The Hero is Furious and Decides to Use His Trump Card
Griffith, the greatest mage of the era and holder of the ducal title, called him ancestor, and Emperor Ferdinand was his descendant as well. His official status was no different from the highest ruler of the imperial family.
'Now the world is one step closer to being mine.'
Jae-hyun cherished his descendants Ferdinand and Griffith, but his affection was not so excessive that it would make him sacrifice himself for them. He loved and favored them just enough. Even if they were trash, as long as they were his descendants, he would indulge them. But he would prioritize those with high status or talent among his descendants, and those without would never be indulged. Descendants who did not help him were not needed.
It was a cold thought, but he had long since passed disappointment with humanity and felt only contempt. Humans could only go to self-destruction without self-control, so he concluded he must take away all their freedom and control them to dominate.
However, it was not easy to perfectly dominate people who had already tasted freedom. That was why he had to demonstrate it here first.
After all, humanity was a foolish race heading toward self-destruction, and while they talked about equality, there were always class differences, and the law was for the strong, not the weak. He felt it with his own body.
'When I first entered Earth, that time comes to mind.'
When he returned to modern times from his original timeline, he was 17 at first. But no matter how high his realm, his appearance was limited to at least 20s, so he returned in his 20s.
And after returning to Earth, his family was startled by his aged appearance after just a few years in modern time, which was several years older than their standards. They panicked. He could have used polymorp to change his appearance, but even if he had to deceive the world, he wanted to be honest with his family. So he revealed everything.
At that time, Jae-hyun first showed them some magic, explained how he was summoned to another world as a hero and fought there, and then introduced Rachel, Ruina, and Silvia, whom he had married in this fantasy world.
The family was initially awkward with the sight of these incredibly beautiful women, but his father and mother quickly accepted them as daughters-in-law, and his younger brother and sister also accepted them as family.
His younger brother Ji-han showed obvious jealousy toward him, saying, "I should have been the one summoned to the other world!"
Also, Jae-hyun still had lingering feelings for Kim Da-gyeom, the top queen card and peer in the high school he attended, the woman he had a one-sided crush on. So he used polymorp to return to his 17-year-old appearance and went back to high school. He wanted to adapt to this Earth, which was too different from the fantasy world.
At that time, Jae-hyun thought that while the character of being kind and considerate of others was bad, there were also many good people among humans, so he was satisfied with the limited view inside the high school.
Of course, there were trash who extorted money and assaulted others inside the high school, but he suppressed them with overwhelming fighting skill within a range where it was not noticeable, and secretly cast mental magic on them to give them nightmares every night, making them suffer. He also blocked their revenge in advance.
Those who had been tormented by him every night began to slowly wither away as they experienced nightmares where they tormented him in return. Due to constant mental manipulation by Jae-hyun, their minds began to change.
At this time, Jae-hyun had never killed anyone except dark mages tainted by darkness. It was like forcibly guiding people toward the good in the fantasy world by disturbing their minds. It was a precursor to his current self, who was already a righteous hero.
And within the high school life, Jae-hyun began a serious relationship with Kim Da-gyeom, and he vowed that if the opportunity arose, he would introduce his wives from the other world and make her his wife for life. Of course, as a hero, he planned to give her eternal youth and beauty with the magic power far above dragons.
While planning this future, Jae-hyun enjoyed every day. Although he was now a high school student, he did not worry about exams because his brain could remember and understand everything after just one look at the book, making studying too easy.
And he could even visit her house under the pretext of teaching her, so every day was truly enjoyable, and he was unaware of the world's darkness.
Right away, even in Korea, known for good public security, about 10 years ago, a chaebol's son had violently driven and pushed an old lady in her 70s who was holding her grandchild in her arms.
At that time, the chaebol's son, who had not even been drinking, pushed the old lady over, making her head slam hard into the ground, and she had to be hospitalized.
He was arrested by police but soon released lightly. There were also chaebols who assaulted truck drivers with baseball bats and gave 20 million won as compensation for hitting, etc.
People with power were mostly above the law, and Jae-hyun felt it after some time.
It was one of the chaebol 2nd generations who had set his eyes on Kim Da-gyeom. At first, he seduced her with money, and even threatened to ruin her parents' business. Eventually, he tried to forcibly rape the high school girl.
At that time, if Jae-hyun had not protected her with magic that automatically alerted him in crisis, it would have been disastrous.
Jae-hyun appeared right there, punched the guy's face, and then his guards, who handled his dirty work, rushed at him. Naturally, Jae-hyun suppressed and dealt with all of them simply.
After that, Jae-hyun comforted the frightened Kim Da-gyeom and immediately reported to the police. He secretly treated the chaebol 2nd gen and his guards, and for the guards, he manipulated it so they were sleeping from drinking instead of knocked out, removing all traces of the fight.
He could have been framed with assault charges, and if the fact that he suppressed the guards was revealed, it would be dangerous. This was the first time he showed his magic in front of his girlfriend, but instead of her being surprised, he told her he would explain later.
After that, he subtly manipulated the chaebol 2nd gen's mind so that in front of the police, he would spew curses like "Fuck! You bastard! How dare you interfere with me! No matter how much this time I failed, I'll eat you someday, you bastard!" and the guards appeared to be asleep from drinking, with empty bottles around and alcohol smell on their bodies. The police, tongue-clicking at the guards' appearance, arrested the chaebol 2nd gen.
After that, the chaebol 2nd gen was prosecuted under Article 31 of the Criminal Code for abduction, enticement, and human trafficking.
Moreover, he had testified in front of the police and left evidence. Jae-hyun had recorded it just in case and stored it on his phone. But the result did not go as Jae-hyun had thought.
Despite clear evidence, instead, the chaebol 2nd gen mobilized a legal team and sued him for false accusation. And the chaebol 2nd gen, who had been released soon after being detained, even threatened Kim Da-gyeom, saying if she spread her legs today, he'd drop the charges.
He was confident it would end with a non-prosecution decision.
The law lacking fairness and justice was already not law but just the strong's violence. And after that, Jae-hyun realized through magic that there were countless lobbies and external pressures, and Kim Da-gyeom also realized there was no justice in the world.
There were countless dirty deeds he had not seen before, and some of them were so horrific and cruel that no human could believe they were done by humans, and the ones that were known were just a small part of the whole.
That's why Jae-hyun made a decision. Instead of becoming the one being stepped on, he would become the one stepping on others and realize justice.
With the power of mental magic, he quickly became a being who dominated the underworld. Slowly, he brainwashed politicians and chaebol families, putting Korea effectively in his grasp and becoming able to manipulate it as the black hand.
With this power, he quickly threw the chaebol 2nd gen who targeted Kim Da-gyeom into prison, framed him with all sorts of crimes, and even made him take on crimes he had not committed.
In addition to mental magic, he did not hesitate to kill to seize power. For international ones, he handled Japanese ultra-rightists by making them seem like accidents, and one by one brainwashed foreign politicians, gaining power to influence the entire world.
Kim Da-gyeom, his girlfriend, did not look at him with unfamiliarity or fear. Rather, they had the common point that they were powerless and in danger of being stepped on, so their relationship became even more intimate, and both changed.
The boy and girl who did not know the world became those who understood the essence of the dirty world, and they understood and accepted each other. Kim Da-gyeom became his fourth wife in this way. After that, he accepted many concubines from around the world, becoming a being like an emperor, and Rachel, Ruina, Silvia, and Kim Da-gyeom became existences like empresses far above concubines.
His family's life also became prosperous, but he realized.
In the end, there was a limit to this.
Without dominating all humans, he could not create a correct world, and eventually, he might cause a major accident that could destroy the world from some place not under his control.
The world itself was rapidly breaking down, so this problem felt even more serious.
Even if he dominated humans with the power of politicians or chaebols, humans who had tasted freedom would not completely submit to him. Even if he revealed he was the one dominating all, there would be no one who sincerely submitted, only protests.
Realizing this fact, he wanted to dominate the fantasy world.
If he could completely take hold of and control this world, he could become a god-like being, and he came to believe that his domination was the way for the world and humanity, and for that, he could do even a bit dirty deeds.
His own existence itself had become a contradiction stained by humanity's filth, but he ignored that part and became a being stained by humanity's filth with obsession and delusion.
"Sluggishly, I have to start."
First, before calling his family and wives, he needed to obtain forces to confront the Demon King.
And Jae-hyun had the power he obtained through connections from ancient times when he was a hero. He could claim that even the Demon King Jae-hyun could not have obtained this power no matter how strong he was.
"Open Heaven's Gate."
His trump card was the power to open the gate of Heaven and connect to the Intermediate World.
'It's been a long time for me, and even longer for you. Gabriel.'