Chapter 142 - 130: Illusion (1/2)

He had never felt fear before, only hatred and the thrill of fighting. He hated his father, but developed a love for fighting after going through several life and death situations. Fear was irrelevant, he ignored that feeling whenever he wanted because fear is for weaklings only. Fear is something that will only make you weak and ignorant, just like how most beings in this world fear the unknown. That very same fear will turn them into irrational beings, but why now of all time he has to feel it?

Hikaru's eyes dangerously shined as he gripped the back of the boy's head tightly, almost crushing it in his hand. The boy had no idea why he felt so much fear towards this unknown man when he didn't even know him. He tried to struggle his way out, but only resulted in futility as no matter how many times he tried to hurt the man's hand so that he would let go of him, it was just like hitting a titanium vault with his bare hands. He wouldn't budge.

”You know,” The man spoke, ”nobody ever had the guts to ruin my meal except for my wife, and yet here you are, stomping on my ramen. So, let me ask you again, how would you like to die?”

”Tch, I don't even know you! Why would you even kill me!?” The boy asked, trying to buy time for his mentor to come. His mentor must be hovering around here, waiting for him to return after punching him, but his mentor will realize that he's taking too much time to return and would go down to help.

Or, he could just do this, ”You old geezer! Come and save your apprentice for f.u.c.k sake! I'm getting killed here!” The silver haired boy yelled out of desperation.

Hikaru only snorted at the boy's futile attempts, and said, ”Hmph, no matter who your master is, you won't be able to escape your fate. Now, die!”

*Splat!*

With a quick tightening of grip, he crushed the skull of the silver haired boy. The boy's body limply fell down on the now destroyed ground with blood spurting out of his neck. He then reversed time around the room, and within a few milliseconds, the ruined room from earlier became good as new!

But of course, the boy was still dead even though he regained his head. He put the soul of the boy in a jar and was about to put the body into his storage box to revive him later and torture him, when he felt someone teleport inside the room. They also put a barrier that covered the entire room.

”I don't know who you are, but killing my apprentice is the same as starting a war with me and my faction.” A voice full of silent rage sounded behind him.

Hikaru turned around, and he saw a man standing in front of him with the door behind the man. He is a tall man appearing to be in his twenties with an average build, black hair, golden bangs and black goatee. He wore a sun flowered shirt and a pair of shorts. He looks like he is on a vacation, which is understandable because this hotel has an artificial beach built inside it.

[Name: Azazel]

[Power Level: 20,000]

Hikaru already figured who this guy was the moment his eyes landed on him, because he had stalked the entire fallen faction, devil faction, and angel faction before to obtain information about their power levels and how he should put a [Tier] in them, but he has to throw away that Power Level Tier List because he just recently discovered the existence of beings with billions of power levels. He'll remake his Tier List later, after he stalks the cosmic beings.

”Azazel, huh? Didn't know you trained a brat.” Hikaru said, really uninterested whether a war would happen or not.

Azazel narrowed his eyes, and said, ”You're acting so nonchalant about this. Are you so confident that you can take on an entire faction on your own?”

”Well, yeah.”

”What faction are you from? Devils? Angels? Or from the Shinto Faction? No matter, I'll find out anyway.” Azazel was angry, but he's not the type to just suddenly lash out. No, he takes this calmly and manipulatively. He isn't the leader of Grigori for no reason.

Hikaru actually didn't care. If he wanted to, he could just wipe out every fallen angel that exists on this planet within seconds. But since he is not a mindless murderer (Yeah, keep telling yourself that bud) he'll try to compromise by striking a deal.

He then said with his mouth having a slowly growing smile, ”I know you don't want war, Azazel. Nobody, likes war, well, maybe except for some. But the thing is, you're tired. You're already so old. How old are you? A couple thousands? So, let me strike you a deal.”

Azazel isn't new to this kind of game, but he honestly has no idea what this guy is striking a deal for. What is his goal? Is he afraid of starting a war?

”No, I'm not afraid of starting a war. I just don't like killing millions just to do something. I already have so much weighing on my conscience.” Hikaru said.

What the? Can he read—

”Yes, I can read the minds of everybody, no matter how powerful they are.”

Well, this is embarrassing.

The atmosphere in the room went from ”Super intense shit” to ”Shit, this is too awkward!”

”Ahem, so what's the deal you're gonna make?” Azazel just ignored the awkward atmosphere and just asked him.

”In return for reviving this boy and giving him back to you, you'll have to join my peerage.” Hikaru said, simply smiling because he couldn't contain his excitement.

Azazel looked surprised when he heard that, then said, ”So you are a devil!”

Hikaru shook his head and had an expression of disgust as if he just heard the most revolting sentence ever, ”No, I am not a devil. I'm not that weak. I am a God, and these chess pieces are just evil pieces that I took from a high-class devil and modified it into my own. These things work differently than their pieces, but yet, the same.”

”Oh…” Azazel muttered, taking a mental note that this guy is definitely more prideful than the original Sin of Pride himself. He decided to weigh the pros and cons of becoming a member of his peerage, when he suddenly realized that he doesn't have enough information about what will happen to him once he becomes one of his peerage members.

”Hmm, there are many pros and cons of becoming a member of my peerage,” Hikaru said, gaining Azazel's attention, ”firstly, you will grow ten times stronger than before. Your strength, agility, endurance, and the amount of mana you have will also be multiplied. And then, you will gain the ability to partially control darkness. And, by becoming a member of my peerage, you will gain access to thousands upon thousands of my weapons that could destroy an entire world or my armors that can block an attack from an asteroid ten times the size of this planet.”