Chapter 53: A New Ruler?

"I need to hurry up and meet Sensei!"

A kid with black hair and black eyes sat on top of a house. He wore rags and had a bandaid under his left eye. He had on no shoes, leaving scratches on his feet. He was slighly bruised in the arms too.

"Should I already be calling him Sensei?! Maybe that's too much for now! Mr. should be fine until he accepts me as his student!"

He seemed happy about something as he jumped down off the building. When he did, he landed on a small cloud of black cotton. The cotton started moving with him on it, acting as some sort of transportation.

'T-This is the only form of Dark magic I can use right now! I hope he accepts it!'

He smiled as he floated out of what seemed to be a village.

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In a forest, a man was seen running through the woods. He had black hair and purple eyes that seemed to glow in the night.

He jumped over logs, onto trees, and even swam through rivers to out run the huge, 10 meter beast behind him. It's feature were cat like and was white in color.

'A level 7 huh?..'

His thoughts seemed slowed down with his eyes low as well.

'Ever since I got War magic, my instincts have almost doubled..'

He slowly looked back and saw how the beast was getting closer and closer.

'Its quiet fast for a large beast. It looks like a Sabertooth Tiger as well..'

He span around and slowly slid, never taking his eyes off the beast. The beast then jumped at him, seemingly making time slower.

The two stared at each other. Their figures in the other eyes. The black haired mans fist then became coated in pitch black.

'May your soul rest in the fiery pits of despair.'

The beast striked, but it didn't conmect with anything as its paw went into a portal. The black haired man then jumped up and plunged his fist into its chest.

The speed of the man made both of them go back in the direction they came from. They both went towards a tree stump and that's when the man jumped off.

A spear appeared on the tree stump, and the beast's head pierced it, making its body go limp.

[Level 88 reached]

The man landed on the ground with something throbbing in his hand.

'What skill am I going to get now?'

It was a purple ball with slime and veins throughout it on his hand. The sensation was that of an orbe. The man then threw the heart into is mouth and ate it.

[Fear inducement can be obtained. Would you like to obtain in?]

The panel appeared next to his hand.

'Yes.'

The panel disappeared and he immediately felt a surge of power. He flinched at it for a moment, then started walking over to the body of the impaled beast.

'You were too stubborn. You deserved death.'

He pulled the bloodied spear out and licked the blood.

'A monster through and through...'

He twirled the spear around and planted it back into its body. He smiled at the scene in front of him and left. He walked through the woods, killing anything that came near him in the process.

'I've been in here for 2 week now. I needed to get my mind cleared of things and when I was proposed, 'If I could do for you' from Sylvia, I kindly took up this offer. She also lent me an army of 100 elves with Jura doing the same with her people. Caroline is acting as the ruler for now.

Nothing should happen when I'm gone. I'm notified every time someone enters and leaves the kingdom when they aren't verified with, 'Tags'. Tags are something that I came up with. Each person who is in my kingdom right now is marked with a tag. If an unmarked person enters then I'll instantly know. Call it paranoia, call it smarts, I call it being scared..'

'Its time...for me to go..'

Apparently, Jura is hosting a huge party involving every head of each village, town, city, in the Forbidden continent. I don't know why shes doing it though..

"Are you done?"

He saw a women standing against a tree.

"Yeah."

A silver dragon appeared next to him, and he hoped on it.

"Your not going to thank me? How rude."

She had her arms crossed as she came up to the dragon.

"Thank you."

The dragon started flapping its wings.

"Y-Your not going to do anything to show your thanks?!"

She had her hands on her face as she yelled out to him.

"I'll massage you later. Good bye."

The dragon bolted up into the sky, cutting the trees with its scythe like wings, and emerging into the sky. It flew out the transparent barrier and was now in the desert.

They flew at high speeds until a dome appeared in the distance.

"Slow down."

The man spoke out and the dragon slowed down. It then flew to the ground and slowly stopped. The man jumped off it and the dragon disappeared, leaving him to walk into the desert.

'A lot...of people..'

The man saw people walking through the domed city of Prosperity. Some seemed young, while others seemed old.

'She might be...throwing a party to announce herself. She hasn't...shown herself in years right?'

His walk was slow as his cloak blew in the rough winds.

'I'll go back home to check...on things after this. Then I'll go back to the Elf continent and train even more.'

He then stopped walking as he stood in a slightly long line. He looked over and saw the people at the front showing some type of paper.

'Is that the invitation? Since I haven't been home in a while, I..wouldn't know if I got one..'

The line kept moving and Haruto was now in the front. He was also the last person in line.

"Your invitation please."

They held their hand out slighly. Haruto stared at it then looked back at the guard.

"I don't have mine. My name is Haruto however. The Dark Monarch. Ruler over Harmony."

The guard stared at the person with a hood on. He then checked out his whole outfit.

"Dark Monarch? Ruler over...Harmony? Who and what is that? I've never heard of them before."

The guard slighly got on guard. Seeing this, Haruto shrugged his shoulders.

"Alright. I'll..go back to my kingdom and get the letter. Stay here."

Haruto started walking to his right.

'Smh. And here I thought my name would have been spread far and wide. Guess I was wrong.'

'Though, I only said it once and that was when I pulled up on the sins and demon king.'

"Haruto. There you are."

Someone placed their hand on my shoulder.

"The main guest- I mean, your the last person we've been waiting on. Hurry up!"

Haru wore butler attire, making his looks stand out even more.

"Okay."

Haru and I then walked through the dome together with the guard giving me the side eye for some reason. We traveled through the kingdom together until we got to a small tent.

All around the tent, difference races could be seen.

"Lady Jura will be ready in just a moment. Please wait."

Haru bowed and went inside of the tent. Haruto was now left alone once more.

"Who's that?"

"I dont know....but he seems sketchy."

"We can't see his face. He..kind of looks like those bandits."

"Maybe he snuck in?"

"Maybe he forced that young man to bring him in by threatening him and this land."

"Maybe hes with the Vampires. They all are wearing the same type of clothing."

"Yeah, but they are revealing their heads. And they also have umbrellas with them."

Haruto layed against a wall and slowly put his head down. He was tired from the endless battles against the monsters in the elves forest. He wasn't sleepy tired just mentally tired.

After about 10 minutes, Haru came out. The crowd looked at him as he only smiled.

"The empress, Jura, is ready to see you all. Please, enter in an orderly fashion. Once you get in, there should be a name of each respected kingdom on a card in front of a chair. Please sit in your respected chair."

Everyone nodded and proceeded to walk in. I came off the wall and walked over too.

(I would advise you to take your cloak off. It's really...intimidating..)

Haru whispered in Harutos ear at the entrance of the tent, making him stop.

(So? The vampires are wearing them.)

(Well, you know how they are. 'My skin!! It burns!!' and all that.)

He mocked them slightly with a laugh.

(I get it. I..was getting comments on it earlier and I need to represent my kingdom, so I might as well look presentable.)

The cloak then shifted into a cloak with sleeves.

(Better right?)

Haruto put his hands in his pocket and walked in.

"I..guess?"

It reavled Harutos head, pants, and arms sleeves now so Haru guessed it was fine.

Haruto came into the tent and noticed a long table. It was similar to that of a table that businessmen would use when hosting meetings.

'A curtain?'

At the end of the table, there was a golden curtain. It weirded them all slightly, but Haruto managed to ignore it. Haruto then went around, trying to find his name.

When he did, he noticed that his seat was the closest to the curtain.

'Of course'.

He sat down and waited. Everyone stared at Haruto as they didn't expect his appearance to be that of good looking. Some even whispered about him with the people they sat beside.

"Ladies and Gentlemen. May I have your attention?"

Haru walked behind us and up to the curtain.

"I present with you, The empress of Prosperity, The Ruler Over Gold,(Haruto's wife), Jura!"

The pulled the gold curtain away and Jura was seen. She wore the same clothes Haruto picked out for her.

"Wow.."

Everyone became ecstatic at her looks.

"Hello. My name is Jura. It's nice to meet you all."

She smiled at the all while tilting her head.

"Her voice...its so pretty..."

This meeting was composed of mostly guys. Those said guys were drooling all over the table with their bodyguards behind them doing the same.

"Now, you may be wondering as to why I invited you all out here. I'll talk about that in a second, but first.."

Jura stood up.

"I would like everyone to introduce themselves.."

She then put her right hand out with her left on her chest.

"Please. Will you go first Ms?"

The Ms. in question nodded without hesitation and stood up. Everyone else quieted down to let her speak.

"My name is Rose. Rose quartz. I am the Mayor of Chapel city, far west of the Forbidden continent."

Haruto's eye brows raised slighly. He heard about them before. They are a regular town with the same kind of system that humans use. In fact, they were human. They lived far west of the Forbidden continent, which is by the elves essentially. That being the case, they never really face too many problems.

"I see. I hope we can work together in the future."

Everyone besides Haruto and Haru became surprised at her statement. No one has had relationships with Prosperity in the last few decades. Well, until Haruto showed up atleast.

"T-Thank you. That would be an honor.."

She bowed slighly and sat back down. Jura then motioned her hand at another person. He was fat and smelled like fresh sweat.

'I..wear a black coat in the desert heat, and I don't even sweat that much..'

"Thank you madam.."

His voice was high like an average rich boy. He then got up, or tried to as his bodyguard had to help him up. 'Poor guy..' is what everyone in the room thought.

"My name is Jacob porch. My race is that of gremlin. My town name is located to the east and you all may know it as, Gremtore."

He talked fast while scratching his ass.

"O-Okay..."

Jura forced out a smile. She then motioned her hand to another person, surprising the man.

"Hey! You...You don't want relations with me?!"

He screamed at Jura and hit the table in the process. Haruto smiled at himself as he thinks that took to much energy out of him as his breathe became harder.

"N-No. Sorry..."

Jura made a sad face, making the others scowl at the man. Jura looked like exactly like a small child. Seeing a grown man yell at her made everyone in the room mad, as no one likes to see children getting yelled at right?

"Smh."

The fat man sat down and Haruto eyed him.

'Rape and Assault huh? Abuse to children too. Yep, hes on my hit list now.'

Jura went around the room and people continued to introduce themselves. Some had small cities that weren't that big while others were sort of big.

"You. Can you introduce youself?"

Everyone stared at Haruto as he stared at Jura.

"Yeah, sure."

Haruto got up and put on a business smile.

"Hello everyone. My name is Haruto. I'm...the ruler over the kingdom that was just built. Nice to meet you all."

""Eh?!?!""

They all said as they stared intensely at Haruto. They had expressions of 'No way' and 'That's him?! Hes so young!' on their faces.

"My official name is Dark Monarch and the official name of my kingdom is Harmony."

Surprisment washed over everyone's faces, including Jura and Haru.

"Dark...Monarch?! This man...he has the power of Darkness?! We should kill him now!"

The fat man pointed at Haruto who only sat down.

"P-Please restrain yourself sir. Hes not a bad man. He actually helped me and my kingdom.."

"So?! He is a dark magic user. What do you not understand woman?! Their evil to the bone! To the core for fuck sake! He is a threat!"

The other people neither agrees nor disagreed with what the man said.

"Please lower your tone sir. Your in the presence of the empress."

Haru spoke to the man with a cold voice. His eyes were dark and his expression seemed like he was looking at utter garbage.

"Smh! I'm leaving this place! You can count me out of whatever this..this meeting is about!"

With the help of his bodyguard, he left only to never be seen again passed this day.

"I'm sorry for the interruptions. Can we..continue with the meeting? I can understand if some of you want to leave because Haruto here is a Dark magic user, but please, please consider staying until I get the point of this meeting across."

The people heard this and looked at the bodyguards behind them. After some nodding, they looked back and remained seated. That brought a slight smile to Jura's face.

'Whatever this meeting is about, it must be very important..'

"I would like to make a proposal. What would everyone think...about making a ruler over the entire continent?"

Her suggestion slightly surprised everyone.

"The Human continent has a single human in charge which is the King. The Demons continent has the Demon Lord. The elf continent has the Queen. I know that we are a nation that does our own things, but what if we can unite together under a single person. A person who'll treat their people right. A person who'll do what's best for their Nation whenever they can. A person...who truly cares about everyone?"

Haruto stared at her.

'No...'

"For that role, I offer up Haruto, The Dark Monarch, Leader of Harmony, as our Ruler."

'No. No..No....'

Harutos eyes were slowly opening back up from his dead like look. Everyone else in the room was too speechless to even comment.

'Don't...do this to me..'

Haruto stared intently at the woman who kept a stern look plastered on her face.

'I...can't..'

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