Naruto was currently observing Renner through her door with the Byakugan and saw that she was talking with Climb, her bodyguard as well as an adventurer party which consisted only of a few women and was of no importance to his plans. 'Should I make my entrance ?'
Deciding to interrupt their tea time, he used his chakra to control shadows and covered the inside of the room with it. Light stopped to shine and darkness fell upon them. The three present members of the adventurer party, a huge woman with a strong body, a petite one with a mask and another blonde who was surely their leader stood up along with climb and took out their weapons.
The blonde had a sword, the huge one a war hammer and the masked girl had a staff. Climb held his sword between his hands and jumped to the princess's side while exclaiming, "Evil eye, Lakyus, Gagaran ! Protect the princess at all costs !"
"Of course !" Answered Gagaran, the huge muscular woman. While the other two women observed the darkness surrounding them until Evileye, the petite girl said, "It doesn't seem like normal magic..."
Renner feigned a frightened expression and grabbed Climb's right arm while saying, "I don't want you to die Climb..."
"Don't worry about it." Answered Climb while his gaze was searching for the person attacking the princess. A few seconds later he heard someone walking towards them and when he saw the fox masked man in black clothes he said, "You ! What do you want ?! Are you betraying the kingdom and your King ?!"
With every gaze landing on him, Naruto stopped to walk and began to clap his hands with a small mocking laugh. "Magnificent ! Even if you are all weak, nobody trembled in fear while sensing my killing intent... well even if it was an insignificant part of it. Well, let's stop with the jokes. Sleep."
When Naruto pronounced his last word, everyone except for Renner fell on the ground, unconscious. Looking frightened and worried, Renner fell on her butt and began to cry. 'Sigh... is she obliged to make it seem like I am the bad guy...?'
Taking a kunai out of his pouch he threw it just millimetres away from Climb and she stopped her comedy. "Good... if you didn't stop I would have killed this man. Ok, so now I will tell you directly what I am here for. I know that you are a wicked person, in fact you are so wicked that it sent chills to me... no just joking, you are too young to make me fear you."
Standing up with a cold, emotionless face the princess asked, "Stop talking nonsense, what do you want ?"
"Ahahah, what I want ? Is it really not obvious ? I just want the kingdom to become a safe place and you are not needed in my plans as well as Climb and these adventurers... so, either I find a use for you or I dispose of you... and trust me, nobody will ever know that you are dead." Naruto explained with a mocking voice.
Frowning, the princess glared at him with poison in her eyes, "Who are you ?"
Answering with a smile under his mask, he said "Not someone you can ever hope to win against. For now, if you want to live, I will ask you to become one of my underlings... how does it sound ?"
"Do I even have a choice ? I must accept if I don't want to die, for now." Said the angry princess in front of him.
Laughing for a little, Naruto said, "It will not be for now... it will be for eternity and you will not be able to betray me directly or indirectly, if you do you will simply disappear."
Nodding her head, she simply hoped to be able to continue her own plans. A few moments later she felt immense power enter her body and forming something akin to a chain around her soul. "What is that thing ? How am I even able to feel my soul, I am not a magic caster."
"I don't know why you can feel your soul but it's surely related to the mana circulating into your body. As for what this chain is, it's called the chain of shared fate, it enables you to become immortal as long as I, myself is alive or want you to die... it doesn't give you any special power except for this. So, my first order is for you to become the heir to the throne and rule this kingdom when I am away. Don't worry about the prince or the King, I will take care of them."
Not daring to answer back after what she heard, the princess nodded her head and waited for Naruto to leave. She began to think about what she hears, 'Immortality... what is this man, capable of giving immortality to another person. I can't risk dying by his hands, I have to obey him.'
Not knowing that Naruto's chakra was already affecting her mind thanks to the chain of shared fate, she swore to not betray a being such as him.
"Then, I leave it to you. I will stay for a little while longer, long enough to complete my plans and then, I will leave. But remember it well, I will come back one day and I will bring you back with me. I need a mind such as yours, so don't do anything stupid. Also, don't worry about the skeleton or the one you call the Sorcerer King, I will make him one of my underlings. Understood ?" Naruto declared as he looked towards the kneeling princess.
"Yes my lord." Answered Renner as she didn't even question why she called Naruto 'her lord'. For her it became normal, her loyalty became impossibly strong thanks to Naruto's power and chakra modifying her corrupted mind into a normal one.
Not saying anything any more, Naruto disappeared within the shadows and walked back towards the King, 'So now that I have my third underling I have to get the fourth one who could become my right hand. Will I make a hierarchy between these underlings... well let's work on this until I encounter this Sorcerer King.'
A few days later Naruto finally created his future hierarchy... no his future pantheon. That's right, Naruto's plan is to create a pantheon ruling over every kind of life in order to destroy the corruption in the universe, since it's practically impossible to destroy all the corruption he will have to do it where it's possible. For example, in an under developed world like this one, corruption will always appear throughout its evolution. He will have to ask his future subordinates to deal with it as he will quickly become tired of humanity's sins.
First he will claim the title of Supreme God, Godly Guards will be at his direct commands. Under him will be the Higher Saints as well as Gods, the saints will be chosen for their intelligence, knowledge and wisdom as for the emperors, the only factor is their strength. Under the Higher Saints, there will be a Light Saint and a Dark Saint. The first one will controls Saints and Angels. The Dark Saint will controls Valkyries as an Elite force of the Pantheon and Spies.
Gods will each command two Emperors who will each command two kings. Under them will be Generals and the Supreme God's Army which can be commanded by the entire hierarchy if the person have the required permission obtained by asking a God or a Higher Saint.
'So Meruem and Netero will surely become Kings or Emperors at most, at least with their current power. Renner will be appointed as a Higher Saint since she's the most intelligent person I ever met.' I thought as I was walking down the hallway, followed by ten people, namely a part of the Black scripture as well as their captain, Zesshi Zetsumei, they were altogether nine. The last one was the empire's current strongest, a swordsman named Nimble.
I was followed by these people all clothed in black anbu clothes provided by me with their own mask of course, because we were all ordered to form an assassination team to destroy the Sorcerer King as well as his troops since the leaders of these three different countries were aware that simply sending soldiers without real skill would have resulted in useless deaths.
In the end they decided to create an assassination team composed of the strongest people and decided to let me lead this group for our only mission. Annihilate the King and his underlings. Night has fallen and were currently running towards our target, the "Great Tomb of Nazarick". Upon arriving in front of its entrance, I created a katana with my chakra and cut the door in two. When the two pieces of door touched the ground, a huge tremor could be felt within a few hundreds meters.
Nimble looked at me through his wolf mask and said in a whisper, "Why did you make so much noise ? We could have entered without alerting them of our presence."
I looked towards him and answered, "An assassin don't question his leader and just follow orders... but well, I made so much noise to alert them of our presence... however, I will use clones to lead the most of them the wrong way. Follow me and don't say a word... assassin don't talk, they kill."
A second later, eleven clones were summoned, each resembling a person in the group, imitating even their auras and sent. Using chakra to blend light at his will, the original group of eleven turned invisible to the naked eye. He also used his transcending aura to cover the others to not be discovered by it. Next they followed the clones inside and went the other way at the first occasion.
The Tomb didn't seem great on the outside, but the craftsmanship shown by the sculpted stones were reflecting its greatness. While walking through the hallways they jumped above the skeletons and passed the traps without difficulty until they appeared in the second floor through a teleporting magic circle. When they appeared inside a room with a lot of insects covering the walls and the floor they all looked at each other and jumped in the air while directing their gaze towards what seemed like a bipedal black insect with the appearance of a monarch.
The members of the black scripture killed him instantly as well as every insects using fire magic. Nodding towards their incredible power, Naruto ran towards the exit when he touched the ground. Soon followed by the other members of his group who didn't make any sounds, he opened the door to the third floor. 'It was fast... did we step on the wrong magic circle to enter the second floor or was it meant to be a small floor ? Well... it doesn't matter... I only need the skeleton, not all his underlings.'
A few seconds later, they appeared before an hallway paved with black stones and decorated with crimson flickering flames on the walls. A moment later he felt an impressive pressure in front of him, deciding to see what is its source, he ran, followed by his team towards the end of this hallway.
When they arrived in front of a door, nobody stopped as Naruto made a sign towards them, as to not alert the enemy of their presences he distorted space through his manipulation of chakra and openede a hole through it. Jumping towards the hole they appeared inside a room decorated with a lot of painting and expansive thngs such as engraved tables and chairs and a king sized bed. Sitting on the bed, surrounded by pale skinned black haired women was a white haired petite girl with crimson eyes.
'This powerful aura is coming from her, she's more powerful than my group... I will have to take care of her myself.' Looking towards my teamates I made sign for them to continue with Nimble as the leader while I was staying there to do my job.
Author's note : Hi everyone, like always thanks for reading this chapter ! If you have any interesting or constructives ideas concerning the plot, the worlds he will visits or the pairings and anything related in any kind of ways to my fanfiction I will accept them ! Enjoy the chapter !
When they all got out through another of my hole through space, I stopped to manipulate light and reapeared as normal. Standing up with anger in her eyes, the petite girl looked towards me while I could discern her clothes which consisted of a dark red dress. She looked towards me with pride and said, "Who are you, human filth to come into my room ?"
A second later I created a kunai out of chakra and threw it towards her. The fight began.