suddenly, a boy no older than 12 came out of the door with a knife in his hands. He was rushing towards Hikaru with the intent to kill. It seems like he witnessed his father's death by his own eyes.

Hikaru could also sense another person behind the door.

The boy was quickly apprehended by Itachi. He took action because he knew that Hikaru would not hesitate to kill this boy.

”Woman, come out from that door.” Hikaru ordered with extreme authority in his voice.

The woman behind the door had no choice but to come out. She was a beautiful woman, and Hikaru could hardly believe that she was in her mid-thirties. She looks like a woman in her twenties. But there was something strange, she has red vibrant hair and violet eyes. She wore the clothes of a noble and she was clearly afraid of Hikaru.

'Come to think of it, this boy also has red hair.. Does that mean they are from the Uzumaki Clan? No, I'll investigate her later. If she lives, that is.' Hikaru thought, mildly surprised. Uzumakis were rare to find, so you could understand his surprise. They may be somewhat related to Azumi and her mother.

Hikaru stared directly at the woman's eyes and she looked away in fear.

”Tell me your name.” Hikaru demanded.

”I-I am Haruo Aiko, s-sir.” The woman timidly introduced herself.