Inheritance Feud

Chapter 66

Chapter 66

As I poured a small amount of mana to the silver coins that he gave me, there was a clink-, a snapping-like sound was heard and broke the illusion, transforming it back to a blackened copper coin.

All my skills related to magic perception were lost, and the swords which had perception enhancing passive skills, were sealed. So I couldn’t tell that an illusion was cast on the coin in the first place, without touching the coin. Even though I was in a festive mood, I made such a blunder.

「Tch, you are in the wrong for being deceived. This is the slums, you know!? 『Force Up』!!」

To think that he didn’t even try to stop and smooth things over… He threw away the chance to mend it over with such a vulgar expression and used physical ability enhancement magic on himself. I thought that he was just a muscle-headed daruma, but he was unexpectedly from the smart faction.

「Geez, Ha~h, this kingdom is really the worst. Every single one of you.」

I feel completely disgusted. Interrupting my good mood, that guy smirking as he glances at me, and above all…

………Being seen as a guy who can be deceived easily was the most intolerable.

As if I was the same as the previous me who made the wrong choices, as if there was no change from last time.

Thinking that he’s the same kind as the targets of my revenge, who thought of fooling me, made my blood boil in rage and I really wanted to rip his limbs apart right now.

「Ha~h, I really want to puke.」

I instinctively filled the hand that was being held by his arm with power.

「GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! You bastard, why can’t I tear it ooooooff!! 」

Although he seized my arm, which was holding his neck, and tried to tear it off, it’s impossible for this man to get away from me even if he reinforces himself with Force Up and is unbeatable even by the kingdom’s knights, since I had already strengthened my arm with mana some time ago.

「Gah~, Kuhhk, H-how…?」

By the way, this method for concentrating magical power isn’t well-known in the general populace. Since there’s no sign of me invoking magic, he couldn’t understand why he couldn’t break free from the hand of man who was way more slender than him.

「Ah, that’s right, since something good happened to me today, I can let you off the hook.」

「Guh, Geho, GEHO!!」

I came up with something great so I said that, smiling and letting him go.

Maybe he reached a point where he understood that he messed with someone he must avoid, but his face paled as he asked me.

「I just have to apologize, right? I was wrong, it was my fault, I will apologize, apologize to you so please forgive me……

「Well you don’t have to apologize, you just need to take responsibility earnestly.」

While saying that, I put away all the copper coins that I held in my hand for a moment. And without a sound, I took out the【Fire Spider Leg Sword】. This Spirit Sword is really playing an active role today.

「W-wait!! Please wait!!」

Normally, the punishment for counterfeiting money is chopping both arms off the culprit along with huge amount of debt. Although the punishment for counterfeiting money as a matter is, of course, issued with the backing of this kingdom, the culprit will be unable to return their debt due to his lost arms and might try to sell himself as a slave, or commit suicide.

The muscle daruma shouted and panicked because he remembered about such a thing and thought that I would cut off his arms with my dagger.

「What’s the matter, do you think that I will chop your arms off? Don’t worry, I won’t do that. In the first place, there’s no way I can do that with a sword of this size, right?」

Though it’s certain that I have more than enough power to sever them, I said that line while sneering at him.

「See, this little guy has a somewhat interesting ability. Usually, it can only be used as a campfire or grill, however, maybe due to the influence of its former life as a monster, it displays a tremendous amount of power when used against a certain material.」

「Hah? Eh?」

The Prominence Spider was the acquisition condition for the 【Fire Spider Leg Sword】. It is a blazing big spider which lives in the lava cave.

They were never required to hunt to get their meal despite being a demon themselves. The staple food of Prominence Spiders are various minerals that exist inside the lava cave, it lowers the melting point of the minerals with its unique flame, which is called Poison Flame, then eats the dissolving syrupy minerals. In short……

「As I thought, to atone is to accept punishment of a far worse proportion than what you did. That’s why, I’ll have you eat them all with that lying mouth of yours, what do you think?」

Right after saying that, I broke both his legs and arms so that he couldn’t escape.

「G-GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!」

His hoarse scream resounded through the streets of the slums. However, his nightmare had yet to end.

「Well then, let’s start with the first coin.」

I forcibly opened his mouth with something made with a material similar to iron that I casually found close to me.

And as I poured a considerably large amount of magical power into the 【Fire Spider Leg Sword】 that I held in my hand, I placed a copper coin on top of it. The copper immediately melted and slowly slid down the blade of the dagger.

「GyAAAAAAGAHGAAAAAAHGAAAAAAaa!!!!!!」

The blazing hot liquid dripped down as it emitted a dull light, and it roasted the man’s innards.

He won’t die easily though.

The 【Fire Spider Leg Sword】 can easily dissolve metals, since it can lower the melting point of the metals.

Though it’s hot, it’s just about 300℃ at the most. If it’s just at this degree, the possibilities of him surviving are high.

「Look! Here comes the second coin. There still are 46 left. You can still endure it because of your activated Force Up, right? Oy, the third one is coming.」

With each lump of scorching liquid dripping down, I let out a sneering smile while enjoying the soundless screams of the muscle daruma.

10: is punishing and considering, and crafting an evil plan

10: is punishing and considering, and crafting an evil plan

10: is punishing and considering, and crafting an evil plan

The surroundings already began to darken as I finished forcing the currency exchanger muscle daruma to swallow all the molten copper coins. Maybe in an hour, the sun will fall completely.

The man, after being forced to swallow, seemed to have used up the last of his remaining strength to withstand it, fell as he was no longer conscious. Right now, he is violently spasming at my feet.

Well, he did continuously use his Force Up until the very end, so it’s quite probable that he will survive even if I leave him be. Well, that’s only in the case that anybody cared enough to heal him though.

「Mmm, it wouldn’t be fair if I were to give him the killing blow…」

I acted as I was stimulated and angered by the memories of those who betrayed me, however, I did clearly declare that “if you swallow all the copper coins, I will forgive you”, so I have to abide it, for my own good. If I were to break my vow and use my force, just to calm my feelings, then, I would probably become just like them.

I don’t think that there is any possibility that he will ever try to sabotage my revenge. He did pay for his crimes, so any more than this would cease to be “Retribution”.

I did become an avenger, but I did not become a demon murderer.

If I were, at some point, to find pleasure in killing; then I would die before I get my revenge as I would transform into someone else. I cannot let that happen. I made a vow to myself to get my “Revenge”, so I cannot allow myself to make a single mistake on where I draw the line.

He is the one of whom the target of my wrath is, so I cannot allow myself to screw it up for the second time, not in a one in a million chance.

「Nevertheless, to think that the human body is this resilient…」

To tell the truth, I didn’t expect him to survive until the end; this muscle daruma bastard is sturdier than I thought. I predicted that he would die after the 20th coin.

I wanted to use him as an example, so I deliberately made it so that it would be horrifying for the others. However, if I were to leave him alive, I would be categorized in the slum as someone seemingly naive.

Nevertheless, I’m not remotely planning to cure him. So even if the guys who are hiding nearby flock around us, I won’t give a damn. In the end, it was just due to the fact that “I let him off because I wanted to”. I don’t mind one way or another if he survives or dies because of this. After all, he is still a citizen of this country who doesn’t deserve my help.

I took the money that should be mine that was replaced with counterfeits made with illusion magic, which was exactly 5 large silver, 23 silver, and 20 large copper coins, and put them inside the bag full of gold coins.

As I finished packing the coins until it was full, I started to walk away. I never heard of what happened to that man.

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「Well then.」

At the edge of the town, the side road 1 to 2 streets away from the main street.

I entered an inn that I chose randomly, and I put the cases I was carrying under my armpits to the ground. The 20 cases that I had bought on my way here are making a sound as if there was glass inside of them.

Inside of the bottles, there was blue liquid which is valued at 4 large silver coins, known as the MP Potion.

「First off, I have to check my status, there is something I’m concerned about.」

Thinking that, I opened the status window.

In this world, there are 3 ways to increase your status abilities.

The first one is the basic body strengthening and training which would fortify and correct the base.

For body strengthening the strength, endurance, and agility status are improved; magic wise, if you were to spend your mana to the limit, then, it could increase your mana capacity. However, the strengthening pace isn’t that high even though it shouldn’t be ignored.

It doesn’t mean that the status will increase exponentially as long as you keep training, instead, it means that there is a limit for races, excluding the species such as dragons which are strong without high levels.

The next one is enhancement through skills. They are mainly divided into two types, ones which are usually active all the time, the 【Passive Skills】, while the other ones are only occasionally active, the 【Active Skills】. It is not like there aren’t any exceptions to these two, but it could be basically separated into these two types.

Among them, there are 【Passive Skills】 that can buff the status. There are skills which are commonly known and aren’t complicated like 『Body Strengthening』 or 『Endurance Enhancement』. Other skills like 『HP Regeneration Improvement』 buff the HP. And the skill 『Mana Efficiency』 enhances statuses such as magic resistance among others.

And to stray off the topic for a bit, contrary to 【Active skills】 like 『Sky Walk』 or 『Haste』 which rely on the consumption of HP and MP to operate, simply invoking actions or repetition won’t let you earn 【Passive skills】 or level them.