Special Trial: Utmost Benevolence and Goodness, Merciful Release! (4K Mega Chapter)

Bang!

The massive impact shattered Hiranaka Hana’s emotional outburst and gave Hiranaka Minoru, who had nearly suffocated beneath the despair in his wife’s eyes, a way out.

The enormous head of the White Snake Sage crashed down from the sky, and the even more terrifying Mercenary Tao descended leisurely after it.

"Woman, this time the ingredient is a Sage. I hope you won’t disappoint me."

Bai Cangshu landed as silently as a Spirit Cat, yet the wind stirred by his steps carried a piercing killing intent.

He seemed utterly unaware of the enormous rift that had formed between them. He merely told Hiranaka Hana to prepare the rare meat of the White Snake Sage.

Hiranaka Hana lowered her head. Her despair and hysteria were hidden beneath her hair as she silently walked toward the oversized snake head.

Normally, the sight of such a massive white snake would have frightened her into collapsing. Yet for some reason, after witnessing so many deaths, she had gradually become numb to blood, flesh, and monsters.

She took out the special knife Mercenary Tao had left with her beforehand and quietly began cutting the snake meat for cooking.

Uchiha Shisui wanted to ask a question, but Bai Cangshu gave him no chance and spoke first.

"A bit of a shame. That Toad Sage escaped with a little Uchiha brat. Tch."

Uchiha Itachi’s eyes immediately sharpened, while Uchiha Shisui also fixed Mercenary Tao with a wary gaze.

"What Uchiha brat?"

Both of them had a bad feeling. Bai Cangshu smiled maliciously and said teasingly,

"Probably a child named Second Pillar~"

Clang!

The sounds of two swords being drawn rang out almost simultaneously. In the time it took Hiranaka Minoru to blink once, the two powerful ninjas had already come at Mercenary Tao from either side, one long blade and one short blade pressed against his neck.

Ran only reacted a moment later.

Bai Cangshu himself did not react at all. His expression remained calm, and he even continued leaning backward without slowing down.

"Careful, you two Uchiha. If you accidentally cut me, you’ll be the ones getting hurt."

Uchiha Itachi and Shisui possessed equally terrifying control. As Mercenary Tao fell backward, their blades twisted away, never touching his neck.

Yet four Sharingan stared coldly at Mercenary Tao.

"Sasuke, what happened?!"

Bai Cangshu looked at the two men who had been praised as the Uchiha Clan members most aligned with the Will of Fire. They, too, could not treat every life equally.

He looked at Uchiha Itachi mockingly, the ridicule in his eyes plain to see.

"You see? No matter how much you preach about tolerance or the future, once it involves your little brother, everything else gives way, doesn’t it? Heh…"

Uchiha Itachi completely ignored Mercenary Tao’s mockery. If something had happened to his brother, then no matter who the enemy was, he would have to use every possible means to kill them.

He could not describe to anyone the joy he had felt when he first saw his younger brother born. It had been the warmth of a lonely soul gaining a blood-related family member.

It had also been the joy and miracle of witnessing a new life after seeing too much loss and death.

Bai Cangshu narrowed his eyes, not because he was angry, but because he was genuinely delighted. He watched these Plot Characters with their intense personalities twist under the weight of their own hearts, sensing the Uchiha bloodline surge through Itachi’s body in response to his emotions.

The feeling of being able to toy with a genius’s nerves using nothing but words delighted him.

He looked at Uchiha Itachi as though he were a rare toy.

"Don’t worry. That little guy has probably become a citizen of the Golden Order. Even if he is unfortunately killed, he can Return to the Erdtree and go back into the Erdtree. How… fortunate…"

Bai Cangshu’s tone was strange, and Uchiha Itachi’s face was equally grim. He could not sense even a trace of happiness in such a fate.

The Golden Order. Return to the Erdtree. Those words now made Uchiha Itachi picture his young, innocent brother gradually becoming cold and inhuman.

Nor did he believe Return to the Erdtree was something beautiful. The bonds between people became unbreakable precisely through life and death, just as he had clung tightly to his brother when war arrived.

Without the witness of death, everything would lose its weight. Would he become the kind of older brother who casually threw away his infant brother, waiting for him to be reborn through Return to the Erdtree?

Ultimately, if humanity no longer reproduced, grew, and died as humans, would humans truly still be human?

Would those who emerged from the Erdtree, their eyes glowing with golden light, truly retain even the slightest moral commonality with humanity?

Uchiha Itachi understood his own thoughts in an instant. He turned toward the older brother he respected most.

"Shisui… something like the Golden Order can’t save this world at all!"

The Sharingan in his eyes trembled violently from his intense emotions, showing even the faintest sign of changing.

Having witnessed everything in the town just now, Uchiha Shisui had also fallen into hesitation. Just as he did not know what to do—

Golden light suddenly erupted from Hiranaka Minoru’s body. He spread his arms and assumed a strange posture of prayer. The next moment, golden radiance shot into the sky.

In the heavens, the Erdtree seemed to respond to the golden radiance, completely blotting out the sky. The sun’s light was entirely obscured, and the world turned dim and yellow.

Bai Cangshu felt something and turned around. In the darkened sky, a massive meteor ignited everything as it crashed down with a roar. The atmosphere began to burn. Countless golden rays scattered from the terrifying meteor, forming a gorgeous aurora that stretched across more than half the sky.

The falling golden radiance formed an incomparably vast band of golden light across the heavens.

It was the Golden Meteor, the messenger of the Greater Will and a product of the Golden Order. It was the supreme guardian of the Elden Ring and, at the same time, the symbol of the Golden Order—the Elden Beast!

Due to DD99115435's actions, core Plot Character Uzumaki Naruto has disappeared from this world. Related plotline being removed. This world has undergone a massive distortion.

Due to DD99115435's actions, core Plot Character Second Pillar has joined the Golden Order faction.

The Greater Will has intervened in this world ahead of schedule.

Special Unique Event: The arrival of the Erdtree Era. Phase Two has ended early.

Settlement in progress. Reincarnator Ex051 completion rating: A.

You have obtained Golden Teardrop (Rare) ×3.

Hiranaka Minoru slowly rose from the ground. The golden radiance within him grew more intense, and his armor began to fail beneath the power of the Golden Order. Bit by bit, it transformed into gold before shattering into golden sand.

In moments, Hiranaka Minoru was dressed in nothing but ragged clothes. His hair began growing uncontrollably, and beneath the golden light, his black hair rapidly turned red.

His body also became fit and muscular, swelling to a size far beyond that of an ordinary person.

Hiranaka Hana, who was trying to roast the White Snake Sage’s meat, noticed the change. Raising her head, she saw her husband transformed beyond recognition.

"Minoru…"

This time, the woman did not become hysterical. She only softly called her husband’s name. She saw him lower his head and look at her, the last warmth in his eyes vanishing completely. In the end, only lofty indifference remained, like a god gazing down upon all living beings.

As the enormous blessing band descended from the heavens, it became visibly clear that the blessings of the Golden Order had begun spreading across many people in this world.

Tragedies similar to the one in the riverside town would unfold on a massive scale. Then Hiranaka Minoru, who would ultimately be molded into a God-Human by the Greater Will, and the Elden Beast brought by the Golden Meteor would purge this world’s native forces through the cruelest and most terrifying form of war.

In the end, just as it had defeated the Dragonlord, giants, and others in the Lands Between, the Golden Order would seize control of this world and cover the Naruto World in divine authority and law.

Hiranaka Minoru—no, Hiranaka Minoru, who was gradually becoming a God-Human—stood in the air. His red hair streamed backward amid golden radiance. He did not look at his former wife. Instead, he extended a hand toward Bai Cangshu.

"Mercenary Tao, you possess the bearing of a king…"

Special Trial: Utmost Benevolence and Goodness, Phase Two has ended. Phase Three has begun.

Optional Mission: Benevolent Edict has been triggered.

Mission Description: God-Human Hiranaka Minoru invites you to defeat all opponents in this world and spread the Golden Order to every corner.

Mission Reward: Special Sequence: Virtue Sequence I: Edict (100%); Special Milestone: Elden Lord (Extremely Rare) (completion rating above S+).

Bai Cangshu merely looked up at Hiranaka Minoru, whose appearance and perhaps even heart had been completely altered. Before he could speak, a hand grabbed the back of his clothes.

That hand gripped him so hard that Bai Cangshu thought that if its owner had been just a little stronger, it might have been judged as an attack for causing even the slightest effect on his skin—and then been burned to death by the Radiant Flame of the Flame Dragon Scales.

"Mr. Mercenary Tao…"

The woman’s voice was hoarse and cold.

Bai Cangshu tilted his head slightly, a chilling purple tint in his eyes. Hiranaka Hana panicked. She thought that Lord Mercenary Tao had perhaps already known what she wanted to say.

And he had been waiting for her to speak all along!

But she had no choice but to say it. She had realized that ever since her town had been destroyed, her husband had been contaminated by something unknown.

That was why he had ignored the danger she might face and spread that so-called information.

That was why he had turned a blind eye to everyone’s deaths in the town.

That was why he had remained unmoved by the slaughter just now.

The woman’s mind raced wildly. She attributed every problem with her husband to the Golden Order. Only then could she accept that the husband she loved most had become what he was now.

"Mr. Mercenary Tao… although I only cooked a few insignificant dishes for you, could I ask you…"

She suddenly fell to her knees with such force that blood quickly seeped through her skirt from her knees.

"Oh?"

"What do you want to ask of me?"

Bai Cangshu knowingly asked. Lowering his head, he greedily drank in the malice at the bottom of the woman’s heart. He desperately wanted to know what tone and emotions the woman who had so "recklessly" expressed her love for her husband with this mouth not long ago would use to ask him… to kill her own husband.

Ha~ Just thinking about it…

Under the reflection of the Satsui no Hado, the malicious smile on Bai Cangshu’s face almost twisted his features.

At the same time, another thought in Bai Cangshu’s heart calmly analyzed his condition. He judged that his current state might be the result of the Satsui no Hado nearing a certain threshold. He had already been affected on a deep level.

He was curious whether, after breaking through Satsui no Hado LV4, he would enter a realm like Mad Demon or become something like Evil Ryu.

Moreover, because a place like the Goddess’s Abode existed, negative effects could be suppressed as long as he paid a sufficient price.

"I want to ask you to help Minoru… find release…"

The woman raised her head. Two streams of tears ran down her face, and snot flowed from her nose without her noticing. Her appearance became quite ugly, her clean skin wrinkled together as tears and snot mixed.

Yet Bai Cangshu, who should have mocked a woman in such a state without restraint, instead saw the smile at the corner of his mouth gradually vanish. He had not received the malice he wanted.

This woman was sincerely begging him to save her husband.

"Minoru isn’t like this. I know it. The real him must be trapped somewhere inside that body, watching everything he does and suffering terribly. Minoru is kind… he would never do something so cruel…"

The woman rambled on, irritating Bai Cangshu. He could not understand why such a thing existed.

She clearly wanted him to end someone’s life, yet compassion and kindness flowed from the depths of her heart. She was trying to accept her husband. With benevolence in her heart, she was asking him to kill her husband.

Optional Mission: Merciful Release has been triggered.

Mission Description: The woman Hiranaka Hana compassionately begs you to kill God-Human Hiranaka Minoru and end the tragedy of the Erdtree Era.

Mission Reward: Special Sequence: Virtue Sequence I: Merciful Release (100%); Special Milestone: Blasphemy (Extremely Rare) (completion rating above S).

"Tch." Bai Cangshu disgustedly shook off the woman’s hand. Beneath God-Human Hiranaka Minoru in the sky, Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi stood facing each other.

Their expressions differed. Uchiha Itachi said calmly,

"Shisui, you have to undo that technique…"

Uchiha Shisui did not argue. He, too, now harbored enormous doubts about the Golden Order. An Erdtree Era without death, achieved through mass slaughter—such a thing overturned his Ninja Way.

Boom!

The temperature in the air suddenly rose to terrifying levels.

In the sky, the enormous Golden Meteor finally burned away completely, revealing the terrifying form of the Elden Beast within.

But before the Golden Meteor could strike the ground, a terrifying beam of light roared in from a great distance and struck the Elden Beast in midair.

Accompanied by a shrill cry, the Elden Beast fell from the sky.

Bai Cangshu saw clearly that it was a Tailed Beast Bomb, and its power far surpassed that of ordinary Tailed Beasts.

Hiranaka Minoru, who was in the process of becoming a God-Human, did not change expression. His body swiftly shot into the sky wrapped in golden light.

Watching this scene, Bai Cangshu made his choice.

You have accepted Optional Mission: Merciful Release.

Special Trial: Utmost Benevolence and Goodness, Phase Three has begun—Merciful Release.

Bai Cangshu did not wait for Uchiha Shisui to make his decision. At last, he had broken free of every shackle. No Hiranaka Minoru or Hiranaka Hana remained to bind his actions in this world.

He could finally do anything he wanted. Ha~