Into the Creations 356

## Chapter 356 – 356. The Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated Into The Baek Family

356. The Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated into the Baek Family

In the study of Chancellor Makellos Helbrit in the royal capital of Rapelli, four people had gathered.

The atmosphere was far from amicable.

Two were trembling in terror, one had resigned himself to his fate, and one stood there coldly.

Makellos shifted his gaze to his side. His wife and cousin, Catherine, was clutching their son, Halios, while shedding tears and trembling, a stark contrast to her usual cold demeanor. Halios was in the same state as his mother. However, he had already lost his right arm.

Makellos looked straight ahead.

Before him, amidst the corpses of twenty fallen escort knights, a woman with the same hair and eye color as his own stood expressionlessly.

Makellos remembered that it had taken less than thirty seconds for the twenty escort knights to become cold corpses. The woman before him was already a monster with power beyond common sense.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. No matter how hard he thought, he couldn’t come up with a way to survive in this room.

“Was this on the orders of Baron Pruker?”

Makellos recalled Baron Pruker, who had maintained an arrogant attitude in front of him. At the time, he had thought that Pruker must have a powerful backer that he couldn’t touch carelessly. He had planned to find out who that backer was after the banquet.

But there was no backer. Baron Pruker had intended to kill him and his family from the start.

“…A long time ago. On the day my mother died. I made a deal with my master.”

“I see. So Baron Pruker saved you. I can guess what kind of deal it was. He wanted my head… no, the destruction of the Helbrit family.”

“Yes. Instead of taking revenge for my mother with my own hands, I decided to dedicate everything to my master.”

“Revenge has been achieved. Congratulations. But why are you hesitating? With your skills, you could kill us in an instant. What do you want from me?”

Yuria looked at Makellos. At first, she had wanted to kill him the moment she saw him. It had been an ordeal to suppress the surging murderous intent. But now, with the end of her revenge in sight, she was calm.

“I want information about the nobles who follow you. More precisely, I want the weaknesses they have that you hold in your hands.”

“…Do you think you can control them just because you know their weaknesses?”

“Are they better than you, who are about to die?”

“…That’s not true. Yes. I suppose I can control them.”

“If you cooperate, I won’t torture you. I’ll just cleanly cut your head off.”

It was the moment Makellos was about to reveal information about the nobles. His son, who was beside him, shouted.

“Father! Are you giving up like this?! I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!”

“There’s no other way. It’s better than dying from torture.”

Halios gritted his teeth and glared. Fear made his body tremble, but he couldn’t lose everything and die like this.

“I understand that you are my younger sister. I am sorry for what happened to your mother. But it’s not too late. You and I are family! Come back to the Helbrit family, your origin, your home! I will take you as my wife! We can rule this kingdom and live well, urgh!”

A dagger flew and pierced Halios’s chest. It struck his heart precisely. Halios collapsed to the floor.

“Aaaah! Halios!”

Yuria also plunged a dagger into Catherine’s neck as she screamed.

The surroundings became quiet. Makellos took his eyes off his family’s corpses. He had already accepted his death.

Yuria didn’t miss a single piece of information he uttered, memorizing it all.

Yuria approached Makellos until she was right in front of him and asked.

“Do you regret it?”

“Yes. I regret it. I should have found Nel Lins and killed him for sure…”

She raised her dagger. A dark, shadowy aura blade extended like a longsword.

“…Are you satisfied?”

“Yes. I am satisfied.”

She smiled silently and, without hesitation, swung the dagger, beheading Makellos.

Yuria glanced at Makellos’s head rolling on the floor and closed her eyes for a moment.

“Mother…”

***

“Aaaaaaaah!”

At dawn, as the sun was rising, a soldier on guard duty at the royal palace screamed.

The heads of the Helbrit ducal family were hanging on the top of the royal castle.

The second most powerful person after the king had been assassinated.

The royal castle was naturally in chaos. The nobles were unable to leave the royal capital, and knights and soldiers moved to surround the capital and begin the search for the culprit. As time passed, the tragedy that had occurred at the Helbrit main residence also became known.

Various conspiracy theories circulated.

A secret assassination squad from another kingdom had invaded and wiped out the Helbrits, an assassination guild that had a grudge against Duke Helbrit had done the deed, and other baseless rumors spread.

People even speculated that the assassin might be just one person. The rumor, which no one knew where it had started, quickly spread. People who loved legends and heroes even treated the assassin as a kind of hero and gave him a nickname.

The Dark Emperor.

It was the nickname of the most notorious assassin whose existence was unclear.

***

“I understand what you said before now. To think you would use an assassin to get rid of the chancellor.”

Marquis Heolis said to me. He was trying his best to speak calmly, but I could instinctively sense that he was nervous.

“Why do you think I did it? I did say that if the chancellor was gone before the banquet, the problem would disappear. But there’s no way I could kill the chancellor.”

“…Who is the assassination guild you hired? Can’t you tell me? Is it true that the assassin known as the Dark Emperor assassinated the entire Helbrit ducal family alone?”

“I didn’t know that Marquis Heolis would believe such nonsense. Duke Helbrit was in the royal castle, and the tragedy that occurred at the main residence is reported to have happened at the same time. How could one person do that?”

“If you use magic to teleport…”

“You know that teleportation magic is impossible in the royal capital.”

“…Is it really not your doing?”

“If you want to accuse me, bring evidence. Or do you have evidence?”

“…I’ve learned something in my life. Most criminals talk about evidence.”

“So, do you have evidence?”

“…No.”

Marquis Heolis answered with a sigh.

“Then, now that the chancellor is gone, we can gather war supplies together, can’t we?”

“…Baron. Just one question. If things go wrong, will you kill me too?”

“If you’re not an enemy, there’s no need to kill you.”

“…Was the chancellor your enemy?”

I smiled.

“Yes. He was my enemy.”

***

I rested my elbow on the armrest of the chair, propped my chin up, and looked at the blond man kneeling before me.

It was Prince Aiden, who had lost his supporter, the chancellor.

Now that the chancellor was dead, he had two options.

One was to give up the throne and step down. He would have to give up all the power he had enjoyed so far and live like a mouse. With the chancellor gone, no noble would support him, a good-for-nothing.

The other was to find a new supporter. It didn’t have to be someone as powerful as the chancellor, but they had to be among the most powerful in the kingdom.

‘Even if he finds a supporter, he’ll need the support of other nobles.’

It was impossible to find a supporter in a short time.

‘Aiden isn’t a complete idiot, so he must think I killed the chancellor. I met Aiden before the chancellor died to make him think that way.’

He must be afraid of me, kneeling before me. He would think that I had the power to wipe out a ducal family overnight. At the same time, he would think that I was the one who could make him king.

“This is your last chance, Your Highness.”

“I know. That’s why I’m asking like this. Help me. Make me king! Baron Pruker!”

“I believe you haven’t forgotten the conditions. It hasn’t even been a few days since that day.”

“Of course. I haven’t forgotten. The day I become king, I will gladly give Aileen to you. I won’t care at all what you do to Aileen.”

“That’s not the only price, Your Highness.”

“……”

Aiden fell silent.

He rolled his eyes around and eventually bowed his head as if resigned. He couldn’t give up the throne, the power.

“I will… obey you.”

I reached out my hand to him. I patted his shoulder and smiled brightly.

“You made the right choice, Your Highness. I don’t trust verbal agreements, but I’ll trust you this time. Well, I believe you know what will happen if you break the contract. I look forward to working with you. Your Highness.”

“…I understand. I look forward to working with you too, Baron.”

***

The night before leaving the royal capital.

I took out my smartphone.

A few days ago, when Yuria killed Duke Helbrit and achieved her revenge, the notification window I had expected popped up on my smartphone.

[You have reached Affinity Level 10 with Yuria Grace.]

[Yuria Grace has accepted the contract.]

[From now on, Yuria Grace’s existence is bound to the Leisure Life App. Even if Yuria Grace dies, she can be summoned again.]

[Yuria Grace can be summoned to another world. If Yuria Grace is summoned, her original world, ‘The Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated into the Baek Family,’ will be deactivated.]

[Character summoning cannot be used in the character’s world.]

[The current character summoning level is 1. You can use points to increase the character summoning level. Each time you level up, the number of characters you can summon at the same time increases.]

[2,000 points are required to increase the character summoning level.]

[You can randomly share one of the character’s skills and traits.]

[You can share one of your skills and traits with the character.]

[The summoned character’s stats are the same as the app owner’s stats.]

[The character can use Limit Break to use the power of their original world. However, the summon will be forcibly canceled after Limit Break.]

[Yuria Grace

Original World: The Plum Blossom Swordsman Reincarnated into the Baek Family

Affinity: Lv. 10

Summon Duration: 30 days.

Summon Cooldown: 90 days in real time.

Shared Skill: Genius Time

Limit Break: 1 minute]

[Genius Time (Character Shared Skill: Yuria Grace)

For 10 seconds, you will possess Yuria Grace’s talent.

Can only be used once every 10 days.]

[You can spend points to increase Yuria Grace’s summon duration.]

[The summon cooldown starts from the moment the summon is canceled.]

[You can spend points to reduce Yuria Grace’s summon cooldown.]

[You can spend points to increase the duration of Limit Break.]

[You can spend points to change the character’s appearance.]

After seeing the numerous notification windows that popped up, I asked Yuria before returning to reality.

“I heard you accepted a contract, but who did you make a contract with?”

“I don’t know exactly. A voice… no, it was something that could be called a will that suddenly appeared in my mind. I wanted to be with my master, and the contract was made.”

Yuria knew about me.

That I was a person from another world and that I could play in other worlds through the Leisure Life App. She wasn’t very surprised. She said she had already guessed it.

“I was surprised that this world is a world in a creation, but it doesn’t matter to me. What matters to me is that I can be with my master in another world.”

“I’m grateful that you say that… but the current reality is…”

I told Yuria about the situation in reality. Her help was essential to overcome the crisis in reality.

Yuria readily nodded.

“That’s an unforgivable monster. If you give the order, I will take care of your enemies, Master.”

[Ending the game.]

***

Back in reality, I was holding my smartphone while stuck in a wall.

In front of me was a white monster bleeding blue blood. Its head was split in half, revealing its brain, but it didn’t seem to feel any pain at all.

“Is that your ability? Nothing’s happening. I don’t know how you came back to life, but I’ll kill you for sure this time.”

The monster was slowly approaching to kill me.

[Summoning a character. Target: Yuria Grace]

[Remaining summon duration for Yuria Grace: 30 days]

A maid with blue-silver hair appeared in front of me. The dagger in her hand crackled with black lightning.

The white monster was startled and took a fighting stance, charging at her. But Yuria moved faster than that.

I couldn’t properly see Yuria’s movements. However, I did see the white monster being electrocuted by the black lightning and helplessly sliced to pieces without even putting up a proper resistance.

Just 5 seconds.

That was the time it took for the white monster to become hundreds of pieces of meat.

Yuria looked at me from the blue blood and greeted me.

“I will serve you in this world as well, Master.”

A red stream of blood flowed from Yuria’s mouth.