Chapter 327 Mysterious Yarimasa
?Seeing this, Daniel knew that Kuroda had stopped being downhearted as it was replaced by anger. He let out a smile before leaning forward on the table and spoke.
"I have a proposition for you, Mr. Kuroda... Do you want to help me manage tourism on my island?
Think about it. You'd stay in a place with the most advanced technology in the world and enough resources to turn some backward country into the richest country in the world. From the information I've read, you are a skilled manager when it comes to tourism.
You could bring your family along to live on my island. I'll give you a seaside mansion along with automated servant bots and lucrative incentives for your hard work. You can even try to kill me since you should have plenty of time and resources to build your faction. But be warned, you only have one chance to claim my head," Daniel said with a confident smile, stunning people who are listening to such a conversation.
Hearing this, Daniel Kuroda was stunned before letting out a laugh.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" He laughed out loud for some time, as if he was amused at what he heard.
Daniel, still maintaining his faint smile, optimistically expected a good answer from the Daimyo.
"Hahahahaha... That was a good one. Who do you think you are? Daniel Emberweave, Cao Cao? Who uses people regardless of their background or animosity? And you even offer these... absurd things to me such as a single chance to take your head.
Don't insult my intelligence; you think I'm not aware that I had no chance against you, did you? I'm not that stupid to fight in a war that I had no chance at fighting.
It's one thing if I was ordered to fight and another if it were my choice." Kuroda paused, sipping his tea, and continued. "To be honest, killing my older cousin and taking the title of the Lord of Ryukyu or even making a coup and becoming a Shogun myself should have a better chance of succeeding than killing you," Kuroda said with a smirk.
Hearing this, Daniel stopped dead on track, his smile vanishing as if he had just noticed something important. It's like the moment he realized he ate the wrong medicine after he had already eaten it.
"Wait... You're not the lord of Ryukyu?" Daniel asked.
"Who told you I am?" The former Daimyo asked, looking weirdly at Daniel.
"But..." Daniel turned toward Kato, the first local people he befriended then asked. "Didn't you say that the lord of Ryukyu also presides here?" Daniel asked in confusion.
"What the hell?" Daniel uttered in disbelief; this was the first time this had happened to the people around him.
This sorcery, spell, or ritual had affected Heracles, Momotaro, and even Gluttony, one of the 7 deadly sins Witches. People without magical ability, such as Goro Kuroda, Kato, and others, were also affected.
"I think it's a 'Forgetfulness' spell, but a regional version instead of the global one that the Hightower uses," said Pride. Her eyes shone with cyan light and had several golden rings in them. She looked at the sky above outside the glass panel within the meeting room.
In her eyes, the spiritual structure resembled colossal roots with several thousand roots piercing into people's heads. Even the people in this room were affected by this spell.
"This spell is quite powerful; if not for my eyes, I would have already been affected by it too," said Pride.
Daniel then sank his mind into his mindscape and realized he couldn't do anything. This spell was not categorized as an enchantment in his mindscape, so the card that could be used to destroy the enchantment couldn't be used. It seemed like this spell was similar to the ones cast on the field, having a one-
time effect like a normal spell but on a massive scale, like his board-clearing spell.
"Do you know how to undo this spell?" Daniel asked Pride after returning his mind to real space.
"It's impossible to undo," said Pride, then continued. "What has been deleted by the forgetfulness spell cannot be taken back. It works as if the memory never existed in the first place, functioning differently than normal memory loss, where there's still a chance to remember it again."
"I see..." Daniel nodded. "So... this Yarimasa is that powerful," Daniel uttered.
His heart weighed heavily; it was the first time he was in a situation where he was completely caught off guard by someone's attack since becoming a mage. If not for the magic shield he usually recast every morning, he would have also been affected by this spell.
"No, I don't think he's that powerful," Pride said, looking at the colossal spiritual structure, the size of the entire island, of the spell that was slowly vanishing in her eyes.
"From my point of view, this spell is a prepared ritual that had been set up beforehand, likely a last resort. When this Yarimasa guy knows that his life is on the line or feels threatened enough that it will endanger him, he will activate this spell."
Pride analyzed, then turned toward Daniel. Her eyes returned to their normal blue color. "I guess he also put some spying rune inside our former Daimyo's body; that's why he knew that you wanted to eliminate him and..." Pride looked in the direction of the Daimyo castle.
"If I were him, I'd go to the Daimyo castle and destroy all of my belongings," Pride said.
As if responding to Pride's words, on the far horizon where the Daimyo castle is, dark smoke began to rise.