Chapter 26: Four Rakshasa Demons
After dealing with the Black Dragon's soul, Yumesaki looked at the giant dragon's body, which was now just an empty shell. A sudden flash of inspiration struck his mind.
Using the Soul-Soul Fruit and the Hollow-Hollow Fruit, he created a replica soul and placed it inside the Black Dragon's body. Not long after, this soul took control of the vessel.
"Master."
The Black Dragon opened its eyes, then lowered its massive head respectfully toward Yumesaki.
Yumesaki was highly satisfied. "From today onward, your name is Black Dragon. Toss that name Acnologia aside."
"Understood, Master."
As a creation of Yumesaki, the soul occupying the Black Dragon's body naturally wouldn't refuse; on the contrary, it felt incredibly thrilled to obtain such a powerful physical form.
Don't mind the fact that the Black Dragon had just been beaten severely by Yumesaki—given its colossal size, those were fundamentally just superficial injuries. After devouring a certain amount of Magic Power, it had already recovered seventy to eighty percent.
Following that, Yumesaki used Archive Magic to teach the Black Dragon Transformation Magic.
The Black Dragon mastered Transformation Magic in just a few minutes. Its body shrank in the blink of an eye, turning into the size of a palm, before flying up onto Yumesaki's shoulder.
"Master, where are we heading now?"
"To take a stroll in a new world."
As he spoke, Yumesaki pushed open a gate leading to a new world and walked inside together with the Black Dragon. After all, he had already said his goodbyes to Erza before coming here. There was no need to turn back.
Even so, Yumesaki still split off a clone and sent it back to inform Erza and the others that he was safe. His main body brought the Black Dragon into the new world.
The New World.
Yumesaki stepped through the gate, arriving inside a deep mountain wilderness. There were no houses nearby, nor were there any girls.
Starting out like this... it felt very similar to when he first arrived in the world of Fairy Tail. Could it be that in the next second, a beautiful girl would suddenly pop out from the surroundings? Last time it was Erza, so who would it be this time?
Carrying a bit of anticipation, Yumesaki picked a direction and set off, hoping for a heart-fluttering encounter.
However, this time... it seemed he had guessed wrong.
He had been walking for over half an hour, and let alone a beautiful girl, he hadn't even seen a ghost of a person. With no other choice, Yumesaki resorted to using Clairvoyance Magic to scan the surroundings.
Then he spotted a bustling city located around the eight o'clock direction, roughly seven or eight kilometers away from him.
How should one describe this city? It possessed an Eastern style yet featured Western architecture, giving off a blended impression of East meets West, though it also looked slightly odd and mismatched.
For a moment, Yumesaki couldn't deduce what kind of world this was just from looking at the city. Therefore, he used teleportation to arrive directly within its borders, intending to see if he could run into some... familiar faces.
Meanwhile, the Black Dragon perched on Yumesaki's shoulder, its eyes wide open as it looked around this world with pure curiosity. As a newly born soul, it genuinely liked this world. Everything was something it had never seen before; it was truly fascinating.
Near noon, Yumesaki selected a decent-looking restaurant and walked in, ordering the house specialties to give them a taste.
The flavor was excellent, especially the meat, which was highly tender and held an incredibly pure reserve of energy. To put it simply, calories. The caloric value of this meat far exceeded regular meat, scaling even higher than some monsters in the world of Fairy Tail.
It was evident that this world was not simple. It had to be a world that possessed special powers; otherwise, it would be impossible to raise animals with such extraordinary energy.
While eating, Yumesaki faintly overheard someone venting nearby.
"Is the Prime Minister causing trouble again?"
"Why can't His Majesty the Emperor control him?"
"If this keeps up, the nation won't even look like a nation anymore."
"The Great General is simply too rigid."
Hearing this conversation, Yumesaki caught a vague realization of what world this was. Thus, he cast Clairvoyance Magic, directing his sight toward the imperial palace.
Inside the palace, the Emperor and the Prime Minister were sharing a meal. The Emperor was a young boy around eleven or twelve years old, looking at the Prime Minister seated across from him with a face full of admiration.
The Prime Minister, meanwhile, was a fat man whose entire body was packed with muscle. The fat man was currently holding an incredibly large, greasy piece of meat, tearing and biting into it like a wild beast.
Seeing these two, Yumesaki instantly understood what universe he was in.
The Young Emperor and Prime Minister Honest.
So it's you, Akame ga Kill Everyone.
Oh, no, it should be Akame ga Kill!
Though if you called this world Akame ga Kill Everyone, there wouldn't be much wrong with that either; after all, countless people in this world died tragic deaths one after another. If they weren't bisected, they were decapitated, and even in the final arc, several girls had to die just to set the mood. It was truly a name that matched reality.
How did he end up in this depressing world?
Yumesaki couldn't help but sigh, and even the delicious food in front of him lost its flavor. Those tormenting memories from the series began to assault his mind once again. Just thinking about them made him feel uncomfortable all over.
But Yumesaki quickly suppressed those thoughts. The world might be vast, but nothing was more important than him enjoying his food. Even the worst memories shouldn't interfere with his mealtime.
After finishing his delicious lunch, Yumesaki tossed down a piece of gold as payment, then walked out of the restaurant in a relaxed manner, beginning to contemplate his next move.
What should he do? Or should he just do nothing at all?
But in the next second, Yumesaki firmly shook his head. No, that absolutely wouldn't do.
When watching the anime, Yumesaki had been driven to pure frustration by the antagonists of this world because that group of people was utterly vile; their senseless actions were steeped in pure evil. To put it bluntly, even if that bunch were hacked into a thousand pieces, it still wouldn't be enough to quell the anger.
Back then, Yumesaki had desperately wanted to crush those bastards with a single punch. He had been genuinely infuriated. Now that he had actually come here, he naturally had to give those scum a proper taste of suffering.
Whether it was the Prime Minister or the Prime Minister's son, all of them had to die for him.
With that thought, Yumesaki walked straight toward the Prime Minister's estate. As the most notorious traitorous official in the country, the Prime Minister's mansion wasn't just ordinary in size. Yumesaki only needed to ask around briefly to locate it.
Prime Minister Honest committed all sorts of atrocities, and he knew full well that he wasn't a good person. To prevent anyone from sneaking into his home and taking his head, security at the estate was exceptionally tight.
The exterior was patrolled by soldiers, while the interior was guarded by monks from the Imperial Martial Arts Temple.
The Imperial Martial Arts Temple was the highest-level martial arts temple in the Empire. It not only received massive funding from the throne but also enjoyed long-term special privileges. In return, a select group of exceptional figures served in crucial positions for the Empire, specifically helping them carry out dirty work and undertaking the task of recovering the Imperial Arms that had scattered across various regions during the internal rebellion five hundred years ago.
Among them, the experts could match Imperial Arms users in technique and power even without holding an Imperial Arms themselves.
For instance, in the current generation of the Imperial Martial Arts Temple, there were four experts unmatched among ten thousand men who served as the Prime Minister's attack dogs. They were known as the Four Rakshasa Demons.
These four individuals all possessed strange abilities to manipulate their bodies at will, and they could easily identify anyone belonging to the underworld of assassination. Consisting of two men and two women, they currently resided within the Prime Minister's estate. The moment the Prime Minister wanted someone dead, he would dispatch them to take action.
When Yumesaki openly forced his way into the Prime Minister's mansion, his presence naturally alarmed these individuals.
However, they didn't show themselves to stop Yumesaki at first. Instead, they hid to one side, observing him with great interest. In their eyes, Yumesaki was just an ignorant youth who didn't know the height of the heavens or the depth of the earth, entering the Prime Minister's residence all by himself. How was that any different from suicide?
The defenses of the Prime Minister's estate could be described as walls of bronze and iron; even if they tried to break in alone, they might not succeed.
"A total fool."
One of the Four Rakshasa Demons, Mez, snorted softly, as if she could already see the tragic image of Yumesaki's death in the next second.
But the first thing that happened was that the guards under the Prime Minister's command collapsed one after another before they could even touch Yumesaki.
This scene caused the Four Rakshasa Demons to look at each other.
"What is that?" Mez's expression changed instantly. "An Imperial Arms?"
"It's not an Imperial Arms." Sten, another member of the Four Rakshasa Demons, shook his head, his gaze turning more serious than ever before. "That is willpower. That man is relying on immense willpower to knock out all the guards through sheer shock."
"Stop joking around!!!"
Mez felt it was completely absurd. Everyone knew about willpower, and the four of them possessed it too. After all, they were top-tier experts chosen as one in ten thousand from the Imperial Martial Arts Temple. Their collective willpower far surpassed ordinary people.
Yet even for them, they could only rely on strong willpower to make ordinary people feel terrified or lose their will to fight. Knocking someone unconscious through sheer intimidation was nothing short of a fairy tale. Moreover, the guards at the Prime Minister's residence were no ordinary citizens. If placed outside, they would absolutely be elite, fierce soldiers ranked among the best.
You could call them wicked, but you definitely couldn't call them weak. And yet, such men were knocked out cold by sheer presence? How could that be possible? It was absolutely impossible.
Sten looked at Yumesaki, who was walking through the path as if entering an unpopulated area. A bead of cold sweat formed on his forehead. "Whether you believe it or not, this is reality. That man is incredibly strong—far stronger than you imagine."
Mez shifted her gaze toward the other two. Suzuka and Ibara.
Ibara remained silent for a moment before speaking up. "What Sten said isn't wrong. Speaking of willpower, that man's pressure far exceeds what we can conceive."
"Ah, how troublesome. What exactly are you guys whispering about?"
Right at that moment, a voice suddenly sounded in the ears of the four individuals.
The four of them flinched simultaneously, suddenly realizing that the intruder who had just walked in had somehow appeared right in front of them. Yet, not a single one of the four had detected his movement.
An unprecedented chill instantly wrapped around everyone's hearts.
Mez's hands and feet turned cold, Sten felt as if he had been drenched in a cold sweat, Suzuka's expression grew wild, while Ibara sank into absolute silence.
Despite this, the four of them did not avert their eyes, staring fixedly at Yumesaki. They knew perfectly well that when facing an expert of this caliber, the slightest lapse in focus could very well cost them their lives.
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