Chapter 100 - 93: Cristoff Bloodlaviline

Cristoff Bloodlaviline.

He didn't always have this name. His former name was Drake Laviline.

He was born as a kind child. He helped around his village, whenever someone needed his help. His mother and father were also kind people, so kind that they would ignore their own son just to help other people.

Like most commoners, his parents couldn't read nor write. But Cristoff was different, he learned to read at a young age, excelled at sword fighting, and at the age of 15, he was as strong as a Noble Knight.

So, as the most talented individual in the village, he went on a journey towards the Imperial Capital. But when he left his village, one of his fellow villagers pissed off the 7th son of the King. That son then massacred his defenseless village using the trained soldiers his father lent him. They justified that his village was filled with heretics who worshipped the demons, and the people bought it.

Cristoff only got the news when he reached the Capital. Unbelievable hatred filled him, going as far as planning to assassinate the 7th prince. But he came to his senses when he saw his family and friends being paraded in the Capital, and how the 7th prince was so smug about it.

He suppressed his hatred and changed his name to Cristoff Bloodlaviline, so that no one can recognize him. No one survived from his village, so he's pretty sure no one will be able to recognize his face. But his name is a different problem.

Using another identity, he registered in the adventurer's guild, climbed his way to Diamond Rank after 2 years to grow stronger. He then became a noble by going to the Knight's Academy, only available to those 17 above. After another 2 years, he finally became a full blown Noble Knight. They called him a prodigy, but the only reason he's doing this is to get revenge against those that slaughtered his village.

Noble Ranks are separated into – Esquire – Knight – Baronet/Baronetess – Baron/Baroness – Viscount/Viscountess – Earl/Countess - Marquess / Marchioness – Duke/Duchess – Prince/Princess – Crown Prince/Crown Princess, and finally, the King and Queen.

After becoming a noble, he finally saw what happens behind the scenes. The Capital may look good and pure on the outside, but underneath of all this façade is the sea of corruption. It was deep and boundless, almost every high-ranking noble were all connected to slavery businesses, drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, and a lot more.

Even the King was connected to all of this, it was nauseating for him to stay here any longer. But he has to fulfill his people's thirst for vengeance, by infiltrating the noble ranks, getting the King to trust him, and finally, when the King has fully let his guard down around him, he'll strike.

But he has a long way to go, if he wants that to happen.

Another 2 years, and he became a Viscount. Some Marchioness took a liking into him, and promised to convince the King to give him the title of Viscount if he did something for her.

To become her play toy.

Even though the Marchioness was 10 years older than him, he still accepted it. If he had to give his body to someone for something like that, then that was too cheap of a price to give

Drugs and other kinds of dangerous substances were injected into him to be the perfect play toy for her. He suffered terribly from the side-effects of those drugs, but he didn't give up. He continued moving forward, to get his revenge.

And only when his revenge is fulfilled, can he finally meet his beloved people.

The Marchioness loved him because of his unbreakable will, and because of those drugs that he took, he looked no older than 21, even after 4 years had passed.

But then, that day came. After all of his planning, strategies on how to take down the royal family, he saw something he thought he'd never see.

The King was being stepped on by somebody, and that somebody just smiled wickedly as he continued to step on the King's head. The King became a frail old man, who couldn't even speak nor move anymore.

And when he saw that, relief finally washed over him. Even though it wasn't him who took down the King, it still felt great just to see the high and mighty King being treated as a slave.

He planned to commit suicide and finally meet his family and friends. His revenge is finished; he doesn't need anymore. Even though the Marchioness did all of that stuff to him, he honestly quite liked it. The Marchioness is a beautiful woman, so being her play toy wasn't really that bad, if you just take out all those drugs and stuff. But he cannot say that he didn't harbor any malice towards her, because he saw what she did to other people. How she treated them, it was like they were nothing but animals.

But he didn't care about them anymore, for his long delayed rest has been delayed enough. He doesn't want hatred to fill him inside as he takes his rest.

But just as he was about to self-decapitate himself using his magic, the boy, the one who was stepping on the head of the King, called him.

And, in a sudden flash, he saw his parents in front of him. They smiled at him and moved their lips slowly, so he can read what they are saying.

"Don't follow us just yet, live your life to the fullest." They said.

Cristoff, after years of suffering, finally decided to truly live his life.

Maybe serving this new King might not be bad…

(Another Week Later)

Hikaru idly reads the pages on the book he's holding. He asked some of the servants for some good book to read, and they gave him this one.

But he remembered one problem, he couldn't read the writings of this world. Even though they spoke Japanese, their writings are way different than Nihongo. So, after a week of learning how to read, he finally got it and started reading this book. The butler of the Royal Family helped him, so it was quite easy for him.

Oh, and he also imprisoned all the members of the Royal Family in the underground prison along with the nobles he captured. He'll deal with them later after Hiroshi comes back. He was getting bored torturing the nobles mentally, so he decided to tour the castle and say hello to the people living in it. He just imprisoned the nobles in the underground prison of the castle, so that he won't have to watch over them.

All the servants in the castle were happy, and doing their tasks faster than before. But while this was going on, the people outside the castle were in chaos, especially most of the higher ranking noble families. Hikaru imprisoned and tortured the family heads of most of the noble families in the Capital.

But no matter how they protested against him, it all boils down to one thing; he doesn't care. The people, the commoners and the people living in the slums are completely fine. They didn't really care who rules over them, they just wanted to live their lives.

But even though he didn't care, Hikaru is still somewhat a kind person. The tax was previously 10 Silver Coins per person in the Kingdom, but Hikaru found that that kind of tax wasn't really that necessary, so he just dropped it to 1 Silver Coin. There's still millions of people in the kingdom, so every month, he gets millions of golds from the taxes of the people, even if it's just 1 silver coin per person.

The Kingdom has its own agriculture, that's why Hikaru didn't worry that much. And the Kingdom isn't even that poor, so Hikaru got confused as to why the government decided to put 10 Silver Coins per person in the Kingdom as their monthly tax.

The Kingdom has a total of 150 Million Gold Coins in the vault, so it was really not that necessary to put that amount of tax. I mean, 500,000 Gold Coins are enough for the Kingdom to live for another year, so it confused Hikaru why Kingdom has that much money, too. So, after a little digging, he found out about the deeds the nobles and the Royal Family has done over the years.

Now, he has another reason why he must treat nobles like that.

Anyway, now he's just reading a book while sitting on the throne of the King. No one was there, except him and the heroes. There were a total of 32 heroes in front of him, kneeling in fear. The S-Rank heroes can see that this man, or boy, is one heck of a monster.

A majority of the heroes were in Tier 5 or 7, while S-Ranks were already Tier-10 and 11. Keiko is the strongest out of all of them, a Tier-12 Hero. She's just below the previous King's strength, making her the second strongest in the Kingdom back then.

While the Higher-Tier Heroes understood their positions, some of the weaker ones were just plain trash.

One of the delinquents stood up and said, "Oi, don't you know who we ar-

He didn't even get to finish his sentence when the upper half of his body disappeared after it was burned to dust by Hikaru's pyromancy.

"Did I tell you to speak?" Hikaru said coldly, he didn't even take his eyes off from the book he's reading.

The lower side of the delinquent plopped to the ground. No blood came out, since it was charred by Hikaru's pyromancy.

The Heroes shook in fear. Even though that guy was a delinquent, he was a Tier-6 Paladin. He can even fight those in a higher tier than him, but that new King just killed him in a snap of his fingers instantly.

Suddenly, a commotion was happening outside the door of the Throne Room.

Hikaru smiled and said, "So he's here, finally. Took you long enough…"

Bang!

The door of the throne room was kicked open and it revealed a hooded person wielding a giant sword.

"…Hiroshi."