Chapter 3

The cringe is real

[Tengai Shinsei]

"We are the Akatsuki"

-This guy is too powerful!-

{Congratualtions on receiving 99x-}

'Flashback moment'

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"The hell."

As Itachi groans feeling some burning sensations in his eyes. But he resolutely stands up and testing to see if his power threshold did increase.

[Gokakyuu no Jutsu], was quietly whispered and a fireball spat out of Itachi's mouth furiously, clocking in at about 14 meters. "So I found immediate improvement, probably due to me training even after I hit my limit," Itachi said to himself.

Itachi then heard a distinct sound, a notification, by the system.

{You have rolled on your own, you have gained a new mission.}

{Make the Akatsuki the most feared force in the world 0/10}

"Wait, why does it say ten? Maybe the world is cut off from each other? Maybe there are 10 countries on this continent, but who said that this was the only continent?"

Itachi then came up with a spectacular plan, but that won't be revealed yet, but it does have something to do with the tailed beasts.

Itachi then said to himself, "If I want the Akatsuki to be feared, what should I do first, in my plan?"

"First I infiltrate the main capital of the country or continent," Itachi said moderately loud.

To find out more about the world, Itachi had thought up a plan, he would kidnap and torture a traveler going to the edge, then with the new information, he would sneak into the capital and gain the backing of the highest authority.

And so, from his memories, the last person who came here had left a few days ago, calculating from when all of the travelers had come here previously, he was able to narrow it down to either the next traveler would come in 1 day, or 3 days.

And so Itachi had trained his taijutsu and taijutsu only. With only focusing on one thing at a time, his taijutsu had grown exponentially. And now, he could almost contend with the real Itachi in his prime, just a few more days and he could have beaten him. And now, it was the dawn of the 3rd day, the traveler had not come on the 1rst day.

Itachi had set up a trap around 1 km away from the viewing point. He waited for a few more hours till, the sun way a quarter up into the sky until he heard a voice.

"Hurry up you mongrels! Or else we'll throw you into the abyss!"

Itachi had overheard someone, with more money than IQ, he felt that this person would be perfect to torture. He sounded like someone important, and so he should have some useful knowledge, right?

He took a quick glimpse at the party, short-statured boy, around one and a half meters tall, with 2 knights with full-body armor with no weak spots other than the eyes, to his right and left, with a lanky man, around 1.8 meters tall, but looks like a thin sheet of ice, and a fat boy around 1.7 meters and looks like the twin brother of your mom, right behind him.

But farther back, Itachi could see an average height man, around 1.65 meters, with black hair and black eyes. The epitome of average if you had asked Itachi. But there was one key feature about this average man.

His hair was covering his eyes, but with the Sharingan active, Itachi could see them.

Itachi had a bad feeling in his mouth about that dude, he kinda looked like a h*n*a* protagonist.

Itachi let them go to the edge of the abyss, then Itachi body flickered and disappeared from his spot.

The short dude then got close to the average man and grabbed him by the collar, and surprisingly lifted him up easily. -So people in this world can train their bodies, but it has no visual difference- Itachi noted.

The short man then walked slowly over to the edge with the average dude. The short man then lifted the average man over the edge, and said, "What type of sorcery did you use to make her fall in love with you! TELL ME NOW! If you don't then you will go down, and down, and down, until, splat! You make a fleshy pancake on the bottom of the abyss!"

"I have not used such spells! I AM TELLING THE TRUTH! Maybe it's just your tiny brain where you last more seconds than your IQ times 100! And we all know that you can't even last 10 seconds!"

"That's it! Goodbye Lin Feng, hope you also become a pancake in the afterlife!" The short dude replied with anger.

But Lin Feng had not uttered a single sound after that. Maybe he was seriously considering the repercussions of his actions, maybe he had a way to survive, who knows?

The short dude slowly let go, and Lin Feng embraced the fall with open arms.

Then the short dude waited for two to three seconds then turned around and spoke, but was almost immediately cut off.

"So, this is what the world has come to, in my 1000-year stay in the abyss?" The 5 remaining people heard, but nobody dared to turn around, since they were all frozen in fear.

"I guess now we kill each other for petty matters such as love? Now we kill each other instead of fighting together against the demons from the abyss?" The 5 people were enlightened suddenly. And the short one spoke, "t-t-th-the a-a-a-aby-abyss h-h-has d-d-d-demons!?!?!"

"Yes child, have the demons not been solved yet? Or has the ruling class been keeping it a secret for many generations?"

-The emperor has lied to us!- the 5 thought simultaneously while not looking back, as they don't want to die by the monster that is standing behind them.

"W-W-Will you p-p-please sp-pare our petty little lives?" The fat one said.

"Alright, but what I want is information about the current world! THIS INSTANT!"

"A-Alright" The 5 of them chirped back, as the short one got out a piece of paper and a few ink pens to start writing.

After a few hours, the 5 had finished. The short one said, "Here is our information, we swear upon the heavens that it is truthful."

"Good now die," the voice replied.

"W-Wait this isn't ap-" the short one tried to say be he got cut in the throat before he could say more.

The rest died quickly after, and after looting the corpses, the voice said, "They were only chunin rank," with a disappointing sigh.

As he body flickered back to his cave, Itachi began to read the text.